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RE: impressions
(08-06-2009, 05:57 PM)Billkwando Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 05:49 PM)iceybabes Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 05:40 PM)Billkwando Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 05:27 PM)iceybabes Wrote: I had absolutely no problems hearing anything. It was actually the ONLY show I could hear Hyde clearly through the distortion of the guitar/bass. I know it wasn't that loud but then again it wasn't QUIET either. No my ears weren't ringing like in San Fran but I still had a blast none the less. I thought the sound was just fine personally. I still say it was for the filming of the show. Because if you noticed Exies sound was REALLY loud where as VAMPS was not as loud. *shrugs* I have no complaints about it. I'm just grateful I got to see VAMPS.


I was thinking about you last night, after a funny thought came to me. When somebody dresses up like Hyde, it's cosplay......but if somebody dressed up like KAZ, it would be KAZplay!

*runs away*

*snorts* I don't pronounce Kaz's name like cause or cos. I pronounce it K-as. The s sounding like a Z though. Just a note. I know some people pronounce it as Kahhz but I pronounce it Kaaz. BTW I like Kazplay hehehe...

I say "KAZ" like KAZ doez....

...like "Open up and say KAAAAAAAAZ!!"

I think it sounds weird to pronounce his name that way. I mean if I was in Japan yes that would be okay but...in American?? Like people that said Haido instead of Hyde who are English speakers...it seems odd. Hyde says Kaz's name like Kaaz. And I've heard Kaz pronounce his name two different ways O.o
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RE: impressions
(08-06-2009, 05:22 PM)Billkwando Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 04:55 PM)~Nao~ Wrote: I have a very very very long experience and review of the concert, so, if you guys want to read it, i posted it on my livejournal and my facebook (facebook: nao takamui) Livejournal: http://chemical-ann.livejournal.com/ you have to add me though because it's friends only.
I would post it here but it's so long -_-!!! I don't want to stretch the page!
Take care! <3

Feel free to stretch the page. We can enjoy its stretchyness together.

>.>.... okay, it's REALLY long though, because a lot of things happened to me to be able to go see VAMPS live... >.<!! sorry for killing your eyes with how long it is!!!
here it goes...


On July 27th, I went to the airport in Caracas to get on my plane to Miami, I woke up at 3 AM and waited at the airport till 7:30 AM, which was when the plane finally took off (The flight was scheduled to 7:00 AM, but it got delayed). I arrived in Miami at around 12 M, and I had a flight connection to Dallas, TX at 1:10 PM, so you can imagine how nervous and stressed I was when I got to Miami, because I had to retrieve my luggage to check it in the other flight, but I spent 25 minutes waiting for my luggage, because they took their sweet time as usual (American Airlines is such a bad and slow airline, I wouldn’t recommend it for you), so basically… I ran as fast as I could to the check in area when I finally got my suitcase and guess what, the person at the counter told me that I couldn’t get on the plane because I had to have at the less 40 minutes before the flight, and I already had 35 so I couldn’t get on that plane, so yup I lost my connection and then the other flight that left for Dallas was scheduled for 3:30 PM, so I waited… and at 3:30 PM they told us that plane was also delayed, and the plane finally took off at 5 PM, I of course e-mailed the person who was supposed to wait for me in Dallas, that I would be getting there later than what I was supposed to… so, anyways, after I finally got to Dallas, after I retrieved my luggage… the person who was supposed to pick me up wasn’t anywhere in sight, I tried to keep my cool and waited about an hour, walking around the airport and outside trying to spot them, but, they never showed up, that’s when I panicked for sure, I called my mom and told her they hadn’t showed up, she was going crazy of course too, and told me to wait a bit longer and call the person and that if they didn’t show up, I should go to a hotel, so I did that, I waited for about 45 mins more, and called and e-mailed the person several times and their phone said it was out of service, and they never answerwed my E-mails.. then I just broke down, I started crying like a baby cuz come on! I was left alone in a foreign country, in a freaking airport I knew nothing about! Some women saw me and tried to help me, they borrowed me their cellphones so I could try to call the person that was supposed to pick me up, aswell as my mom, since my international calls card ran out of minutes and there was nowhere else around where I could buy another one, so a very nice lady that worked for American Airlines also tried to help me by looking up on the computer whether the person had really arrived into Dallas earlier (they were flying from another part of USA) and they did, the computer said they had been there for around 3 hours, supposedly, so I paged her (meaning I made the AA people call her on the speakerphone) 3 times and… nothing, the person never showed up at all… you can only imagine how desperate I felt and lonely, but after that I went to the Hyatt hotel at the airport, and I stayed there for 2 days, waiting to see if the person would try to contact me.. but they never did, I even tried to look for them several times again at the airport but I never saw them… I was so sad and pissed off because I was supposed to go to the San Diego concert and now I couldn’t, because I didn’t have a way to San Diego and I didn’t have my concert ticket either, since this person was the one who had all my concert tickets… I was so down, and hurt by that! But then, my family called me and told me that I should continue my trip on my own, that I went to the US only to be able to see VAMPS live and that I should do that, so i went to the airport and paid a 271$ fee to be able to change my plane ticket and date to get to Los Angeles, which is where the other concert was going to be held at, and I did just that, on the 29th I got on a plane to LA at 3:00 PM (TX time), and I got to LA at 5 PM (LA time) there’s 3 hours difference between Dallas and LA. Then I got on a shuttle at the airport and went to the Ramada Hotel, in LA, which was a block away from the concert hall (amazing, huh? *O*), that’s where I was going to stay. I was feeling better now, not being so hurt and trying to get over it to be able to enjoy my stay in LA, but the problem was… I didn’t have a ticket for that concert either, and I REALLY needed one to be able to go into the signing session, so I ran to the Wiltern Theater after dropping my bags at the hotel, and it was closed, so I asked the guards if there was anyway in which I could get tickets for the concert, they told me the ticket office at the theater only opened 4 hours prior to the concert, and I of course couldn’t wait that long because the concert was at 8 PM on august 1st, and the signing session was scheduled for 12:45 M that same day, so there was no way I could get the ticket at 4 PM that day! I needed to go to the signing! So I went back to the hotel and went into Livenation’s site (Livenation is the place that sells tickets for the wiltern) and I tried buying the ticket, but it wouldn’t let me because my credit card since it’s foreign, it has too long of an address and the site didn’t allow that… so you can imagine my frustration and hurt! I called Livenation and talked to one of the operators, they told me I couldn’t buy it thru the phone either because of the same problem with my credit card’s address T____T!!!
I was about to break down and give up, but I decided to go back to the wiltern and ask if there was any other place where I could get the tickets, they told me to try a ticketmaster office that was around town, I wrote down the address and went back to the hotel. On the next day, after waking up and having breakfast, I rushed to the bus stop and got on the bus that would take me to the place but the thing is… I missed my stop! (yeah, very smart from my part), so I was about to break down again, because I had no freaking idea where I was, but the bus driver noticed my desperation and stopped the bus and helped me into another bus which was going to take me to the place. I got on the bus and finally arrived into the place, it was a record store that sold ticketmaster tickets, and when I asked the person in charge, he told me they didn’t sell tickets for the Wiltern Theater, that only Livenation did…. *shoots self* yeah, it was horrible!!! I went back to the hotel and I only thought that I just wouldn’t make it to the signing session, maybe I could make it to the concert but deffinitely not the signing. So, to be able to clear my mind off a bit, I got on the subway and went to Universal City Studios (you know, the place where they film movies), I went into the park and everything, I had a really good time, then at 8 PM, I went on my way back on the subway to the hotel, and you see, the subway station was RIGHT in front of the Wiltern Theater, and when i walked out of the station, I noticed two girls sitting in front of the theater, and one of them was wearing a VAMPS shirt. I honestly felt like I had seen god, when I saw them, i ran over to them and was all “What are you guys doing here?!”, the girl with the VAMPS shirt answered “we’re already waiting in line for a concert”. I was all *O* “VAMPS concert?” she was all “YES! *o*” so I sat down with them and explained them my situation, that I came all the way from venezuela and I had gotten left at the airport and all that stuff and that now I just didn’t have a ticket to the concert! Then as soon as I said that, the other girl turned around and looked at me and she was all “Are you Nao?” i was all O.O “Yes, do I know you?” she was all “I’m hedelex!!” and I swear at that moment I felt sooo comfortable! I finally had found someone I knew! Hedelex is a girl from mexico who I have talked to online several times, she also cosplays as Hyde. She told me she had a spare ticket that she could give to me, so you can only imagine how glad I felt! They told me they would stay there till Saturday, and I told them I would do the same, so I rushed back to my hotel, took a shower, changed my clothes and ran back to the theater, then the three of us stayed there that night, there was a creepy guy with us who kept harrasing us, asking us about the band even though he didn’t like them, and he kept talking about Ghetto art or something cuz he’s from the ghetto and inviting us over to an event he was going to have in september and such, but he wouldn’t leave, and just kept on talking about that stuff, all close to us, even though we told him to go away and that we didn’t care about anything he had to say, then two other girls (Gabriela and Julia) appeared, they knew Thalia and Hedelex from the San Diego concert, so we all stayed there, with the creepy guy, then we had to go away so he would stop bothering us and he finally did. Then we went back and camped that night, with some other guy that was camping for the concert too, he was really nice, he let us use his blanket so we wouldn’t get so cold (LA is a very cold place at night, and we weren’t prepared for it, cuz we all had summer clothes). Then some other guy who was friends with this guy joined us, so the 7 of us stayed that night in front of the wiltern. We made a list, so we knew who was first, second, and so on, so no one would try to take our place, we even took ictures and videos of us camping so other people wouldn’t try to say that was a lie. Anyways, I got number 4, even though I really was the 3rd one in line, because Heather (the girl who’s in charge of the street team) had came by earlier and said she still had to finish the banner for the concert, so she would get there later.

