X- Japan's acting experience

After arriving in Tokyo, the two men searched for band members and houses to live in without any access. A year later, they basically figured out the band management method of 1985. In June of the same year, the first single "I will kill you" was published by Dada Records Company. Later, Jimu's mother invested 3 million yen to set up her own label エクスタシーレコード(Extasy Records) Co., Ltd., and then independently produced it on 1986. At this time, X had a group of regular fans, and the band members kept rotating like flowing water, and the widely acclaimed "ォルガスム" was reprinted.

At this time, X starred in the Japanese TV genius たけしのがるテレビ, and participated in the "heavy metal game" in costume, which caused quite a big topic. The program group also planned the program "やしろラィブ", which opened fire on the sidewalk in front of the store. Jimu played drums in the narrow store, hide played the guitar, Toshi shouted "eat ~" to the guests eating in the store, and the members played "ォӤ" at high speed. Shopkeepers who are puzzled by expressions and female guests who eat silently, in less than 1 minute, newly-installed and maintained shops are completely destroyed. By the way, this is HIDE's first performance since he joined X. In fact, every time he performs, Yoshiki Hayashi will carry out fire-breathing and other destructive escape behaviors in Live House. During the performance, gasoline is poured on the cymbals of drums to light them, and after the performance, they rush to fight in front of fans under the stage, which is forbidden in many livehouses and pubs. At that time, when rock musicians entered the bar, they needed the clerk to confirm that Yoshiki Hayashi was not in it. Because of this strange behavior, X Tiger led by Saver and hide and Taiji led by Saver.

At that time, in the music industry, especially in the rock school, "being on TV" was regarded as a taboo, and the trend of their hard-core world outlook should be maintained. However, X's performance in Live House and TV programs attracted disdain and ridicule from relevant people in the industry and other bands. This disapproving period is described in X's later masterpiece Red.

Unexpectedly, after the turning point on TV, the popularity of X was widely spread throughout the country. At the same time, at this time, X discussed at the banquet that "in the era when most Demo (music sample tapes) that other bands could not do were not given bonuses, X gave free videos to fans to promote VHS. Compared with other bands, X promotes itself very actively (lack of money often becomes the bane of other bands). At this time, he appeared in a funny program and said, "No one will listen to the best music. "

Around this period, the band members gradually settled down. Tai Chi, which once joined and quit, joined again at the end of 1986. PATA supported the recording of SKULL THRASH ZONE Vol. 1 album. Then, after 1987 was dissolved, HIDE, who was determined to return to her hometown as a beautician, was persuaded by YOSHIKI to join X.

In April, 1988, the self-made underground album "Lost Vision" went on the market and sold 10000 copies in a week, which was a jaw-dropping surprise in the Japanese underground music circle at that time. Then, in the summer of 1988, with the newly established CBSソニー (now ソニーーージッッ) In Major, several major record companies are vying to sign with X. The Lost Vision may be sold after Major, but Yoshiki decided that it was "to leave a mark in the underground age" and insisted on being signed by the independent brand ェクスタシー. As a result, CBS and X, which had the worst conditions at that time, signed the contract.

X signed a contract with Sony because of the arrogant attitude of other companies. The conditions offered by other companies are "buy a BMW" and "give you a disc when you dye your black hair back". This arrogant interventionist attitude made the players more disgusted with mainstream companies, and Yoshiki Hayashi played a cool role in the negotiation.

In fact, Sony, which signed a contract with X, also showed X their positive and sincere attitude. At that time, Tsuda (that is, the Newcomer Excavation Department). 1989 April 2 1 day, the album Blue Blood released by CBSソニー became the symbol of X mainstream debut. Oricon (Japan's largest music chart) won the sixth place in statistics and sold 600,000 copies in the same year. In a rare era in the music industry at that time, especially when TOP LABEL's rock band could sell 654.38 million+copies, X's sales record was absolutely amazing.

