Japan trip report, with pics

[Kneel B4 Zod]

this is cool, would love to see more non-baseball pics

[slimon]

I would like to see more japanese food!

[daryn]

holy [censored] dude.. you actually took my advice and went to the silver beats show. that is incredible!! awesome right?

[BretWeir]

These guys were unbelievable -- maybe the best live act I've ever seen.

For those who haven't seen them, they're a Beatles tribute band with their own venue called the Cavern Club, made up to look kind of like the club in Liverpool where the Beatles got their start. Paul, George and Ringo were Japanese and John was caucasian (Australian, I think). The songs were pitch-perfect; if I closed my eyes, they sounded just like the Beatles. And they do something like six sets a night five nights a week, and four sets the other two nights. Between sets, they banter with the audience in Japanese, which is completely jarring and very cool,even though I couldn't understand a word. (Though I think they were ragging on one audience member for being from Yokohama.)