All the members of X Japan were with hide great friends.
All the members suffered very much from his death, they all losed more than a band member, they losed a great and dear friend.
They don't gain money from hide. How can you say that?
It have cost Yoshiki/X Japan tons of time , money (the hide hologram from the reunite concerts), and energy to be able to honor him like they wanted to do for the reunie by putting his riffs in their first reunite song (IV) and the great footage they did on Without you, because they wanted to try to have him with them like he would have liked himself so much. I don't believe he gained money from all that. The search for the right guitarriffs from hide and so further.
And you know what? A familymember from me went for 5 weeks in Japan this summer, I gave money for X Japan cd's or dvd's or video's, it was so much my wish to have some music from them straight from Japan. Well he did many many musicshops in Osaka and area, about 14 shops, but in every shop he found hide, hide, hide...and never he found X or X Japan. First I thought that he didn't have found the good shops, but he went several times with persons from there to musicshops: nothing from X Japan, full of music and other things from hide! It is not X Japan or Yoshiki selling the hide stuff!
So, don't tell me that X Japan or Yoshiki is getting rich from hide !!! I don't believe a word from that. For the firm of hide's brother, I don't know if it is or not in good financial health, but if it isn't , well then it must be that he cannot manage it. Because hide stuff is everywhere on sale!
X Japan are honouring hide with love, hide's brother is milking hide!!! Shit ugly laws from the musicindustry that makes that his brother can milking him like that.
And there are so hard hide fans overall, it is sick like they are. They were complaining hide was not on the posters for the Yokohama concert. There was such a hide fan on my facebook so complaining about it, (I don't remember what she all wrote, because she defriended me
)that I friendly replied to her how they loved hide and that hide always will stay in their heart and that hide will always be part of the band, but that she must understand how difficult it is for them to play with the hologram and for ToshI it must be difficult to sing with the -very beautiful- hide footage from the last life kurenai...I don't know what I wrote overall, but I was really comprehensive to her; but finished with saying that the band had to live today and not in the past, and that they had to go further etc...Waw, the answers that I got: hide was the bandleader, hide was the heart from X Japan, without hide I don't know anymore. I have not replied on that because it was all so hard, that I really didn't even wish to reply on it. But she defriended me LOL. But I can imagine there are lots of such hard hide fans. And they even never saw him, they even never knew him. How is it possible?
No, X Japan is honouring hide and his brother is milking him. I can't see love in all that commercial things they sell!!!
If they will continue to honour hide and how they will do it, let them do what they want to do. I am fine with it like they want to do or not to do.
And I am happy for Sugizo being from X Japan, expecially since I heard his violin skills!!!
EDIT: (don't find edit button): the only thing from X Japan my familymember saw in Osaka was about the Pachinko machine...