Purple Moose: Battle of the Bands
Last night I went to a battle of the (cover) bands. Ok, it wasnt much of a battle, but it was fun.
The concert was held at Chop in Fukui City. To get an idea what this venue is like, picture the very first venue in Guitar Heroes 1. That IS Chop.
The first band was a bunch of high schoolers. They played the first opening song to Death Note so that made me happy. Then the guitarist broke a string. And the drummer dropped his drumstick. And it was DISASTEROUS. It's a good thing audiences here are soooo polite, the kids still got clapped and no one heckled them. Plus they were good sports about it anyway. They had their own fan club of jailbait in miniskirts and long stockings. As a (bad) joke the singer kept introducing the band over and over and over and talked way way way too much inbetween songs.
Next up was a band with a chick singer who wore short shorts. <3 <3 <3. They were the magic mushrooms and they threw out mushroom sponges into the audience that were said to bestow whoever caught them Happiness. During one song she shot a pingpong ball into the audience, and in another song she took out a badminton racket and hit a sponge mushroom into the audience. Did I mention the singer was cute as hell and hot? Cause she was. The drummer was an old dude whow as a sushi chef so he wore his chef outfit to play the drums.
It's as if each band had their own gimmick...
Next up was a Nirvana cover band, misprinted in the phamphlet as Nirnana. They did a good job cause they didn't talk inbetween songs at all. I'm not sure if they even introduced themselves, they just played and played and played. I wish they saved Teen Spirit for the last song instead of in the middle, but it was cool. They added the guitar solo that is in the Guitar Heroes version, makes you wonder eh? Their drummer was cool cause he was fat and all sweaty and pounding the shit outta the drums. Well, I suppose that's what all drumers do, but he was super cool cause he was fat.
Next up was another band with a chick singer. The first song was cool cause she sounded all spooky. Then she had a COSTUME CHANGE so I marked out hard. She was also really cute. The band was meh.
Last up was Purple Moose, starring Karl as frontman. His two J-guitar dudes are awesome and marked out hard when they saw my Hammerfall t-shirt, and when I told them I loved Bodom, and shit like that. The band was only the two guitarists and Karl on vocals, so they had their computer do the drums, bass, and keyboards. Man, with all those arranging programs out there now, the oldschool way we used to do it in Everyone with Alex writing programs in C to talk with Cid the Synth seems really, really oldschool. Even so, it made me happy we weren't the only ones to use pre-recorded bass and drums. And even without a live drummer or bass player Purple Moose KICKED ASS. They destroyed the other bands. It was awesome. Karl can scream like a madman. He even had the frontman antics down, pounding the mic with the beat, looking all emo and shit cause that's the kind of screamo music they played. It was awesome.
Makes me wish I was in a band again. Everyone playing keys, or even as a frontman. Not that I can sing really well, but I have the energy and charisma to be an awesome frontman. Maybe I'll start taking vocal lessons once I move to Kanazawa.
The concert was held at Chop in Fukui City. To get an idea what this venue is like, picture the very first venue in Guitar Heroes 1. That IS Chop.
The first band was a bunch of high schoolers. They played the first opening song to Death Note so that made me happy. Then the guitarist broke a string. And the drummer dropped his drumstick. And it was DISASTEROUS. It's a good thing audiences here are soooo polite, the kids still got clapped and no one heckled them. Plus they were good sports about it anyway. They had their own fan club of jailbait in miniskirts and long stockings. As a (bad) joke the singer kept introducing the band over and over and over and talked way way way too much inbetween songs.
Next up was a band with a chick singer who wore short shorts. <3 <3 <3. They were the magic mushrooms and they threw out mushroom sponges into the audience that were said to bestow whoever caught them Happiness. During one song she shot a pingpong ball into the audience, and in another song she took out a badminton racket and hit a sponge mushroom into the audience. Did I mention the singer was cute as hell and hot? Cause she was. The drummer was an old dude whow as a sushi chef so he wore his chef outfit to play the drums.
It's as if each band had their own gimmick...
Next up was a Nirvana cover band, misprinted in the phamphlet as Nirnana. They did a good job cause they didn't talk inbetween songs at all. I'm not sure if they even introduced themselves, they just played and played and played. I wish they saved Teen Spirit for the last song instead of in the middle, but it was cool. They added the guitar solo that is in the Guitar Heroes version, makes you wonder eh? Their drummer was cool cause he was fat and all sweaty and pounding the shit outta the drums. Well, I suppose that's what all drumers do, but he was super cool cause he was fat.
Next up was another band with a chick singer. The first song was cool cause she sounded all spooky. Then she had a COSTUME CHANGE so I marked out hard. She was also really cute. The band was meh.
Last up was Purple Moose, starring Karl as frontman. His two J-guitar dudes are awesome and marked out hard when they saw my Hammerfall t-shirt, and when I told them I loved Bodom, and shit like that. The band was only the two guitarists and Karl on vocals, so they had their computer do the drums, bass, and keyboards. Man, with all those arranging programs out there now, the oldschool way we used to do it in Everyone with Alex writing programs in C to talk with Cid the Synth seems really, really oldschool. Even so, it made me happy we weren't the only ones to use pre-recorded bass and drums. And even without a live drummer or bass player Purple Moose KICKED ASS. They destroyed the other bands. It was awesome. Karl can scream like a madman. He even had the frontman antics down, pounding the mic with the beat, looking all emo and shit cause that's the kind of screamo music they played. It was awesome.
Makes me wish I was in a band again. Everyone playing keys, or even as a frontman. Not that I can sing really well, but I have the energy and charisma to be an awesome frontman. Maybe I'll start taking vocal lessons once I move to Kanazawa.