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Heath / Re: Did Toshi attend Heath's memorial?
« on: November 28, 2023, 11:07:39 PM »
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2304116/full/

Seems like Toshi didn't attend, nor said anything.
I was always criticizing Yoshiki for every single egomaniac attitude he had since X reunion. But Toshi didn't showing up at Heath's memorial, even alone, shows he isn't innocent as most of us thought he was.
He didn't act like that even when he was in a cult, so what the actual fuck happened he can't even pay respects to his deceased bandmate (as it looks like he didn't consider even a friend)?

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Yoshiki / Re: A swan only sings one time... [Yoshiki sings ANGEL]
« on: July 03, 2023, 06:23:20 PM »
He probably did it because nobody wants to work with him anymore. Eveything he does is a shitshow and after milking hide's legacy for years, now he promotes the mourning for his mother.

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News / Re: Angel will be released on July 28th
« on: June 29, 2023, 05:05:48 PM »
It can always get worse
https://twitter.com/YoshikiOfficial/status/1674307176977022976

Yoshiki says he will sing Angel on TV.

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hide / hide discography available on streaming platforms
« on: May 27, 2023, 01:31:03 AM »
Just to share that starting today, hide full discography is available on the big music streaming platforms (Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Youtube Music. Maybe Tidal also).

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News / Re: Angel will be released on July 28th
« on: May 27, 2023, 12:56:53 AM »
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/871559f4be35e713828d815a48fc34bed90099c9

Things don't look good, according to some "music insiders" in Japan.


Here's a translation by /u/girlinium, from Reddit.

Quote
    His distinctive high tone voice was unique and irreplaceable. There was a time when the group broke up, saying they could not continue without him. But the passage of time has drastically changed the distance between them. As fans around the world watched, one issue with X JAPAN's "new music" surfaced anew...

    'X JAPAN's first new song in eight years, 'Angel', will be released on 28 July'. The announcement, which was made with a lot of enthusiasm in Yoshiki's voice, was greeted with cheers and applause from the audience. However, the man himself seemed to be somewhat unfazed by the announcement, although the corners of his mouth turned up for a moment.

    On 16 May, YOSHIKI of X JAPAN held a press conference at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, US, to announce the release of a new single as X JAPAN. This will be the band's first single release since BORN TO BE FREE in November 2015.

    X JAPAN has not been active publicly as a band since their live concert at Makuhari Messe in September 2018, and YOSHIKI's surprise announcement prompted some to ask if the band was restarting activities.

    However, the release of this new song was fraught with problems. There was even a risk that it could lead to a break-up, let alone a relaunch.

    However, this new song is not purely a "new song".

    "Originally created around 2005 by YOSHIKI-san, the song was performed at X JAPAN's live concert at Yokohama Arena on 1 December 2015. It was a ballad with a calm tone, and vocalist Toshl, 57, played clear high notes to YOSHIKI's piano solo. Some fans shed tears at the live venue, and since that time, there have been many requests for the song to be released on an album" (music insider).

    X JAPAN was formed by childhood friends YOSHIKI and Toshl, and when the band made its major label debut in 1989, it quickly became a major breakthrough. However, when Toshl left the band in 1997 at the height of its popularity due to a 'brainwashing scandal', YOSHIKI chose to break up the group, citing that there was no replacement vocalist. The group later reunited in 2007, ten years after Toshl's return, and continued their activities, but have not been active publicly since 2018. The reason lies within the band's contractual structure.

    "X JAPAN has taken the unusual form of having each member individually sign a contract with a music publishing company controlled by YOSHIKI. In the course of their activities, there were frequent problems, such as non-payment of rights, and despite repeated discussions between YOSHIKI and the members, there was no improvement. The band has not been active since 2018 for contractual reasons" (aforementioned music insider).

    This situation has not changed even now, the music insider also says. The band is unable to perform or record as a band. So what will happen to the release of new songs?

    "The members responded to YOSHIKI's request and completed the song after sharing their opinions. There is a possibility that the recorded version from that time will be released, or that it will be rearranged and released". (music insider)

    On the other hand, some people are predicting a "disappointing case" that will make fans unhappy.

    At the press conference announcing the new release, YOSHIKI performed a short version of "Angel" on his piano. The vocalist for the song was not Toshl, but Beverly (28), a female singer from the Philippines.

    No offers have been made to Toshl.

