Dir en grey

just came home from the LA CONCERT!!!! and before i say anything... (because im VERY EXHAUSTED... and will post more tomrorwo) i just wanna say... joylucky, hide, and drain away... u guys.. I LOVE YOU +D u guys rock... i mean... i knew that before from this forum... but meeting u guys in person... AHHHH U GUYS ROCK +D *HUGGGGG* u guys totally... blew my expectations... caz i relly didnt noe wat to expect today... but u guys made it SOOO WORTHWHILE +D hope u guys had lots of fun!!!!

more on the concert tomorrw =P imma go sleep

Ha ha. Same to all of you. lolz that is untill it was time to go in and I ran. I ran like the wind! Once in side the theater I encountered an epic drama that will be included in my report tomorrow. To sum it up I got in a huge *** fight with a security gaurd. There is oh so much more delicious detail but i shall save it for when I am recooperated. You guys rock so hard core!

Bah!

As for the concert its self, well. Once again. For full long report tompprpw of ALL the sorrid details. Cutting, spitting, putting a bucket on his head. It was all there and more.

But for tomorrow my sweats.

For now....

I shall rest!

PS Joy, I totally owe you one like no other. If youre ever in Cali and need a fav, dont hesitate to ask!!!!!

PS I have pics like no other, including that of the circles we did. Ill see about posting them asap. Drain away, I want those pics of us together your mom took!

i didnt know so many of u guys went to the despa+deg x_x i kept asking because yeah.......the more people the merrier........... but yeah........x_x that might be me......LOL

sorry to disappoint u that im not fat nor white.......

and i think i saw u guys up on the balcony......because when people wrere coming in i was curious as to how many people where behind me so i turned around and looked at the entire venue and i was like.......is that a girl wearing a skirt on the balcony?? shes stupid haha T_T SOWWIES X_X

omg so sorry for the massive msgs but OMG!!!! my friend shelley found us on the offical site pictureeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! *SOBS**********

AHHHHHHH WE'RE ON THE OFFICIAL SITE 23%@%$#

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ToT

Is it just me or wouldn't you rather get the Dir en grey DVD for seeing them perform, and for the music, and not just to see your face flash by for a second?

Is merankorikku Shelly????
hehe

thats true ivy....but.........its like ur a peice of deg historyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T_T


just curious.....isnt deg signed under yoshiki's lable?

it is.....yoshiki really knows talent when he sees it...xD he took them out of the underground something....

Bah! Im sort of rested and Im ready to give my brief over view of the shimmy and shake of things. Im sure as many of you NY fans know my neck and vocal chords have yet to recover (not to even go into my ear drums ) so Ill keep this as brief as possible.

First things first.

Diru couldnt have had a better opening act. I am now an official Opiate for the Masses fan. I would go of on things like "the leader...the drummer..." but in reality they were all SO good. I was plannig on saving most of my strength for Diru themselves, but Opiate was so good they deserved to be rocked out to just as hard. I screamed my self just a little bit raw for them. Every body! Make sure you give Opiate a big hand for having the guts to open like that and pull it off. I wish them every bit o luck.

Now for the Kyo report. As in NY he encouraged major audience participation with singing along to the lyrics. Yes he did cut him self with the razor, which gave me a fantastic oportunity to see the "No Future" scar in person. There wasnt much in the way of fan service from the whole band but Kyo sure had fun playing with the fangirls feeling himself up and sticking his hand down his pants and *rubbing*. (dies) For the encore he remnded me a bit of a little kid when after they finished he turned a big bucket of water over him self and stood there for a momnet with it on his head before throwing it into the audiance. Kaxxi!!!!

The rest of the band really had fun, playing off the audiance. Toshiya was his usual smug self giving the fans that "you worship me and you know it" type of treatment, and like the good followers that we all are we were *very* inclined to agree.

Now for the personal stuff. Originally I was in line for the pit but decided to move to another line because they were letting people in. Looking across I saw that everybody I came with was in that line so I went across and got in it only to descover that the line I had been in was the pit line (I had no idea before). The security gaurd had seen me switch and refused to let me in as security often is. So baisically what insued was a huge fight between me and a security gaurd. I called him eveything in the book with out using a curse word and he just laughed at me which made me even more mad. My friends and I started offering people money for their place in the pit and people who DID want to sell there place to us were told by the security gaurd that I had fought with that the couldnt do it even though a wiltern employee that I asked said that they could. >.< So for the opening act I spent it in the second thingy right above the pit. Which, while it didnt give me the oportunity to rake my hands down the lead singer did give the band a perfect view of me so I could have my 15 sec so to speak of getting th eleads attention. Mean while the people in back of us were shoving so hard I was seriously afraid of bruising my pubic bone against the railing on the wall. My best friend kept getting knocked completely into the isle and was just in general having a bad time. Finally the woman who had been in charge of letting people into th epit came by and started talking with the security gaurd I had fought with and he turned around all of a sudden and said "Why dont you take these three here then". O.O And so she grabed our wrists, led us to the back and GAVE US WRIST BRACELETS TO GET INTO THE PIT. She said that she had seen us screaming and cryinga and fighting earlyer to get in but she couldnt really do anything then because people would start fighting and not to tell anybody because she couldnt do anything. On our way into the pit I gave security the bigest kiss on the cheek ever and the guy cried out "oh lordy!" Once the pit started to move I even ended up right in the front practically and had an interwsting Toshiya experiance.

