[s�duisant]

I don't think I saw a thread for this tour yet so thought I'd make one. If there's already one, MODs please delete this. ^^

Anyone going?

So what do you guys think of Jrock bands touring with American bands? My first experience was seeing Dir en grey in Family Values Tour and a lot of American fans were being total jerks. I hope it'll be much better for MUCC and DespairsRay.

BANDS:
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
ATREYU
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
BLESSTHEFALL
IDIOT PILOT
MUCC
DESPAIRSRAY
THE UNDERNEATH
...& more

Dates:
DATE CITY VENUE
2/29 Denver, CO Fillmore
3/1 Kansas City, MO Memorial Hall
3/2 Milwaukee, WI The Eagles Ballroom
3/4 Minneapolis, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium
3/5 St. Louis, MO Family Arena
3/7 Dayton, OH Hara Arena
3/8 Detroit, MI Cobo Arena
3/10 Rochester, NY Armory
3/11 Chicago, IL Aragon
3/14 Philadelphia, PA Tweeter Center
3/15 Asbury Park, NJ Convention Center
3/17 Washington, DC Patriot Center
3/18 Portland, ME Cumberland County Civic Center
3/20 Nassau, NY Nassau Coliseum
3/21 Boston, MA Tsongas Arena
3/22 Albany, NY Armory
3/24 Atlanta, GA Gwinnett Center
3/25 Tampa, FL USF Sundome
3/26 Miami, FL Bayfront Park
3/28 Orlando, FL UCF Arena
3/29 Biloxi, MS Mississippi Coast Coliseum
4/1 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre
4/3 Oklahoma City, OK Fairgrounds Arena
4/4 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheatr
4/5 San Antonio, TX Freeman Coliseum
4/6 El Paso, TX County Coliseum
4/9 Phoenix, AZ Jobing.com / Glendale Arena
4/10 Long Beach, CA Long Beach Arena
4/12 San Jose, CA Event Center
4/13 Sacramento, CA ARCO Arena
4/15 Seattle, WA WaMu Center

[Malice_Kaiser]

I would like to see Despairs Ray and maybe a few others, but I don't feel like having to sit through all the other bands just for one or two decent ones. :/
Yes, I'm cynical, I know. ^^;;


I don't have too much of an opinion on Jrockers touring with Americans. I mean, I'm sure the bands are thrilled they're getting recognition overseas, I guess.
I got to see Dir en Grey in America too, but not with Family Values. I wonder how were other American fans being jerks? I'm honestly not surprised (people are retarded) but now I'm curious.

[broken.wings]

I'm going to go to this. I want to see Despairs Ray the most out of all the bands. I don't really have an opinion about Jrock bands touring with American bands. But they're getting exposure to potential new listeners at least.

[burntvinyl]

theyre going to post canadian dates at the end of january (apparently.) i really want to go. i really want to see blessthefall<3
and the jrockers going with the american bands.. i dont know how the audience would react. i wouldnt mind it, but there are a lot of doosh bags out durh.

[Michelleys]

I really want to go to this! But Iono if I'll be able to go because my friend was like she'll go depending on the price. And it's $32.50. So maybe I guess. I also want to go to the Blood concert.
MUCC & DESPAIRSRAY are the ones I wnat to see the most. ><

[s�duisant]

I would like to see Despairs Ray and maybe a few others, but I don't feel like having to sit through all the other bands just for one or two decent ones. :/
Yes, I'm cynical, I know. ^^;;


I don't have too much of an opinion on Jrockers touring with Americans. I mean, I'm sure the bands are thrilled they're getting recognition overseas, I guess.
I got to see Dir en Grey in America too, but not with Family Values. I wonder how were other American fans being jerks? I'm honestly not surprised (people are retarded) but now I'm curious.

I'm probably going to leave after MUCC and D'espairsRay perform since honestly, most of the other band don't appeal to me and I'm not hardcore METAL/SCREAMO fan. But yeah, not everyone was a jerk and tried to give them a listen but some totally just came out and was like "AREN'T THEY JAPANESE. WHY ARE THEY HERE. WTF. THAT GUY LOOKS GAY. etc." and totally didn't give Dir en grey a chance at all. Either that or they were laughing about them which I also found pretty rude. :/

[evelyn168]

I'm desperately waiting for the Canadian tour dates.... I'm not going to miss out on the japanese bands...

[Antz]

i reckon it's pretty awesome they're touring with american bands. i love it. XD
i wonder if TOC'll come to perth again.

[usedtobelieve]

Oh man. Taste of Chaos was freakin' awesome. I went on the 5th. It was literally the best day of my life.
mucc, D'espairsRay, and The Underneath (<--definitely worth watching) were alllll so great. Their performances owned.
The meet and greets were the best parts though. All three jrock bands signed my phone and my posters, and I got a couple of hugs.
And they took pictures with us. :]]

[Addy]

The 15th lands on what day? If its on a weekend I WOULD SOO GO!!! If not.. T_T

[orangeSHR00M]

thyre going to be san jose 4 days from now.... i really wanna see MUCC ;______________;
but thats totally not going to happen for me x-x

[b06]

argh, i was a bit too late for my tickets...so guess i'm not going, which SUCKS by the way!!!!

