Chapter 813: Rock and Roll Don't Die

The song "Advanced Animals" ignited the atmosphere of the scene at the same time, but also opened the floodgates of the memories of many people present, and many of the audience who came to the scene today have witnessed the shocking performance thirteen years ago.

Thirteen years ago, Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, He Yong, and the Tang Dynasty Band performed as guests, participated in the "Rock Chinese Music Power" concert, which was filled with media from all over the world and nearly 10,000 audiences, setting a record for the audience at the Hongkan site.

Under circumstances that no one could have predicted, the three-and-a-half-hour concert fell into an incredible state almost the whole time.

Even the media and security personnel, who have always been accustomed to seeing performance scenes, fell into an emotional mood. It's so crazy, the rules of Hongkan over the years only allow the audience to sit and watch the performance, but on the day of the performance, all the audience stood and danced to the music, some even stood on chairs, and smashed more than half of the chairs, after the performance, many audience members cried and shouted the names of He Yong, Dou Wei and others, and in the days after the performance, almost all newspapers in Xiangjiang reported the grand occasion of the performance on the front page for three consecutive days, which was also unprecedented.

Thirteen years have passed, and the moment Dou Wei stood on the stage and sang the song "Advanced Animal" again, everyone fell into madness again.

The Three Heroes of Demon Rock, a title that has long been gradually forgotten, has once again appeared in people's field of vision, continuing to stir everyone's heart.

After "Advanced Animals", the curtain of this performance was officially opened, just like back then, Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, and He Yong took turns on stage, and the atmosphere of the scene was not just a crazy enough to describe, everyone was immersed in their music and couldn't extricate themselves.

Dou Wei is a pioneer musician, and this term seems to be a little impractical and derogatory to him, but Dou Wei is as indifferent as his "King of Duliang Wen", resisting this society with deviant value orientation in his own way.

So when he sang "In a Black Dream" again, all the lights on the stage were extinguished, only singing, only a low bass sound, and then he got out of it, and there was no longer any regret about the vicissitudes of life.

Song Zheng always felt that there were lyrics after the sentence "It's better to keep your mouth shut", but Dou Wei didn't sing it, and after humming the tune, "Oh yes, that's what it counts as love", what he wanted to say, this is a mystery, for Dou Wei, who has not sung for many years, maybe he doesn't remember it anymore.

Reducing the singing voice to a musical instrument and blending it into the atmosphere he created, it is pure music, detached from the world, towards the height of what he sees, and he presents all what he sees through music.

Zhang Chu is a poet, this is what Song Zheng has always felt, Zhang Chu's height is far above those so-called masters, just a sentence "the wheat is still growing towards the sun" makes the summer leap in front of you, that kind of warmth, that kind of unyielding.

The tragedy of Zhang Chu's life lies in his simplicity and commercial viciousness, otherwise there would be a second poet in the true sense of the word in contemporary China, the former being Haizi, who crushed all the ugliness between the railroad tracks of Shanhaiguan.

He is not good at talking, and his poems are full of power, "there is a sense of absurdity", which he repeats over and over again, and his record is a smash hit, but he finds no sense of reality in it, because everything is a commercial bubble, and the more you do it, the easier it is to break.

He is not suitable for performing under the lights, he will be restrained when facing the eyes of various colors in the audience, Zhang Chu on the scene is completely different from the CD, his color, and the grasp of the singing voice, only in the closed space will be fully exposed, and it is this shyness that makes each of his performances irreplaceable and unique.

If it is clean, then Zhang Chu is definitely the cleanest kind of person in the world, whether it is the almost straightforward description in "Lonely People Are Shameful", or the crazy structure of life in "In the Factory That Makes Airplanes", Zhang Chu brings his own confusion, confusion about the world, and confusion about the world.

If Zhang Chu is a poet, then He Yong is a warrior, he is worthy of the title of "punk godfather", being banned is just a sign of the beginning of the operation of a harmonious society, and then people have seen all kinds of bizarre events, and He Yong, as early as in "The Garbage Dump" predicted: Some people lose weight, some people starve to death without food.

When he shouted hoarsely on the stage, "Is there any hope", some people were afraid, just like Lu Xun's throwing gun piercing the paper wall, the lights on the scene were suddenly very bright, the music stopped, and the silence broke out.

There is also a lyric in the song "Bell and Drum Tower", "Who made the question so difficult, and there are correct answers everywhere".

How ironic!

"On the bell and drum tower of Yanjing, there is a stone unicorn that has stood there for hundreds of years, silently gazing at the sky, the land and the people, as if always waiting. One day, there will be a strong wind blowing, and it will fly with the wind. ”

He Yong said this, but he didn't know when it would fly away, and it would fly away completely.

They have become synonymous with an era, but it is difficult to have the next era, they are like a light reflected on the face in 94, and after that, they will be extinguished.

China, after all, is not a paradise for rock and roll.

