I try to post at least once a month, I would like to do more, but my job my son and my laziness contribute to barely doing the minimum. Oh well, here is good post for all you old school hardcore lovers out there. So I have been meaning to put these videos up for a long time. Gorilla Biscuits rolled through Tokyo in December. So I got some video shot. The problem is my camera I shoot with is a digital DSLR camera (no I don’t have a camcorder, at least not a good one) so the compression is really horrible. The video looks great, just as good as any camcorder. The problem is for a 2 minute video that has the bad lighting and movement hardcore shows have, the compression is like 220 MB!! The video looks good the camera and on my pc, but when I try to compress the video and upload it, it just looks too blocky and distracting. I hate taking away quality from the video. I don’t know how this is going to work out, but I have no choice. I will give you a couple of videos from the show. But I can’t promise good quality (chances are it is going to look like shit) so I am sorry for the shitty videos. I have done the best I can.
Anyways, the show its self was insane. If anyone has ever been to Anti-Knock than you would know how smallof a venue it is. There was like 200 (or close to it) people jammed pack in this tiny room. It was wall to wall of people. Right from the start you could tell the excitement of the crowd. Little anxietylingered in the air, for this would be Gorilla Biscuits last show in Japan, and it was time to get the party started. CokeHead Hipsters opened for Gorilla Biscuits, this was familiarterritory for both bands. The crowd recieved CokeHead Hipsters pretty well. This was the first time I hada chance to see them. They were a fast reggaey, old school punk hardcore outfit. As you watched the band play you could tell they enjoyed what they were doing. There was a couple of sing-a-long parts and some of the crowd was really into it. And almost as soon as they started, they finished. At this time I thought there was alot of people packed in this tiny venue already. I was wrong. The crowd total almost doubled and at times it felt like it was hard to breath. Before GB came on I met a dude from San Fransisco who was in Tokyo to teach english (usually the case), I met another kid from New York who had a buddy living in Japan and decided to just to change his path in life and found him self there that night. I also saw my good friend Kengo, the lead singer from As We Let Go. As GB was getting ready to start I got stuck between two fat bitches. Two real sumo looking females. Maybe that was why it felt like it was hard to breath, they were sucking all my oxygen. As the horns started and the lights dimmed the kid from New York wondered if the crowd would go crazy or not (it was his first time at a show in Tokyo). I reassured him that Tokyo always shows its guests a good time. And a good time it was. It didn’t take long for the kid from New York to realize that hardcore is truly uniting, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world, if you are at a hardcore show, everybody understands. And from there the rest was a blurr it was over as fast as it started. At least I got some video, being only 23 and having the chance to see Gorilla Biscuits, was truly amazing. I will probably never have another opportunity like this again, well anyways, check out the vids.
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