It's gonna be long one.

Gw cuma mau membeberkan lebih detail ttg hal2 yg terjadi thd Yoshiki dan X Japan dlm kaitannya thd Paris Live and Christmas concerts postponement di 2008.

Krn byknya fans yg kesel dan nyalahin Yoshiki secara sepihak gara2 ini, gw ngerasa penting utk beberin bbrp info dari Yoshiki Mobile.
Utk kalian ketahui sblmnya, di Yoshiki myspace and X Japan myspace, byk komen yg nyalah2in Yoshiki dan terdengar kasar. (gw sendiri blm check). Tp kalian bisa liat sendiri trutama di X Japan myspace spertinya.

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Ini Yoshiki Mobile messages yg gue dpt. (please jgn seenaknya difwd ke mana2 krn gw janji sbnrnya ama sumber gw utk gk spread ini).


October 24 (Here's a summary.)
Yoshiki had a bad cold and he lost his weight about 10 kg since the beginning of this year.
Now he began to practice piano for the show. Sometimes he coughs.

October 27 (A summary)
Yoshiki bought Maserati at Ferrari dearlership on his way from a studio.

October 29 (A summary)
Yoshiki seemed to be offered to produce another movie's music.

October 30 (A summary)
Yoshiki had 5 meetings and had no time to work of recording at a studio.
He seems to feel heavy stress.

October 31 (A summary)
Yoshiki worked at a studio until the evening and then had a dinner meeting with
members of Violet UK and then he disappeared around 3 am.
A staff looked for him and found him sleeping on a bench at the street of Hollywood at 5 am.
Then he came back home but he seemed to lose his key. He broke the window
and entered the house...

October 31 (A summary)
Yoshiki worked at a studio until the evening and then had a dinner meeting with
members of Violet UK and then he disappeared around 3 am.
A staff looked for him and found him sleeping on a bench at the street of Hollywood at 5 am.
Then he came back home but he seemed to lose his key. He broke the window
and entered the house...

November 5 (A summary)
Yoshiki concentrated recording works a whole day.
But he seemed to be depressed a little.
He always behaves as usual even when he's not in a good shape.
But today we noticed his condition is not as usual.

November 6
Yoshiki didn't come to studio today...

November 7 (A summary)
He did recording works and had a meeting with promoter in America.
He didn't talk so much and just worked for these days.
It's not what he always is. We worry about him.

November 10 (A summary)
The postponement of Paris and Saitama shows were already
announced in X Japan official HP.
The one who really desired to carry out those shows and continued working hard until the very end was nobody but Yoshiki himself.
He negotiated with the management many times and just before its break-down he accepted their demand "postponement" in the end.
Since then, he just concentrates on recording without saying a word to anybody.
As we know what was going on, we feel he showed his grin on his face.

November 11 (A summary)
Yoshiki worked for recording a whole day today in the studio.
Sometimes a sound was heard from a booth. Is that VUK?
We were almost overwhelmed by its powerful sound in the tense atmosphere.

November 12 (A summary)
Figures (dolls) of Japanese animation characters are being sent to Yoshiki's office recently. A tense atmosphere becomes a little bit relaxed.
Any new project begins?


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Ini source dr media lain ttg pengunduran tgl paris dan xmas concert.

(google translated)
Caution Concerning the management of X JAPAN and changes in the world tour X JAPAN Production Management Committee has worked with the strong intention of all members of X JAPAN, to begin world tour in Paris at any price.
However, to consolidate the success of this world tour, we made a partnership with the largest management companies in America, namely AZOFF MANAGEMENT (with Mr Irving Azoff as president) and Filament Inc., Led by the creator of the company Warner Brothers Records, Mr Phil Quartararo to coordinate everything with a comprehensive world view. We are also in late trade with the world's leading concert promoters, AEG, for details of this world tour.

After several exchanges between the parties involved to achieve the success of this world tour, it was decided that AZOFF MANAGEMENT play the role of leader with full powers of decision-making side, working for the global promotion of X JAPAN, INC. with FILAMENT.

AZOFF MANAGEMENT INC and FILAMENT. have agreed on the new strategy to push the entire schedule until next year, which includes the concert in Paris on November 22 and announced concerts on 24 and Dec. 25 at Saitama Super Arena. Therefore, the tour will begin for the concert countdown to the end of the year in 2008, although concerts in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Taiwan and Korea will take place as announced earlier.

The next spring, there will be a Japanese national tour which will be followed by a concert in Paris to replace the November concert as well as additional concerts in Scandinavia, including Sweden, etc.

For those who planned their visit to Paris and / or Saitama Super Arena, please accept our apologies for this flat sudden announcement, although the reasons behind these concerts repelled from the contractual situation involving international operation.

source:
http://www.xjapan-france.com/news.php

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Nah, stlh loe baca data2 di atas dan dgn sifat Yoshiki yg amat perfectionist, di mana X Japan itu bagaikan baby/ anaknya Yoshiki sampai2 dia pun rela mati di panggung demi musiknya, pasti kalian tau bagaimana perasaan Yoshiki saat ini.
Pasti kalian jg bisa tebak gmn mati2annya Yoshiki berusaha utk mempertahankan Paris Live.

Bahkan ngeliat gmn dia masih berlatih mati2an buat Paris concert dari akhir October. Sblm tgl 24 Oct gw jg ada YM info yg ngejelasin Yoshiki sakit stlh balik dari Tokyo ke LA dan bbrp hari kemudian dia terlihat sibuk lagi di studio, bbrp hari ke depannya dia mulai sibuk rehearsal.

Gw cuma ngerasa kasihan ke Yoshiki dan gak adil dgn adanya tuduhan2 dan kemarahan2 para fans di Europe and Amrik. Well.. ngomong ttg gk adil emang para fans yg dah beli flight ticket dan book hotel, bayar DP lbh diperlakukan gk adil ama X Japan tp... kl diliat2 ini bukan kehendak Yoshiki dan di luar kontrol dia.

Emang sih yg dipermasalahkan saat ini adlh mengapa tidak ada perkataan langsung, penjelasan ato maaf dari Yoshiki ato anggota X Japan lainnya. Ini yg bikin fans marah.

Gw cuma berharap kita para fans di Indo gk ikutan kebawa emosi. Tp ngelihat lbh mendalam. Slama kita gk tau pastinya ada apa itu di balik layar, sbaiknya jgn flame Yoshiki ato X Japan. Masalah management itu gk gampang apalagi menyangkut international tours di bwah company besar dari US yg katanya sangat powerful di mana terkadang sang artist pun tergencet.

(continue to part II)