Then in September of the same year, the single "Red" was released. X performed actively at various music festivals for the first time, including Music Station, the signature music TV program of Asahi TV, which gave strong stimulation to the audience who seldom saw Vision Rock's performance. At the same time, its good musical skills began to attract the attention of the world. During this period, there are two diametrically opposed arguments about the exposure of X in the media and music industry. But in any case, at this time, X has instantly focused on the eyes of the world.

Like bamboo, it broke through the mainstream normal concept of X, and Yoshiki Hayashi caused a physical illness accident because of excessive drumming. In the same year,165438+123 October, Yoshiki Hayashi fell down while performing in the ancient guild hall, and all subsequent performances were postponed. Since then, Yoshiki Hayashi's head, hands and cervical diseases have gradually become an untimely bomb for the band. Subsequently, in the absence of Yoshiki Hayashi, X won the Best Newcomer Award in Japan Cable TV Award and several comprehensive awards in Japan Pop Music Award, and the phenomenon of X spread widely all over Japan.

1990 Japan budokan made its first performance as a live tour "Rose &; The blood tour started again. After performing in Osaka Castle in May, he went to the United States to record his new album X and temporarily disappeared from the stage. However, during my absence, I successfully held a series of unheard-of film performances. At this time, X has become a phenomenon and spread on a larger scale throughout the country.

Under the long-term recording in Los Angeles, Yoshiki Hayashi fell down again. After recording X-max, Song stabbed me in the back, and my cervical vertebra was abnormal, and I fell ill with cervical disc herniation. Yoshiki Hayashi was only ill for three days in a row, which greatly delayed the recording plan. The Art of Living, which was originally scheduled to be released in 199 1 July, cannot be recorded.

In June of the same month, Member X returned to China. On July 1 day, the album "Jealousy" was released and won the highest record in Oricon. It premiered in Tokyo Dome on August 23rd, and 10 10 was held in Japan budokan on October 29th. At the same time, during the emergency in Oda, Shinjuku, the sales of X store were restricted, and the X brand instant noodles produced by Nissin Food Company were also sold, and X ushered in the highest stage of media attention. 65438+On February 8th, the first performance of X and Orcestra of Japanese band and symphony orchestra was held in NHK. Then, on February 20th, 12, I made my debut at the "X movie GIGS~ ~ Blood Rose にまみれて ~" held by the Japanese budokan. At this time, some media reported that the dissolution of X was denied by Yoshiki Hayashi. On February 3rd, 65438+,Kloc-0/day, he made his debut at the Japanese Red and White Song Club and sang "Silent Envy". X has become a representative band in Japan.

199265438+1October 5-7, the Japanese performed in Tokyo Dome for three days for the first time. "Tokyo Dome Disappeared in 3 Days ~ ~" is the first time that a Japanese artist has performed in Tokyo Dome for three consecutive days.

But later, I quit the band too much. In the video message on June 5438+1October 3 1 Day Music Station, Toshi officially announced Taiji's resignation statement. The reason why Taiji quit was explained by "different musical orientations" at that time. Later, in the book Life and Death of X written by Taiji, he left the band at the request of Yoshiki Hayashi. The reason is that Tai Chi requires the band to make equal decisions and share royalties equally, which leads to the gradual accumulation of contradictions with Yoshiki Hayashi. Tai Chi said in the book, "I think all my reasons for quitting the league stem from one of the most direct reasons:" money. At that time, I always advocated that all royalties should be divided into five equal parts. Maybe I have become a very boring person? ! In addition, Taidi also thinks that he "has no way to accept any compromise". However, Tai Chi also implies that Yoshiki Hayashi may also be under pressure from employees and external forces. "However, I really hope that this is not a decision made by Yoshiki Hayashi and others. I also thought about it, perhaps because there are other external strong reasons operating in the dark. " Tai Chi says so in the book. There is a lot of talk about canceling the contract with Sony. One theory is that in March of 1992, X refused to renew the contract with Sony Entertainment on the grounds that Yoshiki Hayashi "could not accept such a contract". During the recording of the album "Jealousy" released by 199 1, the recording time was greatly increased due to Yoshiki Hayashi's cervical vertebra injury, and the recording cost was also staggering. There are great differences between bands and companies on the issue of funds for going global. Considering the popularity of X, the patience of Sony Music has reached its limit. To put it another way, stakeholders said that Sony unilaterally wanted to continue to sign a contract with X, but X refused to sign a new contract because Sony had intervened in the internal problems of players. The truth about this incident is still hidden. Since the expiration of the contract, X has not had a recording company or a brokerage company for some time.

When the contract with Sony expires and the new brand contract is signed, the audition of the new bass guitarist is also going on at the same time. 1992 In the summer, we finally signed a contract with Warner to enter the world. On August 24th, a press conference was held at Rockefeller Center in new york. Overseas works are released in Japan by Atlantic Records and MMG (now Warner Music in Japan). At the same time, the bass guitarist Heath who published Yuan マジェスティックィザベル also joined the orchestra. When entering the world, in order to distinguish it from the American band of the same name, it was renamed X Japan (formerly X came from Japan).

Long-term activities outside the recording band

At the beginning of signing with Warner, I began to record the art of life that should be included in jealousy. Since 1990 summer Demo Type, the tonic part of Toshi has become difficult to record. 1993 the art of living was finally released in August.

Parallel to the band activities, solo activities of all members were published one after another, which gradually conflicted with X's own plans. Yoshiki Hayashi, who is in charge of managing the X recording plan, has attracted the distrust of other members. But the recording of X's album is still in slow progress.

Originally as a follow-up to Jealousy, I hope to release the album Going to the World as soon as possible. However, there are also problems within the band, such as Toshi's English pronunciation (Yoshiki Hayashi was dissatisfied with the recording of the tonic for a long time, and corrected his pronunciation with a computer) and so on. Yoshiki Hayashi can't sell the album Dahlia worldwide (Dahlia was originally planned to be made into an English record).

Because of the long-term recording, the relationship between the band and Warner has gradually deteriorated. Within four years after signing the contract, the recording cost of the album was greatly exceeded. In order to balance the recording cost, the band had to release singles continuously. In addition, due to Yoshiki Hayashi's old illness, cervical disc herniation, it is impossible to record a lot of high-speed music as in the X era.

When the album can't be released, a domestic movie Gig will be held in Japan, X Japanese brand condoms will be sold, UFO dolls and Sega games will be used, and a world cultural heritage performance will be held in Todo Temple in Nara. At the end of the year, the Tokyo Dome performance was a routine, and X Japan played in the Japanese Red and White Song Wars for many years. X Japan has various out-of-band activities. 1995165438+10. In October, the national tour "Dahlia Tour1995–96" was held while the Dahlia album was still unrecorded. Considering the health condition of Yoshiki Hayashi, the basic plan is to perform in a venue for two days in 1-2 weeks. Nevertheless, the two-day performance in Sendai was suspended from 1995 to 65438+ February. 1 March 1996 13 In Nagoya1,the disc herniation in Yoshiki Hayashi recurred again. After that, the tour schedule was completely suspended. In fact, tourism is equivalent to abortion. In fact (except for the postponement of Fukuoka Dome), seven performances of 18 were temporarily suspended, especially the scheduled performance of Fukuoka Dome had to be suspended from the postponement to the end.

After a long time of recording, the Dahlia album1996165438+10 was finally published on October 4th, but after five years, six of the songs in the album10 had been sold as singles before ("Scar" was sold as a single after the release of the album), which became the actual selection. At this moment, Toshi made a statement that "X is suffocating".

