This is going to be a long post.
I hate:
Different levels of cheering during concerts that show how much fans like a member compared to another member, it must be annoying for Heath every time.
I know people are really cheering for Hide when they hear his name because he's dead and we're being respectful, but it was the same way even when he was alive:
"on guitar, hide" YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMGOMGOMG!!!!!1 *CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP"
"on base, Heath" .................*clap*..............................*cough cough*............
And I hate all Heath ignoring in general, at the Hide Memorial Summit, everyone's singing in the rain over and over, suddenly Heath goes "in the rain!" EVERYONE goes silent and says nothing for like 10 seconds until Toshi says "in the rain" again, and then they start singing again, its like, wtf!?!
I don't really hate, but dislike:
Toshi's singing style since 1993 for X-japan's rock songs, why does he have to use his dahlia/ballad voice for songs for songs like X, Kurenai and Weekend? Infact why did they ever take out the guitar/base opening of weekend, the new opening of the song just sucks compared to the old one. But about Toshi's voice, I'm not expecting him to sound as raspy and gritty as the late 80's and 1990 lives, but why can't he sing the rock songs like he did in 1992. Sometimes Toshi even sounds bored when he's singing when he isn't using his raspy voice, go listen to the verge of destruction 1992 version of standing sex, and then X-japan returns version on the 30th, he sounds so bored on the 30th and like he's not putting any effort into singing "crime of visual shock" that made me cringe on the 30th performance. I don't mean he sounds bored all the time though when he's not using his raspy voice, because he put a lot more energy into his voice on the the 31st performance. I just think it isn't the same, Toshi is my favourite singer, but those songs just aren't the same without his raspy voice, why can't he balance to the two, sing weekend the way he used to, and then sing forever love with his ballad voice.
I hate:
How Yoshiki practically only plays Ballads at the concerts, they only perform like 6 rock songs now, one of them being Drain, apart from that you have silent jealousy, weekend, Rusty Nail, X and scars, Orgasm sort of counts, I don't know....they played art of life, but that was obviously a one-off and that wont be played again for another few years.
If Yoshiki wants to make it clear that the band is a metal band, but one that plays more ballads then others, all he'd have to do is play like, 4 or 5 ballads, and the other 16 or 15 songs can include the ones I mentioned, as well as others they seemed to have stopped playing now for seemingly no reason at all, like Blue Blood, Rose of pain, Sadistic Desire and Miscast, because really, other rock bands don't even play 4 or 5 ballads, they play like 2, not only that but you can tell that x-japan's ballads are a lot sadder, you only need like 4 of their ballads, and the ballad sections in songs like Weekend to get the message.
Yoshiki doesn't seem to be changing these kinds of setlists for anything, he didn't even really make an exception for the hide memorial summit, the event that was meant to "not contain any sad songs, this is just meant to celebrate hide in a fun way like he would want" yes I can understand them playing without you, but why didn't they arrange to sing Joker and Celebration at the memorial summit? Every other band there should have sang hide's solo carrer songs, and then X-japan play Celebration, Miscast, Joker and Scars ect. because while they are Hide's songs they are X-japan's songs as well, so they could've performed all those as part of the rule of "no sad songs at this concert" while paying tribute to hide, but no, we got the reunion concert setlist, endless rain, without you and I.V isn't a particularly happy song either.
I hate: Whoever is making that long ear peircing sound every time a song finishes or part of a song ends recently, I don't know who's doing it, I don't know if its coming from a guitar or if its the microphone because somebody keeps doing something near it, but it needs to stop, he was doing it at the reunion concerts, and the memorial summit.
During Heath's and Pata's solos, in the middle of Heath's solo, he kept that sound going for like 20 seconds, it was driving me mad, he did it at the end of the solo as well. And all the performances of Weekend, every time it comes to the piano section, he keeps that sound going constantly until Yoshiki starts playing the piano.