The next day, Heather appeared and was ready to camp with us, with the banner which was really cool, I have pictures of it and I will show you all later, along with the rest of the pictures. More people showed up during the second day, and we camped through the whole day, while having to deal with people asking us what we were doing in there, and the guards from the wiltern trying to kick us out, drunk people, drug addicts, crazy people, all kind of things! It was exhausting and scary. That night we were completely exhausted so we took “shifts” to be able to split and sleep at least for a while, that way we wouldn’t be dead through the concert. Truth is, I didn’t sleep that much, but something was deffinitely better than nothing! Then we all were ready by 7 AM, dressed and waiting for the signing session. Oh! I almost forgot, the previous day, we had decided we should give them a special gift, so we went to the flower shop and got them a bunch of flowers for the Staff, and 5 sets of different colored roses, which all had 6 roses, one for each member, by the 6th of us (Hedelex, Thalia, Gabriela, Julia, Heather and me). We got White roses for Jin, purple roses for Arimatsu, Yellow roses for Ju-ken, Red roses for Hyde and Deep pink roses for KAZ (I’ll show you the pics later). So, the day of the concert we would pick up the flowers after the signing session.

We were surprised that no one at all from the Staff of VAMPS had walked by the line to see how it was going. We just spent 3 days in line, with no security at all and not knowing anything from the band or the staff. Anyways, we had to deal with a lot of problems and pressure because since we were first in line, and the ones in charge of the list, the day of the concert people were tired from waiting for so long, and everything, they would ask us about the band, how the signing session was going to be, or try to get us to fix the problem with other people trying to cut in line. It was very frustrating, we felt like we were in charge of the concert and the organization, when we weren’t, we were just fans!
Anyways, then Heather called –J (yes, she had his number, since she was helping with the organization and everything from the street team), at 8 AM, and he answered by asking her how come she was calling so early. Can you believe it? We had been in line for 3 days, and we had no idea how things were going to be that day, and he answers with that? 8 AM is an okay time, even more when the signing session was scheduled for 12:45! Either way, what was more frustrating is that he said he still didn’t know what was going to happen, they still didn’t know how they were going to handle everything for the signing session. *eye twitches* So really, we got so frustrated and sad and dissapointed, he’s the manager, if he doesn’t know anything, then WHO does?! Besides, he wasn’t the one who had to deal with angry fans, we were the ones who had to! Even when we were just fans! God… he’s unbelievable.

Then, around 11, Ai (the girl in charge of promoting VAMPS in the US and in charge of some of the organization) finally arrived, and talked to heather and everything. Then they handed little red staples tickets to us, which were the tickets to the signing session, and made us get in line in front of the entrance of the theater, which we did. We waited for a few minutes, and then they let us inside the Theater. I was freaking out because I had no VAMPS merchandise with me, since my friend who was supposed to pick me up was the one who had my CDs and everything, so I wasn’t sure if I was going to have time to buy anything for them to sign since they made it very clear that they would ONLY sign VAMPS merchandise, and NO pictures at all could be taken. (Oh, we also noticed that one of the staff guys HAD actually walked by the line the previous day, but he was dressed casually, and he had asked us what we were doing. It was cool.)
But inside, they were selling things, so I bought the album and a magazine, even though Heather had already given me an official postcard for them to sign in case I couldn’t buy anything. Then Ai told us that we could only have ONE item signed only (buuuh…), and that we had to have it ready and opened where we wanted them to sign it, so we wouldn’t waste any time.
So then... the magic moment happened, they walked inside the room we were in and sat at the table a couple of feet away from us. I was… I didn’t even know what to think! Hyde is… soo tiny and cute (and the worst is he deffinitely KNOWS it, cuz he acts like “ohh, i’m hot, and I know it, you saw me, you can die now”)! And KAZ looks VERY good in person! Like HONESTLY. Then they started letting people walk over to the table. I was third in line because Heather… I don’t know where Heather was really, I think she was outside still talking to some of the staff and everything. When my turn arrived, one of the staff members took the magazine from me and put it on the table in front of KAZ. I looked at him and was all “Hiii how are you??? We’ve been in line since Wednesday!” he signed the magazine and looked up at me and said “Oh really?” (he trully looked kind of amazed at what I told him), I was all “yes, really!” and he was all “O.O wow… that’s cool”, I was all “yes, it is. This is for you” and I handed him the gift I had made for him and Hyde, which was a folder and some drawings and a letter. He took it and looked it over and was all “ohh... thank you!!” and opened it and then closed it and gave me his hand to shake it. I shook his hand and was all “It’s for both of you, you and Hyde” and he smiled and nodded. Then the staff member gave the magazine to Hyde. Hyde didn’t really look up at me, he just signed the magazine, and I was all “thank you!!!” to him because I honestly froze… I didn’t know what to say to him! And I didn’t have much time either, because my friend Hedelex had taken quite a bit of time with Hyde, giving him stuff, so I had to hurry, and it really sucked that he didn’t look up at me, I honestly couldn’t look at his face up close T___T, but i practically thrusted my hand in his face and he quickly bowed his head and shook my hand, and then I bowed too, grabbed my magazine and walked out. The signing with KAZ was really cool, he’s a very nice guy, and Hyde… well, it was cool too, he has tiny hands and they’re so soft *O* and pokeable!!!!! I loved it, I just wish he had looked up a bit more, so I could have seen his face up close, I mean I’ve waited years for that moment… but oh well, it was still totally worth it!. Signing sessions go by too quick T___T!!! It’s not really that “personal” I guess it has to be that way though, since there was a lot of people in line.

Then we went outside the venue again, and got in line again how we were earlier, and started freaking out about everything xDDD. Then we went to the flower store and retrieved the flowers. We went back to the line, and talked to Ai, to give the flowers to them, she didn’t let us give them personally but she grabbed all the flowers and said she would give it to them and walked inside. She also said she had really liked that we had gotten flowers for the Staff. <333! Also, the 6th of us wrote in every card in every bunch of flowers, I hope they all liked what we wrote and did.
Oh, and we had taken a picture with the bunch of flowers, then we went to develope it, and wrote our names on each one of us on the picture, and when the concert was about to start, when we were waiting in line to go inside, -J walked outside to look at how things were, and we gave the picture to him, he said it was a very cool gift and that he would deffinitely give it to them. =D! So, yeah, we got a bunch of gifts for them, I hope they all liked them!
Ahh, and there were two crew members, with a video camera, they were recording the line, supposedly for a japanese live show, and they interviewed us, they asked us why we were there, what our fave song was, why we liked the band and all that kind of stuff, they also asked us to sing a song, and we sang Sex Blood Rock ‘n’ Roll. I hope we can find the clip later in Youtube! *O*

Then… it was concert time! I was scared because I really wanted to buy a shirt (they didn’t have them in store at the signing, they said they would have them by the concert time, though), but I was afraid that if it took me too long to buy the shirt, I would lose my spot in the front row! But I was fourth in line that time (yes, Heather was in there now), so I was hoping It wouldn’t take me too long to buy a shirt. Then, the guards opened the doors and let us inside, we all ran inside (thoug they told us not to run), they checked our tickets and I walked fast to the store, i got my shirt and a shirt for Hedelex and Thalia, then I ran to the concert room, and thankfully there weren’t many people in the pit when I got there, they re-checked our tickets inside and put a wrist band ticket thing to all of us who were in the pit, then I finally made my way through the front where Hedelex and Thalia were, and had to fight an asian girl to get in my spot, but I finally managed, so the 3 of us were RIGHT in front of the mic stand, in the middle of everything!! <3! And we stayed that way, Hedelex and I hung our flags from the barricade. I had the Venezuelan flag obviously and she had a small Mexico flag, which we hung with mine. It was so cool! We were hoping they would film it or take pictures of it. It was funny cuz the concert was in USA, but Hedelex, Thalia, Gabriela, Julia, Myrtha (a peruvian girl) and me, were all from Center/Latin-America or they had parents who were! So it was like... Latino powah!!! In the front row! It deffinitely was a HUGE success for us.

We waited for a while, while looking at a screen that was on stage, where people could send a text to the theater, and they would air your text on the screen, we had fun with that, people sent some very funny ones.
Then, they took the screen away, and it started, the opening band which is a band from LA called The Exies, started playing, and to tell you the truth, they aren’t bad at all, I liked a couple of their songs. (I will post a pic of them too, later). They played around 4 or 5 songs, and we could see Ju-ken hanging by one of the side entrances to the stage, having lots of fun with the band, he danced, headbanged and sang along them! It was really cool to watch.

When the Exies finished their performance, the staff from VAMPS changed everything around the stage, getting ready for VAMPS to play, we waited a couple of minutes, then VAMPS finally walked on stage, and of course everybody went crazy, screaming at the top of our lungs!! They all looked very amazingly beautiful and professional!

I sadly don’t remember what the first song they played was, my mind is sort of confused right now. But I do know that they played everything amazingly good! They were very professional about it, but they didn’t have that much of a “connection” with the crowd, I’m guessing it’s because they were deffinitely aware that they were getting filmed, for the DVD, and they wanted everything to go by in a very professional matter. Hyde’s voice was amazing, and Jin’s, Ju-ken’s, Arimatsu’s and KAZ’s playing was beyond any words… they really played amazingly well!. During Sex Blood rock ‘n’ Roll people went insane, you could really feel the energy pumping through every body in the room, aswell as when they played Trouble. Everybody went crazy, jumping screaming, headbanging. I was about to suffocate during those songs, but I just had to keep going. The staff had earlier promised they would give us water whenever we wanted, but sadly I never got a single bottle, they only gave water to a few people in the corners of the pit.

