Very Good Days Chat Archive

Mar 22, 2017 at 4:51 PM - DSteele: Nice.
Mar 22, 2017 at 4:52 PM - DSteele: Every time Kana posts a photo it amazes me how young she looks. Like she looks 17 lol.

 

Mar 24, 2017 at 3:21 AM - Arcluna: lol so says the 20 year old.
Mar 24, 2017 at 8:42 AM - DSteele: Right but Kana is like 28 isn't she?
Mar 24, 2017 at 8:46 AM - Ray: So I'm old enough to be her dad, but not her grand dad? It genetic. I had a Japanese American landlord when I lived on the west cost back in the late 70's.
Mar 24, 2017 at 8:47 AM - Ray: The guy looked fifty but when I asked his age he told me "80". His daughter looked 25. She was 50.

 

Mar 27, 2017 at 3:22 PM - DSteele: *Cricket noises*
Mar 27, 2017 at 8:41 PM - Ray: Yeh well....Thats because everybody became adults, Stereopony broke up, Draft King and Aimi-san are both dead in the water, and there are pretty much only four-five people that still talk in this forum.
Mar 27, 2017 at 8:43 PM - Ray: Hence "Cricket Noises"
Mar 28, 2017 at 3:58 AM - Ray: In case no one else is keeping track. Shiho-San's last live with DK was Jan.19 (Jan 20 in the US) thats 97 days. None of the former members of "Stereopony" have released any "new" music that didn't involve a solo "phone" video in YEARS.
Mar 28, 2017 at 4:03 AM - Ray: DK never offically filled the lead slot vacated when Erica jumped ship, and now are training a new drummer (Shiho - San WILL BE BACK! Oh yeh? Then why are you training a replacement?) Aimi-San is spooling up a new act for the summer fest-E-val season . But no known dates yet.
Mar 28, 2017 at 4:11 AM - Ray: Nobody much updates this blog/fansight anymore and few seem to want too. Taken as a whole (pardon my pun) I have to wonder if DK or in fact ANY of the girls are ever going to cut another album
Mar 28, 2017 at 4:14 AM - Ray: Even STEREOPONY's albums are now "out of prodution". And now you know DSteele
Mar 28, 2017 at 4:22 AM - Ray: Myself I'll stick around till they turn out the lights , or turn off the music. But I don't think that will be all that much longer unless something changes in Japan in a really big way.
Mar 28, 2017 at 4:25 AM - Ray: That and a lot mor of you yougsters will have to get involved in this fansight or it WILL die.
Mar 28, 2017 at 5:40 AM - Ray: Sorry I made a typo: Shiho-San's last live was Jan 19 . That Jan 18 in the USA.
Mar 28, 2017 at 6:49 AM - J-Becker: Well considering they withdraw from contest(final of the contest is at 4/29) its right that we probably not going to see Shiho anytime soon.
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:07 AM - Ray: I don't think she will be back before fall or winter. Thats not the biggest problem for DK and Aimi at this point. In order to campain a road show, you need MONEY and lots of it
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:08 AM - Ray: Right now they are doing "bar gig's" because it keep's down cost and allows them to have full time jobs.
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:09 AM - Ray: I you go on the road IT IS YOUR FULL TIME JOB, and one that eats more than it produces.
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:10 AM - Ray: "If you go on the road"
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:13 AM - Ray: If you don't have a sugar daddy, you better be rich. 'Cause a "shoe string" road show can cost 10000USD + a week
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:14 AM - Ray: That works out to about FIVE MILLION Yen every 30 days
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:15 AM - Ray: If you are not with Arrowsmith or the Stones you better have backers
Mar 28, 2017 at 7:20 AM - Ray: Untill 2016 DK and Aimi-san were riding the Stereopony wave. But that wave is played out. Now they , and we, find out if they "got the chops" to catch another wave.
Mar 28, 2017 at 11:45 AM - Ray: Isn't "Tick Tack" a title from back around 1960?

