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shirokiryuu
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lol  . well i'm not too fond of Gackt too much, i guess i haven't listened to enough of his music yet. I'm more of a L'arc/ hyde fan. It makes me crack up seeing that on the tofu records forum there are a gazillion hyde fans and but not as many gackt fans. in fact, there are quite a few who dislike him greatly. But this is only because tofu attracts many hyde and l'arc fans.
I hope tofu records will expand their music libraries to other companies, even if they can only release sony labels right now.  and they said they wouldn't release the older albums too.
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mufurc
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Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if Gackt didn't know about this yet. :3 Yoshiki must be pretty desperate to have a successful project (otherwise I have no idea why he'd team up with Gackt, of all people) - the royalties from X/Japan releases should pay good money but the bands he produced have mostly left him by now and he hasn't really had any successes on his own musically. I guess he must be tired of living off of a more than 10 year-old glory... Anyway, I don't like neither Gackt nor Yoshiki, but I'm curious of how this will turn out. It's kind of like a trainwreck... |
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violetsquirrel
 Posts: 69 Location: Australia |
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Er... Gackt and Yoshiki are really good friends. Which I imagine is the reason they're going to make a band together. Yoshiki hasn't had musical success since X-Japan (if we ignore being asked to compose a piece for the 10th anniversary of the Emperor of Japan's ascension to the throne  ) because he's been mostly hiding himself away working feverishly on Violet UK, amongst various movie projects and other things (read his myspace...). He could have success any time he wanted...
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omnistry
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Although I never really could get into X(Japan), I really respect the work of Yoshiki; and the idea of him and Gackt making a band together is quite fantastic. Let's cross our fingers and see if Tofu will release it.
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Hawaiian _Gurl808
 Posts: 17 Location: Waianae , Hawaii |
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First of all i was bummed that i couldnt go to otakconthis year i really want to go since that Yoshki was a guest , i have been a fan of X Japan back in the early and mid's 90's . This is great news
Gackt and Yoshiki is awsome 
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Haru to Ashura
 Posts: 617 Location: Termina |
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XD lmfao, it's so true. They're both such workaholics... if you start to see their ribs poking out again, that's a bad sign!!
Haha, Gackt isnt' exactly known? Compared to power-producer Yoshiki, Gackt's like a free-love laid back hippy. I mean, have you ever seen footage of Yoshiki yelling at his sound mixers when they make mistakes? XD And i quote - warning, profanity: spoiler["Just fxxking do it! Fxxking do it now! What is your fxxking problem?"] Aah, to be a perfectionist. <3
Um...no? The TraX are selling out shows in Japan and albums in Korea, and in the late 90's, Yoshiki is the one who got Dir en Grey on their feet. And no sucess on his own? Every other time the man utters the words "Violet UK" he's on Japanese television instantly. And composing for the Emperor of Japan might just be a big honor. ;) According to rumors flying acorss lj-land, at the panel Yoshiki 'promised' the crowd that Violet UK would play at least one show in the US and Europe, as well as Yoshiki and Gackt's new band. Normally I'd ignore such promises from a musician, but Yoshiki has a history of only canceling concerts when he hurt himself and needed to go the hospital, so maybe his words are worthwhile. |
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violetsquirrel
Posts: 69 Location: Australia |
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Heh, yeah, but I figure at least Yoshiki has experience working with other people in a band. There's a difference between making sure your minions get things absolutely perfectly right, and not being able to accept anything other than exactly what you imagined creatively. Ever seen the lyrics to "Little by Little" that Masa wrote almost immediately after leaving GacktJOB? He knew that he was going to just be a member of a backing band, but he found having to act exactly the way Gackt told him to to be too difficult. Gackt doesn't appear to work well when he has to share his creative ideas with other people. But I guess since this seems to be just a side project (not that we've heard anything from him yet...) maybe he's willing to compromise *shrug* And I don't think that word has quite the same meaning to Yoshiki as it does to the rest of us, he seems to like using it even more than Hyde does |
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Haru to Ashura
Posts: 617 Location: Termina |
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I see your point, but Gackt has experience being in a group band. Mana was in charge of Malice Mizer; Gackt took orders, to a more or lesser extent.
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violetsquirrel
Posts: 69 Location: Australia |
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Yeah, but look what happened with that. He may have taken orders from Mana and Kozi, but he was always trying to have more influence in the creative process. I think in the chapter before it he says that he basically joined MM in order to get well-known enough to do his own thing. He left MM in order to be able to do whatever he wanted, so I find it interesting that he's going to try working with someone else now...
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DriftRoot
 Posts: 222 Location: NH |
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Given Gackt's recent involvement with Square, a la Dirge of Cerberus, spoiler[and the super secret ending, 'nuff said for those who care, for those who don't, he's there, in the flesh as it were and he's not going away anytime soon, probably.] the idea of Square letting him go at this point is something to mull over, and a Yoshiki/Gackt combo on future FF, particularly FF7 incarnations, is something else to mull over. I can hear the fanboys screeching now.
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Victorian Lolita
Posts: 0 Location: GA, USA |
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Wow, I've been gone awhile...
Now that I'm over the initial trauma of the news, wow. I was in shock for almost an hour. Then I bitched to my boyfriend about it. How could the man I admire most, and the man I loathe the most, possibly join forces? It's all too much for me. As I was explaining it all to my sister I made a comment on how they couldn't possibly get along; they're too much alike. And she had this to say:
Don't take offense, it's all in good humor. 
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Goruhgurl
Posts: 1 Location: USA |
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lol Which one is which for you? At first I hated the news, since I've never heard of Yoshiki and I love Gackt solo. But I heard people say Yoshiki is pretty good, so I'm willing to give them a try before I say I hate or love them.
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