FIRST TIME WATCHING - BAND-MAID / onset - IRISH REACTION 

Um, not exactly. Miku, who founded the band, plays rhythm guitar and is second vocals so she is the fourth member on instrumentals. Now you are correct hat with no vocals she does get a singing break... Saiki and Miku are both very talented vocally and are presently my two fav singers.

Miku said that's Saiki's bathroom break as well lol@@paddyofurniture4681

Miku is actively involved with their instrumentals. Saiki is the only one taking a break during them.

@@paddyofurniture4681 Use a little bit thought in the context of my statement, It is in fact giving Miku a break as she is not using her voice during these Instrumentals. Should I have wrote my sentence a little bit better sure, but I will stand by my statement. IE giving her voice a break is what I was implying.

@@garykeeling2275 She is not using her voice during these Instrumentals, IE giving her voice a break, which is what I was hoping to get across with my statement,.

Best hard rock band for sure.

Once you're hooked you never wriggle free.😌

Deliberate and joyful!

Japan leads the league in female bands, no one has so many excellent female bands out there. A rather new one from South Korea is making some waves and they are named Rolling Quartz. They have a great sound also. But Band Maid is the class of the group.

I've been thinking lately that the instrumentals might be the best introductions because one immediately gets how good they are on their instruments without being distracted by their stellar vocals.

Mincho is our Dark Destroying Angel.🤗

@@GaryHolloway-810 OK. I'm down with that. As long as she keeps making music you can even call her late for dinner. 🙄😁

@@jkkansasband7056 Lol. That's fair :)

I noticed when you recommended "Domination" you meant the official live & said "Not the MV". Good Kevin.👍

@@GaryHolloway-810 When I am good, i am very very good, but when I am bad, I am horrid.

Thank you too!💪❤️🇮🇪🇯🇵

Wowwowo much love thank you!! 🇮🇪💪❤️

@@COUNTYGAINS Here the rest of that particular file for you. Band Maid was started in 2013 by Miku Kobato. At the time she had just left the Idol Group, Lil Cumin and she didn't like the type of music she had been performing. She approached her management agency with the idea of making an actual band playing rock music but dressed as maids. She had worked in a Maid Cafe and thought the image of maids playing rockin music would create what she called "The Gap" between what you see and what you hear. The Management company was like Ok, go ahead. Miku then looked around and found Kanami a singer/songwriter who was posting her own videos on the internet. Miku had her agency contact her and Kanami thought the idea was cool and agreed to join. Miku then asked if Kanami knew a drummer who might be interested. Kanami had worked with Akane in the past and there is 2 versions of this, the first is, Kanami literally walked over to Akane's apartment and asked her, the second is Kanami called Akane and asked her. (Akane has said in 2 different interviews that 1: Kanami called her and asked if she could come over and 2: in a second interview Kanami just came over) Akane was actually hesitant as she had worked in an "All Girl Group" before and didn't enjoy it as it wasn't the type of music she wanted to play. After hearing a Demo, Akane was like ok, but was still slightly hesitant because of the "Maid Outfits", but she agreed to give it a try. Akane was asked if she knew a bass player and she had gone to Tokyo School of Music with MISA and had worked a couple of jobs with her. So Misa was contacted and after she heard a demo she was like I like the music, but she also was hesitant about the "Maid Outfits", but she relented and joined in as she really wanted to play the kind of music she heard in the demo. The 3 of them then "Auditioned" for the record company and passed the audition. Now we have the "Core" members. The 4 members worked out some songs provided for them by the record company, and a setlist and they had performed 3 times with just Miku on main vocals. Miku after those performances felt that her voice wasn't powerful enough to really perform the songs she wanted. So she approached her management company again and asked if they had any singers who weren't in other projects. They then auditioned several singers. Miku heard Saiki rehearsing in a room across the hall and asked if she could be auditioned, the record company then had Saiki audition. Saiki was signed to the same management company and had done some work as a backup singer and dancer and was asked if she would be interested in auditioning for this new group which currently had 4 members and she would be the fifth. She had been a member of a group with 8 other people as a backup singer and dancer, and HATED it. So she listened to the demo and thought "Cool" because she liked the music. Now we come to the tricky part. Miku KNEW that if Saiki was told about the "Maid Outfits" she would say NO WAY!, so they didn't tell her. They told her they would have "Cool/cute Clothes"(I've read it translated either way), and she never met Miku until a few days before they had a contracted performance. She wasn't told about the "Maid Outfits" until the day before the performance, and she had considered backing out, but she had signed the contract. (Saiki also had NEVER met Miku until then as well) So the Ladies, went and did the performance and Saiki really, REALLY liked the crowds reaction and the music they were performing. She DIDN'T like the apron she wore so it got ditched after the first performance. And you now have the beginnings of the BEST LIVE HARD ROCK BAND in the WORLD! ALL HAIL BAND MAID!!!!! Now that we have the Full band, it was felt that there needed to be a second guitar. Saiki was like, "Not Me, No Way." So Miku said, "I'll do it.", at first that was literally all she did, was hold the guitar and mime playing it, until Akane said, if you are going to hold it, you NEED to learn to play it. And Miku said, "Ok.", and Kanami started to teach Miku how to play. The Ladies released their first album in 2014 "Maid in Japan" which failed to chart, but later after "Thrill" it was reissued and charted to #26 in Japan. Then in 2015 they released "New Beginning" On New Beginning was the song that changed Band Maid's entire existence. "Thrill"... The band was getting ready to release their first music video and the choice was between "Love, Passion, Matador" and "Thrill" and the ladies chose Thrill. (Little known fact, Miku helped with the lyrics on Thrill but did not get credited) This became the seminal moment of Band Maid. Because their second album charted at #64, the record company was seriously considering disbanding the Ladies and switching them to other projects. (In fact they had Kanami and Akane work with Mochi to Cheese thinking that when Band Maid cratered they could use them in another band. MISA had also just started working with Mochi to Cheese as well). However about 6 months after the video's release, a Facebook page "JRock Radio" posted the video to their timeline. And the video went viral. Having over a million views in just a few short weeks. The Ladies Twitter page got so many hits they thought their page had been hacked. Their RU-vid channel also started getting more and more subscribers and views to Thrill. Now the ladies knew where their fans wanted them to go. Harder Rock, less pop. And history was Maid. I and others have much more information about the Ladies, if you or anyone else wishes to learn. Please don't hesitate to ask us, we would be more than happy to answer any question to which we know the answers to.

Who?

Some garage band, I think. Tapped out in the 90s.

@@bandmaidfanATL 🤣

​@@bandmaidfanATLbrutal 😂

@@methos4866 I mean, am I wrong? All I remember about them is Enter Sandman and suing Sean Parker...

Wow Thats awesome ill check some more out

I appreciate that!!

I sure have fallen in love with Rolling Quartz, K-Rock excellence!

They all have the same face with plastic surgery, so it's hard to tell them apart!😂

@@risingsun6980 Really? I find each one quite distinct and unique.

Much love!!💪🇮🇪🇯🇵

No! NO KICK!

And Nemophila!

@@bandmaidfanATL Certainly!

Well said!