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08
Sep

Kobukuro - Ring (Live Version Guitar Tabs)

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Originally Posted on May 29, 2007

I’ve like Kubukuro ever since I heard their song Sakura. Their songs are great and their voices are terrific. Even their live performances sounds just as good, if not better, than their studio-mixed CD tracks.

Anyways, two months ago I found these few videos of Kobukuro’s concert from their Tour in 2004. One of the video is the performance of the song Ring from their major label debut album, Roadmade in 2001.

I like this song a lot and have since tried to look for guitar tabs for this song online. I’ve looked everywhere, English guitar sites, Japanese music sites, non of them has the tabs to this song.

I’ve already started learning it on the guitar about a month ago and finally, couple days ago, I decided to create my own guitar tabs of the song from listening and watching the video.

There are still couple of chords that I’m unsure about, since the video either did not show them playing that chord or the shot was too far that I can’t see the finger positions clear enough. If anyone knows of any mistakes I made or if they can correct me on those chords, please let me know.

Okay, here’s the download for the guitar tabs to the song. One is in plain Text file, and the other is in slightly-formatted PDF.

UPDATED Tabs with corrected chord names and some pluckings on Sept 8, 07.

The previous Text and PDF files I posted here were downloaded 67 and 95 times respectively. Didn’t think there were that many people interested in the tabs.

Anyways, I should have updated this a while back but either I got busy or I’ve procrastinated. Back in June, a friend of mine have gone through the tabs and have corrected the chord names and some of the pluckings in the verses of the song. There are also other major and minor fixes here and there. I’ve only made the formatted PDF file this time because this will ensure that when the tabs are printed, it’ll be nicely paged. I’ve also included the MP3 of the performance in case you still haven’t find the song yourself. Enjoy, fellow Kobukuro fans.

Kobukuro - Ring (Live Version from TOUR '04 MUSIC MAN SHIP FINAL) [Guitar TABS] {PDF File} - UPDATED Downloads: 619 times
Kobukuro - Ring (Live from Tour ‘04 Music Man Ship Final) MP3 Downloads: 671 times
Kobukuro - Ring (Live from Tour ‘04 Music Man Ship Final) VIDEO Downloads: 436 times
03
May

YUI - My Generation / Understand (New PVs)

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Categories: Snake no Bakabanashi and Music Tags: , , , , .

Sony is really pushing YUI. Release after release, singles and album, plus a tour, it’s like she never stops.

Her next single, being a Double A-side, already has the two PVs released. I’m sure you can find those on Youtube or other usual sources.

For those who has the video, the BETA verion of the Soft Subtitle set for My Generation is now available below.

Please note that this is BETA in the sense that it is based on a Japanese fan’s transcription from the PV and English translated lyrics have yet been done. I will update the subtitles once the official lyrics and an English translation is available.

YUI - My Generation (PV) Soft Subs BETA [for 195MB MPEG-2 or 85.3MB AVI] Downloads: 896 times

The soft subtitles for other YUI’s PVs can be found here:

http://www.bakascorner.com/2007/01/27/yui-pv-soft-subs/

26
Feb

Japanese film, Infernal Affairs!?

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It really ticked me off yesterday while watching the Oscars.

When an award winner is announced and the winner walks from their seat onto the stage, there is a background announcer (perhaps for TV only) that provides some extra info regarding the film and the winner.

As they were announcing the winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay and William Monahan winning for The Departed, the female background announcer said that the film was adapted from a JAPANESE film, Infernal Affairs!!??

WTF!? A JAPANESE film?

Everyone knows that Infernal Affairs is a Hong Kong film.

That was so full of BULL****!!!!

And here you think that it is the Oscars after all and they would be well organized and get all the facts straight.

Did they dig up the info from Rotten Tomatoes’ Infernal Affairs 2’s about page??

Even the IMDB site had the Country origin being Hong Kong.

They better apologize to the Hong Kong people and the Hong Kong cinema for their mistake.

It seems these background announcement was for TV only. William Monahan was oblivious to the mistake and did not correct it on stage. But at least when Martin Scorsese won Best Director, he did mention his appreciation for the Hong Kong film.

13
Feb

YUI - CHE.R.RY (New PV)

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Categories: Snake no Bakabanashi, Music and Rants Tags: , , , , .

After releasing the single, Rolling Star, YUI is going to release another new single, CHE.R.RY, next month. And of course, the PV came out yesterday to begin the CHE.R.RY promo.

I was gonna link a Youtube video here, but lately they have been receiving pressure from the Japanese entertainment industry to remove most of the copyrighted contents like PVs and Shows. Instead of embedding the video, I’ll provide a search link which currently does turn up a number of videos of the PV.

YUI - CHE.R.RY PV on Youtube Search

For those who have download the actual video, here the download to the Soft Subtitle set:

UPDATED - 2007-03-09
The Lismo! Version DVD Rip has the same timing as the M-ON version. If you have downloaded the M-ON version of the subs, you don’t need to download it again.

YUI - CHE.R.RY (PV) Soft Subs [MTV Only] Downloads: 628 times
YUI - CHE.R.RY (PV) Soft Subs [M-ON version & Lismo! Version DVD Rip] Downloads: 480 times

The soft subtitles for other YUI’s PVs can be found here:

http://www.bakascorner.com/2007/01/27/yui-pv-soft-subs/

09
Feb

ACI Connection from a Forum

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Categories: Snake no Bakabanashi and Rants Tags: , , , , , , .

As some of you already know, my current JPop it-girl is the cute, lovely and talented YUI. Ever since watching Taiyou no Uta (タイヨウのうた - A Song to the Sun, aka The Midnight Sun) movie, in which she starred, last December, I was completely drawn to her music.

Since then, I’ve spent a lot of my time lurking around YUI-Lover, the first English forum site dedicated to YUI’s music. It is quite a unique forum and has the one of the most friendly member groups.

One particular member, iron_turkey, has a connection to me that I never thought I would find in a relatively small forum like this.

“So what if he’s also from Toronto. Lots of people live in the city.” That is true. But I never would have imagine that he’s now going to the same high school, ACI, that I went to 9 years ago. He also went to the same junior high, SAM, as well. Boy, do I sound old now.

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