Sunday, May 17, 2009

Live Report 5/16/09, Shinjuku Holiday: Chemical Pictures, PRIMEADDICT, Siva, etc.

Finally, an update of substance!

Our morning started out very punctually; we got to the studio on time, loaded our equipment in our van and made it to Holiday on time. But just before it was our turn to go up for rehearsal, Schwarz realized that we didn't have his pedal board. Calls to the studio were initially unhelpful, which was a further snag, but Shunsuke (bis) let us change out rehearsal time, and we were able to secure the missing equipment. So that took a bit of the wind out of our sails at first.

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After our rehearsal, we headed into makeup...

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Ta-da! New costumes all around!!

To be honest, I really liked the previous look we were doing so I was initially hesitant to change something I was actually comfortable with, but I'm really pleased with how they've come together.


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We two, you can barely tell we're supposed to be in the same band!

As for the live itself... I had some sound problems, by which I mean the sound in the house was fine, but I could barely hear myself on stage. And that leads you to subconsciously play harder than you usually would, which contributes to more mess-ups. Also, somehow we missed a particularly important cue that, admittedly, only we ourselves would know we missed it. And the new costumes are really hot. After we got off stage, we were all rather frustrated with ourselves.

But our lady from Visualive took video and pictures for us, and as we watched it, we realized that it wasn't nearly as bad as it felt up there, and the fans went pretty wild for our new country-blues song that I didn't think would elicit such a crazy response!

Also I don't know that I'll ever get used to a club full of girls screaming "Jimi!!" That still feels weird. :-P

Now, I didn't get any personalized presents, although the rest of the members did. Even so, there was still a lot to go around. Strangely, we received almost nothing but donuts.


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Mister Donuts funky faux-hambuger donuts, and a dozen Krispy Kremes.


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This was dinner and it was DELICIOUS


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We had to wait a million hours to go on, so we played cards and shogi a whole bunch. A very good idea in hindsight.

Siva's bassist is amazing as you all may know, and he and I bonded over talk of Jaco Pastorius and that made us pretty giddy.

Huge thanks to Shunsuke for putting the event together, to mom (the Japanese one) for having nothing but nice things to say, to mom (the real one) for her surprisingly good memory when it comes to our live schedule, Yuri (Rubik), Yuana (Boogieman/ex-Kagerou), Holiday (for putting us on the cover of this month's Holiday Magazine), Visualive (for interviewing us for the newest issue of Alive magazine), all y'all who've said such nice stuff... Surrounded by too many awesome people to count.


Next Saturday, Area; BE THERE or not thats cool too ill understand


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12 comments:

Unknown said...

Dude, I can't freakin' wait for that show next week....

ps... my wife says she knows how Jaco Pastorius died.... I'm not sure what that means, but she says "Hooray for my college education"....?

Renan Rocha said...

can't say how much I'm happy for u, dude!! go for it!

oh, next time, tell shunsuke I love him, ok? and he should move that fat ass of him and start a new band RIGHT AWAY!

sakurei said...

Why can't I just hop into a plane to Japan to see you guys live? D:
You're making me really curious!

Do you plan to release some samples of your songs on CP's homepage or sth like that?
That would be cool : D

Carmina said...

Hahah you look like a living anime character!

Thought I'd share my new kitty blog: http://www.lacarmina.com/basilfarrow/

and some new YouTube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/lacarmina

^__^

Liathchan said...

wow...your eyes look so big and blue in that photo! (more so than usual, I mean)

nook said...

Congrats! Sorry to hear that things were frustrating, but things can only get better from here on, right?

Lemon said...

You guys look great. I only wish I could hear your songs! Keep rocking Jimi!

Bottle said...

Great update Jimi!

How do you plan to make the new outfits more bearable, or will you just roll with it until you get some new ones?

I hope you're more pleased with your Live performance next time round! But if the fans loved this one, that's what matters most surely? :]

Best of luck mate!

+... those look like some Sweet Doughnuts 8)

Ito said...

Sweet as always...but I want more!!! XD

Keep up the awesome-ness, Elec!

jen said...

New costume is rad :D
hahah maybe the donuts will become a tradition. That hamburger donut is sick xD

e said...

What is the meat in a donutburger?

Shizuka said...

-Outfits: cool
-Joe: XD. He always looks THAT freaky
-Dinner: Yummy donots <3

So...Ganbatte ne *-*
Can't wait for a realese..

Wouldn't you like to offer us some cds to buy then? X3