YouTube coughed up an HD rip of this, so… the unstoppable showbiz verve
of Judy and Mary. Sort of J-rock's challenge to Liza Minelli.
You can forget most of the songs in 5 minutes, but not the way they were done.
This is the encore of the amazing final concert of Judy and Mary's amazing
career, on the 100-meter stage of the Tokyo Dome in March 2001.
Song from about 03:40.
JUDY & MARY WARP TOUR FINAL 〜part 19(Last)〜Over Drive〜ED〜2016 SEP 24 by
梅星一家 (15:40)
Over DriveYuki points and orders, "To the very last Takuya, do it——" to get him to
kick off the last song they'll ever play live, so he barks out, "To the very last,
this is it, let's go!!" and they put a cap on nine years.
This clip is from the Sony/Epic DVD documentary of same. The last six minutes
is credits, rolling on top of nobody wanting the show or the band to be over.
Except for the questionable teddy bears, you wouldn't recognize them as the
Goth-Loli punk outfit they were to start, but you can see how much of a rocket
engine this group put underneath singer Yuki Isoya.
They all had side projects, but none of them was going find another combination
like this.
When you're that huge, you're kind of stuck standing in your own shadow, which
is a hard way to feel as an artist. But also, the boys were all in the shadow of a
half-pint firecracker with hobbit feet, and two of them wanted to be Real Rock Stars.
They'd go on hiatus about every other year, and finally founder and bass player
Yoshihito Onda insisted they make it permanent. Basically drop-kicking the kind
of success other people are afraid to dream about.
I think I read that at some point they had sold over 14.5 million units. As the story
goes, J.A.M was supposed to be a one-shot, one-album indie project of Onda's,
based mainly on his impression of Yuki at a chance meeting on the set of a movie
neither of them had a role in.
This double-disk concert is in nineteen parts, just 18 more to go.
Part One doesn't come to a boil until 11 minutes in.
youtu.be/CtQ-5Nf1vMo 1. OPENING〜PEACE〜Strings Vr./Inst
2. Rainbow Devils Land〜WARP
3. Brand New Wave Upper Ground