 

Mar 28, 2017 at 11:47 PM - Arcluna: hmm maybe?
Mar 28, 2017 at 11:47 PM - Arcluna: happy birthday J-Becker
Mar 29, 2017 at 4:19 AM - Ray: Happy Birth Day !!!! J-Becker. AND I found covers of "Tick Tack" going all the way back to the "Elvis" era
Mar 29, 2017 at 4:20 AM - Ray: I have no idea who did it first.
Mar 29, 2017 at 6:25 AM - J-Becker: Thank you guys!! I appreciate it!
Mar 29, 2017 at 7:44 AM - DSteele: Happy Birthday Becker.

 

Mar 29, 2017 at 8:15 PM - Ray: If anyone wants to know how weird our world has become: I submit "Star Vs. The Forces of Evil" on Disney chanel. My 10 year old loves it.
Mar 30, 2017 at 10:46 AM - Ray: I just had the BEST supper. Filet Mignon with pepercorn sauce on sesoned rice with sweet potato, mixed veggies and tea. All better now.

 

Mar 30, 2017 at 7:51 PM - DSteele: Gahh my friend I was gonna go to Japan with bought a rifle so now he doesn't know if he'll have enough cash to go lmao. Oh boy.
Mar 30, 2017 at 8:20 PM - Ray: GOOD G_D! What kind of rifle did he buy that cost THAT much money?
Mar 30, 2017 at 9:01 PM - DSteele: An AK-74, cost him a good $1100.
Mar 30, 2017 at 9:05 PM - DSteele: Not to mention the ~$300 sight he bought, and the bayonet, and ammo.
Mar 30, 2017 at 9:24 PM - Ray: Thats about 3X what that would have cost in Kentucky
Mar 30, 2017 at 9:28 PM - Ray: I own a 7.62X39 "Saiga" converted to an AK103 clone that cost me less than 600 USD with 10 maga and a half case of mixed ammo
Mar 30, 2017 at 9:33 PM - Ray: 1300 dollars is more than I paid for a "Banner Mauser" hand made stalking rifle four years ago.
Mar 30, 2017 at 10:02 PM - DSteele: I'm waiting for Radom to build a plant in the U.S so I can buy a home team Polski Beryl Archer.
Mar 31, 2017 at 12:16 AM - Ray: The Poles always had a good reputation for inovative and high quality firearms. BUT: you have to get up pretty early to beat BRNO or Mauser
Mar 31, 2017 at 12:18 AM - Ray: Polish chicks are BABES! too.
Mar 31, 2017 at 12:20 AM - Ray: Hell who am I kidding...Hotties are EVERYWHERE! "So many hotties. So little time..."
Mar 31, 2017 at 9:11 AM - DSteele: Lol.

 

