Chapter 7: The Rock Party
As the days passed, it seemed that it was the end of the year, and there were a lot more New Year's goods sold on the street, revealing a festive taste.
"Xu Jing, the Chinese New Year is coming up in about 20 days, and when you weren't there during the day, I discussed with Ah Fei, planning to organize a rock concert in a few days to gather everyone and have a good time. Have you written a new song? If you want to rock 'n' roll, you'll be the lead singer when the time comes. When the day arrived, Xu Jing was about to go back, and Lao Cai came over and said to him.
After half a year of development, Lao Cai has gathered dozens of rock lovers in the flying piano shop, which can also be called a small rock circle. To start the concert, of course, there is something new, so I asked Xu Jing if he had written a song, Xu Jing's talent has long been proven.
"Good. Xu Jing thought for a moment and replied.
During the day the next day, Lao Cai and Ah Fei discussed with some fans in the circle what to do with this concert. In the end, a group of people agreed to set the concert for the night before Chinese New Year's Eve, and the venue was rented by one of them through a relationship to a small playground of a middle school, just as the school was closed. After the matter was settled, Lao Cai and Ah Fei suspended the business of the piano store and made every effort to organize this concert.
In the evening, when Xu Jing found them, he took out three rock scores, Lao Cai and Ah Fei were overjoyed after carefully appreciating and analyzing them, and they were all impressed by Xu Jing, and the three of them practiced and ran in together.
February 9, 1988, that is, the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month. It was the day of the Rock 'n' Roll Party.
The so-called concert is not a show for Xu Jing, Lao Cai and A Fei, but all rock lovers can sign up, it can be an individual, a band, or a temporary band like Xu Jing and others. After some publicity and the encouragement of Lao Cai and others, there are nearly 30 tracks participating in the registration.
When Xu Jing took Zhou Xiaoxun to the venue, the venue had already been arranged, and it was a little shabby to say, because there were not too many funds for the event, most of them were sponsored by enthusiasts, and most of the organizers were Lao Cai, most of whom were used to buy speaker equipment and lighting equipment, etc., The small playground is not big, two hundred meters long and standard, and the rostrum is not big, the size of a classroom.
In fact, there are not many things in the venue, that is, a shelf is set up on the rostrum, lighting and sound equipment are erected, some musical instruments are placed in the corner of the rostrum, and under the rostrum, there are rows of school chairs, which is more like a class meeting after graduating from high school than a regular concert venue. But Lao Cai and other rock lovers are also very busy, and nothing can stop their enthusiasm.
Since there was no need to buy tickets for the concert, when the time was close to seven o'clock, there were more and more people on the playground, close to four or five hundred people, mostly young people. In fact, not all of them are rock lovers, most of them are relatives and friends brought in by those rock lovers, as well as some onlookers who are fresh and lively.
"Big barley, why haven't you started yet?" Zhou Xiaoxun didn't sit and wait in the audience, but followed Xu Jing to watch him debug and check the instrument. After half a year, Zhou Xiaoxun has grown a little taller, and he is already nearly one meter four or five.
"It should be soon. Xu Jing replied casually.
"Good evening everyone! Welcome to the Feiyang Rock Concert hosted by the Feiyang Music Company, tonight is the first rock concert held by our Qushi, thank you very much for the friendship and sponsorship of like-minded friends, and also thank you very much for all the friends present for your support, I believe that with our efforts, our Qushi rock music will develop better... Not much to say, let's play the first song for everyone by our Feiyang Band, "Fake Monk"!" Lao Cai didn't say too much to report the curtain in addition to advertising his piano store a few times, and there were bursts of applause from the audience.
Xu Jing and Ah Fei and the other bass players who came to join the team walked onto the stage together. And Zhou Xiaoxun hurriedly ran to the front row under the rostrum after Xu Jing took the stage to squeeze out a position.
This song is played by Lao Cai as the drummer, Ah Fei as the keyboardist, and the partner as the bassist, and Xu Jing is naturally the guitarist and lead singer. On stage, Xu Jing walked to the microphone position with the guitar on his back, adjusted the height of the microphone, and adjusted the other members to the best position in their own positions. After a while, Xu Jing signaled OK to the other members, and the guitar sounded in the venue, and the other members played in parts.
"I'm going from south to north
I'm going to go from white to black
I want people to see me
But don't know who I am
If you see I'm a little tired
Pour me a bowl of water.
