On 13th,The day Midosuji parade 2002 was also scheduled. I hope they had a glance of it.

The offlined party before the show

By the way, I planned our off-lined party before Osaka show. Because I knew many of my friends came to Osaka to see their show, but some of them came alone from Hokkaido,and Nagano very far from Osaka. 2 years ago many friends (Thanks Donna and Tonia for your coordinating) on Dogstar Message Board welcomed me, I coordinated the Off-lined party to get to know each other. And Thanks OJOH,for your supporting me and leading them to our guests. (Thanks OJOH!I appreciate your kindness so much !!) We reserved A Chinese restaurant near the Ohatsu Tenjin where about 200 years ago the tragedy incident happened,it was the origin of the famous Bunraku title's "Sonezaki Shinjyu (The love suicide at Sonezaki)". 23 people were there. Some of them were sooooo excited by coming Dogstar  shows,because they would join our guy's show for the first time. They would like to talk about Bangkok show.

A committee was formed.Our tasks were....

Mipo and I talked about the show. (Mipo took the same flight as our guys!! It's incredible!). When talking about a female photographer disturbed our band members and the audience and the staff, I think Rob had taken a mistake at first intro of Alarming,cause of her taking photos, someone said "We should encourage Rob!". We formed a commitee.Our tasks were Supporting,Encouraging,and Surprising and Wavering(??) our drummer, Rob. The chairman was Reiko and Tomi,who attended at the shows at Bogarts, Cincinnati and at Cooper Stadium, Columbus.And Our drummer asked her what does "Ohayou(Good morning in Japanese)" mean. Do you remember her, Rob? And Yukari with her asked Rob to get Keanu's autograph..(^^;).

Supporting members are here.

Ayumi,Cony,Chika,flacon,(Hono)*2, Keiko,Kame,M&M's daughter,Machiko,May,Mipo(Another Miho),Nahomi, OJOH,(Pui)*2,Reiko,Tamayo,Ted, Tomcat,Tomi&Tomi's friend,Yukari and me.

By the way,Supporiting Bret Committee has been working since 2000. But this time the chairman was absent from the shows, so Reiko was also the acting chairman.
But we have no Supporting Keanu Committee, because we have tooooo many applicants(!!),but few people(of course including me) understand his bass part enough regretfully.

We'll build a city on Rock'n Roll

At last ,Now I think it was so frumpy and I'm baaashful to say it. but I  will. Then I said "In Thailand the show was held at big stadium and aroused by the sponsor's events. In Japan,our shows will be so plain, but we will make more excellent shows for each other with our cheers to Dogstar guys and our love and souls."

Our Rock'n roll fireworks 've begun now!!!!.

The venue ,On Air Osaka can hold over 1000 people. In front of the venue ,the staff were asking us to make a line. In many cases Japanese ticket promoters print a reference number on the ticket. (Please check the above photo!). We should enter the venue by order of the number .(How lucky I am! Thanks to one of my friend, I could get this number. Actually ,Ticket fee is about $80 but it costs big money to get a good number.)

Some of supporting committee were on the right, and The chairman Reiko and Motoko were standing behind me. And Another friends from Okayama Momo, Mintsu were there.Thanks for your support!!.2 teen girls were next to me. I tried to ask where were they from.They answered that they were from Okayama near Tivoli park and they were high school students. After talking about something, they said.

"You are like as our mother. I wish you would be mother."

High school children?? I am not so old that I have teen-aged children.
"How old is your mother?",I asked.

"36 years old"

(#####COUGH,COUGH,COUGH,COUGH######)

Rob,Keanu,Bret---,if you had got a child at around 20 yeas old,you child would be 15 years old"...(with sigh)

At 10 and several minutes past 7 o'clock,our guys came onto the stage. I would talk about their fashion from the left side. Bret wore black shirt with buttons and black jean pants. Rob wore T shirt with white Japanese characters and black pants. Keanu's was wearing black T shrit and jean pants and a black beanie on his head.

Our first song was "Alarming". Their play was so energetic and powerful and wonderful. The audience learned this song totally. It was my favorite beginning.2 girls next to me were surprised at their play. But one in the left side focused her attention on our bass player.But almost audience in the right were the same. "Alarming" always separates the audience into 2 groups "Rocking Gr" or "Watching Gr". And the next song is "Slipping down".That song was also powerful.

After "Slipping Down",Bret talked with us.
"Konbanwa (Good night in Japanese).How are you doing?".

We responded to him "Fine!!" or "Yeeeeeeeeeah!!"

Bret,our vocal was satisfied with our response.and said "The Next song called 'HALO'....".

HALO...

At the moment our guys were waiting.What?
You know that.......Yes! We know that.

Enormous responses "Halo", including various kinds of voice, spouted out from the venue. It was like as exchange yells between our guys and the audience. Of course our supporting members had known it already, but I think it is more wonderful that some novices learned about it then! I stole a glance at our guys. Our beloved men seemed (pretended ??) to be calm but their hearts might be full of energy and power.

After "Halo",our vocal said "You know this song!?".
Of Course y(^^) "YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!"

"YAMATO DAMASHIiiiiii!!!!",Huh?

We will talk about our drummer.They seemed to have some technical troubles on the drum. After first song "Alarming",our drummer threw out his drum sticks.Then we did not understand the reason why.

But our committee was working,I believe.Good job Reiko & Motoko.And someone was inspired by Rob's T shirt's Japanese character to shout "Yamato Damashii!!!!"

"Yamato Damashii".Its direct meaning is "Japanese soul".When we are eager to archive our aime or we get forced to archive our aim, we often use the words.in Japanese martial arts and war,yes it was World War 2nd.Our politics used the words Yamato Damashii to justify and deify suicide corps that were called "Kamikaze". "Ya-ma-to da-ma-shi-i" had a original meaning of spirits of the soldiers who should be ready to die for our country Japan,if necessary. Recently it also means "Get soldier's spirits to archive your aim or dream" The phrase sounds so cool. I wonder he bought it at a souvenir shop at KIX.

We kept supporting our drummer Rob through the show.They recognized that our shouting of "Yamato Damashii" or "Rob" was NOT originated from our bad will. After "Return" that Bret introduced it was from "Our Little Visionary", Bret said,"Rob is back.You are scarcely joking!" No! No! No! We only wanted to support our drummer,Rob. Now I wonder if it might be difficult for them to understand the real meaning of our supporting.

Our bass player looks so happy and enjoy playing bass really. I love your and Bret's some parts in "A Dream Time","Swim","Floweres","Blessed" and "America". To be our surprise,After Bret's accoustic songs,Our bass player said "Thanks for coming to help.Arigato Gozaimasu("Thank you so much" in Japanese)". over the microphone.

Thanks millions guys for sharing fabulous and marvelous moment. That moment will last in my mind forever.

At last I will quote one of my favorite calligraphics by Mitsuo AIDA.




What I am now
Here I am
Myself
The summary is my life

1. Alarming
2. Slipping Down
3. Halo
4. Enemies
5. Cornerstore
6. Superstar
7. Your World
8. Return
9. Flowers
10. A Dream Time
11. Swim
12. I Confess
13. Goodbye
14. Blown Away
    (at encore)
15. 32 Stories
16. Another acoustic song
17. America
18. Blessed !
19. Denail

1. A holloween Babe (from Ayumi.See the photo in the below).
2. Some mini rubber ducks (from Reiko,Yukari).
3. A black bra.(I don't know who did.)
4. Red roses(in Greeting & meet a girl handed our guys.)
5. A black base ball cap with Dogstar logo printed in 1996

A Halloween Babe thrown by Ayumi at Osaka show.