X-Japan is back! (2007)

First live performance in 10 years, Oct.22, 2007 at AQUACITY's roof top in Tokyo-Japan.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• X-Japan
• reunion

[AsphyxGr]

Reunions are nice but i wonder if we would be ever able to listen to new songs as loud & fast & heavy as X and Kurenai and so many other masterpieces of the old days...i hope the melodies will continue and will not be replaced by heavy rythmical metalcore parts & similar stuff as in the music of so many other bands' reunions. Tired of the 2000 flat-music wave.

[Iowegan]

I'm glad Toshi came back for reunion- love his voice hasn't chg'd much in 10 yrs xjapan is BACK!!!!

[FruitLoopFan]

Yes! I'm totally glad they are back now. <33

[tokusil]

Yesh! Great! I've been waiting for this moment.

[PsychoNoYoru]

you see how it turned out in the end...will he still be able to sing for "x-japan"...especially now that hide is dead and that fact isn't really promising for happy music, is it?

anyway, this is just my (damn long) opinion...nobody has to (fully or partly) agree with me and so nobody should feel tempted to flame me

thanx

[PsychoNoYoru]

..but by putting it that way it seems to me that he kin of said to yoshiki: 'sorry, the stuff You write..ergo your emotions are too depressing for me. cope with it on your own.' kinda strange, isn't it? well, of course this may have been just the way he felt...so either both suffer their part or one of them suffers for two....

[PsychoNoYoru]

....and there's another point to which i agree with freedomblazes..namely that what toshi did wasn't really ...nice...or at least the way they say he did it: correct me if i'm wrong but didn't he want to leave the band because the songs were too depressing for him to sing...he didn't want to endure this any longer?.

[PsychoNoYoru]

well...it's not my decision of course....but sometimes it somehow seems that all the people waiting for a "reunion" of x-japan put pressure on yoshiki and toshi

[PsychoNoYoru]

i don't mean that they won't try really hard or that they've lost their musical talents...what i mean is just that they've changed...a lot....and i don't think that this existential need of having this band is still there. also i do wonder if this is what yoshiki (as it was more or less "his" band...maybe even everything he held onto) really wants...a "reunion", maybe....but a new band...new wounds to be inflicted and old ones to be opened?....is that his way of coming to terms with hide?...

[PsychoNoYoru]

i don't think "reuniting" is what they really do and i also don't think that it will do them much good by saying so, because people have certain memories and certain expectations bound to that name. besides it won't be what the band originally stood for...with all their sideprojects, solo careers and different lives there won't be this "passion" that was characteristic for x-japan.