{"id":345,"date":"2019-07-22T22:38:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultic.co\/lynch\/?page_id=345"},"modified":"2019-07-22T22:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T22:38:36","slug":"baitoru-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cultic.co\/lynch\/interviews\/baitoru-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"lynch. Interview: Extreme Part-time Job Talk (Mar 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Published March 12th<\/sup>, 2018
Original Interview by Saori Yoshiba and Naho Imai
Source: https:\/\/www.baitoru.com\/contents\/geki\/16.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interview is in two parts \u2013 one section is about the members\u2019 past working experiences, and in the second section, the members are interviewed by a fan named Imai as part of a contest held by BOMS.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Now then, today we will ask everyone\nabout their part-time job experience. What kind of part-time jobs have you\ndone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: First it was a family restaurant,\nthen about four convenience stores, then a billiards place, then finally a cleaning\ncompany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-That\u2019s a lot of convenience\nstores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Convenience stores are\nnice to band men. They\u2019re nice about your looks, your hair, and from a schedule\nperspective, they\u2019re pretty nice when you tell them you need to take a day off\nfor a show. Lots of band men work at convenience stores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-How about you, Reo-san?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: I was always working night\nshifts at the convenience store, and I also handed out flyers and installed new\npachinko machines. Because installing new machines was technical work, the rate\nwas good. You had to wire and install them, but you\u2019d make about 2,500 yen an\nhour even working afternoons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Whoa!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: It was tough work, though. But\nI\u2019ve liked machines since way back, so I\u2019d work from 9:30 pm to 6:00 am on the\nconvenience store night shift, and then work from 8:00 am to 8:00 am installing\nnew machines, making quite a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-So, when on earth did you\nsleep?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: In between times, I\u2019d also\npass out tissues for a real estate agent, too. Thinking on it now, it\u2019s unbelievable.\nI was attending university classes too, so my life was wild, I really do wonder\nwhen I slept. On the other hand, at the time I was sleep-deprived and often\ngiven a hard time on the job, so I experienced pretty much every bad thing I\ncould. So now if things get a bit tough with the band, I can think, \u201cwell, better\nthan back then\u2026\u201d Pretty optimistic. (laugh) It disciplined me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-How about you, Yusuke-san?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: I worked at a gas\nstation, and at an izakaya for just three days\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-I\u2019d love to know why it was\nonly three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: It was a kushiyaki\nplace, so the cooking made my fingers get hot and I felt like I couldn\u2019t keep it\nup. I also worked the kitchen of an Italian restaurant and worked in the warehouse\nof a rug wholesaler. I worked 7 or 8 years at that warehouse. After that was\nthe cleaning company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Gas stations are tough. You\nneed to yell and clean cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: That\u2019s right. This was\nright after I started high school, but I wanted guitar equipment, so I\u2019d go to make\nmoney every day after school. The gas station tough me to be keen and nimble.\n(laugh) Our major clients were from corporations, so I had to remember who they\nwere, if their vehicle takes diesel or regular, so I felt like I gained a sense\nof discernment. I also had to raise my voice a lot. (laugh) But I\u2019m not good at\ncustomer interaction. My only customer service industry job was at that gas station,\nand after I did jobs with as little customer service as possible. The rug wholesaler\nwas near my place, with a pretty good wage, and since I worked there for a long\ntime, I started to get bonuses midway. It was just a few years after starting\nthere that I joined lynch., so I started to tour and got rather busy. But even\nso, they were flexible, so I was able to keep it up for a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-They were understanding of what\nit meant to be in a band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: There were a lot of\npeople in music working there, so they were understanding, and it was easy to\ndo. With the cleaning company after that, the wholesaler folded so I was just\nwondering what to do next when Asanao-kun was working there, so he introduced\nme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-What other jobs did you do, Asanao-san?