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feeling: sleepy
listening to: Miyavi - Freedom Fighters
Haha. Seriously? Four months? Does anyone even bother looking at this blog anymore? :P
This might end up becoming nothing more than a rant dump for my con/band experiences... last time I posted here was to squee about Nekocon, and now here I am again coming fresh off the roller coaster that was Tekkoshocon.
So we brought lix over. Awesomeness. Still wish I could have met the original members... but I wouldn't have traded what we did get for that. And that was pretty much all for one reason: Mst. Yeah, the new vocalist Chihiro is nice and sweet and awesome, and Sho is possibly the most adorable giant I've ever met (DROID. *dies*), not to mention he was part of the original LIX. lineup...
But Mst was the original bassist of Suicide Ali back in 2005-2007, so I knew him in name only for six years when I found out he'd be coming here as the support bassist for lix... and it's pretty much a given that anyone who's ever been connected with Suicide Ali is going to be one of the most awesome people in the world :P, so I was psyched to finally meet him. I was also kinda nervous though, because all I had to go by were his blogs, which kind of gave me the impression of a really... weird, eccentric, aloof, self-centered kinda guy. Didn't help that he was the only SA member whose blog entries were TOTALLY over my head and I couldn't manage to translate a single entry for the fansite Morrigan used to run. >_>
Then I actually met him, and within hours he actually approached me himself and said "By the way, I know you! :>" and that he remembered me as Suicide Ali staff back when he was a member, and reached out to shake my hand and everything. He did the same thing to Tiffany when he met her later on. Wow. :D But yeah, from that first introduction onward he came to me for EVERYTHING. Even when I had been appointed to go walk a couple blocks over to McDonald's one morning to pick up everyone's breakfast orders, he volunteered himself and Sho to go with me so I wouldn't have to go wandering all over downtown alone. Awww. <3 And when he had the option of whose car to ride in, who to follow, who to sit with, who to ask questions/favors, etc... it was always me and, if she was there, Tiffany. He totally took to us right from the start. ^__^
I mean, I had expected him to be just kind of along for the ride since he was just there as a support member, but as we bonded over the weekend (lol) I found out that he's actually VERY professional and serious about his musical career, and gained a lot of respect for him. He even reminded me a little of The Sound Bee HD's Daisuke by the end of the weekend (which is saying something since Daisuke kind of became my new musical hero after Nekocon) - both so talented and professional and focused, so friendly and sort of father-like in the way they look out for their bandmates and buddies, so in love with music that they both can't help bopping and dancing all over the place whenever it's playing... yet both so tiny. XD (...I can't help being drawn to super-charismatic super-awesome band leaders who happen to be shorter than me, ok? *shot)
Oh, and yeah, Mst is a band leader too. Kinda. He's been working on his own solo project for a few years now, and just recently he found some permanent members and got things together enough to start conducting activities in a band-like format. It's called Shiki. Wonder if he has any plans to sign them on with Starwave Records... >_> <_<...
So anyway. Tekkoshocon this year was... physically a lot better for me than last year, largely because 1) we had one band to look after instead of two, 2) our schedules were nicely and neatly laid out so we always knew where we had to be and when with no sudden surprises, and 3) I actually managed to EAT this year. Seriously, there was one day at Tekko last year when I ate nothing more than, like, four pieces of sushi and a cookie in a 24-hour period... and the other days weren't much better. A potato chip here, a half-sandwich there. But this year I actually ate meals, if small ones. Made a huge difference.
Still, there was a lot of drama behind the scenes. A LOT of drama. For weeks before the con, continuing during the con, and still carrying on two weeks after the con. Some things have me worried that I and certain band members won't ever be able to look back on the con in an entirely positive light again... some of us I know will always remember it as the worst weekend ever. I sort of ended up stuck between both worlds... but the one factor that tipped the scales toward the positive side for me was Mst. He was just absolutely sweet and amazing throughout the con, and for a long time afterward he still couldn't stop talking on his blog about what a great time he had here, how grateful he was, how much he loved everyone, etc etc. All the guys were great, but he was the one who really made it rewarding.
And it's still kind of weird in an awesome way to think that we had known each other in name only for six years, and then we finally met for the first time and just totally bonded like that. He said the same thing on his blog too, lol. Can't help smiling every time I think about how that worked out. :D
...This is why I love what I do. Despite all the stress and drama and lack of financial reward, I get to meet some of the absolute coolest people in the world. Not to mention front row access to their concerts. lix's concerts, by the way, were PERFECT. Technically speaking, possibly the best and most flawless we've ever sponsored. <3
Ok, I guess I've gotten the blogging bug out of my system for the next... few months or whatever, lol. Though, if things go the way I'm hoping, there might be some exciting new things on the horizon to talk about by early summer or so... we shall have to see...
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 4/17/2011 11:39:00 PM
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