Chris Willman on Being pleasantly surprised by Yoshiki's versatility | Variety Hitmakers - video Dailymotion

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00:00When I first met him last year I heard him give a gorgeous instrumental piano

00:03performance and he struck me as one of the most gentle, elegant, virtuoso

00:07musicians I've ever encountered. But I had to reconcile for myself it's the same

00:11guy I've seen in multiple documentaries and film footage bashing the drums of

00:15the legendary band X-Japan and bashing them rather violently I might add. When he

00:22was once asked to name the albums that changed his world the first two albums

00:24he ticked off were Kiss Alive 2 and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. So maybe there

00:30was some inevitability to his becoming the first musician in history to become

00:34equally renowned as the drummer frontman for an 80s metal band and as a

00:38neoclassical pianist. I love that.