X JAPAN - Kurenai (The Last Live) Reaction | Metal Musician Reacts 

リアクションありがとうございます❗この動画は、XJAPANのファイナルコンサートの動画です。 ピンクの髪の方は、hideといいます。彼は、1998年に不慮の事故により亡くなりましたが、今も人気のあるギターリストであり、アーティストです。

One of the most underrated bands, speaking as someone from the US. The language barrier is really the thing, but great music is great music. Yoshiki, the drummer is one of the best I've ever heard. He also plays piano and still performs. Hide is probably the best guitarist that few here have heard of. Gone way too soon. But, that whole band is just so damn talented.

It has been almost 20 years since I first listened to X-Japan and I'm still amazed by the contrast of how delicate Yoshiki is on the piano and what a beast he is when he's on drums. Please keep X-Japan coming! 🔥

I’ve been waiting for your reaction to this, thank you!! Yoshiki wears a neck brace because of the amount of headbanging he used to do, he finally did neck surgery I think sometime in 2017? Their live performances are always soooo good

"Why is my dude wearing a neckbrace, by the way?" Medical Necessity. When Yoshiki was a little younger, he would headbang so hard while drumming that he severely injured his neck and was ordered to wear it by his doctors. The neck brace you see in the Babymetal Music Video :Headbanger:, and in the stage productions of Ave Maria and Baymetal Death and throughout their shows for the first half a decade, were in tribute to him! They use to give out neck braces at the door to certain special concert events. We are X! Put your Kitsune UP!! Po!

I personally think that X JAPAN and LOUDNESS are Japanese rock legends(My mother is a fan of X JAPAN and my father is a fan of LOUDNESS) X JAPAN may be the most successful band, but as everything has light and shadow, what happened to them was quite tragic. I can't watch their last "紅Kurenai" video without tears. Thank you for reacting to it.

When Hide softly smiled to Toshi at the intro I cried my eyes out. The last live is the best version of Kurenai but it's really hard for me to watch it without feeling heartbroken.😥

i never thought that someone would react to this. it´s been a while since i heard x japan. thank you for bringing back that gem^^

My alltime favorite of theirs. I was lucky to get exposed to them in the mid 90s here in europe and was very touched by what happened after the last live! One of the bests out there and as mentioned before, watch the „We are X“ documentary to get a slide overview of what they achieved! Have seen them at their last concert in London and I still think back to with fond memories…almost 3 hours with some talks in between! Sadly the long awaited new album is still not it stores!

Yoshiki (the drummer and the pianist) plays drums so hard he breaks his body, so he wears the brace to keep from breaking his neck. You don't remember the drummer int he last one, because in that one he was on the piano :)

As Gene Simmons said, "if X Japan would've been from the US or UK, they would've been the biggest band in the world". Drummer Yoshiki is one of the most influential Japanese musicians there is. Everyone who's interested in music in Japan knows Yoshiki. Besides from being their drummer, he also wrote and composed almost all their songs. He's also a world class pianist (as you saw on Endless Rain, I think that's the song you did before). A few years ago he was invited to play on the Japanese emperor's birthday. He also composed a theme song for a Grammy award ceremony, etc etc. He wears/wore the neckbrace since the early/mid 90s because he damaged his neck with his antics on stage, more specifically his headbanging. It also wasn't rare that he collapsed on stage because he has pretty severe asthma but didn't give a shit. He rather destroyed his drum set during songs/solos because he was frustrated with it than shift down a gear. They always had oxygen masks ready for him backstage if he needed them during a longer concert. One last thing because you mentioned the transparent drum set... he said in the X Japan documentary (We Are X) that he absolutely hated it because he needed to hit it twice as hard as a normal one to get the same sound and it exhausted him even more.

I've been a huge XJapan fan for so long! Thanks for checking them out.

X Japan was around a long time, they and Loudness are kind of the godfathers of Japanese metal I think. The drummer for X Japan is crazy as I recall and they had troubles with the lead singer leaving for a long time and then finally coming back if I remember correctly.

