I found these 2 videos on YouTube. Arakure aired on the japanese music channel M-ON! and FIREBALL aired on a channel I don’t know as part of the “MEGAHITS REQUEST”. There are only 10 days left until the DVD’s release, so here’s a little incentive to ease the pain.
Arakure (and the motocross show):
FIREBALL:
As you all remember, Barry Sparks was accompanying B’z on their LIVE-GYM rampage this year. On November 12th, he updated his website and posted a short text about the experiences he made while touring through Japan with B’z. Here’s what he wrote:
Hello there, Thanks for checking out my site. Well, its been a very busy year for me, 9 months in Japan with the band B’Z! We played something like 60 shows all over Japan. The tour started with playing in theatres, then we hit all the arenas to support the album “Action” and then onto “Glory days” stadium tour, their 20th anniversary tour! It was an awesome experience. B’Z are such great musicians and a blast to play with and their music is very challenging so my bass chops were put to the test! I am happy to say they whipped me into shape! The shows were all amazing but I must say to end the tour with two shows at Yokohama stadium playing for 75,000 people (74,999 plus my wife) was a highlight for me. [...]
Source: http://www.barrysparks.com/
For those who are still wondering if they should buy B’z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No.20~ or not, I put up a translated version of the sneak peek of the aforementioned release. It aired on the show MUSIC STATION as part of the Music Station Topics on November 14th. Thanks go to my colleague Kaitoukidsama over at Kienai-Niji(http://kienai-niji.lulzicon.com/) who got the video for me! Check it out!
Update(11/23/2008):
I happened to find the first commercial somewhere on the net and uploaded it to YouTube. If you want to check it out, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAWXeOPYdck
Tonight I finally got the chance to see the new Bond movie “A Quantum of Solace”. So I paid 9 Euros to get to see a quality movie once in a while. Wait, quality movie? Yeah, I heard about all the critics concerning this movie, but I didn’t believe them… until now.
So I went to the cinema, had to watch 30 minutes of crappy ads to finally get to see an even crappier movie. Here’s why:
All in all I’d say it’s a blockbuster movie and nothing more, nothing less. You’d watch it once and never again. I, for one, am not going to spend money on the Blu-ray Disk or the DVD. If you feel like watching it, you should definitely do so, but don’t expect too much.
Just my 2 cents.
I haven’t heard about this before, but it seems that B’z christmas trees are going to be placed in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo from November 29th to December 25th!
After surfing various sites, I have found a few pictures concerning the B’z christmas trees. They’re from back in 2005 when Best Pleasure II was released. Feel free to check them out here: http://tokyoyakei.jp/chiristmas05/bz05/chiristmas-bz05.html
I’ll let you know when I get my hands on pictures from 2008!
Finally, details concerning the new DVD release “B’z LIVE-GYM Hidden Pleasure ~Typhoon No. 20~” have been released. It’s going to be a 3 DVD-set, containing 224 minutes of unreleased LIVE-GYM footage. It’s not a complete LIVE-GYM in itself, but a compilation of various LIVE-GYM performances, including a few extras such as the opening of the Sprit Loose tour. This DVD-set is going on sale on December 10th at a hefty price of 8190 Yen(tax incl.).
The 3 DVDs contain the following performances:
