Thank you for reacting to my series of documentaries! I'm glad that you like them and that you are learning more about BAND-MAID 😊

@nickr104

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for making them! They are outstanding!

@Ohrenje

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your support @@nickr104

@mickypinestraw7866

9 ай бұрын

You should check out the community BM covers he produces too when you get a chance. They're really good!

Shout out to Ohrenje.

@patrickwest2288

4 ай бұрын

Definitely

Kanami is an angel.

My hat is off to both of these young ladies! .... To Saiki for jumping over her own shadow (keyword: maid outfits) to realize her dream of becoming a professional singer, but also, if not entirely voluntarily, to have the operation on her vocal cords. Knowing that this could have destroyed her dream in an instant must have been nerve-wracking for this young woman. And she carried that around with her for quite a while, being confronted with it all the time... And what can I say about Kanami? From the very beginning, she was the one who unconsciously aroused my interest the most. She has a special charisma, which I actually only know from creative people. From studying with her career/music in mind, to teaching herself programming on the PC, which I know all too well, and how time-consuming and exhausting that can be, to having the perseverance to write songs over and over again for several years that no one wanted in the end... I admire this little lady very much and am happy for her that all this has deservedly paid off. And as much as I love rock music, I've always had a thing for skillfully played piano music. Which is why I always have an ear even for their live intros or the little details in the backing tracks (like in 'From Now On') and simply enjoy them, knowing which creative mind they came from. :) I've seen much worse and less informative official documentaries. Ohrenje and Kasper have done a tremendous job with this series from my point of view. Rewatching it with you or others and hearing your impressions is great fun for me. So thank you for sharing these videos with us. 🙏🏻🙋🏻‍♂ _____________________ 「 _"Our rock never dies ever. Forever!"_ 」 - from *BAND-MAID* - 'Manners' 🎶🕊

It's MISA's birthday today and the Maids are playing live tonight in Otaru. I will be there to wish her a happy birthday! This will be my fourth Band-Maid serving in 8 days. Really, see them live if it at all possible, you will not regret it! :-)

@Bekka_Noyb

9 ай бұрын

♥ MISA!

Well, another almost-hour killed doing Band-Maid stuff... Thanks, John! Thanks to Ohrenje too, he's a super-fan. Wave Potter, Champ of Medium, Alan of Dicodec and Ryan Mear are the commenters near the end of the video. They're the nucleus of Gaijin Guys, who do a weekly podcast about Japanese music, good stuff. They're all musicians and great reactors and they (and others) were important to me in my early Band-Maid fandom. Ryan especially, you should check out some of his guitar improvisation videos (and his original music). @Ryan Mear, I still go back and watch your dual-song Band-Maid reactions! Thanks again!

They went from doing regular type rock/commercial songs to becoming much more progressive and experimental but they still return to the roots on their terms.

As far as songs written for them vs songs written by them, they took the influences and sound of the ghost writers and incorporated it into their sound. But if there is one thing that separates their older works vs their recent work is the complexity. Kanami writes music that is WAY more complex than what was written for them back in the day.

@Brunnen-G

9 ай бұрын

actually, they are not "ghost writers". Band-Maid don't use "ghost-writers". Song writers have proper credentials on all of B-M releases.

@nomennescio4604

8 ай бұрын

To be fair, the band has indicated from the very beginning they were always heavily involved in the arrangements and how the songs would be played. To the point of even asking song writers to change things at times, which was apparently considered uppity and impolite in the Japanese music industry (like who do these little greenhorns think they are? kind of thing...) Which likely is why even with all these people writing for them there has always been this gradual development of the sound going on, as the band developed their arrangement and playing skills.

For me, these two members will always be my favorites, because they define that Band-Maid sound for me. Saiki's voice and Kanami's writing. I love all the members and know how much each and every one brings to the band though, and no singular member is more or less than the others... it's something that makes this band great. Let's hope they want to keep doing this for a long time because as long as they keep doing it, we will keep listening and supporting them! Also, Ohrenje's the man, I remember being asked to join his discord super early on, when he just started it. He's done so much to bring together and expand the Band-Maid community.

