2015/04/07 James Iha: TSUTAYA O-East; Tokyo, JP

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Ah, James. Just the mellowness I need to calm down from the fucking LUNATIC FEST craziness.

The lineup was pretty bare- James and another guy (Nathan Beale) on guitars, Horie (from the Yukihiro Takahashi IN PHASE lineup) on keyboards, and a drum machine for some of the songs (starred), whose name was Michael, apparently. He introduced Blew Away with "This is an old song. By... Uriah Heep." At some point he asked if there were a lot of love hotels nearby (there kinda are), and then asked "What do you do in love hotels?" A brief pause while the audience laughed, then "Karaoke?", at which point he looked over at Horie and started singing something about seasons in the sun, which pretty much the entire crowd cracked up over. Apparently it was some big 80s song, so I'm guessing Horie sang it while they were at karaoke recently or something. At the end of the said he thanked everyone for coming out & said "We have 1 last... jam. This is a song from my old band, Smashing Pumpkins, and I'll try to sing it." Ah, Mayonaise. He did sing the "always old, I'll always feel this" line twice instead of the "old enough to always feel this" line first. Oops. Oh well. It's been a while. XD

1. Make Believe
2. Summer Days *
3. Gemini *
4. Speed of Love *
5. Blew Away
6. Country Girl
7. Appetite *
8. Be Strong Now
9. Season in the Sun [TUBE] (tease)
10. Till Next Tuesday *
11. Back with You [Tinted Windows]*
12. To Who Knows Where *
13. Mayonaise
14. #9 Dream [John Lennon] *

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