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Yoshiki / Yoshiki's new photobook is on its way
« on: October 01, 2020, 06:15:05 PM »
how does he stay in shape like that at 55. Superior genes 
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: September 29, 2020, 05:49:46 AM »
my bad, sorry 
well, somebody needs to voice the disappointment that has been running among fans since literal years (or maybe decades). He's our hero
well, somebody needs to voice the disappointment that has been running among fans since literal years (or maybe decades). He's our hero
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: September 28, 2020, 04:35:53 PM »https://twitter.com/YoshikiOfficial/status/1310517256057573376?s=19
Finally someone said what really had to be said, Yoshiki had to notice
wow
Brave girl, and brave Yoshiki too, it took some guts to face the truth finally and answering publicly (even though it's the same old story about being busy)
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Yoshiki / Re: Disney MY MUSIC STORY: YOSHIKI
« on: September 28, 2020, 07:32:24 AM »
I don't think it will much different from We Are X. Besides, among his lost projects there was a YouTube exclusive (obviously self-centered, not about the band) that probably was converted into this as soon as he got the deal with Disney...
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: September 24, 2020, 06:29:50 PM »
speaking about Yoshiki, there are some news... Obviously they have nothing to do with X.
this time is fashion. https://numero.jp/news-20200918-yoshiki-special/
this time is fashion. https://numero.jp/news-20200918-yoshiki-special/
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Heath / Re: Heath at paranoia
« on: September 20, 2020, 10:55:36 AM »
wow! It's the first time that I see him with another bass model rather than his usual ones. He tends to be quite conservative about that
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: September 15, 2020, 02:12:10 PM »
does anybody remember when Yoshiki asked us to sing Endless Rain and send the video clips?
I guess he called it quits even on that project?
I guess he called it quits even on that project?
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Taiji / Re: Credit Voiceless Screaming
« on: September 12, 2020, 07:57:41 PM »
official credits mention that Toshi wrote the lyrics and Taiji the whole music to the song. Additional musicians are "Bruce Dukov" as a concertmaster and the composer David Campbell as the conductor/arranger of strings (he plays a lot of different musical styles as well as many instruments such as viola and violin, maybe it's him who recorded the violin track)
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hide / Re: Hide dream
« on: September 12, 2020, 06:39:35 PM »
sometimes we have a tendency to dream about people we love when we're put under stress. So it's like Hide has been your guardian angel 
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hide / Re: I just want to say how beautiful Hide is, that's it that's all. ✨✨✨✨💕
« on: September 12, 2020, 06:35:39 PM »
to think that he'd still be here with us if only he didn't drink that much the night before his disappearance is heartwrenching.
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: September 07, 2020, 06:08:47 PM »
I'm always wondering what is Heath doing all day. He keeps so quiet...
I checked the Japanese Wiki voice about him, nothing new. Did the same with the official website, same result.
is he ghostwriting songs or performing with another stage name?
I checked the Japanese Wiki voice about him, nothing new. Did the same with the official website, same result.
is he ghostwriting songs or performing with another stage name?
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hide / Re: Hide covers The Doors Light my fire (A fave of mine check it out.)🔥✨
« on: September 07, 2020, 05:37:44 AM »
what was it?
they didn't announce the name of the song
I'm still wondering
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hide / Re: Hide covers The Doors Light my fire (A fave of mine check it out.)🔥✨
« on: September 06, 2020, 07:27:40 PM »
everytime I remember this classic, my inner voice always sings like Hide's sorry, mr. Morrison 
by the way, today I was listening to some radio stations on shuffle and I happened to listen to something very much alike Rocket Dive, except it was from a band from the past decade. In the midst of a collective nostalgia for the 80s and the 90s, I wonder when the sound of the early 2000s will come back.
sorry, mr. Morrison by the way, today I was listening to some radio stations on shuffle and I happened to listen to something very much alike Rocket Dive, except it was from a band from the past decade. In the midst of a collective nostalgia for the 80s and the 90s, I wonder when the sound of the early 2000s will come back.
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Toshi / Re: Mid 2000s HoH era Toshi footage
« on: September 02, 2020, 05:40:03 PM »
this footage can teach us that when somebody well known in the music industry abruptly changes his clothing style, public manners and musical genre, there's always something shady going on.
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: September 02, 2020, 03:21:37 PM »
perhaps it's easier to search from Japanese sources by adjusting the search engine settings... I found some interesting interviews from Yoshiki that way, that weren't translated into English
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Albums/Singles / Re: Art of Life - early demo recording
« on: September 01, 2020, 09:35:19 AM »
let me dream about AoL 2: written by Yoshiki, performed by... Somebody else (obviously).
but it's a rare occurrence that he lets others play his own melodies.
but it's a rare occurrence that he lets others play his own melodies.
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Albums/Singles / Re: Art of Life - early demo recording
« on: August 30, 2020, 02:08:05 PM »I never heard this before, but it's nice ✌️when it come to AOL i think i always need more time to 'understand' this song 😁
just imagine that Yoshiki only took 2 weeks to conceive this masterpiece (I might be biased, but Art of Life could very well be the best song ever in terms of depicting an emotional experience of loss and then recover) while the new album literally takes forever to get out of its nest... https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-x-japan-songs-as-chosen-by-yoshiki
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: August 29, 2020, 04:06:01 PM »an interviewer thankfully asked him about the X Japan album considering it was 1996 when Dahlia came out. He basically says he's waiting for the right time and how it's tough when you cannot do a live right now. It's exactly as I said. Yoshiki thinks some magical moment will come by when the American music scene is waiting for him and he'll make a splash. That was 2010 but you fucked around for a decade. Honestly, just release the album and schedule some tour dates when COVID has calmed down a lot, give some banger performances and call it a day.
