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Blue Blood Tour: Bakuhatsu Sunzen Gig (1989)

Where the lyrics of Blue Blood Tour: Bakuhatsu Sunzen Gig take you, and where it was really made.

A 1989 Tokyo hall show was released on VHS and LD, then reissued on DVD twelve years later in 2001.

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Live video release by X Japan on VHS and LD
Released 1 June 1989
Footage of the band's performance at Shibuya Kohkaido, Tokyo, on 16 March 1989
Re-released on DVD on 9 September 2001
Track listing of 15 songs, opening with "Prologue ~ World Anthem" and including "Blue Blood", "Sadistic Desire", "Kurenai" and "Unfinished"

The title "Blue Blood Tour" shares its name with the album BLUE BLOOD, the band's major debut album
BLUE BLOOD was released on 21 April 1989 by CBS/Sony and Siren Song, and debuted at number 6 on Oricon
The Japanese article records 600,000 sales for the band in 1989 alone
Lineup credited on the release: Toshi on vocals, TAIJI on bass, PATA and Hide on guitar, Yoshiki on drums and piano
Video shows the band in its 1989 lineup, before the 1992 departure of TAIJI

X Japan is a Japanese rock band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer and pianist Yoshiki and lead vocalist Toshi.
The group began as a predominantly power/speed metal band with heavy symphonic elements and later moved toward a progressive sound with an emphasis on ballads.
The band is widely credited as one of the pioneers of visual kei, a Japanese movement comparable to Western glam.

Current members are Yoshiki (drums, piano), Toshi (lead vocals), Pata (guitar) and Sugizo (guitar, violin).
Hide, who died in 1998, and bassist Heath, who died in 2023, are still considered members by the band.

The band released its debut album Vanishing Vision on Yoshiki's own Extasy Records in 1988 and reached the main Oricon chart as the first independent band to do so.
Blue Blood (1989) brought breakthrough success, and Jealousy (1991) debuted at number one.
The group changed its name from X to X Japan in 1992 and disbanded after its Tokyo Dome farewell show in 1997.
The band reunited in 2007, toured internationally, and released the We Are X soundtrack in 2017.
The band has sold over 30 million records.

Italian Wikipedia describes it as the band's first non-independent video release

Issued in VHS and LD formats on 1 June 1989
Re-released on DVD on 9 September 2001
Track listing of 15 songs
Recording location given as Shibuya Kohkaido, Tokyo, on 16 March 1989
Italian article lists the lineup as Toshi, TAIJI, PATA, Hide and Yoshiki
Track listing includes "20th Century Boy" among its songs
Earlier video format was the VHS and LD pairing; DVD arrived in 2001, twelve years after release

The track list places "20th Century Boy" thirteenth of fifteen songs
On 23 November 1989, Yoshiki collapsed during a show at Shibuya Kohkaido and later concerts were postponed
The 2010 North American tour was completed without postponement or cancellation, the first time since the BLUE BLOOD TOUR of 1989
Title lists the show as "Bakuhatsu Sunzen Gig", a Japanese phrase that marks the concert