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When Xu Jing's voice sounded, another scream sounded from the audience, Xu Jing listened, he couldn't help but look in that direction, and then blinked his left eye, which was where Zhou Xiaoxun was.
"Fake Monk" originally came from the album "Rock on the New Long March Road", which was written, composed and sung by Cui Jian, released in 8.9, and is one of the classic rock songs in China, and has been covered countless times since then. "False Monk" can be said to be one of the masterpieces of the rise of Chinese rock.
When Xu Jing finished singing, the applause and cheers from the audience were much warmer than when the curtain was announced, Lao Cai was very satisfied with this effect, and arranged for the Feiyang Band to perform the first song "Fake Monk" sung by Xu Jing can really drive the atmosphere.
In this time and space, it was the first time Xu Jing sang it in public, many people were shocked, after all, it is a small town, and there are not many rock lovers.
After it was over, Xu Jing and the others stepped down, leaving only Lao Cai on stage to report the curtain of the next song. The second song is another temporary band covering Cui Jian's "Nothing", although there are many flaws in singing, but there is no big problem. On the other hand, there was a song performed by a long-haired young man in bell-bottoms, singing an English rock song, but I don't know if it was nervousness or some other reason, I stumbled and couldn't sing it halfway through the song, and I forgot the words. caused waves of laughter from the audience. The singer hurriedly got off the stage.
Next, Xu Jing served as the lead singer and sang "No Place for Shame" in the middle and "Once You" at the end.
"No Place for Self-Containment" is one of the masterpieces of the Black Panther Band at the peak of Chinese rock, written and sung by Dou Wei, who later quit the band because of his feelings for Wang Fei, the girlfriend of the band's keyboardist Luan Shu, that is, the diva Wang Fei. The Black Panthers, who lost the soul of the band, have been in a state of collapse ever since.
And "Once You" is one of Xu Wei's classic masterpieces in the post-Chinese rock period, it is a very popular song, and it can be regarded as one of the longest-standing rocks. The sentence "I once dreamed of going to the end of the world with a sword, looking at the prosperity of the world, my young heart was always a little frivolous, and now you are home all over the world" evokes the nostalgia and emotion of countless people for their youth, and it is a song that makes countless people cry in a smile.
Xu Jing's "No Place to Be Ashamed" and "Once You" directly brought the whole concert to the climax. Although many of the singers in the middle sang imperfectly, and it can even be said that they were full of ugliness, it still made the people who came feel that it was worth it, and many even recorded the whole process with a Walkman so that they could go home and enjoy it again.
At around nine o'clock, the concert was announced by Lao Cai after Xu Jing sang "Once You", and then the audience slowly dispersed.
After the end of the show, only a dozen organizers and Xu Jing, Zhou Xiaoxun and others were left, and everyone helped move the equipment back to the piano shop.
"Xu Jing, don't go back yet, come up and sit down, it's a good job tonight, big guy celebrate." After sorting out his things, Xu Jing was about to go back with Zhou Xiaoxun, but Lao Cai stopped him and said.
This concert did a good job, in which Xu Jing accounted for almost half of the credit, and in terms of Xu Jing's talent, Lao Cai had not been wooed in the past, but Xu Jing had rejected him, and he always kept a distance from them. There has always been a saying in the rock circle, "Don't smoke, don't drink, don't walk ice, don't fight, what else do you play?" It is for this reason that Xu Jing has always only wandered on the edge of this circle. And this time, Lao Cai is thinking of using this concert to get closer to each other.
Xu Jing hesitated for a moment, thinking that it was already the end of the year, after all, they had known each other for half a year, and it was not good to always refuse, so he nodded.
Lao Cai saw Xu Jing nodding and asked Xu Jing and Zhou Xiaoxun to go up first and then buy something by themselves, when they came to the lounge on the second floor, the others were already staggering on it, pushing cups and changing lamps, and the entire second floor was filled with smoke and a pungent nicotine smell. Zhou Xiaoxun couldn't help but fan it with his hand, and Xu Jing couldn't help but wrinkle his nose.
"Hey, Xu Jing, are you here? Sit here, if it weren't for you today, the concert would be far away. Seeing Xu Jing and Zhou Xiaoxun coming up, Ah Fei spoke first, he was the only person Xu Jing was more familiar with here.
"No, brother, you're in the limelight tonight. One of the long-haired young men said with a hint of sourness. Xu Jing recognized that it was the young man who sang English songs and forgot the words.
"Forget it, let's go back first. Xu Jing didn't answer him, and said to Ah Fei that he really didn't like such an occasion.