    In 2018, YOSHIKI took charge of the theme song "Red Swan" for the popular anime "Shingeki no Kyojin season 3", but because the contract with Toshl was not renewed, he used L'Arc~en~Ciel's hyde (54) as vocalist. The band attempted to release the song under the name 'X JAPAN feat. HYDE', but after a flood of criticism from fans, the name was hastily changed to 'YOSHIKI feat. HYDE'.

    "There is a possibility, again, that they are considering releasing the album with 'X JAPAN' as the title first and Beverly as a featured artist, and it is inevitable that there will be criticisms like in 2018, but looking at the current situation that YOSHIKI is in, it cannot be said that it won't happen." (entertainment industry insider).

    Last November, YOSHIKI formed the four-piece band THE LAST ROCKSTARS with HYDE and others, with the goal of "going global from Japan".

    However, sales of the first single, which was distributed simultaneously worldwide, were sluggish, and the tour of Japan and the USA, which took place from January to February this year, saw many empty seats at venues.

    "YOSHIKI said in an interview that he was "trying to make a second song", but the future looks grim. In this situation, he is preparing for a world tour of classical performances starting in October. He may be wanting to draw attention to the name of X JAPAN, which has news value" (entertainment industry insider).

    In recent years, a significant discrepancy has emerged between YOSHIKI and the other members in the way they relate to X JAPAN. While YOSHIKI frequently mentions X JAPAN in the media, the members keep their distance from the band and continue their solo activities. The sense of unity as a band seems to be fading year by year.

    In fact, on the occasion of this release, YOSHIKI sent an email to the band members. The content of the email "reflects the band's sad situation", reveals another music insider.

    YOSHIKI informed the members of the release of 'Angel' only a few days before the press conference. The communication was by e-mail, and it was not a request, but an inorganic report: "We're going to release 'Angel'". There was no explanation as to whether they were going to release a track recorded several years ago or whether they were going to make a new recording. The band members are said to be puzzled, but are taking a step back and watching his actions, thinking that it is "typical of YOSHIKI". They are looking forward to seeing how the song will be released.

    Incidentally, it is believed that Toshl has not received any offers to be the vocalist at the moment.

    The legendary band continues in disagreement. The members will soon reach their 60th birthdays.

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News / Re: Angel will be released on July 28th
« on: May 22, 2023, 05:02:24 PM »
Wow I can't believe we are talking about a new release here. But I wont believe it fully until I bought the single. ^^°

If an actual physical single is released. All of X singles released after the reunion where only available on streaming platforms or iTunes.

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News / Re: Angel will be released on July 28th
« on: May 17, 2023, 11:41:04 PM »
I guess it comes down to whatever contract they had and that maybe Toshi couldn't stop the release even if he wanted?

No word from him about the release...I am not even surprised.
Pata didn't either, but he isn't that active on Twitter.
Sugizo didn't post anything either.

Even the "official" announcement sounded so "formal".
Everything about it is super weird.

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News / Re: Angel will be released on July 28th
« on: May 16, 2023, 03:16:36 PM »
So their lawyers got some shit together enough to release a single, but not the album, or even performing together again...

... or will Yoshiki simply release the single with another singer like Red Swan?

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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« on: May 16, 2023, 03:14:40 PM »
I remember an interview where Yoshiki said that bringing X to the west was hard because of many things, including "one member which doesn't care about touring worldwide" or something like this.

Heath is the only one who nobody knows anything about him besides X. What is he doing? Why is he the only one who doesn't have any social media at all?
Pata was late, but at least he is now active on Instagram. But Toshi is a weird case. He deleted all photos and mentions about X from his social media, from his website, from his blog, which are all only in japanese. Yoshiki and Sugizo posts are japanese and english. Sugizo is the newest member and yet he still presents himself as "guitarist of Luna Sea and X JAPAN". Damn, even Maiko presents herself as "keyboardist for X JAPAN" on her social media and sometimes posts in english and replies X fans who asks her questions.

Why in hell Toshi, one of the founding members, pretends X never existed? I always thought the "member who didn't care about touring worldwide" was Heath because he is too quiet, but sometimes I think it may be Toshi...

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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« on: May 05, 2023, 11:50:28 AM »
if Toshi is really done with  X Japan - and IMO a lot of his behaviour speaks for it - then why doesn't he officially leave the band?
Wouldn't be the first time....

