X Japan World Tour dates as confirmed by Yoshiki via his twitter account:
June 28, 20100 - London, England
July 1, 2011 - Paris, France
July 4, 2011 - Berlin, Germany
He also, announced that they'll be a part of the Summer Sonic lineup happening on August 13, 2011 at Osaka Japan!
Showing posts with label Eternal Melody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eternal Melody. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Yoshiki's Piano Auction Will Start Soon!
It's all set for Yoshiki's Piano Auction. The auction date is set to April 17, 2011 (Sun) Japanese Standard Time (GMT+7) and will be hosted by Yahoo Japan Charity Auctions. The auction page will be translated to 4 different languages namely English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. The entire profit for auctioning off Yoshiki's favorite Kawai CR-40 crystal piano will be donated in full to the Japan Earthquake victims through Red Cross Japan.
There'll be an exhibit after as well as donations from other popular artists such as Marilyn Manson, Stan Lee, Shanei Grimes, Chelsea Handler, the United States through more members of the HFPA Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Jemuzufuranko, etc.
Details of Yoshiki's Piano are as follows:
Tamotsu Tokoro - YOSHIKI Piano Crystal
KAWAI CR-40
88 keys (7 1 / 4 octaves) / 3 pedals (with sostenuto)
White Keys Fainaibori (antibacterial)
Black Keys - Faineboni (antibacterial)
Use clear acrylic resin w/ chairs only
Height - 100cm / frontage 150cm / depth 185cm / 425kg weight
(Image credit: here.)
There'll be an exhibit after as well as donations from other popular artists such as Marilyn Manson, Stan Lee, Shanei Grimes, Chelsea Handler, the United States through more members of the HFPA Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Jemuzufuranko, etc.
Details of Yoshiki's Piano are as follows:
Tamotsu Tokoro - YOSHIKI Piano Crystal
KAWAI CR-40
88 keys (7 1 / 4 octaves) / 3 pedals (with sostenuto)
White Keys Fainaibori (antibacterial)
Black Keys - Faineboni (antibacterial)
Use clear acrylic resin w/ chairs only
Height - 100cm / frontage 150cm / depth 185cm / 425kg weight
(Image credit: here.)
Monday, March 14, 2011
YOSHIKI: Donates His Crystal Piano for Earthquake Relief
March 13, Tokyo – X JAPAN’s Yoshiki is going to auction off his priceless crystal piano that he brings all over the world whenever he has concerts, is to be auction off to help Japanese people who were affected by the 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan on March 11.
Yoshiki was in his recoding studio in Japan when the earthquake happened. Feeling it and seeing news reports of his countrymen devastated him and he thought that he must do something for them.
Yoshiki is also collection donations through his American foundations, Yoshiki Foundation America.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Eternal Melody: Yoshiki Fanlisting!
This has been up for a while. I was just lazy to make a post about it. But anyway, I've re-opened the fanlisting for Hayashi Yoshiki or simply Yoshiki of the J-rock band, X Japan! If you love J-rock, you definitely know the Godfather of Japanese Visual Kei movement.
Re-opened, for those confused, means that someone used to own and manage this particular fanlisting before but then, later on, closed down, for unknown reasons. I sent a request to had another fanlisting made for Yoshiki and it was approved. Of course, I've joined the previous fanlisting, but unfortunately, I do not know the owner and I have no idea of whatever happened to the previous fanlisting, so this fanlisting has to start again from zero.
On to the fanlisting, here's a short intro on Yoshiki:
Hayashi Yoshiki is a musician, a song writer and a producer. He's mostly known as the drummer, pianist and leader of the popular visual kei band, X JAPAN. He also founded his own independent label called Extasy Records. Yoshiki and Toshi, the vocalist of X Japan founded the band when they were in high school, back in 1982. Five years after, they auditioned for CBS Sony that landed then a recording contract and their fist album, Vanishing Vision. 10 years after, in 1997, the band disbanded due to Toshi deciding to leave the band. Yoshiki did solo projects after this and continued his career as a classical musician and a producer. And then, they reunited again after 10 years with a huge 10 year reunion concert and the announcement that they're coming back and heading out for an international tour with a world-wide vision with them.