To tell you the truth, everything was amazing and very professional… but in my opinion, there was something odd going on with Hyde, he seemed… like he was playing but he wasn’t really there, he had no connection with the crowd whatsoever, he even looked upset at some point, or frustrated or something, I can’t put my finger on it. He sang amazingly, but he had no “feeling” towards the crowd, he didn’t let us touch him, he did spit over us but it was a very small spit (though I got some of it on me! *O*), He only threw one bottle of water, and he just... he just looked like he was acting, the things he did he seemed to do them because he was very aware of the camera, as if he was acting through the whole show, his movements were exaggerated. I’m not the only one who got this impression, my friends did too. There deffinitely was something wrong going on. Also, the show ended TOO fast, I’m not sure how long it lasted but it felt EXTREMELY short. There was a point where they left and it was like they trully weren’t going to come back, like that was the end of the gig, but we screamed and started doing the “hi ho let’s hunt” thing, asking “Where’s my VAMPS??” “Where’s my Hyde??” Where’s my Jin???” and such, aswell as clapping and screaming “Ancole!!! (Encore)” then after what felt like a while, they finally walked back on stage, and Hyde looked frustrated, though he laughed because we kept screaming and screaming, and didn’t let him talk, it was like he didn’t really know what to say to the crowd’s reaction. But, he read from the screen on the floor a few words in english (He didn’t really talk much during the whole show, and when he did it felt like he didn’t really mean it), maybe he was too tired, I wouldn’t know. Either way, I can’t exactly remember what his exact words were, but he said something like “Thank you very much, honestly. You really love us? (or me, i’m not sure which he said)” we all screamed “YEAHHHHH!!” but he asked as if he didn’t really believe us, he asked the same a couple of times, but he looked like “mehh…” like he didn’t wanna be there or something. Anyways, after his Little weird talk, he said they would play Trouble and I gotta kick start now and that it would be it cuz they had to go back or something, both songs were amazing, then at the end, he grabbed one of the roses from his mic stand and intended to throw it to the crowd but he didn’t throw it out of the stage xDDD (he throws like a girl) and it fell apart, the petals all fell apart, but since we were in the front row we were able to grab some of the petals, I got two *O*!!! (I’ll show you later). Then he pretty much stomped out of stage, and a friend of mine saw when one of the crew members made a “Cut” sign to some other crew members, and then after Ju-ken and KAZ threw some picks and everything, they quickly started tearing the stage down. We were all like O.o, it was sooo fast! All the songs they played were amazingly good, but I just… I don’t understand what was up with Hyde, honestly Ju-ken and KAZ were trying to entertain the crowd by humping their guitars/bass, dancing, moving, smiling and getting close to the people, because Hyde just wouldn’t. Poor things… who knows what was going on =/.
I don’t remember all the songs they played, but they played sex blood rock ‘n’ roll, trouble, i gotta kick start now, evanescent, jesus christ, I believe they played season’s call but i’m not sure, made in heaven, Faith, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Hunting, Vampire depression, redrum, cosmos (i’m not sure, but I think they did), secret in my heart, Life on mars, and the best song they played that night… Sweet Dreams, it was SUCH a beautiful and powerful performance, I started crying in the middle of it, it was such a wonderful and magic moment, Hyde’s voice was amazing, all the instruments sounded sooo wonderful, it was a beautiful moment.
And, at the end of the concert, the cams went through the first row and let us say something to it, me and my friends said that we had came all the way from latinamerica just to see them. Hopefully, they’ll air it on the DVD *O*! We also tried to get the crew members to give us the roses from the mic stand and the remaining picks that were on the floor, but they only gave us a few petals, and they threw a rose, with I grabbed but then someone else took it from me, but that’s alright. I wish the band members would have thrown more stuff to the crowd.
Anyways, It was a very profesional and amazing concert, but I just wish Hyde would have put aside whatever his problem was.
But in the end, even though there were some bad things, I had a really rough week and everything, It was all an amazing experience for me, I met very cool and very nice people, even though Hyde wasn’t that into the crowd, the concert was still amazing, and I wouldn’t change this for anything, I’m very glad that I had this opportunity, and I think it’s a big step for the latinamerica fandom, I really hope they aknowledge us in the DVD, by putting shots with us in front and everything. I’m sure it’ll be a wonderful DVD, even if we’re not in it.
I’m just so very happy and glad for everything… now I just wish I can go to a Laruku concert, and then I’ll be able to die happy! xDDD.
Well, that’s my review, and my experience, I hope you guys enjoyed Reading it, i will post the pictures and videos from the line (since i couldn’t record anything inside the concert) as soon as I can. Love you all!!!
VAMPS FTW!

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(08-06-2009, 05:59 PM)tetsu_sama69 Wrote: awwwww yeah here we go. my turn to write something nice out of the mixed reviews here. VAMPS needs more love peeps and if you keep saying bad things they won't come back.

As for me at the Wiltern....IT WAS PERFECTION!!!

I camped out for a couple days and it was so worth it. Even though I got the sunburn from hell and I'm still tired from it. It was very very worth it.

Front row on K.A.Z's side! Right by my loves!

The opening band, The Exies. I had heard of these guys before and I had to no idea they were made of AWESOME. The crowd was so nice with them from my POV and I had an excellent time rocking out and listening to them play. Even when their guitarist had technical difficulties he didn't even get upset he just kept going. That's dedication to your craft. I wish I would have bought their CD while I was there. Also Ju-ken dancing and singing during their set was just full of win.

Now onwards to the main event!

VAMPS!

Holy shit! This show was perfection. I spent the last of my money buying tickets and paying for the trip just to see these guys and every single cent was worth it!
Being right in front of K.A.Z the whole time...just wonderful. He is so into what he does and is so talented. Also I loved that Hyde and Ju-ken came over to our side many times as well!
I mean I really can't think of one thing bad with this show. I could hear Hyde just fine and he is so intense! This show has left me looking up to him more than I did before!
K.A.Z...he is just so focused. And he is so talented! It was hard to take my eyes off of him. LOL
Ju-ken is just so good at what he does. He knows how to keep the crowd going and his robot crazy flail dances during Dolly were just too much fun!
Jin...I had no idea he was so handsome in person. And he is very serious at what he does. He looked very focused most of the time but still had tons of fun. Also he knows how to rock a mohawk.
Arimatsu is just an amazing drummer. Anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't know what they are talking about.
LOL I kinda wish that Hyde and K.A.Z would let them all be official members.

But back to the show! I'm distracting myself! xD

The show was just amazing! You could feel the emotion in the air and you could hear the crowd singing along with every single song. I loved that they played Vampire Depression that's one of my favorite songs from the album. It's hard for me to really say what was my favorite song all night from the set cause the whole entire thing was just so much fun and so amazing. I also love that Hunting is more of K.A.Z and Ju-ken's song live. And when someone threw that little stuffed lamb up on the stage...and K.A.Z's WTF face was just so cute.
I do have to say that Jesus Christ is one of the most powerful songs I have heard live and I think I had the most fun during Midnight Celebration which is still my favorite Hyde song.
The MC's were so cute. Hyde's english has gotten so good and I could hear him perfectly when he spoke and I understood what he said. Please come back next year and ignore all the bad comments on here. You guys did great!
Also what topped if off for me that night was at the end Ju-ken "jerked off" with his water bottle and hit me directly. That made it totally perfect and I was really hot and sweaty so it cooled me down.

But yeah the whole show for me was just perfect. It was great being in the front and seeing them live. I hope they come back next year and I can go see them again and get to camp out with all the wonderful fans there as well. <3

Hhhmmmmmmm.....somehow I don't remember reading anywhere on here that the performance was bad. The sound quality was not good and that has nothing to do with VAMPS' performance at all.

We've all said what an awesome concert it was. As far as I know, everyone on this forum wants them to come back.....
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(08-06-2009, 06:07 PM)cathb Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 05:59 PM)tetsu_sama69 Wrote: awwwww yeah here we go. my turn to write something nice out of the mixed reviews here. VAMPS needs more love peeps and if you keep saying bad things they won't come back.

As for me at the Wiltern....IT WAS PERFECTION!!!

I camped out for a couple days and it was so worth it. Even though I got the sunburn from hell and I'm still tired from it. It was very very worth it.

Front row on K.A.Z's side! Right by my loves!

The opening band, The Exies. I had heard of these guys before and I had to no idea they were made of AWESOME. The crowd was so nice with them from my POV and I had an excellent time rocking out and listening to them play. Even when their guitarist had technical difficulties he didn't even get upset he just kept going. That's dedication to your craft. I wish I would have bought their CD while I was there. Also Ju-ken dancing and singing during their set was just full of win.

Now onwards to the main event!

VAMPS!

Holy shit! This show was perfection. I spent the last of my money buying tickets and paying for the trip just to see these guys and every single cent was worth it!
Being right in front of K.A.Z the whole time...just wonderful. He is so into what he does and is so talented. Also I loved that Hyde and Ju-ken came over to our side many times as well!
I mean I really can't think of one thing bad with this show. I could hear Hyde just fine and he is so intense! This show has left me looking up to him more than I did before!
K.A.Z...he is just so focused. And he is so talented! It was hard to take my eyes off of him. LOL
Ju-ken is just so good at what he does. He knows how to keep the crowd going and his robot crazy flail dances during Dolly were just too much fun!
Jin...I had no idea he was so handsome in person. And he is very serious at what he does. He looked very focused most of the time but still had tons of fun. Also he knows how to rock a mohawk.
Arimatsu is just an amazing drummer. Anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't know what they are talking about.
LOL I kinda wish that Hyde and K.A.Z would let them all be official members.

