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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from Cereal Killer 13 in 8P-SB   
    I think this picture fully summarizes this project in a nutshell.
  2. I feel ya..
    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from Alsdead14 in 8P-SB   
    I think this picture fully summarizes this project in a nutshell.
  3. LOLOL
    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from Wakarimashita in 8P-SB   
    I think this picture fully summarizes this project in a nutshell.
  4. LOLOL
    GreatNorthernVK reacted to JukaForever in 8P-SB   
  5. LOLOL
    GreatNorthernVK reacted to nekkichi in japanese music artists with dark pasts   
    when i was walking down the street Yoshiki Hayashi attacked me with a pair of scissors, trying to cut my burqa open! she shouted "go back to the dezert where you can practice shakira law!" im crying im so terrified is this what america has come to
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from deadman in DIMLIM Concept Full Album CHE DO A RA   
    I have way more respect for them without Issei. That guy was a tool.
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from appl- in DIMLIM Concept Full Album CHE DO A RA   
    I haven’t even gotten around to listening to these, but i’ve already pre-ordered. My body is ready.
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to suji in can you rank these bands?   
    10. can't,
    9. cuz
    8. they're 
    7. special
    6. in
    5. their
    4. own
    3. unique
    2. way
    1. MERRY
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to Komorebi in 8P-SB   
    Only reason I'm doubting so much is Naoki (ex-Kagrra,) plays that day and I'd rather see him.  And it'll be easier to get tickets for that lol
    But going and writing a live report is REALLY tempting.
  10. LOLOL
    GreatNorthernVK reacted to Masato in 8P-SB   
    So my theory is, that not only all rights and instruments were taken from them, but they were banned from recording studios, too....  and they were left with a cell phone song composition app..... 
     
    And Koichi could not even lend a friend's instrument to record stuff.
     
    Or perhaps Mejibray was a playback band!!!! 😱
  11. Interesting
    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from Komorebi in 8P-SB   
    Koichi also recently tweeted about "Pretending to like something that you hate will make you hate yourself". Not sure whether this is a thinly veiled dig at the visual kei industry as a whole (a commentary on the amount of bandomen that don't even like heavier music, but are told to compose/play it, including himself and Genki), or telling Mejibray fans that they don't have to stick around if they hate 8P-SB.
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from suji in 8P-SB   
    No, a shoujo anime would opt for a bigger budget for their ending theme.
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to inertia in Lareine   
    I lived in Tokyo and went to all their local shows and many of the away ones too during their second period in the 2000s. Something that I think isn’t fully appreciated among international fans is just how unpopular and broke Lareine was during that time, and how desperately and passionately they worked despite the obstacles. But every concert was magical. It had to be. There was no reason to do it otherwise, and a million reasons to quit. It felt like borrowed time, and I was always so happy and grateful to be able to see them despite the bittersweet feeling they would have been better off doing something else.
     
    They always looked exhausted at events, rarely had new costumes, rarely even had new goods because I think they had trouble coming up with deposits. Cheki didn’t start to become a thing until late in their history (2005-ish?) when they’d already spent years grinding away with little return. I suspect the reason why they were able to put out as many releases as they did is because back during Lareine’s Sony days Kamijo invested in buying a bunch of his own production equipment. I think normally an indie band at that level wouldn’t have had those resources.
     
    But time to write and rehearse seemed like a scarce commodity too back then. There were times when Kamijo looked half dead. And every time Lareine did a little tour we could watch Kamijo perk up day by day, at the same time as us fans with normal lives were getting more and more tired as the tour went on. It always made me wonder what on earth kind of awful schedule he normally had in Tokyo, juggling the band and probably a part-time job, that going on tour would feel like a vacation to him. (Later on when I read Versailles interviews, they mentioned that Kamijo and Hizaki first met while working at Third Stage.)
     
    Unfortunately by 2003 Lareine was already perceived as old, out of date, and uncool. A ‘90s band. If they hadn’t paused in 2000 maybe things would have been different, maybe they could have built a solid base like Dir or Pierrot. But coming back in 2003 it was too late, the trends had already changed. Lareine had few fans back then, and it seemed like all of us were fans from before. I never met any Japanese fans who said they were new. (only international fans) Young VK fans didn’t care. Lareine wrote some of the currently trendy themes into their music in ways that were interesting instead of pure copy/paste, and us old fans had fun, but nobody else cared. They did some amazing experimental stuff on stage, and nobody saw it except us few old fans. To give you an idea of how young fans perceived them, there was a big outcry when Versailles was announced because people didn’t think a pansy weak vocalist with a thin high voice like Kamijo should be playing with awesome (but unknown) guitarists like Hizaki and Teru. They really got outraged when we heard Versailles was going to have a heavy sound. I got in a lot of arguments online at that time with people who clearly thought I was a delusional fangirl for saying that Kamijo’s voice is powerful enough to sing heavier music.
     
