Фото с концерта и за кулисами Roseland Ballroom

[s o n n y]

Сегодня на твиттере и не только появились ссылки на фотографии Нью-Йоркского концерта американского тура X JAPAN, сделанные Ниной Робинсон www.ninarobinsonphotography.com/

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@темы: heath, pata, photos, sugizo, x japan, toshi, yoshiki

Comments

[koshatko]

Последняя красивая, там где Йошики в зеркале

[Diana_]

s o n n y
спасибо! очень выразительные кадры!

[*Лунный свет*]

Какая красота, особенно Йо за барабанами и перед зеркалом! Спасибо, Сонни.

[*Лунный свет*]

Вот такая ещё ссылочка в твиттере нашлась: статья
В конце статьи понравилось:
"Есть ли у него потаённая слабость?" - "Хмм," - Йошики наконец отвечает: "Одиночество."

[riana 78]

s o n n y
Спасибо! Очень выразительные фото...
По выше отмеченные молчу, добавить нечего, но мне понравилось фото Паты с Хисом и Суги на заднем плане, как в старые добрые времена...
А еще фото зрителей, Вот это энтузиазм...

[s o n n y]

*Лунный свет*, а мне бросилась в глаза строчка: "Его новая подружка из Японии, хотя последние несколько были англоязычными."
Он продолжает говорить с журналистами о своих GF, это о чем-то говорит))

[koshatko]

*Лунный свет* Спасибо. отличная статья!!!

[evgen1ka]

две фотки Хиса!!! Господи! но какие!!!

Черт.. .а где Суги???

[riana 78]

А я не могу прочесть статью... Она не грузится в Гугл..
Может кто-нибудь будет столь любезен и переведет ее или хотя бы подробно перескажет ее...

[Kaede]

могу заняться переводом, но не раньше четверга, думаю, будет готов..""

спасибо за фотографии!!*___*

[s o n n y]

riana 78, а пока лови текст по частям из распознавалки:

IT'S TAKEN 28 YEARS, BUT X JAPAN, ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDS IN THE WORLD, ARE FINALLY READY TO
TACKLE AMERICA. BY CHRIS NORRIS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY NINA ROBINSON

IN A HOTEL SUITE high above Times Square, Japan's biggest rock star folds himself into a club chair and prepares to grant an audience. Androgynously slim, with a black scarf coiled around his neck, Yoshiki Hayashi sits in silence for a moment as a hovering photographer snaps some shots before the faintest wave from Yoshiki-san makes him vanish into thin air.
Two days from now, the drummer and leader of X Japan will do something he's waited for his whole life-play New York City-and he's sweating every detail, including the greeting. "For Japanese people, it's hard to pronounce Ls and Rs," Hayashi says, alluding to Roseland Ballroom, the treacherously named venue where X Japan will make their New York debut. "So...Roseland? Ballroom?" he says, carefully but correctly. "I've actually been practicing saying that."
Now is not the time to screw things up. Twenty-eight years after forming, X Japan is finally touring the U.S., releasing its debut English-language album, and beginning a full-scale American invasion-a campaign Hayashi has had decades to consider. "I thought about it a lot," he says. "How do we present ourselves today? Even in our country, we were the black sheep of the industry. We were always outsiders. I feel like America needs something new. So my strategy is just: Be yourself."
Which is...?
"I have no idea," he says, then bursts into laughter-softly clapping hands he keeps jewelry-free for the grand-piano obligattos he plays during X Japan shows. uWe are flashy," he says at last of the band. "We are fast. We are loud. We are crazy. We are musically trained." And at that he goes silent-his eyes hidden behind amber Ray-Bans, his face lightly dusted with makeup, and his shoulder-length, center-parted, henna-tinted hair all strongly suggesting David Bowie's frail, soft-spoken alien in The Man Who Fell To Earth. Which is more than a little appropriate.

[s o n n y]

If you live long enough, pop culture becomes a dream, a joke, or a science fiction novel-one where dancing fools in harem pants become the world's best-selling rappers and cyborgs from the future govern California. But if you spent half your life in Japanese pop culture-filling the Tokyo Dome 18 times; composing the Emperor's theme song; seeing your face on perfume, credit cards, and a new species of Hello Kitty; losing your beloved bandmate to suicide then performing with his hologram onstage- your entire life is science fiction.
Hayashi's has been since he was a 10-year-old classical pianist who enlisted in the Kiss Army, convincing his mom to take him to Kiss's concert at Tokyo's Budokan. On he briskly marched to Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and the meaner strains of thrash-metal, forming a band in the genre with classmate Toshi Deyama. Infamy followed. Recruiting guitar ace Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto, the crew adopted their placeholding "X" as an official bandname, formed the indie label Extasy, and made records, headlines, and some abortive overtures to the U.S.
The first involved a few mutually unfulfilling conversations at the first Jane's Addiction concert in Los Angeles. "Hide and I were in the crowd and people came up to us, 'Do you have X?'" he says. "And we were like [nodding, smilingJ 'We are X!' Then, 'Do you have Ecstasy?' and we were still [nodding, smiling) 'Yes, we are on Extasy!'" The next was a quixotic attempt to charm grunge-era America with the single-track, 29-minute, Schubert- inspired album Art of Life in 1993.