X-Japan: often described as the best band you've never heard of. The drummer also is a very good pianist. Someone else mentioned Nemophila's cover of this--check it out.

Thank you for this reaction. I've made a text from what ive done research about the band and the members im gonna paste it here, hopefully it will give some insight of the band. There is a band called X Japan, which is quite literally, the most famous band out from Japan, They are the godfathers of genre called Visual Kei (Japanese metal songs with crazy aesthetics, makeup etc) they formed somewhere around mid 80's and are still going, but they were absent for 10 years from 1997 to 2008, they disbanded in 1997 because their vocalist Toshi got brainwashed by a cult and forced to leave the band. They held (at the time) their last live concert named The Last Live, few months after their disbandment their lead guitarist Hideto "hide" Matsumoto died due to an accident while drunk (it was first stated that he killed himself, but the band members were very against it, cause of how positive hide was as a person) his passing broke the whole country of Japan into grief, his grave is still visited today and there is a guitar museum in his memory in Japan. His funeral caused mass traffic of grieving fans in Tokyo, numbers around 50 000. Some even took their own life while grief-stricken. Their former bassist killed himself in 2011, he was kicked from the band from unknown reasons in 1992. X Japan influenced the music industry in Japan as much as their conservative society, which lead to Rock music taking uprising in Japan and there is a way in Japan where they use names as Pre- and Post X Japan, on how much they influenced everything. The songs are mostly composed and written by their drummer/pianist Yoshiki Hayashi, who based a lot of the bands song from his tragic past. He was born in a frail and weak body, he wasnt meant to survive past his 20's yet he is still making music, he has been a classical pianist from the age of 4, he took up drumming at the age of 10, when he lost his father to a suicide. He started playing drums with such aggression that he was hospitalized and sometimes collapsed on stage due to immense pain and lack of air. Yoshiki has composed an anniversary song for the Emperor of Japan which he performed at the 10th anniversary of the Emperor. He also composed the theme song for the Golden Globe awards and has been taking over the music industry in rock music as in classical piano aswell. He also had a comic made by Stan Lee himself, named Blood Red Dragon, and his own Hello Kitty character named Yoshikitty, he was also a big part in many documents such as We Are X! and Yoshiki: My Story. Their past guitarist hide also had a solo career which was very succesful until his death in 1998, he had many documentaries about him after his death, but sadly many of them arent in english, nor subtitled. He was the founder of Headwax and Lemoned organisations and produced many smaller bands to bigger audiences. He is been compared to Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, in ways he affected the music industry in Japan.

I love X Japan, and this is such a classic. Hope you can get to a show if they tour again after Covid. I got to see them in 2010 when they played Lollapalooza, and it left me wanting to see one of their full arena shows.

Hide was the reason I picked up guitar. Still breaks my heart.

My fav band ever.

Duuuude if you like this song you should listen to Silent Jealousy by X japan!!! or if you want a challenge, go for Art of life by the same band hahahaha. It's a masterpiece but its like 30 mins long so you might wanna listen to it on your own.

I can't see if you have done other Babymetal songs than BxMxC but they have two songs that pays homage to X Japan. Akatsuki/Kurenai and No Rain No Rainbow/Endless Rain. The drummer Yoshiki is a genius and the brains behind X Japan and an awesome piano player there is version of this song that starts with a piano and a violin, watch it, it's awesome.

The drummer is Yoshike, chief songwriter.

Gene Simmons (Kiss) said that if X Japan had been a Western band, they would been one of the biggest Bands in the world! X Japan was scheduled to be the first Japanese band to perform in Wembley Arena (UK) but they fell apart. So who was?!?! Babymetal and Yoshiki (drummer, founder, song writer) was there to see and congratulate them. As to Hide's death, officially a suicide but I have read that the band members believe it was an accident. Apparently there is method guitarist use to relieve their shoulder pain from "wearing" the guitar by hanging, using a towel. They said he was likely drunk and passed out. Tamu (Nemophila) auditioned for Yoshiki's Lady X Japan project, she played the drum part from Kurenai! There video is still around.