1April, 997, Toshi quit the team on the grounds of different musical orientations. Unable to find a successor tonic, he decided to "resurrect X Japan in 2000 and dissolve it for this reason". On September 22nd, a notice of dissolution was issued in the banner advertisement of Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun. On the same day, a press conference was held to announce the dissolution of X Japan. Later, as a kind of "responsibility" for fans, the last concert was held, and then hide persuaded Yoshiki Hayashi to invite Toshi to attend the "Last Live Last Night" held in Tokyo Dome on February 3rd1997+01. After the performance, it was the last time to attend the red and white song party. It was not until the "reunion in 2000" that members began to act alone. Among them, hide enthusiastically launched its own solo activities in the name of hide with Spread Beaver. However, on May 2, 1998,/kloc-0, hide died suddenly, which made the agreement on X-day re-bubble (this is RO-25 in Yoshiki Hayashi in 2005 and Oricon in June 2002). 1speeches in various interviews such as June 1999) Because of the death of hide, bands like X Japan became legends early. After that, he published several live concert DVDs, such as The Art of Living and The Last Live, and selected selected albums through online voting, and held Gig movies in major cities in Japan and Seoul, South Korea. At the same time, as a fellow villager of hide, former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi publicly published "I am a fan of X Japan" about the active construction of hide Museum.

However, in terms of media reports, on the one hand, Toshi's brainwashing storm, on the other hand, Yoshiki Hayashi's frequent contact with activities other than music, which makes fans more or less uneasy. In particular, the disappearance of Yoshiki Hayashi in the Japanese music industry and the promotion of Violet UK in the United States are the main activities. However, for more than a decade, hundreds of millions of funds have been invested, and official audio sources are still very few. This is the result of the great mental stimulation caused by the death of hide, which he trusted deeply both in public and in private.

The turning point after hide's death was that Yoshiki Hayashi wrote and played the song "Anniversary" for the 10 anniversary of the emperor's accession to the throne. Then in 2002, as a guest of the first program "わたしはぁきらめなぃぃ" of NHK TV in Japan, Yoshiki talked about some topics about dissolution. Regarding the direct cause of the dissolution of Toshi, he said that "Toshi's voice is generally used as a prop". About this program, Toshi said at the time, "I didn't watch TV, so I don't know."

Not only in Japan, but also in East Asia and Southeast Asia, X Japan has a high reputation. South Korea used "tears" as an insert in the film "Servant, Daughter, Introduction", which was the first time that Korean films used japanese pop after Japanese culture was lifted in South Korea. In addition, X's music in Europe has also been imitated by other bands, especially X's fans in Japan, many of whom are the younger generation who only know and like it after dissolution. In 2007, it became a topic to form a band again. On February 10 of the same year, Toshi clearly stated that "I talked with Yoshiki Hayashi and then formed a topic". On their friend Tetsuya Koike's myspace homepage, they also talked about English reorganization. In March 2007, an interview with Toshi in Women Weekly magazine said that "I recently scheduled to talk about this matter with Yoshiki Hayashi in Los Angeles", but in March 2007, Yoshiki Hayashi, then captain of X Japan, said "there is no such thing" in English on his mayspace, denying the reunion. Then, relevant comments on Toshi's personal homepage, such as re-formed messages, were deleted. Later, Yoshiki Hayashi said in an exclusive interview with Sports Daily, "My will is very firm. As a band equivalent to the life of fans, while listening carefully to opinions from all sides, it is preparing for the resurrection. " In this way, the possibility of re-formation suddenly becomes very strong.

During Sony's contract period (that is, X era) on February 14, 2007, Blue Blood and Jealousy were sold in limited quantities respectively. On March 2 1 2007, Toshi said on his official website that he found Yoshiki Hayashi in LA and worked with him in the recording studio nearly 10 years later. This song was included in Yoshiki Hayashi's personal classical album "Eternal Melody" in 2005, in which Yoshiki Hayashi mourned for "Hiding Without You". At this time, X Japan has been dissolved for 10 years and established for 25 years, 18.

Then, on June 65438+1October 65438+1October 8, 2007, X official website officially announced the reopening of the band activities with an urgent notice. According to the news, the promotional hide of X Japan's new song I.V. will be in "ァクァシティぉぉィぉぉぉぉぉぉぉぉぉぉぉ" At this time, the sound source of this song has not yet been decided, and the release details will not be officially released until three months later. As the music that made its debut in the world, Toshi also got special guidance from Yoshiki Hayashi on the pronunciation of English lyrics when recording Dahlia.

The resurrected X gathered 1 10,000 people on the 22nd stage, and dispatched ambulances to prevent accidents. Finally, the photography was successfully completed. Among the four people in front of the camera, Yoshiki Hayashi is holding hide's doll, so that after 10 years, X Japan is still a five-person band in front of fans. This photo strongly expresses "going to the world with the share of hide", not only the human figure of hide, but also the usual position of hide on the stage is empty. On the same day, めざましテレビビ published exclusive interviews with various media magazines, conveying to fans that X Japan will perform in Tokyo in the spring of 2008 after the photography. Yoshiki Hayashi said that not only the spring concert, but also X Japan will continue to carry out various activities including making new albums.

Then he said in a TV interview that "Yoshiki Hayashi will stop the gorgeous reorganization of X, which will not be a long-term activity". Then TOSHI said in his personal concert after the resurrection, "I want to make my own healing music while doing X Japan."

On the other hand, Taiji Sawada has not made any announcement about this related incident. Shortly after the re-publication, X's activities began with a thorough transformation of the past live images. The first release was X's first performance in the name of X JAPAN, and the first New Year's concert of the Japanese in Tokyo Dome was the full DVD of "Japan Zhi ントダンンントトントトンン𞟘𞟘𞟘𞟘ト12 On February 5th, 2007, 65438, Keisuke Kuwata, "FNS Ballad Festival" released a CM advertisement titled "About the Return of X Day". The DVD-BOX originally composed of 65438+February 30th and 3 1 is scheduled to be released in 65438+1October. Later, due to production problems, it was postponed to February 29, and the special edition was included in the box. YOSHIKI said that in the future, the past images will be digitized, and the complete versions of Dahlia Tour Finals and The Last Scene will also be scheduled for sale in the future.

On June 20th, 2008, YOSHIKI held a public press conference in Shibuya, which fans can attend. At the press conference, it was announced that a 2-2-day revival concert would be held in Tokyo Dome on March 28th and 29th of the same year. Booking began on the day of the conference, and all 654.38+million tickets were sold on the 23rd, which was completely higher than expected. Tokyo Dome decided to open temporary seats, in addition, it also performed extra performances in summer, and announced the news that X premiered overseas, including Europe, America and Asia. The name of the revival site is "X Japan attacked and opened up in 2008 I.V. Disintegration". This is almost the same name as 19921Tokyo Dome 3DAYS performance held from October 5 to 7. 28th is the night of destruction, and 30th is the night of creation. Emphasize that this is five people x Japan, and HIDE will also perform on stage. After the press conference, I.V. was released on iTunes Store in 23 countries around the world at the same time, which is the performance of X Japan going to the world in the form of sound source. In the afternoon, the team members had a small live talk with 160 people in X Japan, which showed that Yimu and Junxi had reconciled.

At the same time, in an exclusive interview with YOSHIKI in various magazine media and MySpace, I published the idea of future positioning of VIOLET UK and X JAPAN. In addition to the Japanese version of I.V. and Without You, new songs will be recorded, and it is said that "compared with the original idea, there may be long-term activities".

The next day, under the strong reaction of the resurrection concert, it was judged that the Tokyo Dome seat could not be expanded. Yimu decided to add a performance on the 29 th, and the performance on the 29 th was named after the night without thinking. This is the third time since 1992 that X Japan has arranged a performance in Tokyo Dome. At the same time, the platinum seat planned for the leukemia fund was finally cancelled because of the high price.

On the day of the resurrection performance, the Tokyo Dome, as the venue, gathered a lot of fans, and the Long Snake team lined up in the surrounding sales points. The first day of the night of destruction did not start within the scheduled opening time. It is expected to start at 18: 30, and the performance will start under the last song in 2 hours and 20 minutes. However, in this way, the order of the tracks has to be greatly changed. After Jimu fell to the ground in The Art of Living, the performance was forcibly terminated by Tokyo Dome, which caused the special situation that the performance time was shorter than the waiting time. The next day, at the press conference before the opening of "Nothing in the Night", Jimu said that the reason for being late on the first day was that "the 3D image setting machine for making an appointment with HIDE was constantly adjusted, because I wanted fans to see HIDE anyway". The following stupid night and creative night started on time. In addition, at the resurrection concert, SUGIZO, the eldest relative of Jimu and HIDE, and the band played songs such as Silent Envy and I.V. ..

On May 4th, 2008, the HIDE Memorial Summit was held in Tokyo for two days. X Japan performed without you and ピンクスパ.

Just after HIDE's commemorative performance, the world tour was originally scheduled to be held in Paris on July 5, 2008, in Taiwan Province Province on August 2, and in new york on September 13. However, due to the deterioration of Jimu's old disease, cervical disc herniation and tenosynovitis, the performance was postponed in June of the same year.

Then, YOSHIKI's illness has resumed the multi-purpose performance scheduled for1October 22nd in Paris, 165438.

On June 5438+February, 2008, X Japan held a countdown concert in BLITZ, Akasaka. This performance was broadcast by CS Fuji TV and DMM respectively, and was broadcast live at the National 13 Dong Bang Theater. As the tickets for the performance of "Blitzkrieg" were pushed to the limit, after the performance, the dome performance plan for 300,000 people in Tokyo and other areas on February 6, 2009 was announced. After the New Year's performance, the 2009 world tour officially began. On June 65438+1October1June 17, X Japan's first overseas performance was held in Hong Kong, with the theme of X Japan World Tour Concert Hong Kong Station, 20,000 people were mobilized in Asia International Club within two days. At the beginning of the Hong Kong premiere, only one day was arranged as "Hong Kong Broken Night" on 17, but after the tickets were sold on February 18 18, all the tickets were sold on the same day. According to this great response, it was decided to add a performance called "Broken Night" to 16.

After the Hong Kong premiere, there was a contract dispute related to Heath, which delayed the performances scheduled to be held in Taiwan Province Province and Seoul in February and March, and X Japan fell into the worst situation of the bass player quitting the group for the second time. In the whirlpool of this dispute, tickets for the Tokyo Dome World Tour Concert named "X Japan World Tour Live in Tokyo Attack of Tokyo" were sold on May 2nd and 3rd, and YOSHIKI issued a "declaration of forced breakthrough".

Just when I thought it might be inevitable for Heath to quit the group, the day before the premiere of 1 in May 2009, Heath directly announced that she would not quit the group, and apologized to the fans for their concerns on the formula website. At the same time, Shanshan, who has been supporting musicians and bands to act together since the revival performance, officially joined X JAPAN and became the "sixth person in the band". On May 2nd and 3rd, 2009 (the anniversary of HIDE's death), Invincible Night, Looking Back18th Night and Six X Japan were successfully performed. Besides I.V. and Without You, the third new song Jade is played for the first time, adding new elements to SUGIZO's violin and YOSHIKI's piano. The concert was also broadcast simultaneously by DMM.

On May 30th, 2009, the X-Japan concert in Taipei welcomed 20,000 fans. The first climax after the opening ceremony was the piano and violin ensemble "Silent Jealousy" by Yoshiki Hayashi and Sugihara Yasuhiro. Since then, the guitar handkerchief tower has even given a large solo performance. Then there is the interpretation of another famous X-Japan song "Tears". After Red, the dragon dance performance and fashion catwalk brought by the production team kicked off the second performance, followed by Yoshiki Hayashi's drum solo. X-Japan finally presents the most popular EndlessRain.

Yoshiki Hayashi held a fan meeting in Beijing on June 6th and Shanghai on June 4th, 2009.

At the meeting, Yoshiki Hayashi pointed out that when X was resurrected, he didn't think too much. He just wants to give three concerts, but the fans are enthusiastic until today. If fans will continue to support X Japan in the future, they will stick to it and hold a concert at the Bird's Nest on 20 10 if possible. 20 15 July 4th, local time in Paris, France, YOSHIKI, a member of X-JAPAN who participated in the "Japan Expo" recently confirmed that the band will release a new recording album next year, which is also a brand-new studio album released by X-JAPAN after 20 years. According to the information given by YOSHIKI himself, the new album has been scheduled to be released on March 20th, 200611,and a release dinner will be held in the UK.