But back to the show! I'm distracting myself! xD

The show was just amazing! You could feel the emotion in the air and you could hear the crowd singing along with every single song. I loved that they played Vampire Depression that's one of my favorite songs from the album. It's hard for me to really say what was my favorite song all night from the set cause the whole entire thing was just so much fun and so amazing. I also love that Hunting is more of K.A.Z and Ju-ken's song live. And when someone threw that little stuffed lamb up on the stage...and K.A.Z's WTF face was just so cute.
I do have to say that Jesus Christ is one of the most powerful songs I have heard live and I think I had the most fun during Midnight Celebration which is still my favorite Hyde song.
The MC's were so cute. Hyde's english has gotten so good and I could hear him perfectly when he spoke and I understood what he said. Please come back next year and ignore all the bad comments on here. You guys did great!
Also what topped if off for me that night was at the end Ju-ken "jerked off" with his water bottle and hit me directly. That made it totally perfect and I was really hot and sweaty so it cooled me down.

But yeah the whole show for me was just perfect. It was great being in the front and seeing them live. I hope they come back next year and I can go see them again and get to camp out with all the wonderful fans there as well. <3

Hhhmmmmmmm.....somehow I don't remember reading anywhere on here that the performance was bad. The sound quality was not good and that has nothing to do with VAMPS' performance at all.

We've all said what an awesome concert it was. As far as I know, everyone on this forum wants them to come back.....

From where I was the sound was just fine and the performance was awesome. Even though from where I was a couple times the crowd drowned Hyde out but that was from singing and screaming.

I saw a little live clip from LA earlier and the sound is great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSt6MXMwJ3I
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(08-06-2009, 06:05 PM)~Nao~ Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 05:22 PM)Billkwando Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 04:55 PM)~Nao~ Wrote: I have a very very very long experience and review of the concert, so, if you guys want to read it, i posted it on my livejournal and my facebook (facebook: nao takamui) Livejournal: http://chemical-ann.livejournal.com/ you have to add me though because it's friends only.
I would post it here but it's so long -_-!!! I don't want to stretch the page!
Take care! <3

Feel free to stretch the page. We can enjoy its stretchyness together.

>.>.... okay, it's REALLY long though, because a lot of things happened to me to be able to go see VAMPS live... >.<!! sorry for killing your eyes with how long it is!!!
here it goes...


On July 27th, I went to the airport in Caracas to get on my plane to Miami, I woke up at 3 AM and waited at the airport till 7:30 AM, which was when the plane finally took off (The flight was scheduled to 7:00 AM, but it got delayed). I arrived in Miami at around 12 M, and I had a flight connection to Dallas, TX at 1:10 PM, so you can imagine how nervous and stressed I was when I got to Miami, because I had to retrieve my luggage to check it in the other flight, but I spent 25 minutes waiting for my luggage, because they took their sweet time as usual (American Airlines is such a bad and slow airline, I wouldn’t recommend it for you), so basically… I ran as fast as I could to the check in area when I finally got my suitcase and guess what, the person at the counter told me that I couldn’t get on the plane because I had to have at the less 40 minutes before the flight, and I already had 35 so I couldn’t get on that plane, so yup I lost my connection and then the other flight that left for Dallas was scheduled for 3:30 PM, so I waited… and at 3:30 PM they told us that plane was also delayed, and the plane finally took off at 5 PM, I of course e-mailed the person who was supposed to wait for me in Dallas, that I would be getting there later than what I was supposed to… so, anyways, after I finally got to Dallas, after I retrieved my luggage… the person who was supposed to pick me up wasn’t anywhere in sight, I tried to keep my cool and waited about an hour, walking around the airport and outside trying to spot them, but, they never showed up, that’s when I panicked for sure, I called my mom and told her they hadn’t showed up, she was going crazy of course too, and told me to wait a bit longer and call the person and that if they didn’t show up, I should go to a hotel, so I did that, I waited for about 45 mins more, and called and e-mailed the person several times and their phone said it was out of service, and they never answerwed my E-mails.. then I just broke down, I started crying like a baby cuz come on! I was left alone in a foreign country, in a freaking airport I knew nothing about! Some women saw me and tried to help me, they borrowed me their cellphones so I could try to call the person that was supposed to pick me up, aswell as my mom, since my international calls card ran out of minutes and there was nowhere else around where I could buy another one, so a very nice lady that worked for American Airlines also tried to help me by looking up on the computer whether the person had really arrived into Dallas earlier (they were flying from another part of USA) and they did, the computer said they had been there for around 3 hours, supposedly, so I paged her (meaning I made the AA people call her on the speakerphone) 3 times and… nothing, the person never showed up at all… you can only imagine how desperate I felt and lonely, but after that I went to the Hyatt hotel at the airport, and I stayed there for 2 days, waiting to see if the person would try to contact me.. but they never did, I even tried to look for them several times again at the airport but I never saw them… I was so sad and pissed off because I was supposed to go to the San Diego concert and now I couldn’t, because I didn’t have a way to San Diego and I didn’t have my concert ticket either, since this person was the one who had all my concert tickets… I was so down, and hurt by that! But then, my family called me and told me that I should continue my trip on my own, that I went to the US only to be able to see VAMPS live and that I should do that, so i went to the airport and paid a 271$ fee to be able to change my plane ticket and date to get to Los Angeles, which is where the other concert was going to be held at, and I did just that, on the 29th I got on a plane to LA at 3:00 PM (TX time), and I got to LA at 5 PM (LA time) there’s 3 hours difference between Dallas and LA. Then I got on a shuttle at the airport and went to the Ramada Hotel, in LA, which was a block away from the concert hall (amazing, huh? *O*), that’s where I was going to stay. I was feeling better now, not being so hurt and trying to get over it to be able to enjoy my stay in LA, but the problem was… I didn’t have a ticket for that concert either, and I REALLY needed one to be able to go into the signing session, so I ran to the Wiltern Theater after dropping my bags at the hotel, and it was closed, so I asked the guards if there was anyway in which I could get tickets for the concert, they told me the ticket office at the theater only opened 4 hours prior to the concert, and I of course couldn’t wait that long because the concert was at 8 PM on august 1st, and the signing session was scheduled for 12:45 M that same day, so there was no way I could get the ticket at 4 PM that day! I needed to go to the signing! So I went back to the hotel and went into Livenation’s site (Livenation is the place that sells tickets for the wiltern) and I tried buying the ticket, but it wouldn’t let me because my credit card since it’s foreign, it has too long of an address and the site didn’t allow that… so you can imagine my frustration and hurt! I called Livenation and talked to one of the operators, they told me I couldn’t buy it thru the phone either because of the same problem with my credit card’s address T____T!!!
I was about to break down and give up, but I decided to go back to the wiltern and ask if there was any other place where I could get the tickets, they told me to try a ticketmaster office that was around town, I wrote down the address and went back to the hotel. On the next day, after waking up and having breakfast, I rushed to the bus stop and got on the bus that would take me to the place but the thing is… I missed my stop! (yeah, very smart from my part), so I was about to break down again, because I had no freaking idea where I was, but the bus driver noticed my desperation and stopped the bus and helped me into another bus which was going to take me to the place. I got on the bus and finally arrived into the place, it was a record store that sold ticketmaster tickets, and when I asked the person in charge, he told me they didn’t sell tickets for the Wiltern Theater, that only Livenation did…. *shoots self* yeah, it was horrible!!! I went back to the hotel and I only thought that I just wouldn’t make it to the signing session, maybe I could make it to the concert but deffinitely not the signing. So, to be able to clear my mind off a bit, I got on the subway and went to Universal City Studios (you know, the place where they film movies), I went into the park and everything, I had a really good time, then at 8 PM, I went on my way back on the subway to the hotel, and you see, the subway station was RIGHT in front of the Wiltern Theater, and when i walked out of the station, I noticed two girls sitting in front of the theater, and one of them was wearing a VAMPS shirt. I honestly felt like I had seen god, when I saw them, i ran over to them and was all “What are you guys doing here?!”, the girl with the VAMPS shirt answered “we’re already waiting in line for a concert”. I was all *O* “VAMPS concert?” she was all “YES! *o*” so I sat down with them and explained them my situation, that I came all the way from venezuela and I had gotten left at the airport and all that stuff and that now I just didn’t have a ticket to the concert! Then as soon as I said that, the other girl turned around and looked at me and she was all “Are you Nao?” i was all O.O “Yes, do I know you?” she was all “I’m hedelex!!” and I swear at that moment I felt sooo comfortable! I finally had found someone I knew! Hedelex is a girl from mexico who I have talked to online several times, she also cosplays as Hyde. She told me she had a spare ticket that she could give to me, so you can only imagine how glad I felt! They told me they would stay there till Saturday, and I told them I would do the same, so I rushed back to my hotel, took a shower, changed my clothes and ran back to the theater, then the three of us stayed there that night, there was a creepy guy with us who kept harrasing us, asking us about the band even though he didn’t like them, and he kept talking about Ghetto art or something cuz he’s from the ghetto and inviting us over to an event he was going to have in september and such, but he wouldn’t leave, and just kept on talking about that stuff, all close to us, even though we told him to go away and that we didn’t care about anything he had to say, then two other girls (Gabriela and Julia) appeared, they knew Thalia and Hedelex from the San Diego concert, so we all stayed there, with the creepy guy, then we had to go away so he would stop bothering us and he finally did. Then we went back and camped that night, with some other guy that was camping for the concert too, he was really nice, he let us use his blanket so we wouldn’t get so cold (LA is a very cold place at night, and we weren’t prepared for it, cuz we all had summer clothes). Then some other guy who was friends with this guy joined us, so the 7 of us stayed that night in front of the wiltern. We made a list, so we knew who was first, second, and so on, so no one would try to take our place, we even took ictures and videos of us camping so other people wouldn’t try to say that was a lie. Anyways, I got number 4, even though I really was the 3rd one in line, because Heather (the girl who’s in charge of the street team) had came by earlier and said she still had to finish the banner for the concert, so she would get there later.

