The heavy-metal magazine “Revolver” has an article titled: “Six Totally Insane Japanese Metal Bands.
Man With A Mission
I have already written a blog post last year about one of the bands they mention: BabyMetal. (Click here to read my post about them.)
Yesterday after work, my wife and daughters met me at Shibuya Station.
They had bought a number of gifts for me!
Among them was the current issue of Tokyo Journal magazine with Gene Simmons on the cover dressed like a samurai:
and the Classic Rock magazine with the members of KISS on the cover wearing business suits (like an updated version of their “Dressed To Kill” album cover):
It came with two compilation CDs.
From there, we went to a ramen restaurant for dinner and then headed to the “O-East” club for the reason we were there…to see the Skid Row “United World Rebellion: Chapter One” concert!
I did an interview with bassist Rachel Bolan last month about this concert, among other things.
After that interview, the members of Skid Row kindly gave my family and I guest tickets to their Tokyo show that included special seating…and backstage passes to meet the band after the show!
It was a great show! They played songs like “Let’s Go” and “Kings of Demolition” from their new album, as well as their classics such as “Slave To The Grind“, “18 And Life” , “I Remember You“, and of course “Youth Gone Wild” !
My wife had also bought a few 色紙 (Japanese paper boards) that are sometimes used for autographs, which the band signed for us.
My wife, our daughters and I all had an excellent time and were treated like V.I.P.s by the members of Skid Row!
Thank you Rachel Bolan, Scotti Hill, Dave “Snake” Sabo, Johnny Solinger and Rob Hammersmith!
About ten years ago or so, I used to buy a monthly magazine called “Hir@gana Times“.
It’s a monthly magazine that used to cost ¥390 (about US$4) when I bought it.
I bought it to study Japanese. That’s the main purpose of the magazine. All of the articles are written in English and Japanese. The Japanese kanji characters everywhere in the articles have the ふりがな reading over them to assist people learning to read Japanese (my blog, BTW, also has ふりがな for all of the kanji. Hold your mouse over the kanji on this blog and it’ll pop up.)
I quit buying the magazine years ago but I thought about it today for some reason.
I decided to see if the magazine has a website…and of course it does.
It’s seems that the price of the magazine has gone up to ¥450 per issue…and most of their website is only available to paying members!
But it does have some free sections…and just like their print magazine, all of the kanji on the website has ふりがな. But their website does the ふりがな differently than I do on my blog…they have the ふりがな characters printed above the kanji just like in their magazine (and Japanese children’s books). I put the ふりがな on my blog as small pop-ups because I think that’s a better way to remember the kanji.
Anyways, if you want to see their website, it’s here.
And here’s an article from their site:
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