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sionEmber
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Wait a minute...Hyde is releasing an album stateside? COOL!!! It'd be cooler if more acts from Japan did the same.
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fighterholic
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J-Punk band Nicotine released their School of Liberty album stateside.
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lazuline
 Posts: 66 Location: Park Slope |
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I could say so many things about conventions(like AX) and why -CLICHE NERD ADAGE USED IRONICLY- I "avoid them like the plague"... 1) Convention dorks are of the worst kind... pale, potentially obese, socially awkward, and from red states that we elitist Californians usually consider the 3rd world country between California and New York (otherwise referred to as America or Jesus-land). 2) The smells… the awful smells… 3) The butchering of the Japanese language… i.e. “baka na (insert word) -chan” 4) Fat/cross-dressing cosplay… That Rant aside: If you are in Anaheim, it might be worth your time to check out the Japanese areas in nearby city of Costa Mesa (Lots of good food and shopping). Otherwise there's always the tourist trap that is Little Tokyo, LA. Also, for the record, House of Blues Anaheim is a terrible venue. It’s kind of disappointing that Hyde’s agent couldn’t book something like the Troubadour, Fonda, Space land, Knitting factory, etc. (well, he’s not that popular/good outside of anime fans’ reverence for whatever song he wrote for whatever anime -FMA). |
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blueharlequin
 Posts: 81 Location: Las Vegas, NV (No, we don't live in hotels here) |
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Um, can we have this removed just for the sheer ignorance? I attend ANIME EXPO and I am none of these things. Attacking a group of people with narrow-minded views such as this only displays social ineptitude. If you "avoid them like the plague" how can you make sweeping judgments about what type of people attend them?
As for this comment, I will say I find there is a general lack of "international" music accessibility or exposure in America as of a whole. So your belief that he is not "popular" is correct in that sense. However, unless you have surveyed the Japanese nation as a whole I think randomly implying that he's unpopular is wrong. |
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hikura
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Nice generalization of people who attend cons.*note scarasm* I suggest you make a concerted effort not to make such broad generalizations of people who attend anime cons(or for that matter who attend any sort of entertaiment con).While you have the right to express your opnions there is alot of people who will whole heartedly disagree with you. |
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shirokiryuu
Posts: 714 Location: Northern California (SF Bay Area) |
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Has anyone been to Slim's ? is it a nice friendly place? personally i would do anything to do, but i don't thinik my parents would let me go somewhere in SF they don't think appropriate.
It is a night club, but it says all shows are all ages.. |
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miburoookami
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well, like you've said, it's a nightclub which means there will be drunk people. I've been to the Pillow's performance when they came to SF, let's just say, it was a bit crazy. and since it's Hyde, I can almost see girls pulling hairs, gauging eyes trying to squeeze to the front. I know my sister will be one of them. Anyway, I am in no way discouraging you to go, just... be kind of prepared. It might be combat zone up front.
although, blue probably said it best, I just wanna point out by saying this showing how LITTLE, you know about jpop. and my sister will probably scratch your eyes out herself and chug it down with sake. |
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sionEmber
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I've been jamming to them since high school, and never once have I considered Nicotine a J-punk rock band. My eyes have been opened...thank you fighterholic. Another great J-punk band is Hi-Standard. |
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shirokiryuu
Posts: 714 Location: Northern California (SF Bay Area) |
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I'd probably be like your sister if i was more agressive. Although i have more confidence since it's a famous place and the shows are all ages, and also kids are allowed in with a parent. |
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mufurc
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Yeah... except that it wasn't hyde who wrote that song but another guy in his band that's been one of the most popular JRock bands for, ah, almost ten years... and that hyde on his own is also a very popular solo artist who regularly appears on TV and holds full-packed lives. But yeah, he's totally unknown. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
 Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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Yeah, watch out for obnoxious girls. If you've ever been to a concert targeted towards younger girls (Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, etc), I assume it'll be roughly the same atmosphere, what with throngs of rude girls shoving their way to the front, people throwing soda at your head, etc. I mean, Hyde won't be nearly as packed as FOB/MCR/etc, but fangirls can be deadly in numbers, so watch out. Now excuse me while I retreat back to my dark corner so I can finish this large bag of Cheetos and pray for Jeb Bush to enter the 2008 election. God, I really wish I could get a date, but I'm totally baka and might have to bathe, and that would really cut into my Naruto time, ne??? 
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BorgmanJayce
 Posts: 298 Location: Hades via UK |
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*Wishes Hyde and the rest of L'Arc en Ciel could play in the UK...* On another note, how come Tofu Records haven't considered setting up a UK division... |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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In the US, this is true. The only people who know who he is are anime fans and J-rock fans, and the majority of them probably wouldn't know unless you told them he was the lead singer of L'arc. In Japan, he's huge. Here? No.
Are you suggesting that giant groups of teenage girls aren't annoying and pushy at concerts? I stopped going to all-ages shows last year, but previously all of the all-ages shows I'd been to had indeed had a whole lot of annoying teenage girls making life generally miserable for anyone at the front of the theater. The people drinking weren't the issue at all. |
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fighterholic
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Making the Road is probably their best album out there. I'd like to see if Dragon Ash or Zeebra can make stateside though. |
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
Posts: 3904 Location: CO |
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Wha? No, I said that they were... The last part was my response to lazuline. |
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