I still feel like we're somehow missing a piece of this puzzle, aside from the usual melting pot of theories about management problems, distressed relationships in the band, Yoshiki not really wanting this album to come out and so on. Really, nobody can delay an album for such a long time... Nobody
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Albums/Singles / Art of Life - early demo recording
« on: August 29, 2020, 03:16:19 PM »
in case it has never been posted. I feel like this version is even more 'tragic' than the final recording, perhaps the lack of vocals makes you appreciate how much this song is tormented even without lyrics.
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The Last Live / Re: "Reacting to X Japan" ("How I have never heard of this before!!!" :-)) )
« on: August 29, 2020, 03:03:04 PM »
I remember that in 2008 I was searching for some good Japanese speed metal and I discovered them by chance (or maybe I couldn't really have had another choice, X were and still are at the #1 spot when it comes to that musical genre). Then I started listening to World Anthem / Blue Blood and I was literally flabbergasted. I'll never forget the rawness of Yoshiki's drums and the whole signature sound of that album... Because I like a lot less songs where each instrument is remixed and polished to the point that the whole recording almost sounds unreal.
how come that neither top musicians nor indie artists produce something that sounds that way anymore... I'm not even debating on the complexity and the meaning of the songs, just how they sound globally.
how come that neither top musicians nor indie artists produce something that sounds that way anymore...
I'm not even debating on the complexity and the meaning of the songs, just how they sound globally.
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: August 28, 2020, 02:01:10 PM »So..it turns out that yesterday's press conference was to announce his project with St. Vincent, their song is New York. It's on YouTube , here's the link if any of you interested,if not that's fine
nice arrangement, even though it's not my genre. I'll never get used to Yoshiki releasing new music with other singers/musicians rather than X.
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News / Re: News about X members activity
« on: August 26, 2020, 06:15:44 PM »
oh and Yoshiki has been working on a remixed version of Tears.
(not really, it's a late April's fool joke inspired by this tweet https://twitter.com/YoshikiOfficial/status/1297403507599843328
(not really, it's a late April's fool joke inspired by this tweet
https://twitter.com/YoshikiOfficial/status/1297403507599843328
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Toshi / Re: Toshl RYUGEN NAKED VOICE 世界でいちばん熱い夏
« on: August 20, 2020, 07:44:24 AM »do you think toshi keeps his youtube comment box closed so that he can avoid X related questions and comments?
definitely yes. Also, on his Instagram there's no mention of X since... Ever. All of his pictures are about his solo career.
Plus, he doesn't even follow the official IG page for the band...
we can only barely imagine how much Toshi holds a grudge against the whole affair
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Toshi / Re: Toshl RYUGEN NAKED VOICE 世界でいちばん熱い夏
« on: August 15, 2020, 09:43:51 AM »
nothing speaks louder than Yoshiki self-promoting his music on Instagram in English and Toshi self-promoting his music on Instagram in Japanese. No wonder that the comeback of the band has been postponed to the year 3000.
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Yoshiki / Re: Yoshiki's mental health
« on: August 03, 2020, 12:35:37 PM »
I think he's calling for help again.
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Taiji / Re: Why Taiji was fired by Yoshiki
« on: July 27, 2020, 08:26:50 PM »
I think it has a lot more to do with the known fact that some fans just idolize Yoshiki regardless of what he does, so it might be a tad too difficult to digest what Taiji said about the past management of the band. It's a matter of acceptance more than of a 'mysterious secret truth'
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Taiji / Re: Why Taiji was fired by Yoshiki
« on: July 26, 2020, 08:07:20 AM »
recently stumbled across this: https://ameblo.jp/xjapanxx/entry-10977113468.html
"In 1992, He left the band because, according to the official press release, he had “musical differences” with the group. However, in Taiji’s autobiography Uchuu o Kakeru Tomo e: Densetsu no Bando X no Sei to Shi he says that, in truth, he was asked to leave because he confronted Yoshiki about the substantial income gap between Yoshiki and the other band members"
that would also explain why Yoshiki was so secretive about it in "We are X"
"In 1992, He left the band because, according to the official press release, he had “musical differences” with the group. However, in Taiji’s autobiography Uchuu o Kakeru Tomo e: Densetsu no Bando X no Sei to Shi he says that, in truth, he was asked to leave because he confronted Yoshiki about the substantial income gap between Yoshiki and the other band members"
that would also explain why Yoshiki was so secretive about it in "We are X"
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Taiji / Re: Taiji's autobiography
« on: July 26, 2020, 08:01:23 AM »
thanks, I tried to access to that very page a while ago but it didn't seem to work, now it does.
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Taiji / Re: Taiji's autobiography
« on: July 20, 2020, 07:45:16 PM »
Yoshiki recently posted a picture on IG to remember Taiji and the caption "even though we fought a lot, I miss you" made me think about the chapter from this autobiography where he almost predicts the downfall of X speaking about the harshness of being in a band together with him. Some things really come full circle in life...
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Yoshiki / Re: Does Yoshiki like sweets?
« on: July 14, 2020, 10:18:29 AM »I just had to google this, because i've never heard the term hyperthyroidism (Schilddrüsenüberfunktion in German). Well... I can hardly imagine him having this. But what do I know.
found the source: https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/80834/full/