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Is it hard to work out the schedules for the two of you to get together and work?
I have to decide which band is the priority at any given time. It can't be 50/50.
And for you (K.A.Z.) it's the same thing?
Yes (English)
Now that you guys have a sense of how things are here and your tour has been doing pretty well, are you planning to come back?
(Hyde) Well we have the large European tour that we're planning for next year, but at the same time we wish that we could come back here.
Since you both grew up with British New Wave and LA metal, do you have certain clubs or certain venues that you'd love to play at, just because the bands that you were into when you were young played there?
(Everyone laughs) Madison Square Garden
I think you have to be Led Zeppelin for that.
(Laughs)
If you were to describe yourselves to people who're reading who aren't familiar with your prior work or with VAMPS, what impression of you do you want them to take away?
I grew up listening to American rock ever since I was a child and I still listen to it a lot. So, I think that I'm playing and creating my songs on the same level as American musicians. My ultimate goal is to build my band to have the same status as America bands. We're often classified as a JRock band, but that's not how we see ourselves. We think we're comparable to an American band, and we want to be seen as being on an equal level with them. That's why we're here and that's why we're doing our project.
Do you have any sort of a marketing plan? Is anyone working on trying that? Because there have been lots of Japanese bands coming over here recently but so far no one has quite been able to make that jump.
(PR Manager) I'm working on it! The band are aware of everything that we're doing.
(Note - the manager and I talked about this later, and suffice it to say that this particular band has LOTS of plans in the works as far as marketing themselves in the US is concerned)
To wrap up, is there anything that you would like to say to your fans here?
(Hyde) I'm very happy and I feel so appreciated that so many people showed up to our shows this time. We will continue creating music that we think is cool, so please wait for more fun from us in the future!
(K.A.Z.) This time we visited the East Coast and the West Coast, and we had a great time playing there, but we weren't able to cover other areas like the Midwest. Next time I'd like to go there and make more fans and have more fun, and I'm looking forward to it.
Do you have any idea when that might be?
(Laughs) Not yet!
OK, well thank you very much.
Thank you.
