http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPoG0eWH3c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xNTzlFSk0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rfjFwaV9jkE

Mersey Paradise by The Stone Roses

http://ekatocato.hippy.jp/gazou/amaki91.jpg
浅川マキ (Asakawa Maki)

http://www.alien8recordings.com/artist_image/name/22/size600/HainoAbandon1.jpg
灰野 敬二 (Keiji Haino)

http://ekatocato.hippy.jp/gazou/amaki92.jpg
But Haino is straight edge while Maki is a smokestack. Swoon.

I remember watching Steven Okazaki's film "Hunting Tigers" in 1992/3 on PBS about Japanese performance artists of the 1980s and falling in love with 戸川純 (Togawa, Jun).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkXIOdOwGTE

好き好き大好き (Suki Suki Daisuki)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwazWVw0li8

バージンブルース(シングルバージョン) (Virgin Blues)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476bXVHRLvs

さよならをおしえて (Sayonara Wo Oshiete)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-3MwvcSI74

TOTO Toilets!

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5461/steviewondersgc7.jpg

Me and Stevie Wonder's drum set…hehe

Been compiling tags of "seen live," sort of like thewilyfilipino. Been attending shows since 1987 (first concert was Jimmy Cliff), so here's some explainations.

A lot of questionable (Darren you saw that one???) acts on my list (Tracey and the Plastics and the Verve amoung others) opened for headliners like Erase Errata and Massive Attack (supposed to have a double bill with the Verve, but they canceled).

The Foo Fighters (I can't tolerate) and Beck (he's okay) were part of a Miller Genuine Draft Blind Date concert in SF in 2000(?). Free pizza and beer and shuttle service…and a anti-climatic…