History Music / TaijiSawada

In 2009, he dissolved D.T.R., firing all but one of his bandmates claiming a copyright issue, and claiming that he was going to reform D.T.R. as Death To Rive. He played with The Killing Red Addiction (members DynamiteTommy [v], Kenzi [d], Taiji [b], Tatsu [g]), played with his solo act "TAIJI WITH HEAVEN'S," which became Taiji Sawada Project, then Taiji and Shu Project (TSP) (members Taiji [b], Shu [g], Takanari [d] who was replaced with Hina from Crazy Danger Mile on drums - who is the current drummer) and as a session musician with other bands including a return to {{Loudness}} for the Munetaka Higuchi memorial shows in 2009 and 2010.

* MoneyDearBoy: Some of his fans think that was why he rejoined XJapan.

* OutlivedItsCreator: TSP as a band, which Shu kept ongoing as a memorial and as an act in and of its own right.

* PrecisionFStrike: The lyrics to "Desperate Angel" for XJapan and "So What" for D.T.R.

* BlackWidow: '''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 [[note]] the less charitable view is that she somehow arranged for him to be killed, then paid off people to cover up the homicide as a suicide...[[/note]]. Then she sued the journalist who uncovered her and her friends' actions.

* BlackWidow: '''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.

** What if he'd never gotten kicked out of Music/XJapan or Music/((Loudness}}? Again, he would have had a far more stable career and income, and both bands would have produced even better bodies of work than they already did. If you can imagine Taiji's bassline on, say, Dahlia instead of Heath's, you can just imagine how epic this would have been.

* HesBack: Sadly, it was TooGoodToLast.

* TheAlcoholic: Arguably so.

* PoliceAreUseless: One potential cause of his death, along with [[ThereAreNoTherapists There Are No Psychiatric Hospitals]] in [[WretchedHive Saipan]] - even if no outright PoliceBrutality occurred (which is now in doubt), that the people detaining him were so absolutely negligent as to either allow him to commit suicide successfully or allow him to be killed in custody is at least this.

* RuleOfDrama

* GuideDangIt: Averted. He actually wrote his own autobiography which actually serves as an albeit biased version of this for some of XJapan 's and his own history. It's called "Sei to Shi," it's a VERY interesting read about XJapan from his perspective, and some chapters are available online at X Radical Dreamers.

* RockstarSong: "Easy Fight Rambling" for XJapan, "So What" for D.T.R.

* {{Angst}}

* AuthorExistenceFailure

* MemeticSexGod: He attained this among much of XJapan fandom fairly early on, and it was only established more with his parts in the "Week End" and "Celebration" performance videos for XJapan and a few of his photoshoots for X Japan and for Loudness. Among both female ''and'' male fans, and even after his death some of the postings of his pics etc are ''still'' remarking on his sexiness.
** One example being the infamous "Sawada cluster" on {{Tumblr}}. They are called that because ''none'' of their actual usernames are SFW enough for this wiki.

* SurvivorGuilt: Taiji was hit especially hard by the death of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] who was one of his closest friends. He also played in {{Loudness}} and was a friend of late drummer, MunetakaHiguchi, who died of cancer November 30, 2008 - which led to his playing at both the 2009 and 2010 Munetaka Higuchi memorial shows.
* [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This Is Your Interview On Drugs]]: There's a video of (one of) X's first TV appearances that once was on Youtube that featured Taiji acting incredibly loopy (as in, giggling fits and trying to fight with the station's mascot) and just getting better/worse from there. Unfortunately, the video was deleted due to copyright from the news station that aired it, and now seems to be LostForever.

* CoolBike: Taiji loved motorcycles and biker fashion.

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

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: There's a video of (one of) X's first TV appearances that once was on Youtube that featured Taiji acting incredibly loopy (as in, giggling fits and trying to fight with the station's mascot) and just getting better/worse from there. Unfortunately, the video was deleted due to copyright from the news station that aired it, and now seems to be LostForever.

* MushroomSamba: There's a video of (one of) X's first TV appearances that once was on Youtube that featured Taiji starting with this and just getting better/worse from there. Unfortunately, the video was deleted due to copyright from the news station that aired it, and now seems to be LostForever.

* IntoxicationEnsues: There's a video of (one of) X's first TV appearances that can be found on Youtube if you know where to look, that features Taiji starting with IntoxicationEnsues and just getting better/worse from there.

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

He left XJapan in 1992 due to musical differences and a fight with [[YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]], and proceeded to play with {{Loudness}}, leave Loudness to form his own off-and-on band D.T.R., and experienced a major CreatorBreakdown due to a variety of issues he'd struggled with throughout his life. He slowly returned from his CreatorBreakdown to play with the soon-to-be-disbanded D.T.R., Otokaze, Kings, and with The Killing Red Addiction and TAIJI WITH HEAVEN'S.

In 2009, he dissolved D.T.R., firing all but one of his bandmates claiming a copyright issue, and claiming that he was going to reform D.T.R. as Death To Rive. He played with The Killing Red Addiction (members Dynamite Tommy [v], Kenzi [d], Taiji [b], Tatsu [g]), played with his solo act "TAIJI WITH HEAVEN'S," which became Taiji Sawada Project, then Taiji and Shu Project (TSP) (members Taiji [b], Shu [g], Takanari [d] who was replaced with Hina from Crazy Danger Mile on drums - who is the current drummer) and as a session musician with other bands including a return to {{Loudness}} for the Munetaka Higuchi memorial shows in 2009 and 2010.

Taiji was (and is) considered in some circles to be among the world's top rock bass players. Especially skilled at slapping and tapping, he was credited with teaching the late XJapan and solo guitarist [[HidetoMatsumoto hide]] his own guitar tapping technique back when they played together.

* CreatorBreakdown: Taiji went from being one of the most successful and acclaimed rock musicians in Japan to, at one point, being [[OffTheWagon addicted]], divorced, homeless, and [[TheMentallyDisturbed severely depressed]]. He got into fights while living on the streets, suffering from [[ScarsAreForever a broken jaw and other facial injuries]] that gave him a speech impediment and permanently changed his appearance. Then, [[HidetoMatsumoto hide]], who had been one of his closest friends, died in 1998, adding grief and SurvivorGuilt to his [[DespairEventHorizon depression]].

* GriefSong: "Dear Friend," written for [[HidetoMatsumoto hide]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[HidetoMatsumoto hide]] and [[TomoakiIshizuka Pata]] while he was with X.

* SurvivorGuilt: Taiji was hit especially hard by the death of [[HidetoMatsumoto 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.

* PoliceAreUseless: One potential cause of his death, along with [[ThereAreNoTherapists There Are No Psychiatric Hospitals]] in [[WretchedHive Saipan]]

In 2009, he dissolved D.T.R., firing all but one of his bandmates claiming a copyright issue, and claiming that he was going to reform D.T.R. as Death To Rive. He played with The Killing Red Addiction (members Dynamite Tommy [v], Kenzi [d], Taiji [b], Tatsu [g]), played with his solo act "TAIJI WITH HEAVEN'S," which became Taiji Sawada Project, then Taiji and Shu Project (TSP) (members Taiji [b], Shu [g], Takanari [d]) and as a session musician with other bands including a return to {{Loudness}} for the Munetaka Higuchi memorial shows in 2009 and 2010.