Mar 31, 2017 at 2:09 PM - Arcluna: @Ray my lab partner was Polish, and she was an identical twin. Both could have been models if they wanted to be
Mar 31, 2017 at 6:17 PM - DSteele: I think on my list of attractiveness by country the top 5 would be Japan, Korea, China, Poland, Thailand in that order.
Mar 31, 2017 at 7:10 PM - Ray: Every genetic line has its hotties. After my first wife and I split (she is still among the top 10 best looking women I have ever seen) I started looking for heart and mind.
Apr 1, 2017 at 3:19 AM - Ray: I was just looking at Nohana-San's twitter page. The new DK buttons are out. They only have Mao-san and Nohana-San on them. No Shiho-san to be seen.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:15 AM - J-Becker: @Ray: Yeah i saw that one too . :/
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:16 AM - J-Becker: Also does anyone know why Aimi mentions "becoming an adult" too much on her blogs and tweets lol.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:18 AM - J-Becker: She mostly uses that term when she talks about Stepo. This time she mentioned it on a tweet that about a magazine that she appeared in the past.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:20 AM - Ray: It would take a much deeper understanding of Japanese culture than mine. I always thought that the STEPO breakup had a lot more going on to it than we were ever let in on
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:23 AM - J-Becker: Yeah i read couple Stepos their inteviews and i remember while she was explanining how she wrote the lyrics she was talking about growing up most of the time.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:26 AM - Ray: Hey! Another thing I noted lately ALL of Shiho-Sans " media" acounts that conect to DK have gone to "Archive"
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:28 AM - Ray: They have all been inactive for more than 40 days.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:30 AM - J-Becker: Yeah and I really started to worry about this situation.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:32 AM - Ray: Nohana-san is training a new drummer. She HAS a new lead. I have asked this before BUT: Are we about to see a name change?
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:34 AM - J-Becker: I dunno afaik they never used Mizuki on their live shows. During the contest Mirai was their support drummers. Mao sometimes writes stuff on DK's website but those are only availble for the paid members.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:36 AM - Ray: Yeh . But you don't train a backup unless you think you'll need a back up
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:36 AM - J-Becker: Considering both Mao and Nohana doesnt share anything related to DK recently maybe they are waiting to Shiho to heal. Since we dont know anything about that your theory might be true as well.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:37 AM - Ray: Could be. But tendinitis is a notorious career ender
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:41 AM - Ray: They may be waiting for Shiho-San to announce the MD's final verdict.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:42 AM - J-Becker: Yeah thats also what i am thinking.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:44 AM - Ray: Hang on My kid just got off the school bus. Popcorn and juce snack time. Be right back
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:44 AM - J-Becker: ok cya.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:50 AM - Ray: OK! I'm back. I think the act we'll see this summer will be Aimi-San's new band (cross fingers)
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:51 AM - J-Becker: Yeah, I second that.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:51 AM - J-Becker: I mean she already started working with bandmates.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:52 AM - Ray: Nohana-san might get DK back on track for festval season but Aimi-San has a big head start this year
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:54 AM - Ray: I wish they would all just realize that they were better together than they are apart
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:57 AM - J-Becker: I have that tiny little hope lol. Its sad that they are "disbanded" instead of being "hiatus" like most of other Japanese band are.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:57 AM - Ray: When they all worked for the same goal....it was good...really really good.
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:58 AM - Ray: A boy can dream..LOL
Apr 1, 2017 at 5:58 AM - J-Becker:
Apr 1, 2017 at 6:08 AM - Ray: Truely I don't feel that they will ever reform Stereopony. Whatever happened wasn't a split as much as it was a divorce, and a bitter one at that.
Apr 1, 2017 at 6:28 AM - DSteele: Yeah but Aimi did recently follow Shiho so maybe they've been talking to each other.
Apr 1, 2017 at 6:39 AM - Ray: Yeh but did you notice that Shiho-San went "off grid" just days after that?
Apr 1, 2017 at 6:44 AM - Ray: Thats what made me "put my ears up"
Apr 1, 2017 at 6:47 AM - Ray: She changed her hair. Contacted old friends, stopped her regular life. Woman do that you should notice.

 

Apr 1, 2017 at 6:51 AM - Ray: This is almost an exact repete of the Stereopony breakup. If you toss in Erica and ajust the timeline IT IS a repete of events almost exactly.
Apr 1, 2017 at 6:59 AM - Ray: This is nothing I'd read to much into. I am just fasinated by how history so often rymes.

 

Apr 2, 2017 at 2:56 AM - Ray: Just remember kiddies:"The crowd that applauds your corination, is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. Everybody loves a show."
Apr 2, 2017 at 3:42 AM - Ray: It seems that the science team that brought us the AI and smart phone has attempted to build an artifical human female reproductive organ that can be connected to an AI in order to give the AI PMS.
Apr 2, 2017 at 3:46 AM - Ray: Sometimes I wonder if the reason we have never made first contact with alien life, is that "they" put a warning up at the outer edge of owr solar system reading" Don't go in there the damn things are crazy".
Apr 2, 2017 at 8:15 AM - Ray: Man..Aimi-San is really getting her career back on track. It even looks like she WILL tour this summer.
Apr 2, 2017 at 8:19 AM - Ray: She has new music coming out, a new band , new publisity photos , new style. She seems to intend to "run hot".
Apr 2, 2017 at 8:21 AM - Ray: Y'all need to watch her twitter page. I think she means to "hit the ground running" this year.

