Taiji Sawada: Difference between revisions

* [[Black Widow]]: '''KITAMI TERUMI'''. She bankrupted him again, indebted him to her, and then left him to die in Saipan... and that is the most charitable view of her actions. Then she sued the journalist who uncovered her and her friends' actions.

** [[Irony|One of the songs]] [[Harsher in Hindsight|he wrote for]] [[Loudness]] was called [[Black Widow]] and was [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]] lyrically.

* [[Cool Bike]]: Taiji loved motorcycles and biker fashion.

* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Taiji went from being one of the most successful and acclaimed rock musicians in Japan to, at one point, being [[Off the Wagon|addicted]], divorced, homeless, and [[The Mentally Disturbed|severely depressed]]. He got into fights while living on the streets, suffering from [[Scars Are Forever|a broken jaw and other facial injuries]] that gave him a speech impediment and permanently changed his appearance. Then, [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]], who had been one of his closest friends, died in 1998, adding grief and [[Survivor Guilt]] to his [[Despair Event Horizon|depression]].

* [[Japanese Delinquents]]: Taiji was a high school dropout and one of these (of the ''yankii'' variety, seemingly, as well as ''bosuzoku'') before he became a professional musician.

* [[Lead Bassist]]: Types A and C.

* [[Never Suicide]]: There's a [[Conspiracy Theory]] that Taiji was murdered.

* [[Nice Hat]]: He usually almost always had one, whether it's his cowboy hat, a fedora, a bucket hat, a hoodie....

* [[Off the Wagon]]: Extreme example, enough to argue that in his case, [[Drugs Are Bad]]. He went from a successful career to abject poverty and homelessness, suffered a series of ongoing health problems, and had almost died on a variety of occasions leading up to his death.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: One potential cause of his death, along with [[There Are No Therapists|There Are No Psychiatric Hospitals]] in [[Wretched Hive|Saipan]]

* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Easy Fight Rambling" for [[X Japan]], "So What" for D.T.R.

* [[Rule of Drama]]

* [[Sanity Slippage]]: 1993-1998, over which he lost his career and became [[The Mentally Disturbed]] and severely injured. He would recover somewhat before he died, but...

* [[Self Serving Memory]]: Compare his recollection of some events in "Sei To Shi" to [[Yoshiki Hayashi|Yoshiki's]] recollection of the same events in his self-titled biography. And as an example of an endless loop, now go to [[Yoshiki Hayashi]] and look up [[Self Serving Memory]].

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Somewhat averted with his health problems, though not much of an aversion, in that his health problems seemed to originate more from alcohol, less legal stimulants, and poverty.

* [[Survivor Guilt]]: Taiji was hit especially hard by the death of [[Hideto Matsumoto|hide]] who was one of his closest friends. He also played in [[Loudness]] and was a friend of late drummer, Higuchi Munetaka, who died of cancer November 30, 2008 - which led to his playing at both the 2009 and 2010 Munetaka Higuchi memorial shows.