[quote="clouds drive monster"]and at this time in their career he wasn't, but who's to say it wasn;t his old high school band minus him?[/quote]
Me.
First off, the guy on the cover of the mentioned CD in the "For those who don't know" thread doesn't look anything like Sawao.
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/CajunBushi/morikun.jpg[/img]
Plus look at the name; "Morikun".
Secondly, if you examen the CD case a little bit you will find the release date;
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/CajunBushi/1990.jpg[/img]
As you can see, this CD was released April 1st of 1990.
This is just weeks before the release of PANTOMIME. Sawao's high-school band? He was 22 years of age at the time.
Lastly, try searching google to find any evidence that Sawao ever had anything to do with this band. the pillows are a popular enough band that if it were true that he was a member of "The Potato Chips" you would be able to find something. Nothing I have found indicates that Sawao (or any other member of the pillows) has ever had anything to do with these guys.
I looked up this Morikun fellow just to rule out the possibility that perhaps Sawao had been in some kind of extreme facial altering freak accident and I discovered that this guy has worked on several projects since he was in The Potato Chips. I'm not sure if Morikun is still making music these days, but here is a picture of him from his personal [url=http://hello.ap.teacup.com/morikun/]diary[/url];
[img]http://hello.ap.teacup.com/morikun/timg/middle_1113748216.jpg[/img]