Gacharic Spin - Lonely Mart; its realy amazing Angie's Voice

Angie's stage presence is fantastic!

Frank Zappa would have loved them.

Been hoping you'd get back to checking out some more Gacharic Spin! Thanks again for another great breakdown! To add to your point about the secret of live performances, another thing that gets done by many bands in post-processing of live footage nowadays is tidying up the drums; snares, kicks and toms are often re-sampled and quantised. Also guitars get re-amped, vocals get pitch corrected, etc. I'm not keen on such practices myself. I understand it, for the reasons you stated, but I may be in the minority but I'll value honesty and genuine human moments, that yes can include imperfections, over what I consider to be fake representations of performances. Gacharic Spin however are always very honest with their live footage, which I really love. Especially as a band who are known for being such excellent musicians you might well imagine them getting nervous about ever showing any imperfections. That they are happy to put out raw audio and it's at the same quality as bands who've done a lot of cleaning up after the fact speaks volumes about their skills. For example, Gacharic Spin haven't been shy about including performances on DVD's that aren't perfect. On their Sekira Liar tour DVD they include in the DVD the beginning of the track "Boku Dake no Cinderella" where Hana had been handed a completely out-of-tune guitar by the roadie (this was when she was still mostly a drummer so didn't have a full guitar set-up on stage, she just came out from behind the drums and had a guitar handed to her) so the beginning sounds absolutely catastrophic when she comes in and the DVD includes close up of her reaction face to realising her guitar is out of tune and trying to tune it up as the song carrys on. When the rest of the band realises they stop the song, a roadie runs on to take the guitar off to tune it up whilst the band has a laugh and banters about it, the guitar gets returned, and they start the song over and nail it perfectly. It'd have been so easy to cut all that out of the DVD but they included it. As another example in their 10th Anniversary Blu-Ray whilst singing "Takaramono" - a song of gratitude to the fans for the wonderful moments performing music creates together, Hana was getting seriously emotional whilst singing it and is all over the place pitch wise because her voice is cracking really bad. They included it as is, perhaps if analysed in a vacuum it was not a good vocal performance, but it was a genuine, heartfelt and beautiful moment. For their 7th Anniversary DVD both Hana and Oreo who were main vocalists at the time had cold's so they aren't as perfect as they normally are, but they still put in passionate and powerful performances, even battling through illness. The only time I recall them cutting stuff from DVD's due to issues was for a single song at their 8th Anniversary show where Oreo who sings lead on it was having major mic issues, to the point she had to abandon her keyboard and malfunctioning mic halfway through the song and go to one of the other mics on the stage to finish the song. I remember being so impressed at how well they handled such a major technical issue when I was sat in the audience and wondering if they would include it in the DVD they had said they were filming that night. They didn't which I understand because the vocal audio from the first half was ruined, but I kind of would have loved them to have included it anyway because I thought it was such a great moment you could show others of how to deal with technical issues in a live performance and keep going without getting flustered. One final point, the audience are subdued in this clip, but that's because we had to be! There have been strict rules about how people can behave at concerts to allow them to be started up post-pandemic, no shouting or singing, keeping distance, etc. It is finally being relaxed now fortunately! Thank you again and sorry to have written so much!

Great reaction, I just can't get enough of this band! They're really doing something special, and having so much fun whilst doing it.

Yep - postprocessed live performances - authenticity, rawness and leaving mistakes in vs. better sound quality and mistake free experience. The audience was pretty tame in this one because of covid-protocol (no singing, no jumping, dancing etc). Usually GS-crowds try to match the energy of the band. Thx for your analytical review of this performance. Well done and cheers :)

It's a shame you don't have more views / likes / comments for this reaction. Love your thoughts on them as usual. Will tell all the other hats I know to come watch!

Just so good live!👍🏻

Thanks again Primal. Great reaction. You always enhance the listening.

That's a crowd restricted under Covid 19-rules (not allowed to move, scream/shout), it usually is pretty different! :)

Really liked your analysis of live videos at the end. Gacharic Spin's do seem to do next to zero post-processing, which is laudable. In that case though, including more venue sound (including crowd noise when crowds are allowed to make noise) in the mix would be good. Anyway I find myself always coming back to them even though a lot of what they do is not "my kind of music". I don't especially like funk and I definitely don't like dance, but somehow their energy, creativity, and musicianship overcomes all of that.

Great reaction. Gacharic Spin are pretty amazing. Hope to see Galneryus and Lovebites again your channel as well.

Now you can watch a live version of I wish I from the same concert. I also recommend the Garcharic Spin 1st Anniversary concert video. Armmy is amazing.

Angie is fire!

I once randomly met Kevin Dubrow, formerly of Quiet Riot, and talked with him for a few minutes. He said that the reason why Quiet Riot hadn't released a live album at that point was because so many live albums were re-recorded and he didn't want to do that as he felt it was, in his words, "total bullshit."

you should react to Doll$Boxx too. It's Gacharic Spin (the same members with Fuki, another vocalist) but a bit heavier, less funky and more metal.

When Gene Simmons was asked how live Kiss Alive was, he said, “live enough.”

The crowd in this one was very tame. However. There was a time when it wasn't that way. Here's one of their older live vids. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nL2ArLuL38u6Y40.html With line up number 2

Good analysis. This line-up of GS has definitely been using less backing tracks and doing far less post-production on their live recordings. While it does give a more honest representation, showing their true abilities, it can come at a cost of sucking some of the energy out of the performance. There's the double whammy here because the audience were restricted too. There was quite a quick turnaround between recording and releasing this live version, which may also play a part. As listeners we can compensate a bit by cranking the volume, although I don't have a full venue PA to play with. You'll find the jazz influence lurking in a lot of Japanese music, so if that's your bag you'll find a lot to enjoy.

White Hot Shishido Peppers!

anda harus melihat 'i wish i' live version🙂