{"id":3385,"date":"2009-10-10T04:05:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2012-09-16T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T18:55:39","slug":"anthrax-%e3%82%a2%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b9%e3%83%a9%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e3%82%b9-loud-park-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/anthrax-%e3%82%a2%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b9%e3%83%a9%e3%83%83%e3%82%af%e3%82%b9-loud-park-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthrax \u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 @ Loud Park 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163142trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163142trim-800x653.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 anthrax loud park 09 tokyo chiba japan\" title=\"\u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 anthrax loud park 09 tokyo chiba japan\" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163142trim-800x653.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163142trim-250x204.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163142trim.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been 22 years since I last saw Anthrax live in concert. The last time was at the Omni in Oakland, California. I was a big Anthrax fan then. My love for the band has long since dimmed. Their first few albums were pretty good, but I don&#8217;t even listen to them anymore. Anthrax took some wrong turns along the way, the biggest being their Rap Metal phase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17161520trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17161520trim-579x800.jpg\" alt=\"scott ian scot anthrax live tokyo japan\" title=\"scott ian scot anthrax live tokyo japan\" width=\"579\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17161520trim-579x800.jpg 579w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17161520trim-181x250.jpg 181w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17161520trim.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take many photos of Anthrax. The vast majority of those that I did take didn&#8217;t come out as Scott Ian still runs around like a maniac (as he did 22 years ago). That makes for a great stage show but not good picture taking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17164332trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17164332trim-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 anthrax john bush scott ian\" title=\"\u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 anthrax john bush scott ian\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17164332trim-800x607.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17164332trim-250x189.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17164332trim.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the rap influences, I also have never been a big fan of any of Anthrax&#8217;s half dozen, or more, singers. John Bush isn&#8217;t bad I suppose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163118.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163118.JPG\" alt=\"\u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 anthrax mixing board tokyo japan loud park 2009 09\" title=\"\u30a2\u30f3\u30b9\u30e9\u30c3\u30af\u30b9 anthrax mixing board tokyo japan loud park 2009 09\" width=\"594\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163118.JPG 594w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/17163118-185x250.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was standing right in front of the mixing board for several bands at <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/loudpark\/>Loud Park<\/a>. The sound was pretty poor standing any closer to the stage than the mixing board. At one point I turned around, and this Japanese guy working the mixing board was head banging and singing along. I&#8217;ve never seen that before. I had to laugh. You can&#8217;t really see him bouncing his head in this picture, but he was. Trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 22 years since I last saw Anthrax live in concert. The last time was at the Omni in Oakland, California. I was a big Anthrax fan then. My love for the band has long since dimmed. Their first few albums were pretty good, but I don&#8217;t even listen to them anymore. Anthrax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[424,191,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}