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: First I worked at a\ncurry place, then a pizza place, then another pizza place \u2013 I did pizza\ndelivery. After that I delivered for a sushi place, then maybe next was the\nprint shop? After that was the cleaning job. For one day I worked in a refrigerated\nwarehouse, but\u2026 I was like, I can\u2019t be here. It was cold storage for fish, and\nI ran away because I couldn\u2019t take it anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-What were your criteria for\npicking part-time jobs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: For the curry place, it\nwas in the neighborhood. For delivery jobs, the big thing was that the wage was\ngood. Well, money is the main criteria. You can\u2019t ask your parents to pay your\nband\u2019s studio fees, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Do the things you learned from\nyour part-time jobs come in handy now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Well, convenience store\nwork is lonely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: But, well, like I said\nbefore, now if things are a little tough, I can stick it out. I\u2019m sure if you\u2019ve\nnever experienced it, it\u2019s hard to imagine, but the night shift at the convenience\nstore is busy. Given the time, there\u2019s a lot of drunk customers, too. I felt\nphysically in danger often. Delivery-related tasks pile up at night, so I was\ntrained physically and mentally. A lot of aspects overlap with being at the bottom\nof the band hierarchy, too. Truly, the feeling that things are great compared\nto how they were then is rooted inside of me. But like Asanao said, you need to\nget some kind of income in order to continue the band. When you start your activities,\nall you do is spend money. My income from my jobs was my capital, and I felt\nready to work hard for the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-It was a time where you needed\nthat kind of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: Right. I\u2019m glad I was able\nto stick it out in the early stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: I don\u2019t know much about\nthe typical lifestyle, where you graduate from high school and go to university\nand then start a career, so I can\u2019t say much. But I\u2019m certain that experiencing\npart-time work before you go out into society is something you should do. I\nfeel like almost everything ends up serving as a lesson. Thing like being\nmindful of time and having responsibility for work assigned to you. There\u2019s an\nendless number of things that doing things for money has taught me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-On that subject, convenience\nstores require customer service, and other place require communication with\nothers, so how was that for you, Hazuki-san?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Deep in the night there\u2019s\nnone of that. I didn\u2019t talk with customers; it was a battle with loneliness.\nFrom 3 to 4 in the morning, no one comes. During that time, I\u2019d write lyrics or\ncome up with melodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Are any of you still friends\nwith colleagues from your part-time jobs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: Just last month, I met up\nwith the people I did the convenience store night shifts with after many years\nand went out to eat. Apparently, they just tried calling me to see if my number\nhad changed. Then they suggested going out to eat, so we met up. We talked\nabout how hellish it was back then. (laugh) Now there are some who have their\nown companies, or work high up in large corporations, so we\u2019re always comparing\nhow good we have it now to back then\u2026 But I think that\u2019s really important.\nCreating a foundation while you\u2019re young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Nowhere to go but up, right? Were\nthere a lot of band men at the cleaning job the three of you did?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: There weren\u2019t any\nothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: That place was insanely\nflexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: No kidding. They\u2019d give\nus pleasing shifts and stuff. I did it until we went major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-It must be a happy thing, the\nmoment where you can quit your part-time jobs and live off of your music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: Feels like becoming a permanent\nemployee. (laugh) I\u2019m grateful to be able to focus on music. Doing it while\nworking part-time was good in its own way, but it\u2019s good to be able to focus on\nmusic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-It\u2019s good because you\u2019re\nworking part-time to fulfill a dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: This reminds me, did you\nquit the cleaning job?