 

Apr 2, 2017 5:16 PM - J-Becker: Hey you can watch Aimi's live here :https://live.line.me/channels/39123/broadcast/2158807
Apr 2, 2017 5:16 PM - J-Becker: She is singing tick tack right now.
Apr 2, 2017 8:18 PM - Ray: Yeh, and her twitter page has teasers and her magazine ,cover shoot ,photos. Whats that pld saying from the 1940's? "She go for broke" this year.
Apr 2, 2017 8:21 PM - Ray: Honestly I get it. In the Japanese music Biz her age and previous career failures are working to drag her down. If she can't pull a win out this year her recording Co. will probably give her the boot.
Apr 2, 2017 8:24 PM - Ray: So she is going to give this her 110% best shot. Shes hungry and really wants an album so I feel like this could be a fantastic tour. I think she'll "bring it"
Apr 2, 2017 8:54 PM - Ray: As of today Shiho-san has been "off grid" for 77 days. No anounced booking dates. No you tube or line music. No status updates( That may not be true for the DK PPV sight but for the rest of us cricketts)
Apr 2, 2017 9:08 PM - Ray: Nohana san is still ever the optimist, but they have to make a move soon if they are to keep moving forward.
Apr 2, 2017 9:27 PM - Ray: Honestly I fear that DK my not recover. They lost erica, then Shiho-San , then dropped out of a major compitition that they were winning , wounding their reputation.
Apr 2, 2017 9:28 PM - Ray: They can't pick an official lead singer and at this point seem to be drifting directionless.
Apr 2, 2017 9:30 PM - Ray: I have to wonder how long this can continue before the backers and fans wander off to the next show.
Apr 2, 2017 9:44 PM - Ray: The Japanese people are stuborn and hard working and rightly known and renowned for doing the near inpossable. So Nohana San and Mao San could still pull this off. But the odds are getting real long.......
Apr 3, 2017 7:37 AM - crimsonknight4: haha totally forgot to watch
Apr 3, 2017 8:45 AM - Ray: And how are you deep red one
Apr 3, 2017 11:26 AM - Rafayui: have'nt watched either, but the video still available to watch until April,9th

 

Apr 3, 2017 at 2:02 PM - crimsonknight4: busy busy busy juste moved into my own place
Apr 3, 2017 at 2:03 PM - crimsonknight4: and working my way up the ol' government
Apr 3, 2017 at 7:24 PM - Ray: The first few years are the hardest. CK4 Hang in there and work hard. Congrats on your new place.
Apr 3, 2017 at 7:26 PM - Ray: You guys realy need to check Aimi-San's twitter page. She had all kinds of neat teasers up. Sighned CD's, music bites. Y'all should check it out.
Apr 3, 2017 at 7:29 PM - Ray: And Tony needs to get some leather and latex for the next time he hangs with Band Maid. They'll ride him like a pony.
Apr 3, 2017 at 10:03 PM - DSteele: Well I did not expect to read that sentence this morning.
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:09 AM - Ray: Well they are on his header, And ther ARE one of the most kinky rock bands since "The Sex Pistols" AND they have a guy in a pony harness in one of there videos.
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:10 AM - Ray: See I do have a sense of humor. Its just small and deformed.
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:16 AM - Ray: Listen to "Don't let me down" then read the lyrics. "you should stay in the cage" "I should spank you baby" YOWZA! That girl got more kink than a notted rope.
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:17 AM - Ray: Somebody who wants to hang with them should learn to enjoy Leather and Latex
Apr 4, 2017 at 1:47 AM - crimsonknight4: I agree lmao
Apr 4, 2017 at 2:14 AM - Ray: Cops say"watch the hands" but its not true. Watch the EYES. That will tell you far more about who someone is. You can see many things in Saki-sans eyes. Compassion is not one of them.
Apr 4, 2017 at 11:26 AM - Ray: OOOOOOO...They're GOOOOD! Thank you!
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:33 PM - Arcluna: I repeat what DSteele said above

 

