Very Good Days Chat Archive

Jun 22, 2017 at 3:50 PM - J-Becker: Happy Birthday @Luiz Henrique and @TonyTonyChoppa!!
Jun 22, 2017 at 7:39 PM - Ray: Second! HBD! Guys.
Jun 22, 2017 at 8:23 PM - Wein Desu: Happy birthday!
Jun 23, 2017 at 6:07 AM - Ray: Well... Has anybody read ANYTHING about Shiho-san? 156 days since she left Draft King and 122 days since she vanished completely.
Jun 23, 2017 at 6:08 AM - DSteele: Not a thing, if I had to guess she was probably just stressed out to the max mentally.
Jun 23, 2017 at 6:12 AM - Ray: Thanks, Yeh...All I can find is rumors,too.
Jun 23, 2017 at 9:41 AM - Arcluna: HBD Tony and Luiz!
Jun 23, 2017 at 9:49 AM - Luiz Henrique: thx
Jun 23, 2017 at 9:50 AM - Luiz Henrique: happy birthday purple perv o/

 

Jun 24, 2017 at 12:38 PM - Wein Desu: good morning from the other side!.

 

Jun 26, 2017 at 2:43 AM - J-Becker: ちっぽけなことでも自分の中では大きな不安なんだよね。 1人で考えてるとモヤモヤが募ってたけど、誰かに話すことで少しスッキリした！ 突然のくだらない悩みを聞いてくれる仲間に感謝おやすみ。
Jun 26, 2017 at 2:44 AM - J-Becker: Hey, Can anyone translate Nohana's latest tweet?↑↑↑↑↑↑
Jun 26, 2017 at 2:59 AM - crimsonknight4: There are insignificant things that become bigger worries inside of me. As I think about them myself my uneasiness piles up but just talking to someone about them a little made me feel a lot better! Thank you and good night to those friends who listened to my sudden worthless worries.
Jun 26, 2017 at 3:02 AM - J-Becker: Thanks CK4!!! Sounds like she depressed.
Jun 26, 2017 at 3:08 AM - crimsonknight4: how could she not be? first stepo then about 3 years hard work amounting to nothing
Jun 26, 2017 at 3:08 AM - crimsonknight4: nothing to say of Shiho's sudden disappearance
Jun 26, 2017 at 5:30 AM - J-Becker: Yeah, It seems 2017 is the worst year for DK. First Erica left and joined her new "career" then Shiho got sick dissappeared since.
Jun 26, 2017 at 5:31 AM - J-Becker: AIMI is hardworking and productive but I feel like both DK and AIMI lost the hype of the Stereopony fans.
Jun 26, 2017 at 5:38 AM - J-Becker: What worries me that they never talked or didn't even mentiond about Erica's new "career" and why Shiho is absent for months. And this is the first time that Nohana tweeted about her worries and how those worries piled up. This means it really bothers her.
Jun 26, 2017 at 6:48 AM - Ray: I have been of the oppinion for some time that Mao-san and Nohana San may not KNOW where Shihosan is or exactly why she disappered.
Jun 26, 2017 at 6:49 AM - Ray: The don't say anything because they don't know anything.
Jun 26, 2017 at 6:54 AM - Ray: @ J-Becker : Like I keep saying, The "pony" days are over. I am VERY pleased that Nohana san Mao-san and Aimi san stayed in music. BUT the big ride is over for all of them UNLESS they get VERY lucky and work like slaves to create a new act.
Jun 26, 2017 at 6:59 AM - Ray: Aimi san has been working her but off and that is good. For her it is now making the right sound and the blessing of Fourtuna
Jun 26, 2017 at 7:02 AM - Ray: For Mao-san and Nohana San. They need luck to smile for them at this point. Who knows, but the unlucky streak they have been on has to end some time. I hope they can hang in there untill then.
Jun 26, 2017 at 8:49 AM - Wein Desu: @Ray san is right pony days are over.. but then im still listening to their songs today, tomorrow forever... :0

 