His neck was broken. He also toured with a broken arm (playing the DRUMS) in 1994.

They are such a great talent. So diverse and they are the rock lords that set the tone for so many bands today. The neck brace is apparently why Baby Metal uses the neck brace…. Paying respect to Yoshiki

Singer=Toshi Drummer=Yoshiki - you have to know him, if anyone is anyone, they know Yoshiki, he knows even the Queen xD of England, that is. He knows BTS too :P I'll let the strings for later. Hide you know :_( I wish you would just dive into their discography (on your own time and maybe react to live versions?) and jump through Luna Sea and reach Dir en Grey :_) How do you call when you "sing" (like really sing) the instrumentals of the songs, because I know every single note of all of these songs and get so pumped XD Anyway, glad to see you reacting to XJapan again! (Oh, Sexmachine Guns is another great band)

The drummer, Yoshiki, is amazing! I adore his piano skills too, so emotional. This song is probably my most favourite from this band.

I am X. We r X. Next reaction pls "weekend" in the last live. You'll be amazed w/ how yoshiki can do a transition smoothly like a real different person. From the very fast n hard beat of drummer to the very gently pianist. Or maybe "rusty nails" in last live as well.... 🙏

It's just wonderful

One of the greatest japanese bands! to add to your thoughts at the end of the video... yeah, it sucks. There are so many bands we simply don't know about, but should :/ USA is the biggest music market. So of course everyone would try to "get in". But US market is VERY hard for "foreign" artists to get into. "You don't speak american" basically ^^"... Of course there are a couple exceptions - "Rammstein", "ABBA" (:P), ..., latin american music and K-Pop boom in recent years for example. Japan is the second biggest music market - and they are a small country with far less population. Also US artists tends to be known world wide more or less, - not the case for japanese. Still, their domestic market is HUGE. Most of them seem to have no desire to expand from the domestic-only. Some (many, but not the majority) of the bands still try for US-share... "Loudness" (~ "the better Motley Crue" of Japan) tried in the 80s... "Babymetal" is one who pretty much succeeded - so hey, I hope, it changes for the better! "X-Japan" started as "X" btw. They were under Sony as their label and were very successful. They tried for the US-market, they wanted that international success! They attempted an album release in US - but in order to do that they had to change their name, as there was already an US band registered as "X". So they renamed to "X-Japan". The US album was never released though.... They deserved to become huge internationally :) PS the neck brace is for headbanging waay too hard... Babymetal incorporated the "neck brace" in their early days as a homage btw - see "Headbanger" MV and "Death" live for example ;)

Ku-re-nai, crying in blood red. I was stationed in yokosuka Japan (their hometown) in the mid 80's. Able to see them in the club there.. Great stuff,

Babymetal- no rain no rainbow is a total X Japan sounding song. Fuckin' great. And yes, the hide smile. WE ARE X

check some stuff from earlier in their career..they were part of a style called visual-k..its the japanese "glam" .very stylised

There are a huge amount of video's on RU-vid of X Japan and hide (pronounced heeday). I found X Japan about 3 years ago and can't believe I'd not heard of them before. They should have been the biggest rock/metal band in the world. I have since managed to get the album 'We Are X' and two hide albums 'Hide Your Face' and Psyence (from Japan). I'm totally hooked. And now we have The Last Rockstars created by Yoshiki and you need to check out the lead singer Hyde. Lead singer of L'arc En Ciel and also a solo career his voice is absolutely amazing. Check out The Last Rockstars concert in LA on youtube, absolutely amazing!!!

Nemophila cover of this song is now a must do. Great reaction, thank you.

Saw IV in English. From the horror movie. Great rock and pretty new. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_IV

Fuuuuck Ye We are X. !

Yoshiki and his custom Tama Artstars. Just FYI BabyMetal does a couple song with nod to X Japan.

Great Video 🙌😁✨ we are X

I really need to ask my friends who are 80's/90's rock fans if they know X Japan, I need friends to enjoy their music with

X JAPAN MAY INSPIRAtION..

