I never got around to writing up the Gakuens I attended back in 2009, but since I just ended up going to another one, I figure it's about time, as I can just do both years in one swell foop. :P" And remind myself once again why I haven't paid all that much attention to Gackt lately. >_<; A warning, though- this is gonna be long... >_>;
Part I: ( Read more... )

TONS of shows to catch up on after my 2-week vacation, so I'm gonna make some of these brief...

2011/09/11 ドレミ團 - Shibuya WWW; Tokyo, JP

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So, upon checking my mail this morning afternoon, I see a notice from eplus about Gackt tickets going on sale THIS MORNING for next Sat. Um, huh? So I joke "Oh, I'm sure it's all sold out by now, but let's check anyway". There's tickets. o_O; So I look at the fine print, 'cause I know he's been doing all these fucked-up special clothing ( Read more... )

So.. the guys-only Gackt show... what to say, what to say... o_O;

First, let's discuss the name of the event, 雄兎狐塾　～男尊女秘肌嘩祭～, which is a huge word play, similar to his last イキナ祭 tour... So, if we go by the individual kanji meanings, we get "male1 rabbit fox cram-school - men honor women secret skin noisy festival". If we go by the readings, ( Read more... )

So, Gackt's having these fan-club-only boys-high-school-themed all-covers shows next month, called 神威♂楽園deイキナ祭 (har har, very punny 9_9 ( Read more... )

Got up w/ plans to meet Sabrina in the goods line at "the ass crack of dawn" (aka noon ^^;)- got there around 12:30 & the line was RIDIIIICULOUS. So we figured there'd be no way to get the cat paws anyway, & ended up heading off for lunch. One of Sabrina's friends knew someone else who'd gotten there at SIX in the freakin' morning (apparently a ( Read more... )

Saturday was my second B-T session, but the first organized by TSK, one of the bassists from LSP (Luna Sea Session Project), who happens to have a couple of J basses & WUMF on his pants (trying to get him to start up a J session ^^;). I did keyboards for ドレス (after a bit of difficulty getting it set up- apparently it's always there in the room, ( Read more... )

As usual, same set, so I'll stick w/ the differences for this review.

First off, the ticket trauma has been covered before, so I'll skip to the end, where eplus decided to offer some last-minute will-call tickets- only it was credit card only, which really means Japanese CC only. T_T; But I managed to find someone selling 3 on yahoo auctions, w/ ( Read more... )

#1. New J album on 8/5, featuring Scott Garret, Takashi "CBGB" Fujita, and Gocchin. Gocchin? Who the fuck is that? SURELY they don't mean this one??! o_O; Unless she's a guest vocalist, & like, not the new guitarist...

#2. New Gackt single: holy vocoder, Batman! >_OK, more than 2 ( Read more... )

OK, that's 0 for what, 5 attempts now?

Dears pre-order: FAIL
Decade CD pre-order: FAIL
L-tike pre-order: FAIL
eplus pre-order (x2 accounts!): FAIL, FAIL

Seriously, WTF? It's a MOTHERFUCKING STADIUM. Why the fuck should it be so difficult to get tickets? Shit, I bought tickets to X Japan last year, like TWO DAYS BEFORE. And I think those were ( Read more... )