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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: February 27, 2020, 09:40:20 AM »
Yes, it's endless hearts and emojis and sparkle pictures. The pictures with sparkles just get to me... I mean, this is boy band stuff and you can tell these are women in their 40's/50's. Seriously, wtf???

I think yesterday's tweet about "The memory of XJAPAN #NoAudienceLive revives.. Someday we will return for our fans.", the picture he chose perfectly exemplifies what he thinks X Japan is.... himself.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: February 16, 2020, 07:53:10 AM »
Indeed... and when one member exerts creative or business control of a band or whose ego gets out of control, this pretty much always breeds resentment among other members. It's been the reason many bands have broken up. On the other end of the spectrum, an example would be U2, which has always shared profits equally... even though you could certainly argue that some members contribute more than others to its success. Each member still gets equal $.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: February 13, 2020, 12:03:16 AM »
The time to recruit a new singer was 1998-2007... he had plenty of time, what was he doing?... that ship has sailed and it seems Toshi has moved on.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: February 02, 2020, 08:06:51 AM »
Did anyone check out the stream of Yoshiki/Pata/Heath? Did they mention the band status or Toshi at all?

On Twitter someone posted a picture of their recent visit to the X Japan exhibit at Madame Tussauds and Toshi was not in it. A bit weird.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 26, 2020, 11:31:27 PM »
Yoshiki, Heath and Pata are doing a live stream *together* this week...  they will take questions.  :o

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 20, 2020, 10:04:22 PM »
Sounds like people haven't been paid... "unpaid money from the music publishers" hmmm. I wonder who wasn't paid?

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 13, 2020, 09:40:12 AM »
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.

Note that I say apparently and supposedly since I am using Google Translate to read some blogs and messages from people who were discussing it. So I could be totally wrong, as Google Translate isn't great with Japanese. But it makes sense from what we know. Note that I'm not sure if he said the second part about the contract and management issues, they could have been speculating that part.

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General chat / Re: X Japan : On the verge of destruction, AGAIN
« on: January 11, 2020, 12:54:24 AM »
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.

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