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TMN's last concert before the "end": TMN 4001 DAYS GROOVE at Tokyo Dome, May 19, 1994

On May 19, 1994, TMN closed the second of two nights at Tokyo Dome billed as *TMN 4001 DAYS GROOVE*, and with it ten years of work since their debut. The word they had chosen on April 21, the tenth anniversary of that debut, was not "breakup" but "end": the aims and goals of a "first mission," the announcement said, had been met. The last night of the "end" shows, which drew 100,000 people over the two days, opened with "1974 (16 Kōnen no Hōmonsha)," passed through "GET WILD '89" and "Nights Of The Knife," and finished with "TIME MACHINE." Naoto Kine later recalled how far away the center stage felt during that last song. It was not the final show, though. In 1999 the three restarted under their original name, TM NETWORK, and on May 19, 2024, the last night of their 40th-anniversary tour fell exactly 30 years after that last night at the Dome.

By Shuenroku Editorial TeamPublished

Illustration of a dark dome seen from the stands: at the far end a lit main stage with a microphone stand, an electric guitar and a two-tier keyboard stand, and in the middle of the arena floor a small, empty round stage in its own light
IllustrationThe main stage at the far end, with microphone, guitar and keyboards, and a center stage set far out on the arena floor.
Date [3][8][16][18]
VenueTokyo Dome (Tokyo)
EventTMN 4001 DAYS GROOVE [8][12]
All datesMay 18, 1994, May 19, 1994 [3][8][16]
CategoryNot the end after all
Why it endedBreakup [8][2][13][14][1]
LineupTetsuya Komuro, Takashi Utsunomiya, Naoto Kine [1][18]
Attendance50,000 [18][17][8]
Last song performed“TIME MACHINE” [18][17]
Songs performed16 songsSee the setlist ↓
Video releaseYes [16][19][20]

About the artist

TMN was the name used from 1990 by TM NETWORK, the trio of Tetsuya Komuro (keyboards), Takashi Utsunomiya (vocals) and Naoto Kine (guitar)[1]. They debuted on April 21, 1984, with the single "Kin'yōbi no Lion" (Friday's lion) and the album RAINBOW RAINBOW[1][2]. Their tagline promised to show listeners a "golden dream." Early on they put music videos ahead of live shows and framed themselves, science-fiction style, as "electric prophets" sending warnings from the future; they named their sound "FANKS," from funk, punk and fans, and the word became the name for their fans too[2]. The "golden dream" staging known from their early concerts was first used on the 1985 DRAGON THE FESTIVAL TOUR[3].

"Get Wild," released on April 8, 1987, became the closing theme of the anime City Hunter, used for the TV series' first year, according to the manga's creator, Tsukasa Hojo[4]. It and "Self Control" made them widely known in 1987, the year of their first Nippon Budokan show, FANKS CRY-MAX, which introduced a "mysterious baton" that kept turning up at later concerts[1][2]. With CAROL they linked a novel, an album and live shows in a media mix with a musical-style tour; their August 30, 1989, show at Yokohama Arena was part of it[2][5]. In 1990 they became TMN, calling the change a "renewal," and turned toward hard rock[2][6]; the album RHYTHM RED from this "TMN project" period put hard-rock and progressive elements up front[7]. As TMN they released songs such as "TIME TO COUNT DOWN" and "Love Train"[1].

Why this was thought to be the end

On April 21, 1994, ten years to the day after their debut, TMN declared that they were coming to an "end"[2][8]. The word they used was shūryō, the "end" or "completion" of something, not kaisan, the usual Japanese word for a breakup. According to AV Watch, the announcement came with messages from the members and gave a single reason: the aims and goals of the first stage, the "first mission," had been met[8]. Sony Music Direct's own description calls it the "end" of the "TM project" and says it was declared suddenly[9][10].

That night Tetsuya Komuro, Takashi Utsunomiya and Naoto Kine went on Nippon Broadcasting's late-night radio show All Night Nippon live[9][10]. The evening was filmed as a documentary and, together with their concert films from 1984 to 1994, went into the history film DECADE[10]; thirty years later, a 2024 Blu-ray box included the radio appearance again, with footage that had not been seen before[11].

The stage for the end was two nights at Tokyo Dome, May 18 and 19, less than a month after the announcement[3][8]. The shows were called TMN 4001 DAYS GROOVE[8][12]. AV Watch reports that all 100,000 tickets sold out on the day they went on sale[8].

As for why, the official explanation that can be verified goes no further than that one line about the first mission. Real Sound notes that a book published in 1994, TMN Saigo no Uso (TMN's last lie), was written to explain the "secret" of TMN's end[6].