Apr 4, 2017 at 7:45 PM - Ray: Well Split BoB IS good, and anything that gets y'all talking....
Apr 4, 2017 at 7:46 PM - Ray: It's the first time hearing them for me
Apr 4, 2017 at 7:56 PM - Ray: Nohana-San had her new crew out last week end for the Sakura viewing. Mazuki-san Mao-san Kana-san Nohana-san and two unknown guys. No Shiho san.
Apr 4, 2017 at 7:57 PM - Ray: She posted a booking date for "Eggman" on twitter.
Apr 4, 2017 at 9:14 PM - Ray: I really hope she plans on keeping Draft King as a working band and not as a "hobby" band the way so many Japanese bands go as they start to fade
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:06 AM - J-Becker: I loved Aimi's new songs. Especially "Sing for you" .
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:07 AM - J-Becker: Also i must admit that her new guitarist is pretty good i really enjoyed his solos.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:08 AM - J-Becker: I also saw that she shared her playlist. One of her song named "Green Days". I wonder if thats name coming from the band Green Day lol.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:40 AM - Ray: You think? Maybe her mom liked green day. They tanked while she(Aimi-San) was still in elementry school
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:41 AM - Ray: I mean "grunge" peaked in the early '90's about the time Aimi-San was born.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:48 AM - Ray: Green Day formed in 1986. To somebody born in the mid 90's thats got to be "Gezzer Rock". Those guys are all near my age.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:49 AM - J-Becker: Well we know that nohana is a green day fan. And stereopony covered their "american idiot" song at one of their concerts.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM - Ray: Cool! I did not know that. I guess I shouldn't think her so musicly shallow
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM - J-Becker: But i listened that "Green Days" song at Line live but it doesnt sound "grunge" at all.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:51 AM - J-Becker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtLaqY6hO30
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:51 AM - Ray: They were actually formed as a "punk" band in the mid 80's
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:51 AM - J-Becker: its not video but just sound it starts at 5:00
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:54 AM - Ray: I saw them in a club we worked back in the 80's called "Babilon Babilon" the were up that night with Iggi Pop.
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:54 AM - J-Becker: Cool!
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:55 AM - J-Becker: I also liked Aimi's "Wait Up!"
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:56 AM - Ray: Yeh... Those were the days when you had to sighn a waver to get in the mosh pit (it really was a pit) and the bouncers were all black leather freeks
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:57 AM - Ray: I like everything that woman does. I could listen to her sing the phone book
Apr 5, 2017 at 5:59 AM - Ray: Pardom my typing I been up since 0330 and my "go" is about gone.
Apr 5, 2017 at 6:06 AM - J-Becker: Same here lol.
Apr 5, 2017 at 6:13 AM - Ray: Its funny how FAST it all go's by. It seems like it was yesterday that I was running with a road band with a SMOKIN hot , OH MY GODDESS lead singer who were ALL gonna be rock gods
Apr 5, 2017 at 6:14 AM - Ray: Now three of six are dead. I saw Denise a few years ago pushing her new grand baby down the street. We just looked at each other and laughed.
Apr 5, 2017 at 7:08 AM - Arcluna: I just saw the movie whiplash. Wow that was intense

 

Apr 5, 2017 at 9:06 PM - DSteele: Still hope I can make it to Japan later this year. Just not looking forward to such a prolonged fkight.
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:06 PM - DSteele: Flight*
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:50 PM - Ray: I've done the math three times. For me to go this season I have to win the powerball lotto or sell a kidney or find a bag of money along the highway.
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:51 PM - DSteele: I've got about 8 grand saved up at the moment. Should have a little over 10 grand by the time I'm done working in August.
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:54 PM - Ray: Yeh but I own a house. That is defined as "a hole in the earth surounded by girl stuff into which you pour money"
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:54 PM - DSteele: I guess there are benefits to being 20 and owning nothing but making payments on a car.
Apr 5, 2017 at 9:57 PM - Ray: Well... I could take out a loan...The bank only want a small human sacrifice, a contract signed in blood and promises to only use a moderatly hot branding iron.
Apr 5, 2017 at 10:01 PM - Ray: They want the kidney as colataral
Apr 5, 2017 at 10:14 PM - Ray: BTW My "zero turn" lawn mower cost about 7G last year. But my lot is 135 yards X 70 Yards at the top and 85Yards at the bottom. Mowing is a chore. On the bright side I have a big garden and small orchard
Apr 5, 2017 at 10:21 PM - Ray: That was the huskvarna "package" with the proffesional weed wacker , BPP and service package for 5 years.
Apr 5, 2017 at 10:23 PM - Ray: It was a little pricey but It covers everything from the ground up. Belts, tires, blades,sparkplugs all of it.