The next day, Heather appeared and was ready to camp with us, with the banner which was really cool, I have pictures of it and I will show you all later, along with the rest of the pictures. More people showed up during the second day, and we camped through the whole day, while having to deal with people asking us what we were doing in there, and the guards from the wiltern trying to kick us out, drunk people, drug addicts, crazy people, all kind of things! It was exhausting and scary. That night we were completely exhausted so we took “shifts” to be able to split and sleep at least for a while, that way we wouldn’t be dead through the concert. Truth is, I didn’t sleep that much, but something was deffinitely better than nothing! Then we all were ready by 7 AM, dressed and waiting for the signing session. Oh! I almost forgot, the previous day, we had decided we should give them a special gift, so we went to the flower shop and got them a bunch of flowers for the Staff, and 5 sets of different colored roses, which all had 6 roses, one for each member, by the 6th of us (Hedelex, Thalia, Gabriela, Julia, Heather and me). We got White roses for Jin, purple roses for Arimatsu, Yellow roses for Ju-ken, Red roses for Hyde and Deep pink roses for KAZ (I’ll show you the pics later). So, the day of the concert we would pick up the flowers after the signing session.

We were surprised that no one at all from the Staff of VAMPS had walked by the line to see how it was going. We just spent 3 days in line, with no security at all and not knowing anything from the band or the staff. Anyways, we had to deal with a lot of problems and pressure because since we were first in line, and the ones in charge of the list, the day of the concert people were tired from waiting for so long, and everything, they would ask us about the band, how the signing session was going to be, or try to get us to fix the problem with other people trying to cut in line. It was very frustrating, we felt like we were in charge of the concert and the organization, when we weren’t, we were just fans!
Anyways, then Heather called –J (yes, she had his number, since she was helping with the organization and everything from the street team), at 8 AM, and he answered by asking her how come she was calling so early. Can you believe it? We had been in line for 3 days, and we had no idea how things were going to be that day, and he answers with that? 8 AM is an okay time, even more when the signing session was scheduled for 12:45! Either way, what was more frustrating is that he said he still didn’t know what was going to happen, they still didn’t know how they were going to handle everything for the signing session. *eye twitches* So really, we got so frustrated and sad and dissapointed, he’s the manager, if he doesn’t know anything, then WHO does?! Besides, he wasn’t the one who had to deal with angry fans, we were the ones who had to! Even when we were just fans! God… he’s unbelievable.

Then, around 11, Ai (the girl in charge of promoting VAMPS in the US and in charge of some of the organization) finally arrived, and talked to heather and everything. Then they handed little red staples tickets to us, which were the tickets to the signing session, and made us get in line in front of the entrance of the theater, which we did. We waited for a few minutes, and then they let us inside the Theater. I was freaking out because I had no VAMPS merchandise with me, since my friend who was supposed to pick me up was the one who had my CDs and everything, so I wasn’t sure if I was going to have time to buy anything for them to sign since they made it very clear that they would ONLY sign VAMPS merchandise, and NO pictures at all could be taken. (Oh, we also noticed that one of the staff guys HAD actually walked by the line the previous day, but he was dressed casually, and he had asked us what we were doing. It was cool.)
But inside, they were selling things, so I bought the album and a magazine, even though Heather had already given me an official postcard for them to sign in case I couldn’t buy anything. Then Ai told us that we could only have ONE item signed only (buuuh…), and that we had to have it ready and opened where we wanted them to sign it, so we wouldn’t waste any time.
So then... the magic moment happened, they walked inside the room we were in and sat at the table a couple of feet away from us. I was… I didn’t even know what to think! Hyde is… soo tiny and cute (and the worst is he deffinitely KNOWS it, cuz he acts like “ohh, i’m hot, and I know it, you saw me, you can die now”)! And KAZ looks VERY good in person! Like HONESTLY. Then they started letting people walk over to the table. I was third in line because Heather… I don’t know where Heather was really, I think she was outside still talking to some of the staff and everything. When my turn arrived, one of the staff members took the magazine from me and put it on the table in front of KAZ. I looked at him and was all “Hiii how are you??? We’ve been in line since Wednesday!” he signed the magazine and looked up at me and said “Oh really?” (he trully looked kind of amazed at what I told him), I was all “yes, really!” and he was all “O.O wow… that’s cool”, I was all “yes, it is. This is for you” and I handed him the gift I had made for him and Hyde, which was a folder and some drawings and a letter. He took it and looked it over and was all “ohh... thank you!!” and opened it and then closed it and gave me his hand to shake it. I shook his hand and was all “It’s for both of you, you and Hyde” and he smiled and nodded. Then the staff member gave the magazine to Hyde. Hyde didn’t really look up at me, he just signed the magazine, and I was all “thank you!!!” to him because I honestly froze… I didn’t know what to say to him! And I didn’t have much time either, because my friend Hedelex had taken quite a bit of time with Hyde, giving him stuff, so I had to hurry, and it really sucked that he didn’t look up at me, I honestly couldn’t look at his face up close T___T, but i practically thrusted my hand in his face and he quickly bowed his head and shook my hand, and then I bowed too, grabbed my magazine and walked out. The signing with KAZ was really cool, he’s a very nice guy, and Hyde… well, it was cool too, he has tiny hands and they’re so soft *O* and pokeable!!!!! I loved it, I just wish he had looked up a bit more, so I could have seen his face up close, I mean I’ve waited years for that moment… but oh well, it was still totally worth it!. Signing sessions go by too quick T___T!!! It’s not really that “personal” I guess it has to be that way though, since there was a lot of people in line.

Then we went outside the venue again, and got in line again how we were earlier, and started freaking out about everything xDDD. Then we went to the flower store and retrieved the flowers. We went back to the line, and talked to Ai, to give the flowers to them, she didn’t let us give them personally but she grabbed all the flowers and said she would give it to them and walked inside. She also said she had really liked that we had gotten flowers for the Staff. <333! Also, the 6th of us wrote in every card in every bunch of flowers, I hope they all liked what we wrote and did.
Oh, and we had taken a picture with the bunch of flowers, then we went to develope it, and wrote our names on each one of us on the picture, and when the concert was about to start, when we were waiting in line to go inside, -J walked outside to look at how things were, and we gave the picture to him, he said it was a very cool gift and that he would deffinitely give it to them. =D! So, yeah, we got a bunch of gifts for them, I hope they all liked them!
Ahh, and there were two crew members, with a video camera, they were recording the line, supposedly for a japanese live show, and they interviewed us, they asked us why we were there, what our fave song was, why we liked the band and all that kind of stuff, they also asked us to sing a song, and we sang Sex Blood Rock ‘n’ Roll. I hope we can find the clip later in Youtube! *O*

Then… it was concert time! I was scared because I really wanted to buy a shirt (they didn’t have them in store at the signing, they said they would have them by the concert time, though), but I was afraid that if it took me too long to buy the shirt, I would lose my spot in the front row! But I was fourth in line that time (yes, Heather was in there now), so I was hoping It wouldn’t take me too long to buy a shirt. Then, the guards opened the doors and let us inside, we all ran inside (thoug they told us not to run), they checked our tickets and I walked fast to the store, i got my shirt and a shirt for Hedelex and Thalia, then I ran to the concert room, and thankfully there weren’t many people in the pit when I got there, they re-checked our tickets inside and put a wrist band ticket thing to all of us who were in the pit, then I finally made my way through the front where Hedelex and Thalia were, and had to fight an asian girl to get in my spot, but I finally managed, so the 3 of us were RIGHT in front of the mic stand, in the middle of everything!! <3! And we stayed that way, Hedelex and I hung our flags from the barricade. I had the Venezuelan flag obviously and she had a small Mexico flag, which we hung with mine. It was so cool! We were hoping they would film it or take pictures of it. It was funny cuz the concert was in USA, but Hedelex, Thalia, Gabriela, Julia, Myrtha (a peruvian girl) and me, were all from Center/Latin-America or they had parents who were! So it was like... Latino powah!!! In the front row! It deffinitely was a HUGE success for us.

We waited for a while, while looking at a screen that was on stage, where people could send a text to the theater, and they would air your text on the screen, we had fun with that, people sent some very funny ones.
Then, they took the screen away, and it started, the opening band which is a band from LA called The Exies, started playing, and to tell you the truth, they aren’t bad at all, I liked a couple of their songs. (I will post a pic of them too, later). They played around 4 or 5 songs, and we could see Ju-ken hanging by one of the side entrances to the stage, having lots of fun with the band, he danced, headbanged and sang along them! It was really cool to watch.

When the Exies finished their performance, the staff from VAMPS changed everything around the stage, getting ready for VAMPS to play, we waited a couple of minutes, then VAMPS finally walked on stage, and of course everybody went crazy, screaming at the top of our lungs!! They all looked very amazingly beautiful and professional!

I sadly don’t remember what the first song they played was, my mind is sort of confused right now. But I do know that they played everything amazingly good! They were very professional about it, but they didn’t have that much of a “connection” with the crowd, I’m guessing it’s because they were deffinitely aware that they were getting filmed, for the DVD, and they wanted everything to go by in a very professional matter. Hyde’s voice was amazing, and Jin’s, Ju-ken’s, Arimatsu’s and KAZ’s playing was beyond any words… they really played amazingly well!. During Sex Blood rock ‘n’ Roll people went insane, you could really feel the energy pumping through every body in the room, aswell as when they played Trouble. Everybody went crazy, jumping screaming, headbanging. I was about to suffocate during those songs, but I just had to keep going. The staff had earlier promised they would give us water whenever we wanted, but sadly I never got a single bottle, they only gave water to a few people in the corners of the pit.