If you're a fan, please consider joining!
Re-opened, for those confused, means that someone used to own and manage this particular fanlisting before but then, later on, closed down, for unknown reasons. I sent a request to had another fanlisting made for Yoshiki and it was approved. Of course, I've joined the previous fanlisting, but unfortunately, I do not know the owner and I have no idea of whatever happened to the previous fanlisting, so this fanlisting has to start again from zero.
On to the fanlisting, here's a short intro on Yoshiki:
Hayashi Yoshiki is a musician, a song writer and a producer. He's mostly known as the drummer, pianist and leader of the popular visual kei band, X JAPAN. He also founded his own independent label called Extasy Records. Yoshiki and Toshi, the vocalist of X Japan founded the band when they were in high school, back in 1982. Five years after, they auditioned for CBS Sony that landed then a recording contract and their fist album, Vanishing Vision. 10 years after, in 1997, the band disbanded due to Toshi deciding to leave the band. Yoshiki did solo projects after this and continued his career as a classical musician and a producer. And then, they reunited again after 10 years with a huge 10 year reunion concert and the announcement that they're coming back and heading out for an international tour with a world-wide vision with them.
If you're a fan, please consider joining!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
About Yoshiki
Hayashi Yoshiki is a musician, a song writter and producer. He's mostly known as the drummer, pianist and leader of the popular visual kei band, X JAPAN. He also founded his own independent label called Extasy Records.
Yoshiki's instruments are Kawai Crystal II Glad Grand Piano CR-40A and Tama Drums, Zildjian cymbals, and Evans drumheads. He's also an endorser for the drum equipments and has his own signature model of drumsticks by Tama.
X Japan
Yoshiki is the drummer, pianist and also the leader of X Japan. He and Toshi (vocalist) started X Japan in 1982 when they were in highschool. On December 1987, they auditioned for CBS Sony which ended then, with a recording contract and their first album, Vanishing Vision. They're second album Blue Blood followed 2 years after. After Sony, they moved to a Atlantic Records and Art of Life was released, followed by their third album, Dahlia, in which, in my opinion was the best album of all. In 1997, Toshi decided to leave the band and X Japan was disbanded. After 10 years (2007), they reunited again and did reunion concerts.Solo
Before X Japan was disbanded, Yoshiki already did some solo projects. He was collaborating with other artists and does orchestral arrangements. He released an orchestral version of X Japan's songs and called it Eternal Melody (that's where I got this site's name).Official Sites:
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Updates About Yoshiki's Health
Drummer, pianist and X JAPAN band leader, Yoshiki, will undergo neck surgery on Monday, July 27, 2009 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA. Dr. Neel Anand, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, will perform a cervical foraminotomy.
Due to his intense drumming style, Yoshiki developed a worsening of his neck pain and left hand numbness over the past month, affecting his music performance. His condition has been evaluated by doctors in the U.S. and Japan. Yoshiki underwent a spinal x-ray series, an MRI of the spine, and an EMG. After seeking second and third opinions on the diagnosis and treatment, he concluded that the foraminotomy was necessary for the cervical foraminal stenosis.
Yoshiki's primary physician at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Tommy H. Tomizawa (UCLA Assistant Professor), states that he will need a few weeks to recover from the surgery and a month or more of rehabilitation. If his condition does not improve over the next several months, laminectomy, discectomy and spinal fusion would be considered. Artificial disc placement would be another treatment of choice.
(source: )
Due to his intense drumming style, Yoshiki developed a worsening of his neck pain and left hand numbness over the past month, affecting his music performance. His condition has been evaluated by doctors in the U.S. and Japan. Yoshiki underwent a spinal x-ray series, an MRI of the spine, and an EMG. After seeking second and third opinions on the diagnosis and treatment, he concluded that the foraminotomy was necessary for the cervical foraminal stenosis.
Yoshiki's primary physician at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Tommy H. Tomizawa (UCLA Assistant Professor), states that he will need a few weeks to recover from the surgery and a month or more of rehabilitation. If his condition does not improve over the next several months, laminectomy, discectomy and spinal fusion would be considered. Artificial disc placement would be another treatment of choice.
(source: )
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