He isn't in the band. None of the so-called "members" are in the band. The complete X universe is owned by Yoshiki Hayashi since about 2009-ish I think... The other guys are hired for gigs and studio sessions.

Yet he should act like an adult and say something about it.

May 2nd just passed. 25 years of hide passing away. Toshi only activities on social media were about food.

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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« on: March 06, 2023, 06:20:57 PM »
The typhoon wasn't anyone's fault, but the usual thing to do would be postpone the concert in a case like this. It looked like they couldn't perform later if they didn't at that time.

It didn't took long after this concert for Toshi to remove everything related to X from his networks and refusing to talk about X.

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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« on: February 26, 2023, 11:41:24 PM »
I think Yoshiki's huge ego is what screwed X this time, although Toshi could be more reasonable, as X reunion is what saved him from a lot of trouble with HoH.
Let's face it: X reunion was huge at first, but it ultimately was a sucesssion of failures. The first Tokyo Dome concerts started badly, with the fake collapse from Yoshiki because the concert started two hours late and they couldn't perform the whole planned setlist. The guest guitarists who mostly played power chords during X because they didn't have enough time to rehearse, the fashion shows during the concerts. The excessive use of hide playback, even when there was no visual clue at all. Sugizo officially joined the band in 2009, but only in 2011 he started to play all the songs.

When things started to get better, around 2014/2015, MSG, Japan Tour, things going on, we had the "X Day" which happened an year late and without the album release, then the concerts, the media, the announcements, the movies and everything else being related only to Yoshiki, as HE was the band and the other members were just his minions. The concert which should be a celebration of 10 years of reunion became "The Yoshiki ressurection concert", all the cameras, all the videos on the screens... Yoshiki everywhere. Everything was about him.

Then Red Swan came, the cherry on the top of the shit cake. Announcing Red Swan as an X JAPAN song was basically Yoshiki saying that X was himself, no matter who else was playing with him. The members' contract expired and now he has to deal with legal issues and years of work being trashed because he didn't release the album at the right time and their last performance being an empty concert where all the members were clearly uncomfortable and just being there because they had a contract to fulfill.

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hide / Re: Green Hair
« on: February 26, 2023, 11:31:59 PM »
AFAIK, this picture is from the February 24th 1996 concert, at Osaka Jo-Hall.
Seems like he played a couple of concerts during Dahlia Tour with the green hair while he was also working on recording Genkai Haretsu PV.

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Yoshiki / Re: What happened to Extasy Records?
« on: November 08, 2022, 12:28:30 PM »
The 'CEO KOUKI HAYASHI' on the banner is just bizarre.

EDIT: Everything is just bizarre. Looks like Kouki promoting himself using Extasy name. He even send messages directly to Yoshiki using this account and isn't followed by any other musician. Not even Yoshiki.

Or this is a weird freakout by Kouki or even someone else using their name.

The latest tweets (October 26th) are about the supposed Kouki saying that "after their mother's funeral he wanted to recreate Extasy Records his way" and says he is sorry for "using their fans without Yoshiki's permission".

SO
WEIRD

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hide / Re: Hide no Heya with Pata
« on: June 06, 2021, 12:19:34 AM »
First concert (Blue Night) is a cover of Draw the Line, by Aerosmith, as denaskiss said.
On the second night, they play the hide version of Celebration. The intro song is "Cherokee Dance" by Bob Landers, and after Celebration two songs play when hide is leaving the stage. The first one I couldn't recognize, but the second one is "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procul Harum.

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General chat / Re: Unplayable X songs on spotify
« on: November 27, 2020, 11:44:58 AM »
Until few months ago, Blue Blood and Jealousy were the only albums which had licenses to streaming services outside of Japan.
Recently X Singles also appeared. Probably their contract with Sony is the only one which allows it. Which is kinda bad, as they are trying to grow in west.

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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: October 26, 2020, 10:21:47 PM »
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/f3659851aab154328aeb206f33fdd2e72426a15e

This is about Yoshiki's photobook, if anyone is interested😁, but I prefer to read the comments, there are still questions about album X 😏

lol, each and every single comment is about the album  :D
more and more people are getting visibly upset about the whole ordeal.

I wonder if Yoshiki will address this again...

He just announced some Yoshikitty stuff.
What a joke this guy became.

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Yoshiki / Re: Yoshiki's Myspace Blog- Archive
« on: October 14, 2020, 02:27:50 PM »
I like how in 2006 he talked about the Violet UK album like he talks about the X album today. "Almost done".

