Roiyu came over, we hung out and went over some music... he also
told me that La:Sadies was Kyo, Kaoru, Die, Shinya, and Kisaki! (I
had thought La:Sadies was just Kyo, maybe Die or Kaoru, and three
other guys that vanished). But no, it was pretty much the same lineup
as Dir en grey now, with the obvious exception of Toshiya.
Apparently
Kisaki was the leader of the La:Sadies, but quit because he wanted
complete and utter control over everything and the other band members
weren't down with that.
So
Kisaki joined Vasalla, and then Syndrome. And Toshiya joined Deg,
and the rest is history... and Roiyu has a copy of Deg's first-ever
live gig, which he promised to bring over next time we meet... probably
Friday. Mwuah ha ha!
And
while we're on the subject of rogue bassists, here's the skinny on
Ai (ex-Missalina Rei, now in my band): first there was the guitarist,
the drummer, Aiya the singer and Alice-gawa Alice bassist. (Yes, the
bassist's name is Alice-gawa Alice, that's not a misprint!)
Alice wanted to sing. But of course so did Aiya (the singer!), so
Alice (the bassist!) quit, with Ai replacing him. Later, Aiya quit.
So Alice came back. As the vocalist. And Ai quit. And Aiya came back,
as bassist. Confused? I had to draw a flowchart before I understood
it!
Oh,
and you know that band Garden whose CD I thought I bought two weeks
ago? It's not Garden! It's "For Romance~"... the name of
the band is "For Romance~"! What kind of gay-ass name is
that?!
Garden
is the -title- of the disc. Which explains the lack of vinyl and chains
-- For Romance~ are a bunch of wimps! Still, there were some good
ballads on that disk...
Other
news: I saw Luna Sea's latest DVD release, Eclipse I & II,
on sale yesterday. It's got all their good PVs on it, including True
Blue, Rosier, and Gravity. But the most important
ones for me are the Style-era vids: End of Sorrow, Desire,
and In Silence. Not because they're well-crafted videos --
though they are -- but because I associate them with those awfully
fun, long-lost New York karaoke nights I enjoyed with Big Sung, L'il
Sung, Min, Tenk, and whomever else came along. <sigh> Those
were fun times. With the wrinkled, beer-stained romaji lyric sheets
printed out from japanlyrics.com, and all of us fumbling along with
the words as we tried to sing, and two dozen empty beer and cider
bottles getting knocked over by mic cords snaking across the table,
and not a care in the world... natsukashiiiiii! And so I'll
pay any price to even vaguely recapture those happy times. And buying
the new Luna Sea DVD is a good start!
And
don't ya just hate those fake videos they use at most karaoke joints
-- where instead of showing the band's actual promotional video, they
show cheap footage of bad actors running around on beaches shooting
at each other, interspersed with shots of vaguely attractive girls
with '80s hairstyles "playing" guitar, which means "holding
it incorrectly and waving one's right hand over the strings while
the cameramen wildly zoom in and out on one's butt." Stupid videos!
And
to close: the weather turned from fall-like and pleasant to ouch-my-hands-hurt
coldness overnight last night. But all the schoolgirls were still
wearing those short blue pleated skirts of theirs. Don't they have
pants to wear or something?! "Ooh, frostbite! ~Sexy!~"
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