Dedicated to 451 kinds of wine

Two very important major announcements from Buck-Tick.

1) Video footage from the show "Dedicate to Gang 451" which took place at Zepp Namba on February 11, 2013, will be aired starting at 8PM on Fuji TV Next.  This show, which Buck-Tick headlined, also featured Kishidan, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, and Oreskaband, and was put together in memoriam of Kansai radio personality Yokoi Kunie, who passed away in 2006.  For those of you wondering why the number 451, well, it's a Japanese pun on Yokoi's name...4 can be pronounced "yo," 5 can be pronounced "go" (or in this case, "ko"), and 1 is "ichi" or "i," for short.  In fact, Cayce actually attended this show in the flesh yet failed to write a live report about it (sorry, sorry.)  

According to Show Ayanocozey of Kishidan, who told this story from the stage at the event itself, Yokoi is the man who first introduced him to Sakurai Atsushi via telephone.  Apparently, Yokoi called up Buck-Tick and just held out the phone to Show saying, "what are you scared of, just talk to them."  They way he tells it, Show was quaking in his boots and totally unprepared, but when he finally worked up the guts to speak into the phone, Sakurai was on there and said "sex" in a really sexy voice.  Wait, I lied, he just said "hello" in his normal voice but Show heard something different because, folks, this is how heterosexual men normally respond to Atsushi Sakurai while talking on the phone.  In any case, Yokoi was a great man, one of a kind, a terrible loss to the musical community, sorely missed, and they put together this show in his honor.

Sakurai's words on the subject, at the closing of Buck-Tick's set, right before performing "Yumemiru Uchuu":

Sakurai: "It's lonely."

Fans: "WHAT'S LONELY ACCHAN WE R NEVER LONELY WITH U!!!!!"

Sakurai: "To die, I mean."

Fans: "........."

Sakurai: "But we're still alive.  So!"

P.S. For all the Blog-Tick readers who couldn't attend the show. Meaning absolutely all of y'all, except one person.  That one lone Blog-Tick reader who went to this show would like you to know.  At the end of "Climax Together," Sakurai turned his back on the audience, and touched his own butt.  Kind of, like, you know, sensually.  And stuff.  This has been a public service announcement.  The end.

2) Buck-Tick will soon be taking reservations on very expensive OFFICIAL BUCK-TICK WINE.  In case you didn't spend enough following the entire Yumemiru Uchuu tour around the country (I'm looking at you, and you, and you, Blog-Tickers.  You know who you are.  You know you can't afford that wine.)  It costs 15750 YEN.  It comes in a fancy box.  It comes with pictures of Toll's hair, Imai's hair, Hidehiko's ultra-sexy mole, and Sakurai's hat drinking wine together, but it still costs 15750 YEN.  Reservations will open on Monday, March 25th, on a site linked from the BT official site.  The wine will be limited to 1000 cases, and it's called DIABOLO red and L'ANGE white.  I bet you didn't know that L'ANGE was the working title of Tenshi no Revolver.  Well now you know!  Don't whine at the messenger.

P.S. If you're a secret admirer, buy a case for Cayce.  Y'know, just in case.

P.P.S. Some Buck-Tick lyrics about wine.

Dokudanjou Beauty

"We have wine and roses and cigarettes

Makes me laugh to see it"

Doll

"I see myself reflected in your eyes

Crown you with a tiara

To match your corset the color of wine"

Kuchizuke

"No, no, we'll never return

Yet, it's fine that way

Gazing, staring into the midnight

Drinking down the blood red wine"

Cain

"Wine overflowing

Cain is lamenting

And we're drunk

You and I

At midnight"

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Yep, pretty much.  'Night peepz.