 

Apr 7, 2017 at 7:51 PM - Ray: I just spent two hours reading the "consevative" blogs and seeing them all crying bitter tears that the Neo-Con they elected President has proven himself to be ....A Neo-Con. As grandpa said. "You can't fix stupid".
Apr 7, 2017 at 8:18 PM - Ray: And just for the record. The last US president that DID NOT make war somewhere on the earth was Calvin Coolidge almost 100 years ago.
Apr 7, 2017 at 8:22 PM - Ray: Every US president for the last 37 years has made war in the middle east, and every US president since 1953 has bombed or shelled at least one middle eastern target during his term in office.
Apr 7, 2017 at 8:26 PM - Ray: ALL OF THEM. So the next time you hear the "democrats" or "republicans" argue just remember that you are hearing the right wing of the Junta argue with the left wing of the junta. and it is all political theater staged for your distraction and entertaiment.
Apr 7, 2017 at 8:27 PM - Ray: Now back to our regular silence
Apr 7, 2017 at 11:24 PM - DSteele: The worlds a fucked up place.
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:33 AM - Ray: War is the biggest money maker there is. To "them" it isn't "F"ed up at all. It's just buisness.
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:36 AM - Ray: The fack that real humans die for profit does not seem to matter very much. We start the war. Supply both sides. Get mad at one or the other(it really doesn't matter which) Rinse and repeate.
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:37 AM - DSteele: Yep, right on the money.
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:54 AM - Ray: In late 1944. After the fall of Sipan. The Japanes Government of Hedecki Tojo resigned "en mass". The incoming Government then sent out peace feelers to the US.
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:57 AM - Ray: After the spring 1945 fire bombings oF Tokyo (300000 dead) Kobe (140000 dead) Osaka(150000 dead) and Yokohama (unkown but enormous)
Apr 8, 2017 at 12:58 AM - Ray: The Japanese tryed to surender 13 times. The ONLY condition they set was that the "Imperial person" remain untouched.
Apr 8, 2017 at 1:01 AM - Ray: The US escalated bombing going so far as to set forests on fire to "fry" civilians who had fled the citys. In August we dropped the first and second Atomic bombs ever built.
Apr 8, 2017 at 1:02 AM - Ray: Then we let Japan surrender. And left the Imperial person untouched.
Apr 8, 2017 at 1:04 AM - Ray: Thats why our schools don't teach history. We are not the "good guys" we want the world to see us as.....and we never were.
Apr 8, 2017 at 1:26 AM - Ray: And a footnote in most "historys" The combined dead from Hiroshima and Nagasaki was lower buy 25000 than the "great fire raid" of march 1945 on Tokyo, that killed at MINIMUM 300000 mostly civilians.
Apr 8, 2017 at 1:30 AM - Ray: "the great US war machine" hasn't even been started ....Yet

 

