Teemah, nice to hear you had a great time!
Looking forward to reading your interview. How was the Q&A part?
I had a wonderful time in Berlin as well. I can only agree: Yoshiki is very nice, sympathetic and has a great sense of humor.
After seeing a few Q&As he'd done at comic cons and such, I honestly didn't expect too much, neither from the questions nor from the answers. When they told us that he had just given 17 interviews, my spirits sank. He was in a great mood however, very enthusiastic and obviously quite happy to meet fans. He answered every question elaborately, and even added some depth to those that seemed superficial or even irrelevant to anybody else but the inquirer. Thank goodness, most questions were quite decent.
I was rather amazed at the absence of screaming fangirls …
Oh yeah, the infamous new album … If I remember correctly, nobody even asked about it, but Yoshiki started the topic himself and totally got himself into a downward spiral of justifications and promises …
He was kinda funny though …
I was extremly lucky to sit very much in the front, and he came up to us after the Q&A. (Not sure how or why this even happened. He had practically already been leaving, and the exit was in the other direction.) He looks much thinner than he did when I last saw him in 2011. Fragile and sort of rigid, too. He will probably be totally burnt out after this tour.