    In February 2006 Kazumi announced that he was leaving Lareine and retiring from music. I never blamed him, I was thankful that he had done his best to help bring us great music for so long despite the hardships. But this was really the beginning of the end. Lareine put out big ads in the major VK magazines looking for a new drummer, and they even went out of their way to explicitly write that they would take applications from anybody regardless of age or sex or nationality, as long as they could play and would love the band. I think that would be shocking to see in a band’s want ad even today, and this was in 2006 before the explosion of international tours had happened. But they weren’t able to find a drummer, and then during the summer Mayu vanished again. Honestly I can’t even blame Mayu either for wanting to quit under the circumstances, but it was terrible that he vanished without communication or warning. The Club Citta live they did in October was originally supposed to be a Halloween Party event live with multiple bands, not their last live.
     
    I went to as many of Kamijo’s anniversary tour dates as I could, since it was so special. The Tokyo final with everyone was amazing. So glad I went.
     
    p.s. “Drama” was so great live that to this day I can still half-hear the performance in my memory, even though they only played it twice in Sapporo in February 2006 before Kazumi left. It was so powerful. Kazumi and Emiru were much louder than on the studio version; this song actually has a really sexy rhythm when you can hear them. Mayu took the electric part instead of the acoustic one. They came together solid and strong booming on the beat in that last chorus on the song, Kamijo singing powerfully instead of gently, and hard on the beat like the others. I regret not bringing my MD recorder to Sapporo, but I never imagined that those 2 nights would be the last times we could enjoy Lareine normally.
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to Saishu in X Japan new album scheduled for 30th of TBD   
    Fuck Yoshiki
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from mushi308 in 0.1g no Gosan x Mathilda drama   
    When you’re just trying to get out of the &$#*ing rain...
  16. wtf?!
    GreatNorthernVK reacted to nekkichi in 0.1g no Gosan x Mathilda drama   
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to TheZigzagoon in 0.1g no Gosan x Mathilda drama   
    If your grandparents don't know the furi does the vocalist have a shit fit?
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from appl- in 8P-SB   
    Koichi also recently tweeted about "Pretending to like something that you hate will make you hate yourself". Not sure whether this is a thinly veiled dig at the visual kei industry as a whole (a commentary on the amount of bandomen that don't even like heavier music, but are told to compose/play it, including himself and Genki), or telling Mejibray fans that they don't have to stick around if they hate 8P-SB.
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from zaa_zaa in 8P-SB   
    Koichi also recently tweeted about "Pretending to like something that you hate will make you hate yourself". Not sure whether this is a thinly veiled dig at the visual kei industry as a whole (a commentary on the amount of bandomen that don't even like heavier music, but are told to compose/play it, including himself and Genki), or telling Mejibray fans that they don't have to stick around if they hate 8P-SB.
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    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from platy in 8P-SB   
    Koichi also recently tweeted about "Pretending to like something that you hate will make you hate yourself". Not sure whether this is a thinly veiled dig at the visual kei industry as a whole (a commentary on the amount of bandomen that don't even like heavier music, but are told to compose/play it, including himself and Genki), or telling Mejibray fans that they don't have to stick around if they hate 8P-SB.
  21. LOLOL
    GreatNorthernVK reacted to Karma’s Hat in 8P-SB   
    If it's any comfort I think the seemingly disproportionate amount of westener feedback on their social media is more indicative of Japanese people not being interested, rather than massive worldwide support. For example the dead account of Karma has almost twice as many twitter followers as Koichi, and Raid's Sena has three times more ( while all the other members have at least twice as many. ) This shite muzak project is bound to sink, and both of them will be working as hosts and living without electricity and running water in no time. Not even the lady working the corner shop will recognise them as they try to shoplift mandarins in an effort to not to starve to death with the rest of the homeless people sleeping under the bridges.  
  22. I feel ya..
    GreatNorthernVK reacted to Karma’s Hat in ex-MEJIBRAY members new project, "8P-SB" has formed   
    Yeah the weirdest thing about him is how fucking hard he went at the lives, in the lyrics and the music and allegedly in his personal life; and then all he wanted to do all along was to play baroque covers. 
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to Peace Heavy mk II in ex-MEJIBRAY members new project, "8P-SB" has formed   
    Piracy can also lead to the end of this as well ☠️
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    GreatNorthernVK reacted to frayed in ex-MEJIBRAY members new project, "8P-SB" has formed   
    So basically him and Koichi are legit married now right?
  25. Yikes
    GreatNorthernVK got a reaction from emmny in ex-MEJIBRAY members new project, "8P-SB" has formed   
    I would be fine with anything other than a K-pop knock-off. I suppose we’ll find out in June, though.
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