Maximum the Hormone - Deco Vs Deco

Deco Vs Deco (デコ対デコ) is Maximum the Hormone's second DVD, released by Vap on March 19, 2008 as a three-disc set of about 421 minutes. The title is a pun: デコ is a forehead, and the jacket is two shaved heads pressed brow to brow. The logo spells DVD out of Deco Vs Deco, and the third disc does the same with Dam Vs Dam. The RIAJ certified the set Gold, for shipments of 100,000 or more, and it reached number one on Oricon's weekly music DVD chart.

Recorded

October 12, 2007

Recorded at

Zepp Tokyo, Studio Coast, Shibuya AX +1 more

Running time

6 h 48 min

Format

DVD · 3 discs

Disc Contents

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Specifications

Runtime

Appro.421min

Layers

片面・二層

Colour

COLOR

Aspect

16:9 LB (DISC1, DISC3 特選LIVE) / 4:3 (DISC2, DISC3 地獄絵図)

Audio

ステレオ / リニアPCM (DISC1, 2, DISC3 地獄絵図) / DOLBY DIGITAL (DISC3 特選LIVE)

Video

MPEG-2/NTSC

System

NTSC 日本市場向

Copying

複製不能

Rental

レンタル禁止

Discs

Personnel

Transfer & Authoring

A&R

タナケン

Art Direction & Design

Kenji Kiyama (PERMANENT)

Artist Management

1000極 (33cjl), さっちゃん (33cjl), しみゆう (33cjl)

Authoring Engineer

Tetsuya Kudo (SMC)

Camera Assistant

Akane Michigami, Emi Kono, Ikuyo Nakatani, Kenji Omochi, Mizusa Suzuki

Cameraman

Azusa Fujinaga, Daisuke Natsuno, Isao Okudaira, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Koichi Nakayama, Masakazu Kato, Masashi Katsuta, Takuro Iwagami, Yoshiaki Uchiyama, Yoshikuni Kudo, Yuzuru Hashimoto

Coordinated

Kenichi Iguchi (SMC), Yoshinori Asakura (SMC)

Director

Daishin (GOIS)

Director Of Photography

Tadashi Aoki

Executive Producer

佐藤一男 (Vap)

Gag Original

花団

Grip

Shingo Miyamura, Takashi Mikami

Guest Appearance

10-FEET, Bivattchee, dugout, dustbox, ELLEGARDEN, GOOD4NOTHING, HAWAIIAN6, NO HITTER, OVER ARM THROW, PAN, POLYSICS, PROTEST THE HERO, STOMPIN'BIRD, THE WELL WELLS, キャサリン令子 (川北家), ピンクリボン軍, 上ちゃんママ, 津田光枝, 純 (川北家), 花団

Hair & Make Up

Tomoe Kimishima (YELLOW PAN)

Instrument Tech

元・味覚障害ニエくん, マフィア

Lighting Designer

Larry (FINE LIGHT)

Line Producer

末広哲士 (GOIS)

Live Recording Engineer

梁取慎一 (TAMCO)

Logo Design

Masakazu Fukushima (ROLLING CRADLE)

MA

Junnosuke Okita, Yasuhito Izutsu

Main PA Operator

生まれはいいが、残念ながら育ちが悪かった石川さん

Mastered By

タッキー

Mixing Engineer

ヤスくんOK!

Model

John Kaminari (Free Wave), Mekdachi (LAZARIS)

Monitor PA Operator

地球最後の関西人

On-Line Editor

Masaki Hoshino

Opening Theme

SPACE COMBINE

Photography

Hitoshi Kato

Producer

Kazunari Sengoku (33cjl), Kentaro Tanaka (Vap)

Production Assistant

Shigeki Wada, Takashi Maruyama

Production Manager

Yuta Mariyama

Promoter

上島正昭 (DISK GARAGE)

Public Relations

ピスタチオ宮下 (Vap)

Sales Promotion

カオリン (Vap)

Stage Assistant

モリモリ (oasis)

Stage Director

Akinori Takarada (Knucle port)

Still Photography

H.and.A, jon, Rui Hashimoto

Styling

Megumi Date

Supervision

Maximum the Hormone

Supervisor

誠っちゃん (Vap)

Technical Director

Naohiko Yamada

Telop Design

Asako Funahashi

Text Design

Asako Funahashi

Video Director

Daishin (GOIS), スミス, 丹下紘希

Video Engineer

Eiji Hashimoto, Hiromi Kakiuchi

Video Producer

末広哲士 (GOIS), 谷聰志 (Yellow Brain)

Special Thanks

Takeshi Muramatsu of KUBOMEGU, Tetsuro Koyachi of KUBOMEGU, Satomi Tsukakoshi of KUBOMEGU, Toshihiko Morosawa of KUBOMEGU, Takahiro Komaki of SMITH, Kazuhiko Tanaka of SMITH, Akihiro Sanada of SMITH, Koichi Sawafuji of SMITH, 629inc, IMAGE DEVICE, ROKET, TAMCO, MARUNI STUDIO, PAiSTe, dw drums, Sadowsky Guitars TYO, PEACE MAKER, reversal, QUENCHLOUD, LOWLIFE, PUNK DRUNKERS, MUSIC ONI TV

Disc 1: The Bu-Ikikaesu Tour Final

The first disc is the last night of the Bu-ikikaesu Tour (ぶっ生き返すツアー), filmed at Zepp Tokyo on October 12, 2007: the 56th show of a tour whose 56 dates all sold out. The whole set is here, seventeen songs from "What's Up, People?!" to "Nigire!!", with the band's talk between them, and the film ends on a staff roll over the crowd's customary post-show singalong of "Rokkinpo Goroshi". Five video clips follow the concert: "What's Up, People?!", directed by Daishin; "Koi no Mega Lover", "Zetsubō Billy" and "Bu-ikikaesu!!", directed by スミス (Smith); and "Bikini Sports Ponchin", directed by 丹下紘希 and shot new for this release.

