The great thing about being retired for me:
On X I saw ASTERISM and DR. CAPITAL are having a gig at Kyoto live house KYOTO MOJO that is practically in my own backyard. Not that I have been there before. I booked my ticket the days after it was announced.
AND close by O.C.Burito , that has food that is something of a novelty to me as I am not an AMERICAN, and haven't even tried the Burrito yet. Been there twice, and a third time sounds good, but it is in a B1 food court, so will see if it is open late enough,
Been aware of ASTERISM for some time. The guitar chops of HAL-CA, the guitarist are something else, and the brothers bass and drums match her. Skill and technique, but not sure what "voice" they have though, even after playing their Spotify Playlists. Steve Via is an amazing guitarist too, and only a year younger than I am, but unlike Joe Satriani, he doesn't interest me at all, and lacks that something something to me, a simple man, that likes memorable melodies and riffs.
A double gig with YouTuber and academic Dr.Captial. He can sure play and sing, but not sure what kind of show he will do, as 95% of what he seems to do is JPOP covers, and teaching about the songs.
Calling himself Dr.Metal for this gig. Probably a good thing. Expect anything he plays will be very well done.
First I learned about him was on the way too weeboo for me UNPACKING JAPAN YouTube channel, and found him interesting. Seen some of his channel, but his interactions with Marty Freidman on ROCK FUJIYAMA and his passion and technique for Brazilian Acoustic guitar was what really caught my attention. He can play 3 independent parts simultaneously, and discuss it all.
The gig is 5 days away now. I expect to be the oldest person there by a wide margin, even though I don't look it. On NHK this Sunday morning there was a news item on a city putting on a music performance/show for "over 65 seniors". That is me, but it wasn't the kind of show I would want to go to!
The First Lady Prime Minister of Japan
And big local news is Japan has her first Lady Prime Minister. She beat the nepotism that was trying to install the idiot son of a former Prime Minister, of the same party, and the same party that has been in charge for decades here. She is the one my wife and own kids barracked for with her "don't let the foreigners in Japan take advantage of us" views.
If I mention "that may have a bad impact on me too, you know...", she says "they don't mean good foreigners like you". Time will tell. I am a self funded retiree, so don't get any pension or such government money and pay for my own health insurance, so guess any regulation changes she makes to stop the "reported" foreigner abuses (from the Chinese and Turkish?) will not impact me at all.
Right Wing propaganda everywhere says undeserving foreigners coming in are get big payouts that local citizens don't. This stuff is always untrue, but don't know about the Japanese case, but expect it too is untrue.
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