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Asia Count Basie Theater Red Bank New Jersey 9/12/06

My American friend Brett gave me the review of the live of Asia.He is very lucky to see one. NJのメル友がくれたAsiaのレビューです。もうビックリマークだらけ!!彼の興奮が伝わってきます。What a fantastic show!!!!!!! I just can't say enough about the energy and vibes that emanated from the stage at the Count Basie tonight!! Never in my "wildest dreams" did I ever think I'd hear the entire first album performed by the masters again!! They played the tunes with an unbridled enthusiasm that made them seem fresh after all these years!!! In particular, the opener, "Time Again" peeled the paint off the walls and set the tone for the evening. "Without You" has always been a personal favorite of mine and it had a real dynamic flow!! :"Cutting It Fine" ,with Geoff's excellent instrumental coda just melted me into my seat. It was also a real treat to hear a performance of "Roundabout", which was given a nice added touch with Carl's own signature percussive sound. John did a great job with the vocals too. Likewise, "Fanfare" rocked the house and I loved the tradeoff of soloing between the maestro Steve and Geoff, once again, the added touch was Steve's guitar, not usually present in any ELP version. For me though, "Court Of The Crimson King" was the highlight of the evening. They nailed it in a way that would have made Fripp proud and gave me goose bumps. "Video Killed The Radio Star" sounded super as well with Geoff donning his famous gear from the video itself. A real pleasure to the ears and eyes!!! The showstopper was Carl's solo during "The Heat Is On", just when you think he can't outdo himself he adds something to throw you off guard once again!!! That balancing act with his drum stick on the cymbal has to be seen to be believed!! He is also an ageless dynamo who never ceases to amaze!!!!! I would like to thank Carl, Geoff (who signed after the show) and Steve (who we caught going out the back door) for signing my old program and getting a chance to let them know how much I enjoyed hearing them play again!!!! All in all, a great show that I hope everyone that is a fan of Yes, KC, ELP, Asia and prog in general, had a chance to catch! I'd also like to wish John Wetton the best of luck with his recovery. John, you did a great job and it was wonderful to hear your golden voice once again!! We all hope to see you tour many more times in the future!!!!! Thanks for sharing with us again!!!!!!! Setlist: Count Basie Theater--Red Bank, New Jersey, 9/12/06 1) Time Again 2) Wildest Dreams 3) One Step Closer 4) Roundabout 5) Without You 6) Cutting It Fine 7) Clap 8) Fanfare For The Common Man Intermission 9) The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (acoustic) 10) Don't Cry (acoustic) 11) In The Court Of The Crimson King 12) Here Comes The Feeling 13) Video Killed The Radio Star 14) The Heat Goes On ( W/ Carl's solo) 15) Only Time Will Tell 16) Sole Survivor Encores Ride Easy ( acoustic) Heat Of The Moment

Pokemon in the U.S.

『ポケットモンスターアドバンスジェネレーション』がいつの間にか最終回を迎えていました。そういえばちょっと前に見たとき、リザードン、ゼニガメ、フシギダネのファーストキャラが勢ぞろいしてたっけ。次からは『ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド＆パール』どうして??ゲームボーイソフト『ポケモン金・銀』が出た時、もうひとつのソフトは絶対『パール』だと思っていたのに『クリスタル』でガッカリしたものです。やはり私たちの世代的には金、銀ときたらパールでしょ？どうしていまさらここでパールを使うのっ?いけず!!アメリカで変なおっさんと遭遇しちゃいました。NYのBB King Blues Club & GrillでMoogfestをが始まるのを今か今かと待ちわびていた時、私の席の近くに、白地にでっかくポケモンのプリンがプリント(ﾌﾟｯ)されたトレーナを着たコロコロしたおっさんがいるのに気付きました。目を合わせちゃいかんいかん。残念ながらあちらが目ざとく日本人の私たちを見つけ色々話しかけてきます。かまっちゃいかんいかん。しかしそのおっさん、トレーナーのプリンを指差し「This is Pikachu」とのたまったからさあ大変！私が黙っていられるはずがありません。「No!!That is not Pikachu!（「プリンです!!」って言おうとしたんですがプリンはアメリカ名が別にあり、とっさに思い出せませんでした）」すると「知ってるよ～。ピカチュウは僕の顔さっ!」とにっこり笑って自分の顔を指差しました。ああ、かまっちゃったかまっちゃった、変なヤツかまっちゃった(T_T)なんとびっくりこのおっさん、シンセサイザーミュージアムの館長ですって。名刺もらっちゃった^^;Jan Hammerが帰ってガッカリしてたのはこの人です。普段の私だったら、NYのニンテンドーショップでは、大人が着られるポケモントレーナーがゲットできるということにこの時点で気付いたはずです。でもKeithとのご面会を控えた私にそんな余裕があるはずがないのでした。

名探偵コナン実写化

お願いだからやめてえ～(T_T)

Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back/Brent Spiner

This album is by Brent Spiner, best known for his role as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is in the role of Dr. Soong in the Star Trek Enterprise.I spent all these holidays on Star Trek Enterprise.My room has been in disorder.1. Time After Time 2. Very Thought of You 3. More Than You Know 4. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye 5. Embraceable You 6. It's a Sin to Tell a Lie - LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes,    Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart 7. Long, Long Time 8. Carolina in the Morning 9. Marie 10. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart 11. When I Fall in Love 12. Goodnight Sweetheart このデータ少佐役のBrent Spinerのアルバム、Star Trekのグッズのサイトで普通の値段で手に入れたのですが、amazonで買うと1万円～2万円という、とんでもない値段がします。タイトルはFrank Sinatraの『Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back』もじったそうな。データ少佐の目は黄色いもんね。CDと一緒にTNGの宇宙艦隊コミュニケーター型ピンバッチもゲットしちゃいました。これが重くて、コートとか厚手の生地にしかつけられません。っていうか、つけませんが^^;Brentって実に朗々とした、つやつやの声で歌い上げます。6曲目はピカード艦長や他の隊員もコーラスで参加しています。TNGはBrentもPatrick Stewartいい声だし、吹替えてる大塚芳忠さんや麦人さんの声も聞きたいし原語と吹替で二度楽しめます。Star Trek Enterpriseの第4シーズンはスン博士も活躍するし、最終回はライカー副長やカウンセラーのトロイ、そして声だけですがデータ少佐も出てきます。 とうとうStar Trek Enterpriseだけで私の連休は終わっちゃいました。まあ、お金を全然使わなかったのでよかったかな?

Star Trek is disturbing my plan.

I had a many plans in these consecutive holidays.For example, it's clearing up of my room, clearing up of my room, and clearing up of my room, etc.However, since Super Drama TV was broadcasting the program of "ENTERPRISE: season4 marathon", I was made to change my plan. I can't leave from television and I can't miss the 4th season of Star Trek Enterprise.連休中にいろんなことをしようと思ってました。部屋の片付けとか部屋の片付けとか部屋の片付けとか…^^;Super Drama TV でStar Trek: Enterprise 第4シーズンの一挙放送をやってましてテレビの前から動けなくなっちゃいました。あーあ。

Marc Bonilla in California Transit Authority

Marc Bonilla is now performed in the band that California Transit Authority. We can listen to their music to the site of CTA. Their performance is such a cool!!!Marc Bonillaは今California Transit Authorityというバンドでツアーをしているそうです。彼らのサイトで音が聞けます。うひゃー、超カッコイイ!!!(常に語彙がとっても貧困ですが、好きな音楽って言葉で上手く表現できません)CD欲しいんですが、まだ出てないようです。☆Luckyさん、いつも重要な情報ありがとうございます!!!!

mixi

旦那がmixiに招待されました。私のところに腰に手を当てて得意気に踊りながらやってきて「あんたも招待してやろうか～？」ですって。いーえ、結構です。以前にちょっとの間だけもうひとつblogを立ち上げて、こちらでは絶対語らない話について書いたのですがしんどいので、4日でやめました。mixiも面白そうなんですけどね。やめておきます。