The booklet prints the band's own English title beneath every song, and they are seldom translations: 絶望ビリー is "KILA", ROLLING1000tOON is "TSUNAMI", 上原〜FUTOSHI〜 is "BORN TO BE BONE" and the struck-through 包丁・ハサミ・カッター・ナイフ・ドス・キリ is "HONJYO ASAMI". Maximum the Ryo-kun wrote the words and music of all seventeen.

Disc 2: Off-Shot Footage and Ryo-Kun's Challenge II

The second disc holds 92 minutes of off-shot footage (ホルモンオフショット映像), picked from the videotape the band kept rolling on tour, in the studio and on music-video shoots: the case promises their bare faces, from laughs to embarrassment to the touching. Beside it is Ryo-kun's Challenge II ~Ryo-kun's Mysterious Dungeon~ (亮君の挑戦状II〜亮君の不思議なダンジョン〜), a game played through the DVD menus in the style of a retro role-playing game. It is the sequel to the challenge on the band's first DVD, Debu Vs Debu, and it hides treasure videos behind Maximum the Ryo-kun's deliberately tiresome puzzles; the band's site counts four. They are Ue-chan singing "Tatari-kun" to an acoustic guitar, Nao-chan performing "Zetsubō Billy" on her own without make-up, Daisuke-han's "shocking work" "Hato" from a 2001 live MC, and Ryo-kun in a secret interview as an obi maniac, going through the obi strips of his CDs. Ue-Chang, credited under his own name, 上原太, programmed its 8-bit music from "Black ¥ Power G-Men Spy" and "Louisiana Bob".

Disc 3: Dam Vs Dam

The third disc, Dam Vs Dam (ダム対ダム), travels in a case of its own inside the slipcase. Its main film is the 110-minute documentary Jigoku Ezu (地獄絵図), on four editions of the band's event of that name, each open to a single kind of audience: heavy men (February 25, 2006), women without make-up (February 26, 2006), and skinny men and the over-thirties, one after the other (April 29, 2007). The case promises songs the band never plays at an ordinary show, and on-screen captions name them as they come, "Abara Bob" three times in a row among them. Seventy-five minutes of selected live footage follow: the revival show added to the Bu-ikikaesu Tour, at Studio Coast on October 17, 2007, five days after the final; the Koi no Mega Lover Tour final at Shibuya AX on September 29, 2006; and the first release of Vitamin 7, the band's unit with 10-FEET, from the Darts Tour final at Shibuya O-East on June 19, 2006. Parts were shot on home video cameras, and the case warns that picture and sound break up in places. The obi lists one more item only as "???": the ordeal at the opening, as the band's site calls it. Every time the disc is played it runs a four-and-a-half-minute film before the menu, with fast-forward, skip and stop locked out: the band's solemn pilgrimage to "the dream venue they have aimed for since the band formed", which is a dam, while a ticker warns that fast-forwarding through it is prohibited by law. A hidden page on the disc, a "dam spirit" visible only to people with dirty hearts, gives away the way out: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right on the remote during the Vap logo. The jacket pairs two dams that the packaging never names, the Kurobe Dam above and the Sameura Dam below.

Credits and Packaging

Daishin of GOIS directed the video, with Tetsushi Suehiro of GOIS as line producer and Kazunari Sengoku of 33cjl and Kentaro Tanaka of VAP as producers; Tadashi Aoki was director of photography over eleven cameramen. 梁取慎一 of TAMCO recorded the show, 片岡恭久 mixed it at ZAK STUDIO and GREENBIRD STUDIO, and it was mastered at parasight mastering. Maximum the Ryo-kun planned the set and directed its design, with art direction by Kenji Kiyama of PERMANENT. The guests on screen include 10-FEET, POLYSICS and ELLEGARDEN, and the booklet lists all 28 bands that shared bills on the tour.

This copy is the original Japanese edition, issued by VAP as VPBQ-19050 at ¥4,890 including tax. A clear slipcase holds two cases, one for discs 1 and 2 (231 minutes) and one for Dam Vs Dam (190 minutes). All three discs are single-sided and dual-layer, NTSC, region 2: disc 1 and the Dam Vs Dam live footage are 16:9 letterboxed, disc 2 and the documentary 4:3, and the sound is linear PCM stereo except the live footage on disc 3, which is Dolby Digital. The booklet carries the title and disc 1's list on page 1, the lyrics of all seventeen songs, photographs of two models in wrestling tights, and the credits on its back cover. A loose slip, "Please read this first", has five joke warnings from the band: among them, not to watch it all in one day, and not to ask online how to beat Ryo-kun's Challenge.

The Object

Translated Pages

The Japanese pages above, set in English. Machine translations, not transcriptions - the scan is the source.

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