Chinese rock was born later and died earlier than Western rock, in fact, whether it has ever lived, to answer this question, I am afraid that these rock veterans who have been obsessed with half their lives will feel in a trance.

I still vaguely remember the boiling night in Yanjing Gongti in the 80s, the young man in a long coat and playing the guitar, and the sloppy man who sang "Nothing", that is Cui Jian, China's "Godfather of Rock and Roll".

This founder of Chinese rock has sounded the clarion call of the "True Singing Movement" in the new century, and is running on the new Long March road of Chinese rock with amazing vitality.

"Nothing" announced the birth of Chinese rock music, a revolutionary and landmark sound in the history of Chinese music.

From "Rock on the Road of the New Long March", "Eggs Laid by the Red Flag" to "Give You a Little Color", as an epoch-making cultural hero, Cui Jian, the pioneer of Chinese rock music, has moved forward solidly all the way, with profound thoughts, extraordinary talent, prophetic consciousness and courage, roaring out the most authentic voice of that era.

Since then, China's rock has indeed been booming for a while, but after a short period of glory, everything has been heavily shackled again, and it has quickly been swept to the side of criticism.

There are also many people who say that there is no real rock in China, and there are even some people who have always been prejudiced against rock and roll, they think that rock and roll is noisy and hoarse, and say that it is not mainstream.

So what is the so-called mainstream?

Driven by profits, many singers have become operators on garbage music assembly lines, and they still force people to be consumers of garbage music, isn't it ridiculous.

From the beginning of the development of rock music to the present day, there will always be such people, fiercely opposing it, preaching its dark side with great fanfare.

What does rock music bring to people?

In the midst of the intense noise, what is the accompanying product?

Sex, drugs, violence?

Still deviant and free and loose lifestyle?

They proclaim loudly, hiding everything about rock music, and rock 'n' roll itself.

And what about themselves?

Received a traditional education of moderation and conservativeness, and then was bound by it for a lifetime.

The reason is that the Chinese people do not have the same calm psychology as "Lao Mei" to rock and roll to accept the changes of the times.

The changes of the times are a shadow in the hearts of the Chinese people, and the rebellious spirit that has been wiped out by traditional culture is gone.

The creation of rock and roll people contains the sharp spirit of the times and the idea of change, and the social concern of its lyrics, the bold and straightforward criticism, and the sense of anger and rebellion make the sanctimonious prejudices sweat.

Some people say that Chinese culture is in a special era, the glory of the old culture is far away, and the era of transformation of the new culture has not yet arrived, there is no direction, no goal, and some are just bizarre ideas and abnormal orientations of popular culture.

So everyone was silent in a daze, and rock music, as a cutting-edge musical element, was looking forward to exploding in silence.

In the development of the times and the turbulent changes of society, everyone is more and more abandoned to a helpless and lonely state, material life can not hide the bitterness of people losing their souls, and they also bear more inner struggles and empty loneliness, so people need to rock and roll, which reflects the true state of their hearts.

Real rock is not as reactionary and destructive as some people think, good rock is a kind of music with a sense of responsibility, and rock music is real, facing the not optimistic life, talking about the truth, and singing the real mood.

In China, however, rock 'n' roll is regarded as a "glamorous sound" and is despised by the high cultural community, and then regarded as the "spiritual pollution" of rotten capitalism, and is strictly banned by the authorities.

As the commodity economy was in full swing, it was attacked as a commercial culture by elite intellectuals. However, rock music did not benefit from commerce and developed with the development of commerce, but was strongly squeezed by commercial pop music.

Looking back at the development of rock music in China, it can be said that it has been attacked from all sides, and in the consciousness of some people, rock music is completely treated as a hostile ideology.

Generally speaking, the general public is the strongest defender of traditional morality, and it is easy for people to show moral indignation at any unconventional behavior or lifestyle.

Even a little innovation in clothing is bound to attract criticism, and the kind of profligate new wave art image will inevitably become the target of public criticism.

Many people don't understand why rock music has to have that kind of uninhibited attitude.

Why does the song have to be sung like this?

There's nothing wrong with singing a song, but it's not the right way to sing it.

So, what's the right way?

Of course, it is the way that the public recognizes, when the public wears gray cloth tunics, the suit and leather shoes are not right, when the public has cut off the braids, the long hair shawl is not right, and the public's interest is indisputable.

Some rock musicians defend themselves, rock music is also a form of music, such as long hair or something is the "line" of rock singers, just like Peking Opera has its own line, I am afraid that such a statement will only attract Zhao Qiye's head like Ah Q.

Undoubtedly, rock music has its own way, but there is absolutely no "program" like Peking Opera, and it is impossible to have its own "line".

If rock 'n' roll has its own posture, it is an uncompromising and iconoclastic gesture with the world, the external form, although necessary, is not necessarily complete, the hair cut is not necessarily a monk, and the same hair is not necessarily a Taoist, although they are all non-secular signs.

