Chapter 106: Whose lover died
"Dead rock 'n' roll is coming back to life!"
When he heard Bai Yao say this, Shen Yiran glanced at the girl in surprise, about these ten words, the first five are still in his comprehension, but the last five words make him not very clear.
'Dead rock' refers to the rock music scene that has been silent in the Han Kingdom for many years, as early as the previous program of "The First Voice", he had roughly talked about this matter, and for this reason, their band also deliberately had a so-called 'ideological' conflict with their mentor Han Chen for this reason.
At that time, Shen Yiran did not delve into this topic, because behind these five words, there was a decades-long entanglement of interests in rock music.
In 179 of the Han Yuan calendar, the Zhao Qian Sun Li Band was established in the Kyoto Private Foreign Chinese College, with a total of four members, namely Zhao Jun, Qian Jing, Sun Tao and Li Bo.
Their band mainly featured covers of music by the Beatles and Beegis brothers. This is also known so far, recognized as the first rock band in mainland Han.
Since then, a new era has officially begun.
If the Zhao Qiansun Li Band is the initiator of Han rock 'n' roll, then next, the Prism Band composed of Hao Jian, Yang Qiang, Shao Hua, Wang Yong and others of the Han Conservatory of Music is the leader of Han rock 'n' roll.
However, it is a pity that due to the limitations of the technological level of the times, these two bands have not been able to retain too much clear audio-visual materials.
In 185 of the Han Yuan calendar, a talented musician was born, and Xie Yinli's "Outlaw World" album was published, which was the first Han rock record that vaguely had a rock atmosphere and could still be found.
Although the record does not provide lyrics, although the record is of poor quality.
However, the innovative arrangement and production of singing moments was definitely a very new attempt in the Han Kingdom at that time.
"The End of the World" is also the pioneering work of Han rock, and it also fully reflects the state of the hazy period of Han rock and roll.
This year, Xie Yinli was only twenty-four years old.
A year later, Xie Yinli sang the new work "Helpless" at the Kyoto Workers' Gymnasium with a guitar on his back and a low trouser leg, and won applause from the audience.
Thus, the first real rock singer in the Han Kingdom was officially born.
The song "Helpless" was also included in the tape tape of the concert that was later published.
After one night, Xie Yinli became a powerful catalyst for the development of Han rock music.
Under his guidance, a considerable number of young people who were in the period of adolescent confusion and had a critical eye on society joined rock and began to try to use rock to explain their love and ideals, and this group of young people later became big names in the rock circle.
Two years later, the underground rock group The Flies was formed.
The band's initial lineup is: lead guitar Zhou Ting, rhythm guitar Guo Xianglin, bass Ge Qi, drummer Dian Jin, Zhou Ting's eldest brother Zhou Hui, and lead singer Qin Wen.
In 188 of the Han Yuan calendar, Qin Wen quit the Fly Band and formed the Han Dynasty Band with Wei Bing and others. In the same year, Liang Wei joined the Fly Band as the lead singer and songwriter.
Liang Wei's "Tearing the Black Before Dawn" and "Rising Sun" have also become the band's classic repertoire.
In 191, Ge Qi quit the Fly Band and Qiu Shu joined as a keyboardist. In the same year, the album "Punishment and Burning" was published.
The album is currently rated as one of the twenty greatest records in the history of Han Rock, and it also created the miracle of the largest record sales of Han Rock after Xie Yinli.
Just when everyone was full of hope for the future of Han rock 'n' roll, the huge commercial potential and uncompromising means of profit made the budding rock music die in the womb.
Because the four major record companies of Hanxing, Pangu, Being, and Weiwei saw the popularity of rock music, they launched a large number of rock singers one after another, and then instilled the word 'rock spirit' to the audience through various TV programs, and hired the media to hype up this concept, which made ordinary listeners have ambiguity and misunderstanding of rock music.
To be honest, the concept of the four major record companies joining forces can be regarded as the most successful marketing plan in the Han music scene.
Since their strong entry into the rock scene, rock has gone from pop culture to a plaything for niche people, and in order to stimulate record sales, they will deliberately instill a concept such as 'listening to rock equals taste' to increase people's sense of superiority, and will also create contradictory topics such as 'rock without spirit is pseudo-rock'.
The public's mind is easily misled by capital, and many people don't know that in the United States, the birthplace of rock and roll, rock is pop music, and pop is destined to belong to the public!
Shen Yiran still remembers that in 194 of the Han Yuan calendar, Xie Yinli chose to commit suicide after producing his last single "Thank God", and he was only 32 years old at the time.
In Xie Yinli's suicide note, which was later exposed, the once genius rock singer-songwriter wrote this paragraph:
"When what I love becomes something I don't know, when what I hate becomes what I rely on, it's better to let go and never see her in this life than to linger with her all day long. ”
Maybe many people will think that this is written by Xie Yinli to his lover when they see this passage for the first time, but in fact, you can know from the title at the beginning that she in this suicide note refers to rock music.
As for the lyrics of "Thank God", it shows his attitude nakedly:
"Whose lover is gone? How can I not grieve for it!Whose soul is dead? How can I not despair? We look at the cloak of spirit, endure her stinking body, and fantasize about her beauty, oh, thank God, she's still alive! Oh, thank goodness, she's dead!"
Shen Yiran can't remember how many times he has looped this song, and thank God for singing two completely different emotions.
After Xie Yinli passed away, the previous group of young people who were influenced by him, and the big names in the rock circle chose to leave one after another, they made music, but they no longer called their music rock music.
Some media have interviewed these young people who have quit the rock circle, and they all gave a unanimous answer, that is, the rock of Han is dead......
Therefore, about the first five words that Bai Yao said, Shen Yiran was completely able to understand, but the so-called coming to life in the back made him a little puzzled.
After taking a sip of water and thinking for a while, he asked in a low voice:
"Bai Yao, what do you mean to be alive again?"
"You don't know, you don't, you don't!"
Bai Yao was surprised by Shen Yiran's rhetorical question, and without answering too much, she took out her mobile phone from her pocket and handed it over after some operation.
"Hell, who wrote this!"