To tell you the truth, everything was amazing and very professional… but in my opinion, there was something odd going on with Hyde, he seemed… like he was playing but he wasn’t really there, he had no connection with the crowd whatsoever, he even looked upset at some point, or frustrated or something, I can’t put my finger on it. He sang amazingly, but he had no “feeling” towards the crowd, he didn’t let us touch him, he did spit over us but it was a very small spit (though I got some of it on me! *O*), He only threw one bottle of water, and he just... he just looked like he was acting, the things he did he seemed to do them because he was very aware of the camera, as if he was acting through the whole show, his movements were exaggerated. I’m not the only one who got this impression, my friends did too. There deffinitely was something wrong going on. Also, the show ended TOO fast, I’m not sure how long it lasted but it felt EXTREMELY short. There was a point where they left and it was like they trully weren’t going to come back, like that was the end of the gig, but we screamed and started doing the “hi ho let’s hunt” thing, asking “Where’s my VAMPS??” “Where’s my Hyde??” Where’s my Jin???” and such, aswell as clapping and screaming “Ancole!!! (Encore)” then after what felt like a while, they finally walked back on stage, and Hyde looked frustrated, though he laughed because we kept screaming and screaming, and didn’t let him talk, it was like he didn’t really know what to say to the crowd’s reaction. But, he read from the screen on the floor a few words in english (He didn’t really talk much during the whole show, and when he did it felt like he didn’t really mean it), maybe he was too tired, I wouldn’t know. Either way, I can’t exactly remember what his exact words were, but he said something like “Thank you very much, honestly. You really love us? (or me, i’m not sure which he said)” we all screamed “YEAHHHHH!!” but he asked as if he didn’t really believe us, he asked the same a couple of times, but he looked like “mehh…” like he didn’t wanna be there or something. Anyways, after his Little weird talk, he said they would play Trouble and I gotta kick start now and that it would be it cuz they had to go back or something, both songs were amazing, then at the end, he grabbed one of the roses from his mic stand and intended to throw it to the crowd but he didn’t throw it out of the stage xDDD (he throws like a girl) and it fell apart, the petals all fell apart, but since we were in the front row we were able to grab some of the petals, I got two *O*!!! (I’ll show you later). Then he pretty much stomped out of stage, and a friend of mine saw when one of the crew members made a “Cut” sign to some other crew members, and then after Ju-ken and KAZ threw some picks and everything, they quickly started tearing the stage down. We were all like O.o, it was sooo fast! All the songs they played were amazingly good, but I just… I don’t understand what was up with Hyde, honestly Ju-ken and KAZ were trying to entertain the crowd by humping their guitars/bass, dancing, moving, smiling and getting close to the people, because Hyde just wouldn’t. Poor things… who knows what was going on =/.
I don’t remember all the songs they played, but they played sex blood rock ‘n’ roll, trouble, i gotta kick start now, evanescent, jesus christ, I believe they played season’s call but i’m not sure, made in heaven, Faith, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Hunting, Vampire depression, redrum, cosmos (i’m not sure, but I think they did), secret in my heart, Life on mars, and the best song they played that night… Sweet Dreams, it was SUCH a beautiful and powerful performance, I started crying in the middle of it, it was such a wonderful and magic moment, Hyde’s voice was amazing, all the instruments sounded sooo wonderful, it was a beautiful moment.
And, at the end of the concert, the cams went through the first row and let us say something to it, me and my friends said that we had came all the way from latinamerica just to see them. Hopefully, they’ll air it on the DVD *O*! We also tried to get the crew members to give us the roses from the mic stand and the remaining picks that were on the floor, but they only gave us a few petals, and they threw a rose, with I grabbed but then someone else took it from me, but that’s alright. I wish the band members would have thrown more stuff to the crowd.
Anyways, It was a very profesional and amazing concert, but I just wish Hyde would have put aside whatever his problem was.
But in the end, even though there were some bad things, I had a really rough week and everything, It was all an amazing experience for me, I met very cool and very nice people, even though Hyde wasn’t that into the crowd, the concert was still amazing, and I wouldn’t change this for anything, I’m very glad that I had this opportunity, and I think it’s a big step for the latinamerica fandom, I really hope they aknowledge us in the DVD, by putting shots with us in front and everything. I’m sure it’ll be a wonderful DVD, even if we’re not in it.
I’m just so very happy and glad for everything… now I just wish I can go to a Laruku concert, and then I’ll be able to die happy! xDDD.
Well, that’s my review, and my experience, I hope you guys enjoyed Reading it, i will post the pictures and videos from the line (since i couldn’t record anything inside the concert) as soon as I can. Love you all!!!
VAMPS FTW!


My God, Nao, what an experience you had!!! I'm glad all of the bad stuff worked itself out and you had a good concert experience. Good grief...that is just crazy what happened to you.
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(08-06-2009, 06:44 PM)cathb Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 06:05 PM)~Nao~ Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 05:22 PM)Billkwando Wrote:
(08-06-2009, 04:55 PM)~Nao~ Wrote: I have a very very very long experience and review of the concert, so, if you guys want to read it, i posted it on my livejournal and my facebook (facebook: nao takamui) Livejournal: http://chemical-ann.livejournal.com/ you have to add me though because it's friends only.
I would post it here but it's so long -_-!!! I don't want to stretch the page!
Take care! <3

Feel free to stretch the page. We can enjoy its stretchyness together.

>.>.... okay, it's REALLY long though, because a lot of things happened to me to be able to go see VAMPS live... >.<!! sorry for killing your eyes with how long it is!!!
here it goes...


On July 27th, I went to the airport in Caracas to get on my plane to Miami, I woke up at 3 AM and waited at the airport till 7:30 AM, which was when the plane finally took off (The flight was scheduled to 7:00 AM, but it got delayed). I arrived in Miami at around 12 M, and I had a flight connection to Dallas, TX at 1:10 PM, so you can imagine how nervous and stressed I was when I got to Miami, because I had to retrieve my luggage to check it in the other flight, but I spent 25 minutes waiting for my luggage, because they took their sweet time as usual (American Airlines is such a bad and slow airline, I wouldn’t recommend it for you), so basically… I ran as fast as I could to the check in area when I finally got my suitcase and guess what, the person at the counter told me that I couldn’t get on the plane because I had to have at the less 40 minutes before the flight, and I already had 35 so I couldn’t get on that plane, so yup I lost my connection and then the other flight that left for Dallas was scheduled for 3:30 PM, so I waited… and at 3:30 PM they told us that plane was also delayed, and the plane finally took off at 5 PM, I of course e-mailed the person who was supposed to wait for me in Dallas, that I would be getting there later than what I was supposed to… so, anyways, after I finally got to Dallas, after I retrieved my luggage… the person who was supposed to pick me up wasn’t anywhere in sight, I tried to keep my cool and waited about an hour, walking around the airport and outside trying to spot them, but, they never showed up, that’s when I panicked for sure, I called my mom and told her they hadn’t showed up, she was going crazy of course too, and told me to wait a bit longer and call the person and that if they didn’t show up, I should go to a hotel, so I did that, I waited for about 45 mins more, and called and e-mailed the person several times and their phone said it was out of service, and they never answerwed my E-mails.. then I just broke down, I started crying like a baby cuz come on! I was left alone in a foreign country, in a freaking airport I knew nothing about! Some women saw me and tried to help me, they borrowed me their cellphones so I could try to call the person that was supposed to pick me up, aswell as my mom, since my international calls card ran out of minutes and there was nowhere else around where I could buy another one, so a very nice lady that worked for American Airlines also tried to help me by looking up on the computer whether the person had really arrived into Dallas earlier (they were flying from another part of USA) and they did, the computer said they had been there for around 3 hours, supposedly, so I paged her (meaning I made the AA people call her on the speakerphone) 3 times and… nothing, the person never showed up at all… you can only imagine how desperate I felt and lonely, but after that I went to the Hyatt hotel at the airport, and I stayed there for 2 days, waiting to see if the person would try to contact me.. but they never did, I even tried to look for them several times again at the airport but I never saw them… I was so sad and pissed off because I was supposed to go to the San Diego concert and now I couldn’t, because I didn’t have a way to San Diego and I didn’t have my concert ticket either, since this person was the one who had all my concert tickets… I was so down, and hurt by that! But then, my family called me and told me that I should continue my trip on my own, that I went to the US only to be able to see VAMPS live and that I should do that, so i went to the airport and paid a 271$ fee to be able to change my plane ticket and date to get to Los Angeles, which is where the other concert was going to be held at, and I did just that, on the 29th I got on a plane to LA at 3:00 PM (TX time), and I got to LA at 5 PM (LA time) there’s 3 hours difference between Dallas and LA. Then I got on a shuttle at the airport and went to the Ramada Hotel, in LA, which was a block away from the concert hall (amazing, huh? *O*), that’s where I was going to stay. I was feeling better now, not being so hurt and trying to get over it to be able to enjoy my stay in LA, but the problem was… I didn’t have a ticket for that concert either, and I REALLY needed one to be able to go into the signing session, so I ran to the Wiltern Theater after dropping my bags at the hotel, and it was closed, so I asked the guards if there was anyway in which I could get tickets for the concert, they told me the ticket office at the theater only opened 4 hours prior to the concert, and I of course couldn’t wait that long because the concert was at 8 PM on august 1st, and the signing session was scheduled for 12:45 M that same day, so there was no way I could get the ticket at 4 PM that day! I needed to go to the signing! So I went back to the hotel and went into Livenation’s site (Livenation is the place that sells tickets for the wiltern) and I tried buying the ticket, but it wouldn’t let me because my credit card since it’s foreign, it has too long of an address and the site didn’t allow that… so you can imagine my frustration and hurt! I called Livenation and talked to one of the operators, they told me I couldn’t buy it thru the phone either because of the same problem with my credit card’s address T____T!!!
I was about to break down and give up, but I decided to go back to the wiltern and ask if there was any other place where I could get the tickets, they told me to try a ticketmaster office that was around town, I wrote down the address and went back to the hotel. On the next day, after waking up and having breakfast, I rushed to the bus stop and got on the bus that would take me to the place but the thing is… I missed my stop! (yeah, very smart from my part), so I was about to break down again, because I had no freaking idea where I was, but the bus driver noticed my desperation and stopped the bus and helped me into another bus which was going to take me to the place. I got on the bus and finally arrived into the place, it was a record store that sold ticketmaster tickets, and when I asked the person in charge, he told me they didn’t sell tickets for the Wiltern Theater, that only Livenation did…. *shoots self* yeah, it was horrible!!! I went back to the hotel and I only thought that I just wouldn’t make it to the signing session, maybe I could make it to the concert but deffinitely not the signing. So, to be able to clear my mind off a bit, I got on the subway and went to Universal City Studios (you know, the place where they film movies), I went into the park and everything, I had a really good time, then at 8 PM, I went on my way back on the subway to the hotel, and you see, the subway station was RIGHT in front of the Wiltern Theater, and when i walked out of the station, I noticed two girls sitting in front of the theater, and one of them was wearing a VAMPS shirt. I honestly felt like I had seen god, when I saw them, i ran over to them and was all “What are you guys doing here?!”, the girl with the VAMPS shirt answered “we’re already waiting in line for a concert”. I was all *O* “VAMPS concert?” she was all “YES! *o*” so I sat down with them and explained them my situation, that I came all the way from venezuela and I had gotten left at the airport and all that stuff and that now I just didn’t have a ticket to the concert! Then as soon as I said that, the other girl turned around and looked at me and she was all “Are you Nao?” i was all O.O “Yes, do I know you?” she was all “I’m hedelex!!” and I swear at that moment I felt sooo comfortable! I finally had found someone I knew! Hedelex is a girl from mexico who I have talked to online several times, she also cosplays as Hyde. She told me she had a spare ticket that she could give to me, so you can only imagine how glad I felt! They told me they would stay there till Saturday, and I told them I would do the same, so I rushed back to my hotel, took a shower, changed my clothes and ran back to the theater, then the three of us stayed there that night, there was a creepy guy with us who kept harrasing us, asking us about the band even though he didn’t like them, and he kept talking about Ghetto art or something cuz he’s from the ghetto and inviting us over to an event he was going to have in september and such, but he wouldn’t leave, and just kept on talking about that stuff, all close to us, even though we told him to go away and that we didn’t care about anything he had to say, then two other girls (Gabriela and Julia) appeared, they knew Thalia and Hedelex from the San Diego concert, so we all stayed there, with the creepy guy, then we had to go away so he would stop bothering us and he finally did. Then we went back and camped that night, with some other guy that was camping for the concert too, he was really nice, he let us use his blanket so we wouldn’t get so cold (LA is a very cold place at night, and we weren’t prepared for it, cuz we all had summer clothes). Then some other guy who was friends with this guy joined us, so the 7 of us stayed that night in front of the wiltern. We made a list, so we knew who was first, second, and so on, so no one would try to take our place, we even took ictures and videos of us camping so other people wouldn’t try to say that was a lie. Anyways, I got number 4, even though I really was the 3rd one in line, because Heather (the girl who’s in charge of the street team) had came by earlier and said she still had to finish the banner for the concert, so she would get there later.