Apr 8, 2017 6:06 PM - J-Becker: For those who wonders what Kana's performance with DK sounds like here's their performance at Japan Expo Rocks Contest. ------>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDqhoc3ZigE
Apr 8, 2017 6:06 PM - J-Becker: starts at 2:48
Apr 8, 2017 6:06 PM - J-Becker: Oh, this one is much longer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xADiuKfkbn8 starts at 1:42
Apr 8, 2017 6:07 PM - J-Becker: Since we can see Shiho at the first link. Its probably the footage of the first round.
Apr 8, 2017 6:55 PM - Ray: Thanks J-Becker. Any word on Shiho-San?
Apr 8, 2017 7:00 PM - Ray: Draft king sounds like a totaly other band with Erica and Shiho-san gone. They were winning and dropped out.
Apr 8, 2017 7:03 PM - Ray: 90 days and no messages of support for her "BFF's" and band mates ? No twitter at all? Something is VERY wrong here.
Apr 8, 2017 7:21 PM - Ray: Nohana-san dropped out BECAUSE SHE WAS WINNING? and wouldn't leave for France untill the end of the summer? and didn't want to "go without her frend?"
Apr 8, 2017 7:41 PM - Ray: Shiho-san's last public performance was January 14 2017. Almost FOUR months ago. Her last public ANYTHING was febuary 19th.
Apr 8, 2017 7:43 PM - Ray: If she is gone. FOR WHATEVER REASON. It isn't "Draft King" anymore.
Apr 8, 2017 7:43 PM - J-Becker: Yeah... That what worries me most. Since they resigned too early before the finals and said they want to go France with all band members we probably not going to see Shiho about 2-4 months or maybe more.
Apr 8, 2017 7:47 PM - Ray: I think it will be WAY longer than that. They are not using "temp" drummers anymore. Mizuki-San has the same status as Kana-san. "temporary repacement"
Apr 8, 2017 7:50 PM - Ray: What is worrying me so much is the serch I did of all the Twitter links I could find to anyone who ever posted a photo of Shiho-san
Apr 8, 2017 7:52 PM - Ray: Nothing. Not one single photo of Shiho-san on any twitter page , instagram page or blog, taken after 19 Febuary 2017.
Apr 8, 2017 7:57 PM - J-Becker: They only share pics from their official accounts. I rarely saw any of fans taking pics with them and sharing it on twitter .Couple of people asked that if Shiho was ok but no reply given.
Apr 8, 2017 8:00 PM - Ray: I found dozens of photos of her just "hanging out" with frends BEFORE 19 feb. but nothing after that.
Apr 8, 2017 8:00 PM - J-Becker: The only pics i saw recently was photos of Nohana, Mao and Kana hanging out together.
Apr 8, 2017 8:02 PM - Ray: Nohana-san posted photos of her Mao-san Kana san Mizuki-san and two unknown guys at the Sakura viewing this week
Apr 8, 2017 8:07 PM - Ray: You can find photos of the same two guys poping up going back months. Support staff? Boy frends? I just call them "unknown guys"
Apr 8, 2017 8:11 PM - J-Becker: Since they started hanging out with Kana they also started to hanging out with more people lol.
Apr 8, 2017 8:15 PM - Ray: Well...One thing is certain. Nobody who knows what is going on is likely to tell the fans anything. I'm going to make breakfast as it is now 07:15 and I'm hungry...Later.
Apr 8, 2017 8:16 PM - J-Becker: later cya.

 

Apr 10, 2017 12:42 AM - Ray: Please don't misunderstand my statment about draft king fron the other day. I think Kana-san is VERY good.
Apr 10, 2017 12:43 AM - Ray: But without Shiho-san and Erica it sounds like a differant band.
Apr 10, 2017 12:44 AM - Ray: Still VERY VERY good , just...Differant.

 

Apr 12, 2017 at 1:15 AM - Ray: So is the "Japan Expo Rocks" the only vidio of DK since Erica left? Are there any vids of Mizuki-San playing? (even with a former band)
Apr 12, 2017 at 1:15 AM - Ray: "video"
Apr 12, 2017 at 4:31 AM - J-Becker: I couldnt find any other video of DK. About mizuki she used to play drums on a band called LoVendoЯ. Here is the link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAbKMxMTlgY
Apr 12, 2017 at 4:33 AM - J-Becker: Also here is her website and videos that she appeared: http://mizukidrum.com/pg72.html
Apr 12, 2017 at 5:01 AM - Ray: Thank You!!! She is very good. But very different from Shiho-san syle wise. She is also VERY different fron the stand ins at J.E.R. This will bring a whold different sound to DK
Apr 12, 2017 at 5:03 AM - Ray: I noticed that unlike Shiho-San she doesn't do vocals. That will put Nohana San and Mao-San back on thje mike more. I like that.
Apr 12, 2017 at 5:04 AM - Ray: "THE"
Apr 12, 2017 at 5:07 AM - Ray: Whole
Apr 12, 2017 at 5:07 AM - Ray: My typing sucks today
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:24 AM - Ray: DAMN SHE IS GOOD! Her studio tracks remind me of old school jazz greats but with better synchopation and faster hands
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:24 AM - Ray: And that stick flip is just perfection.
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:41 AM - Ray: DAMN her hands are fast!!!!!!
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:44 AM - Ray: And her reflexes and timing are perfect.
Apr 12, 2017 at 11:53 AM - DSteele: Ugh I really miss Shiho.

