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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« Last post by YoshToshBGosh on March 23, 2023, 01:48:25 AM »Amen to the statement above.
I think Yoshiki's huge ego is what screwed X this time, although Toshi could be more reasonable, as X reunion is what saved him from a lot of trouble with HoH.
Let's face it: X reunion was huge at first, but it ultimately was a succession of failures. The first Tokyo Dome concerts started badly, with the fake collapse from Yoshiki because the concert started two hours late and they couldn't perform the whole planned setlist. The guest guitarists who mostly played power chords during X because they didn't have enough time to rehearse, the fashion shows during the concerts. The excessive use of hide playback, even when there was no visual clue at all. Sugizo officially joined the band in 2009, but only in 2011 he started to play all the songs.
When things started to get better, around 2014/2015, MSG, Japan Tour, things going on, we had the "X Day" which happened an year late and without the album release, then the concerts, the media, the announcements, the movies and everything else being related only to Yoshiki, as HE was the band and the other members were just his minions. The concert which should be a celebration of 10 years of reunion became "The Yoshiki ressurection concert", all the cameras, all the videos on the screens... Yoshiki everywhere. Everything was about him.
Then Red Swan came, the cherry on the top of the shit cake. Announcing Red Swan as an X JAPAN song was basically Yoshiki saying that X was himself, no matter who else was playing with him. The members' contract expired and now he has to deal with legal issues and years of work being trashed because he didn't release the album at the right time and their last performance being an empty concert where all the members were clearly uncomfortable and just being there because they had a contract to fulfill.
I liked it too.
Some of the songs are quite catchy.
I keep on listening to "Up and down"
agreed, the whole thing should be way more transparent, the fans deserve that. But from Toshi's perspective, he may still be bound by an NDA from the label or Yoshiki.It didn't took long after this concert for Toshi to remove everything related to X from his networks and refusing to talk about X.
If...and it looks like it....he is really done with X Japan he should be honest and open about it (instead of just removing X Japan related content and connections)
and officially announce that he is no longer a member, (and no matter what any contract looks like...there would still be ways to do that)
It didn't took long after this concert for Toshi to remove everything related to X from his networks and refusing to talk about X.