Alrigh, sorry to break the flow of the conversation, but here are my belated impressions about Day 1
But this is just imho
Wakana: she was flat a lot of time, and sounded weak throughtout the whole thing. It was like she couldn't pass half the volume she once could. During the first MC, while Kajiura was speaking, she reached for her thorat and made a face like she was feeling something wrong with it. She also sounded kinda weak and shaky in Mizu no Akashi.
Keiko: she should train more her voice placement. The verse that comes after the violin solo in Kaze no Machi e sounded like a radio with a bad contact on the volume knob, and it wasn't the only time she messed up the volume. She also seems to be tending to reach for a more "cutesy" voice, sometimes, rather than just sticking to the deep one. Argh!
Yuriko: she started just ok, but seemed to evolve through the concert, and from the half she started nailing her high falsettos perfectly. Her final Kajiurago in Hikari no Yukue was beautiful
What is she doing amongs those young punks?
/me is kicked
Kaori: she was good throughout the concert; had some weak moments, but overall she did pretty good. She was really audible, what was good in synchronicity, where her background was totally perceivable, but also bad when she kinda shouted in some moments. And when she called on the audience to sing everlasting song, she went off! lol (fanboy note: but she looked hot
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Kajiura: well, guess she missed one or two chords. And what was that idea of having a guitar chord at the end of Houseki? Not to mention that Korenaga hitted a strange chord. She should have kept it only piano. And, to me, her stone cold was really a playback, because everytime her phrases are ending, she stops singing, moves the mic away, and the voice still comes. Why, Kajiura? Fail
And, for those who don't believe, remember that Japanese lives are full of playbacked stuff.
Kyo-sama: this concert made my preference for Masuke grow. I don't really hate Kyo-sama; when he wants, he delivers a powerful drumming, and gives real punch to the songs. But when he's not up to it, all I can hear are cymbals. Cymbals and cymbals all along. Also, he tend to just keep the same beat, without conductin the song through its dynamics. Ah, I don't even know if this makes sense. Bloody language barrier
Hitoshi Konno: I never liked him, but he was really bland in this concert. Seemed like he didn't know exactly what to play. Wonder if his sheet was badly printed
He screwed up synchronicity and Hoshikuzu.
Korenaga: did nice, although he too seemed lost in some moments, like during the piano solo in dream scape. Nice harmonized solo in Himitsu, but maybe it was too long. And crazy improvisation on stone cold to fire things up a little. But what was that all in Hoshikuzu? But nice blues on Distance lol.
Jr.: guess he didn't stand out too much, this time. Maybe he wasn't on a mood to make all those cool melodies. But he did just fine. Just didn't like that ascending scale he did for all the outros.
Ohira: it seems he suffers a bit to mix four voices. When all were singing together, it was messy and he didn't help :/ Also, as Mhlwlr said, the instruments were kinda burried.
The audience: have to say, some guy was incredibly off in the "en-co-reee" crowd
I have a personal impression about this live, that it just wasn't a good day. I know, someone may say that the utahimes are always like that, alright; but to me, even the band wasn't so sharp. All in all, it was great to finally see FJ raw. Surely some of the best $25 bucks I've ever spent, even though the song I most wanted to see covered by FJ (Sayonara Solitaire) got all f*cked up. I could see the real human girls they are, and not the studio magixed goddesses. And I still love them - but I'm pretty sure they can do better :) Please, more Ustream releases
is this the first time Wakana's sung it live with no lip synch? 
not bad
the other girls had some troubles too, but I think it's kinda impossible to always hit all the right notes or remember the correct lyrics etc sometimes can you imagine how many songs they have to remember? :o