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Yoshiki / Re: Why hasn't Yoshiki released a new album?
« on: October 14, 2020, 01:49:14 PM »
Thank you for sharing this video, Alexsis.

Wow... I mean where to even begin with this dumpster fire of a video. It's kind of surreal for me, and so many others here who've been waiting for the better part of a decade for the new album to finally see ONE video where Yoshiki tries to address it. First, I think he's had a little too much wine leading up to this clip as he's not very coherent. To me it sounds as though other members got tired of his gruelling perfectionism and usual dictatorship over absolutely everything and got bored of nothing substantial ever happening. I think there's some truths to that rumour of legal issues with each members' management as well.

I still stand by my theory that Yoshiki was/is looking for a 'perfect storm' of events and timing to release the album; a perfect storm that may never come. I think he's in some fantasy mindset where he'll make some big splash into the US market and become huge in the West. As an artist, you don't wait for those scenarios, you create them because your music/art is so captivating and so cathartic, just as all great artists/bands have done in the past. Yoshiki should damn well know this after X's history from 1987-1997. He literally changed the music scene in Japan! Otherwise, just look at The Beatles to Nirvana to Ed Sheeran (and many others in between). I truly don't think Yoshiki is OK with only being a success in a niche market today. I think he's scared of releasing the album and it not having any substantial impact in the USA, which ties into my final thought...

That Yoshiki has become a sellout, and it's so painfully obvious in everything he's done for the past 10 years. Let me just state that I don't expect every major rock star, especially from a 'punk rock' background to just continue living in the ways they started, but when it comes to stringing along the fans that gave you all of this fame? That's where I draw the line. He literally says in the video, after wryly asking us to trust him, to just "let me enjoy these other things as an artist, the YoshikiMono, wine, credit card..." and then he even admitted he's a sellout! "I was like a rebel as a teenager so pretty amazing I have my own credit card." Who the fxck cares about your Rakuten Mastercard. It's probably a shitty signup bonus and redemption anyway...

Real talk, no X Japan fan is trying to stop you from having activities outside of the band but it's been a DECADE. Entire bands form, reach their peak of success and disband in less time. I should just have the guts to let it go and not care anymore...and there's months that go by where I don't care, but as a true fan, the enjoyment of X's music always comes rushing back and when it does, so does this torrent of intense frustration with Yoshiki. I have to learn to somehow lower my expectations.

I couldn't have said it better.

And isn't only the waiting: he gave a date for it. March 11th 2016. People paid for a concert that didn't happened and was postponed to AN YEAR later. He could have hired another guitarist to play Pata's parts (as he quickly did when hired Miya to play Sugizo's part in Coachella which was way less relevant). But he choose to postpone the concert for an year. So an year later, people paid again (not only the tickets, but the whole trip, as people from many countries went there). It would be the concert for the album release. And no album at all, just a documentary which shows how amazing HE is and sometimes there were another members in the band.

There is no excuse for what he has done. There is no excuse for what he is still doing. If there are legal troubles, be honest about it. Just say some shit happened, stop waiting for the "perfect time" and lying to the fans who made you what you are today.

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On the Verge of Destruction / Re: Missing on DVD
« on: July 17, 2020, 07:09:01 PM »
The first and second nights were never officially released, but there are bootlegs on the internet for a long time.

And the 3rd night was officially released, but without Rose of Pain, never understood why.

Are there any missing/wrong notes? Maybe that's the reason why they cut it? Just guessing...

Nothing that I could notice so far.

Other songs have some minor mistakes (like Celebration where Yoshiki miss some patterns) and weren't removed.
They didn't even cut the infamous CLIME OF VISUAL SHOCK from the beggining.



The 94 concerts were a clusterfuck of mistakes and still were fully released. Quite weird.

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Heath / Re: Why Heath no longer provides support vocals?
« on: July 08, 2020, 03:37:01 PM »
The latest Week End performances were terrible because of the backing vocals. Instead of Heath+Sugizo as it should be, it was Sugizo with a very low microphone + an awfully loud recording from Last Live with hide's voice + drum leaks.

Nobody understands Yoshiki's mind. On the Acoustic Concerts the backing vocals for Week End were sang only by Sugizo, including the parts which were previously sang by Heath.

