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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.
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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« Last post by Astralmind on March 22, 2023, 11:39:28 AM »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.
This ^^^^ All the freakin way. Those who have been around for a while are now well into 'proper adulthood' (is that a thing ever really?) and we're well past fanboy-ism and troubled emotional state pertaining to rock stars.. we've grown up (hopefully!).. I recall being flabbergasted by X back in 1993 when I first heard them, I wouldn't stop yapping about how they were the greatest in the world etc... I was 13 years old. They were a landmark in my formative years and opened up my horizon to music in general and to this day X remains special in that sense - My love for music today can be traced back to that day where I first downloaded 'X' in mp3 from an anime website (ssserpent.org for the oldies!) - that was MY music, 'no one else' knew about it, it was my spring board into the world of music beyond crappy pop radio hits.
FFWD today... well actually back around reunion (can't even remember the exact moment). In the 20 + years that had passed in between I have experienced some incredible music, other artists in a wide variety of genre and didn't per say 'miss' X but they always remained in the back on my mind and whenever one of their song came up randomly on my playlist I simply couldn't skip it. My wife of 15 years has even grown to love and know their song without me insisting on her giving a shit... I figured those guys must have been great for real. Reunion came and besides the absolute milestone of seeing them live at MSG (truly a bucket list item from my teenage years I managed to cross off unexpectedly) anything since has been disappointment after disappointment.... It's tarnished their image, looking back at my 'Heroes' through an adult lense and observing (albeit from a distance) Yoshiki's insane ego trip has been a frustrating journey... There are things that we perceive different in our younger years with a fresh enthusiasm that is hard to emulate later in life but in this case, at least for me, I can say that the 'orginal' stuff stood the test of time beyond nostalgia... it's just unfortunate they had to ruin it all 20 years later....
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Other Projects / Re: The Last Rockstars
« Last post by magucathy on March 16, 2023, 07:41:45 AM »I liked it too.
Some of the songs are quite catchy.
I keep on listening to "Up and down"
I found myself keep on listening to Beneath the skin and also up and down. LOL
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Other Projects / Re: The Last Rockstars
« Last post by Tahemet on March 14, 2023, 07:45:10 PM »I liked it too.
Some of the songs are quite catchy.
I keep on listening to "Up and down"
Some of the songs are quite catchy.
I keep on listening to "Up and down"
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Other Projects / Re: The Last Rockstars
« Last post by magucathy on March 13, 2023, 08:31:20 PM »Someone posted the LA concert on YouTube.
To be honest, I love it a lot. There's so much energy going on every member on stage.
Hyde definitely did a great job singing beneath the skin and born to be free.
To be honest, I love it a lot. There's so much energy going on every member on stage.
Hyde definitely did a great job singing beneath the skin and born to be free.
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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« Last post by RoseOfPain on March 09, 2023, 01:31:13 PM »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)
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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« Last post by Tahemet on March 08, 2023, 01:50:48 PM »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)
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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« Last post by Joker on March 06, 2023, 06:20:57 PM »The typhoon wasn't anyone's fault, but the usual thing to do would be postpone the concert in a case like this. It looked like they couldn't perform later if they didn't at that time.
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.
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.
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General chat / Re: We Are X - Film Reviews!
« Last post by Tahemet on February 28, 2023, 02:12:23 PM »it was indeed very Yoshiki centric and I would have loved to hear more about the other members.
Was there even one event during the "We are X" Promotion Tour where any other member but Yoshiki attended?
Was there even one event during the "We are X" Promotion Tour where any other member but Yoshiki attended?
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General chat / Re: Did Toshi screw up X Japan again?
« Last post by Tahemet on February 28, 2023, 01:55:58 PM »welll...to be fair....a typhoon isn't the fault of anyone.
And only the concert affected by the typhoon was without audience
that said...it might have been very well the last X Japan concert, which would be a shame
And only the concert affected by the typhoon was without audience
that said...it might have been very well the last X Japan concert, which would be a shame