sweet

That's it for now. I'll do more later. I'm off to lunch.

[quote="Initial B"]Would it be possible to not translate it into this topic cause then its just gonna get too damn long and i hate reading 20 pages of mostly junk.
If someone can translate and make a file to download, like the untranslated one, thatd be killer[/quote]

Well I'm going little by little, so when it's done someone can do that.. I surely am not going to do that.. >_>

It's fine in this topic, it's enough that your even doing it. Thanks a bunch!

Chapter3


THE 1st MOVEMENT


Live P.A engineer takaharu kobayashi

kobayashi: they came out to tokyo and did a performance, and i first saw them after. They were really together.
They were a bright poppish sounding good band.

ueda: what you don't understand? Hm. For example... hey don't talk I'm talking.


music magazine editor kiyohiko sasagawa

sasagawa: I heard their demotape, and then did an interview. My impression of them at the time was that they weren't awesome yet, technique-wise.

sasagawa: but they had a lot of energy, roughness, and an overall sense of a band, and their popularity.. or their melody line was set too. An interesting band.


Management "Bad Music Group" mitsunori kadoike

kadoike: they have a jazzy sound in some songs, and that they did a lot of difficult sounding things. That was the first impression.

kobayashi: peechan's left thumb was always sticking out, and that was the coolest thing.
I believe Yamanaka was still 19, but he was surrounded by amazing guys, so he seemed a bit reserved still.

yamanaka: when we started I alone was apart from the others in age, and it wasn't just that I was younger, but inside I was still a kid, and I really wanted to change,
and I tried hard to do so.

[quote="MyFoot"]It's fine in this topic, it's enough that your even doing it. Thanks a bunch![/quote]

I agree,

Thanks a lot!

Chapter 4

1st ALBUM

ueda: we're going to release a mini-album with five songs from captain records,and today we've come to announce this.
Right now we've just finished the performance at the loft, so my head is a bit elsewhere. Shinichirou san, what is this album like?

satou: Great. Putting it simply.

ueda: and yamanaka san?

yamanaka: there's up beat songs, acoustic.. it's a rather enjoyable variety of 5 songs I think.

ueda: and pee san?

manabe: Well first buy it and listen to it. It's contraversial.


Q: how did you feel when you released Pantomime?

yamanaka: very complicated.

satou: the cover was interesting. It's a cover that makes me wonder why we did something like that.

yamanaka: me being 20 at the time, it's needless to say that it was a very exciting experience.

manabe: kenji ueda and shinichiro already had experience you know? Even when they went to the studio they had a sense of comfort.

satou: when we released pantomime, there was reasonable thought I think.

manabe: yamanaka and I were desperate. I'm sure we were underestimated to an extent, so it wasn't like it was fun. We were desperate.

sasagawa: in many ways, at the time of their debut, I think they were fighting with their surroundings(people around them).

kadoike: yamanaka is very stubborn, and I too am stubborn, so we had many occasions where we'd clash. In the past. Peechan and shinchan were always the ones to stop us...

manabe: the pillows, looking back in a spectating way, was not a band that started with a set style so.

sasagawa: speaking from a musical standpoint, it was a time where they were blindly searching for various possibilities I think.

yamanaka: the beginning of the pillows was a time when I was bad, and even though I think I put out good music, the position in the band or, well I had doubts but, I couldn't say
those things at the right time, and sorta quietly mentioned them later I think. I think that's the kind of CD making I did.


MAJOR LABER


two from the pillows. Welcome. It's nice to meet you. First, they're releasing their first major album on 6/21. Titled Moon Gold.

yamanaka: there isn't a concept. There isn't anything like that and the lyrics and the music are not uniform. Just making each song good.

it's said to be filling, so I'd like to introduce the video.This was released on 5/21, so that makes it their debut single.

yamanaka: the pillows' "ame ni utaeba"

yamanaka: the music ringing in the world. I can make that level. I thought there would definitely be people that would understand me.


Radio Personality Takako nakamura

nakamura: a lot of letters came, saying how the song was good, how they fell in love with it, just a lot of responses directly came like that, and I felt the luckiest being a personality.
And I thought I hope they like me, getting responses really are the best feeling.

This is my fashion

yamanak: there, prepare yourself!

sasagawa: as people who understand us increased in number in the audience, I think that mentally comfort started to come in a good form.


PRODUCER RYOMEI SHIRAI

shirai: while others were saying about policy and nonesense, those guys were flaky. Flaky people don't adhere to unnecessary things.

yamanaka: I guess I know because I'm doing it but, it was an uncommon band. A band like band. Really.

manabe: I really think we're a band that relies only on sound.

satou: I think that the pillows now, in that sense, are entering a realm of bands not moved by such things.

ueda: I think there are a lot of possibilities. For example I think we're a band that could really bite into the upper ranks on the hit charts too.


Yamanaka: so, today we have a special guest, let us welcome Ringo Starr!

satou: hello, I'm ringo starr.


satou: when I was speaking I had it ready. I'd go to the bathroom before performances and stuff. When I couldn't think of anything it was painful.
I guess I wanted to speak. I actually like attention so I think I wanted to talk.

satou: so finally, I think I want, with everyone, to make this into an excitement contest.

yamanaka: the pillows, even during any bad times had, through music, as musicians, as song writers, always respected one another I think. From the beginning.



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a lot of this doesn't make sense to me, but I also haven't seen the dvd. So it might sound a bit weird, and I'd like to apologize in advance for that. Also I'll admit that this isn't like a perfect translation, though I'm doing my best. Like I said before I'm inexperienced...

Damn I think I left my Walkin' dvd at home, and now I want to see it!
This is sweet though, thanks

[quote="Moon_Margaret"]
Yamanaka: so, today we have a special guest, let us welcome Ringo Starr!

satou: hello, I'm ringo starr.[/quote]

That made me LOL! I haven't seen the DVD myself yet either, but I like reading these candid interviews by the band. Thanks a lot!

[quote="Son Goshin"][quote="Moon_Margaret"]
Yamanaka: so, today we have a special guest, let us welcome Ringo Starr!

satou: hello, I'm ringo starr.[/quote]

That made me LOL! I haven't seen the DVD myself yet either, but I like reading these candid interviews by the band. Thanks a lot![/quote]

that part is really funny, shin comes out wearing a big fake nose when he says that.

hahaha. i was trying to figure out what that was about

OK, thats it. im telling someone at home to send up my damn Walkin DVD. I feel that the next month or two is gonna be all about the pillows for me again.
Great stuff!

Thank you very much! This is some very interesting stuff.

One of the things that made the pillows a great band is that they didn't charge out of the gate fully developed - how many bands that are glossy and overhyped have put out an album or two, only to be forgotten afterwards? the pillows, however, had a lot of maturing to do as a band - fortunately, they put a ton of killer music in the formative years. By the time Sawao and the boys released Please Mr. Lostman, they had grown into their shoes, so to speak, and released another incredible album and a bunch of good albums before starting to lose steam in 2002 or 2003. That's a pretty good track record, if you ask me.

[quote="Thinliine"]before starting to lose steam in 2002 or 2003. That's a pretty good track record, if you ask me.[/quote]

I still don't get why so many people hold this view. Their new stuff is a different style, but is no less creative or inspired than any of their previous work. Just because it doesn't click with you doesn't mean they're running out of steam.

[quote="Marekenshin"][quote="Thinliine"]before starting to lose steam in 2002 or 2003. That's a pretty good track record, if you ask me.[/quote]

Just because it doesn't click with you doesn't mean they're running out of steam. [/quote]

Fucking signed.