Podcast: Interview with Dir En Grey Fans
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Hey fans, we're back with more Dir En Grey content from last night's event at Kinokuniya Bookstore. SBR had a chance to talk to fans about their love for Dir En Grey and inspiration from their music. While you are listening to our podcast, check out the pictures we took!
The hostess of the evening, Diva Velez of TheDivaReview.com
A great number of fans showed up to check out the band!
We hoped everyone enjoyed themselves at the event! Thank you, Dir En Grey, for taking the time to stop by & talk to the fans! Be sure to check out the band tonight and this weekend at Blender Theatre at Gramercy!
Posted by samurai beat radio at 11/11/2009 8:29 PM 
Categories: Podcast,Event,Dir en Grey,Kinokuniya Bookstore
Tags: Event J-Rock Diva Velez Dir en Grey Kinokuniya Bookstore TheDivaReview.com
Categories: Podcast,Event,Dir en Grey,Kinokuniya Bookstore
Tags: Event J-Rock Diva Velez Dir en Grey Kinokuniya Bookstore TheDivaReview.com
I liked the interview, but it woulda been great to have more specific questions that nobody else seems to want to ask them when they are right in front of them:
** Many fans outside of Japan initially discovered Dir en grey's music through mp3 files that were put up on internet fan sites and file-sharing services as early as 2002. How aware were you of this connection between The Internet and the sudden increase in popularity of your music outside of your home country?
** "You've put out many albums and DVD's before your U.S. debut, Withering to Death, was released through Warcon in 2005. Would you ever consider re-releasing some of the older albums and DVD's through your current U.S. distribution so that a wider group of fans could afford them, or is that strictly up to your record label in Japan?
** You released a DVD for the Japanese leg of "The Rose Trims Again" tour. The DVD was made available on The Omega Order's website, but at a very steep $80, which very few fans are able to afford. Would you ever consider recording a Full Length Live Concert DVD in America and releasing it through The End Records? Something like that would be far more affordable and accessible for the U.S. fans, and it'd also be very special to them.
** As a special treat to fans in New York, you performed an older song which you haven't played in almost ten years. Will this willingness to play songs from earlier albums spill over into your next American tour, or was this something just for New York?
** Is there any song from your past that you would -NEVER- want to play again, no matter how many fans asked for it? (probably Garden, lol...- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2vT65xV2BI& - or maybe " i'll " - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D35ydMr-rUI)
** Does it bother you that alot of your veteran fans, both Japanese and Americans alike, still think of you as a being Visual Kei band, even though you no longer fit this classification musically and appearance-wise?
** Toshiya once said in another interview that one of the things you -DON'T- want to do is be like the Backstreet Boys, would you say that the Visual Kei genre is now more like the American Boy Band trend of the late 80's and 90's? (Bands manufactured by big record labels getting by more on their looks than actual musical talent).
** Do you have a favorite American band that you listened to alot as a kid?
** Kaoru says he likes Nine Inch Nails, you also allowed Chris Vrenna to remix one of your songs (S from their first record, MISSA). Would you guys ever make an "Industrial" album?
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