It's unfortunate that later his voice changed, after the treatments he's had (I remember that livestreamed Rockmaykan mini-gig was especially rough), but it can't be helped I guess. Although I think I saw some snippets of more recent lives and he sounded a bit better again.

I recently had the intent to watch Shinya's last live (from last spring), but I'm still hesitant... :')

@Jigsaw said:

some of the later post-reunion albums are a bit weaker to me (but those have their own unique atmosphere too, and there's always a handful of bops & bangers).

I sort ran into their later stuff at first by accident because I'd initially written it off with the old adage that old guys doing a reunion = washed.

Does it hold a candle to their initial run? No, but almost nothing in vk does. It's still got some merits. I'm particularly fond of this performance primarily due to how crazy Ryuichi's performance is.

@whirlingblack Hope you'll make it to one of those shows one day, if they still do them!

I'm kind of hoping that they're firmly in the self-tribute phase by now, they really have nothing more they need to prove musically, unless they come up with something really good they feel the need to release, I'm good with their discography staying the way it is. If I did ever manage to get to see them, I absolutely would prefer to see stuff from their original run take up the vast majority of the setlist.

Very consistent band too, maybe SHINE and some of the later post-reunion albums are a bit weaker to me (but those have their own unique atmosphere too, and there's always a handful of bops & bangers).

So sad about Shinya too... I'm curious how they'll proceed.