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*REPOST* since I was so muddled that I had the month wrong on the original (I hate that Reddit will not allow changes/edits to post titles!). 😬 No disrespect to Toshi, of course...I obviously don't know how to read a calendar....and it was a rough morning. 😸 Thank you to u/analdongfactory for setting me straight....I am righting the wrong! (The post title does read OCTOBER this time, right???) ALL LOVE TO TOSHI TODAY! ❤️🎂🙅‍♀️❤️ Dude had some Fabio-worthy hair before he chopped it all off....

Running errands on my lunch break and immediately cranked this, windows rolled down and all in this Spring-like weather in fucking October! 😸

This live rendition by Loudness when Masaki fronted them is NICE....Taiji Sawada (X Japan) on bass! 🤘❤️

https://youtu.be/dnglp_i1Q1E?is=MYo69soGgGFEl7w6

Just call him Mr. Photo Op! 😸 Dude got around....

Slide 1 ~ Lisa "Denise Huxtable" Bonet (The Cosby Show, A Different World) and Mindy Cohn (The Facts of Life)

Slide 2 ~ Drew Barrymore (if anyone watched Season 18 of RuPaul's Drag Race, winner Myki Meeks' impression of her was dead-on and fucking hilarious!)

Slide 3 ~ Phil Collins

Slide 4 ~ Steven Tyler....maybe? JUST KIDDING! 😸

Slide 5 ~ Survivor (best known...maybe only known....for Eye of the Tiger)

Slide 6 ~ Terri Nunn of Berlin (Does anyone remember their song Sex [I'm A....]???? HOW that was on MTV and mainstream radio back then, I have no clue.... 😸)

I guess someone was sleeping in the proofreading department...at least they spelled his first name right. 😸😸 HAPPY ROBBIN THURSDAY!

I am not sure of the source as I do not have the full magazine...from what I recall, I acquired these pages in a trade at least 3 decades ago....but I think it was an issue of Music Life. I used DeepL for the translation.... "Juan Crucier" picked up as "Foan Krushe" gives me a chuckle....sounds like the name of an AI-driven techno-pop group....or something.... 😸

The search for the source of this magazine piece with hide and Taiji with Nikki Sixx started 2 years ago (in 2024)…posts in this sub as well as in r/MotleyCrue rendered zero results ~ only the comments spurned different discussions...and that was interesting, but they did not give me any answers.  (One of those comments perpetuated the rumor that hide’s Les Paul was gifted to him by Mick Mars but that was NOT the case ~ the serial number on the guitar just happened to reveal that Mick was the previous owner…this was discussed by Takayuki Hyogo, hide’s guitar advisor, in the Pinky Promise and Closet Collection books.) 

The search kind of fell through the cracks in the meantime then about a month ago, I just happened to stumble upon the source while not even actively looking for it: the August 1990 issue of Viva Rock with Bret Michaels on the cover! (Slide #8)  No disrespect to Bret (as I am an OG Poison fan) but I really at a bare minimum just wanted scans of the Motley Crue vs. X piece.  I put out renewed pleas in r/MotleyCrue (even though I didn’t get any results there previously) and r/hairmetal….come on, doesn’t some hardcore Poison fan collect foreign magazines and have this damn thing???  I again came up empty….

….that is, until yesterday afternoon ~ at least in terms of that.  My husband and I returned home from a late lunch/early dinner and oh, look…there’s another package from Japan sitting on our doorstep.  “Something you’ve been looking for,” he said…leave it to him to locate and snag a copy of the magazine, and NOT wait until the next holiday or special occasion to give it to me.

As always, forgive awkwardness or imperfections with the shots as I used my phone. There are 2 full page photos of Nikki but I opted out of including them here as I want the focus to be on hide and Taiji.  I used DeepL for the translation ~ I would like to thank u/girlinium and u/Astraplain for bringing that platform to my attention.  In the interview, I found it amusing that Taiji asked Nikki about meeting Akira Takasaki of Loudness, when Loudness had otherwise opened for Motley Crue in the States on their Theatre of Pain tour 5 years prior (in 1985).  I missed out on that one due to an out-of-town family obligation when they played in my area at the time....I heard back then and I still hear today that Loudness blew Motley out of the water.

One thing that does remain a partial mystery is of a photo of hide that seems to have been taken from this same occasion but was not included with this piece ~ I will include it in the comments.  Supposedly it appeared in the July 1990 No. 94 issue of Arena 37c but I have yet to locate any other specifics ~ not so much as active auction…assuming that information is correct…. Anyone???

