X JAPAN: Paris Show Rescheduled
July 17, 2008Reactivated Japanese rockers X JAPAN have rescheduled their Paris, France concert for November 22 at Palais Omnisports Bercy. The Paris show was originally slated to take place July 5 but was called off after drummer and band leader Yoshiki was forced to undergo medical treatment at his home in Los Angeles to address his chronic disc herniation (also known as a "slipped disc") and tendinitis. Other planned shows in Taiwan (August 2),and New York (September 13) were also postponed.
According to Tokyograph, Yoshiki was advised for several years by his doctors to wear a corset during live performances to help address the problem, though he disregarded that advice for X JAPAN's reunion concerts at the Tokyo Dome in March. Despite suffering a separate injury during the first of those shows, he continued his energetic performances, and at 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),he re-triggered the herniated disc.
Yoshiki has previously had to take extended time off due to his condition, spending half a year in recovery in 1990 and nine months in 1996.
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