お昼休みのひととき

会社の近所にゲーセン発見！初めて見た「ケロロ軍曹ちょうちんキーホルダー」穫ろうとしましたがゲットならず(;_;)ジャンケンゲーム形式のマシンでしたので、私には強敵でした。動体視力と瞬発力に自信のある方でしたら結構いけそうですよ。帰りは慌てて、手に握ってた百円、溝に落としちゃった（号泣）あの、金属製の網を持ち上げてみようとチャレンジしてみましたがびくともしませんでした。網にしないできちんと塞いでちょーだいなっ!!!!

Asia＠Count Basie Theater　NJ

Roger Watersのレビューをくれたメル友が、Asiaの写真を送ってくれました。連日プログレライブ三昧の彼、とっても羨まし～!今彼にアップの許可をもらっているところです。(多分大丈夫だと思うのですが)CarlとGeoffにサインをもらったそうです。きっと後ほどレビューもくれるでしょう。楽しみです。この写真を見て、Rolandのイベントの時よりGeoffのお顔が大きくなったように感じたのはGeoffの隣にいるのは私ではなくて小顔のCarlだから、相対的な問題なのかな～って思ったのですが今回彼からもらった写真を見て確信しました。Geoff、残念ながら太っちゃいましたね(T_T)たった7ヶ月でどうしちゃったんですか!!??メル友は、会場後ろから出てきたSteve^^;に83年のパンフにサインをもらったそうです。私も83年のライブを観に行った話をなんとか英語でメールしたいんですが、ちょっと時間かかりそう。来週AsiaはCaliforniaに行きますが、Keith Emersonが乱入してGeoffのシンセを壊しませんように。おとなしく客席で観てて下さいねっ!!