Jun 27, 2017 at 9:59 PM - Ray: Well...Its all acording to who you call "stereopony". It starts as "MixBox". The same three girls change the name to "Stereopony" then add members and change the name first to "Evenpony" then LOOSE mebers and become Draft King. But it was sill the same line up os Mao Yamamoto, Nohana Kitajima and Shiho Yamanoha.
Jun 27, 2017 at 10:02 PM - Ray: Now Nohana San and Mao-san are all that is left after Shiho-san's vanishing act. ""Listening to stereopony"? Whitch one?
Jun 27, 2017 at 10:02 PM - Ray: "which"
Jun 27, 2017 at 10:04 PM - Ray: I love the music. But I also like to see the artist move forward. I think this is why everyone has latched on to Aimi-sans new effort.
Jun 27, 2017 at 10:08 PM - Ray: I'd like to see Nohana-san and Mao-san do that together. But I fear that they won't. I think that Shiho-san leaving marked the end of what started so long ago as a highschool music club.
Jun 28, 2017 at 4:10 AM - J-Becker: I remember reading that Stereopony disbanded because Aimi wanted to leave it. So its makes sense that she is the only one who moved most forward. Shiho and Nohana talked about their "being worldwide known band" dream way more than Aimi in their interviews.
Jun 28, 2017 at 4:11 AM - J-Becker: It's so ironic that they became very well known band after their disbandment.
Jun 28, 2017 at 4:15 AM - J-Becker: I mentioned this but whenever Aimi tweets or writes a blog about stereopony or about her career in general she always talks about how she "became an adult" now.
Jun 28, 2017 at 4:17 AM - J-Becker: That's why she changed her rock style etc. . I think its not a good reason to leave a band that had so much potential. Since there is so many Japanese female artists that still rocks in their late twenties.
Jun 28, 2017 at 4:20 AM - J-Becker: But even though its a small possibility maybe it was her best decision to quit while on the top.
Jun 28, 2017 at 7:46 AM - Ray: I have always heard it said "quit whil you'r ahead" Might be some truth to that.
Jun 28, 2017 at 7:47 AM - Ray: It seems to me that the band changed its style both fashion and musicly several times while they were together
Jun 28, 2017 at 7:55 AM - Ray: I had read that she considered her Stereopony days as her "growing up" time. I think she might go far in the music biz yet, with a lot of hard work and a little luck.
Jun 28, 2017 at 8:02 AM - Ray: Nohana-san and Mao-san just need a lucky break

 

Jun 30, 2017 at 1:14 AM - Ray: Nohana-san is SO cute. She posed on twitter with a four leif clover. Before that the biggest parfet(spell?) I have ever seen.

 

Jul 2, 2017 at 9:25 AM - Ray: Nohana san said something in her twitter post about Drafty King.

 

Jul 2, 2017 at 4:46 PM - J-Becker: They uploaded new videos on Draft King website but i think its only available for paid members. But judging by the thumbnail of the videos i doubt that Shiho is in one of them.
Jul 2, 2017 at 4:48 PM - J-Becker: @Ray if you are talking about her tweet on 30th june I think she just tweeted about those video posts.
Jul 3, 2017 at 5:56 AM - Ray: Yes Than You. @ J-Becker.

 

Jul 4, 2017 at 11:23 AM - Ray: Five years ago the Commonwealth made all fireworks legal. Now for thirty days on ether side of July 4 it sounds and smells like the western front from dusk to midnight. Some of them spend THOUSANDS on heavy mortar shells every year.
Jul 4, 2017 at 11:25 AM - Ray: But the free fireworks are AWSOME!!! with whole subdivisions having compeating displays
Jul 4, 2017 at 11:28 AM - Ray: The cops and firefighters on my street have been putting up shells since dusk (probably around 200)
Jul 4, 2017 at 11:33 AM - Ray: The wife corected me. Fireworks were legalized WAY more than five years ago.
Jul 4, 2017 at 12:29 PM - Arcluna: Drahc told me it was just Mao and Nohana in the DK private fanclub video...no shiho still

 

Jul 4, 2017 at 7:41 PM - Ray: I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Shiho-san. People who dump there entire lives and break all ties with the passed , usually are not coming back.
Jul 4, 2017 at 7:44 PM - Ray: Shiho Yamanoha, severed every tie with her musical passed six months ago, and did it in such a way as to make a clean break.
Jul 4, 2017 at 7:47 PM - DSteele: Ugh so much shit going on.
Jul 4, 2017 at 7:47 PM - Ray: She also cut all PUBLIC ties, changed her hair, her style, her address, EVERYTHING. That is a woman that is leaving, and does NOT want to be found

 

Jul 6, 2017 at 5:11 AM - J-Becker: Judging by the instagram post. I think AIMI recently went to Flower Flower concert. I wonder if she is still talking with YUI?
Jul 6, 2017 at 5:13 AM - J-Becker: Also does anyone knows anything about Hiddy's career. I searched her Twitter Profile couple of times but couldn't find anything about her released music. She sometimes shares photos from Eggman or the livehouses she went. For a very long time she didn't post about her career ,music etc.
Jul 6, 2017 at 5:32 AM - Ray: Hummmm ... I don't know anything about Aimi-San's personal relationships. ---I asked my wifes nephew about Hiddy-san.
Jul 6, 2017 at 5:33 AM - Ray: He's a major J-Pop freek like me. He said he hadn't heard of her doing anything for years.
Jul 6, 2017 at 5:35 AM - Ray: He's the one that just got back from 90 days in Japan. He liked "EGGMAN".