The next day, Heather appeared and was ready to camp with us, with the banner which was really cool, I have pictures of it and I will show you all later, along with the rest of the pictures. More people showed up during the second day, and we camped through the whole day, while having to deal with people asking us what we were doing in there, and the guards from the wiltern trying to kick us out, drunk people, drug addicts, crazy people, all kind of things! It was exhausting and scary. That night we were completely exhausted so we took “shifts” to be able to split and sleep at least for a while, that way we wouldn’t be dead through the concert. Truth is, I didn’t sleep that much, but something was deffinitely better than nothing! Then we all were ready by 7 AM, dressed and waiting for the signing session. Oh! I almost forgot, the previous day, we had decided we should give them a special gift, so we went to the flower shop and got them a bunch of flowers for the Staff, and 5 sets of different colored roses, which all had 6 roses, one for each member, by the 6th of us (Hedelex, Thalia, Gabriela, Julia, Heather and me). We got White roses for Jin, purple roses for Arimatsu, Yellow roses for Ju-ken, Red roses for Hyde and Deep pink roses for KAZ (I’ll show you the pics later). So, the day of the concert we would pick up the flowers after the signing session.

We were surprised that no one at all from the Staff of VAMPS had walked by the line to see how it was going. We just spent 3 days in line, with no security at all and not knowing anything from the band or the staff. Anyways, we had to deal with a lot of problems and pressure because since we were first in line, and the ones in charge of the list, the day of the concert people were tired from waiting for so long, and everything, they would ask us about the band, how the signing session was going to be, or try to get us to fix the problem with other people trying to cut in line. It was very frustrating, we felt like we were in charge of the concert and the organization, when we weren’t, we were just fans!
Anyways, then Heather called –J (yes, she had his number, since she was helping with the organization and everything from the street team), at 8 AM, and he answered by asking her how come she was calling so early. Can you believe it? We had been in line for 3 days, and we had no idea how things were going to be that day, and he answers with that? 8 AM is an okay time, even more when the signing session was scheduled for 12:45! Either way, what was more frustrating is that he said he still didn’t know what was going to happen, they still didn’t know how they were going to handle everything for the signing session. *eye twitches* So really, we got so frustrated and sad and dissapointed, he’s the manager, if he doesn’t know anything, then WHO does?! Besides, he wasn’t the one who had to deal with angry fans, we were the ones who had to! Even when we were just fans! God… he’s unbelievable.

Then, around 11, Ai (the girl in charge of promoting VAMPS in the US and in charge of some of the organization) finally arrived, and talked to heather and everything. Then they handed little red staples tickets to us, which were the tickets to the signing session, and made us get in line in front of the entrance of the theater, which we did. We waited for a few minutes, and then they let us inside the Theater. I was freaking out because I had no VAMPS merchandise with me, since my friend who was supposed to pick me up was the one who had my CDs and everything, so I wasn’t sure if I was going to have time to buy anything for them to sign since they made it very clear that they would ONLY sign VAMPS merchandise, and NO pictures at all could be taken. (Oh, we also noticed that one of the staff guys HAD actually walked by the line the previous day, but he was dressed casually, and he had asked us what we were doing. It was cool.)
But inside, they were selling things, so I bought the album and a magazine, even though Heather had already given me an official postcard for them to sign in case I couldn’t buy anything. Then Ai told us that we could only have ONE item signed only (buuuh…), and that we had to have it ready and opened where we wanted them to sign it, so we wouldn’t waste any time.
So then... the magic moment happened, they walked inside the room we were in and sat at the table a couple of feet away from us. I was… I didn’t even know what to think! Hyde is… soo tiny and cute (and the worst is he deffinitely KNOWS it, cuz he acts like “ohh, i’m hot, and I know it, you saw me, you can die now”)! And KAZ looks VERY good in person! Like HONESTLY. Then they started letting people walk over to the table. I was third in line because Heather… I don’t know where Heather was really, I think she was outside still talking to some of the staff and everything. When my turn arrived, one of the staff members took the magazine from me and put it on the table in front of KAZ. I looked at him and was all “Hiii how are you??? We’ve been in line since Wednesday!” he signed the magazine and looked up at me and said “Oh really?” (he trully looked kind of amazed at what I told him), I was all “yes, really!” and he was all “O.O wow… that’s cool”, I was all “yes, it is. This is for you” and I handed him the gift I had made for him and Hyde, which was a folder and some drawings and a letter. He took it and looked it over and was all “ohh... thank you!!” and opened it and then closed it and gave me his hand to shake it. I shook his hand and was all “It’s for both of you, you and Hyde” and he smiled and nodded. Then the staff member gave the magazine to Hyde. Hyde didn’t really look up at me, he just signed the magazine, and I was all “thank you!!!” to him because I honestly froze… I didn’t know what to say to him! And I didn’t have much time either, because my friend Hedelex had taken quite a bit of time with Hyde, giving him stuff, so I had to hurry, and it really sucked that he didn’t look up at me, I honestly couldn’t look at his face up close T___T, but i practically thrusted my hand in his face and he quickly bowed his head and shook my hand, and then I bowed too, grabbed my magazine and walked out. The signing with KAZ was really cool, he’s a very nice guy, and Hyde… well, it was cool too, he has tiny hands and they’re so soft *O* and pokeable!!!!! I loved it, I just wish he had looked up a bit more, so I could have seen his face up close, I mean I’ve waited years for that moment… but oh well, it was still totally worth it!. Signing sessions go by too quick T___T!!! It’s not really that “personal” I guess it has to be that way though, since there was a lot of people in line.