Rest in peace, dearest hide and Taiji 🙏....I love how even rock stars have their own fanboy moments! ❤️

Revisiting ~ in part ~ THIS featured piece with hide and Ryo (By-Sexual) from Shoxx Vol. 9 1992.... hide said in the interview that the inspiration for the shoot was a Benetton ad, albeit he prefaced the statement with "I often say things on a whim when I'm drunk." (Don't we all, hide-chan??? 😸😸) Google-translated cross-section in slide #2. However, in my 5 1/2 years of being a fan, I have personally never come across anyone putting the actual Benetton ad out there in an open forum as reference for anyone otherwise unfamiliar (i.e. "FYI, here is what hide was talking about!"). So, I am putting it out there for anyone otherwise unfamiliar (slide #3).

I personally always got a Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime vibe from the shoot, especially in the way of the shots in slide #5...I could easily envision a fan-made video of I Don't Believe In Love (or maybe any other song from the album, actually) using this feature for the visuals. Add to the mix that the whole Mindcrime story/concept hinges on a "Dr. X".....hmmmmmm.....AND, ironically also in 1992, in the pre-show backstage footage prior to the second night at the Dome (January 6 that year), My Empty Room then Eyes of a Stranger is heard playing....it's the soundtrack to the first 7 1/2 minutes of all this.... 😸😸

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV113411i7Hm/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click

Unsure of the event in shot #1 but I believe it is from 1986-87; the second was the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.

Laurie Carr is with Robbin in both ~ his future ex-wife who a few years later would be the cover model on Slaughter's Stick It to Ya album.

The chick with Stephen ~ at least in the first shot, and I have seen debate as to whether she is the same in the second ~ was the model in the Slip of the Lip video. (If NOT the same girl, then it would seem Stephen had a "type"? 😸) Her name is escaping me at the moment and I honestly do not recall if Stephen spoke of her and their relationship in his book. I am too lazy to go thumbing through it right now. 😸 Who she has been MISIDENTFIED as: Bekka Bramlett (who dated Jani Lane and Richie Sambora...she was also in Fleetwood Mac for a while!), Lisa Dean (the model in the Round and Round video), and Marianne Gravatte (in the Lay It Down video as well as Invasion of Your Privacy's cover model).

Anyone have any more info?

I could not locate the photo of Juan in better quality; however...it IS available for purchase on eBay for about $200.... 😬😸 According to the item description, the shot is from his junior year, which would have been somewhere around 1976-77, if I am figuring correctly...and if I am, I was in 5th grade then 😸. My understanding of the shot of Stephen is that it was also his junior year....1972-73 OR 1973-74, again if I am figuring correctly....kindergarten OR 1st grade for me. 😁

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333960013720

FORGIVE THE TYPO IN THE TITLE!!! 😬👿 This piece is a totally random and serendipitous discovery on my part! My husband and I celebrated an anniversary back in July, and his gift to me was a BURRN! Magazine haul ~ 6 issues in total, all with cover features on Ratt. While the publication was primarily focused on Western metal/rock, there were still plenty of features and related fare on homeland Japanese bands.

I am still working my way past all the awesome Ratt stuff and digesting the other material....and just this morning I noticed THIS in the "CONCERRT RREVIEW" (how it appears) column of June 1987 issue...a take on the Skull Thrash Zone show, a multi-band affair that was headlined by X, at Toshima Public Hall on April 14 that year. Wonder how the reviewer felt exactly one year later when Vanishing Vision dropped....or better yet, the year after that when Blue Blood exploded??? 😸😸

I am including the magazine cover for good measure, as well as an additional photo of Warren from the issue ~ if only for his very groovy paisley pants that were right up hide's alley. ✌️😸 And goddamn it, I ADORE him to this day....he can still shred like a motherfucker and he's still freaking adorable. In my opinion. 🔥😸

Have to do this in 2 parts as the total number of photos exceeds the single-post limit! This book is SO FUN with the fuzzy cover...leave it to hide to make merch a multi-sensory experience! 😸✌️ As always, please forgive any imperfections or awkwardness as I used my phone in the absence of having a proper scanner.

A few pages from the May 1985 issue of Japan's Music Life magazine (with Power Station on the cover)...forgive imperfections as I used my phone in the absence of having a proper scanner. There is a full interview with John and Robert but I will need to work on that for a separate post...the magazine is thick and the piece falls right in the middle, which makes getting clean photos a challenge... 😬