I’m gonna guess that his team found a winery that does private labeling, they gave him a tasting platter of wines and he picked the one he liked most, then slapped his name on the label.
Does anyone know if they sell his wine in the US? It’s american wine so wouldn’t it be strange to only sell it in Japan?
I see no reason to distrust the info on the Y by Yoshiki website, especially considering that wine may be his truly greatest passion at this point in his life.
His wines are produced in collaboration with members of the dynastic Mondavi family, who are practically feudal lords of the Napa Valley after their patriarch established the prestige reputation of California wine. Yoshiki clearly knows what he likes in wine, so I don’t find it hard to imagine him dedicating his time to the project—it started with blends after all.
Unfortunately I don’t believe the wine is distributed or sold in the US, but it doesn’t look too hard to acquire online.
A terrific example of this man’s complete absence of taste and warped sense of reality that informs his perception of respectability and culture.
I wouldn’t even bother to count the days until he drops this project like a sack of green potatoes –– no one’s going to keep tabs on their aggressively mediocre r’n’b singing and they’ll find themselves in obscurity with hardly any releases to their name along with Violet UK and Skin and so on. And he’s so detached from anything that’s current that he honestly thinks anyone gives a shit if a group like this performs at the Dodger Stadium or Coachella or at the King’s birthday –– that’s not what makes things go off the ground these days. He’s mentally stuck in 1980s and has refused to come out of there all this time, and he’s probably pitching a duet with the singer from The Scorpions as we speak. If he’d dropped the money he spent on this into their tiktok marketing, maybe they’d be something.
Sad but very accurate analysis. The detachment from reality is only exacerbated by him being exclusively surrounded by sycophants.
I´m susprised the video didnt end up with a close-up of him playing the piano of the song.
These jokes write themselves at this point.
ANYTHING to not release an album
guy who was obviously depressed for the past 50 years discovers he had depression then decides to make a podcast about it a few months later? sureeee
Taking my antidepressants with my Y by YOSHIKINapa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2011
Real talk where do you even buy his wine overseas.
No idea.
I once saw the Hyde colab with Casillero del Diablo on a shop once. But it’s probably because Chilean wine is easier to find here in South America
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/19b4ad7053cac37a4700a0a2cd865286f68e1966
Doctors are apparently telling him to choose whether he’ll continue drumming or retire and he went over it in the first episode of that mental health livestream.
Is the mental health stream just an excuse for him to have a woe is me pity party
I hope this is the right thread to update..
Looks like Yoshiki is having squatter problems at some of his properties in LA.
This comes after other famous Jrockers (aka GACKT) posting anti foreigner takes/ abt not letting foreigners buy properties in Japan…
well, some American fans are just not having it..
“What’s even tougher in LA is that if you leave your house vacant for a long time, squatters will just move in without permission. In fact, some of the properties I own have been affected by this. Moreover, since California law makes it extremely difficult to evict them, I’ve had to hire lawyers specializing in evictions multiple times.
YOSHIKI”
I mean, it sucks, but the best solution for that is to rent the property out to someone or sell it. Or, barring that, offer the place to a friend to look after when you can’t check on it regularly.
Just hoarding property in an area with high homelessness isn’t going to end well.
Easy now. Socioeconomics can easily spiral into politics.
Wait, he has so many properties that this is an issue for him that he’s had to deal with on a regular basis?
Makes you really question how much of Pata, Heath and Toshi were slumming it for the X Japan brand when Yo$hiki could’ve just shared a bit more of that revenue pie instead of them getting paltry performance fees for the live shows they did. (I know I know, songwriting credits blah blah blah)
Lest we forget, heath mentioned at King Yoshiki’s birthday talk event a year before his passing that he was keeping busy doing web programming most of his waking hours. It wasn’t clear whether he was doing it for fun or because he had to. It sounded like the latter since X Japan was pretty much dead for a few years at that point.
does Kamijo have a similar problem with his private chateauxuaeses he should be hoarding at the same rate in la pastoral France?.. or do u think all the howling specters in the wig storage room would give frenchie squatters a big spook?
his classical musique tours are probably bringing in really good coin, given the amount of effort required on his end