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On the Verge of Destruction / Re: Missing on DVD
« on: July 08, 2020, 02:42:42 PM »
The first and second nights were never officially released, but there are bootlegs on the internet for a long time.

And the 3rd night was officially released, but without Rose of Pain, never understood why.

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General chat / Re: X at its peak?
« on: May 02, 2020, 02:16:47 PM »
X with Orchestra is a great concert! Too bad it wasn't officially released.
I think they were at their peak around that time, 1991-1992, the last Tokyo Dome concert with Taiji was perfection, in my opinion. So that might have been their peak in terms of musical perfection.
But thinking about it, The Last Live was their emotional peak, it was possibly their most powerful performance. They gave it all.

Interesting point. The last Dome concerts with Taiji, and later again on Dahlia Tour Final, they were in their best shape, technically speaking. They sounded amazing.

I still prefer the Rose & Blood era not because of technique, but the whole vibe of the concerts.

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General chat / Re: X at its peak?
« on: May 02, 2020, 02:11:27 PM »
I think their peak was during Rose and Blood tour. Great performances, the concerts were never the same, there were always some changes on the setlist. They were more "creative" back then. Their relationship was still good. They still looked like they were enjoying what they were doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KseXO_V4CyQ

After Taiji departure, they only played a few weird concerts until 1995, when things started getting better with Dahlia Tour. Until it was interrupted due to Yoshiki's health.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: February 01, 2020, 09:30:20 PM »
Yoshiki, Heath and Pata are doing a live stream *together* this week...  they will take questions.  :o

I'd like to ask Pata why he only follows on Instagram the Yomiuri Giants but not Yoshiki, Toshi, Sugizo, Heath...  :D

Heath doesn't have any social media account.

On Twitter Pata follows Yoshiki and Sugizo, but not Toshi.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 18, 2020, 12:40:24 PM »
So, apparently Yoshiki stated in his New Year's message that X Japan would not be active in 2020. That supposedly a number of contract issues with members and management issues have to be resolved before X Japan can resume.


Yoshiki's message was this https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vb9cTAIeM/ but he doesn't mention any hiatus for the band. The strangest thing IMO is his "I felt alone" while apologizing for missing the (supposed, I know) deadline for X's new album.

I don't think he's doing well at all...

He said it in a live on Youtube, on January 2nd.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 13, 2020, 01:33:52 AM »

This actually makes sense, even with some holes.
But the manager could approach Yoshiki to get X copyright, but to do it, all the members (which were actually Pata, Heath, Hiroshi managind hide's part and Masaya managing Toshi's part) should agreed, as they all had their shares. How did he convince all of them? Mostly Hiroshi and Masaya, which I think would be the most difficult to deal.

I don't remember Toshi's autobiography that well, but I think there was a time around X Japan's breakup when his second brother was still managing his personal agency, and was fighting with Moritani? If the copyright change did occur in this time frame, I don't think HOH had enough control yet to raise any objections. Also another thing from his book, when the "Takeda" issue happened, Toshi had to return some of his Excess 24 shares as a form of apology. Not sure how much he returned, but this probably had something to do with how much say he has in X management.

As for Hiroshi, there are conspiracy theories that suggested he might have been manipulated by this ex-manager (again, that manager was close enough with Hiroshi to be the official funeral organizer for hide, was once involved with Headwax). He was suing Yoshiki and Japan Music Agency, but left Nexstar out of it (if I remember correctly). Another thing from that 2ch story I forgot to mention was that, this manager was also head of the X Japan production management committee which was created around the reunion in partnership with all members' agencies, but allegedly after all the money laundering and deficits that went down, the existing 4 members all decided to go around/break away from this committee. This might have eventually led to all the disorganization later on too?

PS. Heath's fight with his agency also somehow featured in this story, but wasn't explained very clearly.
 

IIRC, Toshi's management agency (Toshi Office) was led by his brother. Toshi then transferred everything to HoH and his brother sued him trying to get back. On Toshi's biography he says that even the money he received from X went directly to Masaya, and the company Toshi Office was transferred to a building owned by HoH which he didn't even know where was located.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 12, 2020, 10:26:45 PM »
Exactly.

This came up after the Headwax lawsuit. They exposed how X businesses worked.
Basically they created a management company, called Excess 24, on which each member had their shares (even Yoshiki having more than the others). It worked like this until 2008, according to Headwax statement. Basically after the first reunion concerts, all the bands' rights were transferred to Japan Music Agency (JMA), Yoshiki's office. And since then the members are hired by JMA, they don't have any part of the band anymore.

