Listen/Review: 'Clang' LIVE! by Band-Maid  

That's something you don't see every day. :-) Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Someone else pointed me to the Vladimir video; very nice! As for Miku jumping, every time I see it, just for a split second I wonder if THIS will be the time she actually takes flight. :-)

If anyone was wondering, I did make a list for myself (before I started doing these reactions) of "things other reactors do that bother me". :-) One of the things was the reactor's face being larger than the video they were watching. Sure, I want to see their reaction, but I'd also like to see what they're reacting to. :-)

Yep. I could listen to this song all day. :-) (And, if you count editing, I guess I have.)

Yes! Dozens of times, especially last year (2023), Miku and her antics were exactly what I needed to pull out of a slump. :-) EDIT: she is also my hero and I wish I was young enough to say she's my role model (but I guess it's never too late to take on a new role model, is it?)

It's crazy that I can watch an entire live show, saying "that one's my favorite" for every single song. :-)

I certainly *thought* I'd heard all their songs but as I continue this journey I keep running into HITS that were buried. :-)

You're welcome! "Clang" is a fireball of a song and I can't get enough of it. :-)

I hope to have time for it in a few days. :-)

Someone beat you to it -- I just watched that after a recommendation below and it's pretty cool. I can't remember seeing a bassist tap like that before.

@@Chan_Fry IIRC, just before the 2019 Europe tour, MISA visited her old school, Tokyo School of Music, to learn how to do tapping better. And I think, the outcome was superb 😊

I think I noticed MISA's stare *because* she so rarely allows her emotions to show. :-)

Thank you. :-) I almost paused again for Saiki's wink, but decided to keep going... Something I've considered for future videos (for moments like that), instead of pausing and talking about it -- is pulling out a freeze frame to highlight the moment while the song continues playing... More work in editing, but fewer interruptions. Just an idea. :-)

Very true, Anderson. It does look like -- Miku especially -- is hyperaware that she's living the dream. I see it often from Akane and Kanami too, but less often from MISA and Saiki (more from Saiki in later live shows). MISA remains inscrutable on stage most of the time. :-)

Maybe so. It's growing on me (and I think it sounds better in this live than in the studio track). :-)

@@Schmegmaster If you mean the one I think you mean, then yes, I watched it. Even better than the Yokohama show, if you ask me. Thanks for watching!

It's certainly my favorite right now. (Though I just listened to "Puzzle" and "I can't live without you" again a few minutes ago, while doing some household chores, and I had a hard time keeping them below number one, LOL.)

Yes, someone pointed me to that video and it was very interesting. I think it's the first time I've seen such a technique on the bass guitar -- very impressive!

@@Chan_Fry There are a few bass players who do it today, including the bass player from the Japanese band Asterism. But back in the day the one guy who did it regularly and well was Billy Sheehan of the band Mr. Big, playing across from guitar great Paul Gilbert. They were also known for their guitar/bass duels, which I have only since seen from Band-Maid. 😄

!! Reminds me, I probably need to do a short on the pronunciation/origin of my name, LOL. (It's not the ちゃん that Japanese uses, but short for Chandelle and pronounced like the first syllable of the American "chandelier" -- rhymes with "can" or "fan", not "dawn" or "gone".)

@@Chan_Fry Hope you didn't feel any disrespect from my attempt to pun your name. So your name is pronounced more like Shan? In any case, Chandelle is an awesome name -- Chan and the Chandelles sounds like a great 60's revival pop group. Remember Tommy James and the Shondells, an American rock band formed in Niles, Michigan, in 1964? They had two No. 1 singles in the U.S. - "Hanky Panky" (July 1966, their only RIAA Certified Gold record) and "Crimson and Clover" (February 1969) - and also charted twelve other top 40 hits, including five in the Hot 100's top ten: "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage", "Mony Mony", "Sweet Cherry Wine" and "Crystal Blue Persuasion."

Ah! Thanks.

I can't imagine bass tapping being easy, LOL. Certainly it's got to be more difficult than the thinner strings of a regular guitar.

That tapping part is growing on me (and I like it better in the live than in the studio track). :-)

@@Chan_Fry Yes that's true, it's better live as with most BAND-MAID songs.

Oh, if I can find a "clean" version of "Fate" live, I'll certainly do it! (I found an edited version that would distract me to no end, but I'll keep looking.)

@@Chan_Fry Great! Shinkiba Studio Coast 2017 and 2018 ZEPP concerts are the best for their classic, hard rock numbers like Chang and Fate, etc. Bili has some. But at least the sound is good on this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YtrCdJY4t_A.html

Will get to it soon! :-)

Wow!

@@AndersonConnors Yes, it's insane how bad the algorithm is at guessing why I like this band, LOL. It's not the algorithm's fault - some highly paid human programmed it that way. I think all it has to go on is tags and possibly words in titles. So someone (won't say their names here) tags all their Band-Maid videos with "Babymetal", and their channels are so huge that the algorithm thinks the two bands are related somehow. And of course a LOT of reactors tag their Band-Maid videos with "Asian women", so you can guess what kind of videos show up for that. Weirdest flex: I've been recommended a ton of geology videos (because of "rock", I guess), and some of them are actually pretty interesting. But yeah, the algorithm doesn't know the difference between bands that sing and bands that growl/scream, doesn't know the difference between bands that play their own instruments and groups of dancing girls, etc.

It sounds pretty decent on my end (after I boosted the volume in editing). Or did you mean *my* audio (my voice)? Compared to most live videos I've seen, Band-Maid's (including this one) sound amazing to me.

@@Chan_Fry Okay I went back and ditched my Bluetooth ear buds and it sounded good. I'll have to check into why my Bluetooth signal stinks. My apologies...