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I start getting busy with Fuji Rock around this same time every year. As winter winds down, I find myself updating the website, meeting with the staff and brainstorming. Not to mention meeting with our sponsors and the other various tasks that make FujiRock happen.When the spring comes, I get frustered, thinking: 'It's only a few months to Fuji Rock!'. In fact, the Haya Wari discount tickets has been on sale a couple days ago, and we have to start working more concretely.
Of course, we will update lots and lots of original reports by our staff writers, but I always think that the best reports -the ones I want you to read most - are written by you - those out there who pay for and come to the festival. Of course, we, the Fuji Rock staff, have so many amazing stories, hardships, and unforgettable memories that we want you to hear. Such untold tales tend to pile up as the years roll on. Sound familiar?
If so, your Fuji Rock reports are wanted! This is similar to what Smash did with last year's official program. To be honest, one of the reasons I decided to do this for fujirockers.org is because I was deeply moved by reading the program. In addition, I would like you, the fan, to share your impressions, hardships, and happiness with everybody. I also want those who have never come to Fuji Rock to know how incredible it really is.
Furthermore, we need to let the first-timers know what they need to bring, as well as the plights and pitfalls that come with spending three days partying outside in the sun or mightbe under a storm... Who knows?.
So help us out. Tell us what it's like being a Fujirocker, and how to be a better one this year. I will not set a word limit to your report. Of course, readers often find it difficult to read text on the internet, and people won't read anything too long. So maybe if you could write your report between 200 and 500 words, that would be ideal. Please send your report by email to ORG-master with "SUBJECT:FRF EXPERIENCE". If a lot of reports arrive, I'll be even busier, but reading about your experiences should be very enjoyable and they would help fuel our fires, as well.
By the way, the message below was written last year for the last years programme, but it looks good and this is what I need for this years "fujirockers.org". So here again, pleace read and get the sense of this trial....
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Give us your reports!
We, fujirockers.org needs your 'My Fuji Rock reports'. Something like live reviews akin to various music mags are not what we want. We want something more like your personal memories, wild stories or happy moments from Fuji Rock Experience. We would really be appreciated if you can send some.
For example, someone has wrote about the shooting stars that were seen when PHISH was playing... that left a deep impression. Normally, in our city "usual" life, it is rare to look up into the dark above or we could noft afford to even think of that kind. But when you go to Fuji Rock, you feel like... it is a pleasure to gaze up at the star-filled sky. Then, you find out how relaxing it is to lie down on the ground, drink beer, empty your head, and listen to music, rather than only moshing hard for hours on end in front of the stage.
I now completely understand the reason why PHISH started playing with all the lights off in one of thier own festivals in the States: the starry sky was just too beautiful. (If you did this at the indoor venue, you would be thrown out.) I'm not sure if you had this kind of experience, but it should be fun if you wrote a report on something like this.
Or, I saw a Misika's band member practicing his bass by the river. That was very peaceful. I have also seen a child trying to catch a grasshopper. These small moments are just as special as any live performance. There are so many red dragonflies and grasshoppers in Naeba. When I was a child, we played outside catching them, and when we got older, it was easy to overlook childhood memories such as these. It's sad when you realize that you have forgotten your childhood, and incredible when something reminds you of those formative times. If this happened to you at Fuji Rock , tell us about it.
Another idea is to write something like: 'My Road To Fuji Rock. I heard a story about a high school student who came to Fuji Rock from Osaka by hitchhiking in '99. Aren't you interested in what he experienced and what he saw? It's not as unusual to aim for festival by hitchhiking in Europe or in the US. Perhaps as you make your way back with people you met at the festival, you might see someone hitchhiking just outside Naeba, with their destination written on a piece of cardboard board. Perhaps, this happens at Fuji Rock Festival. Wouldn't you want to read stories about helping each other and meeting new friends on a road to Fuji Rock?
Furthermore, I know Fuji Rock helped romance blossom for some couples, some actually leading to marriage. I feel the festival has this kind of magic. Please tell us if you experienced the 'magic'. Tell us about memories that you think you could experience only at Fuji Rock or about your Fuji Rock friends.
This is what we're looking for. Got a story? Let us know. We're all ears.
written by ORG-master, and translated by ORG-yohei with a help of ORG-jason (March 18, 2002)
