I saw these guys twice. I love the bass player! Three of my Asian friends saw them each time. We we're one of the few Asians who attended. We loved punk and supported any Asian punk bands in LA. At the end of the show, a few caucasian girls walked by as we we're talking out in the street, and they said to us, "Great show!" We were confused, until we looked our friend, Carl, who is short and has long hair. We busted up laugh, nearly crying. "They think you're the bassist!" The riot grrls saw their mistake and kept walking, embarrassed. Carl in his ascerbic way was dumbfounded and we laughed in a total meltdown. The second time we saw Melt Banana was at Silver Lake (L.A.). There were at least 4 other local bands who were okay. But when MB stepped on and they did three precision songs under 2 minutes, I saw several them slack jawed. They realized they were outclassed and out punked. After the shows, they were super nice like most Japanese are. Agata talked to us about how he is inspired by pure NY no wave. That explains they're style best, mixed with Japanese punk and precision.
I'm STILL in love with rika . Singer gets all the praise, believe she deserves praise, she isgenius, unique, crazy and collected all at the same time, but MAN rika has always destroyed. She is super beautiful and a full on badass. ,
I put this on not realizing where it was shot, then saw myself!
I saw these guys twice. I love the bass player! Three of my Asian friends saw them each time. We we're one of the few Asians who attended. We loved punk and supported any Asian punk bands in LA. At the end of the show, a few caucasian girls walked by as we we're talking out in the street, and they said to us, "Great show!" We were confused, until we looked our friend, Carl, who is short and has long hair. We busted up laugh, nearly crying. "They think you're the bassist!" The riot grrls saw their mistake and kept walking, embarrassed. Carl in his ascerbic way was dumbfounded and we laughed in a total meltdown. The second time we saw Melt Banana was at Silver Lake (L.A.). There were at least 4 other local bands who were okay. But when MB stepped on and they did three precision songs under 2 minutes, I saw several them slack jawed. They realized they were outclassed and out punked. After the shows, they were super nice like most Japanese are. Agata talked to us about how he is inspired by pure NY no wave. That explains they're style best, mixed with Japanese punk and precision.
My favorite live video of this song, lots of Rika Hamamoto video, she is awesome on bass. Too bad she is not in the band anymore.
Absolutely. She's killing it here.
I'm STILL in love with rika . Singer gets all the praise, believe she deserves praise, she isgenius, unique, crazy and collected all at the same time, but MAN rika has always destroyed. She is super beautiful and a full on badass. ,
Been wondering what tuning is she using since discovering them on 2009 lol. Badass and UNDERRATED for real indeed.
agreed i saw em 2002 fucked my girlfriend right up... i think thats when i lost her - she just couldnt understand i loved this so bad!
Dude tryna get her spit water on his hands was k8nda odd
Seeing them live again in June :)
Extraordinary
righteous!
LOUD groove !!
Yako looks absolutely munted in this!
What venue is this?!!! It looks like the absolute best venue ever
Detroit, Magic Stick - no idea why I didn't mention it in the info box (I'll add it now)
1:54 lol
im might comment every day just so
11 comments for shame humanity for shame!
damn
What a load of shite. Love it.
I need this in HD. Yasuko is so hot. My noise rock waifu.
Cringe
At least if you screw up playing no one would notice.
My favorite live video of this song, lots of Rika Hamamoto video, she is awesome on bass. Too bad she is not in the band anymore.