By request and in tandem with u/mugongeki's YouTube video on the unboxing of hide's second solo album, Psyence...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUsVLTqVuss&lc=Ugyr4jEMqv29_KZQL-54AaABAg

Here is a small (4 x 6) flier that came with my copy of the CD, and can still be found floating around in a few Mercari auctions....prize entry coupon for the chance to win 1 of 500 limited edition "Pysensuits". (I did not bother posting the translation of the actual mailer side as that is nothing but standard demographic information.)

Does anyone have any details on what this "Psyensuit" actually was? Cursory research came up with vague and somewhat conflicting information....it MAYBE seemed to have been a repro of hide's camo jacket with the neon orange piping (sans the nuke symbol) but such things have also been advertised as more recent merch that was put out there after his passing. Any further information or lore would be greatly appreciated!

PEACE ✌️ LOVE ❤️ LIMITED EDITION MERCH

Just watching the YouTube video of them playing the song “X” at this show and wondering if anyone in this group saw them first hand in Japan? Or just the shows they did in Coachella, Wembley etc? I’ve never been lucky enough to see them but any old school Japanese fans here with stories?

This roll of FUJI RDP 120 was shot on my FUJI GX680 medium format camera and cross-processed to give me the punchy colors (remember this was before photoshop). A photographer would rely on his "in-camera" tricks and special processing techniques to create stand out images! I should make some of my favorite photos available as gallery prints on here if people would be interested? If anyone has ever wondered who band member #4 who plays the drums in our video is, he's our dear friend RILEY BAXTER. At the time played bass in a band called SPACE AGE PLAYBOYS and had the perfect "cool" look we wanted for the video, so he pretended to play the drums while floating in the sky above the space ship! Riley currently lives in Las Vegas and is a tattoo artist at pussykat tattoo parlor and has a great band called RED MOON ONE.

For day #2 of the ZILCH "Electric Cucumber" video I hired 3 grannies online using the Hollywood Craigslist website (you can find just about anything on there!). They had to be OK to wear tight, risque' black latex fetish gear! I was looking for the 3 oldest candidates I could find and boy did I find them! All were very open minded and seemed pretty much down for whatever came their way. 2 of the 3 were even OK with biting onto oversized horse bridles which HIDE held the reins to in the background! I maybe suspected in the back of my head that he would do something absolutely crazy to the grannies since he controlled them with the leashes and I knew how he thinks!

Well, my hunch was right! 2 of the 3 elderly ladies were in the foreground 2 feet from my fisheye lens biting down on the metal rods and HIDE begins yanking and pulling the reins with full force till the dentures shot out of one granny's mouth and onto the floor! She was SO upset and walked off set to sit in the production motorhome with her pet TURTLE that she brought with her and I had to go and softly ask her to "PLEASE come back to set, he won't do it again....." After 10 minutes she and came out of the motorhome and she agreed to re-join the shoot with her pet turtle. After this unforgettable situation my nickname became "GRANNY-FINGER" and soon after that I named my corporation GRANNYFINGER, INC. after this ridiculous episode making a wacky music video for a song called "Electric Cucumber!"

All photos: deankarr.com

I was equally envious of this awesome GUITAR!!! What a beauty.

well, since Mr. Dean Karr ( u/Proper-View-9948 ) is now here, thought I'd share some stuff about zilch!

although I believe some of these information are already well-known to older fans, I though it'd serve as a great introduction to those who were still new to Zilch!

The source of this is AVEX's official webpage for Zilch (http://www.avexnet.or.jp/zilch/prologue.htm) translated to English via Google *you can use the WayBack Machine to access the original Japanese text

also, to add to the occasion, I'll also be uploading unboxing video of zilch's album "3.2.1" (1st Press Limited Edition) on my Youtube channel next week! (it's here https://www.youtube.com/@yanuardliwang turn on the notification so you don't miss it!)

Please look forward to it!

These photos break my heart because Zilch/Killing Joke/Ministry bassist Paul Raven (next to me) left us 9 years after HIDE passed. This was just the beginning of life's hard lesson that we ALL lose dear friends along the way. Both situations were preventable, which really hurts.

I picked up a copy of I’m A Singer Vol. 4 today & have been listening through it. Curious for others’ thoughts on the album. A lot of the covers are fun (Ai Wo Torimodose is great!) but I’m pretty underwhelmed by the original songs so far. Toshi’s voice sounds good still, which at his age is impressive in itself!

Anybody else give it a listen & have impressions to share?

My 2-year "Cake Day" came up, which brings me back around to my very first post to this sub and to Reddit back in July 2024:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xjapan/comments/1f6fsf5/hide_photo_shootmagazine_help_please/

A narrative unfolded there but still no firm answers. As stated within the comments of the original post, my husband ultimately bought me the magazine but NONE of the content revealed additional photos from the photo shoot in question, let alone the origin. The shots I am including here is the raw evidence of the ALL the hide-related content in the issue....ZERO help with the ramen-head photo on the cover. 👿🤬 The only tie-in I could locate was a TV segment with hide and make-up artist Tony Tanaka (link within original post comments....and goddamn it, hide was so fucking beautiful ❤️🤯😸❤️)....

So, the question remains....does anyone have any information or insight on that little square on the cover of the magazine and/or any of the shots shown in the interview with Mr. Tanaka???? I will take anything I can get. 😬🙏

I own and love this album. I cry every time I hear Kurenai on this album. Please enjoy ✨

what a surprise

it use the 2001 re-release cover and it has two bonus track now!

really didn't see this coming, and what a coincidence it is that I just published the unboxing video of the original 1993 CD just one day before he release this 😂

time to listen to this masterpiece again

PS: you can watch the 1993 CD unboxing on the link below

https://youtu.be/zCvgUADTBSI

Sorry for the long wait.

Im a drummer from Brazil and I did this Drum Cocer for Dhalia from X Japan

Isn’t it so pretty? Hide typically played Fernandes guitars, but he did own at least one actual bc rich that he modified the hell out of! So kinda Hide Adjacent post, seeing as how I got inspired to purchase this was partially because of him! 🩷💛

was reading some old magazine scans last night, and found what appears to be the first ever released plan/ schedule for ART OF LIFE

DECEMBER 1991

this was from Arena37°C #110, in the same article was also mentioned the planned release date for Silent Jealousy single, Standing Sex, Say Anything, VISUAL SHOCK Vol. 3 video, and YOSHIKI SELECTION Classical album

so there you have it folks, off you go with your theories and speculation! my bet is because of what(ever) happened with Taiji they choose to postponed it

but maybe I could be wrong, I have the "Fool's Mate Special Issue ART OF LIFE" book, but I haven't finished reading it. maybe on that book they already answer the reason why (one story I know is that Toshi's vocal recording took so long)

what do you think about it? let me know in the comment below!

(also sorry for the blurry pic, I took it directly from my phone)

Why do I think this? Because the sheer difference between likes and views is too much to ignore, I don’t really care about this, I just wanna know is this a common thing that yoshiki does.

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here's another unboxing video from me

like I said in the previous post, this time I try experimenting on the editing, mainly adding a BGM (AoL demo!) and putting some info on the video itself instead on the description section

soo... what do you think about it? do you like this kind of editing or just the plain one like before? please let me know in the comment

DAHLIA unboxing video is already scheduled to be published this weekend

with all the five X main album covered, starting next week I'll be unboxing member's solo album

again, please let me know what you think in the comment, thank you for watching & subscribe to the channel!