Tim's all northern Japan summer tour facebook diary.
Posted on October 29, 2010 with 0 comments
Oct 30th at 6:00pm -
Location Every musicing spot in Japan I can find. And looking for homestays for one night in each city!
Created By
Tim Janakos (ティム・ジャナコス)
After going to Nagaoka, Joetsu, Yuzawa (I really played at the Yuzawa Station just to get out of the rain, but I sold one CD) Nagano, Sendai, Yamaga, Kanazawa, Toyama, Fukushima, Koriyama Morioka, Matsumoto, Takasaki, Yamanashi, Iwaki and Mito, Timoty is now going back to Koriyama to stay at the house of the Superintendent of School, who is setting up a big concert for me on the 30th of this month.
This will be the last road tr...ip of my 90-day all Japan tour. I only hit all the big northern cities, but I will supend the tour until next spring when I start hitting more southern cities. Hopefully by then I'll have my new CD finished. !
Music Tourに行くことにしました！
今年まで５年間毎年、全国を演奏しながら回るツアーをしたいと思っていたんですが、ずっと色々あって出来ませんでした。
今それを実行に移します；私の師匠が「何者にもあなたを止めることはできない」と書いてくださったように。...さて、どこに行きましょうか。最初は長岡と上越に行きました、そのあと群馬と長野にもいきました。今週末は仙台に行くつもりです、その後の週末は名古屋に行こうかと思っています。
私は背中にギターを背負って、バイクにのって太陽と月と、他なんでも私を導くものにしたがって行きます。もしだれか、日本で私が演奏できる場所（もしくは泊まれる場所）があれば教えてください。
また、ラジオ局、新聞記者、ライター等とコネクションがあれば、私はインタビューに答えたりスタジオコンサートに参加したりしたいと伝えてください。
私はいま、私の古いＣＤを半額の１０００円で売りながら、私の最初のmusic videoのChasing Butterfliesと次に出すＣＤを宣伝しています。
今のところＣＤは私が演奏した駅でよく売れました。一番売れたのは長野でした。
The All Japan Music Tour has come to take me away (AGAIN)!!
I've been planning every summer for the 5 years that I've been in Japan to do an All Japan Music Tour, but somehow every summer for the past 4 years I've had to postpone it for one more year.
Now it is on; as my mentor wrote, "Your way forward cannot and will not be blocked."
I've been strapping my guitar on my back, jumping on my motorcycle and following the sun or the moon or whatever else comes a long to guide me.But after 2 too many motorcycle accidents, I've decided I'm going to play it safe and I'm going by car.
If any of you can think of places in Japan that I can play at (or stay at) let me know.
If anyone has any connections to radio station, new reporters, new paper writers, please tell them I'm open for interviews and in studio concerts, etc. Did an interview with an Asahi reporter in Akita after he bought my CD, also a NHK announcer in Toyama also bought my CD at the Toyama Station.
I'm promoting my first music video, Chasing Butterflies and I'm promoting my up coming CD, while selling all my old CDs for 1/2 price: JUST 1,000 yen.
I did pretty good in CD sales so far at all the train stations I've played at. The best so far have been Nagano, Matsumoto and Yamagata Stations, but Akita was a close 4th and may have been second if the Asahi Reported didn't stop me for an hour to do an interview during the prime selling hours (10PM to 11PM on Saturday night). See More
Timotheus Giannakopoulos last I talked to the manager of the concert they sold 40 of the 50 tickets, so if anyone still wants to go, the information on how to reserve a ticket is here http://tas.dip.jp/~msm/
MSMミュージックスタジオ
tas.dip.jp
MSMミュージックスタジオはアマチュアバンドを応援します。カラオケ、CD作成そしてホール貸出しをいたします。
Wednesday at 2:52pm · Comment ·LikeUnlike · Share
Timotheus Giannakopoulos This is the ending concert of my hour tour and I will resume the tour next spring, hopefully going to more southern cities and hopefully with a new CD.
Wednesday at 2:48pm ·
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Phoebe D. Matsuo SORRY TIM WON'T BE ABLE 2 ATTEND ANY CONCERTS THIS TIME!!!!!!!! BETTERLUCK NEXT TIME(MAYBE, NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!) HAVE A GREAT CONCERT AGAIN GOODLUCK!!!!!!!! THANKS THOU'.......
