Posts : 271 Join date : 2010-08-15 Location : Japan
Subject: ONE OK ROCK Wed Jul 17, 2013 1:34 pm
ONE OK ROCK
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The foundation for One Ok Rock began when Toru Yamashita, then a high school student, wanted to start a band. He told his friend Ryota Kohama, a fellow member of the hip hop dance group Heads, to learn the bass and asked Alex Onizawa to join. After seeing Taka Moriuchi perform in a cover band, Toru insisted that he join. Drummer Tomoya Kanki had been playing with them since 2006, but only became an official member when they debuted in 2007. The band's name, One Ok Rock, comes from "one o'clock", the time that the band used to practice on weekends. However, noticing that the [Japanese language] made no distinction between r's and l's, they changed "o'clock" to "o'crock" (or "o'krock"), which was then separated to become "ok rock". They are released 1st mini album - ONE OK ROCK on 26.07.2006 and 1st single - Naihi Shinsho on 25.04.2007. The group fuses different music styles like Emo, Rock and Heavy Metal into their own, their sound and frenetic live performance are supported by enthusiastic fans of young age. Performed at every rock festival all over the country summer of 2010. Their first album entered the chart in second place on October 2011. Then, in autumn, they had nationwide concert tour, and performed to 24000 fans at the sold-out show in Yokohama Arena for 2days at the end of the tour.
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