X JAPAN Headlines 'Hide Memorial Summit'; Pro-Shot Footage Available

Reactivated Japanese rockers X JAPAN headlined the 10th-anniversary edition of the annual Hide Memorial Summit, a two-day tribute festival to the band's late guitarist Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto, who committed suicide in May 1998. The event took place May 3-4 at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.

Professionally filmed video footage of the concert can be viewed on YouTube. On of the clips is available below.

As previously reported, X JAPAN will play its first-ever concert in the U.S. on September 13, 2008 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The band will also perform in Paris, France on July 5.