Based on its San Francisco debut at the Fillmore Thursday the Japanese band HYDE may be hard rock's answer to baseball's Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui. That is, superstars in an American game who are considered the equals of their American peers, and whose country of origin is secondary to their abilities to entertain...And, while so many Japanese musical exports are treated as novelties and aberrations, representatives of a culture at once foreign, intriguing and endlessly confusing, HYDE made a huge step toward breaking down barriers by singing all of his songs in English...Tickets to the four U.S. debut shows sold out in minutes and fans, many of whom were women in their teens and 20s, who slept on the street overnight at the Fillmore to get a good vantage point in the general admission hall...more...
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love The Pillows, too. they have a new cd coming out in the states also, along with PuffyAmiYumi and Nana Kitade.