The choice of word still shows in how the shows are described. Later reports call the two nights a "breakup concert" (Billboard JAPAN; PHILE WEB)[13][14], while a 2020 Sony press release still speaks of the "end" declaration[15] and AV Watch calls the Dome shows the "end live"[8].

The concert film also preserves words from all three[13]. Komuro said he had spent the past month or so going back over every TM song, that he felt they had left good music in the twentieth century, and that he wanted the TM name to stay in the timeline of music. Utsunomiya said he believed the memories they shared would not fade and thanked those who had loved TM for ten years and those who would love it from then on. Kine said he would never forget ten years of cheering[13].

What is known about the day

May 19, 1994, was the second of the two Tokyo Dome nights and TMN's last day[3][16]. Sony's product page says the two nights drew 100,000 people[17]; THE FIRST TIMES puts this night's audience at 50,000[18]. Alongside the trio stood the musicians who had backed them on stage since their debut[18]. The costumes were made by the designer GORI (Yoshihiro Suzuki)[9], and twenty cameras filmed the two nights[8].

The two nights had largely different set lists. On May 18 the debut single "Kin'yōbi no Lion" came early, and "Self Control" and "Electric Prophet" were among the songs played[17].

The film of May 19 opens with documentary footage that runs into "Seven Days War" and "TIME MACHINE"[17]. Next on the track list comes "1974 (16 Kōnen no Hōmonsha)" (the visitor from sixteen light-years away), and the first talk follows "Still Love Her (Ushinawareta Fūkei)" (a lost landscape)[17]. "WILD HEAVEN," "Rhythm Red Beat Black," "Kiss You" and "Come On Everybody" follow, and the middle of the show holds a track titled "CAROL" and "Human System"[17].

After a keyboard solo the set moves to "Time To Count Down," one of the songs released as TMN[1], then "69/99" and an improvised piece[17]. The "GET WILD '89" that comes next was left off the original video and appeared on film only in the 2019 complete edition[3][19]; the following "You Can Dance" was re-edited at the same time[3].

After "Dive Into Your Body" and "The Point Of Lovers' Night," the film cuts to the crowd and to talk before "Nights Of The Knife"[17].

After more documentary footage and talk, the last song was "TIME MACHINE"[18][17]. Speaking in 2023, Naoto Kine remembered that around this last song the center stage felt very far away[18]. Perhaps because of the sound system of the time, he said, the applause and cheering sounded quieter than he had expected. Asked why the three had seemed so calm even at the final show, he put it down to all three being shy[18].

The film closes with an ending set to "Nights Of The Knife"[17]; the schedule of a 2020 stream likewise listed this night's film as running "to the ending"[9].

What the show left behind

Each night became a concert film, TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18 and TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.19[20][3].

In 1997, three years after the end, a TM NETWORK reunion was declared, and in 1999 the trio started again with the single "GET WILD DECADE RUN"[2]. They had gone back to the name they used before 1990, TM NETWORK[1]. With that, the two nights that were meant as the end stopped being the last show. In 2014, the 30th anniversary of their debut, they toured Japan and released the album QUIT30[1].

That September a two-CD set drawn from both nights, TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18/19 disc edit, came out[21]. The bigger revisit came in 2019, the 35th anniversary. On April 21, both films were screened back to back and uncut in cinemas in 14 cities[8][13]. The program ran 315 minutes, with HD-remastered picture and a 5.1 remix made in 2019 by Tatsuya Sakamoto, the original mix engineer[8]. On May 22 a two-disc DVD with every song of both nights appeared, along with the ten-disc Blu-ray box TM NETWORK THE VIDEOS 1984-1994, which includes the complete edition[16][19]. The box also gave a first release to their October 31, 1985, show at Nihon Seinenkan, from the tour where the "golden dream" was first used[3].

Both Dome nights were shown again on July 4, 2020, in TM 12H LIVE! TM NETWORK 35Anniversary Finale THANKS! FANKS!! and…, a 12-hour live stream postponed from April[10][9]. On August 26, DECADE 2020 HD REMASTER, with the documentary of the radio appearance on the night of the announcement, came out on Blu-ray[10]. Since August 2021 both films have been available to rent or buy on iTunes and Amazon Prime Video, the May 19 film at about 145 minutes; it was the first time TM NETWORK had offered full-length concert films this way[20]. In 2022 the two volumes of the live anthology LIVE HISTORIA VISUALIZED each took one song from May 19, "NIGHTS OF THE KNIFE" and "TIME TO COUNT DOWN"[22]. The same year TM NETWORK played five cities, arenas among them, to a total of 40,000 people[1].

In 2023 the Japan Anniversary Association recognized April 8 as "Get Wild Day," the first time the title of a Japanese song had become an official day[4]. In their comment, the three said a long-held wish to carve their name into the timeline of music had come true[4], the same wish Komuro had voiced in the 1994 concert film[13].

