On Tuesday January 5th at 9 SL time, the live music show “Live n' Kickin” played on a well-known location: the Greenies’ House.To those who don’t know, the Rezzabe Greenies sim is one of those sims in Second Life that are truly must-see. The sim is a huge house where one appears to be mouse-sized. Residents see the world as the diminutive alien “Greenies” do, and can find them all over the place exploring around and getting into various mischief. Since it’s construction in 2007, the sim has been added to, including a Greenie store, a roach hunting game, and small club in an old radio sometimes called "Club G."
For this episode of “Kickin,” Delinda Dryssen brought in singer Takamura Keiko and her band the “Shebangs.” A notecard stated Takamura “started out playing Second Life gigs as a hobby. and enjoyed an immensely positive reaction from her audience while enjoying the comfort of their own home. It also gained her a profile on MTV and a social network of other SL-based musicians. That turned her hobby into a vocation.”
The notecard went on to say she had moved to San Francisco, became part of the community of local musicians, and with the encouragement of her friends in Second Life recently began playing at open mic nights. Supposedly Philip Linden was there to see her first performance, “Because of my semi-stardom in Second Life, I’ve started branching out in real life, and it’s been a wild ride.”
And so at 9 PM, the party started with Takamura and her band singing live and loud from the big record player, with the audience dancing on the cabinet shelf and down below. A couple dancers were in Greenie avatars as well, with others in green avatars of a different kind. Nearby, one of the sim’s Greenies seemed oblivious as he listened in an iPod.
The event can be seen in the show’s archives on the treet.tv website: Here.
So for Live n' Kickin fans, it was truly a unique event, dancing inside a music player instead of just to one.
Bixyl Shuftan
