０９/１６/０６ - Chicken Katsu Records 13th Annual Party @ 7th Heaven, Okinawa City, Okinawa
VIOLET FIELDS
UCHU NEKO
SELFISH GENE
ONE HUNDRED BLUE
OSTOOANDELL
(Disaster カオス)
artwork by Louie (copyright 2002 SP Productions)
２００６年９月１６日 - チキンカツレコード１３周年記念パーティ @ 沖縄県沖縄市 ７th Heaven
posted by Beerbug @ 1:56 AM
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13 years - well I guess it's true that the #13 is an unlucky number. Now I've not had the worst year but unlucky - yeah... I can't deny that. Yes, I was out of control and did take things to the extreme but I just had enough of all the bullshit! Now, I'm not all in the right but I'm not all in the wrong. Bullshit is bullshit and there's too much of it in the current Okinawan music industry. Unfortunately most of the people who are pulling the strings happen to be ignorant of music in itself and/or they really don't care and/or they're just looking to make a name for themselves and/or they just want to cash in and/or all of the above. Most of these people are not even in bands nor do they even play a musical instrument, in fact they're probably not that crazy about music in the first place. BUT they seem to be the biggest cock rockin' "I'm the shit!" droppin' attitude displaying persons that I've ever had to talk to and this is worse than some of the booking assholes out there in Chicago! First off Chicken Katsu Records does not play minor league ball and the bands associated with CKR are not second string players. If the venue's owner's band cancels then so be it, that does not mean that our anniversary party becomes less important and that the bands and the paying customers are less important. Why should Chicken Katsu Records 13th Annual Party have to close down even earlier than the time that the booking guy's already been harrassing me about for the past hour? You know 3 days before the event this so called booking guy displayed quite the mighty tough guy attitude when holding down the fort to the entrance for the GARGOYLE show. Was he trying to make an example of me? Here I am someone who actually orders from the fuckin' bar, I may run a tab but I always pay it up and I usually drop about 4000 - 5000 yen a night when I go there. I do it to show my support since the owner is an old friend of mine, honestly most of the time I don't really care for the music that's being played there but I believe it's important to show your support. All the while, motherfuckers run downstairs and buy drinks from the outside vending machines. Get this, they don't even sneak around, they drink it right in the bar like as if they were at home or something. Now the people who actually do order drinks from the bar get treated like they're just out of rehab or some shit... How many have you had? You can have one more. Don't you have a kid? You should be at home with him. etc. Why am I being questioned? Shit, I'm here to drink! I answer questions all day at work. Anyways, that night I just wanted to see if the GARGOYLE drummer managed to encourage Hiroto and Mashi to come down (they play together in THE CROMAGNONS)
Now this booking guy does have the right to have beef with me since there was a time when it seemed like I might take over his job and his so called radio show. This is the same booking guy that cops an attitude with me and tells me to be at the radio interview at exactly 10:55AM and so I show up on time. Then the DJ asks me where the booking guy is, I just took an early lunch break from work so I have no idea where he is. Anyways we wait around and finally the DJ calls the booking guy and what'd you know he's home sleeping! This is the same booking guy that tells me "chanto yatte" (do it right) in regards to my label and putting together shows. Note, he has no idea what we're all about, if he were to do a little research then he'd know that we're influenced by THE DAMNED, THE REPLACEMENTS, LIPCREAM, MUDHONEY and of course the golden days of Champs - now what do these all have in common - BOOZE! yes, we like to drink! It's natural to us. Thank God I didn't get his job but I should've known better and dropping my guard was a bad mistake.
Now I do regret getting into a confrontation with the bartender. He is a good guy but I think he's actually too good a guy for his occupation. A bartender should give advice to people but they should not come across as preaching to people. He comes across as preaching, now I know he's just trying to look out for people. This is where I got fucked up, jumped the gun and pretty much lost my mind. I am sorry about this part and the chaos that followed. But I like to drink and when I decide I'm gonna drink that's exactly what I'm gonna do. I don't want someone telling me how many I've had, should have, or even going further and telling me how many I'm allowed to have. Also the bands on Chicken Katsu Records have played many places - Minneapolis, Chicago, etc. and yes there's been some bartenders that have said "You've had quite a few are you guys gonna be able to play?" and of course the band's too drunk to play. That's that! At the end of the night the bartender laughs and says "Hey, maybe next time". BUT the bartender at 7th Heaven takes it too personal like the persons from the band are disrespecting him by getting too drunk to play. Which is not true at all, it's as simple as simple can be. Somebody got too drunk and they can't play and That's That! No need for anyone to be getting offended. My apologies to the owner of said bar and well that's about all I can say.
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