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The J-Rock community sighed in relief after holding it’s breath for X JAPAN’s live video shoot in Hollywood on January 9th, to go off without a hitch, or a last-minute cancellation. Thankfully it appears as though everything went as planned for the 4-song promotional music video production. Fans began arriving hours ahead of time, with the first 100 receiving glowsticks with painted X JAPAN logos. The total attendance was estimated around 8,000 fans storming Hollywood Blvd. to get a glimpse of their idols. With a custom laser light show, 2 helicopters, 20 big rigs, 3 camera cranes, dozens of pyrotechnic cannons, and hundreds of staffers, the shoot was a wild success!

See numerous incredible photos at Oricon and X Freaks forum.

Filming was shot for the following songs:
Rusty Nail
I.V.
Jade
Endless Rain

Scores of Youtube videos have been uploaded featuring different fan perspective shots of the event. It’s nice to see that cameras and recording were allowed!

I would have really liked to have been there for this historic experience, but I’m very proud that so many fans came out to support the band and show them that the U.S. loves J-Rock too!

There’s a pretty big rumor going around that X JAPAN might be playing at this year’s Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, Illinois. No word from the band yet but some pretty creditable sources are posting about the possibility. If it’s true, the band would stick out like a sore thumb at the festival known for it’s modern alternative rock, but it would be terrific exposure for a Japanese rock band outside of some convention and put them in front of new people. I’m crossing my fingers and, once again, holding my breath.


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^ Cool, I think you’ll like them. They have a lot of really heartfelt ballads with beautiful instrumentation, and then a lot of really heavy and fast metal tunes that ust explode with energy. It’s easy to see why they’re Japan’s #1 rock band.

I liked what I was hearing, then the sound got bad. :( I’ll look them up anyways. :)

^ Thank you for the comment :-) I read that too, about the 100 police and marshals. To be totally honest, I wouldn’t have worried much. It’s my experience that metalheads are generally quite respectful and peaceful (unless they’re at a Slayer show or Woodstock II, but those are very different circumstances) and just want to enjoy the music. There are always a couple of jerks who need to be dealt with and kicked out, but never an all-out brawl or riot for no good reason. I was surprised at the number of staff for crowd control, to be honest. It’s really nice because if something DID happen, there would be plenty of people there to help and it wouldn’t end up being some disastrous scar on the band’s history, ala the Station fire or something worse. I guess the pyrotechnics would have been my biggest concern. It’d be interesting to read the breakdown of that ambiguous “100+ police and fire marshals” number.

I wanted to go too for the historic experience! But I’m not too familiar with X Japan and I didn’t have anyone to go with anyway. =(

I read in a promo press article that the 8,000+ attendees were controlled by only 100+ police and fire marshals. So little could control a crowd like that… What would’ve happened if there was some trouble? What a scary thought. I dunno, I found this interesting. =)

 

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