Everyone in the local music scene believed the hall was too large for the band and that the concert would be doomed to failure, but Buck-Tick used an effective advertising strategy: they pasted thousands of eye-catching, black-and-white sticker advertisements all over Tokyo's hip youth districts that read simply "Buck-Tick Phenomenon April 1st Toyoto Public Hall". In conjunction with the release, they played a live concert called Buck-Tick Phenomenon at the 1,200-capacity Toyoto Public Hall in Ikebukuro. They played the live house circuit in Tokyo and on April 1, 1987, released their first album, Hurry Up Mode. With Sawaki's help they began promoting themselves very actively. The band signed to Taiyou Records immediately and released their first single, "To-Search" on October 21 of the same year. He had seen the band perform at a live house called Shinjuku Attic, and had been very impressed. Then, in July 1986, they attracted the attention of Sawaki Kazuo, head of Taiyou Records, an independent label. The five members worked during the day and practiced and performed at night. When Sakurai's father died, he too moved to Tokyo. Independent period (1985–1987) Īfter the change in the lineup, Buck-Tick became more serious about music. This became the final lineup for the band, and has not changed since. Higuchi convinced Yagami that the best way for him to get over the loss of his own band was to join theirs instead, thus Toll took Sakurai's place behind the drums. The band decided to fire Araki, and Sakurai convinced them to accept him as their vocalist. As Imai's composing skills improved, Araki became unable to carry the melodies to the songs. However, at the same time, the rest of Buck-Tick was becoming frustrated with Araki. Yagami politely refused his request, and SP broke up. Higuchi's brother Toll Yagami was also in a band, called SP, and when SP lost their vocalist, Sakurai asked Yagami if he could be the replacement. In the meantime, he decided to become a singer instead of being a drummer. Sakurai's parents wouldn't let him move to Tokyo. They also began to perform original songs, written by Imai and a few by Hoshino. During the summer of 1984, the band changed their name to Buck-Tick, which is a creative spelling of "bakuchiku" ( 爆竹), the Japanese word for firecracker. However, they returned home on weekends to practice together and play shows.
When Higuchi and Hoshino graduated a year later, they also moved to Tokyo-Higuchi for business school and Hoshino for culinary school. When Imai graduated high school, he moved to Tokyo with Araki and enrolled in a design school. They performed in suits with their hair up and soon added white face makeup, as well. From the beginning, they were conscious of their image and tried to differentiate themselves from other bands. They started out playing covers of songs by the famous Japanese punk band The Stalin. Once they had practiced enough to be able to play, they began to perform live at small, local events. Imai named the band Hinan Go-Go ( 非難GO-GO, "Hinan" means "criticism") in the spring of 1984. The Buck-Tick members went to high school with Boøwy singer Kyosuke Himuro. Atsushi Sakurai, a rebellious loner in Imai's class who hung out with the bad-kid Yankī crowd, volunteered to be the drummer.
Higuchi tried to convince Hoshino to become the vocalist because of his looks, but Hoshino was more interested in playing the guitar, and did not want to be in the spotlight, so Imai's friend Araki became the vocalist instead. Then, Higuchi asked Hidehiko Hoshino, who had been his friend since their first year of high school, to join. He recruited his friend, Yutaka Higuchi, and the two of them began to practice-Imai on guitar and Higuchi on bass. Hisashi Imai originally had the idea for the band, and wanted to start despite not being able to play any instruments at the time. All five of the band members lived in Gunma prefecture. History Formation (1983–1985) īuck-Tick was originally formed in 1983. They have released 22 studio albums, nearly all reaching the top ten on the charts. Buck-Tick are commonly credited as one of the founders of the visual kei movement. The band has experimented with many different genres of music throughout their three decade career, including punk rock, industrial rock and gothic rock. The group has consisted of lead vocalist Atsushi Sakurai, lead guitarist Hisashi Imai, rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino, bassist Yutaka Higuchi and drummer Toll Yagami since 1985. Buck-Tick (stylized as BUCK-TICK) is a Japanese rock band, formed in Fujioka, Gunma in 1983.
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