About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Buck-Tick, Guitar Wolf, The Stalin, Melt-Banana, The Mad Capsule Markets, The Blue Hearts, SA, Cobra, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, The Roosters, The Discocks, The Dead Pop Stars, Teengenerate, Destroy 2, Kamaitachi, By-Sexual, MidnightPumpkin, Psydoll, Metronome, Hi-Standard, The Willard, Jagatara, Stance Punks, Gito Gito Hustler, The Birthday, Rosso, Lolita No.18, SpecialThanks, Aunt Sally, The Rockers, Takahashi Gumi, Korean Buddhist God. Excerpt: Buck-Tick (typeset as BUCK-TICK) is a rock band formed in 1983 in Fujioka, Japan. The band has consisted of Atsushi Sakurai (vocals), Hisashi Imai (guitar), Hidehiko Hoshino (guitar), Yutaka Higuchi (bass) and Toll Yagami (drums) for the majority of its existence. Over the course of their career, the band has experimented with many different genres of music, including punk, dark wave, gothic rock, industrial, electronic and straight rock and roll. Along with X Japan and others, Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement. In addition to their long, productive career as a band, the five members have worked on individual projects and collaborated with many other famous artists, both Japanese and foreign, including Maki Fujii (Soft Ballet), Issay (Der Zibet), Kiyoshi (Media Youth, Spread Beaver), Masami Tsuchiya (Ippu-do), Raymond Watts (PIG), Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM), Clan of Xymox, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), Cube Juice, and Kelli Ali (Sneaker Pimps). Although they use different surnames, Toll and Yutaka are brothers. Former member Buck-Tick was originally formed in 1983. All five of the band members lived in the town of Fujioka, in Gunma prefecture. Hisashi Imai originally had the idea for the band, and wanted to start despite not knowing how to play any instruments at the time. He recruited his friend, Yutaka Higuchi, and the two ...