October 12 at 9:00am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Iwaki was nice like Yamanashi, but I'm hoping Mito is even better tonight.
October 9 at 5:26pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Mito was just like Takasaki, where too close to Tokyo and too many walking zombies.
October 14 at 3:30pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Takasaki was way too much like Tokyo, everyone is in too much of a hurry to listen to music, so I'm going to Yamanashi tonight! I did sell one CD and got a few hundren yen in tips. One of the top 3 worse Friday nights playing at a station. Too many people walking way to fast past me, almost running me over.
October 2 at 3:51pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Matsumoto was great. Made 8,000 yen on Friday night and about 6,000 yen on Saturday night. Just about paid for my trip and all my meals and parking and two toll road fees I wasn't event aware of.
September 28 at 9:22am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Had a great night playing in Matsumoto last night. I sold 8 CDs and got about 500 yen in tips. So this leg of the tour is now in the black and I'm going to stay one more night in Matsumoto to see if I can make more tonight, like I did in Nagano last time.
September 25 at 11:05am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Morioka was interestesting. I was able to do a little impromptu concert with Richie Gill; didn't even know he still lived there.
September 12 at 3:37pm ·
Richie Gill likes this.
Richie Gill Yeah, it was a blast, just like old times! Glad we got one more show in dude :-) Good luck on your tour!
October 11 at 11:27pm · 1 personLoading...
Lori Baxter rock and roll Timothy! I'm so proud of you...wish i could actually travel to Japan to see you. I graduated with my master's degree in the spring, i'm working and studying for my social work licensing exam...no rest or travel for me anytime soon. Good Luck to you!!!
September 8 at 9:46am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I'm proud of you! Do your best!!! Keep me posted Belly!
September 8 at 9:49am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Going to Akita to play this weekend. If Akita is good I'll stay two nights, if it's OK tonight, then I come back and play in Yamagata tomorrow. Last time I played Saturday night in Yamagata it was really nice.
September 3 at 9:45am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos keep going dad. Music saves people's lives, including our own. It's also good medicine for you liver and the rest of your body.
September 28 at 9:21am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Looks like I'm going to Fukushima today and we'll see where from there.
August 27 at 8:43am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Fukushima sucked, but the city south of it, Koriyama was great.
September 2 at 3:59pm ·
Emily Kubo Good Luck Tim! I will send daimoku from US for your successful event. Emily
August 17 at 3:23pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thank you. I'll send you some daimoku back!
August 17 at 4:18pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Going to Fukushima and Chiba next. Kanazawa was a little too big and rough, for an acoustic singer with a tin-can guitar.
August 16 at 11:52am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Kanazawa and Toyama were interesting, but not too productive.
August 15 at 10:08pm ·
Lynette Yetter Sending daimoku for your great success!
August 12 at 10:50pm ·
Amanda Evans Best of luck, sorry can't be there.
August 12 at 10:31pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos So far the best stop was Yamagata. Not only did I sell 5 CDs and get about 20.00 in tips a lovely girl let me stay at her place so she could try to dress my motorcycle wounds. But then after leaving Yamagata to go back to Niigata I got in my Sendai Motorcycle accident (both for the same reason my front wheel locked u...p). So now the motorcycle is out of commission and my guitar is smashed, but it saved my life. When the wheel locked because the fender went loose and got caught in it, I went flying and did a rolling land on my back on my guitar and slip on it a while.
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I meant to write "Second Motorcycle Accident" not "Sendai Motorcycle Accident" but then the police in Sendai made me feel that it was a accident too.
August 11 at 9:56am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Sendai police were very harsh. Though I had a great concert at Heavens on Thursday night, the police chased me out of every where I tried to play in Sendai. So I'm going to Fukushima tonight. Maybe I'll stop off and sing to Zao's Crater Lake, no cops hopefully in the crater.
August 7 at 11:48am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148061505206528
Timothy Rocks Heaven Blues and Soul Bar in Sendai.
Location:http://www.blues-heaven.com/ Sendai downtown where the pretty girls in the long dresses walk late at night!
Time:9:00PM Thursday, August 5th
August 4 at 5:30pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos It was great to see old friends in Sendai.
August 7 at 12:40pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I'll be going to Sendai next week end then to Nagoya the following weekend.
August 3 at 5:56pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Had the greatest day performing in Nagano last night, so I decided to stay another night.
