i'll start working on it... soon...

[quote="kuru"]I only sent a Japanese text. terra will translate it.[/quote]

ohhh, my mistake then. What up homie-san.......

Excellent. I have watched it a few times and even though I was not able to understand what they are saying, its a very good documentary. Its shot very well and edited really well. and thats pretty cool for me because Im a filmaker and film student, so I can I appreciate it on a different level. plus the music is awsome...haha.

Any progress been made toward this?

I just watched it again today - great documentary, but I would love to hear what the band and the staff has to say, especially about their earlier stuff and Ueda / Kashima.

I would have gladly done it already if I knew Japanese, but the best I can do is beg for it

ditto, i wanna know what they're saying

Its just good to know that there are people working on this.
I can certainly wait until it is finished, but I sure am excited about it.

any updates on this?!

I just watched this again and I wanna know what they're saying.

eh. too many things, too little time.

how's this for a new year's resolution: translate this thing already.

sounds good

terra, does the translation end?



Moon_Margaret, do you translate?

Sweet, so I might know what the pillows said on the dvd before they actually die of old age.
Jk, this is good progress (i guess).

I can't read it, I open it and it comes up as golbidy goop text.

Holy shit.. >_>

Yeah I'll tackle it. Won't get it done all at once, but little by little.

Chapter1


Q:what sorts of things did the pillows adhere to,
also what sort of vision did you have for the future,
at the time of your formation?

yamanaka:I don't really know. I don't think there was much there.
not really many specific settings, good music like the beatles.
Write good lyrics to a good song, and if possible sing it with a good voice
and then play well for our performances. I really think that was about it.
That's why we had our strong points and weak points. Because everyone likes things that are easy to understand.

Manabe: a lot of trial and error.
There was a keyword... basically we said we'd be like the beatles and have good songs that we play well.
And that keyword was rock and roll. I'm a guitarist with out rock and roll in the core..

Satou: basically we were heading in an ambiguous direction, saying we would have good music that we played well.

yamanaka: in the beginning we had, a bizarre, I don't even know if it was fast or slow but, anyway it wasn't a smooth sound.

manabe: in the beginning I was thrown around, as a guitarist, by the words rock and roll, which appeared in various places.

satou: probably a spiral staircase. I don't really even think that this here is our prime. After 15 years.

yamanaka: I guess in a way it was hard to understand. Just playing good music, even for a critic of music, is hard to put the right words to, I think.
It was hard to find a good place to put the position maybe. But I don't think we had too much we adhered to. That's the same now too I think.

Chapter2

you are there (kimi ga iru)

ueda: nice to meet you, we're the pillows. I play bass, my name is Kenji Ueda.

manabe: I play guitar. I'm pee.

yamanaka: I'm vocals and guitar, yamanaka. Sorry, I'm a bit tipsy.

satou: I'm shinichirou, I play drums.
ueda; yeah shinichirou. hahaha.

Satou: I like dry(?)


THE BEGIN

yamanaka: hmm yeah I really remember that. I got a phone call from Ueda-san.
He said that kenzi and the trips were breaking up. I was shocked at that.

satou: ueda was our first leader. As a bassist, he was famous in the punk world.

ueda: I came home to sapporo for a year or so, and I met yamanaka there.
So even after I returned, I had yamanaka send me his tapes. And I thought he was pretty good.
When it was suggested that we break up, I thought of yamanaka not two seconds after, and I suddenly felt like it was gonna be fun.

yamanaka: when we were in highschool there was talk about getting together with ueda-san, but we missed eachother and ended up not.
Then of course he was in kenzi. After that I became a member of the coinlocker babies, and I figured we'd stick with these members,
so even if I wanted to play with ueda-san, I had told myself I was gonna stick with these members forever, but that all changed with that phonecall.
Of course I wanted to go with uedasan.

yamanaka: "I want to have a new band with you, yamanaka." When I heard those words I was really surprised.

satou: in the beginning we were known as the band formed by two former kenzi and the trips members, but that's not true, it was ueda and yamanaka
who started it. I was just called in later.

yamanaka: so uedasan said to shinchan; you know yamanaka from the coinlocker babies that we've run into a few times at performances?
I'm thinking of making a band with him, so we want you to do it too shinchan. He probably heard my demo tapes too, and they said they'd do it.

manabe: and I was the last one to join, as a guitarist.

yamanaka: we didn't have a name the pillows yet, but we said we'd go as a trio. Because we talked about how there weren't any bands that were famous that were trios.

manabe: I think their ideal at first was to make a three man band, but I went to rehearsal once.

yamanaka: my guitar sucked. The two of us basically had our heads in our arms, it was really bad. So we had auditions with like 7 people. For guitar. They were all bad.

ueda: everyone was like 1,2,3,4,etcetc... playing like that, but peechan came all of a sudden, playing it up, really into it too. And we knew this was the guy.

yamanaka: the band manabekun was doing was really great, even though they were an amateur band in hokkaido, they'd have 600 or 700 people, playing in a big hall.

manabe: yeah my band was breaking up at that time too, and I was thinking of what my next stance was going to be. I was seriously considering Talking Heads, or joining Police.
I was really a guitarist that full of himself. But it's true that I had an energy about me that people didn't even take it as a joke.

yamanaka: if manabekun, the persia of sapporo, would really join like this, then it'd be really great.

manabe: so we had a session, I felt the potential and the fun, so I thought "hey why not"

yamanaka: we sent him a plane ticket. I didn't know him at all. So we went to a studio, and I immediately thought this was the guy.

yamanaka: so we finally had the 4.



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