What did you think when you first heard Tetsu sing?

[Wife_of_Mana]

I thought he was interesting in his own way. And then the more I listened to it, the more I loved his voice! XDDD

 

[Kame]

well after a year and a half I'm starting to become comfortable listening to it...

 

[Kamimura]

I think he has a wonderful voice. I just don't talk about it that much.

 

[Herr Doktor Knave]

at first, I didn't know there WAS a tetsu, i thought it had jsut been Gackt and Klaha, so when I first hear Baroque, I thought "wow.. Gackt has changed since the early days..."

 

[Kamimura]

wow I used to think the same thing in the begining
though after some studying I found out that there was a vocalist before Gackt and his name was tetsu.
man does tetsu look good in red. woo!!!<(^///^)>

 

[Violette]

I ADORE TETSU'S VOICE!!!!!

Since most of the music I listened to before I discovered Malice Mizer was 80's goth, i.e Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus etc, I was used to "Tetsu-style" voices and of course I loved them, so listening to Tetsu's voice was very comfortable for me.

Gackt, Klaha, Juka and Kaya really took alot of listening to get used to and I felt a bit uncomfy at first listening to such smooth voices singing against hard guitars and heavy drumming.

One of the most beautiful things I have ever heard is Tetsu singing "I know the reason for her sadness" on the Malice Mizer 1th Anniversary tape. Yu-ki's bass line is rather wicked too, I love playing along with the tape.

Well that's my tuppence on the subject

~violette~

 

[Kamimura]

tetsu is great.

 

[MonoChromeSerpent]

can i add my own option???

I'll feel like banging my head to the wall until I pass out, so i don't have to endure his voice. (no offence to tetsu fans)

 

[Kamimura]

hey don't pick on him for that. he has a unquie voice.

 

[Herr Doktor Knave]

can i add my own option???

I'll feel like banging my head to the wall until I pass out, so i don't have to endure his voice. (no offence to tetsu fans)

hehehe, hey, it's your head :-P

 

[Nephtys]

I'll feel like banging my head to the wall until I pass out, so i don't have to endure his voice.

^^ I didn't dare saying it myself.

Honestly I think one can just love Tetsu's voice or hate it, but there's nothing between the two. It's so...special.

 

[Eresjkigal]

i know quite a lot of bands/artists who use that kind of vocals... so it's not really that special to me.

 

[CookieMoses]

i know quite a lot of bands/artists who use that kind of vocals... so it's not really that special to me.

*cough* Dir en grey... *cough cough hack hack*

I like Diru, though. Go Kyo!

 

[Sousuke]

I don't really like Tetsu vocals. When I first heard Kioku to Sora, I was like..>_<. Then I tried listening to it again, and I almost got to a point where I liked the song, but I just couldn't like the vocals. He just ruined the song for me. >_>

 

[Naja]

[sarcasm]yeah~ gaku-neko-chan could do it better~ just like eege[/sarcasm]

 

[Anonymous]

Just like Baroque !

*goes to listen to gaku no baroque to have a laugh*

 

[Eresjkigal]

i know quite a lot of bands/artists who use that kind of vocals... so it's not really that special to me.

*cough* Dir en grey... *cough cough hack hack*

I like Diru, though. In fact, DRAIN AWAY is one of my favorite songs. The lyrics touch me... Go Kyo!

actually i wasn't talking about dir en grey... since i don't like them
*starts hiding quickly*

 

[toshiro]

When I first heard Malice Mizer, I listened to a couple of Klaha songs, then Gackt then I heard Baroque. The guy who got me into them said that you can tell it's Tetsu by the dying-cat sounding voice. I loved Tetsu's voice, and, not knowing Tetsu sang it, thought it was Gackt at first :?

 

[Melrudin]

The first time I heard Tetsu, I was trying really hard not to compare him to Gackt and Klaha. I was expecting him to be really good (despite his bad reputation), since I didn't really think that Mana would ever hire a bad vocalist.

However, when I first heard him, I couldn't help cringing. His voice just seemed so...wrong. It didn't seem to fit the style of the Malice Mizer I was used to: a.k.a. Gackt & Klaha era. However, by the end of the first song, his voice had grown on me, but I still didn't like him. Now I actually like him, but his voice does sometimes get on my nerves. I'm to the point where I can definitely see why he didn't continue with the group, but I do enjoy him when I listen to his songs. His voice is very different than most jrocker's voices, but he's still good.

So, I picked the somebody should stop stabbing this poor guy choice because that is what I was feeling when I first heard him, even if I don't think that now.

I just don't think that his voice fit the kind of music that mana was trying to make. Comparing Eege from Memoire (Tetsu era) and Eege from Merveilles (Gackt era), I can see that while Tetsu doens't really sing it badly, Gackt's voice definitely fits the mood of the song better.

~Melrudin
(Wow, that was a lot longer than I thought it would be)

 

[MissPolaris]

Woah! Japanese Robert Smith was SO my first thought.
Kinda funny. I had my friend on the phone when I first herd Tetsu an dshe asked my what that horrible noise in the backround was.