"Hey, they're all up, have a few drinks and then leave!" Ah Fei pulled him.
"What do you mean, brother, are you looking down on your buddies?" the long-haired young man said unhappily, and the others did not speak, but looked at Xu Jing and the long-haired young man with some playful eyes.
"Ah Biao, you don't have to say a few words. Ah Fei drank the long-haired young man, and he didn't say anything more, talking and laughing with the others.
Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Xu Jing couldn't refute Ah Fei's face, so he pulled Zhou Xiaoxun to sit down.
Xu Jing didn't let Zhou Xiaoxun drink, but he had a few drinks with Ah Fei. In his previous life, he didn't drink, but in this time and space, Xu Jing let Yang Laosan be fed wine since he was a child, or spirits, in Yang Laosan's words, "If you don't drink, is it still a man?", so that later Yang Laosan once doubted whether Xu Jing's intellectual disability was caused by his own drinking, and then he never let Xu Jing drink again.
Xu Jing's amount of wine is not too good, after drinking a few glasses of wine, he got up to wash his face, and went out of the bathroom, Xu Jing was about to say goodbye to Ah Fei and go back, when he heard a noise from the lounge.
"No, I don't want to eat this. It was Zhou Xiaoxun's voice.
"Taste it, it's a good thing. This is the voice of the long-haired young man: "This is from the other side of the Xiangjiang River" and something like that.
"Forget it, people don't want to, don't make a fool of yourself here. Ah Fei's voice also came.
Xu Jing listened, his eyes instantly turned cold, like a fierce beast, and walked over quickly. Sure enough, several young people put some things in front of them that shouldn't be there, and they looked intoxicated, even in front of Zhou Xiaoxun, so there is no need to say much about anything.
Xu Jing walked over, pulled Zhou Xiaoxun down behind him, his eyes were like a sharp sword, looked at the long-haired young man, grabbed his hair with his right hand, and then slammed him on the table, and everyone else fell into a state of bewilderment. The young man named 'Ah Biao' raised his head, the entire bridge of his nose collapsed, and he was bleeding from his nose, and he looked at a loss.
"Grass!" Several young people sitting next to him finally reacted, burst into foul language, and then picked up their wine bottles to greet Xu Jing.
Xu Jing protected Zhou Xiaoxun behind him, raised his foot and kicked a pro-young man away, and then grabbed a young man's hand holding the wine bottle with his right hand, and smashed it on his own head in turn, the bottle was broken, his head was also broken, and his face was bleeding. Xu Jing quickly kicked several young people one after another, either in the knees, or in the chest and abdomen, and fell to the ground and groaned, and one of them even kicked directly to the head, fainting on the spot, and it is estimated that a concussion was indispensable after the diagnosis.
All in all, the seven or eight people who fell down don't want to have a good time this year, lying down for ten days and half a month is considered light.
In addition to Xu Jing and Zhou Xiaoxun in the entire lounge, only Ah Fei and three or four young people were standing on the side, not knowing how to be good.
"Made, it's closed everywhere to buy something, so I have to travel all the way to buy it, what's the matter? What's going on?" At this moment, Lao Cai came back with a big bag of snacks, and looked at the mess in front of him, and was stunned.
"Lao Cai, I won't come again in the future, so be it. Xu Jing said a word to Lao Cai lightly, and then pulled Zhou Xiaoxun away.
"I... I didn't... Didn't eat that. Being pulled downstairs by Xu Jing, Zhou Xiaoxun tightened his body with one hand, a little scared, tears rolling in his eyes. She had never seen Xu Jing like this, and her cold eyes seemed to devour everything.
"Don't go to this kind of place in the future. Xu Jing stopped, glanced at Zhou Xiaoxun, and then his eyes slowly softened, and said lightly, and then pulled her home again.
Xu Jing has been in this time and space for half a year, and he has always felt honest, doesn't like to talk, and even looks a little muna, but in fact it is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface. How can a person who has been tormented by illness for decades and who has suffered countless cold eyes and ridicule not be a little dark and distorted? It can only be said that he has lived too pure in the past six months, so pure that he cannot brew superfluous emotions.
After a night of tossing and turning, the next morning, Zhou Xiaoxun came to Xu Jing's door, hesitated for a moment and knocked on the door. When the door opened, he looked at Xu Jing's eyes that were no different from usual, and then looked at the table inside, on which were two cups of steaming milk, and finally a warm smile finally appeared on his face.