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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Live in Taipei - May 30

« on: May 31, 2009, 12:42:20 PM »

"They're getting too old, they can't perform like before" etc

Then skip Yoshiki's drum solo and include 2-3 fast songs instead! It would be about the same in both time and energy. Who would seriously prefer the drum solo in front of that?

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Live in Taipei - May 30

« on: May 30, 2009, 04:41:31 PM »

but no, lets have the most unoriginal setlist yet and play ten ballads. Sorry if I'm annoying anyone, but this is my opinion on the bands current setlist and the general way they're doing things and I'm sticking to it.

No, I totally agree. To think that I flew over here to Taipei ONLY for this concert annoys me. Art Of Life wasn't even performed in full, and the drum solo took 5 years as usual. Why are they wasting so much time on the way-too-long drum solo, playback songs in the end etc? I'd rather see them perform Blue Blood or something at least slightly different from their current setlists instead of seeing them run around smiling like they are heroes with Say Anything (AGAIN) in the background.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Live in Taipei - May 30

« on: May 30, 2009, 04:24:59 PM »

Maybe my judgement is affected by having had a bad day, but the concert wasn't good. It was far worse than the three concerts I saw last year, and with such a standard set list.

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Forum Games / Re: Post your picture here! #2

« on: May 24, 2009, 11:57:42 AM »

Haha, I believe the Finn here just won the coolness trophy of this thread.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Live in Taipei - May 30

« on: May 23, 2009, 06:00:41 PM »

Apparently I could, thanks to those of you who would help me out!

Is anyone else here going?

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Albums/Singles / Re: JADE

« on: May 23, 2009, 05:53:48 PM »

I've listened to it a lot and I can enjoy the song to a certain degree, but it's not the guitars that captures my attention, it's mostly Toshi.

It feels like the song is rocky just to be rocky, like Yoshiki wrote sometime ago, "I wanna rock!".  As Hurley previously pointed out, the guitar harmonies are missing, and I feel that there's too much emphasis on the chorus. Plus, the absence of a guitar solo saddens me.

They can do much better.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Live in Taipei - May 30

« on: May 14, 2009, 04:23:35 AM »

How can I get a ticket to this show? Is it too late, perhaps?

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Covers / Re: Kurenai 紅 (Piano Version)

« on: April 06, 2009, 10:42:49 PM »

I can do nothing but agree!! Hahah, really awesome. I enjoyed all of it, very professional! Thanks for that

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: X Next online live 3/30 and 4/3

« on: April 03, 2009, 06:51:18 PM »

I'm pretty sure most of you people would love the "ballad screaming" if you actually were there; after all, the show wasn't performed for the WOWOW viewers, but for the people who attended.

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Other Bands / Re: Michael Jackson - This is it

« on: April 03, 2009, 03:31:59 PM »

lolll!? all the tickets are already sold out?

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X JAPAN ATTACKS AGAIN 2008 I.V. ~Towards Destruction~ / Re: X JAPAN ATTACKS AGAIN - NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION

« on: March 29, 2009, 09:28:00 AM »

Indeed, I can't believe it's already been one year since I fell in love with Toshi. Born to perform.

Those were some absolutely wonderful nights. Totally worth it!

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: X JAPAN WORLD TOUR Live in TOKYO

« on: March 29, 2009, 09:24:12 AM »

I bought my tickets via Einsof Marketing (?) as JRR linked to them. I suppose they only saved and sold tickets to foreigners because those were the first shows to be performed since reuniting. Still, I wouldn't consider it entirely impossible for it to happen again as they still haven't toured the west.

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Offtopic / Re: hey guess what

« on: March 19, 2009, 12:57:11 PM »

You know, that's really awesome

Congratulations!

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Offtopic / Re: Religion or whatever you believe in

« on: March 19, 2009, 02:46:57 AM »

I don't believe in any religion at this moment. I won't completely deny the possibility of some higher existance, but I do doubt it.

I find it quite logical that religion eventually was invented in order to build working societies; to allow some early form of laws. Threats about eternally burning after death. What else would make primitive and uneducated people suddenly obey someone else?

But now..  In the world of today, isn't it possible that religion makes unfortunate people accept bad conditions?

USA is actually a good example. It's not only the most religious of the developed countries, but also the richest country in the world  - and that by far - yet still holds higher poverty numbers than any other developed country.

Compare with Scandinavia. The societal rules may originate from christianity, but right now it's probably the least religious area in the world. It also holds some of the world's lowest poverty rates, and the lowest income inequalities. Japan is also one of the less religious countries, and the same pattern applies. Isn't it quite possible that adapting to a world without religion makes people set higher demands instead of putting their trust in a higher being?

Religions may make many people more content with their lives, but do they really make the world a better place?

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Toshi / Re: KYAHAHAHAHHAHAHA WTF is Toshi doing XDDD

« on: March 02, 2009, 04:10:01 PM »

Hahahah, I remember watching that!

What do you mean hugging?? It's a classic mouth-fu*k

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News / Re: X Japan's concerts on 2009 revealed!!