You better change your plans for Japan. Last block of tickets for Yokohama just went on sale. You can buy internationally and last I looked they are still available. Thanks for doing this reaction. I look forward to the other two. Cheers !

I believe General Ticket Sale starts today for the Yokohama concert! Go!!! It's going to be a special concert! I think it's random seating (someone will assign the seats) anyway so no pressure there. A lot of folks from outside Japan will be attending.

@seizetheday5008

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting. Was looking to see if someone did.

Nice reaction man. Ohrenje really did do a great job with these videos. The maids actually had a very positive relationship with their writers in the early days. Kanami has said that she learned a lot about writing from them.

This band is an inspiration...

This is great! I've seen the videos but your reactions are adding value to them. Thank you.

Oh wow, excellent idea to review the Orehnje documentaries. They are almost mandatory for Band Maid fans!. If it were up to me, I would make an official request to Pony Canyon so that they would be on the band's official channel. Thank you!

It's great to watch these again through fresh eyes. I've known about them for 5 years, and did a deep dive into their history, but still learned a lot from this series. Enjoy.

The guys speaking about Kanami are really great guys, are big Band Maid fans and are all worth watching. Give them a look. Wave Potter, The Champ of Medium, Ryan Mears, Dicodec. They also get together and do a multicast that’s worthwhile. They are genuine fans and provide great analysis and insight. Thanks for taking time to learn about the band members and help spread the word. Rock on, good sir. Rock on!👍🎸🎤🎸🥁🎸

A handfull of their early songs has that "feel" of a Band Maid composition. The band is credited with music arrangement on many of them. Those songs, Real Existence, Non-Fiction Days, Freedom, Thrill, especially, seem to resonate with the band. Still in set lists rotation to this day, and probably influenced their song style.

@garylai363

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, and I think it's great that they don't have the attitude of, "we don't need them anymore," but more along the lines of being grateful to their songwriters and being able to learn off of them, in typical Japanese fashion. Also it was something Miku and probably the rest of the band was always trying to do, which was take control of their own entity and destiny, always looking for a better management that could take them further.

I love these videos and it is great to watch them again with you. Thanks John.

Ohrenje does so much to support the Maids and to promote them, more maidiacs need to support his channel, thanks for helping get his name known a little better and my o my each time I see one of his BM works I lose just a little more of my heart to these incredible Rock Goddesses, cheers 👍🍻

You have a particular point of view and experience JRL, much thanks for your thoughts and observations

好きなもの。尊敬が有る事。

The foreign country tickets for their big show in Yokahama are on sale now on their KZread community section link.

I love that you're doing this! Check the title and your hashtags. I don't normally nitpick but Jimi is not Jimmy, and Kanami is not Kunami. Rock on! Wait ... you're going to Kyoto?!? Ooo, so jealous!

@JohnReavesLive

9 ай бұрын

Ohhhh I’ll fix it right now! Thanks for the heads up!! And heck yes! Heading there on the 8th of November

I only discovered Band-Maid in April 2023. Their music made me a fan, but when I found these mini docs soon after, I totally fell for them.

Band Maid is my favorite band! Love each member of this band, but Kanami is my favorite, she is amazing guitar player, I can say she is guitar Queen!!! Thanks John for doing this series!

Thanks for doing these documentaries as you have seen you will learn a lot about each member , Happy Birthday MISA !!! MISA !! MISA !!! .

Have a great time in Japan John! Cool that you're seeing OK One Rock, and I really do hope you get a chance to see Band-Maid at Yokohama.

Congratulations on this day, the anniversary of your birth along with many blessings, wishes, and smiles for you and yours MISA. I would like to thank you, thank you very much for being you. You are a awesome human being and keep rockin'. 🤘 Oh, before I forget, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

It's a great series, thanks for posting this 🤘😀🤘

If you want to explore some of their older songs, P in D has a bunch of photo collage videos with their older songs on his channel. I don't think he would mind if you wanted to do reactions to some of those videos, but it wouldn't hurt to check with him first. He is a pretty awesome guy, and he loves Band Maid. He also has some collage videos of Rolling Quartz and DIH on his channel.

