DEEP PURPLE- My Woman From Tokyo, 2002, Live From Tokyo
This CANNOT be the original band members... no way! It's hard to tell. The singer is like a whole different person. Not so hot on how his voice aged. But whoever these guys playing are, original or not, they certainly know how to shine up an old wonder.
Listen to this while you lookat pics of T O K Y O below... I wonder if you know....Teriyaki Boys (our intermission artists): Tokyo Drift
Cosplay
Cosplay
Beautiful Harajuku
N.A.C.
N.A.C.
World's Finest Pearls
TOKYO SETLIST
Mr. Roboto........................Styx
Renegade...................Styx
Kickstart My Heart................Motley Crue
Devil Inside........................INXS
One Way or Another..................Blondie
Every Rose Has Its Thorn....................Poison
Love Me Two Times.............The Doors
Sunshine Of Your Love...............Cream
House Of The Rising Sun.................The Animals
Roll With It.................Steve Winwood
Pour Some Sugar on Me..................Def Leppard
Eye of the Tiger.........................Survivor
Sitting on a Fence.....................The Rolling Stones
Zero..................Smashing Pumpkins
The Beautiful People..................Marilyn Manson
Roadhouse Blues....................The Doors
Rip This Joint.................The Rolling Stones
Black Dog..................Led Zeppelin
Free Bird..................Lynyrd Skynyrd
Tokyo footage was tough to find for most of these songs (except for one that I am most happy about finding). The following are all various locales, some music vids.
N.A.C.
Believe it....not a one good live version of this song. But who cares when you have this!
I like to imagine this played behind us.
Nothing like the sex-rock Gods of the Beatles, LZ, Stones, Henderix (the Beethovens of Rock)... but they still effin rock.
Styx: Chicago (date??): Renegade
This is their encore song in their hometown. These guys are just fun.
For sure, Jack Black got his moves from Styx guitarist, James Young nearer to the middle of the song. Think Jack Black, School of Rock. For sure Black was watching this dude.
And as goofy and geeky as they are-- they also happened to be incredible musicians.
INXS: London, England: Live at Wembley Stadium (1991) Devil Inside
I've been noticing something about the year 1991 in my research. A renaissance seemed to occur when the fusion of live musical technology and rock intertwined at its peak in this time period. Incredible productions were created in the name of great rock. I can't imagine what Led Zeppelin would have been like had John Bonham still been alive to play a recorded concert live at Wembley or Donnigton in the 90's in the way that INXS, below, did. Can you imagine if LZ or the Beatles had the luxury of this kind of production for their music. Not to take anything away from one of my favorite bands of all time: INXS.
In this clip, you really sense Michael Hutchence. His romances are linked on his name... I've always found him fascinating, even before he died hanging from his belt in a hotel room in his hometown, Sydney in 1997. He was believed by even his own brother, to have died from Autoerotic Asphyxiation.
My love for INXS goes deep.
Poison: MTV Unplugged (1990): Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Poison: MTV Unplugged (1990): Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Yes, even Poison gets a little nod. Come on, these guys did write a good little ditty here. Admit it...
Whoever says The Doors don't rock are just plain silly.
Back Door Man
Whoever says The Doors don't rock are just plain silly.
Back Door Man
Swagger back into 1988:
Steve Winwood: Roll With It (date???)
Steve Winwood: Roll With It (date???)
First of all, I had no idea these guys were English? But from viewing the Deep Purple vid, it's clear these guys are their British offsprings.
Marylin Manson: Live from Tokyo (2005): The Beautiful People
Finally... great live footage from Tokyo. And how happy am I that it's Manson of all things.
I find him to be so wonderful in his Macabre grotesque. Whether you dig him or not, Marylin Manson is a brilliant conceptual artist. I love his long- legged march across the stage. His band is just as sic. This cacophony could only come out of a post-holocaustic/nucleic cold-war culture that is spoiled rotten, works less hard than its preceding baby boomer generation, and is currently over-fed and mass-consumptive.
Oh Def Leppard, this vid is too much. If you don't get a kick out of this, you're just silly.
Sometimes one hit wonders have a hell of a lot of influence on the world... and although they had other hits, it's really only because they made such a splash with this one.
By the way, a list I'd like to get together? 25 Most influential one hit wonders of all time.
Enjoy this UK vid, but for a really fun ride, watch their US Video, which disallowed embedding so I couldn't blog it. It's worth seeing, as it documents the set up of the concert. And they've got a kick ass stage. These guys have a lot of heart, damnit. I never was a huge fan. But I've got a lot of respect for them. Click here for the US Video.
Marylin Manson: Live from Tokyo (2005): The Beautiful People
Finally... great live footage from Tokyo. And how happy am I that it's Manson of all things.
I find him to be so wonderful in his Macabre grotesque. Whether you dig him or not, Marylin Manson is a brilliant conceptual artist. I love his long- legged march across the stage. His band is just as sic. This cacophony could only come out of a post-holocaustic/nucleic cold-war culture that is spoiled rotten, works less hard than its preceding baby boomer generation, and is currently over-fed and mass-consumptive.