The medical : right after the opening act a girl was pulled from the crowd and taken away with an oxy tank. Poor thing. After that people in the pit kept passing out or having to betaken out. I saw three girls on my side be removed so they could breathe and my friends who were in the middle said that two girls over there were rolled out in wheel chairs. I think every body by that point was DESPERTE for water and the heat was almost too intense. Combine this with being stomped on and hit over and over again at full speed by other peoples heads and elbows you have ne miserble mosh experiance. I wish I had worn steel toed boots. I myself was in pretty sorry condition too and I think I didnt enjoy it as much as I could have. If it werent for all the bodies packed in around me so tightly for support I would have fainted and I came dangerously close to falling completely down once or twice when the people in back of me shifted and I had no one to press my back against. But as we all know, if its for Diru its well worth it.

As for cameras...we did several of the old fashioned fan circles that they hadnt done scince waaaay back in the when and Im sorry to say that I dont think the cameras got that at all. It would have been awesome to have that on the dvd. I really look foreword to it comming out, expecially scince I got to have a camera pointed on me right afterwords so I could end up shouting "yeah Mother F8967erws! You better get your sweet asses back to La soon!!!!!!!"

So to sum it all up : I am bleeding, sore, came this close to fainting for the first time and screamed myself horse because I almost camethis close to being spit on by another human being. I enjoyed myself immensly.

I am so glad you had fun, Hide. *huggles* I can't wait to hear from Jessica. I am so happy for all my friends who made it to that show, I may of not made it, but I can always hear stories, and hope to go next time. <3

Oh, did anyone see Riyko? It's just that I wanted her to go even if that meant going without me, and I am kinda worried about her, cause she hasn't been online since Wednesday. So if one of you saw her, I hope she knows, I wanted her there, I just wish she'd of told me what happened is all.

No, she didnt show. The JREfers all had a group of their own that consisted of Joy, Kaine, Drain Away and yours truely. I didnt see any body else.

Thanks for the account! I love reading everyone's different take on it... ohh, I really wish I could have been there *dammit I keep saying that!* >< :sorry: But reading people's accounts is the next best thing, I have a big smile plastered over my face all the time I am reading and picturing myself there! (yes even during the almost-fainting-almost-getting-squashed bits! ^^) Anyway, I'm sure they will come back to Europe another year and I can see them (by that time it might be with my walking stick and personal carer, so I shall damn well hope to get preferential treatment! ) so I can just enjoy everyone else's happiness...

-_- ee yea still tired from yesterday so here's my two cents on the concert..
oh btw I was ^^ the girl dress in black pant/skirt with black sport jacket with braids hehe *_* I didn't see anyone tho What time did u guys get there?? On to the concert I got there around 2:00 because we thought they wouldnt be line but no x_x there was lonnngg one and people counted saying we were 215 but then bunch of cutters cut in line and I didnt make it to the pit ^-^ but it was ok I was good with the floor even if I was getting jabbed in my ribs..They gave water thankfully!! and opening band I thought was too loud I dunno but the drummer was tuned up real loud and was >< my ears!! and music I did not care for so yea..then Dir en grey came out!! the members looked tired but Shinya looked great!!!!they came out at same time and I dunno remember the first song think it was Saku hehe it was hard to tell sometimes what they sang cause it was hard to hear sometimes..and I did buy a glowstick from some girl snuck it in only to get it taken away 10 sec later LOL and yes there was much technical difficulties with equipment and stuff but they made best of it! oh and people say Die got tatoo I did not see one hmm??and I saw few people with cameras/phones and nobody cared so maybe we see clip of it soon..I think the setlist was pretty much the same from NY live but Childprey was the best!!!!! and all the members were in to it energized by the crowd! looked like they wanted to play more but thier time was over so they left threw their picks and shinya his drumsticks really far too *.* he was so angelic!toshiya looked happy and great too he got lots of luv from us which he noticed! in the end kyo was last off dumping bucket of ice water over his head and saying bye bye and leaving great!!! ^__^ in all a great live!!! very lively and music was the best ever I would love to see Dir en grey agaiin!! I hope this will encourage bands to visit America more often.
srry for long post ^^ and forgot lots stuff ..I know still excited/tired from it all..

i hope they make a us tour dvd of some sort..........id freaken die and have a heart attack.... T_T im saving up now for it just in case

^^yea I saw alot of cameras lets hope they do!

