FRF '99 Green Stage Ska & dust [1999.7.31 12:24] Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra opened the centerpiece day of the Fuji Rock Festival 99 on the Green Stage. The audience was considerably larger owing mainly to an influx of weekenders from the capital. The skies were blue and cloudless, and the sun was merciless. Because there was no rain the day before, the ground had dried up and the increased volume of feet kicked up huge clouds of occasionally choking dust. This may have been a health problem for those dancing their asses off. "Skapara" started off not with ska but with jump blues, proceeded into the kind of spy movie theme music that isn't purely ska but which ska orchestras of all nationalities and temperaments seem to have revived single-handedly, and then entered the not so rarefied genre of ska itself, all without once slipping off the rapid 2-and-4 beat. With their antic air (the keyboard player ocassionally runs back-and-forth across the stage carrying his old-fashionedly bulky instrument) and matching silver lame suits, the group is built for entertainment and the audience, not quite defeated by the early morning rays, kicked up its heels in grand style, as well as more dust than normally tolerable. Billows of the stuff hung over the mosh pit, but fortunately the ever resourceful security crew had brought a water cannon today and doused the front rows liberally. Smart thinking, cause it's going to be a long, hot, grimy day. 1999.7.31 Reported by Phil 無断転載を禁じます。 They may not be reproduced in any form whatsoever.

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