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: I never said I quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: We might all still be in\nthe books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: So, you just haven\u2019t worked\na shift for almost 6 years? (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: I get the feeling that\u2019s\nit. Our last indies tour was pretty long. We couldn\u2019t fit in any part-time\nwork, so we didn\u2019t go. I feel like that\u2019s probably just how it is now. Even\nafter the tour we were busy recording and doing other things, so we kept being\nunable to go to work, and suddenly we just weren\u2019t going anymore. So, there wasn\u2019t\nanything like \u201chey, as of this date I\u2019m no longer working\u201d. So, I didn\u2019t really\nexperience the happiness of part-time work being over for me. I just suddenly\nrealized that was how things were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-I see. But there\u2019s no going\nback, huh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: Here\u2019s hoping. (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: But if we did, we\u2019d get\n10,000 yen. Cleaning jobs have good daily pay. We\u2019d clean all kinds of places\nlike convenience story food processing plants and stuff. We\u2019d put chemicals and\nmops and clean up high. I was told if you got that chemical in your eyes, you\u2019d\ngo blind, but it dripped on me lots. I\u2019d just clean while dodging it. That\ntakes me back. Asanao-kun was the leader there, so he\u2019d manage us. We\u2019d listen\nto what he said and do it like \u201cyes, understood\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: Well, if I messed up the\ncompany would get mad, so I felt a sense of responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-I\u2019m sure there are people\nreading this who are working part-time to fulfill all kinds of dreams, so\nplease give them some sort of advice or message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: What I think is, you get\npaid hourly for part-time work, right? You\u2019re selling one hour of your time for\n900 yen or whatever. I think you should be aware of that as you work. That sort\nof sense of value is something I think you\u2019ll understand when you don\u2019t have to\ndo part-time work anymore. When you\u2019re able to use your time to do what you\nreally want to do, the value of your time goes up. Or, well, you don\u2019t have to sell\nit for 900 yen. (laugh) I\u2019ve become more inclined to use my time wisely. Time\nis a very important thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Thank you for this valuable discussion. Now I will pass the\nbaton to Imai, from Dream Baito.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: Nice to meet you. lynch. is coming up on their big 13th<\/sup>\nanniversary live at Makuhari Messe on March 11th<\/sup>, \u201c-Xlll GALLOWS- [THE\nFIVE BLACKEST CROWS]\u201d (this interview was done in mid-February), but I\npersonally feel that bands tend to encounter bad luck every five years. For\nexample, the direction the band wants to take will change, or their songs will\nchange, and then fans will grow distant because of the change. Also, bands that\nI\u2019ve liked will disband after five years, or have a member withdraw. lynch. has\nbeen active for 13 years, is there anything that is different or changing in\nterms of sharing thoughts on compositions and arrangements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: That\u2019s a tough one. We don\u2019t really have any issues\nevery five years. But I\u2019m a fan of a variety of bands. I\u2019ve been passionate\nabout LUNA SEA, Kuroyume, and others since I was young, so I understand how\nfans feel. There\u2019s been a lot of instances where bands have gone a direction I\ndidn\u2019t want, such as a band that had been dark and hard suddenly going pop. I\ndon\u2019t want to make lynch. fans feel that way. Or feel that we\u2019ve gotten boring.\nI\u2019m always taking an approach where I want people to be surprised or impressed,\nso if we do change, we\u2019re changing to make people happier. So, lynch. is not\nsomething I do with the thought that I\u2019ll just do whatever it is I like right\nnow. For example, I never think \u201cwell, I like hip hop now, so I\u2019ll try to\nincorporate it into lynch.\u201d. I think that\u2019s the wrong way to do it. To me, what\nI want to accomplish with lynch. is whatever makes our fans more passionate, so\nthat our passionate fans and us as a band enjoying playing that kind of music,\nas well as the people watching us, can release that passion for us out into the\nworld. So, while we are changing, I\u2019m careful that we don\u2019t change in a\ndisappointing way. That happens, right, where you think a band\u2019s gotten boring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: I\u2019m the type who gets attached to a single band, so\neven if there\u2019s a change I wonder what\u2019s the deal with the people complaining\nabout it and keep pursuing them. But yeah, when you follow one band, you do get\ntired if it\u2019s always the same thing. No matter how much you like them, that can\nhappen, so I\u2019m drawn to bands that can always show some freshness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: I see. That\u2019s hard too. You can\u2019t betray peoples\u2019\nexpectations, but you need to keep finding new inspirations. That\u2019s the thing.\nYou definitely can\u2019t get complacent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: Right. I\u2019d also like to ask about deciding the setlist\nfrom an early stage for the March 11th<\/sup> Makuhari Messe show. I\u2019m sure\nyou\u2019re in the middle of production, but do you ever think about changing the setlist\nor get new idea while you\u2019re making new songs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Not right now. The reason we pick out the setlist so\nearly is that the staff will come up with performance aspects, like a stage\nconstruction plan. Like, if this is the song order, then this will look cool.