I've watched a couple of your Stray Kids & X Japan reactions, and you consistently catch the same little intricate details that I do - I'm following for that! You really have to listen to Art Of Life - the live version here is my favorite: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qPKw_V_4pJI.html It's long but so worth it.

Well I love this song This happens to be THE BEST UNKNOWN BAND EVER They did separate on 1997 Last concert just a few days after the birth of our QUEEN SUSUKA NAKAMOTO The reason I mentioned Was X JAPAN have such an influence on BABYMETAL from THE NECKBRASE THE PIANO THE X SINNG THE GIRLS DO TO SOME OF THE SONGS AS ENDLESS RAIN WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR NO RAIN NO RAINBOW 🌈 AND THE FAMOUS MOMENTS WERE SU HITS THE GONG well Just to make sure The reason you do not remember the DROMER in your last reaction Is very simple YOSHIKI is a very accomplished musician So the guy in the piano was him Usually in the heavier songs They start with him in the piano And then he goes to the drums And here is the deal THEY DID GOT BACK TOGETHER IN 2007 and they still together till this day is just that because of the pandemic I think they stopped performing But Most amazing tribute was performed during the new concerts after HIDES DETH IN EVERY CONCERT HIS GUITAR IS SHOWCASE AS A TRIBUTE TO HIM AND HIS OPENING PARTS IN THE SONGS WERE REPLACE BY PIANO INTRO AND SOME BY PIANO AND VIOLIN INTRO ALSO THEY HAVE A HOLOGRAM AS THEY PERFORM BEST ONE YOU HAVE NOT DONE JET RUSTY NAIL LIVE WITH VIOLIN INTRO THIS SONG WAS FROM 2007 it is insane It is their concert opening song Just saying

He is maniac! Genius maniac!

Agree with others, definitely check out Nemophila, those girls kill this. They are all super skilled at their craft. Wait till you see a little asian girl Tamu killing those fkn drums. Even more impressive than X japan. Dont even get me started on the guitarists!

The female version of X Japan is called Show Ya. They just released a new single called Eye to Eye. It’s very good. Classic 80s style. Just about every female Japanese band today is influenced by Show Ya. Check them out. Nemophila do 2 Show Ya covers with Show Ya’s drummer.

You want more X Japan songs that are speed/thrash metal? Try Silent Jealousy, X, Stab Me In The Back and Blue Blood.

This is really cool. Not sure if it's worth a reaction, but Nemophila did a cover of this and it's definitely worth checking out.

no video 😞....

Have you ever listen to Official Hige Dandism, band from Japan? They have pretty good songs too

He’s wearing the neck brace because he becomes a maniac when he plays the drums. LOL

Love x japan! Hope you react to rusty nail too Also art of life which is epic literally.

please react to the orale cigarettes

To be honest, I thought the same, but we were handed it at some point and some followed the thread, some didn't. That's all. For me, it was anime, have you watched Dragon Ball? Kenshin? Bleach? Take DBZ opening: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hcdDnwm4pAE.html ;) In Spain the song was song by one of the most relevant rock/metal bands of the moment (late 80s early 90s). Or take Rurouni Kenshin: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gZGmDKxEp-I.html (Judy&Mary opening) Bleach: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dfh4JuzYNpM.html I dived in, who took me first was L'arc en ciel (they just had a tour for their 30th Anniversary, they look no older than 20 xD) --> the 4th ending of Kenshin: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_NzwGk8ZoP8.html (they sang also in DNA2 and Final Fantasy the movie in 98?) Anyway, it's never too late ;) I'm glad you are getting to know them now!

Dude, Dahlia from The Last Live. Enough said

I’m a BTS fan and I loved XJapan a long time ago when I was in highschool lol I really didn’t expect this to come up but I enjoyed it thanks

Here's Nemophila's cover: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bd3Ss30FZjg.html

please react DELUHI - Orion Once Again

Can you react dir en grey different sense

US was a Anti-Japan country and bashing in the 80's BTW. You'll know why Japanese bands have concerts in a small venue in Europe but doesn't tour in the US. X-Japan's first concert in US was M.S.G. New York 2014.

react to dir en grey

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