Roger Waters--Opening Night of US tour Holmdel, New Jersey. 9/06/06

My American friend Brett gave me the review of the live of Roger Waters. It's a very wonderful review. アメリカのメル友がRoger Watersのアメリカライブツアー初日を観て、レビューを書いてくれました。翻訳してアップしようと思ったのですが、そうこうしてる間にお正月が来てしまうので、彼の許可をいただいて原文そのまま掲載いたします。残念ながら、カメラは持ち込めなかったようです。We had the pleasure of catching Roger Waters at the Holmdel gig last night. I thought it appropriate in a way that perhaps he was starting off his birthday with a bang. He's surrounded himself with an incredible bunch of musicians this time such as Dave Kilminster and long time keyboardist Jon Carin. Anyway, he started off with a one, two punch of "In The Flesh" followed by "Mother" which sounded excellent and got the crowd up on their feet in a hurry!!! "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" sounded great and brought me back to my days sitting in my "smoke filled room" back at my parents home in Freehold. Ian Ritchie added some excellent sax that served as a super instrumental interlude to when Dave and Rick used to do their psychedelic "space trip" back in the day. The backdrop of seeing the Floyd as youngsters with Syd augmented this moment with a visual clarity that could only be appreciated by someone that lived through those days to tell about it!!! This was followed up by "Shine On Parts 1-5", they really nailed this piece and gave it the emotion it surely may not have received had Syd not departed this Earth just months before. I think with the visuals of Syd back in happier times, courtesy of the surviving 35mm from then, there wasn't a dry eye in the house when they went through this great tune!! It's obvious that Roger genuinely misses his old friend. This was followed by "Have A Cigar" and "WYWH", the former I'll discuss a bit later on. "WYWH" had the whole place up and singing as usual. To the point where I couldn't tell who was doing the actual vocals!! They went into a few tunes from "The Final Cut", not my favorite of albums but I did enjoy hearing "The Fletcher Memorial Home". After this was one of the questionable moments of the evening but I'll leave this for later. The first half ended with a kick ass version of "Sheep", one of the few numbers where I thought they really missed Dave G's technique (and also "Comfortably Numb", see encore section below), not to take anything away from Dave K., Andy Fairweather Low and Snowy White. This tune still rocked!!!!! And the pig balloon they walked around to the back and released up into the night towards the full moon really lent an ambience to this "great gig"!!! The second half was of course, "The Dark Side" performed in its entirety. The band did an incredible job staying true to the format and original sound. Having seen it in 2 other decades, I have a few gigs to gauge it by. I'll always prefer the one from the 70s but all in all I have no complaints. I believe it was PP Arnold that did the lead vocal for the "Great Gig", she is to be commended for that, she did a remarkable job!!! I actually got goose bumps hearing it again after all these years!!! At this point I have to say that, last night, I had previously written this review on Progears and was told that Ms. Arnold had recently lost her parents which may explain the passion in her performance. The program must have been written before her parents had passed on. In her profile she stated what a challenge "Great Gig" is and goes on to say, and I quote,"I also feel emotionally involved with it as both of my parents are approaching the end of their journey at the moment". My heart goes out to her but I've always felt that music is the ultimate healer and PP Arnold is obviously throwing herself into her work now. The encores were rather predictable, but expected, and I'd say "Comfortably Numb" is where they miss Dave Gilmour the most even though Dave K. filled in admirably. I do have a few things I'd like to point out however. The first concerns a thread I remember about a month or so ago about whether Roger is "faking it" vocally. I can assure you he's singing but he's got a few young guys around him to help him out so he's not apt to burn his voice out in this fashion. I was surprised to hear him belting out "Sheep" but, as I said, this was one of the few tunes he put himself out on. But this tune calls for the kind of venom Roger is known to inject into the lyrics when it's called for!! The next aspect of this gig I want to point out concerns several items, one is the vocalizing of "Have A Cigar". I've always felt that the only singer that could handle this tune is Roy Harper!!! Even when they toured with it in the spring and summer of 75, 77 and later on during Dave (though I'm not sure whether Dave G. ever had this in any of his solo setlists) and Roger's solo tours they both had trouble handling it. But this is picayune at best, just my opinion and Roger, instead of having Dave K. give it a shot, gave it a try himself tonight. I still loved hearing it just the same. The next item, that I was taken to task for on Progears, will be in 2 parts. The first was what I originally wrote. Then I'll give Dawn's response followed by my viewpoint. Something I was trying to avoid when I wrote this part of the review!!! Another thing I'd like to approach here is Roger's preoccupation with mixing politics with music. This was the "questionable moment" I alluded to in the third paragraph of my review. I feel he stepped into a big pile of feces when he decided to add "Leaving Beirut" to his setlist. The intro about having been stranded to hitchhike when he was 17 and taken in by a family over near Beirut, and comparing this to the war in Iraq is just an invitation for trouble. I say this because he was soundly booed near the end of the song and hopefully he'll have the sense to readjust his list. It was obvious to me that most of the people present tonight didn't share Roger's views in the political arena in regards to Iraq. And please don't get me wrong here, I'm NOT trying to invite a political discussion, I'm just giving my objective observation on what I witnessed at the concert. The following is one of the Progears members responses, Dawn (marimasutica). marimasutica said: Was kinda surprised that it seemed more politically charged than CSNY...but I believe in personal beliefs and the freedom to speak them... My response: I guess I kinda walked into this one. I've seen CSN (not lucky enough for the Y yet) enough times to see their views put out to the crowd with mass acceptance. I totally agree with anybody's right to free speech as well. I was just basing it on this one show which isn't a really fair assessment to Roger. I had no problem with this at all being a person who believes we should stick with our convictions and say what we believe without anyone in power sticking their own brand of propoganda down our throats!!! There, I've just went against what I wanted to do in my original post but it felt good! I have to tell you though, there was one guy in the next section over from me (during "Leaving Beirut") that got so agitated he was hollering at Roger over the din and I thought he was going to have a heart attack he was so animated. I was thinking of going over to him to get him to calm down and let Roger speak the piece he was entitled to but he was riled beyond belief!!! There are those however, that feel nobody in this day and age is allowed their point of view. This may explain the chorus of boos at the end of the tune. Anyway, thanks for getting me started Dawn, now I'll get off my soapbox!! By the way, the gentleman of who I spoke left (to the bewilderment of those with him) at that point and didn't return. Missed one hell of a show due to his beliefs or lack thereof. My only regret, I didn't bring my camera due to the venue's strict policies. For those of you that have been there you know what I mean. Therefore I have no pictures to send out. That said, this was one hell of a show and I hope you all get a chance to witness this event!!! The sound was excellent and the visuals complemented the music to a tee!!! Not to mention this was an awesome night weatherwise!! A perfect confluence between sound, audio and weather!!!! In other words, what we like to call a "Floydian night"!!!!!!!!!

