Sunday, May 3, 2026

D List Delicious.

Tokyo Dome is iconic. It launched Cheap Trick's career and in February 1990 the Rolling Stones played there. In March the same year, just after the Stones, I performed there and was also projected onto the famously big screen for the fans, 'cept there were no fans and instead of a concert it was a public culmination of a Japanese government waste reduction plan and the camera operator was bored and spent time tracking me stalking the unwary on the big screen.

The "TOKYO SLIM IN DOME" event was the centerpiece of Tokyo's 1989–1990 waste reduction campaign, held at Tokyo Dome in March 1990.

It drew over 50,000 attendees for interactive exhibits, talks, and demonstrations promoting waste volume reduction, recycling, and efficient incineration to combat Tokyo's landfill crisis during the late-1980s economic boom.

Activities included hands-on workshops for residents and businesses, media-promoted pledges for the "3Rs" (reduce, reuse, recycle), and displays on garbage processing technologies like incinerators amid overflowing dumps.

The event capped a year-long "TOKYO SLIM" push that began with posters at stations and led to annual "Tokyo Waste Meetings" from 1991, reducing per-capita waste by promoting charged bulky waste collection.

Ongoing Implications for me as an outside artist

I may be relatively unimportant, but you know how Japanese Rugby fans are famous for cleaning their sections of stadiums worldwide after matches and carry their own rubbish out for the good of everyone?

I'm deliciously D-list, but I'm part of that. That was at one time my Tokyo Dome Jam.

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