TsuShiMiMaRe blows roof off Yoshi’s in S.F.!

Mari is everything she’s cracked up to be, and more. Take it from Erilaz, who got a little more than he bargained for during TsuShiMiMaRe’s explosive hurricane-force show in San Francisco over the weekend.

 

It wasn’t enough TSMMR got crazy and Erilaz practically ate Mari’s microphone during the day mini-concert at Peace Plaza in the middle of Japantown, which jumped with more intensity than ever with the grand opening of New People, a swank Tokyo-style art and fashion shop that attracted every Akihabara wannabe this side of the Mississippi – and beyond.

 

So, then Erilaz recovers from this first wave of heaven only to be confronted with one hell of a galactic paradox – up close and personal with the aforementioned Mari who wore net another flowered dress en route to be most astonishing acrobatic lede-singer show in the history of pop.

 

Check it out: Erilaz and Rad♂, up close and personal:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3WP_F3VvY8

 

CK♂ also showed up and had his well-planned dinner interrupted by the snarled pit in front of the stage that simply would not be denied. Yes, Erilaz and, yes, even Rad♂ himself got the first in-your-face shoves by Mari as she spent more time in (and on top of ) the crowd than on the postage-stamp-sized stage. Especially enjoyable were the day and night renditions of "Hyper Sweet Power" from TV's "Powder Puff Girls."

 

Bass player Yayoi went ballerina-nuts as always, high-kicking it in both day and night sessions while blistering that bass guitar with a machine-gun precision only known on other planets.

 

The drummers? Damn. Yes, Mizue of TSMMR was at her slugging best, but Red Bacteria Vacuum’s Akeming kept jack-stomping all day and night long and even Noodles’ low-key Ayumi kept pounding it out.

 

It all transpired in the compact but expensive-looking Yoshi’s, a “jazz club” that morphed into a banzai bombshell of a pressure-cooker concert venue, featuring TSMMR as the deserved headliner, but joined equitably by opening-act punkers RedBacVac and the laid-back retro Noodles.

 

Now get something straight right now. Noodles played the best set (at least they sound hellacious on CD) and it was superb retro pop, ‘60s style, but with a low-alto vocal line that just could not be heard through the din. Yoko’s pure but light voice just didn’t really have an honest chance. The tunes remained mellow, though, as Noodles was stuck in between the outrageously impolite RedBacVac and the hell-on-wheels TSMMR.

 

 

Fans got crazy day and night, and even the Akihabara wannabes got with it. Sheesh, New People’s handlers and even MTV Iggy (whose clueless staffers didn’t know the difference between Morning Musume and Elvis Presley) sponsored a Lolita makeover for five lucky American girls who blankly stared through the entire process until seeing their transmutation and glorifying in it.

 

That and some finishing touches by the lethal 6%DokiDoki and techno-wizard and Phantom-of-the-Opera lookalike Omodaka made the occasion complete.

 

Hail Japan. Hail Mari! And hail the entire music world, stood on its end for one precious moment.

 

This is Rad♂ signing off – for now.