[s o n n y]

After this, X Japan underwent a slow, painful implosion. Singer Deyama left and joined a sect called Home of Heart. Hide died of self-strangulation, and the Visual Kei movement they helped launch merged into the sanitized J-pop culture. Offered a composing gig by no less than Sir George Martin, Hayashi made his own counter-intuitive rebellion and wrote music for the Emperor's 10-year anniversary. "I felt like I was being a rebel against rebellion," he says of the piece, which inaugurated a new career penning sweeping orchestral works perfect for multiplex epics and Olympic ceremonies.
Bandless and surrounded by Japanese kids flipping West Coast gang signs. Hayashi sought escape: first in Hollywood, where he owned a recording studio, then in Encino-right across the street from Michael Jackson. When Jackson died in 2009, Hayashi says he was "quite shocked," having met him and found him to be "quite normal." "But, at the same time, I was on that street that day, so...." He trails off, the point-blank view of such a media maelstrom defying all possible description.
"Being famous is great," Hayashi continues. "But it's so hard to be in this position. If you do anything a bit wrong, will attack you. Especially on the Internet." Of the Internet also brought the resurrection of X when their globally viral music videos prompted shows in 2009, where documentary footage shows young faces of all nationalities tearfully singing along and holding up arms or glowsticks to form an X. "To me, X means 'no limit.' Or 'infinite possibilities.'"
Yet it also denotes negation, void, death. "Unfortunately, I have a lot of death in my life," says Hayashi, whose father committed suicide was he was 10.

[s o n n y]

Today, Hayashi writes 99 percent of his lyrics in English. He has a new girlfriend in Japan, but his last few have been Anglo. Does he even feel Japanese anymore? "I feel like an alien," he says. Early next year, Stan Lee will release a new comic that officially makes Hayashi a superhero-joining a pantheon in which his closest kindred spirit is, he reckons, Ironman. "For some reason I relate to him the most."
In less than 48 hours, Hayashi and his similarly goth- attired bandmates will give New York a style of balls-out, laser-lit, Neo-Romantic bombast few Westerners could pull off with a straight face. Metallica hurricanes will segue into florid Tchaikovsky episodes, a Matrix-dustcoated violinist will stand atop an amp's Wagnerian promontory, and, over the MotOrhead-like "Silent Jealousy," stocky, sunglassed Deyama will sing the soaring plea. "Don't you leave me alone...Kill me, Love."
But right now, high above Manhattan, Hayashi ponders himself as superhero. Does he have superpowers? "I may," he says, then laughs. "I don't know yet." Does he have a tragic flaw? A secret weakness?
"Hmmm", he says, turning the question over for a while, then finally answering: "Loneliness."

[*Лунный свет*]

s o n n y Я тогда была на работе, не успела ещё прочесть. А по дороге домой прочла и да, обратила пристальное внимание))

Он продолжает говорить с журналистами о своих GF

наверно, его допросили с пристрастием!))

koshatko мне тоже понравилось!

riana 78 я прошу прощения, что не могу обещать сейчас перевод ^^" Уже почти неделю занимаюсь давно обещанным переводом Хидэ, лучше не распыляться. обязательно выложу то, что получится.

[riana 78]

Kaede
спасибо, не торопись я подожду...

s o n n y
спасибо огромное, ты как всегда мой любимый хакер...

*Лунный свет*
ничего страшного...
с нетерпением жду перевода Хиде...

[riana 78]

Здесь lдополнение к фото-галлерее Нины Робинсон, только фото маленькие 500 х 333 и с копирайтом...

http://www.thehellgatephotography.com/galleries.asp?gallery=we+are+x
s o n n y , может можно что-нибудь с этим сделать...
фото потрясающие...

[s o n n y]

riana 78, там ничего нельзя сделать, кроме как зарегистрироваться и купить. Причем прайс не видно, пока не зарегистрируешься, а я пока не регистрировалась...

[riana 78]

s o n n y
да, я поняла, что это на продажу...

[korvin-san]

ой, мама мия, какой там Хис на фотке с Патой *___* прям глаз не оторвать. Ешики в зеркале тоже нереально прекрасен, только грустный он там какой-то немножко, хоть и улыбается

[evgen1ka]

korvin-san хоть кто-то на Хиса смотрит)

[korvin-san]

как же на него не смотреть? 0_0 Хис уже давно стал моим фетишем *____* только на него последнеее время и пялюсь =^_^=

[Kaede]

riana 78, перевожу... сложная статья... опять этот странный американский журналистский язык...Х_х постараюсь завтра вечером доделать и выложить!!

[evgen1ka]

korvin-san ооо!)) круто))))

[korvin-san]

evgen1ka, что поделать, я конкретно на него запрал =___=

[s o n n y]

riana 78, после регистрации стали доступны чистые превьюшки:

[korvin-san]

аааааа (упал, умир) какой Хис *______*

[koshatko]

s o n n y Спасибо. какие все....... * расплылся от удовольствия в улыбке*

[koshatko]

s o n n y Спасибо. какие все....... * расплылся от удовольствия в улыбке*

[evgen1ka]

оо! сколько Хиса!! Лисенок!!!!!!!!!!! аригато!