Heads debuted with a single entitled "screeeem!" in July 2000 and followed with "Gooood or Bad!" in November, produced for
Amuse, Inc. The group performed every weekend in Osaka's Kyoubashi and Tokyo's
Akihabara, shopping and amusement districts. Heads disbanded in 2002 and in 2003 they took a break to improve their abilities. They merged into a new group with seven other members and were called GROUND 0. In 2005, Toru took a main role in TV series
Shibuya Fifteen. He contributed a cameo as a high school student in
Kamen Rider Hibiki. That year, he invited Ryota, their upperclassman Alex and his friend Koyanagi Yuu to form a rock band. Later, Toru become the leader of this band, later named ONE OK ROCK. He met
Takahiro Moriuchi when he performed with his previous band and then stalked him until he joined One Ok Rock, after repeated rejections. After Alex quit the band, Yamashita switched from rhythm guitar to lead guitar. He is heavily influenced by American bands
Foo Fighters,
The Smashing Pumpkins,
Enter Shikari,
Linkin Park,
Good Charlotte,
Sleeping With Sirens,
Nirvana,
The Used,
Avril Lavigne, and
Biffy Clyro.
Equipment Toru Yamashita uses many guitars from time to time. Toru used
Gibson Les Paul guitars in early One Ok Rock live concerts. He started with a Gibson Les Paul Standard Black and then purchased a
Les Paul Custom Alpine White in 2009. Four years later, this guitar was signed by the members of
Fall Out Boy on the front side and Avril Lavigne on the rear side. Toru has first seen using
PRS Guitars during the band's final tour at
Nippon Budokan. During the JinseixBoku era, he changed most of his guitar to PRS Guitars and hasn't been seen playing his Gibson Les Paul guitars as often. Recently, he has been using
Fender Stratocaster since Eye of the Storm tour. == Personal life ==