Summer Sonic 2010

So Summer Sonic 2010 is over.

If you aren't on twitter, here is a condensed version of my elbow-rubbing-with-famous-musicians-highlights:

-Damon from Bigelf being really nice and having a chat with me, he wears the top hat all the time

-I saw Taylor Swift's back (it was a cute back)

-Michael Monroe asked me if the gyoza at catering had meat in them (they did), then thanked me for translating

-Monkey Majik guys bein' totally chill and didn't give two craps that I was also a foreign musician living in Japan, just glad to meet other musicians, that was seriously bomb

-Playing pool at the table next to John Petrucci and his son, and while I was debating being a jerk and interrupting to say hi, Orianthi walked right up to them and JP snapped a pic of her and his son and then they went to a production meeting

-Mike Portnoy and Jordan Rudess walked past me to catering, and so did James LaBrie, but on the way back LaBrie looked at me and said, "hey, how ya doin'?" and I responded with speechlessness.

-Stevie Wonder walked right past me.

-There was a V.I.P. ARTIST HOSPITALITY area to which I had access, because I AM AN ARTIST. It was PRETTY COOL. There were GIRLS hired to TALK TO ME and make me feel like less of a LOSER because I wasn't the one being interview by MTV or RADIO or MAGAZINES. :-P

-Our group needed to catch a shuttle back to Tokyo so I only caught 30 minutes of Dream Theater's set. This meant two songs and a keyboard solo on an iPad.

HERE ARE SOME VIDEOS IN WHICH YOU CAN SEE ME