“When I was talking with hide, I said to him, “I don’t want to play with Toshi in the last concert. Let’s play the songs only on the instruments without a vocal.” I even thought that we could ask the fans to sing. But hide said, “We should play with Toshi, if we play the songs of X.” He said “Yoshiki, you worte all the songs for Toshi’s voice, didn’t you?” He said “…for Toshi’s voice…”—Yoshiki (On Toshi’s Last Performance)