July 31 at 6:36pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos 2nd day was even better, both nights I was able to make more money in tips and CD sales than the cost of my hotel rooms. But if I was able to find a home-stay, I would have made a profit, but didn't. I will do a home-stay next weekend in Sendai, so I can bring home some money this time.
August 2 at 1:16pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I'm hiding under a pedestrian walk way just as I entered Nagaoka City, because the clouds decided to open up and drop buckets of rain on me all that the same time.
July 28 at 8:05pm ·
Kaori Paxton Good luck Tim! I'll be cheering you on from Canada!
July 28 at 10:36am · You like this.
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thank you Kaori. I need all the prayers I can get. I lost my voice on the first 3 days of the first leg of my tour. But the good thing is I sold all the 17 CDs I brought with me, so this time I'm bringing 30 and I can't come home until they are all sold.
July 28 at 10:48am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Leaving today to Gunma, Nagano and Gifu. Taking 30 CDs and I can't come home until I sell them all.
July 28 at 9:15am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos
I sold 1 CD on Wednesday night playing at Nagano Station, one CD on the way to Gunma, when I stopped at the Yuzawa Station, just to get out of the rain, but there were many people there lined up to go to Fuji Rock, what a shock. But then I... sold 6 CDs the first night playing at Nagano Station on Friday night, so I stayed one more night and played on Saturday night at Nagano Station and sold 8 CDs, that is more than I've ever sold playing at real concerts in Japan or in the US. Forgot playing in bars any more, station are where it's at. Fully of beautiful girls too. See More
August 2 at 4:55pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Yeah I fould another baby sitter to watch my cats.
July 27 at 12:32pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Now my exwife has agreed to take the cats every weekend for the rest of the 90 days. I'll always leave from Thursday to Sunday for each leg of my concert tour. Resting Monday through Wednesday.
August 2 at 4:56pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I had to come home because I sold all the CDs I brought with me and gave out all my business cards. Also I need rest cause I lost my voice.
July 25 at 9:17pm ·
Ian K.T. Cheung Lol. You are awesome. Shame I am leaving this week, wish I could have housed you and heard you live!
July 27 at 2:59pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Retiring from the JET program too! I did my 5 years!
July 27 at 4:49pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Was glad he sold 3 CDs at the Nagaoka Train Station, which would have paid to stay in the Hostile he thought he would be able to stay in for 2 days. But had to stay in a hotel instead, which cost him double what he made with the CD sales.
July 24 at 2:00am ·
Takumi Kato Let me know if you come to Sendai!!
July 23 at 3:33pm ·
Yasuko Izumida likes this.
Timotheus Giannakopoulos yes it was originally 2,000 yen so now it's 1,000 yen.
August 2 at 11:24am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thank you. You are so fast!! I have to pay you someday to translate one of my books.
August 2 at 11:25am ·LikeUnlike
Kamada Midori When are you coming to Sendai? Good luck, Tim!
July 23 at 1:36pm ·
Kamada Midori I will basically be in Sendai from 31st to 11th.
July 29 at 11:06am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Oh cool. So you are there now. I'll see if I can set it up for this coming weekend. I have many people asking me when I'm coming to Sendai, and I think it's time.
July 31 at 9:23am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Yeah, a friend recommended a hostel in Nagaoka for tonight. I've never stayed at a hostel and I didn't even think they had any outside of Tokyo. http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/i5031chi/homepage/
http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/i5031chi/homepage/
www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp
July 23 at 11:18am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos only 1,500 yen that is incredible!!
July 23 at 11:23am ·LikeUnlike
Ricardo Kuwabara Sorry man, i'm back to brazil, but i'm sure it's gonna be great! Best wishes!
July 23 at 9:35am ·
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Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thanks! If you have any connection still in Japan, just send them the link to this event and tell them I can come play in there city! I'm going to try to hit small cities on the backside of Japan first and save Osaka and Tokyo until the end of the 90 days.
July 23 at 9:37am ·LikeUnlike
Christoph Berger good luck! take some pictures to the share the adventure with us ;)
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Timotheus Giannakopoulos definately will and some video too!
July 23 at 8:42am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos just set up my first place to perform in Joetsu on Saturday night. Looking forward to a very interesting weekend in Nagaoka, Joetsu and maybe Kashiwazaki.