I didn't get to go, so they better! If L'Arc can make a DVD of a single anime convention gig, then Diru can sure as friggin' hell make one of three US shows.

They seemed pleased, I wouldn't be suprised if they came back, I am also pushing back my decision on Koln on some hopeful retouring news. I will not be suprised if they DO come back. I could probably afford that more too. I hope they play in Texas again, because I could definately afford that. DIRU , YES YOU! *points to them* PLAY IN MIDLAND! o.o

The dvds will come out soon enough. It was really cool to see the filming process for the concert so up close.

Girl with braids? Damn there were a lot of people with braids. Did you see the Gazette cosplayers? Rawrs. But OMG! there was this one black girl....-_- she was wearing a see through skirt with NOTHING UNDERNEATH. Damn, like, Id BUY you underwear if youd put em on. Plus I heard that she was being really weird too once the concert started like making conductor motions and everything. My friends who were next to her said that she was f'ing annoying as hell.

But hot dog! The boys there were smoking!

ahhh... okay okay... i woke up finally =P at 2 hahahahha i was soo exhausted yesterday... my throat is absolutely raw, my ears wont stop ringing, my arms are sore... and dont get me started on my feet (those high boots were SOOOOO painful.. but it did pay off, i was probably a head taller than the girl in front of me)
going in order of encounter
@joylucky: i LOVE YOU!!! u are my LOVEY DOVEY!!! thank you thank you!... i owe you big time, anything you ever need, just call me up k? im sorry we didnt talk much but im glad i got to see u anyways =) your absolutely beautiful =D ahah with ur lil duck butt hair =P
@hide: you are AMAZING =) everyone... hide is a freaking HOTTIE =) hahaha darn her for not putting her pix up... (a picture of ur back doesnt count =P) i LOVE YOU =D your such a sweety and i definately need to thank you for being so easy to get along with... i was kinda nervous and shy when i first met everyone =P but u really helped me ease up so... lots of love for that! and i love ur gay husband btw =P hes so funny, and OOO cant forget ur outfit.. GORGEOUS! im sorry to hear about that fight u had... but it was a good thing you got in front!
@drain: AHHH CAN YOU SAY.. SWEEETTTIEEE =D haha you and ur friends ROCKED ON =) LOVE YOU GUYS! haha ur so out there =P haha man -_- we were all grabbing onto each other smooshing our way in =P it was horrible! hahaha but.. its all good =D love your shirts =P ahahha
u guys all rocked =) if u guys ever come down here again, i would love to see ya =)

concert: great big PUSH and SHOVE when the door finally opened -_- i lost hide and joylucky way before so =*(... all i remember was seeing hide's jacket in the crowd WAY in front of me... but hand in hand or linking arms, drain and her friends and i just RAN OUR WAY IN!!! the stupid guy was like...line up here at the right side... and then the guy inside was like.. u have to be in the other line to get into the pit... it was SO RETARDED -_- but nevertheless we all got into the pit =D yea i totally have to agree with hide... opium for the masses was actually a lot better than i expected... and they were pretty good =D cept i cuold barely hear wat they were singing =P the vocalist was pretty hot tho =P haha but the stupid bass -_- goodness... it aws getting reall annoying caz he kept spittin into the air and trying to catch it again in his mouth -_- yes... odd boy he is =P but it did get me pumping!!!
i was in the front for opium -_- but then my friend came, and i had to give her her ticket -_- therefore... losing my spot with drain in the pit.. i ventured out and got TOTALLY rammed so i just ended up standing a little behind with my friend -_- it kinda sucked... caz i coulda be freakishly close... but i guess i dont realy mind.. as long as i got to see dir en grey from a pretty close enough view =)
they opened up with clever sleazoid... but i couldnt really tell caz i think... in the begining, die was having some trouble with his guitar.. the ppl kept running out and trying to do something =P but he was TOTALLY SEXY =D god he's sooo hot with his hair!!! and i gotta say... i think kyo and shinya looked THE BEST!!! shinya looked SOOO HOT! his hair was really nice! and AHHH KYO just looked like himself =D and WOO totally made the fans go insane when he started taking off his shirt... i think that was when i lost my voice screaming... and EVEN MORE... KYO STARTED TOUCHING HIMSELF!! WOOO HAHAHA that was hot as hell =D man... i wanted to just jump up there and be like.. LET ME !!! =D toshiya... was just... i dunno... i didnt really notice him... and kaoru was a lil spot light hogger =P hahaha but it was adorable!
omg... i swaer... i started tearing up when kyo did his solo... and when he would sing in his.. crying, "this is truly painfully from the heart" voice... god he really has sooo much emotion when he sings it makes my heart ache... it was BEAUTIFUL!!! but... i tried singing along with all his songs.. at least, the ones i knew how... uh... omg -_- the encore... GOODNESS!!! i swear, i bet dir en grey were giggling in the back... wat teasers -_- it took them SOOOO LONG +( and we just kept screaming and screaming and my voice was gone by then -_- but i tried -_- and so FINALLY THEY CAME OUT =P but overall... im soo glad i saved my first concert experience for them =D it was TOTALLY WORTH IT +D and im sooo grateful i got to meet all u guys =D LOVE LOTS!!!! WOOOOO

