Jrock Revolution

June 20th

Hi guys!
I received the new design of VAMPS tour posters!
It looks very Hot! Hot! Hot!

[see full size at: www.vampsliveusa.com]

VAMPS street team is circulating all over the town.
VAMPS tour will start within few weeks!
VAMPSliveUSA.com


We just had Bento Beatbox Shooting!
It was very smooth this time.
Looking forward to see the show in July :)


Meanwhile... I have been big fan of Japanese rock and pop music since I was very little.
Here's some of the artists who I loved...
Do you know any of them??


Age 5 ~ 12
The Checkers

I was a member of their fan club since first grade and my first concert was age 11.
I went to BUDOKAN concert with my mom. It was a memorable moment....
I was so surprised how loud it was. And my ears were no good for two days!


Age 13
The Checkers, Princess Princess, Boowy

I was mostly into Anime and didn't know so much about Rock music.
But my friends in Track and Field club taught me Boowy and Princess Princess.


Age 14 ~ 15
-Japan Band boom era!　- IKATEN generation, Jun Sky Walker(s), Unicorn, Tracy, Buck-Tick, NEW ROTE'KA, GO-BANG'S,

We had a huge band boom in Japan. TV program called - Ikasu Band Tengoku (IKATEN) many kids were watching this TV program.
This program was like American idol for indie bands (of course it was much smaller scale) .
It was a great source for coming up indie bands.
JITTERIN'JINN, Flying Kids, TAMA, Blankey Jey City etc... they are all from the IKATEN program.


Age 16 ~
Kuroyume, SPITZ...

After age 16, I start to listen more mainstream like Spitz and TK stuff, like globe, Tomomi Kahara, Namie Amuro, trf... I still liked Kuroyume though. They looked such a bad boys. I liked that. haha


Age 17 ~
I wanted to learn English. I started to listen more American music.
Yes... you don't wanna know this part ; }

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Thank you so much for reading my Blog!!


Ai