X-Japan

[Broken Rose Ren]

^ Ah, same here.

:Listens to Forever Love: Ah...heaven.

 

[jounetsu]

i gotta join you guys, this is a way of living

 

[Anchyyy]

*joins too* Ballads of them are like the best. So emotional and simply beautiful!

 

[darknoonthirty]

*joins too* Ballads of them are like the best. So emotional and simply beautiful!

anything they did was simply beautiful. not because it was simple, but because there is no other word for it.

i wish there was a word for what X was [gah past tence] for what X ...IS..but there is not. so we just have to listen to their songs to find the words

[end being all serious]
plus the fact that they rock, and hideto matsumoto and yoshiki doing anything makes me completely insane with love.

 

[Anchyyy]

Yeah. Have you seen the last live? I watched like thousand times and i still cry at the part, when Toshi sang Forever Love. And then Yo-chan hugged him it's like... i can't describe it. I think Toshi was sorry on the last live for what he has done. Hide was crying all the time too.

 

[jounetsu]

Yeah. Have you seen the last live? I watched like thousand times and i still cry at the part, when Toshi sang Forever Love. And then Yo-chan hugged him it's like... i can't describe it. I think Toshi was sorry on the last live for what he has done. Hide was crying all the time too.

jesus that is the saddest live ever i can't stop crying over it!
damn i miss x japan so much. i wish hide was still here (for me is) and
they would make a re-union! i want x japan back :/ damn i miss them.

 

[Aoi.]

X Japan is quieter than the normal music I listen to. R.I.P to hide. The video of his funeral..was sad. Yeah, the band was there, and Toshi sang 'Forever Love' and Yoshiki was on the piano. =\

 

[SaKeVi]

...the part, when Toshi sang Forever Love. And then Yo-chan hugged him it's like... i can't describe it. I think Toshi was sorry on the last live for what he has done. Hide was crying all the time too.

Not really

Toshi was dissapointed because X members blamed him of the disband (well, he disbanded X, hahaha) and not taking into consideration what he was feeling too... why?? because Toshi wasn't comfortable singing in X anymore, he expressed that, but the attitude in the band was like "hmmm if you say so..."

And the Last Live wasn't going to be done, Yoshiki (sorry, X...) forced Toshi to make it, they addopted a childish attitude of "we are considering to make a last concert, but we don't know what Toshi is thinking..." making him feel so bad that he had to accept to sing in that Last Live.

The hug?? of course it was real, their friendship started when they were just little kids, that's something you just don't forget that easy... and that hug happened at the right time, you can see how tense were Toshi/Yoshiki during the show, specially in Dahlia, when Toshi went to sing with Yoshiki, and he just ignored him, even Toshi stopped singing and his face is saying something like "ok, you don't want me here..."

Did you know what happened after the show?? the "goodbye" was very intense, and some stuff was broken because of angry, the kind of "angry" you feel when you don't want something to finish...

 

[Anchyyy]

Oh ☝ You know a lot of things Sakevi. Thanks

 

[Broken Rose Ren]

Very interested, SaVeKi. I hadn't really noticed that....no I did see that Yoshiki copped a attitude with Toshi, but I didn't know why at the time. Good insight, thanks.

 

[darknoonthirty]

Yeah..that drum break Yo-chan did was pure fustration. X was all he had for so long, it was his dream come true. he finally had a family, and people who were true friends. yes, he's been with Toshi his whole life but..X was ...everything he ever wanted.

the last live is the saddest thing ive ever seen. i cry every single time. espically during Endless Rain, when the crowd starts cheering then Yoshiki simply can not play any more...its horrible. and hideto. i never thought i would get so emotional over something like this but every time i see hideto with x preforming i can't help but get very very sad.

and about toshi, i really undertand where he came from, yoshiki's lyrics are pretty intense, but, i dont know, theres something shady about the whole thing. but i can also understand the band being forcefull about having the last live.

the hug, as SaVeKi said, was completely genuine. i think Yoshiki at lest slightly understood where he was comming from, but about all, i think that he respected Toshi, and because of that everything happened as it did.

and before hide died, he and Yoshiki had been talking more and more and had somewhat solid plans to get X backtogether with some member changes, obviously...but as of May 2nd 1998 all of that changed and Yoshiki vowed never to have X again.

i know its long, but it had to be said, and i love this band more than i can express. i miss hide and X so very much. simply put, they changed my life.

fin.

 

[Broken Rose Ren]

I think the fans helped Yoshiki realize that he shouldn't be pissed. I think he knew that if X made all those people happy, then X's mission was accomplished. Maybe, that's why he hugged Toshi at the end, to say that he's sorry for bitching and that there is no hard feelings.

