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J-Rock at AllExperts (621 words) |
 | Japanese rock is the Japanese form of rock and roll music, often abbreviated to "J-Rock" or "jrock", as "J-Pop" and "jpop" are used as an abbreviation of Japanese Pop. |
| While psychedelic rock was known for the drug intake of its performers leaving an impact on the hazy, drugged-out music, J-Rock performers tended to be drug-free, or even adamantly against the use of drugs (for example, Kosugi Takehisa, Haino Keiji, Nanjo Asahito). |
| A few Group Sounds bands, including The Golden Cups, The Tempters, The Mops, The Dynamites and Jacks (whose "Karappo No Sekai" and "Marianne" were two of the first psychedelic recordings from the country) imitated their Anglo heros. |
| TMT - When Image Is Everything (1268 words) |
| In these bands, the visual image projected by the their clothes style and makeup is as important as the music they produce. |
| In South East Asia, the visual rock band style is seen as an example of Japanese "weirdness." However, it is definitely not exclusively Japanese for artists to dress for shock value and project fantastic visual images as important as their music. |
| In the case of the visual bands, the gothic, surreal style of dress is now associated with a certain genre of music. |
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