あ、けんけんのー

10月からのケロロのNew OpeningはPOLYSICSの「You-You-You」watabo.さん情報Thanksです。Officialページ見て来ましたが「ルックス、まんまDEVOやん!!」と思いきや「DEVOに憧れPOLYSICSを結成」だそうで。それなら納得です^^;音はDEVOみたいなんでしょうか?DEVOって全然聞いたことなくて江口寿史さんの「すすめ！パイレーツ」にちょこちょこおまけで出てくるバンドという認識しかありませんでした。パイレーツって、DEVOやらKraftwerkやら Klaus NomiやらYMOやらいっぱいでてきましたね。せっかくの機会ですから聞いてみましょうやだ～!これアップした人「Satisfaction」のスペル間違ってますよ!長年の謎が解けました。「あ、けんけんのー」って「I can't get no」のことだったんですね～!これはStonesのカヴァー?もしこんな感じだったら、なんかケロロと合わな～い!(-_-)

お疲れ様!!Schumacher!!!

レース後のインタビューでシューマッハは「最後のモンツァ」と言いました。ついに引退なんですね。あと残り3戦、頑張ってください。

カーナビのイヤな壊れ方

カーナビが暴走してビックリ。なんにもしていないのにいきなり勝手に「周辺10キロ以内の飲食店を表示します」何度もこうなりました。(T_T)たしかに「お腹減った」って言ったかもしれませんが、こんなに受け狙いな壊れ方しなくても道具も持ち主に似るのかな?今月末には生まれて初めて家族以外の人間を乗せて河口湖まで行くのでなんとかしなければ。リセットしておさまりましたが、不安です。

楽しい試練

アメリカのプログレ好きのメル友に「プログレお楽しみセット」と彼女へのプレゼントを送ったら、ものすごい量の喜びメールが返ってきました。「私は英語が得意でないから、返事は気長に待ってくださいね。」とお願いした後は、割と短めのメールをくれていたのですが^^;さあ、頑張って訳して返事しましょう。今日は彼、Roger Watersのライブを楽しんでいるはずです。高校の頃、アメリカにホームステイしていた先輩に色々送った時は結構時間がかかったのですが、今回は日曜に送ったものがもう火曜には着いてました。すごいですね～。

出世します？

ライオンのお尻を見ながらお茶をする夕方のひと時。お客さんに尻向けちゃまずいでしょっ!これに跨ると出世するって都市伝説を聞いたことがあります。でもどうせそんな危険で恥ずかしいことするなら日本橋や銀座でやったほうがご利益ありそうですね。

Cancelled: Ryuichi Sakamoto's concert

Unfortunately, Ryuichi Sakamoto won't be able to attend, due to health problems, as communicated by deputy-director of Tokyo Hospital where the maestro is currently admitted. On account of an acute health condition, he was forced to cancel all engagements for the next six weeks.教授のイタリアツアーもキャンセル。こちらは健康上の理由のようです。早くよくなってください。

Greg Lake Tour 2006 - Cancelled

Greg Lakeのツアーがキャンセルになっちゃいました。詳細はこちら。大まかにしか訳してないんですが、どうも健康上の理由ではないみたいです。一体どうしちゃったんでしょう？