Glay
This past weekend Glay made it's way overseas for the first time to tour in the U.S. And by the U.S, I mean California, but whatever... that's good enough for me. I've waited eight years to see Glay, so I took this opportunity to take a break from life and head out to L.A. to see them play.
I went to both LA shows and both were amazing. They played a good set. A few songs off their latest album, but mostly crowd pleasing favorites from throughout the last 15 years of their career. My all time favorite was/is Shutter Speeds no Teema when Jiro (bass) gets to take over the stage and shine.
I was surprised by the amount of English Teru (vocals) spoke. And it wasn't just memorized English that I've seen from other Japanese artists, but when he made errors he knew it and was able to compensate. Impressive.
The venue played was House of Blues on Sunset Strip. It is fairly small stage, so the set wasn't as elaborate as would be seen in Japan and Glay wasn't as dressed up as they might be, but they also weren't dress down. Hisashi (lead guitar) was looking spectacular with a one sleeved jacket and a fishnet shirt. Though, I was sadly disappointed that he wasn't showing this legs as he's done in the past. Jiro was also looking great as always and as stated by an author of the SFWeekly.com blog All Shook Down, "I was so distracted by how ridiculously adorable the bass player was that I may have, um, missed some of what the other guys were doing." I think that says it all.
(left to right) Takuro (guitar, leader) Jiro (base) Teru (vocal, tamborine) Hisashi (guitar)
Set List of The House of Blues Sunset Strip at Aug. 15th
1.VERB
2.YUWAKU
3.GLORIOUS
4.IKITEKU TSUYOSA
5.GIANT STRONG FAUST SUPER STAR
6.STARLESS NIGHT
7.AMERICAN INNOVATION
8.Lock on you
9.SORRY LOVE
10.HOWEVER
11.ROCK'N'ROLL SWINDLE
12.MERMAID
13.SHUTTER SPEEDS NO THEMA
14.PEAK HATESHI NAKU SOUL KAGIRI NAKU
15.BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
Encore
1.Winter,again
2.KUCHIBIRU
3.KANOJO NO "Modern..."
4.ACID HEAD
Set List of The House of Blues Sunset Strip at Aug. 16th
1.VERB
2.YUWAKU
3.GLORIOUS
4.IKITEKU TSUYOSA
5.GIANT STRONG FAUST SUPER STAR
6.STARLESS NIGHT
7.AMERICAN INNOVATION
8.Lock on you
9.SORRY LOVE
10.HOWEVER
11.ROCK'N'ROLL SWINDLE
12.MERMAID
13.SHUTTER SPEEDS NO THEMA
14.PEAK HATESHI NAKU SOUL KAGIRI NAKU
15.BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
Encore
1.Winter,again
2.KUCHIBIRU
3.KANOJO NO "Modern..."
4.HIGHCOMMUNICATIONS
W-Encore
1.ACID HEAD