How old?

[Another Aoi Fan]

How old were you when you got into:

Visual kei, Oshare kei, or Japanese Rock in general?

I've met a lot of people who were acually 10-13...

I was curious how old you were when you got into JRock. Thank you!

I appritiate it!

 

[Cursed Wings]

i was 12 and that was around the end of may this year soo i havent known it that long

 

[YukiMizayaki]

Well, *looking at my age* I'm around 16 to 17 when I got hooked up on J-rock.

 

[Dr. Warumono]

I was 21... last year ^^!

 

[dniwer]

I was 19...

 

[JoRuDeNnA]

I was 19 too, a little bit more than a year ago

 

[sadie_sue]

About 12-14, but I worked my way from loving Japanese movies to loving the music.

 

[wandering.legy]

I was and still am 16....haven't been a jrock fan for very long ^^ But like sadie i loved japanese anime/manga/movies and moved on from there

 

[Tomino]

i was 13. well i still am ^^!
it's more than 1 month from the discovery now!
but the first anime i saw was when i was 7. i fell inlove with animes (though i couldnt watch many) .

 

[Anousenka]

I think I was about 18, in 2003 I hadn't heard of it until then, heehee

 

[SaKeVi]

I was... five?? I don't remember if I had 4 or 5 years, my older brother used to play Loudness & X songs to me before I went to kindergarden, to raise my spirit, hahaha.

It has been around 18 years since then... yeah, I'm 23.

 

[wandering.legy]

wow Sakevi, you're a real jrock veteren. I wonder....has jrock changed much from the last decade? Is it better now? Worse?

 

[Kinsao]

I was 25.

 

[klick]

i was 14 1/2 or 15..i don't know^^ XD

 

[jounetsu]

i was um... 15! yes that's what i was
and soon 17 so almost two years as a
dir en grey fan yay!

 

[inki]

i was 23 ... still a newbie ... listen to jrock 1 year

 

[Another Aoi Fan]

I was... five?? I don't remember if I had 4 or 5 years, my older brother used to play Loudness & X songs to me before I went to kindergarden, to raise my spirit, hahaha.
It has been around 18 years since then... yeah, I'm 23.

WHOAH!! Congrats!! WHOAH! Thats amazing!



Anyhow, thank you everyone! I'm so happy to see people posted! Its soo intresting looking at these. I really appritiate it!

 

[Precious4e]

I was 18. It started with Luna Sea.

 

[Chicho]

i was around 13-14 (thats this year) and my first reaction: OMG MIYAVI LOOKS LIKE A GIRL!!!!!

but that is past know! lolll

 

[SaKeVi]

wow Sakevi, you're a real jrock veteren. I wonder....has jrock changed much from the last decade? Is it better now? Worse?

Well, it has changed a lot, in the 80's the music industry didn't take seriously rock music, they preferred pop singers and some overseas artist, but rock started to gain some field, and bam!! X appeared and ****** up the poppish music agents, opening a big industry and a huge marketing to rock.

It's hard to say if it is better or worse now: this days we have a huuuuge music scene, and lots of good and crappy bands, music has changed too, we have many music style fusions to satisfy any kind of music taste hehehe.

You know, I'm al oldie here, in my opinion, I prefer japanese 80's bands, I grew up listening to them, and I think that in those years, the best bands were created and taught everybody how things should be done in music, hahaha.

Se you later!!

 

[wandering.legy]

Well, it has changed a lot, in the 80's the music industry didn't take seriously rock music, they preferred pop singers and some overseas artist, but rock started to gain some field, and bam!! X appeared and ****** up the poppish music agents, opening a big industry and a huge marketing to rock.
It's hard to say if it is better or worse now: this days we have a huuuuge music scene, and lots of good and crappy bands, music has changed too, we have many music style fusions to satisfy any kind of music taste hehehe.
You know, I'm al oldie here, in my opinion, I prefer japanese 80's bands, I grew up listening to them, and I think that in those years, the best bands were created and taught everybody how things should be done in music, hahaha.
Se you later!!

Wooo go X Japan! Legends to the end hahaha. And i agree, a lot of old rock bands are really good. But i like the modern stuff too. I guess i just love rock music overall, no matter where it's from or what language it's in

 

[Another Aoi Fan]

i was around 13-14 (thats this year) and my first reaction: OMG MIYAVI LOOKS LIKE A GIRL!!!!!

but that is past know! lolll

x3 Wow.

@SaKeVi-Do you think people like us, ect. would like the 80's? Or is it just you? Sounds intresting.

 

[SaKeVi]

@SaKeVi-Do you think people like us, ect. would like the 80's? Or is it just you? Sounds intresting.

Probably, that's where all started!! hahaha.

If you're a rocker, punk or headbanger, you will definitely love the 80's, you will get crazy with the japanese 80's music, in my opinion, those years were when the scene reached its climax, also, you will find that japanese bands were important to music styles all over the world, like grind (S.O.B. was one of the precursors of that) fastcore or well called japcore (Gauze) and also (and sorry for the U.K. lovers) a band called SS were one of the first hardcore punk bands in the whole world (they started in 1976)

Remember that the 70's and 80's brought us Loudness, Seikimatsu, X, Luna Sea, The Stalin, Anthem and so many awesome bands with fans all over the world, even before Visual Kei kind of "opened" that market.

For the Visual fans, you should check Visual Scandal, those guys were like the reminiscence of Visual in Japan, they started in 1979 and disbanded in 1985 =P

 

[Anchyyy]

I was around 13 i think.

 

[DmJapan]

I was 21.
Last year i bought Shine from Luna sea and started listening to Jrock.