JimHarper 28 Posted January 20, 2018 Hello all! My name is Jim Harper. I'm in the UK right now but will be relocating to Japan later this year. I've been a fan of various visual kei bands for a while now. My 'gateway drug' was actually Zilch; I knew an English bass player who told me he'd recorded a great album with a fantastic Japanese guitarist and said I should check it out. I did, and I loved it, so I checked out hide's 'day job' and discovered I liked X-Japan too, and it all went from there. If I had to list a top ten VK bands, it would consist of (no particular order): X-Japan (plus hide solo and Zilch), Buck-Tick, D'erlanger, Dead End, The Gazette, D'espairsRay, Girugamesh, LM.C, Mucc and Vamps. I've been able to see six of them live, which has been a wonderful experience (just got X-Japan, Dead End, D'erlanger and The Gazette to go!). There's also a lot of Japanese goth/industrial etc that I love too. Anyway, I look forward to chatting with you all and discovering some new music! All the best, Jim. 6 CAT5, The Reverend, K-x-H and 3 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chi 2624 Posted January 20, 2018 hello and welcome to the forums^^ i'm sure you'll discover a bunch of new bands 1 JimHarper reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jigsaw9 6783 Posted January 20, 2018 Hi there, welcome! High five for BUCK-TICK and D'ERLANGER~ 1 JimHarper reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimHarper 28 Posted January 20, 2018 Thank you! And I share your sadness over the death of Chu Ishikawa. Losing both Ishikawa and Ken Morioka in 18 months was a very hard blow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CAT5 9075 Posted January 21, 2018 Welcome to the forum! 1 JimHarper reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yuri 30 Posted January 21, 2018 Hello there, great music taste :> 1 JimHarper reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