 

[darknoonthirty]

most likely. the fans always seem to help Yoshiki come back to earth. well, ok, back from his world. and the look on his face when he was walking up towards Toshi was so feirce and intense, it was kinda scary...but then he hugged toshi and they held on for dear life. i think they were both apologizing at that moment. toshi even started crying.

does anybody here have the dvd of last live? i was wondering what is was like, if it was cut or edited in any way, becase i really want it, but only if its the whole, real, un-cut thing. well, im getting it any way, i just wanna know what im getting.

 

[Anchyyy]

and the look on his face when he was walking up towards Toshi was so feirce and intense, it was kinda scary..

Do your remember the moment that I and Toshi walked toward each other? I had been thinking of beating him until that moment.

That's taken from www.xjapan.de

I can't even think about what would happen if he would do that The fans would go crazy.

 

[jounetsu]

i would have been sad and a little angry about the whole story
of X ending. so i kinda understand yoshiki, why he was pissed.
but you really can't force someone to do something that person
doesn't want to. so eventually it would have ended like that.
if X would still be a band even without hide, i dunno... it would
be so weird and intense all the time i think.

i don't know what i'm talking about here lol

i'd LOVE to hear some more stories from SaKeVi
is that possible?

 

[boobiebutt]

u know i though if hypotheticly yoshiki and hide did form a new x.....

i personally think toshis vocals would be really hard to replace..not sure what yoshiki and hide had in mind for the vocalist back then..

 

[darknoonthirty]

u know i though if hypotheticly yoshiki and hide did form a new x.....
i personally think toshis vocals would be really hard to replace..not sure what yoshiki and hide had in mind for the vocalist back then..

yeah. i know what you mean, i just know that they were talking a lot about it and stuffness, there were no reports, that ive seen, about who they were thinking to sing...who knows what would have happened.

and Anchyyy...i kinda got that when i saw it. i was literally talking to screen going..yoshiki, what are you dong, dont hurt the toshi, that..would be bad..then about 5 steps before he got to him i think he and everybody in the Tokyo Dome realzised they were going to hug.

i dont think there has ever been a more emotionally charged concert...ever. we could sit here for days discussing it.

and one last thing about toshi's vocals..the man is amazing. i've read that he can span 3 octaves..thats..insane.

ok. this long rant is over.

 

[Anchyyy]

Agree with you jounetsu. And SakeVi? More stories pleaaassseee???

And yeah Toshi... the best voice i've ever heard. Really. I'm not saying that because i'm still and i will remain a big fan of him, but because that's true. I know a lot of really good singers... but Toshi's voice beats them all. And his solo career wasn't that bad at all! I like a lot of songs, especally made in heaven and hana. They are beautiful

 

[darknoonthirty]

it needs to be said...

they are all amazing. all the time. and X will never truely die. mianly because their music speaks...to anybody. even my mother likes it. and she doenst like jrock. hehe, im slowly taking over my town and school with jrock. and boy is it working.

 

[Aoi.]

I don't think my mom hates them too much. But she looked over, and I just happened to be watching a video with hide's poofy hair, and she was like "Huh, people these days" -____-

 

[Broken Rose Ren]

Niice. I wish I could turn my entire community into Jrock lovers (I won't try, to big). haha.

 

[darknoonthirty]

ahhh, its the last fun im gunna try and have before im finally donw with small town america.

its working like crazy at school. im getting all my friends on X and Miyavi. they love it. and they are all different. som like hard meeve, some like slow X..and im like the little JCRACK dealer. its so funny. and i love it.

[Desperate angrel farring from da skyy!!!!] lalalalalaaaa

 

[Aoi.]

I could just imagine fangirls pouring into the streets, waving CDs. Scary.
My mom was talking to someone on the phone about JRock/JPop. And she was like [to me] "Hey, what's that bands name with those cross-dressers in it? You know, the guys pretending to be girls? Is it ____?"
-__-
She wasn't talking about X Japan though. She was talking about JPop.

 

[darknoonthirty]

I could just imagine fangirls pouring into the streets, waving CDs. Scary.
My mom was talking to someone on the phone about JRock/JPop. And she was like [to me] "Hey, what's that bands name with those cross-dressers in it? You know, the guys pretending to be girls? Is it ____?"
-__-
She wasn't talking about X Japan though. She was talking about JPop.

LMAAOO i can just imagine the look on any fan girls face when that is said.

and then this being said

'you're gunna have to be much more specific than that' and then giggling ensuing.

ooo too funny.

 

[Aoi.]

um. hehe. Didn't know it was that funny. Oh well. The way you just said it though, makes it hilarious.