Yes, two full days of GLAY, in Yokohama Nissan Stadium.
2009.08.15 ROCK theme
2009.08.16 LOVE theme
I'm still tired, I don't know why, and I have only "sleep" in my mind right now, so I'll copy what I wrote in an another site:
2009.08.15 ROCK
So, I begin as it all started. I woke up, still couldn't understand that I was going to see them live after 5 years since the last time.
My friend couldn't go this this time because she was going to a family vacation and couldn't make it to time. So one of my G-friends on mixi (a Japanese community) wanted to go. Both of us play electric bass and likes GLAY, so it was perfect. He's never been on a GLAY concert before though, so I was happy to be able to drag him to one.
3pm they were going to let people in to the stadium, 5pm the concert would start. But the goods were going to start selling from 11am. I thought that they were going to have so much goods that we could get there later. So Shu (the G-friend) and I met up at the station 1pm. As we went there, there were a lots of people who stood in a big line for the goods stands. We also went there, the line was so long that you really couldn't see the stands. And the sun was up high. Yeah, the weather was totally awesome!!! If you weren't standing in that f*cking line. haha. Sunny all the way to the night, no clouds, both days.
Anyway, we stood there for like almost 3 hours. And when we made it to the stands, so many things were sold out. I felt stupid to stand there for so long, and not getting the things I wanted. So I swore to myself that I must go there so much earlier the day after.
The time were around 4pm when we finally were finished with the goods. We got inside. Our seats were arena seats, around in the middle to the Hisashi side. The set was really like a Hotel, and there were a road from the main stage, around the arena seats near the stand seats, back to the main stage. Like a running track. Teru said it were 500 metres long.
After a while, the whole thing was going to start. It started with a brass orchestra stading on a long row at the main stage, playing. Then the MC says in the speaker "And now a message from the Hotel GLAY owner". Some black suited people came in and the Takuro in a white suit. The whole arena gone wild! Takuro started to speak. He said thanks for you all to come, spoke about what the 15th anniversary mean for them as a band. Also to enjoy this show, "GLAY to Vacation" = "GREAT Vacation".
Takuro went backstage, and a short film presenting the members began showing at the big screens, of course with the theme Hotel. Then the members came in. As I'm a short person, it was hard for me to see the stage from where I were. But Hisashi's hair was silver and big!! And they started with "GREAT VACATION".
The setlist for the first day, ROCK:
ＨＯＴＥＬ ＧＬＡＹ Opening Ceremony
０１．ＧＲＥＡＴ ＶＡＣＡＴＩＯＮ
０２．ＬＡＹＬＡ
＜ＭＣ＞
０３．ＧＬＯＢＡＬ ＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＣＡＴＩＯＮ
０４．ＭＥＲＭＡＩＤ
０５．ｌａｔｏｕｒ～震える拳が掴むもの～
０６．ＲＯＣＫ'ＮＲＯＬＬ ＳＷＩＮＤＬＥ
＜ＭＣ＞
０７．ＳＴＲＥＥＴ ＬＩＦＥ ０８．ＲＵＮ
＜ＭＣ＞
０９．ｊｕｌｉａ
＜ＭＣ＞
１０．ＳＴＡＲＬＥＳＳ ＮＩＧＨＴ
＜ＭＣ＞（MC Toshi, Sei-chan, Takuro, Hisashi, Jiro, Teru）
１１．ＴＨＥ ＢＩＲＴＨＤＡＹ ＧＩＲＬ
＜ＭＣ＞
１２．つづれ織り～ｓｏ ｆａｒ ａｎｄ ｙｅｔ ｓｏ ｃｌｏｓｅ～ (Tsuzureori)
＜ＳＥ＞
１３．Ｓｙｎｃｈｒｏｎｉｃｉｔｙ
１４．Ｉ ａｍ ｘｘｘ
１５．ＨＩＧＨＣＯＭＭＵＮＩＣＡＴＩＯＮ
１６．ＶＥＲＢ
１７．ピーク果てしなく ソウル限りなく (Peak hateshi naku, Soul kagiri naku)
１８．ＢＥＡＵＴＩＦＵＬ ＤＲＥＡＭＥＲ
＜ＭＣ＞
１９．ＳＡＹ ＹＯＵＲ ＤＲＥＡＭ
アンコール
０１．ＳＨＵＴＴＥＲ ＳＰＥＥＤＳのテーマ
０２．ＡＣＩＤ ＨＥＡＤ
After "Layla" (I think), we did waves, first the stading seats and then the arena seats. It was awesome!!
During "Global Communication", big balloons in different colors were thrown into the arena, but none came to our seats. It was beautiful to watch though!
MC before "Street Life", Teru told us about the hard time the've been through during the years, and thanked everyone who supported them.
After "RUN", Teru and Takuro got to our side of the arena, where they sat down on two seats some meters higher than us, Takuro telling about this coming song "julia". It's a first version of their debut song "RAIN", like a ballad version with two guitars. Teru said "Oh, so nice to hold a guitar, soo nice!".
After "Starless Night" the whole band with Toshi and Sei-chan went to the back of the arena, were there was a smaller stage, there Teru gave the word to every one of them starting Toshi, Sei-chan, Takuro, Hisashi, Jiro. I couldn't see so much here either, damn my heigh... But Shu saw quite much, he's so much higher than me..
During "Peak hateshi naku..." (I think), they shoot out those glittery bands all over the arena, I catched two. They were blue at one side and white at the other side with "the Great Vacation" logo on it.
