Maybe they were already on it. I don't know. I'm Japanese illiterate, so Electric Eel Shock may have already been on my ticket when I bought it. What I do know is they're playing the Osaka Rock Day show with Shonen Knife and Melt-Banana, which amounts to my holy trinity of Japanese rock acts all appearing in the same place, on the same day, with the same me watching. One reason I moved to Japan in the first place was to have greater opportunities to see bands like these. While I've managed to make it to quite a few Melt-Banana "lives," both Shonen Knife and EES proved as elusive as the shark before now.
I'm a little concerned that in fulfilling this quest I may die soon after. These things tend to happen. What I want to let the fates and the universe know is I plan to stick around to see a few other bands I haven't been able to catch. Still out there cruising beneath the waves remain Voredoms/Boredoms, OOIOO, 5678s, Puffy, Go!Go!7188, Spookey and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
Which brings me to this. A list of bands and musicians I've seen live, both in Japan and in the US.
REM
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Bob Dylan
Statler Brothers
Tom T. Hall
Harvey Milk
The Replacements
Violent Femmes
Smoke/Opal Foxx Quartet
Dreams So Real
Red Krayola
Fantomas
Drivin N Cryin
5/8
Jet By Day
Built to Spill
Modest Mouse
Toy Missile
Melt-Banana
Okay, that pathetic, paltry list was meant to be more impressive but now I realize years of altered states living robbed me of memories of dozens of other acts I've seen live. Actually, some of these I only learned I attended after the fact.
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