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« on: May 30, 2011, 09:04:46 PM »
Hmn, interesting topic, nice to see you again Wick.
I never really heard anything of Sex Machineguns, tough I've read some stuff about them, but on the topic, there are in fact many guitarists technically better than sugizo, some of them are "unemployed", I don't know whats the relation between Yoshiki and Panther but when working with him, you need to be PATIENT (IMO), and if he hired someone that is not close to him, he would probably jump off the boat pretty quick, so just like you said, he made the right choice on picking Sugizo, not only he is an old friend of Yoshiki but he is also very well known among X fans.
Mainstream is not about solos (for non metal-heads) and if he wanted nice solo sections he could have hired Hideaki Nakama or any of the guitarists mentioned, but looks like the highlight of new X songs is ToshI's voice.