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We're just a few days away from X JAPAN's reunion concert at Tokyo Dome! What better way to get psyched up for this sure-to-be legendary live than to hear from X JAPAN members themselves? X JAPAN's bassist Heath, who first joined the band on the 1992 album "ART OF LIFE," sat down to talk with JRR earlier this month about how he came to join X (and clears up quite a few rumors about it in the process), his solo works and activities with Dope HEADzand Lynx, and how he feels about playing with X JAPAN again back in Tokyo Dome. You won't want to miss this exclusive interview!JRR: Thank you for accepting Jrock Revolution’s interview request. HEATH: Entirely my pleasure. JRR: Congratulations also on the X JAPAN reunion. HEATH: Thank you very much. JRR: Before we start the interview, please let me explain that a lot of JRR's readers are more recent foreign Jrock fans and not all familiar with the people who've been around from the start. Most of them know X JAPAN as a band, and these fans don’t know so much about the individual members; this interview is to introduce you to everybody who reads our site. So please pardon us if we ask questions that most other fans and everybody in Japan know the answers to. HEATH: Yes, that's fine. JRR: Unlike the other X JAPAN members, you're from Kansai (Ed. Note: Western Japan, the region around Osaka) and not Kantou (Ed. Note: Eastern Japan, Greater Tokyo area). Is that right? HEATH: Yes, I'm from Amagasaki, in Hyougo prefecture. JRR: You originally started playing in the Kansai area, too? HEATH: Yes. My first indies band was there, then moved to Tokyo later on. JRR: That was PARANOIA? HEATH: Yes. JRR: You left that in 1988, then you were in Tokyo in 1990. What did you do in between? HEATH: I played in another band with some friends, but that didn't last for very long—only until 1990. After that, I decided to go to Tokyo and did that in 1990. JRR: What made you move from Osaka to Tokyo? HEATH: At that time, Japan's rock scene basically was Kantou, and anyone who was anybody was in the Kansai region—those who were talented and popular and really wanted to make it big went to Tokyo. I wasn't in a band at that time, just on my own as bassist, but I thought that maybe in Tokyo I could find a chance to make it big for myself. JRR: Also in 1990, you met X after the final concert of their ROSE & BLOOD tour at Nippon Budokan. How did that happen? Did someone introduce you? HEATH: Yes. A friend of mine happened to be a friend of HIDE’s, as well; my friend said, “Since they have a live, want to go watch?” The live that he took me to was that one.
2008年03月25日 23点03分
