MMMiii!

I just finished watching the video of hide Memorial Summit which I just downloaded this morning. It’s a commemoration concert for hide’s 10th year death anniversary. I can’t deny that there were some parts that got me teary-eyed. Especially when Toshi sang “Without You” which I heard for the first time (I haven’t been able to watch the X Japan “rebirth” concerts). I’ve been wanting to hear it sung ever since I heard the piece in Eternal Melody II which has the 17-minute track including the lyrics but no one singing it. I had imagined Yoshiki would hire a woman to sing it but after X Japan’s “rebirth” he had Toshi sing it.

I don’t really want to call it a reunion since hide will never be back (T__T) but rather a rebirth.

“Without You” is such a nice song, the piano version and the song version. It used to be my sleep song. It would be the last song I’d play before I head to sleep.

And I noticed that Toshi is really not in condition anymore. He’s old. Not that I don’t like his voice anymore. I love his voice. Except that there were many parts in the concert that his voice broke or he went out of tune, but I don’t know if it was the 2nd day of the concert or not. Since he’s Toshi, I forgive him.

This is a screenshot from The Last Live concert of X Japan.

I love hide as well. I wish they had an encore, probably they did, it just wasn’t shown on TV. I was half wishing they’d perform hide’s Goodbye.

The finale of the hide Memorial Summit was a ton of bands on the stage performing X Japan’s “X” (We Are!).

But since I badly wanted to hear Goodbye …

here are some videos.

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