How bout that Akasaka Blitz Secret Tour or whatever it's name that we never got any footage from? I think it was held even before Concert Tour 2000? I know it's a long shot but those were the beginnings of hers, performing in front of the audience. I would really like to see how she dealt with that way back then.

They're probably only going to put up things with official releases.

Yeah, that's probably going to be the case.
Either way they still could release that concert with the next anniversary edition of an album or something

You ever just think about how good A BALLADS is?

Yes,and how they made a collosal mistake by not having Haru yo koi on the tracklist

+1

^ While I would love to have a studio recording of it, A Ballads came out a month before she performed that on TV, so the track listing was probably set well in advance of knowing she'd ever perform it.

True but it would have been nice if she recorded that one after already covering one Yumi song... but oh well.

Yes!

And yes!

A Ballads was my first Ayu album! I'd love to see an A Ballads II.

A BALLADS is perfect... the last three songs are out of this world, she was truly illuminated when she recorded them

They could have easily shoved it on any subsequent release afterwards or heck even pull a repackaged version of A BALLADS album , but I guess that wasn't in question back then.
I also think they did injustice to End Roll as well by not including it in the album

It’s possible Yuming is strict with who covers her music, much like Ayu is. That could be why she covered Sotsugyou Shashin instead. From my memory, I actually don’t remember there being many covers of Haru yo, koi. But I do remember Sotsugyo Shashin having several.

This could completely be incorrect, though. Lol

^ It's possible, but Sotsugyo Shashin is WAY more famous of a song - you hear it every year during graduation season.

I’m really interested in what ayu’s dream is. She always mentioned the theme of dreams vs reality right? I’m curious of her ideal world. What kind of thing does she wish for?

Whenever I think of her and dreams though that "I don't have dreams, I am a dream" quote comes up.

Thank you so much for posting this!! It seems this person is posting lots of old videos there is another one with Ami and Ayu on it :D

Yume no Sekai has always been a general thought in her tours as well I believe. Like how she would create a dream world according to the theme of the tour. I think it's most explicit during concert tour 2000 A where she literally mentions it at the opening of the show. :yes

Is there a reason why DAI doesn't compose with Ayu anymore?

DAI doesn't actively compose/produce anymore. His latest works are Sweet Scar and Return Road from 2012, and before that he stopped composing for others in 2008

And these songs are old demos as she stated in interview back then