 

Jul 7, 2017 at 1:02 AM - J-Becker: Thanks for the info Ray!
Jul 7, 2017 at 1:03 AM - J-Becker: Looks like Nohana and Mao started playing with Ciao Bella again.
Jul 7, 2017 at 1:18 AM - Ray: It's good to see they are working. But they would. For people like them ,performing is more of a compulsive need than a job or a hobby.
Jul 7, 2017 at 1:20 AM - Ray: I used to have a freind (now dead) who made a hit single in 1958. He was still getting up on stage the week he died .

 

Jul 7, 2017 at 7:11 PM - Ray: About Shiho san. We tend to forget that people in entertainment are only humans.
Jul 7, 2017 at 7:12 PM - Ray: I know a guy who has been an entertainer for mor than 40 years. I have known him since 1975 so I know his whole story.
Jul 7, 2017 at 7:15 PM - Ray: I know all six of the kids he has by five wives. The oldest is 40. His youngest is two. I have known many of his more than 300 "girlfreinds".
Jul 7, 2017 at 7:16 PM - Ray: I have driven him to rehab more times than I can remember (he's an Alcoholic). People say; "Oh he's SO COOL!" or "Oh He's so talented".
Jul 7, 2017 at 7:19 PM - Ray: Or "He's such a perve. she can't be more than 17" (his latest wife) . When he is really just a lonely insecure man who can play music ,sing and act a bit.
Jul 7, 2017 at 7:19 PM - Ray: They are all just human like the rest of us.

 

Jul 9, 2017 at 11:53 AM - Arcluna: All of these musicians we like need to release some music... and not live exclusives

 

Jul 9, 2017 at 6:54 PM - Ray: All that takes is a small investment. Say 50000$ or so. For a CD that may or may NOT return that kind of money.
Jul 9, 2017 at 6:56 PM - J-Becker: YUI's band(Flower Flower) will release their new Single on August.
Jul 9, 2017 at 6:57 PM - J-Becker: Besides that we don't know much about DK's or AIMI's future plans.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:04 PM - Ray: I don't expect anything out of DK. Right now it is a two girl act and they show no intent to ever perform as DK again.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:05 PM - Ray: IMO Yui-san is one of those performers that will keep going as long as the money holds out and the fans show up.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:07 PM - Ray: Aimi-san is another one that will keep on getting up on stage for as long as she can. Its in her DNA.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:11 PM - J-Becker: I agree. YUI kept going even after she got married and gave birth to twins.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:11 PM - Ray: Hell ; It is in ALL of their DNA. I have worked with and known show people for my whole life. They do this because it is a NEED. They would keep doing this if it were just 3 people in a living room on saterday night in podunk.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:17 PM - Ray: They certainly don't do it for the money. Most of them are broke, as often as you or I am.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:18 PM - J-Becker: Yeah, also you can also notice it from reading their blogs. Aimi always talks about music and insiprational stuff on her blog. She talks about those stuff way more than Nohana do.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:20 PM - Ray: I have seen world famous bands performing at birthdays,and weddingd. It has been my experiance that most of the best of them keep playing till they die.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:28 PM - Ray: So pay attention the next time "that guy" or "that girl" whipps out a fiddle or banjo at a party. That person may just have a life membership back stage at the GOO or the MET.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:40 PM - Ray: Mao-san Nohana-san and Aimi-san are VERY differant people. The blogs and twitter reflect that. Aimi-san is a cute, fluffy idealist
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:40 PM - Ray: Nohana-san is a city girl, who loves fashon, friends and saterday night.
Jul 9, 2017 at 7:43 PM - Ray: Mao-san is the sleeper that sneeks up on you. She is a catcher with a love to play hardball. She isn't bothered by a gut two feet from her head ,swinging a 6 pound club ,trying to hit a one pound bullet moving at 90 miles an hour headed right at her face.

 

Jul 10, 2017 6:58 PM - Rafayui: tomorrow July 11th, early but #HBDMAO...
Jul 10, 2017 8:16 PM - Ray: Happy Birth Day Mao-san!
Jul 10, 2017 8:17 PM - Ray: So the US Government wants to form a sixth branch to the US military. They want to call it the United States Space Corp.
Jul 10, 2017 8:19 PM - Ray: So when they form a training campus for officers will it make them Space Cadets?
Jul 10, 2017 8:23 PM - Ray: So where are the flying cars.

