grieving for my love
December 10 in Taiwan
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The power of death from Yoshiki Hayashi
If you ever watched a piano or drum solo of Yoshiki in any concert, you would find that along his powerful and touching music, he showed much more passions and pain. When he was ten years old, his father committed suicide because of some financial problems. This tragedy became a trauma deeply inside his mind and made him devote to music. Especially by beating a drum, he was trying so hard to release his emotion of losing the love.
However, the destiny never went smoothly for him, Taiji, the bass guitar player of his band, departed from the band in 1992. Yoshiki was very sad during their last concert with Taiji and he almost cried in front of his piano. This miserable experience came once again in 1996. Toshi, the main vocalist of X Japan and both the longest-known friend of Yoshiki from their childhood, announced that he was leaving the band, and then, in December 31, 1997, Yoshiki leaded X Japan to perform “The Last Live” concert in Tokyo Dome. As the name of the concert, departure of Toshi resulted in dissolving of X Japan. Yoshiki’s heart was wholly broken. He not only destroyed his drum set, but also wept a lot at the night. His hand was bleeding after his piano accompaniment of the song “Crucify My Love”, but the sorrow was much stronger than the physical suffering.
Since the last exit of life for Yoshiki had gone, Yoshiki was completely thrown into a world without love. He didn’t have the ability to blame Toshi, but otherwise he struggled through the conflict between his depression and enthusiasm. Suddenly, Hide, Hideto Matsumoto, the guitarist of X Japan, was found strangled by a towel hanging from a doorknob and passed away on May 2, 1998. There was no hope to reform X Japan and no chance to see his old partner again. Yoshiki vowed that he would never play drum. The most famous ballad of X Japan “Forever Love” was performed in Hide’s funeral, and Yoshiki showed a speechless countenance when the ritual was going. As the time went by, Yoshiki still couldn’t recover from Hide’s death. In order to pay the last tribute to Hide, He composed a music called “Without You” which was so beautiful that hurt.
The separation of life and death continues surrounding around Yoshiki. That’s why his music is always full of the power which can comfort the soul.
PV of Crucify My Love
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