BAND-MAID / REAL EXISTENCE Grandad Reacts 

Thanks for the reaction and comments. This song is a banger! For the most part, Kanami (lead guitar) composes the music and Miku (rhythm guitar/vocals) writes the lyrics. Miku (bass guitar) and Akane (drums) have a lot of input for their own individual parts. So the songs are, in the end, a result of far more collaborations amongst the members than meets the eye.

The Gorilla doing her best impression of 'Animal', from the Muppets, in the background of most of the full band shots. Always love seeing that. For a contrast, how about you take a look at "Memories Of Wind And Wine" for us. To my mind, their most beautiful instrumental. You will most probably hear that 'Old English' folk song , 'My Lady Greensleeves', as the foundation. A truly beautiful piece of work. I wish they would do a rendition of it where Saiki sings a few verses of the original song.

The Zepp Tokyo live version of this song was the “go to” recommendation for introducing Band Maid to new listeners. “Thrill,” “Real Existence,” and “Freedom” are three popular songs that the label had written for Band Maid (although they have lots of input, like lyrics and bass solos) “Alone” was their first self written song and once that hit, the label’s songwriters were unemployed. Kanami remains the primary composer; Miku the lyrics, with all the others actively part of the songwriting and arrangements. In fact, “Blooming” was the result of a homework assignment from Kanami to the others. They all came back with melodies, riffs or other details and Kanami blended them all together for what is considered a “masterpiece”

You NEED to do their Official Live of this song. It WILL be worth it!

I believe the ages of the members at the time this video was released (2015) is as follows: Saiki -21, MISA-22, Miku-23, Kanami-23 and Akane-24. The music was all written by outside writers until 2016. With the recording of "Alone" in 2016 and almost all subsequent songs have been written by the band. Music starts with Kanami with input from MISA and Akane. Lyrics are usually by Miku although Saiki has also provided lyrics for several songs.

Here’s LOVEBITES full set at Bloodstock 2018 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ogc4varqmVY.htmlsi=gs0ix7bp4FRtYz0O

You really need to see the live version of this on their channel, it's absolutely epic!

Kanami would be well suited as a classical composer. She usually writes Band-maid songs on piano before converting them to guitar. There are a few videos of her playing some BM’s songs on piano floating around. If your interested BM did an all acoustic Christmas dvd a few years ago. (I really liked it, but I like acoustic music a lot, so it may not be your cup of tea). The “of wind and wine” song that was previously mentioned in the comments, is BM’s version of “green sleeves” and was written for a video game you can download on your phone. (It really is a very good rendition of the song). So.. I wrote all that to say, I have an idea for a video for you. Kanami and Saiki did a live acoustic version of the song “puzzle”. Kanami played an acoustic guitar and sang backups while Saiki belted out one of the most emotional female vocals I’ve ever heard. My “Video idea” is to do a comparison of the official “puzzle” video, to the live acoustic video. It would be a change of pace for you, and it would give you a little insight to the depth of ability BM rarely shows.

Like you're doing more Band-Maid

Kanami is the composer miku writes the lyrics ,Kanami lead guitarist miku rythem guitarist

You wondered if they perform live at such a speed. Well, ya gotta check out their live performance video MANNERS/BLACKHOLE. It is a two-song video with BLACK HOLE executed at 220bpm. Thank you for continuing to react to my favorite band BAND-MAID.

I subscribed last time. Take a minute to clean your camera lens. Then watch DOMINATION and PLAY, live, from 2020. Both are songs that BAND-MAID wrote themselves. BTW, “a-ka-ne”

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The LIVE version is even better, but there is no Kinimi, it's Kanami. And no A-Cane. It's Ah-Kah-Nay. There's no Silent E in Japanese. Get with it Grandad. I'm probably older than you are. Do you need your glasses checked? Here's a video to help . . . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MxBZUdDVtLk.html