 

Apr 12, 2017 at 7:00 PM - Ray: Yeh... Shiho-San. Not a face we'll see again for a long while.
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:03 PM - Ray: She quit playing 4 months ago and stopped "tweeting" three months ago. I don't know where she went or why. But she is VERY gone and shows no sighn of comming back anytime soon.
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:16 PM - Ray: I'm positive that she'll stick her head up again when she's ready. Untill then I plan to enjoy the show that Nohana-San and Mao-San are working so hard to put on..
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:20 PM - Ray: Sorry I left out Kana san and Mizuki san and I shouldn't have. I belive they are workingjust as hard to make Draft King sucseed
Apr 12, 2017 at 7:22 PM - Ray: "Believe" Damn I'm doing it this morning too

 

Apr 16, 2017 at 4:00 AM - Ray: Shiho-San's link has been dropped from Nohana-San's twitter page.
Apr 16, 2017 at 4:04 AM - Ray: And Mao-san's
Apr 16, 2017 at 4:16 AM - Ray: Actually her link is gone to ALL her former band mates, Aimi-san and the Draft King sight. Has Shiho-san quit?
Apr 16, 2017 at 4:53 AM - Ray: The story that she needs a "rest" is getting kind of thin in light of the fact that all public links to DK have been severed

 

Apr 16, 2017 at 9:07 PM - Ray: Do any of you know what happened to Shiho-San? Her twitter acount appears to be closed and her face book is stone cold. All the new publisity "stuff" no longer has her on it. No one in her circle has posted a photo or said one peep about her since 19 feb 2017. Not anyone from DK or any one from Scandal.
Apr 16, 2017 at 11:14 PM - DSteele: I mean they're both still open it's not necessarily that they're closed she just hasn't posted on them. Who knows. Maybe she went back to Okinawa to have some mental health relaxation for a while and wanted to stay away from it idk. Anyones guess is as good as anyone elses.
Apr 17, 2017 at 1:40 AM - Ray: It's just that DK gives every apperance of moving on without her. If thats the case then why not just make it official?
Apr 17, 2017 at 1:44 AM - DSteele: Because maybe it isn't a reality?
Apr 17, 2017 at 1:48 AM - Ray: Ditching your entire life for 120 days is very real. Leaving your band in the lerch is very real. Having that band purge all links to the absent band member is real. Hiring a replacement is real.
Apr 17, 2017 at 1:51 AM - Ray: If she were coming back there should be evidence that that door was still open. There isn't.
Apr 17, 2017 at 2:04 AM - Ray: For whatever reason Shiho-San is having a major life crisis. People who have crisis so severe that the leave there whole lives to deal with them for months or years seldom IF EVER return to those former lives. Even when they try to return after a long absence they seldom manage to "pick up the pieces"
Apr 17, 2017 at 2:11 AM - Ray: I would like to see draft king move forward , and they are. I hope this sucseeds I hope Shiho-san gets better. But nobody is going to fly the eqivalent of Cincinatti to Buffalo every weekend to reherse. and unless she is rich she isn't keeping an apartment in Tokyo while she spends months in Okinawa.
Apr 17, 2017 at 2:15 AM - Ray: This is just how I feel. I hope I'm wrong and everything works out. I be the first to say I was an Ass. BUT I have felt since Febuary that this was WAY worse than anyone would say publicly. I really hope you are right DSteele, and it all has a happy ending.