July 23 at 8:02am ·
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Location Every musicing spot in Japan I can find. And looking for homestays for one night in each city!
Created By
Tim Janakos (ティム・ジャナコス)
After going to Nagaoka, Joetsu, Yuzawa (I really played at the Yuzawa Station just to get out of the rain, but I sold one CD) Nagano, Sendai, Yamaga, Kanazawa, Toyama, Fukushima, Koriyama Morioka, Matsumoto, Takasaki, Yamanashi, Iwaki and Mito, Timoty is now going back to Koriyama to stay at the house of the Superintendent of School, who is setting up a big concert for me on the 30th of this month.
This will be the last road tr...ip of my 90-day all Japan tour. I only hit all the big northern cities, but I will supend the tour until next spring when I start hitting more southern cities. Hopefully by then I'll have my new CD finished. !
Music Tourに行くことにしました！
今年まで５年間毎年、全国を演奏しながら回るツアーをしたいと思っていたんですが、ずっと色々あって出来ませんでした。
今それを実行に移します；私の師匠が「何者にもあなたを止めることはできない」と書いてくださったように。...さて、どこに行きましょうか。最初は長岡と上越に行きました、そのあと群馬と長野にもいきました。今週末は仙台に行くつもりです、その後の週末は名古屋に行こうかと思っています。
私は背中にギターを背負って、バイクにのって太陽と月と、他なんでも私を導くものにしたがって行きます。もしだれか、日本で私が演奏できる場所（もしくは泊まれる場所）があれば教えてください。
また、ラジオ局、新聞記者、ライター等とコネクションがあれば、私はインタビューに答えたりスタジオコンサートに参加したりしたいと伝えてください。
私はいま、私の古いＣＤを半額の１０００円で売りながら、私の最初のmusic videoのChasing Butterfliesと次に出すＣＤを宣伝しています。
今のところＣＤは私が演奏した駅でよく売れました。一番売れたのは長野でした。
The All Japan Music Tour has come to take me away (AGAIN)!!
I've been planning every summer for the 5 years that I've been in Japan to do an All Japan Music Tour, but somehow every summer for the past 4 years I've had to postpone it for one more year.
Now it is on; as my mentor wrote, "Your way forward cannot and will not be blocked."
I've been strapping my guitar on my back, jumping on my motorcycle and following the sun or the moon or whatever else comes a long to guide me.But after 2 too many motorcycle accidents, I've decided I'm going to play it safe and I'm going by car.
If any of you can think of places in Japan that I can play at (or stay at) let me know.
If anyone has any connections to radio station, new reporters, new paper writers, please tell them I'm open for interviews and in studio concerts, etc. Did an interview with an Asahi reporter in Akita after he bought my CD, also a NHK announcer in Toyama also bought my CD at the Toyama Station.
I'm promoting my first music video, Chasing Butterflies and I'm promoting my up coming CD, while selling all my old CDs for 1/2 price: JUST 1,000 yen.
I did pretty good in CD sales so far at all the train stations I've played at. The best so far have been Nagano, Matsumoto and Yamagata Stations, but Akita was a close 4th and may have been second if the Asahi Reported didn't stop me for an hour to do an interview during the prime selling hours (10PM to 11PM on Saturday night). See More
Timotheus Giannakopoulos last I talked to the manager of the concert they sold 40 of the 50 tickets, so if anyone still wants to go, the information on how to reserve a ticket is here http://tas.dip.jp/~msm/
MSMミュージックスタジオ
tas.dip.jp
MSMミュージックスタジオはアマチュアバンドを応援します。カラオケ、CD作成そしてホール貸出しをいたします。
Wednesday at 2:52pm · Comment ·LikeUnlike · Share
Timotheus Giannakopoulos This is the ending concert of my hour tour and I will resume the tour next spring, hopefully going to more southern cities and hopefully with a new CD.
Wednesday at 2:48pm ·
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Phoebe D. Matsuo SORRY TIM WON'T BE ABLE 2 ATTEND ANY CONCERTS THIS TIME!!!!!!!! BETTERLUCK NEXT TIME(MAYBE, NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!) HAVE A GREAT CONCERT AGAIN GOODLUCK!!!!!!!! THANKS THOU'.......
October 12 at 9:00am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Iwaki was nice like Yamanashi, but I'm hoping Mito is even better tonight.
