(09-19-2009, 08:14 PM)MadSerena Wrote: [quote='VAMPkito' pid='8613' dateline='1253402739']
I think he's saying the contrary ^^'. Actually, i partly based myself on this interview.

Looking back on it now, I do see that I did misread that. Though he was often noted as a support member, so yeah. .-. - Though HYDE said that although VAMPS refers to just the two of them, they're all one band on stage. I tend to think the same on HYDE's solo work. As I said, the other support musicians get visible credit and plenty of screen time. I don't think I've ever heard HYDE refer to anyone in his band as "support musicians" or "backup members" or anything like that now that I actually take some time and think about it. Lawl.

Quote:It's OK *pat* *pat*
Like i said, i've been there: when i was planning my trip, i told everyone i was going to see "this japanese singer, hyde". I'm sure i'm not the only one who started to really appreciate K.A.Z + support musicians, when I attended one of their shows.
Then again, before VAMPS, i was mostly a Laruku and Roentgen-hyde fan...so to me "hyde" has always been a singer and not a band with Kaz, Jin, Hiroki, Furuton, etc. So the name change to VAMPS made a lot of sense to me.

Well, I don't mind the name change. In a way I sort of liked it. One reason I love HYDE so much is because we have very similar interests, so the name VAMPS kind of kicked in as pleasant sounding as opposed to the other names I could have imagined HYDE thinking of. "We are The Mysterious Flashy Women. Please come see our show~" - The main thing I was scared of was, since it is a band, I wouldn't be able to see much of HYDE's true personality anymore, and thus it would be more difficult for me to relate to it. I love L'Arc~en~Ciel, but it's not quite as easy for me to relate to all of it with an exception of a few songs, where as with HYDE I've always been able to relate to his solo music. But HYDE and K.A.Z proven me wrong in that fear. It's just getting used to some of the changes implemented. It's not that I don't like it and can't adjust to it, but some of the changes have a bit interfered with some things regarding HYDE.

For example, the fact that news is no longer posted on HYDEIST, it's left to VAMPSXXX, which annoys me because I can't stand the bright colors. I know I've made this complaint numerous times, but it's an almost impossible to endure problem on the flash site. It gives me a headache. Not only that but the Flash player is fucking huge and tends to freeze older computers up. So I can't view it on my father's laptop or on my previous Windows 98 computer.

But yeah, over all the name change didn't bother me, just disorient me.