X Japan in Global Metal

Beauty/Broken · **on:** October 19, 2008, 12:13:57 PM

Has anyone else seen the film yet?

For those who are interested, there is around 5 minutes of the film dedicated to Visual Kei, around 2 of those 5 are entirely focussed on X Japan. The segment in question is narrated by Marty Friedman, who talks about X Japan and their history in the Japanese music scene (he also points out that X Japan was one the first bands which attracted him to Japanese music). There is a VERY short clip of Yoshiki being interviewed, which looks like it has been cut and mashed together from a much longer conversation. Yoshiki just explains that X Japan were "the black sheep of the family in Japanese music who nobody wanted to interview or feature, but then we sold 20 million records so people had to start to take notice of us".

The segment focussed on X Japan shows some footage of the band playing live from the "Rose and Blood tour" and then a clip from "Art of Live Life"

denx · **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2008, 01:40:13 PM

hope someone will upload that part into youtube, hehe. barvo X Japan

UVER · **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2008, 04:11:57 PM

AHah yea love Yoshiki's part :

"Nobody wanted interview us. But eventually we sold 20 million records so they had no choice."

Ugly Pink Machine · **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2008, 09:38:39 PM

yeah yoshiki is great xDDD
"I was at the KISS concert with my mum" *bigsmile*

just cute! but I can recomment the whole film to all metal fans^^

denx · **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2008, 04:27:15 AM

thanks2, i love that. especially martin said a good things about X Japan

MIHO · **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2008, 05:36:13 PM

AWESOME!!
Damn, I really want to watch that movie now!

Edside · **Reply #6 on:** October 23, 2008, 03:59:37 PM

Nice movie, from the same anthropologist of the "A Headbanger's Journey".

mC · **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2008, 07:10:39 PM

Yoshiki is so....awesome....

julien · **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2008, 08:11:49 PM

I've watched the part about Japan and it rocks ! they say such good things about Japanese music, especially about X !

aaroni · **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2008, 04:59:33 AM

I watched it over the week end. Prettty cool documentary, crazy what some governments do to people just because they want to enjoy the "wrong" type of music. I was watching MuchMusic (Canada's MTV... if you don't count MTV Canada *cough*) for the first time in forever and they were talking about the documentary and sure enough, for a brief moment, a picture of X popped up on the screen, no names or music or anything, but I was pleasantly surprised. As soon as they said they were going to talk about the documentary I thought "come on, reference X Japan" and sure enough, there it was. Not much, but hey, it was X Japan on national television for a moment, something two years ago I thought to be impossible. I'll take it! Hopefully coverage of the documentary and the documentary it self will encourage more people to give the band a listen.

Orbis · **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2008, 06:42:12 PM

I watched the movie and overall It was really good.
I found Yoshiki's monologue quite funny.
Marty seems to be a rly good guy. He was complimenting X a lot.

Sayu · **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2008, 07:16:33 PM

i have just watched it...it's good
Yoshiki's english is quite funny as always xD

xScQ · **Reply #12 on:** November 04, 2008, 10:33:39 PM

Someone tell me they loved Sigh. That clip was too sweet. But yeah it's nice they covered X in it like that. I wonder how it got chosen over Loudness or Anthem.. or even Bow Wow. They have all played in America.

Sander · **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2008, 01:43:00 PM

MIHO · **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2008, 01:47:13 PM

THANX SANDER

and i can't stop rofling at yoshiki's english XDDDD
"ebentuarree..." XD

Overdose · **Reply #15 on:** November 20, 2008, 04:23:23 PM

I just watched that on youtube, it's rather cool I remember watching a clip from a show where Marty Friedman faced Paul Gilbert in a A-Z guitar battle and Marty played a part of Miscast for X (lol Gilbert played Loudness' Crazy Doctor, on an unrelated note).

I think Marty must live there nowadays or something he was always on that Hard Rock Fujiyama show. He is a sound dude (I have his guitar, well not his actual guitar but you know lol) and its nice to actually hear him saying how X Japan with their sappy Barry Manilow ballads got him into J-Music.

Ba-DiL · **Reply #16 on:** November 21, 2008, 09:28:44 AM

I'm sorry for being a little bit out of topic, but ...

here's the video of Marty Friedman playing X's Miscast ^^

Overdose · **Reply #17 on:** November 22, 2008, 05:25:53 PM

Quote from: xScQ on November 04, 2008, 10:33:39 PM

Someone tell me they loved Sigh. That clip was too sweet. But yeah it's nice they covered X in it like that. I wonder how it got chosen over Loudness or Anthem.. or even Bow Wow. They have all played in America.

I guess it is because X had such a huge impact on the whole VK scene, as a music fan outside Japan I had an easier time finding out about X then I did Loudness, I guess X just got bigger in what they did. Sort of like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest...Iron Maiden just grew bigger.

Orbis · **Reply #18 on:** November 22, 2008, 10:13:23 PM

Must say,

I started listening to Sigh again (listened to their stuff some years ago) because of Global metal.
Rly like their their stuff, even tho Mirai says Visual music sucks...

Overdose · **Reply #19 on:** November 23, 2008, 07:48:45 AM

Quote from: Orbis on November 22, 2008, 10:13:23 PM

Must say,

I started listening to Sigh again (listened to their stuff some years ago) because of Global metal.
Rly like their their stuff, even tho Mirai says Visual music sucks...

Lol from that I got the idea that he did'nt have a clue, Visual all the way for me!

Maverick · **Reply #20 on:** November 27, 2008, 07:23:52 AM

Quote from: Overdose on November 22, 2008, 05:25:53 PM

Quote from: xScQ on November 04, 2008, 10:33:39 PM
Someone tell me they loved Sigh. That clip was too sweet. But yeah it's nice they covered X in it like that. I wonder how it got chosen over Loudness or Anthem.. or even Bow Wow. They have all played in America.
I guess it is because X had such a huge impact on the whole VK scene, as a music fan outside Japan I had an easier time finding out about X then I did Loudness, I guess X just got bigger in what they did. Sort of like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest...Iron Maiden just grew bigger.

Probably also to show a bigger difference. If they would have shown Loudness or Anthem the reaction probably would have turned out to something like
"Blaah - they're just copycats"
Aside from that, the time of Loudness and Anthem sadly is over - they were more popular here like the beginning of 90s/end of 80s, when X is more popular nowadays here than way back then.