Yoshiki tried to centralize everything on himself, not only the management.

I won't extend myself, but my replies to an older thread (https://www.x-freaks.com/forum/index.php?topic=7567.0) I show what I think is wrong with X. And is basically how Yoshiki handles everything awfully.

The version I read that's translated from 2ch (yeah, 2ch, so take it with a grain of salt) goes something like this: an Excess 24 manager (not "Takeda" from Toshi's biography, but another one after him) persuaded GLAY to break away from Yoshiki's label around the time when X JAPAN was breaking up. Yoshiki then was facing a situation where he still had the debts from X JAPAN in Excess 24 but was not making any profits in the short-term, so some other shady guy came up to Y and promised to take care of the debt in exchange for X copyright, and that's how Japan Music Agency and all the confusing business side came about (and that's around 2000, not 2008 when the band reunited). According to this version, the pressure for reunion came after GLAY was problems with this manager, so that manager had to bank on an X reunion to get money. Around this time he was involved with NEXSTAR, but at least at one point he was also involved with Headwax (I think as a board member), and in 1998 he was even the official organizer for hide's funeral, so he definitely did have something to do with the lawsuits.

This version doesn't completely check out because "Takeda" did not feature in that story, but it does explain why GLAY wasn't on speaking terms with Yoshiki for years and suddenly got friendly to him again around the time of X reunion. Also this was translated years back when the lawsuits were still going on, so I'm not sure whether Yoshiki has completely got rid of these guys yet (probably yes), or replaced them with capable managers (probably not).


This actually makes sense, even with some holes.
But the manager could approach Yoshiki to get X copyright, but to do it, all the members (which were actually Pata, Heath, Hiroshi managind hide's part and Masaya managing Toshi's part) should agreed, as they all had their shares. How did he convince all of them? Mostly Hiroshi and Masaya, which I think would be the most difficult to deal.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 12, 2020, 01:31:55 PM »
As a relatively new fan, I find this discussion interesting.

From what I understand, Yoshiki controls X Japan, he owns it, right? And the other band members are hired as needed?

It's not surprising that the money issue would come up at some point. The others get a salary, Yoshiki gets everything else. Sadly, that's not really a "band". So if they release a new album as X Japan... do they share the profits or does Yoshiki get everything? Surely, this has come up.

Not 100% sure on that. The business side of X has always been confusing AF. Prior to their break-out they did have an old management company and each member had shares of it, but after breakup it was closed down and Yoshiki transferred all X rights and debts to a new company, which then pays the copyright to other members. Last time I checked, this is currently his own agency (but not sure how much ownership he has over it). I think the whole confusing business side was at least partially the reason behind all the Headwax, Nexstar, Heath lawsuits (as far as I heard).There were quite a few shady people involved with X management back in those days, but once Yoshiki gets rid of them, I'm not sure whether the staff he replaces them with are all that capable either I feel like? But again, not 100% sure on that, hopefully there might be some fan who actually knows about corporate or copyright law LOOL



Exactly.

This came up after the Headwax lawsuit. They exposed how X businesses worked.
Basically they created a management company, called Excess 24, on which each member had their shares (even Yoshiki having more than the others). It worked like this until 2008, according to Headwax statement. Basically after the first reunion concerts, all the bands' rights were transferred to Japan Music Agency (JMA), Yoshiki's office. And since then the members are hired by JMA, they don't have any part of the band anymore.

Yoshiki tried to centralize everything on himself, not only the management.

I won't extend myself, but my replies to an older thread (https://www.x-freaks.com/forum/index.php?topic=7567.0) I show what I think is wrong with X. And is basically how Yoshiki handles everything awfully.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 06, 2020, 06:00:04 PM »
EDIT:
I checked Toshis Twitter profile. He never mentioned there anything about his X Japan activities. So he hadn't removed anything. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20181011081729/https:/twitter.com/toshlofficial )

Your link is from 2018/10. After all this mess.
His last posts mentioning X are pictures from Coachella on his Instagram.

And I follow his social accounts since they started, I clearly remember X was mentioned many times. Like his Instagram before the empty concerts (http://web.archive.org/web/20180923070825/https://www.instagram.com/toshl_officia/). Like the benefits for his fanclub (before and after the empty concerts).

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