It is such an immense tragedy that we will never hear any of those songs that got rejected by the record Company. Fingers crossed for you to see the last show of their tour. That would be INCREDIBLE!! Thanks for sharing these awesome stories with us. 🤘🤩🤘

Great work isn't it? Ohrenje made some totally professional work, and he has other projects in the works 👍. Important: all informations here have been checked, there's absolutely no fan fantasy or exageration, it's so rare I have to mention it. About Saiki's past throat problems: yes, you can develop polyps on your vocals cords by using your voice inapropriately, without proper training. That's what happened to her, and once the polyps removed, she started training with a pro vocal coach and take great care of her voice - no problem have arisen since then, her voice is stronger than ever. About Kanami, there's one important piece of information missing here - because it wasn't knowed at the time: she has perfect pitch. We heard about it thanks to famous producer Tony Visconti, who became their friend, and heard her helping Miku tuning her guitar by singing her the right notes - he then asked "she has perfect pitch right? " and Kanami nodded, joking about herself being a "human tuner" 😉.

@chrisegbertky

8 ай бұрын

Did not know that about Kanami's perfect pitch!

@realdocloco

8 ай бұрын

@@chrisegbertky the whole sequence is on the US tour bluray coming as a bonus with the Tokyo Garden Theater concert bluray.

Another thing I only just found out, was that Saiki's speech about "bigger venues than Budokan" had more meaning than I thought. At the end of their Shibuya concert Blu-Ray, they announce they're going to Budokan...only to have it cancelled due to 2020 insanity.

I was at five of the shows, all up front on the rail, during the 2022 US tour (Dallas, Houston, New York, Boston, and Chicago - I regret not going to the last minute added New Jersey show). They made each show unique and amazing, with slight changes in songs to each set list. The MC breaks were always a fun time to be "one-on-one" with Saiki. This is when she started the "learn a Japanese word" with Kanami. Saiki and Kanami would pair up on stage and teach the crowd a Japanese word, use it in a sentence, and have the crowd repeat the word. And of course there was Akane and her banana eating and peel toss to the crowd segment. SO much FUN! If you (anyone) have a chance to see Band Maid in concert - DO NOT pass it up!

Love the music that they all have given us. But they all owe everything to Miku !

Great Job Mate! i Just finished both of these!! What a journey!!! Love you man lets go see a show!!!

'She (Kanami) is one of the greatest guitarists' - agreed! In fact, I'd put her behind only Hendrix. I have MISA as #1 bassist & Akane in top 5 drummers of all time! Oh and Miku & Saiki are pretty darned talented at what they do too 😉 That's a whole lotta talent in one band! ♥ these girls!

BAND-MAIDのファンは、このシリーズは是非視聴してほしい。ミクに惚れちゃうぞ。❤

Yes, the vocalist joined last, but the lyricist and composer were the first to meet among the five members.

Kanami🥰 Thank you for this reaction. Thank you @Ohrenje for making them. My only complaint is that they are too short

I will go to one ok rock and band-maid concerts. I hope you can get a ticket for the band-maid concert.

Can't remember how many times I've watched this but i just had to comment. Alone was their breakout song and it was the same song that Kanami was playing on her piano.

WRT Kanami's influences, Larry Carlton played with Steely Dan whose regular guitarist was Walter Becker. BTW, the Gaijin Guys do great shows and are serious BM fans. on Brand new Maid, she wrote Yuragu.

Band Maid = Thrill

Namie Amuro lol. Now there is a name i haven't heard in awhile. Namie is basically the Japanese equivalent of Madonna or Janet Jackson in influence & pure star power. Namie is really more then a mere artist in Japan but an institution. When her retirement was announced her last tour sold out in minutes. It was even broadcast across the country in theatres even lol. I remember Namie being more an influence on Ganguro culture and fashion then maid however. Although it makes since why Kanami or Saiki might look up to her. She sold 40 million records over her 20+ year career. Since her solo debut, she achieved top 10 singles for 23 consecutive years (#1 for solo artist). All of her albums are certified Platinum, and her debut solo album, Sweet 19 Blues. Was the best selling album in Japan. She is the only artist in Japan to sell a million albums in her teens, 20s, 30s and 40s. Her last album, Finally had topped the year-end album charts. From both Oricon and Billboard Japan for two consecutive years (the first and only artist in the Japanese Music Industry to do so). Amuro is the recipient of World Music Awards, Japan Record Awards, Japan Gold Disc Awards, and MTV Video Music Awards Japan, among many others. So i find it interesting the Band-Maid connection here. :) .