Haha, for real though Diru needs to come back, I miss them already the concert was the best. Next time they come we have to have a huge Jref meetup and get together or something, haha. And they will definatly come back either by their own free will or force haha, Ready JRefers time to launch operation Sexy Scorpion Eater, and if that fails we launch into our back up plan of Red Guitar Thiefs. Everyone make sure you have Duck Tape, Handcuffs, Chlorafoam, Chocolate Syrup, Whip Cream, Rasberry Jam (To celebrate our succesful Dirunapping of course )

If news of a retour doesn't happen soon, I have this elaborate letter...I ask, that you tell me if this seems like an ok letter. I mean, does it seem mature, and that I really want this:

Dear Mom,

There is something in this world I will do what ever chore to pay off. There is something in this world that I will do whatever it takes to prove I am worthy.

My friend wants me to tag along for a Dir en Grey concert in Koln/Cologne, Germany. Now, before you close this window with an automatic no, please read the rest and consider.
This is NOT like anyother concert, the security is upped, not because it can get bad, because they are organized. Dir en Grey is not very widely known in Germany, so I will be greatly suprised if more then 4,000 people show up.Besides, my friend, and her mother will be there too, I can take the cell, and you can call at any time.

Now, on to the ways of payment:
I have 405 thus far, meaning I can already pay for the concert ticket.
If my social security check comes, that is yours to pay for some of my plane.
You will have to help pay for the rest.
Plane + Hotel is around the 1,300 area.
NOW HOLD UP!
200 or so will be left after buying the concert ticket, so around 800 or so dollars of this trip will be payed purely by me.
Also, what you payed can be taken out of the next social security check that comes to this house..heck, you can have the whole thing if you want it.
Yes, this means that much to me..
I am willing to work very very hard on proving myself to be mature, I will work around the house for this, I will start taking my medicine tonight for this, I start working full go on my GED again tomorrow.I can have you call this friend so you can get all the details on how this is going to work. It's only a 3 day trip! Jessica stayed in LOS ANGELES ALONE, and got by fine, and Los Angeles is a very known town, Koln is small & not-so-well-known, and I will have people watching over me.Please consider this, I ask you with all my heart and soul to consider this...Don't let this be an automatic no..this can work, and I have really thought over this, this can be a chance to prove to you that I AM ready to be a civilized adult, and I will work my heardest to be that cilivized adult even before the show.Also, yes, I know getting an ID and a passport is required here, that's why I asked months before hand.

Oh, and I also have a friend teaching me every important thing I might need to say in German.This trip happens on May 26th, 2006 And I come back on the 29th, see not that much of an expencive trip, I was suprised about the price myself. ^_^ Now, you have a bit of time to deside, because they might retour in America, and I know you'd feel more confortable with me being in the states. I will inform you of any changes at hand..I just ask that you make up your mind in time for me to get my ID and passport, and also, so that the trip doesn't cost more, because the price goes up if it gets too close.

- Love,
Megan

I am thinking that a retour is a big possibility. Also I am not sure how true this is, but supposedly they are touring Japan in July-August. With them doing the It Withers and Wither tour 06 with the last date being fanclub only on July 31. And them starting the Inward Scream tour on August 1. That in my mind leaves all fall and winter for them to get their (literally) small a$$es over here in the U.S. Also the name change of the tour, is making me think new album. How about anyone else?

Bah! I dont know what to think at this point. I can tell if they really enjoyed themselves or not. ; - ; New album? Damn theyre always popping out a new one when you least xpect it so maybe. I think if anything theyll go back to Europe before they come back here. Sad but true. It seems to be the official pecking order.