By the way, thanks VAMPkito for that interview. I have seen it before but it was AGES ago. It's a good refresh.

But I was referring more to the reason why he wrote evergreen. I remember something about him hearing one of his friend pass away and he never had the chance to say good-bye. He decided to send an e-mail to this friend, thinking it would reach his friend in heaven. He was surprised to receive a response later which turned out to be his friend's wife expressing her gratitude of hyde's email.

if you remember where this article is, I would appreciate if you post it here! :)

(03-04-2010, 07:38 PM)Tokio Wrote: Regarding Japanese fans:

I haven't seen an article but I have read from other people that fans on Hydeist (and perhaps 2ch?) were...not thrilled about Hyde coming to America. Some of them were happy, of course. But some didn't like it..and to make it worse we had autograph sessions which made some of them jealous.

There was also complaints from friends in Hydeist that there was tension between the Japanese members and the foreign members.

Some people are quite possessive of their favorite celebrities and don't want to share them with other fans.

Regarding DVD:
I think I would rather have one full Japanese dvd with America clips, like with Faith dvd. The way it is now, if I want the full concert I have to buy the Japanese dvd and if I want to see US footage I have to buy US dvd.

I would much prefer it if it were all put together instead of having to import two expensive dvds. At the moment, I'm not sure if I'll be getting the Japan tour dvd.

Dang... that sounds intense. I guess it is a little bit unfair we got an autograph session, but it's no reason for Japanese fans to be THAT angry. They have more ease of access to VAMPS than we do.

(03-04-2010, 09:57 PM)polarwhiteseal Wrote: By the way, thanks VAMPkito for that interview. I have seen it before but it was AGES ago. It's a good refresh.

But I was referring more to the reason why he wrote evergreen. I remember something about him hearing one of his friend pass away and he never had the chance to say good-bye. He decided to send an e-mail to this friend, thinking it would reach his friend in heaven. He was surprised to receive a response later which turned out to be his friend's wife expressing her gratitude of hyde's email.

if you remember where this article is, I would appreciate if you post it here! :)

(03-04-2010, 07:38 PM)Tokio Wrote: Regarding Japanese fans:

I haven't seen an article but I have read from other people that fans on Hydeist (and perhaps 2ch?) were...not thrilled about Hyde coming to America. Some of them were happy, of course. But some didn't like it..and to make it worse we had autograph sessions which made some of them jealous.

There was also complaints from friends in Hydeist that there was tension between the Japanese members and the foreign members.

Some people are quite possessive of their favorite celebrities and don't want to share them with other fans.

Regarding DVD:
I think I would rather have one full Japanese dvd with America clips, like with Faith dvd. The way it is now, if I want the full concert I have to buy the Japanese dvd and if I want to see US footage I have to buy US dvd.

I would much prefer it if it were all put together instead of having to import two expensive dvds. At the moment, I'm not sure if I'll be getting the Japan tour dvd.

Dang... that sounds intense. I guess it is a little bit unfair we got an autograph session, but it's no reason for Japanese fans to be THAT angry. They have more ease of access to VAMPS than we do.

Those are the kind of japanese fans that line up to be front row in foreign concerts even though they haven seen then in other 40 shows a month ago, because they don't think we have the right to be firsts or front row and during the concert they scratch you and hit you so you get out of their way X__x (I'm talking from experience here =/).

(03-04-2010, 09:57 PM)polarwhiteseal Wrote: By the way, thanks VAMPkito for that interview. I have seen it before but it was AGES ago. It's a good refresh.

But I was referring more to the reason why he wrote evergreen. I remember something about him hearing one of his friend pass away and he never had the chance to say good-bye. He decided to send an e-mail to this friend, thinking it would reach his friend in heaven. He was surprised to receive a response later which turned out to be his friend's wife expressing her gratitude of hyde's email.

if you remember where this article is, I would appreciate if you post it here! :)

I've heard different versions of that story. The most frequent one being that HYDE received an e-mail explaining that his friend passed away, and at his funeral, he spoke to his friend's wife. Touched by her sorrow, he was inspired to write the song. I've heard nothing about him sending an e-mail, hoping for it to reach him in Heaven, but it does sound like something HYDE would do.

Unfortunately, I don't kow where the article is. Otherwise I would have linked sooner.

Quote:Dang... that sounds intense. I guess it is a little bit unfair we got an autograph session, but it's no reason for Japanese fans to be THAT angry. They have more ease of access to VAMPS than we do.

HYDEIST/VAMPADDICT members get priority (and sometimes even FREE) tickets. To me, that would compensate for the lack of autograph sessions twice over since we don't even have access to HYDEIST/VAMPADDICT at all. But hey, like I said, we all have different priorities.

(03-04-2010, 07:38 PM)Tokio Wrote: Regarding Japanese fans:

I haven't seen an article but I have read from other people that fans on Hydeist (and perhaps 2ch?) were...not thrilled about Hyde coming to America. Some of them were happy, of course. But some didn't like it..and to make it worse we had autograph sessions which made some of them jealous.

There was also complaints from friends in Hydeist that there was tension between the Japanese members and the foreign members.

Some people are quite possessive of their favorite celebrities and don't want to share them with other fans.

Well, that's nothing I wouldn't have expected. Even in America, we have people who go so far as to fly to other countries just to ruin everyone's time. I mean, I'm sure everyone remembers (or in my case, has seen plenty of live reports) explaining how crazy the New York show was. So many fights and injuries before the show even began, and those were from fans of all different nationalities, not just Japan or America.

Quote:Those are the kind of japanese fans that line up to be front row in foreign concerts even though they haven seen then in other 40 shows a month ago, because they don't think we have the right to be firsts or front row and during the concert they scratch you and hit you so you get out of their way X__x (I'm talking from experience here =/).

So I guess I should be thankful that I was in the middle of the line in Baltimore, then? Though I didn't see that many Japanese, or any sort of Asian, fans there in general, so I wouldn't know. But anyway, those of the sort of bigoted fans that really piss me off. I'm glad the tour wasn't too badly affected as a result.

I went to the FAITH concert at the House of Blue, CA back in 06. The crowd was quite friendly... Even let some of my friends go to the front cause they were a bit shorter.

And the Wiltern wasn't so bad... except one girl gave me "the stare" cause I was trying to get to my friend after my trip to the restroom. and another girl that was in front of me who kept stepping on my shoe. lol

The Japanese fans that went to the wiltern actually looked friendly as well. I saw them taking pictures with some American fans.

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(03-05-2010, 04:34 AM)VAMPkito Wrote:

(03-04-2010, 09:57 PM)polarwhiteseal Wrote: By the way, thanks VAMPkito for that interview. I have seen it before but it was AGES ago. It's a good refresh.

But I was referring more to the reason why he wrote evergreen. I remember something about him hearing one of his friend pass away and he never had the chance to say good-bye. He decided to send an e-mail to this friend, thinking it would reach his friend in heaven. He was surprised to receive a response later which turned out to be his friend's wife expressing her gratitude of hyde's email.

if you remember where this article is, I would appreciate if you post it here! :)

I've heard different versions of that story. The most frequent one being that HYDE received an e-mail explaining that his friend passed away, and at his funeral, he spoke to his friend's wife. Touched by her sorrow, he was inspired to write the song. I've heard nothing about him sending an e-mail, hoping for it to reach him in Heaven, but it does sound like something HYDE would do.

Different versions??!?! aww man. and don't take the version of my story seriously, I might be wrong in a few parts. I havent read the article in awhile.