[precious4e]

Oh man. Taste of Chaos was freakin' awesome. I went on the 5th. It was literally the best day of my life.
mucc, D'espairsRay, and The Underneath (<--definitely worth watching) were alllll so great. Their performances owned.
The meet and greets were the best parts though. All three jrock bands signed my phone and my posters, and I got a couple of hugs.
And they took pictures with us. :]]

yea the underneath were pretty good. Too bad they got the small side stage
I'm so glad D'Ray and MUCC went on first so I didn't have to wait through all the other bands hahaha.

I had a meet and greet at my show too. I didn't dare get hugs, only handshakes lol. But at my show they ran out of posters so I had to dig for stuff for the bands to sign. It was pretty funny...I went up to MUCC and handed them my ticket stub and said "sorry I didn't prepare anything to sign, they ran out of posters" and Tatsuro made a sad face and was like "awww" (i'm surprised he understood haha). Then they all squished their signatures on my tiny little ticket stub lol. But I got D'Ray to sign a photoset so it's all is good. They were the reason why I was there. (MUCC is awesome too though hahaha)

Besides that I thought the fans were cool. There was some crowd surfing during MUCC which was crazy. It was actually the JRock fans that pissed me off more than the American fans. But at other shows i've experienced some crappy fans from BOTH sides.

[drella;]

^ reading your comment makes me really want to go D:
I've seen D'espairsray at fanime before a few years back but never got to see MUCC perform yet dkfjdlafjdlkf.
But I highly doubt I can go to this one, makes me sad D:

[jenny]

Finally made it back to soompi after a month. D:

I went to the Grand Prarie, TX show (which is pretty much Dallas, lol).

Despa was freakin amazing though. THEY PLAYED GARNET! I can't even begin to explain how much I freaked out when I heard the opening of that song. And I was really out of it because I hadn't eaten for two days. I was constantly talking back during the MCs (ie yelling back). "WE ARE FROM JAPAN!" "OMG NO WAY!" LOL! Yeah I know, I'm horrible. And seriously, at times it looked like Zero was doing a jig.

MUCC was crazy and I was really happy to see the whole freakin venue explode with excitement for them. I don't know what it is about MUCC, but they always seem to get a really good response. That mosh pit during FUZZ was insane. Tatsurou liked throwing around that f word. Lol.

The Underneath were really good. I was pretty worn out by their set and chilled, holding back on most of the headbanging.


Now for the signing... >.> My friend who flew in to go to the show with me also went to the Orlando show (to go with another friend, lol) and they were able to take pictures with everyone. Well, tokyopop was in charge of our signing and you went through all three bands at one time. Everyone was screaming at us there were going to be NO pictures. Killed my good mood. But all the bands were really sweet. Hizumi... lol. I was really distracted when I got to him. My friend had brought a picture from the Orlando show of our other friend with Hizumi and you can just see Karyu's head in the background. Well, the joke was we got Karyu to sign it (he's our friend's favorite member). He got really confused and kept pointing at Hizumi. We both were like "WE KNOW WHO IT IS! BUT THAT'S YOU IN THE BACK!" (Dude, maybe if you took off the sunglasses you could see? XD). Then he got it and all four of them just cracked up. Then I finally noticed Hizumi was still waiting for me to hand him my cd... oops? Then I had a total retard moment and couldn't open it. So he takes it from me, opens it, and points to the back of the booklet, "Sign here okay?" Awww, he's super cute. Tsukasa jumped out of his chair to shake my hand... and Zero is so freakin pretty. I was a tad taken aback. He's so pretty. D:

Then MUCC was fun... but I'll hold back on those details because some people don't approve on fans getting... er... themselves signed. LMAO! And I got a Tatsurou hug! XD

Later we spotted Taka walking around, well he saw us first and waved. Aww. Then we went down and I finally got a picture with someone! NO WAY!
link link link yo
If you catch that lovely nickname we have for Taka, IT IS A JOKE OKAY!
He was super sweet... and a pervert. He told me I had nice boobs. XD And I got myself a Taka hug.

We hung around the venue for a long time (darn Harry and your misguided helpful info). Tatsurou was pretty tipsy and these two Avenged Sevenfold fans we were talking to with Tatsurou were hilarious. They were upset their band was already gone.
Dude 1: WE WANT TO PARTY WITH YOU!" (yes, they were loud even though we were all right next to each other, Tatsurou behind a fence, lol)
Tatsurou: "PARTY WITH ME?"
Dude 1: "YEAH PARTY!"
Dude 2: "BEER!" turns to me, "He does understand beer right?"
Me: "Oh yeah."
Tatsurou: "BEER! PARTY!"

There were a few more minutes of talking then he had to go (it was 3AM and the buses were getting ready to leave) and I finally went and crashed in my hotel room. Good times... good times.

[precious4e]

^ aH jenny! That sounds amazing. It's weird that they didn't allow pictures. At my show everyone was snapping away.

Hizumi <3

[yeokyeong_xx]

mucc was sexy.
the live harmonica was awesome

[evelyn168]

I still see Canadian tour dates but I thought it was cancelled... I don't know what's going on... But I can't go anyways, there's no tour date for Toronto.

[Onichan~]

Where I live this was yesterday D:
I couldn't go cos it was a school day & it ended @ 11.
I wanted to go baaadly last year though cos chidos & saosin played.
but this year sounded good too, avenge & bullet <3
oh & blessthefall(: mayun i like love all the bands that played but those 3 are my favorites that were there.

[heart[killer]]

i went it was great loved mucc and the underneath and got me a despairs ray shirt