You can hear some influence in their own songs from the songs written for them. The old songs written for them were way more formulatic than the songs written by Kanami. Kanami allows other band members to be actively involved in arrangement of their songs. Which means five members with different tastes and playing styles bringing ideas and creating the distinctive, very unique, layered and colorful sound. There's the playfulness and freedom in their music that give us the joy. Of course there are some old songs written for them that I love - Real Existence and Freezer are some of the bests. I like pop-punk song like be ok and groovy brand new road, etc. Freefom and The Non-fiction Days I think we're written for them. As awesome as those songs are, they don't have their usual "second verse thing" going. Also bass isn't as prominent as the songs written by the band. Compare The Non-fiction Days and Endless Story. These 2 songs were both used as a concert closer multiple times but you hear their "rhythm section" being featured lot more in the latter. Everyone's unique and talented, why not use it in the band's music?

Kanami 🔥❤️

Kanami has always reminded me of Jerry Garcia outside of solos. Just lost in the music. To answer the statement at the beginning, the first time I head BAND-MAID was near the beginning, and it was Thrill. Forget whether it was a Babymetal, Wagakki Band, or Rick Rack video I was watching, but KZread made the suggestion for me to watch the maids. Heck, it could have been recommended from a Perfume or Kyary Pamyu Pamyu video.

Since I love your reactions, I'd recommend reacting to "FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS" with their songs "just awake" and "let me hear" cuz they rock hella hard. I'm begging 🛐 I love your content, keep it up!

I am not really sure if Kanamis early Songs where not good enough , rather than the Producing Company having other Ideas where they should go. Guess the Studio wanted them in another Direction. Just imagine if Love Passion Matador ( Cute Song anyway/Chorus catchy AF ) - ( A Side of the Single ) would heve been their first ( and maybe only ) MV. We have to be very thankfull the Girls insisted to do Thrill instead.

Their Wikipedia page is a pretty good source for song writing credits.

MISA MISA MISA!!!!! sorry considering the subject matter BUT IT IS MISA's BIRTHDAY today 😛

@JohnReavesLive

9 ай бұрын

Misa!!! I need to make a post on it!!! She’s amazing!

@curtisrrobles7885

9 ай бұрын

🥃🥃🥃

@DavidMISAMISAMISACook

9 ай бұрын

@@curtisrrobles7885 🍶🍶🍶

The only reason i hated COVID was because it took away their chance to perform in BUDOKAN. They were already invited... feels bad man!! 😢

I love Kanami When ranking Band Maid members, Kanami #1 and a 4 way tie for #2 Although with 3 more bio's coming up, will that change?

BTW - just checked and (according to search function) you still haven't reacted to Band Maid's songs Bubble or Manners! 😧

28:41 - Kanami covering ONE OK ROCK song, full video is on my YT channel - kzread.info/dash/bejne/lGuBp5emmM7An6w.htmlsi=yjYACXfzUALaiNEJ

Simple Japanese hack for you: "A" is pronounced "Ah" like About. "E" is pronounced "A" like able. "I" is pronounced "E" like easy.

Vocal nodulas are caused by poor vocal technique, smoking, acid reflux etc... The vocal folds get swollen and harden like a callous. Polyps are larger than noduals and can grow on vocal folds or false folds like a blister.

Women outside of Japan don't know about effort.

Never gonna revisit Nemophila? The one song you did is nothing indicative of their normal sound.

You talk too much...Let the documentary lead!

@JohnReavesLive

9 ай бұрын

Bahahaha dude it’s a reaction, I have a link to the doc if you want to watch that without my doofus self talking over it, in the description. The original is freakin awesome! Please go check it out!

@user-vk5qb8bi9j

8 ай бұрын

Hey there, sorry about that - being up for 36 hours straight travelling on planes is not conducive to thinking clearly; I thought you were a co-narrator...apologies for assuming such. And, I will check out these documentaries with a clearer head...