 

Jul 12, 2017 at 10:24 PM - Ray: Well...It is now six months since Shiho-san stopped playing music and Five months since she abandoned her life in Tokyo. Does anyone still believe she is comming back?
Jul 12, 2017 at 10:29 PM - Ray: What I would like to know (if I could but see the future) IS: Will DK reform (even under a new name) and rise again? Or has it becume a permant part of the past?
Jul 12, 2017 at 10:30 PM - Ray: I leave the floor open.
Jul 13, 2017 at 3:19 AM - J-Becker: Either she is very sick( my guesses are tendonitis or cancer(?)) or she left for some reason.
Jul 13, 2017 at 3:19 AM - J-Becker: I don't know girls are pretty good friends. If one of them suddenly vanishes and nobody talks about it they probably have a very good reason for it.
Jul 13, 2017 at 5:26 AM - Ray: Man I hope it isn't cancer. I have been through treatment twice. It is most defenately not any fun.

 

Jul 14, 2017 at 2:56 AM - DSteele: I would sincerely hope it wasn't cancer.
Jul 14, 2017 at 10:40 AM - Arcluna: yeah, seriously.

 

Jul 15, 2017 at 6:43 AM - Ray: Actually I was hoping to hear: Shiho-san got married and is expecting. She's not comming back. So Sorry! I have always believed that "sickness" was a cover or rumor.
Jul 15, 2017 at 6:44 AM - Ray: I guess I am a hopeless romantic and want a happy ending.
Jul 15, 2017 at 8:47 AM - Arcluna: hey if it's one or the other I definitely wish her pregnancy
Jul 15, 2017 at 8:47 AM - Arcluna: lol
Jul 15, 2017 at 8:47 AM - Arcluna: so what's everyone been up to?
Jul 15, 2017 at 10:00 AM - Rafayui: https://youtu.be/WBe4YWRvKe0?t=4m40s
Jul 15, 2017 at 10:04 AM - Rafayui: Ciaobella latest mv's with Nohana and Mao plus Rica, dunno what to say...It's a good song, but I felt DK glorious day are over....
Jul 15, 2017 at 10:06 AM - Rafayui: anyone here remembered that red bass nohana used? never thought Nohana still kept that bass....
Jul 15, 2017 at 10:19 AM - Arcluna: haha Rafayui pops in like a ninja
Jul 15, 2017 at 10:20 AM - Arcluna: i remember that bass
Jul 15, 2017 at 10:20 AM - Arcluna: I agree with you Rafayui..about DK
Jul 15, 2017 at 11:17 AM - Ray: Well.. I was just reading a bedtime story to my child, and before that listining to a pagen folk band out of Germany called "Faun"
Jul 15, 2017 at 11:23 AM - Ray: I noticed that the band was included in the music vidio.
Jul 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM - Ray: Cao Bella Video

 

Jul 15, 2017 at 2:43 PM - DSteele: Personally I'd like Shiho, Nohana, & Mao to find a more powerful singer that has a better vocal range than Erica and pump out some harder rock songs, I feel like that was one of their vices as DK, that you couldnt really jam to it.
Jul 15, 2017 at 5:40 PM - DSteele: Also if you guys still haven't checked out Nano this is a good song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjeaRq8GgbE

 

Jul 18, 2017 at 6:51 AM - Ray: Someone asked if anyone remembered Nohana-sans red Bass. It is the one she plays in the latest Caio Bella Video.
Jul 18, 2017 at 7:59 AM - J-Becker: Yeah, I personally even forgot that Bass lol. I remembered that Bass guitar after watching Over Drive MV of Stepo. I thought she didn't kept that guitar after Stepo's disbandment.
Jul 18, 2017 at 8:01 AM - J-Becker: I really wonder if AIMI still keeps that silver guitar or not.
Jul 18, 2017 at 8:02 AM - J-Becker: I don't know the model but It was similiar to her Telecaster.
Jul 18, 2017 at 12:21 PM - Ray: It isn't unusual for professional guitar players to own several.
Jul 18, 2017 at 12:24 PM - Ray: At one point Eric Clapton owned more than 200 guitars. Even many less famous people will have several. My mother owns 5 high end guitars.
Jul 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM - Ray: My younger brother owns MANY. Banjo's, Dulcemers, guitars, horns, Violins, There may be more than 100 cases laying around his house.
Jul 18, 2017 at 12:29 PM - Ray: And he is nether rich nor famous.