At this time, it was the turn of the East Fourth Pai Lou Band to the east, and I took advantage of Mei Yujun to help us get beer again, and listened carefully to the music of the East Fourth Pai Lou Band.

For a rock layman like me, it is almost impossible to hear the music of Dongsi Pai Lou that can hardly be called rock, except for the dress of a few people, the guys in their hands, and the spirit of not stinging, more Chinese drama elements are rubbed into the fierce percussion, coupled with hoarse, incomprehensible shouts.

Xiao Lei, who was sitting on the side, shook his head with a wry smile, toasted me with a glass of wine, and said: "Miss Mei is right, China's rock music is still in the initial stage of socialism, and Xiangdong is a hodgepodge, which is really nothing to look forward to." ”

Mei Yujun came over with three more beers, and when he saw us covering our faces with our arms and drinking with our heads bored, he probably also saw our discomfort with the music of the East Fourth Archway, sat next to us, and said: "Xiangdong They are experimental music, which is not quite in line with the public's taste for appreciation, Uncle Chang, do you know what the nickname for Xiangdong and their band in the circle is called?"

Xiao Lei and I put down our wine glasses and looked at her curiously.

"Dong Lai Shun band. After Mei Yujun finished speaking, he amused himself, holding the table with one hand, his body trembling, and the beer in his cup was foaming happily.

Seeing that we didn't know why, he explained to us with a smile: "That is to say, the guy in Xiangdong wants to put any dish into the pot, but no matter if you put cabbage or tofu in it, even if it is seafood, it will come out with a smell of mutton." ”

I have to admit that Mei Yujun's point of view is correct, of course, music needs innovation, and innovation naturally requires experimentation, but in addition to inspiration and luck, talent is more important than what can really experiment and produce results.

And our previous topic about the decline of rock music, the unexpected event of '95, was related to musical talent. In the eyes of Mei Yujun, the fall of talent is both fate and a sign.

In the spring of '95, the smash hit Tang Dynasty band was preparing for a national tour, and they also wanted to perform more newly composed songs in this tour, and then record the live performance for a LIVE version of the album and release, although a song has not yet been launched, with their influence, the record company has made an optimistic prediction of selling three million copies.

The band's guitarist Zhang Ju is actually the soul of the Tang Dynasty, he not only formed a band with the lead singer, but also created most of the songs, and the matter of new songs was also pressed on him. For almost a winter, he locked himself in his room to write songs and arrange songs, but unfortunately, his creation encountered a bottleneck, and there was not much progress for two or three months.

Zhang Ju is a bold and free nature, outstanding eloquence, often presides over gatherings in the circle, and has a deep relationship with many musicians. He is even more righteous, and he will not despise his former friends because of success, and his reputation is excellent.

Mei Yujun and Zhang Ju have known each other for a long time, and Zhang Ju also appreciates her musical talent, every time she gathers, as long as Mei Yujun does not go out to perform, she will definitely participate. But later, Zhang Ju's friends became more and more mixed, and those methods in the rock circle who used alcohol to attract fans to stimulate inspiration and kill time made Zhang Ju slowly fall into it.

Because of this, Mei Yujun attends less and less parties.

During that period of time, because there was no progress, Zhang Ju simply called friends, drank and chatted, hoping to stimulate his inspiration through the party and the illusion brought by drugs.

On that night in the spring of '95, Zhang Ju drank alcohol and took drugs, and in a trance, on the way home on a motorcycle, he collided with a truck, couldn't control it, and crashed into a lamppost next to Zizhuqiao Road. Zhang Ju was seriously injured and died shortly after being taken to the hospital.

Mei Yujun attended Zhang Ju's memorial service and witnessed the collapse of the Tang Dynasty band that lost Zhang Ju, but no one thought that this incident was just the beginning.

Then, this doom spread in the rock circle, and soon after, a famous rock band in Hong Kong had a bizarre accident, and the lead singer fell off the stage during a rehearsal for a performance in Japan. The reason seems to be that a lift did not rise in time, and the lead singer fell into a hollow in the stage as he retreated.

Originally, this stage was not high, less than two meters, and under normal circumstances, people accidentally fell, and the most serious thing was that the bone was broken and tendons were broken, but unfortunately the lead singer hit the ground with the back of his head and hit a metal bracket again, and he fell into a coma at the time, and died soon after being sent to the hospital. His unexpected death also brought the most prestigious rock band to pieces.

And Mei Yujun is very familiar with the representative band of underground rock music, Qin Qi from Xi'an, signed a contract with the most famous record company at that time, Zhao Liang, a core member of the lead singer, guitarist, songwriter and arranger, suddenly announced that he left the band and went to Zhongnanshan to become a monk, and the first album of the Qin Qi band became a swan song.

Mei Yujun and Zhao Liang can be regarded as teachers and friends, the two have known each other for nearly ten years, when Mei Yujun ran away from home, when she was most desperate, it was Zhao Liang who helped her to gain a foothold in the circle.

