Japanese go crazy over Holographic Popstar

kineaesth said:
Kashiwa Daisuke
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**** yes that guy is a goddamn Japanese mechaGenius GunDAMN Beast Z or whatever they call really cool dudes over there.

dfc05 said:
very tiny doses of Melt-Banana
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The largest dose of Melt-Banana I find tolerable does not exceed 7 seconds in duration. The first time I saw Tool live, I walked in with no clue as to who the opener was (I had checked online but couldn't figure out who was scheduled)... straight into a blistering sonic wall of Melt-Banana noise. Utter confusion ensued as I frantically tried to determine whether the vocalist was male or female and if he/she was actually saying words or simply making little high pitched scream-yelps as fast as possible in time with the music.

I have a few Melt-Banana cds and I get the appeal in that respect, but live it was just a huge solid wall of distortion with someone banging on the drums as hard and fast as they could in the background and every once in a while you would hear these weird little shrieks that were presumably the lyrics.

The Melt-Banana drummer also came onto the stage later during the Tool show to do a back and forth drum battle/solo with Danny Carey during some song that was just embarrassing since Danny Carey has a like 30 drum kit and is a rhythmical genius while the Melt-Banana dude was on a basic little 6 piece and sounded just pathetic in comparison.

Polaris said:
Anyway, I mentioned Idoru first, and actually met Gibson few weeks ago...
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How was that? What were the circumstances, what'd he say, etc?

He actually spoke at a university about 30 minutes from here a couple of months ago, but the lameface I am, I didn't go see him.
 
I suspect that the only person who could beat Danny Carey in a 6-piece duel is Danny Carey. That man is a goddamn polyrhythmic machine.
 
But how would he layout a six piece so as to mimic a pentagram and channel his awesome drumming powers from Satan? :(
 
Sulkdodds said:
Don't tease. What did you/he say?
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Ennui said:
How was that? What were the circumstances, what'd he say, etc?

He actually spoke at a university about 30 minutes from here a couple of months ago, but the lameface I am, I didn't go see him.
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It was on IQ2 event in London, very interesting lecture about his new book Zero History.
We only talked for a few minutes, mostly about some old school cyberpunk stuff, special editions of his books but he also told me "Marc [Laidlaw] is still too busy with that videogame studio".
 
ENOUGH with the Japanese Music Defense Force goddammit! All these Youtube links are making browsing this thread a chore for 40-posts-per-page-ers using Chrome.

Now...

I get that people like the music this company is putting out, but I thought the entire reason to go to a concert was to see the living, breathing people who recorded the songs perform them live. I don't understand the point of any of this.
 
MuToiD_MaN said:
I get that people like the music this company is putting out, but I thought the entire reason to go to a concert was to see the living, breathing people who recorded the songs perform them live. I don't understand the point of any of this.
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There's also the atmosphere and the company. Plus the japanese get a hard-on for anything electronic so that's always a plus.
 
This is very strange...you would think that with the internet exposing me to something so culturally bizarre from Japan (or other south-east asian countries) I would become desensitised to it. Yet I'm sitting here finding this hard to believe.

I don't understand why people go to see Gorillaz live but at least those characters represent a real individual singing / playing instruments out of view of the audience. For me that makes a big difference.
 
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