Waiting for the encore, GLAY characters appeared on the screens saying to the crowd to do some exercise while waiting for the encore. After the exercise, the whole arena was shut down, no lights. And then the announcer said (Takuro) through the speakers "It appears that the Hotel has come across some problems, please do not panic and remain on your place". The staff around the whole arena lights up their flashlights like alarms. Then a movie starts on the screens, where you see Takuro with a light, trying to find the problem. He speaks trough a walkie talkie to the other members. Teru appears, also Jiro, both in different places searching for the problems. And then Hisashi appears at a different place eating noodles. The other members working hard, but Hisashi still eating. The members fixing problems, Hisashi now eating a banana. And so it continues, until Takuro lights the Hotel up. Slowly the lights get lighter.
The members return, now with the tour T-shirts.
"Shutter Speeds" and "Acid Head" was played, the members thanked the whole crowd and staff, and they walked the whole road thanking every side of the road. They also throwed picks. And last but not least, we all hold hands together, and did "1, 2, 3, JUMP!!" everyone together. Then they got backstage.
A movie with pics and videos from their early years until now were shown, and the concert ended.
I had written message to every member, so I gave it to one of the staff members, I think they received them because the next day, Teru shouted where people were from, and the last question was "People from overseas?" and I screamed. But it felt like it was only me....
It was a lots of people going home, so I thought that I won't get home early, but I got home earlier than I thought.
I was quite tired, so I thought that I was gonna sleep very well, but hell no, I couldn't sleep at all!! I think I slept a short time, but the rest of the time I was awake.
2009.08.16 LOVE
So I woke up, and did go earlier this time to be able to get the goods I wanted and couldn't get the day before. I was there around 11:30am, the goods stands were going to open 12am, but it was already a looooong line... But I had gone to the LiB CAFE were I got a stamp, with that you could get a "Hisashi produced RX-72 Sticker". That line was so much shorter, so I lined up there. It started just a few minutes earlier so I got a sticker, then ran to the end of the goods line.
But the line was so much faster than yesterday. Unfortunately, all the T-shirts in my size had ended, even though I was there early... Anyway, I got many goods I wanted but was sold out the day after.
And after that, I met up with my friend. She and I had went together to the concert 5 years ago. So I was very happy to be able to go with her again!! We went to eat lunch, bought water to drink, and then got to the arena. This time our seats were on the 2nd floor. I thought that it may be not the best seats, but when we got to the seat, stand 2nd floor 1st row, the view was awesome!!! I could finally see the whole 500m road, main stage and a great view to the back stage.
This time the opening was different. This time it was Takuro who was informing through the speakers. And the opening movie from yesterday started, with small detailed difference from yesterday. And the members appeared, all in white.
The setlist for 2009.08.16 LOVE:
０１．ＧＲＥＡＴ ＶＡＣＡＴＩＯＮ
０２．ビリビリクラッシュメン (Biri biri Crashmen)
＜ＭＣ＞
０３．グロリアス (Glorious)
０４．ＳＯＵＬ ＬＯＶＥ
０５．ｓｕｍｍｅｒ ＦＭ
＜ＭＣ＞
０６．サバイバル (Survival)
０７．Ｃｙｎｉｃａｌ
０８．千ノナイフガ胸ヲ刺ス (Sen no naifu ga mune wo sasu)
＜ＭＣ＞
０９．ずっと２人で・・・ (Zutto futari de)
１０．ＨＯＷＥＶＥＲ
＜ＭＣ＞
１１．ｊｕｌｉａ
１２．Ｍｏｒｅ ｔｈａｎ Ｌｏｖｅ
＜ＭＣ＞（MC Toshi, Sei-chan, Takuro, Hisashi, Jiro, Teru）
１３．生きてく強さ (Ikiteku tsuyosa)
＜ＭＣ＞
１４．誘惑 (Yuuwaku)
＜ＳＥ＞
１５．ＨＡＰＰＹ ＳＷＩＮＧ
１６．彼女の“Ｍｏｄｅｒｎ・・・” (Kanojo no Modern)
１７．ＳＨＵＴＴＥＲ ＳＰＥＥＤＳのテーマ
１８．ＡＣＩＤ ＨＥＡＤ
１９．Ｉ'ｍ ｉｎ ｌｏｖｅ
Encore
０１．ピーク果てしなく ソウル限りなく (Peak hateshi naku, Soul kagiri naku)
０２．ＢＥＡＵＴＩＦＵＬ ＤＲＥＡＭＥＲ
This time the colorful balloons also appeared. I don't exactly remember where thou... but they didn't reach the 2nd floor, but it was very beautiful and fun to watch from above.
This time, the messages from the members were a bit longer than the previous day. And this time, I could see what the members did all the time, and they were close when they got to the back stage. And because our seats were on the first row, we saw them clearly. Very lucky because both me and my friend are very short in height :P
Before the encore, the same video with the warm-up and the shut down of the Hotel was shown.
We also did the waves. It was awesome to watch the arena seats making the waves!! So awesome!!
The glittery bands were also shot out but I couldn't catch any, there were only a few people on the 2nd floor who could catch the bands. But I got two the previous day, so I wasn't that disappointed anyway.
At the end, they walked the whole road thanking everyone again, and back to the main stage, we did the JUMP! again, and they went backstage. The video that also were shown the previous day was shown again.
After that, we went to the goods stands one more time, and as expected, all T-shirts were sold out except the child sizes... also a lot of ther things, including the post cards I waned. But I bought the stickers before going home. Maybe put one on my bass?
And then we headed to the station. All the time, we talked about the live and all the things around.
I was so happy to be able to go these two days, I thanked my friend who had gotten the tickets for me, with all my heart.
I had a great time, and I slept without no problems that night. But the thing is, I'm still very exhausted. I think I'm not still 100% rested. I was screaming and jumping and moving to the music ALL the time BOTH days!! xD haha. The only thing was that I couldn't get a tour T-shirt... I'll have to buy it online.
