Last Joy... It's hard for me to be a fan of a certain band/singer and frankly speaking, I ain't no trendy mainstream sucker...I only listen to what I like and not what everybody else does.
The story goes back 6 months ago, during my 6 month blog blackout period when Okamoto-sempai asked me to accompany him to Shimokitazawa
Shelter and see this band I forget the name.
Eventually we missed the band because we were taking too much time at Mister Donuts eating our donuts since we didn't know that the band was an opening act for the whole event that night. Since I've paid 20 bucks and missed the band who hardly I know, I'd say we stay there till the end and see what other bands sound like.
So we waited...There were 4 bands playing that night, we missed the 1st one, the 2nd one sounded crapier than the 3rd one...which now leave us with the final band, JOY which I assumed the highlight of the day. As the crowd started to accumulate in the front of the stage, the screaming guitar sounded and so on...and to my suprise, they totally rocked me out, it's one of those love of at first sigh...no, love at first noise. No grumpy sound of Trombone nor Saxaphone and no screeching sound of the irritating techno...It was pure pounding
ROCK!!! - JOY - A bit on the info, JOY is a 4 piece and from Niigata Prefecture - the place I usually go snowboarding, also well-known for it's
Koshihikari variety of rice, which is widely thought of as the highest quality rice in Japan. Guess I need to eat more
Koshihikari to be as rock as them.
MCAT on guitar/chorus,
ELI on bass/chorus,
TDNK2 on guitar/vocal and
TD-K on drums/chorus.
For those who wants a taste of JOY's music, check this out...it's one of my fav track called
yukuehumei.
See the difference? Since then, due to the band's gigs mostly concentrated in Niigata, I didn't have the chance to see them performing again until last Friday when I received a shocking email from Okamoto-sempai saying that the band is breaking-up and the last gig in Tokyo was on Sunday at
Earthdom in Shin Okubo.
Since Okamoto-sempai could not make it, I went to Earthdom in Shin Okubo by myself. After enduring the cold weather and the suprising long queue, I made it in to Earthdom at last. There were 4 bands playing that night, the third one suck big time.
As for JOY who came out last, although that was my second time watching them live, they were abolutely fabulous!!! too bad it was their last one. Just hope that I will encounter other bands as good or perhaps better than JOY in the future.
Eli-chan chachoiiii....