Then we went outside the venue again, and got in line again how we were earlier, and started freaking out about everything xDDD. Then we went to the flower store and retrieved the flowers. We went back to the line, and talked to Ai, to give the flowers to them, she didn’t let us give them personally but she grabbed all the flowers and said she would give it to them and walked inside. She also said she had really liked that we had gotten flowers for the Staff. <333! Also, the 6th of us wrote in every card in every bunch of flowers, I hope they all liked what we wrote and did.
Oh, and we had taken a picture with the bunch of flowers, then we went to develope it, and wrote our names on each one of us on the picture, and when the concert was about to start, when we were waiting in line to go inside, -J walked outside to look at how things were, and we gave the picture to him, he said it was a very cool gift and that he would deffinitely give it to them. =D! So, yeah, we got a bunch of gifts for them, I hope they all liked them!
Ahh, and there were two crew members, with a video camera, they were recording the line, supposedly for a japanese live show, and they interviewed us, they asked us why we were there, what our fave song was, why we liked the band and all that kind of stuff, they also asked us to sing a song, and we sang Sex Blood Rock ‘n’ Roll. I hope we can find the clip later in Youtube! *O*

Then… it was concert time! I was scared because I really wanted to buy a shirt (they didn’t have them in store at the signing, they said they would have them by the concert time, though), but I was afraid that if it took me too long to buy the shirt, I would lose my spot in the front row! But I was fourth in line that time (yes, Heather was in there now), so I was hoping It wouldn’t take me too long to buy a shirt. Then, the guards opened the doors and let us inside, we all ran inside (thoug they told us not to run), they checked our tickets and I walked fast to the store, i got my shirt and a shirt for Hedelex and Thalia, then I ran to the concert room, and thankfully there weren’t many people in the pit when I got there, they re-checked our tickets inside and put a wrist band ticket thing to all of us who were in the pit, then I finally made my way through the front where Hedelex and Thalia were, and had to fight an asian girl to get in my spot, but I finally managed, so the 3 of us were RIGHT in front of the mic stand, in the middle of everything!! <3! And we stayed that way, Hedelex and I hung our flags from the barricade. I had the Venezuelan flag obviously and she had a small Mexico flag, which we hung with mine. It was so cool! We were hoping they would film it or take pictures of it. It was funny cuz the concert was in USA, but Hedelex, Thalia, Gabriela, Julia, Myrtha (a peruvian girl) and me, were all from Center/Latin-America or they had parents who were! So it was like... Latino powah!!! In the front row! It deffinitely was a HUGE success for us.

We waited for a while, while looking at a screen that was on stage, where people could send a text to the theater, and they would air your text on the screen, we had fun with that, people sent some very funny ones.
Then, they took the screen away, and it started, the opening band which is a band from LA called The Exies, started playing, and to tell you the truth, they aren’t bad at all, I liked a couple of their songs. (I will post a pic of them too, later). They played around 4 or 5 songs, and we could see Ju-ken hanging by one of the side entrances to the stage, having lots of fun with the band, he danced, headbanged and sang along them! It was really cool to watch.

When the Exies finished their performance, the staff from VAMPS changed everything around the stage, getting ready for VAMPS to play, we waited a couple of minutes, then VAMPS finally walked on stage, and of course everybody went crazy, screaming at the top of our lungs!! They all looked very amazingly beautiful and professional!

I sadly don’t remember what the first song they played was, my mind is sort of confused right now. But I do know that they played everything amazingly good! They were very professional about it, but they didn’t have that much of a “connection” with the crowd, I’m guessing it’s because they were deffinitely aware that they were getting filmed, for the DVD, and they wanted everything to go by in a very professional matter. Hyde’s voice was amazing, and Jin’s, Ju-ken’s, Arimatsu’s and KAZ’s playing was beyond any words… they really played amazingly well!. During Sex Blood rock ‘n’ Roll people went insane, you could really feel the energy pumping through every body in the room, aswell as when they played Trouble. Everybody went crazy, jumping screaming, headbanging. I was about to suffocate during those songs, but I just had to keep going. The staff had earlier promised they would give us water whenever we wanted, but sadly I never got a single bottle, they only gave water to a few people in the corners of the pit.

To tell you the truth, everything was amazing and very professional… but in my opinion, there was something odd going on with Hyde, he seemed… like he was playing but he wasn’t really there, he had no connection with the crowd whatsoever, he even looked upset at some point, or frustrated or something, I can’t put my finger on it. He sang amazingly, but he had no “feeling” towards the crowd, he didn’t let us touch him, he did spit over us but it was a very small spit (though I got some of it on me! *O*), He only threw one bottle of water, and he just... he just looked like he was acting, the things he did he seemed to do them because he was very aware of the camera, as if he was acting through the whole show, his movements were exaggerated. I’m not the only one who got this impression, my friends did too. There deffinitely was something wrong going on. Also, the show ended TOO fast, I’m not sure how long it lasted but it felt EXTREMELY short. There was a point where they left and it was like they trully weren’t going to come back, like that was the end of the gig, but we screamed and started doing the “hi ho let’s hunt” thing, asking “Where’s my VAMPS??” “Where’s my Hyde??” Where’s my Jin???” and such, aswell as clapping and screaming “Ancole!!! (Encore)” then after what felt like a while, they finally walked back on stage, and Hyde looked frustrated, though he laughed because we kept screaming and screaming, and didn’t let him talk, it was like he didn’t really know what to say to the crowd’s reaction. But, he read from the screen on the floor a few words in english (He didn’t really talk much during the whole show, and when he did it felt like he didn’t really mean it), maybe he was too tired, I wouldn’t know. Either way, I can’t exactly remember what his exact words were, but he said something like “Thank you very much, honestly. You really love us? (or me, i’m not sure which he said)” we all screamed “YEAHHHHH!!” but he asked as if he didn’t really believe us, he asked the same a couple of times, but he looked like “mehh…” like he didn’t wanna be there or something. Anyways, after his Little weird talk, he said they would play Trouble and I gotta kick start now and that it would be it cuz they had to go back or something, both songs were amazing, then at the end, he grabbed one of the roses from his mic stand and intended to throw it to the crowd but he didn’t throw it out of the stage xDDD (he throws like a girl) and it fell apart, the petals all fell apart, but since we were in the front row we were able to grab some of the petals, I got two *O*!!! (I’ll show you later). Then he pretty much stomped out of stage, and a friend of mine saw when one of the crew members made a “Cut” sign to some other crew members, and then after Ju-ken and KAZ threw some picks and everything, they quickly started tearing the stage down. We were all like O.o, it was sooo fast! All the songs they played were amazingly good, but I just… I don’t understand what was up with Hyde, honestly Ju-ken and KAZ were trying to entertain the crowd by humping their guitars/bass, dancing, moving, smiling and getting close to the people, because Hyde just wouldn’t. Poor things… who knows what was going on =/.
I don’t remember all the songs they played, but they played sex blood rock ‘n’ roll, trouble, i gotta kick start now, evanescent, jesus christ, I believe they played season’s call but i’m not sure, made in heaven, Faith, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Hunting, Vampire depression, redrum, cosmos (i’m not sure, but I think they did), secret in my heart, Life on mars, and the best song they played that night… Sweet Dreams, it was SUCH a beautiful and powerful performance, I started crying in the middle of it, it was such a wonderful and magic moment, Hyde’s voice was amazing, all the instruments sounded sooo wonderful, it was a beautiful moment.
And, at the end of the concert, the cams went through the first row and let us say something to it, me and my friends said that we had came all the way from latinamerica just to see them. Hopefully, they’ll air it on the DVD *O*! We also tried to get the crew members to give us the roses from the mic stand and the remaining picks that were on the floor, but they only gave us a few petals, and they threw a rose, with I grabbed but then someone else took it from me, but that’s alright. I wish the band members would have thrown more stuff to the crowd.
Anyways, It was a very profesional and amazing concert, but I just wish Hyde would have put aside whatever his problem was.
But in the end, even though there were some bad things, I had a really rough week and everything, It was all an amazing experience for me, I met very cool and very nice people, even though Hyde wasn’t that into the crowd, the concert was still amazing, and I wouldn’t change this for anything, I’m very glad that I had this opportunity, and I think it’s a big step for the latinamerica fandom, I really hope they aknowledge us in the DVD, by putting shots with us in front and everything. I’m sure it’ll be a wonderful DVD, even if we’re not in it.
I’m just so very happy and glad for everything… now I just wish I can go to a Laruku concert, and then I’ll be able to die happy! xDDD.
Well, that’s my review, and my experience, I hope you guys enjoyed Reading it, i will post the pictures and videos from the line (since i couldn’t record anything inside the concert) as soon as I can. Love you all!!!
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My God, Nao, what an experience you had!!! I'm glad all of the bad stuff worked itself out and you had a good concert experience. Good grief...that is just crazy what happened to you.


I know -_-!!! i'm so glad things came out right at the end!!!!
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Hey!!!! I found this site. Do you think the stuff is true?!?!?!?!?

http://asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiversi...76361.html


Here's the original siteL

http://www.geocities.com/hyde_angeltale/bio.html
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(08-06-2009, 10:41 PM)ssynny Wrote: Hey!!!! I found this site. Do you think the stuff is true?!?!?!?!?

http://asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiversi...76361.html


Here's the original siteL

http://www.geocities.com/hyde_angeltale/bio.html

Well, the saxophone part is definitely a lie.
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(08-06-2009, 10:41 PM)ssynny Wrote: Hey!!!! I found this site. Do you think the stuff is true?!?!?!?!?

http://asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiversi...76361.html


Here's the original siteL

http://www.geocities.com/hyde_angeltale/bio.html

Well, the saxophone part is definitely a lie.

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(08-06-2009, 05:27 PM)iceybabes Wrote: I had absolutely no problems hearing anything. It was actually the ONLY show I could hear Hyde clearly through the distortion of the guitar/bass. I know it wasn't that loud but then again it wasn't QUIET either. No my ears weren't ringing like in San Fran but I still had a blast none the less. I thought the sound was just fine personally. I still say it was for the filming of the show. Because if you noticed Exies sound was REALLY loud where as VAMPS was not as loud. *shrugs* I have no complaints about it. I'm just grateful I got to see VAMPS.


I was thinking about you last night, after a funny thought came to me. When somebody dresses up like Hyde, it's cosplay......but if somebody dressed up like KAZ, it would be KAZplay!

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You know....I am going to miss you when people stop posting here. Icon_biggrin

I'm going to take that as a compliment, cos.....well, there's no other way to take it! Icon_blaugh

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