October 9 at 5:26pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Mito was just like Takasaki, where too close to Tokyo and too many walking zombies.
October 14 at 3:30pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Takasaki was way too much like Tokyo, everyone is in too much of a hurry to listen to music, so I'm going to Yamanashi tonight! I did sell one CD and got a few hundren yen in tips. One of the top 3 worse Friday nights playing at a station. Too many people walking way to fast past me, almost running me over.
October 2 at 3:51pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Matsumoto was great. Made 8,000 yen on Friday night and about 6,000 yen on Saturday night. Just about paid for my trip and all my meals and parking and two toll road fees I wasn't event aware of.
September 28 at 9:22am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Had a great night playing in Matsumoto last night. I sold 8 CDs and got about 500 yen in tips. So this leg of the tour is now in the black and I'm going to stay one more night in Matsumoto to see if I can make more tonight, like I did in Nagano last time.
September 25 at 11:05am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Morioka was interestesting. I was able to do a little impromptu concert with Richie Gill; didn't even know he still lived there.
September 12 at 3:37pm ·
Richie Gill likes this.
Richie Gill Yeah, it was a blast, just like old times! Glad we got one more show in dude :-) Good luck on your tour!
October 11 at 11:27pm · 1 personLoading...
Lori Baxter rock and roll Timothy! I'm so proud of you...wish i could actually travel to Japan to see you. I graduated with my master's degree in the spring, i'm working and studying for my social work licensing exam...no rest or travel for me anytime soon. Good Luck to you!!!
September 8 at 9:46am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I'm proud of you! Do your best!!! Keep me posted Belly!
September 8 at 9:49am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Going to Akita to play this weekend. If Akita is good I'll stay two nights, if it's OK tonight, then I come back and play in Yamagata tomorrow. Last time I played Saturday night in Yamagata it was really nice.
September 3 at 9:45am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos keep going dad. Music saves people's lives, including our own. It's also good medicine for you liver and the rest of your body.
September 28 at 9:21am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Looks like I'm going to Fukushima today and we'll see where from there.
August 27 at 8:43am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Fukushima sucked, but the city south of it, Koriyama was great.
September 2 at 3:59pm ·
Emily Kubo Good Luck Tim! I will send daimoku from US for your successful event. Emily
August 17 at 3:23pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thank you. I'll send you some daimoku back!
August 17 at 4:18pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Going to Fukushima and Chiba next. Kanazawa was a little too big and rough, for an acoustic singer with a tin-can guitar.
August 16 at 11:52am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Kanazawa and Toyama were interesting, but not too productive.
August 15 at 10:08pm ·
Lynette Yetter Sending daimoku for your great success!
August 12 at 10:50pm ·
Amanda Evans Best of luck, sorry can't be there.
August 12 at 10:31pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos So far the best stop was Yamagata. Not only did I sell 5 CDs and get about 20.00 in tips a lovely girl let me stay at her place so she could try to dress my motorcycle wounds. But then after leaving Yamagata to go back to Niigata I got in my Sendai Motorcycle accident (both for the same reason my front wheel locked u...p). So now the motorcycle is out of commission and my guitar is smashed, but it saved my life. When the wheel locked because the fender went loose and got caught in it, I went flying and did a rolling land on my back on my guitar and slip on it a while.
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I meant to write "Second Motorcycle Accident" not "Sendai Motorcycle Accident" but then the police in Sendai made me feel that it was a accident too.
August 11 at 9:56am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Sendai police were very harsh. Though I had a great concert at Heavens on Thursday night, the police chased me out of every where I tried to play in Sendai. So I'm going to Fukushima tonight. Maybe I'll stop off and sing to Zao's Crater Lake, no cops hopefully in the crater.
August 7 at 11:48am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148061505206528
Timothy Rocks Heaven Blues and Soul Bar in Sendai.
Location:http://www.blues-heaven.com/ Sendai downtown where the pretty girls in the long dresses walk late at night!
Time:9:00PM Thursday, August 5th
August 4 at 5:30pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos It was great to see old friends in Sendai.
August 7 at 12:40pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I'll be going to Sendai next week end then to Nagoya the following weekend.
August 3 at 5:56pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Had the greatest day performing in Nagano last night, so I decided to stay another night.
