Hyde_is_my_anti-drug
Japanese Modernist
- 27 Oct 2005
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Yes, I would like to know what happened also.
sunsweet said:I haven't heard any news about this in forever. Who knows the outcome? I'm not sure if anything ever came of it. Toshi pisses me off anyway, but that's another topic...
Yokan said:In a sense, I feel the same since he was the reason X Japan split up. >_>
anchyyy said:Maybe he was sick of Yoshiki always telling him how to sing and thinking that everything should be perfect.Anyway i'm not acusing Yoshiki.
toujin said:i would never want to work with yochan...too much of a power freak ^^
and anyway, look at the x japan songs and most of them were never touched by anyone other than yochan.....maybe toshi just got sick of it? *the only song i saw toshi's name one is scars as co-writer with hide. or was it drain...?*
sunsweet said:I'd love to work with Yoshiki. I mean, I'd absolutely LOVE it, that would be amazing... he can dominate me any day, wow, let me stop typing now.
www.xjapan.de said:i. Was it a pleasure for Toshi too to express another personality?
y. I don't know if he enjoyed it or not. At first I forced him to. But I think he also enjoyed it a little. I think my recording work was very hard for him. I made him sing every day and I used his throat as an instrument. I told him to sing even though his voice became hoarse. I had my image of my song which was drawn with Toshi's voice. My recordings work was to bring the real song close to the image that I had when I had finished writing it. Every song, my drums too, never reached the image but I wanted to bring the vocals as close to ti as possible. I tried hard to tell him the vision in my head but he could not unterstand easil
y. I can't explain by singing so I said many things.
i. For example?
y. For example I wrote down the word "love" on a page of my notebook, very small, and then I wrote a bit "love" on the next pagen and I said to him, "The size of love that I want is not hte small love's size but the big one. And it isn't written in a beautiful style, but it was written roughly." Toshi said, "I don't understand what you mean." So I changed the way of my explanation as I thought it was not good, I said "Ok, now you are on the beach. But Toshi, you are alone. It's just after sunset but you can see some people walking far away. Now watching the peoples siluette will you express your love by shouting?" I also spoke like a play writer during teh recording. And Toshi got confused. Then I suddenly abandoned him, saying "It's enough. You can sing as you like."
i. You wanted Toshi's voice to make your so ngs perfect.
y. Yes. I was fanatic, trying to inspire him and deceive him to record the perfect voice of Toshi that I wanted. But think it over he was a vitim of mine. I happened to notice that his opinion was lost. I asked him "What do you think of htis?" but he only answered "It's ok with me if Yoshiki think it's ok." But I always said to him "I'm sorry for having obliged you to bear such a hard recording work. But I love your voice and I'm writing my songs for your voice. I think I know you more than you do.
i. What did Toshi say to you then?
y. Sometimes he said, "I understand." Sometimes he said "What do you want from me is beyond my ability." It was a crazy recording. But I took 7 or 8, sometimes 10 tracks. Then it is my turn to struggle. I struggle twice at much as Toshi did. I put tracks in my computer to edit them.
sunsweet said:...and the man he really is is a cult-member who allegedly abuses children? I know how much of a control freak Yoshiki is and I understand his not wanting to continue working with him and continue with X, but how he handled the whole break up just was, well, weird. I think that he left the band for the reason he said, 'religious reasons' and he didn't want to sing X's songs anymore. I also think that decision was egged on by a certain religious leader who I feel took advantage of Toshi's situation. I'm sorry I just don't like Toshi and what I know about what has become of him. I shouldn't say I don't like Toshi, I don't know Toshi so I can't make that judgement, I just don't like what I do know about what happened. I agree though, that his voice is amazing and I respect him immensely as a musician.
sunsweet said:Okay, this is crazy off-topic, but where is Slovenia? I don't think I've ever heard of that before *off to do a google search*
haha I remember speaking to you, anchyyy on msn for the first time and you telling me you live in 'solvenia'. I was like, WHERE??sunsweet said:Okay, this is crazy off-topic, but where is Slovenia? I don't think I've ever heard of that before *off to do a google search*