The eagle-eyed poster at JRock Online has given one of the images which was released by Japanese newspapers from the X Japan Hollywood filming event a closer look to uncover a blatant act of fakery. I have it on good authority that these images were given to Japanese news sources such as Oricon directly by X Japan's management, so what you are about to see is the image exactly as it was when it was released.
Looks packed right? Now let's look a little closer.
Either there were a couple of doppelgangers hanging out at the X Japan event or the powers that be within the X Japan brand wanted to save face to cover for a disappointing turn out. I think the evidence is quite compelling for the latter of the two conclusions.
Also, I have been given a tip-off by my source in LA that it was more than likely that the crowd was seeded by the band with planted models and attractive people posing as genuine X Japan fans to help bulk up the numbers.
This wouldn’t the first time X Japan has pulled off something like this, and as such it wouldn’t surprise me if more compelling evidence were to become available. I refer you to another fantastic piece of investigative journalism by Lee Miller from The Other East which can be found here
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