July 31 at 6:36pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos 2nd day was even better, both nights I was able to make more money in tips and CD sales than the cost of my hotel rooms. But if I was able to find a home-stay, I would have made a profit, but didn't. I will do a home-stay next weekend in Sendai, so I can bring home some money this time.
August 2 at 1:16pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I'm hiding under a pedestrian walk way just as I entered Nagaoka City, because the clouds decided to open up and drop buckets of rain on me all that the same time.
July 28 at 8:05pm ·
Kaori Paxton Good luck Tim! I'll be cheering you on from Canada!
July 28 at 10:36am · You like this.
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thank you Kaori. I need all the prayers I can get. I lost my voice on the first 3 days of the first leg of my tour. But the good thing is I sold all the 17 CDs I brought with me, so this time I'm bringing 30 and I can't come home until they are all sold.
July 28 at 10:48am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Leaving today to Gunma, Nagano and Gifu. Taking 30 CDs and I can't come home until I sell them all.
July 28 at 9:15am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos
I sold 1 CD on Wednesday night playing at Nagano Station, one CD on the way to Gunma, when I stopped at the Yuzawa Station, just to get out of the rain, but there were many people there lined up to go to Fuji Rock, what a shock. But then I... sold 6 CDs the first night playing at Nagano Station on Friday night, so I stayed one more night and played on Saturday night at Nagano Station and sold 8 CDs, that is more than I've ever sold playing at real concerts in Japan or in the US. Forgot playing in bars any more, station are where it's at. Fully of beautiful girls too. See More
August 2 at 4:55pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Yeah I fould another baby sitter to watch my cats.
July 27 at 12:32pm ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Now my exwife has agreed to take the cats every weekend for the rest of the 90 days. I'll always leave from Thursday to Sunday for each leg of my concert tour. Resting Monday through Wednesday.
August 2 at 4:56pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos I had to come home because I sold all the CDs I brought with me and gave out all my business cards. Also I need rest cause I lost my voice.
July 25 at 9:17pm ·
Ian K.T. Cheung Lol. You are awesome. Shame I am leaving this week, wish I could have housed you and heard you live!
July 27 at 2:59pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Retiring from the JET program too! I did my 5 years!
July 27 at 4:49pm ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Was glad he sold 3 CDs at the Nagaoka Train Station, which would have paid to stay in the Hostile he thought he would be able to stay in for 2 days. But had to stay in a hotel instead, which cost him double what he made with the CD sales.
July 24 at 2:00am ·
Takumi Kato Let me know if you come to Sendai!!
July 23 at 3:33pm ·
Yasuko Izumida likes this.
Timotheus Giannakopoulos yes it was originally 2,000 yen so now it's 1,000 yen.
August 2 at 11:24am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thank you. You are so fast!! I have to pay you someday to translate one of my books.
August 2 at 11:25am ·LikeUnlike
Kamada Midori When are you coming to Sendai? Good luck, Tim!
July 23 at 1:36pm ·
Kamada Midori I will basically be in Sendai from 31st to 11th.
July 29 at 11:06am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Oh cool. So you are there now. I'll see if I can set it up for this coming weekend. I have many people asking me when I'm coming to Sendai, and I think it's time.
July 31 at 9:23am ·LikeUnlike
Timotheus Giannakopoulos Yeah, a friend recommended a hostel in Nagaoka for tonight. I've never stayed at a hostel and I didn't even think they had any outside of Tokyo. http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/i5031chi/homepage/
http://www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp/i5031chi/homepage/
www.aa.alpha-net.ne.jp
July 23 at 11:18am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos only 1,500 yen that is incredible!!
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Ricardo Kuwabara Sorry man, i'm back to brazil, but i'm sure it's gonna be great! Best wishes!
July 23 at 9:35am ·
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Timotheus Giannakopoulos Thanks! If you have any connection still in Japan, just send them the link to this event and tell them I can come play in there city! I'm going to try to hit small cities on the backside of Japan first and save Osaka and Tokyo until the end of the 90 days.
July 23 at 9:37am ·LikeUnlike
Christoph Berger good luck! take some pictures to the share the adventure with us ;)
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Timotheus Giannakopoulos definately will and some video too!
July 23 at 8:42am ·
Timotheus Giannakopoulos just set up my first place to perform in Joetsu on Saturday night. Looking forward to a very interesting weekend in Nagaoka, Joetsu and maybe Kashiwazaki.
July 23 at 8:02am ·
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