{"id":3742,"date":"2009-11-18T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T05:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2010-05-13T03:16:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T10:16:52","slug":"an-evening-in-shibuya-with-opeth-%e3%82%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%83%9a%e3%82%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/an-evening-in-shibuya-with-opeth-%e3%82%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%83%9a%e3%82%b9\/","title":{"rendered":"An evening in Shibuya with Opeth (\u30aa\u30fc\u30da\u30b9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/opeth-%e3%82%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%83%9a%e3%82%b9-in-tokyo-at-o-east\/>mentioned last time<\/a>, O-EAST in the Shibuya area of Tokyo is an excellent venue. Nestled between about a dozen love hotels, don&#8217;t be surprised if you see Japanese business men (\u30b5\u30e9\u30ea\u30fc\u30de\u30f3) in full suits and ties show up at weeknight shows. I saw several on this evening. They hadn&#8217;t even loosened their ties or taken off their suit coats to see Opeth. Perhaps Opeth shows should become completely formal in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Getting to Shibuya was, by far, my shortest commute to see Opeth. It took me about 10 minutes on the train, followed by a 5 minute walk from the Hachiko Exit to O-EAST. Normally I have to drive all day to see Opeth. If you count the miles from my home base of Ashland, Oregon, rather than my current home in Tokyo, I have traveled over 21,400 miles to see Opeth. Of course I was already in Denmark when I went to Metaltown in Sweden, but even so, for the four Opeth shows I&#8217;ve gone to in the states, all included an overnight stay and, combined, logged more than 2,000 miles on my car. <\/p>\n<p>I took one video which you can view below. It begins with Mikael talking and messing around with the crowd for the first minute and a half. The song Opeth then dives into is &#8220;Leper Affinity&#8221; off of <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000068QVZ\/rpcman target=_new>Blackwater Park<\/a>, perhaps their best CD. I apologize for the shakes during the first half of the video. The floor was vibrating. I adjusted my feet for a better foundation during the second half of the video so it looks much better. My <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/panasonic-lumix-dmc-lx3-versus-tz7-zs3-in-the-u-s\/>TZ7<\/a> seems to take much better video (and pictures) when it is zoomed to the max. <\/p>\n<p>If you do not like heavy music, but still want to take a peek, then I suggest jumping in at the 5:10 mark. When it gets too heavy jump ahead to 8:50 to see the end.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"800\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mLxS4d-qw4k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mLxS4d-qw4k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;hd=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last time, O-EAST in the Shibuya area of Tokyo is an excellent venue. Nestled between about a dozen love hotels, don&#8217;t be surprised if you see Japanese business men (\u30b5\u30e9\u30ea\u30fc\u30de\u30f3) in full suits and ties show up at weeknight shows. I saw several on this evening. They hadn&#8217;t even loosened their ties [&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":[134,185,9,30,206,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742"}],"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=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}