\nWe give the setlist early so they have lots of time to consider it. So, if I\nwere to say I wanted to put in this song now or change this, that plan would\nfall apart. So, we can\u2019t change it unless it\u2019s something serious. I have to be\nprepared for that, so I do my best to choose the songs while fretting about\nwhether it\u2019ll work or whether I\u2019ll have regrets. There may be members who\nactually do want to change it, though. (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: Did you work out the setlist together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: First I think of it and send it out to everyone. I\nask if they have anything they want to change and change it if they have any\nthoughts. It\u2019s like that every time. There\u2019s time there\u2019s problems with\nswapping out instruments, so sometimes I don\u2019t notice that certain songs can\u2019t\nlead into other songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: Thank you. Next is a personal question, but, I\u2019m a\nstudent now, and in spring I\u2019ll be employed by a company in Nagoya. What do you\nguys do to relieve the anxiety of starting something new?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Good question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: I think first of all, it takes time to get used to\nit. When I joined lynch., I wasn\u2019t really good at personal relationships, so I\nworried about if I would fit in. But in the end, time solved that problem. Although\nI think if you\u2019re the type who can be frank with anyone, it wouldn\u2019t take much\ntime at all. Also, I think if you steadily make use of your capabilities in the\nworkplace, you\u2019ll get a good reputation and people will see you as someone who\nis capable, and they\u2019ll naturally gather to you. I think that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: Probably. Of the four of us, I\u2019m told I\u2019m the most\nsociable. But what I always keep in mind is that if I have even the slightest\nnegative feelings towards someone when I\u2019ve just met them, they\u2019ll definitely\nsense it. So when I meet someone, I basically try to think of them in a\nfavorable way. If you don\u2019t think negatively about their appearance or way of\nspeaking and find their good points when interacting with them, it\u2019s likely to\ngo well. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s many people who act negatively towards people\nwho have goodwill towards them. That might be the way to build personal relationships.\nWe\u2019re off the topic of part-time jobs, but you have to interact with all kinds\nof people in customer service. Once I tried doing it like so, my stress went\naway. I\u2019m surprised by how many good people there are. So this is my advice as\nan elder, when you go into a new environment or workplace, it might be good to\ntry interacting in that way. (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: This is very valuable. I also want to ask, what do you\ndo on your days off? Has anything interesting happened lately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: Recently we\u2019re in a production period, so I could\nsay it\u2019s all days off. If I frame it in terms of going to work, every day is a holiday.\nI typically only work during the day. I go from morning until evening, decide\nto stop when it gets dark, and try to rest. From there\u2026 I play Monster Hunter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: That was a long preamble to just say Monster Hunter.\n(laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: I\u2019ve been working pretty hard at it, but I just learned\nYusuke-kun is way stronger than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yusuke: I\u2019m hunting. I\u2019m always home, so I do it to relax\nwhen my work isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: I have time off too, but I produce merch and stuff.\nThere\u2019s some stuff I want to do personally during my time off, but recently the\nrhythm of my life is a mess. I wake up at 10:00 pm, and sleep at 9:00 or 10:00\nam, constantly. (laugh) I can\u2019t do a thing. Even if I go out, the shops are\nclosed. So, all I can do is stay at home, living an unproductive life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hazuki: You should do something about that. (laugh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reo: Oh, so that\u2019s why. I have dogs, so I\u2019m up early. No\nmatter what I need to wake up at 7:00 am or so and feed them. Recently I\u2019d been\nthinking Asanao was responding to my messages on LINE really quickly. (laugh)\nIt\u2019s because you\u2019re awake in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: Why is your schedule backwards?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asanao: it\u2019s because of the time off. Also, when I start\ndesigning merch and all that, I get stuck and I can\u2019t rest. Because I\u2019ll cut\ninto my sleep doing it. That keeps happening and things get weird. But soon\nrehearsals will start, so I need to get back to normal. (laugh) We had to meet\nup early today. I was thinking I needed to fix things, so yesterday I planned\nto sleep at 8:00 or 9:00 am, but I gave up and just struggled to wake up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imai: Thanks for doing it for this interview. (laugh) I had\nfun talking about everything today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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