Are NYC women (western women) really that crazy about Yoshiki?
Evidently they like him more in NYC than in LA because they added a second NYC show.
not sure I can see how he used to be similar to hide in any way at all. he had a very natural progression from due le quartz into his first two albums, but I personally prefer not acknowledging that he released anything between his last indie single and that song with sugizo based off how mind-numbingly awful all of it was, which I entirely credit to the managing and creative genius of universal music, same (now defunct) label that ruined 12012 and d’esprairs ray once the major contract ink dried off.
his “what’s my name era” music was decent-ish, after which I lost interest when he went the dance-rock route.
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aww, my favorite era is the dokuso/Kavaki bois era! (this includes the Sugizo collab song) 
that’s about 2006 - 2009. I was cool with the following “What’s My Name” era, but it was also the era that transitioned him into his current style core, starting with “The Others”, which is not much to my liking.
Pre 2015 Miyavi is definitely overall my preference.
likely to be inspired by, I can see that. However, being that Dokuso was an abrupt change that happened while he was still very much with PSC, it’s a bit hard to see how he didn’t have his own creative direction. That album definitely sent ruptures through his fan-base since it was completely different from what he was doing up until that point.
To each their own, though.
I’m biased, because I don’t like male hiphop (I also hate when pop artists push a hiphop feature under label pressure, and that’s what it looked like to me), and I hated everything miyavi released with that hiphop backing band.
his sugizo song was very different from pretty much the entire major discography he released because for once it felt like he had passion for singing again - and it did not really last long.
I actually wonder how much composing sugizo will do for this band in the future, because he always has very interesting ideas and he did a very wide range of solo music himself, most of which is very artful.
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THE LAST ROCKSTARS’ debut live concerts in Tokyo (Jan 27) and Los Angeles (Feb 11) will be broadcast in theaters in Japan by LIVE VIEWING.
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I kinda want to watch the Tokyo live stream; I’m going to the LA Show; kinda wondering if anything different is going to be done since that one is also going to be streamed.
Ahh, okay that’s fair. I can see why you’d hate that period. even with the more recent stuff, you don’t think that same passion is there that was there with the SGZ featured song? I’m honestly curious, why do you feel its that different?
Has and does. This is my ever-present question for the time being. Very curious as to what he’s going to do (or have the freedom to do, depending how how you look at the group dynamics) To me he’s a bit of the odd one out, and a big question mark, in a way. MYV and Hyde; pretty easy to overlap with each other…Psyco Love, with some variation - I can see this as a MYV song as well, for example.
I thought about that, too. Because Sugizo has been the only member of the band to create something of actual merit in the past decade or so.
That said, he may just be enjoying the fact that he can be a complete HAM in this group. 
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I’ll be at both NYC shows. I’ll let y’all know whats good.
Also, fuck this band.
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I mean, he’s definitely earned being able to do that.
However, Sugizo is much too serious about music to do something like that.
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This band goes hard
When are the NYC shows?? I’d totally go if I knew in time just for the hell of it
God the prices for them. I’d be so down but would it be worth it… who knows!
You can find info regarding their NYC shows on YOSHIKI official site. The Last Rockstars
North American Tour Information
Tickets on Sale Nov 11 at 10AM ET
February 3 and 4, 2023 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom - Doors 7PM, Show 8PM - TICKETS
February 10, 2023 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium - Doors 7PM, Show 8PM - TICKETS
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maybe…just to say you were there, if nothing else? If in the case it never happens again, if you are more on the ‘doom and gloom’ side of this thing.
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Oh good, the tickets are more than $40 so I’m giving myself permission to not go.
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a very valid point indeed.
Yup, my sentiments exactly. I was all psyched up to go see some terrible fucking music, but those prices are ludicrous.
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I really can’t stand his current music. I know that it’s probably not his choice, and I know he has to meet certain sales numbers for the label, etc, but everything he released over the past several albums just sounds so synthetic and dead to me. if this was a new artist from Japan coming up with this kind of sound, I would just outright ignore what he does, but with myv it’s always a bit of nostalgia thing.
I actually find his part in this band way more interesting than his solo work, and I hope we’ll hear an album this year, or at least a couple more singles.
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