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1992-02-?? - [Japanese TV]; Tokyo, JP
studio interview/banter
(note: italicized words are translations. Non-italicized words within a translated section are spoken "in English").
Host 1:
え〜、ご紹介します。
Um, let's introduce them.
Host 2:
はい。
OK.
Host 1:
スマッシングパンプキンズの皆さんですけれども、ね。
This is everyone from the Smashing Pumpkins.
Host 2:
はい。
Yes.
titles:
They were number one on the college charts and they won Best New Group and Debut Album of the Year.
Host 1:
皆さんはカレージチャートでもナンバー1、それからカレージチャートの最優秀新人賞に当たるDebut Album of the Yearも(??)したと…
They were number one on the college chart, and won the college chart's Debut Album of the Year for best new group.
titles:
They have been playing shows in the Chicago area since 1980. Their live shows are incredibly powerful.
Host 1:
いう事ですよね。
isn't that right?
Host 2:
はい。そしてなんか、メンバーの中に日本人の方がいらっしゃると、あのう、お聞きしたんですけれども…
Yes. And also, I heard that, um, there was a Japanese person in the band...
titles:
I understand that there is a Japanese member in the band?
interpreter:
She heard.. there's a Japanese guy.
[Iha starts laughing]
Host 2:
え?あれ?後ろの方ですか?
Huh? What? The one in the back?
[Iha waves]
Host 2:
今晩は!
Good evening!
Host 1:
日本語、しゃべれます?
Can you speak Japanese?
titles:
Do you speak Japanese?
interpreter:
Do you speak Japanese?
[Iha shakes his head]
Host 1:
日本語は駄目ですか?
Japanese is no good?
Host 2:
あっ、そうなんですか?
Ah, is that so?
interpreter:
(to Host 2) 三世なんだよ。
He's third generation.
Host 2:
あっ、そうですか?
Ah, is that so?
Corgan:
He's, um, 2nd, 2nd generation.
Host 2:
あ、それは I'm sorry.
Ah, that is "I'm sorry."
[everyone laughs]
Host 2:
ごめんなさい、ね。
Sorry!
titles:
Why do call yourselves The Smashing Pumpkins?
Host 1:
スマ、スマッシングパンプキンズっていうのは、どうしてこういう名前を付けたんですか?
The Smashing Pumpkins- why did you pick a name like that?
interpreter:
So, how did you get your name of The Smashing Pumpkins?
Host 3:
It's a funny name.
Chamberlin:
It is?!
Wretzky:
Interesting story.
interpreter:
Any reason for that, or...?
Corgan:
Um, god. God's joke.
interpreter:
神の、神の、冗談だ。
God's- God's.. joke.
Wretzky:
God's bad joke on us.
Chamberlin:
We thought it was funny, too.
interpreter:
神がくれた…神がくれたジョークだという。
God- a joke from God.
Host 2:
天の、て、天の声っていう事ですか?
Heaven- like a voice from heaven, then?
titles:
Like a voice from the heavens?
Host 1:
とっても妙な雰囲気を持っています!
You have a very strange sense of humor!
[Hosts laugh]
titles:
You have a very strange sense of humor...
interpreter:
It's a.. weird.. sense of humor...
Host 2:
なんだか、すごい、なんか、 独特な雰囲気が…
It's like, very, like, a peculiar sense of humor.
Host 1:
独特な雰囲気がありますね、皆さん。
A peculiar sense of humor, right, everyone?
Corgan:
That's the American culture.
Host 1:
え、そのホーム(?)ですね、どういう感じが全員言ってみたいと思いますが、じゃ、スタンバイでもお願いしたいんですが…
So, (?), I think everyone would like to talk about this feeling, but I'd like to ask that we stand by...
Host 2:
そうですね!
Right!
Host 3:
どうぞ、スタンバイして下さい。
Kindly stand by, please.
Host 2:
宜しくお願い致します!
(generic phrase w/ multiple meanings, in this case probably most closely "Good luck!")
Host 1:
(?)スタンバイ。
(?) stand-by.
Host 2:
スタンバイプリーズ。
Stand by please
interpreter:
OK, we gotta just, leave you here...
Corgan:
(laughing) Oh...
titles:
Stand-by please.
Host 1:
大丈夫ですか、皆さん?
Is everyone OK?
Host 2:
あっ、あっ、そしてべ(cut)
Ah, oh, and- (cuts)
 
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