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Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

For that price, and only a watered-down version (they cut off some songs that was performed that day) of those 2 concerts zzzzzzzzz

I booked my plane tickets to reach Tokyo on 7th July for ANDROGYNOUS, only to have this known to me.... Will be paying penalty and extra $ to change my flight for this....

Reasons being...?

No one's discussing about Hazuki singing 'ain't afraid to die' during his solo acoustic concert?
 
http://livesetlist529.blog133.fc2.com/blog-entry-19069.html

Even though I consider myself an X Japan fan, I agree with your points.. I wouldn't ever attend an X Japan concert on it's own anyway, because of the crappy theatrics. Also, it's not the same without Hide. (Though, I do think that Hide is horribly misunderstood by Vkei fans. He was more than a sad guy, he was unstable, and needed therapy). 
Heck, X Japan themselves aren't as important as they're hyped up to be. I mean, Saver Tiger formed first, and D'erlanger and Dead End got popular way before X. Also, ToshI got his famous look from Kyo of D'erlanger. Before that, X looked much different.  Heck, X even copied a few riffs from their fellow indie bands (Blue Blood taking their intro from Crows in Black by Rosenfeld) and they weren't any more than another indie early Vkei band until Hide came along. Heck, apparently, the term "Crime of Visual Shock" came from another band, though someone will have to confirm that for me. 
And while Extasy bands did go on to major labels and all, not even the labels prevented Zi:Kill and Glay from breaking up, and I don't ever hear about Tokyo Yankees anymore. Gilles de Rais was a failure too. The only former/current Extasy bands that still preform that I can think of on the top of my head are Luna Sea, X, Tokyo Yankees and Glay. Ultimately, Dynamite Tommy's Free Will label was more successful in the end, because they're still a driving force. 
While X may have been one of the first Vkei bands to go major, that isn't nearly as important as the driving force in the indie scene, as Vkei is built from the ground up. The indie bands are the backbone. 
I'm going on a soapbox here, but I felt this needed to be said. 

I have seen X Japan three times now and every time X Japan is super late to start, there are more theatrics than music, and most X fans (Japanese or foreign) are annoying as fvck. A lot of them are cosplaying obangya (and when I say obangya, most of them are 40-60 y.o. women/grannies) and their tall hair blocks out pretty much any chance you might of had of seeing the stage. It's not as bad at arenas where the seats are tiered, but at the Visual Japan Summit last year everyone was just in a standing zone and I had to watch most of their performance through a screen.
 
Also, their fans don't seem to understand the "switch out" system for taiban lives. X Japan were playing last, but some of their hime-sama fans had already decided to take up the front row at 10:00 a.m. when PLC came on.
 
At a previous show I saw, Yoshiki decided to have some random/awful h.naoto fashion show in the middle of the concert, and even liking h.naoto at the time, it was still like wtf I didn't pay 12,000-15,000 yen for an hour-long intermission when X Japan only had like 8 songs to play in total. Then at every live they play, you have to listen to X Japan and their fans yelling "WE ARE X!" for like 30+ minutes.
 
The only other person that I've seen put more emphasis on bad theatrics than performing is Gackt, but at least he played more than 8 songs and had better tour goods.
 
TL;DR, they have good songs and I appreciate them paving the way for visual kei, but there is certainly a cult-like hype around them that isn't entirely deserved. 

Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

Saw MERRY in Liquidroom for their 2009 Underworld [BURST]Tour final and during the set, I was sub-consciously digging my nose (I know, I know....) and my eyes and Gara's met (I'm a Asian dude). Gara then smiled and proceeded to violently dig HIS nose with all his fingers, one at a time and then licked all his fingers while glancing in my direction with a crazed look. Good times! 

Yohio, it's time to delete your MH account.

Here's the original movie poster it's parodying as reference to appreciate it's greatness.

Setlist today:
 
http://livesetlist529.blog133.fc2.com/blog-entry-18311.html
 
Wow.... just WOW. Completely going back to before they went major!

Setlist today:
 
http://livesetlist529.blog133.fc2.com/blog-entry-18311.html
 
Wow.... just WOW. Completely going back to before they went major!

Thanks for he clarification! Argh, 15mins for an encore is too much IMO.

i can see both sides, on one had he's still a person and everyone deserves privacy and respect
 
 
 
on the other OOR are complete shit and he should be grateful

LOL THIS exactly mirrors my thoughts when I saw them live (I was there for liphlich, emmure & MORE). I was thinking: can you stop shouting the same words over and over and actually start the song???

Ya, one of my pet peeves is interrupted broadcasts during live streaming so I always watch it at my own leisure after I had time-shifted it. Well, you can try this if you had timeshift-ed it:
 
http://kyokutou-ranshin-tengoku.tumblr.com/post/67562757040/how-to-download-nico-nico-videos-ill-teach
 
Or anyone who had time-shifted it and trust me (hard, I know, this being the internet and how :/ ) enough to share their nico nico account, I'll figure out how to do it and share them here, how's that?

Eh, how else do you think the videos I sent you were captured? A video camera in front of the computer screen? XDDD
 
http://help.nicovideo.jp/live_en/2013/06/305what-is-a-timeshiftwatch-period.html
 
The timeshift lasts either 24 hours or 7 days; not sure which category the MERRY broadcast falls under.

Ya, one of my pet peeves is interrupted broadcasts during live streaming so I always watch it at my own leisure after I had time-shifted it. Well, you can try this if you had timeshift-ed it:
 
http://kyokutou-ranshin-tengoku.tumblr.com/post/67562757040/how-to-download-nico-nico-videos-ill-teach
 
Or anyone who had time-shifted it and trust me (hard, I know, this being the internet and how :/ ) enough to share their nico nico account, I'll figure out how to do it and share them here, how's that?

Thanks @crossparallel! Is it possible for you to upload the raw files of the concerts in one piece instead? I'm quite good at encoding settings (having converted various .ts, .VOB and recently, blu-ray files) And I just realized you are the same crossparallel from jpopsuki; my nick's loh there *waves* The one who had a discussion with you on all things MERRY via PM haha