The same year the May 19 film was screened for one night as part of the 45th anniversary of Epic Records. A showing in Tachikawa in August had sold out, and calls for more led to a nationwide screening[23]. On October 19 it played in 24 cinemas, and in Shinjuku Naoto Kine appeared before the film[18]. He called the Dome shows a great treasure for him. The reporter from THE FIRST TIMES wrote that what comes across on screen is less the sadness of parting than gratitude and resolve for the next stage, and that it would be no surprise if seeds for that had been sown there; after the film, the audience was a mix of smiles and tears[18].

In 2024, the 40th anniversary, "Get Wild" returned as a new recording, "Get Wild Continual," over the end credits of Netflix's live-action film City Hunter[24]. That May a tribute album with eleven acts, B'z and Yumi Matsutoya with SKYE among them, was released[2], and in August the TMN-era albums RHYTHM RED and EXPO appeared on vinyl for the first time[7].

The 40th-anniversary tour ended on May 19, 2024, at K-Arena Yokohama. THE FIRST TIMES noted that the date fell exactly 30 years after TMN 4001 DAYS GROOVE[12]. The "golden dream" staging known from their early concerts came back, and B'z guitarist Tak Matsumoto joined the encore for "Be Together" and "Get Wild"[12].

On December 18 that year, the Blu-ray box The Force -40th Anniversary Edition- opened with a disc titled "DECADE," which re-edits the live radio appearance of the "end" declaration together with footage from both Dome nights[11]. The record of the "end" keeps being placed back inside the story of a trio that started again.

Context for readers

TM NETWORK and TMN. The trio debuted as TM NETWORK in 1984 and switched to the shorter TMN in 1990, describing the move as a "renewal" rather than a new band[2]. When they returned in 1999 they used the original name again[1]. That is why this site counts the 1999 restart as the same act coming back, and files the 1994 shows as "not the end after all."

"End," not "breakup." Japanese groups that split usually announce a kaisan, a disbanding. TMN announced a shūryō, the word for a project or program reaching its end, and tied it to the completion of a "first mission"[8]. Later coverage uses both words for the Tokyo Dome shows[13][8].

April 21. The debut date of April 21, 1984, was used again and again: for the 1994 announcement, for the 2019 cinema screenings on the 35th anniversary, and for the release of a 40th-anniversary album in 2024[2][8][24].

Two nights, one page. TMN played Tokyo Dome on May 18 and 19, 1994, and the 100,000 tickets for the two nights sold out on the day they went on sale[8]. The nights had largely different set lists[17]; this page covers the second, the last time the trio played as TMN.

Setlist

16 songs [17][16]
1. ドキュメント～Seven Days War～TIME MACHINE2. 1974 (16光年の訪問者)3. Still Love Her (失われた風景)4. WILD HEAVEN5. Rhythm Red Beat Black6. Kiss You7. Come On Everybody8. CAROL9. Human System10. KEYBOARD-SOLO11. Time To Count Down12. 69/9913. 即興曲14. GET WILD '8915. You Can Dance16. Dive Into Your Body17. The Point Of Lovers' Night18. Nights Of The Knife19. TIME MACHINE20. Nights Of The Knife（エンディング）

Main set Encore Last song

  1. ドキュメント～Seven Days War～TIME MACHINE “Document ~ Seven Days War ~ TIME MACHINE” · First track of disc 2 (May 19) of the concert film: documentary footage running into two songs. The sources do not show whether this was pre-show film or audio or a live performance, so it is not counted as a song played. Running order from tracks 1-21 of disc 2 on Sony's product page (Sony Music Shop); Sony Music Direct describes the set as containing every song of both nights. The page lists further titles after track 21, but with many repeats they do not read as a continuation of the show and are not used. The sources do not show where any encore began, so the set is not split
  2. 1974 (16光年の訪問者) “1974 (Jūrokkōnen no Hōmonsha)” (the visitor from sixteen light-years away)
  3. Still Love Her (失われた風景) “Still Love Her (Ushinawareta Fūkei)” (a lost landscape) · Followed by talk, per the track list
  4. WILD HEAVEN
  5. Rhythm Red Beat Black
  6. Kiss You
  7. Come On Everybody
  8. CAROL · A single track on the product page
  9. Human System
  10. KEYBOARD-SOLO · Keyboard solo; not counted as a song
  11. Time To Count Down
  12. 69/99
  13. 即興曲 “Sokkyōkyoku” (improvisation) · Improvised piece; not counted as a song
  14. GET WILD '89 · This night's performance was left off the original video and first released in the 2019 complete edition (PHILE WEB; AV Watch)
  15. You Can Dance · Newly re-edited for the 2019 complete edition (PHILE WEB)
  16. Dive Into Your Body
  17. The Point Of Lovers' Night · Followed by crowd footage and talk, per the track list
  18. Nights Of The Knife · Followed by documentary footage and talk, per the track list
  19. TIME MACHINE · The last song; THE FIRST TIMES spells it TIMEMACHINE
  20. Nights Of The Knife（エンディング） “Nights Of The Knife (ending)” · Final track of disc 2, the film's ending. The last song is reported as TIME MACHINE (THE FIRST TIMES), so this is not counted

Another final curtain

More “last” shows that turned out not to be the last.