Zhao Liang is a persistent and somewhat paranoid person, he has hardly made any compromises because of the public's musical aesthetics, and has been insisting on a very niche psychedelic rock for more than ten years.

In the early autumn of the ninety-fifth year, when a record company decided to sign a contract with Qin Qi and give a generous contract, Zhao Liang invited nearly 100 people in the circle to have a feast in his rented farmhouse, and Mei Yujun was among them. In those days, signing a contract with a well-known big company meant releasing an album, constantly touring, and even advertising contracts, and there was a world of difference between it and the underground state, where there were days when there was a meal and no meal.

But no one expected that in less than a week, Zhao Liang would leave the band and go to Zhongnan Mountain, never asking about music again.

I am very unfamiliar with this history, I have almost never heard of these people and bands that Mei Yujun said, but watching her talk about this, sometimes radiant, sometimes painful and silent, I can understand the importance of music in her life, feel the uninhibited and obsession of those musicians, and naturally be quite curious about Zhao Liang's retirement.

But in Mei Yujun's view, to this day, Zhao Liang's choice is still full of bizarre colors.

Before Zhao Liang left Beijing, he had a deep conversation with Mei Yujun and mentioned some of the reasons why he went to Zhongnanshan.

After Zhao Liang set up the feast in the farmhouse, he almost fell asleep the next day because of excessive drinking. About the middle of the night, when he got up from thirst and had a severe pain in his head, he went to the well in the courtyard to get some water to refresh himself.

At this moment, Zhao Liang suddenly found that there were two people standing in the dark shadow under the courtyard wall, and they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, but their bodies should be very tall, and their whole bodies were wrapped in black, motionless.

According to common sense, there is a stranger in his house, and he is dressed in such a strange way, Zhao Liang should be extremely nervous. But to his surprise, he had a special sense of peace and tranquility, as if he had finished writing a song and finished reading a good book.

Zhao Liang walked up to the two people, and the two men in black told him that they had come to pick up Zhao Liang and were going to a place to listen to a wonderful music, and that was it.

Zhao Liang couldn't fight the curiosity in his heart at all, and followed the two out of the courtyard. What was unimaginable to him was that two people held him up one on the left and one on the right, and the three of them instantly soared into the air. After that, Zhao Liang watched the surrounding mountains and rivers fly by as if he were in a dream. Zhao Liang was a little afraid of heights, and suddenly reached mid-air, and soon he was dizzy, his heart was tachy, and he was very uncomfortable, so he had to close his eyes and grit his teeth and insist.

I don't know how long he flew, Zhao Liang suddenly touched the ground with his feet, and when he opened his eyes, he came to a majestic temple, and this temple was standing vaguely on the top of the mountains, because it was completely night, and he really couldn't tell where he was.

Two black-clothed men drove him into the temple gate, but Zhao Liang's strange thing was that there were many monks coming and going, but they turned a blind eye to the three of them.

The three of them arrived in front of a majestic hall, and then Zhao Liang heard a shocking music. The monk's chanting with some bell chime music, which can not only set off the solemn atmosphere, but also allow the monk to focus on the scriptures, this kind of temple music is ordinary, Zhao Liang has also heard it twice in Beijing Zhihua Temple, but did not feel anything special at that time.

But this time, Zhao Liang felt shocked. On the one hand, the music itself is not only a kind of percussion instruments such as chime drums, but also the addition of flutes, guqins, and guzheng to enrich the music. On the other hand, Zhao Liang also noticed that the sound of chanting is not a single tone, there are ups and downs, and there are low and tactful, which are well combined with the music.

When the three of them entered the main hall, Zhao Liang noticed that the specifications of this temple were unusually grand, the pillars on the main hall were all hugged by two people, and the height was more than ten meters, and there were almost two or three hundred monks sitting in the entire hall, but it did not seem crowded. But apart from the sound of music and chanting, there was not a single murmur.

When he really entered the main hall, Zhao Liang really felt the charm of this music. It is solemn and full of ritual, but the music itself is extremely exquisite, as if each note is incomparably alive and scattered for a unified theme. What's even more shocking is that the musical structure itself is not complicated, and it can even be said to be somewhat monotonous. But it is this repetition that gives the music its soul-stirring power.

And when Zhao Liang talked about this, Mei Yujun still remembered the brilliance in his eyes, it was a look of joy and tears, a look of wandering for a long time and finally returning to his hometown, but Mei Yujun really couldn't understand how a determined rock man could be moved by temple music like that.

(The proud are speechless, and the knowledgeable are speechless.) Use the wordless to speak, and the ignorance to know and know. Nothing and nothing, ignorance and ignorance, and word and knowledge. Nothing is spoken, nothing is known, nothing is spoken, nothing is known. --"Liezi")