The accusation of rock and roll is actually an accusation of rock and roll itself, and when people accuse rock singers with long hair and shawls of being "neither male nor female", they are enthusiastic about the kind of drama where men dress up as women and learn to be sissysies.

It can be seen that hair is not the core of the problem, and the difference between men and women is not the key, but the key is the uncompromising anti-secular posture of rock music, which is the most unacceptable to the public who are deeply influenced by etiquette.

The defenders of the West could not accept rock 'n' roll, but they could at least accept fancy dress and individuality, after all, they still had a liberal tradition, and rock 'n' roll was much more difficult to develop in the East.

Civic culture has a great conservative nature, which has gradually been recognized by people of insight, but what about the elegant academic culture?

In its attitude towards rock music, it coincides with civic culture, or is complicit.

On the surface, high culture's resistance to rock 'n' roll is a counter-attack to the vulgar by high culture, because rock 'n' roll threatens its high status.

In fact, the resistance of high culture to rock music is not only out of the self-interest of high culture, not only the class discrimination of cultural classes, but also the formation of a sacred alliance with citizen culture in the national cultural tradition.

Rock 'n' roll is, by its very nature, a quintessential Western culture, which, although it originated in the folk music of an oppressed nation and an oppressed class, is, in its whole spirit, a product of the Western Romantic tradition.

So, does Chinese culture contain the genes of Western-style romanticism, and more specifically, rock 'n' roll?

Theoretically, the answer should be yes.

Because any civilization grows out of nature, it must contain the power of the wild.

In ancient China, although the boundary between civilization and barbarism had been firmly established after three generations, especially the indoctrination of the Zhou Dynasty, people still learned from the remnants of mythology that in history there were Kuafu, Gonggong who fought for the emperor with Zhuan, Chiyou who fought against the Yellow Emperor, and the headless hero Xingtian.

The primitive power they represent is suppressed at the bottom of cultural consciousness by the culture of ritual music, whether it is Confucianism, Taoism, Mo, or Yin-Yang Schools, they agree on this point.

Historical rationalism, represented by Confucianism, also tries to erase them from the memory of history, but they have always been latent in the lives of Chinese, constantly transforming into poverty, war and tyranny.

Under the cloak of Taoism's natural inaction, it also occasionally shows hideousness, such as the wildness of the Wei and Jin celebrities, isn't it quite a bit deviant?

However, due to the strong realist tradition of Chinese culture, the manifestations of natural forces in cultural forms are often moderate and rational.

This determines that the wildness of celebrities and scholars cannot have the fanaticism and wildness of Western romantic poets, and it cannot have the self-burning passion of Dionysus.

The question of whether Chinese culture contains the spirit of rock 'n' roll is, in other words, the extent to which Chinese culture communicates and opens up to primitive life.

According to historians' research, the Chinese above the Qin and Han dynasties also had a broad and lively vitality, when the military was prosperous, the people were brave and strong, and they were full of adventure and sacrifice.

It's just that after the Han Dynasty, the world was ruled by filial piety, the family was greater than the country, the behavior was based on etiquette, and the thought was set to a respect, and the vast vitality of life declined.

In Confucius, the founder of Confucian culture, the spirit of courage and enterprising spirit is also praised.

The Bank of China is by no means mediocre and easy-going, in fact it is very difficult to do, and the second thing to retreat is to be arrogant, and madness is enterprising and bold, which is an extreme form. It is also the way of a saint to be mad and truthful, which shows that the Confucian culture with ethics and politics as the core is also open to the truth of life, and this spirit of rebellious action is actually the soil for rock music to grow in China.

In addition, the Chinese Revolution also adhered to the tradition of Romanticism in a certain sense, which was both a cold political operation and a hot romantic spirit.

The spirit of romance has no dimension of value, and if it has any point, it is to break the convention and reform the order, and it is in this sense that the spirit of rock and roll is implied in the logic of social revolution.

Revolutions, wars, all these wild forces are connected to rock, but rock formalizes them, confines them to a specific stage.

In this way, it is easy to understand why some veterans who came from the war years became rock fans at the concerts of Cui Jian and Tang Dynasty, because their hearts are the same.

However, with the advancement of the times, things have changed, the enthusiasm of the Chinese people has gradually dissipated, the long-standing national tradition has gradually been restored, the power of ethics has been strengthened, and a strong resistance to rock music can be felt among the general public.

Rock musicians who are strangely dressed and kind-hearted are rightfully classified as "street riffraff", and their raucous music is even more disgusting.

However, Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, He Yong, and others, who are obsessed with rock and roll, still choose to stick to it, or rather, they have no way back, and can only go to the dark under the gaze of others.

"Is there hope? Is there hope?"

He Yong's hoarse shouts on the stage, everyone in the audience had already burst into tears, no matter whether there was hope or not, they were still persistent and firmly believed that rock and roll would not die.