TimelineCareer span, final show and later events, limited to what sources confirm.
19902000201020201997 A TM NETWORK reunion is declared.July 1999 Restart under the name TM NETWORK, with the single "GET WILD DECADE RUN."2014 30th anniversary: a national tour and the album QUIT30.September 2014 CD TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18/19 disc edit (two discs, edited from both nights).April 21, 2019 On the 35th anniversary of the debut, both nights are screened uncut in cinemas in 14 cities (about 315 minutes).May 22, 2019 A two-disc DVD with every song of both nights, and the ten-disc Blu-ray box TM NETWORK THE VIDEOS 1984-1994 with the complete edition.August 26, 2020 DECADE 2020 HD REMASTER, including the documentary of the radio appearance on the night of the announcement, on Blu-ray.October 19, 2023 The May 19 film is shown for one night in 24 cinemas; Naoto Kine appears in Shinjuku.May 19, 2024 Final night of the 40th-anniversary tour at K-Arena Yokohama, exactly 30 years after the last Tokyo Dome night.December 18, 2024 Blu-ray box The Force -40th Anniversary Edition-, with the live radio appearance of the announcement and re-edited footage of both Tokyo Dome nights.May 19, 1994200020201997 A TM NETWORK reunion is declared.July 1999 Restart under the name TM NETWORK, with the single "GET WILD DECADE RUN."2014 30th anniversary: a national tour and the album QUIT30.September 2014 CD TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18/19 disc edit (two discs, edited from both nights).April 21, 2019 On the 35th anniversary of the debut, both nights are screened uncut in cinemas in 14 cities (about 315 minutes).May 22, 2019 A two-disc DVD with every song of both nights, and the ten-disc Blu-ray box TM NETWORK THE VIDEOS 1984-1994 with the complete edition.August 26, 2020 DECADE 2020 HD REMASTER, including the documentary of the radio appearance on the night of the announcement, on Blu-ray.October 19, 2023 The May 19 film is shown for one night in 24 cinemas; Naoto Kine appears in Shinjuku.May 19, 2024 Final night of the 40th-anniversary tour at K-Arena Yokohama, exactly 30 years after the last Tokyo Dome night.December 18, 2024 Blu-ray box The Force -40th Anniversary Edition-, with the live radio appearance of the announcement and re-edited footage of both Tokyo Dome nights.May 19, 1994
  1. Active years (April 21, 1984 – May 19, 1994)
  2. Final show
  3. A TM NETWORK reunion is declared.3 years later
  4. Restart under the name TM NETWORK, with the single "GET WILD DECADE RUN."5 years later
  5. 30th anniversary: a national tour and the album QUIT30.20 years later
  6. CD TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18/19 disc edit (two discs, edited from both nights).20 years later
  7. On the 35th anniversary of the debut, both nights are screened uncut in cinemas in 14 cities (about 315 minutes).25 years later
  8. A two-disc DVD with every song of both nights, and the ten-disc Blu-ray box TM NETWORK THE VIDEOS 1984-1994 with the complete edition.25 years later
  9. DECADE 2020 HD REMASTER, including the documentary of the radio appearance on the night of the announcement, on Blu-ray.26 years later
  10. The May 19 film is shown for one night in 24 cinemas; Naoto Kine appears in Shinjuku.29 years later
  11. Final night of the 40th-anniversary tour at K-Arena Yokohama, exactly 30 years after the last Tokyo Dome night.30 years later
  12. Blu-ray box The Force -40th Anniversary Edition-, with the live radio appearance of the announcement and re-edited footage of both Tokyo Dome nights.30 years later

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    Two-disc DVD containing every song of the Tokyo Dome shows of May 18-19, 1994 (Sony Music Direct); this show is disc 2. The complete edition is also in the ten-disc Blu-ray box TM NETWORK THE VIDEOS 1984-1994 (limited, MHXL-63-72), released the same day (AV Watch). The September 2014 CD TMN final live LAST GROOVE 5.18/19 disc edit (MHCL-30261-2) is an edit drawn from both nights (National Diet Library).

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