It's the 10th Anniversary of LIVE UTSU BAR! Big grin ☺ Let's go~
A parade of "new fusion cuisine" menu items where masterpieces of Showa-era pop songs are mashed up with 70s-80s Western tracks like TOTO, Duran Duran, and Culture Club♪ That is UTSU BAR🍻
I was saying it's an average seat, but since it's in the middle, isn't it fine? It turned out to be a great seat where I could see Utsu clearly in front of me without anything blocking the view✨
Since it's been two years, it started with Rumiko Koyanagi's "O-hisashiburi ne"♪ (titles omitted hereafter).
A mashup with EARTH, WIND & FIRE's "Boogie Wonderland." I'm dancing! "Dancing might be tough... I won't dance anymore lol" said Utsu.
Guitar Kazuhiro Matsuo
Keyboard nishi-ken
"On vocals and percussion, EX JAPAN Takashi Utsunomiya!" Utsu does the X pose✨
Utsu-sama clicks the percussion machine with a huge smile.
"Are you ready?" we raise our arms as he says "Let's go!" "Poppo-chan" "Wan-wan" "Nya-nya"
From GeGeGe no Kitaro's "GET wild"♪ comes "Oi! Kitaro" "Father!" "Bang!" gunshot sound
Blue Jeans Memory / Kimagure ONE Way Boy / Koi=Do! / Gingiragin ni Sarigenaku / High Teen Boogie / Kanashimi 2 Young / Jungle Jungle / Furarete BANZAI / Shower na Kibun / Orokamono / Ha-toshite! Good / Sneaker Blues / Aishu de Ito / Kimagure ONE Way Boys / Dakishimete Tonight
During THE GOOD-BYE's "Kimagure ONE Way Boy," Utsu waved a fan of Yo-chan from his idol days. Utsu: "How many years ago was this?" Yo-chan: "Maybe 4 years ago!" lol
It was played twice, but in the end, Yo-chan, the character who gets teased, didn't get to sing it✨
TM NETWORK's "Still Love Her"
Tama's "Sayonara Jinrui." Utsu's gentle voice really sinks in✨
Complex's "Be My Baby"
Duran Duran's "Save a Prayer" ✖︎ Shizuka Kudo's "Kousa ni Fukarete." I love Utsu singing women's songs.
I used to sing Mari Hamada's "Return to Myself"... I want to say thank you for the mashup with Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon"!
Lots of nostalgic songs like "Saraba Siberia Tetsudo."
At Yo-chan's call of "Are your weapons ready?" we take out our spears from our bags. I forgot which song it was, but we waved them up and down to "Dschinghis Khan" going woo-ha, woo-ha, woo-ha.
Since it's UTSU BAR, the encore is called a "refill." The refill call echoes through the venue.
From Yumi Matsutoya's "Tenkizu" to Hideki Saijo's "Young Man." Under Yo-chan's direction, we all did the YMCA pose.
This is a picture of the after-party at an izakaya I frequent lately. It's run by a former musician. I heard he has talked with Naoto Kine and KAN before. When I go, he asks me, "What concert did you go to today?"
The customary closing song is Yoshio Nomura's "Yasashii Kiseki." It's a song that calms the heart, so I wanted to share the 2020 UTSU BAR with you all. Lots of nostalgic songs! Like Mi-porin's. It's sad that wonderful people leave us so soon...