« on: March 01, 2009, 03:54:13 PM »

Wow, that's cheaper than I thought.

It is! I'm so glad they're not over 150 or something, like some bands @_@;

It's not really fair to give them such credit

When I bought tickets for the Tokyo Dome show, all of them were over €100. I'm sure the reason they take lower prices in Europe is not to please the fans, but to make sure that more people will attend their shows. After all, they have no idea how many X Japan fans there are here.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: X Next online live 3/30 and 4/3

« on: February 21, 2009, 02:01:47 PM »

Haha, it'll be broadcasted after all?

Not complaining though

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hide / Re: hide new Best-Of : We ♥ hide

« on: February 17, 2009, 09:32:19 AM »

How many more of these are going to be released?

If you want to contribute to the music scene, spend your money on artists still in action (or at least alive). Why do people pay money to get songs they payed for already? They're not remastered or edited in any way.

This release is all about greed from the record company. Like so many other releases.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: January 16 and 17 2009 -- Hong Kong

« on: February 08, 2009, 12:04:49 AM »

While I agree that the "In my dream"-part wasn't all too impressive, I think such things are supposed to happen during live performances. Isn't it a bit of the charm when attending a live show? It's those small things that makes the performance feel alive

Thanks, Matthias! Do you know if they broadcasted anything else from HK?

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Bird's nest - Spring 2009

« on: February 01, 2009, 02:04:27 AM »

That must be pretty embarassing for the Chinese government.

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General chat / Re: New X Japan song and the 6th member news

« on: January 30, 2009, 05:24:14 PM »

This is great news!

It's not the first time they refer to the new song as heavy. I hope they stay true to those words!

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Forum Games / Re: How old are we, X Freaks?

« on: January 30, 2009, 05:17:27 PM »

I'm 21 since a while now... Time goes so fast, I think I've been using this forum since I was 18?

Sander must have been pretty young when he started this place

edit: I mean 19! But still, two years.

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Offtopic / Re: SPAAMMMMMMM!!!! #2

« on: January 21, 2009, 11:21:26 AM »

Enjoy our capital Hypno!

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: World Tour in Macau ??!!

« on: January 20, 2009, 05:08:59 PM »

Well, Macau is becoming more and more like Las Vegas. Instead of being considered as a place for gambling, they want to become a place of entertainment. I remember reading about Las Vegas Sands, the owners of The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel and Sands Macao who apparently are one of the pioneers in this development. My impression of the place after visiting last year was that it's pretty dirty, prostitution is everywhere and other than the already established casinos, it's almost nothing but a big construction site. Naturally, they want to change that image. The city of Las Vegas is world-famous for its shows, and they aim to give Macau a similar reputation.

I do not know if they are in talks with X Japan or anything, but it wouldn't surprise me all that much, as I assume they would like to avoid western musicians. X Japan's music is quite accessible, and I think our beloved band isn't afraid of doing some money grabbing (Yo$hiki? anyone?). Macau has a population of about 500,000 people so an eventual show would obviously not be aimed at the people living in Macau. That's why I believe it would be highly commercial and the amount of people who actually are X Japan fans in the audience would most likely be quite few. I wonder how many times they would perform there?

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: January 16 and 17 2009 -- Hong Kong

« on: January 18, 2009, 10:52:01 AM »

Toshi has always been the best live performer of X by far and after these last shows I think the gap is widening even more. The man is born to perform!

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Toshi with T-EARTH / Re: Toshi with T-Earth xmas live DVD going on sale on the 25th of February!

« on: January 17, 2009, 10:01:57 AM »

Advert for the dvd, there's tons of footage of toshi singing from the concerts in it.

That gives you a good picture of it. Not what I listen to but Toshi is damn cool.

Credits to them for releasing a DVD just 2 months after the performance.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: January 16 and 17 2009 -- Hong Kong

« on: January 17, 2009, 09:49:46 AM »

I'm surprised. If security was sloppy and the performance was in Hong Kong itself, how could not some decent bootleg come out already?

And... Still doing the roses. In Japan I saw a guy beside me who caught a rose and gave it to a girl within reach. She took it but completely ignored him afterwards

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Offtopic / Re: What makes you proud of your country?

« on: January 11, 2009, 05:39:32 PM »

Don't underestimate Tintin. He's the man.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Taiwanese live postponed; travel package to HK available

« on: January 10, 2009, 06:59:20 AM »

Even though this is such an unprofessional mess, and very disappointing, I must say that that package is quite sweet.

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X JAPAN World Tour / Re: Bird's nest - Spring 2009

« on: January 09, 2009, 03:51:04 AM »

don't have here the news for the arrest, i think it was last year, but i found some news for trials and concerts canceled due to the goverment
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/aguirre-soziedad-alkoholica-2932746.htm
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/437768/0/concierto/sa/leganes/

http://www.freemuse.org/sw15505.asp
http://www.freemuse.org/sw4643.asp -> this is english

Woa... I couldn't imagine such things going on in Spain. Thanks for the information.