With Cui Jian's introduction, Govin soon mingled with the members of the plyboard band. He had been a bar singer in his previous life, and naturally he had a common language with these people.

However, Govern also found that at this time, their understanding of rock music, including Cui Jian, was still very rough, and they just liked this kind of music with a strong sense of rhythm, and the repertoire they usually played turned out to be some European and American pop music.

This was even true of the band Tumblers he would next meet.

Among the members of the band Tumbler are also people whom Govan has seen and come into contact with in his previous life.

Zang Tianshuo, the fat man who sang "Friend" in later generations, was not Zhou Huajian's "Friends Walk Together for Life", but "Friend, Friend, Have You Ever Thought of Me", he was still a very poor young man at this time.

Ding Wu is the long-haired young man who called Cui Jian before, but his appearance has not changed much from later generations, but he is much younger. A few years later, he would form China's first heavy metal band, the Tang Dynasty Band, and became a well-known rock musician in China, and has been active in the music scene ever since.

Sun Guoqing, who was a man of great luck in the field of pop songs in later generations, resolutely completed the role transition from singer to TV presenter after seeing that pop music could not get rid of the shadow of piracy, just as he converted from a rocker to a pop singer in the early 90s. At this time, he was not the big bald head comparable to Meng Fei in later generations, and he looked very delicate.

In addition to Zang Tianshuo, Ding Wu and Sun Guoqing, the members of the tumbler band include Wang Di, Wang Yong, Qin Qi, Li Ji, Yan Gang and Li Li. Some of these people he had heard of in his previous life, and some of them did not have the slightest impression.

Just as the plywood band sang European and American pop music, the tumbler mainly sang Japanese pop songs at this time. At this time, the Chinese rock music scene was still Wang Xinbo's Wan Li Ma Wang Band was the most like a rock band, although they are currently only covering European and American bands, but they are covering the music of the Beatles, Beeegees and Rolling Stones.

Truth be told, it is not true to say that there was rock music in China at this time, these people just like the modern music form of the ensemble of electronic instruments such as drums, electric guitars, and basses, and this kind of music that sounds particularly energetic from abroad is something they have never been exposed to before.

During the decade of turmoil, despite the harsh official cultural rule, the songs of the educated youth were still widely sung. At that time, the popularity of harmonica, bamboo flute, accordion, and erhu was quite amazing, although these things were basically not valued and taught in the school education system, but among the vast number of young people, they were full of skilled craftsmen, relying on self-study and the influence of the propaganda team, and more only by self-study, most of them mastered a musical instrument.

And the love of singing is far more prevalent than people in later generations.

What was singing back then?

They work hard in the fields all day long, and at night, the youth of the city have the opportunity to gather at the head of the village, by the river, in the grain pile, and in the wheat field. Later, when the intellectuals who returned to the city and those who returned to the city without permission had no job, or when they had a job but were not busy, they wandered the streets, idle in the empty winter and the old city that was equally empty and uninhabited, and when it was dark, every house closed its doors and the streets were blown by like the wind blowing through the clean night, and the song began to sound at this time.

Sometimes they are revolutionary songs of the past few decades, sometimes they are educated youth tunes and yellow tunes with lyrics changed on this basis, sometimes they are Chinese and foreign folk songs that are banned but still circulating, and sometimes they are many Soviet and Russian songs and Chinese love songs that were once popular but were once considered to be black goods by the cultural revolution.

They sing these songs, they get pleasure from them, they sing these songs, they drive away the boredom of life, they sing these songs, they feel themselves indirectly, they sing these songs, so as to radiate the impulses, anguish and loneliness of youth.

Singing, this was the entertainment of a large number of young people at that time, and when the educated youth gradually entered the post, the **** gunpowder smoke dissipated, the country was in ruins, and people began to look at secular life, and life was still very idle. At this time, another batch of children was born. They also grew up to seventeen or eighteen or early twenties, they never went to the countryside or they stepped on the tail of the countryside, they went to the factory, the university or the unemployed, they played and played in the art troupe or knew a little about the trip, and there was a small pleasure in their lives, that is, everyone got together to play the piano, sing, drink, and brag.

It was the end of the 70s, and the social landscape was changing secretly, but they were at a loss, and no one knew that history would occasionally drop some dust and drift on them.

Like the big brother in front of them, they held the strings in their hands and sang their favorite songs at will. A little different was that new, contemporary foreign voices came in, and they were a little excited to find that it was a new form of music, a music that sounded particularly powerful, something they didn't know how to come out.

And it was at this time that the first and closest crowd to rock music in China appeared. Wang Xinbo, Cui Jian, Wan Li Ma Wang Band, Seven Plywood Band, Tumbler Band, etc.

Wang Xinbo's Wan Li Ma Wang Band was a band composed of educated youth, while Cui Jian's Plywood Band and Zang Tianshuo's Tumbler Band were bands composed of a new generation of young people. They were a whole age apart, but their love of electronic music brought them together and began to hone their musical skills.

They put down the harmonica and accordion in their hands, picked up the electric guitar, electric bass and drum hammer, and pulled out of the tape without sheet music. So not long after, there was finally a real rock music in China, a new rock music that really belongs to China and is different from the West!

So Govin didn't despise them because he knew rock 'n' roll better than they did. He knew that if he was in the same situation as them, he was afraid that he was not much better than them, and he knew a lot, just because he had stood on the shoulders of these people in his previous life and looked into the distance.

Although these people in front of them are not real rock bands now, they are the first batch of musicians in New China to try to interpret modern music with electronic instruments, and they are also the true founders of rock music in Chinese mainland.

For Wang Xinbo, Cui Jian and others, modern electronic music is just the life they yearn for. They didn't think of making music, they just thought it was a cow, they liked to sing it, they liked to play it, they passed around the records they got from foreign relatives, they exchanged experiences about learning the piano together, and they sang and played some of the songs together.

At this time, they didn't think about creating, they didn't think about releasing a record at this time, they didn't think about writing their own songs at this time, at this time they just played their favorite music together and sang their favorite songs. But the environment will slowly give them opportunities, and in the process of playing and singing other people's music, they will gradually have higher feelings and higher impulses-

That's the music that creates zào's own!

This is the original spark of Chinese rock music!

When Wang Xinbo walked in with five young foreigners, all the musicians for this event had arrived.

At this time, the entire factory building was empty except for the central platform, and the space around the platform was already crowded with people.

As the organizer of this event, Wang Xinbo was the first to jump on the concrete platform, and other musicians also followed one after another.

Seeing someone appear on the platform, the noisy noise in the factory slowly subsided.

Wang Xinbo's face was filled with an excited smile, and he swept the crowd in the audience.

Once upon a time, at the beginning of the establishment of the Wan Li Ma Wang Band, they also performed a large-scale performance on the playground of the Beijing Foreign Chinese College, and the original scene gathered so many people as they do today. Although the repertoire of that performance was all covers of classic songs by The Beatles and Rolling Stones, it still made everyone present at the time inexplicably excited.

And it was also that performance that made them suffer, staying in the police station for several days, and being forbidden to gather and sing in front of the public in the future.

But the passion for music will not be dampened by that little frustration! My passion for electronic music is never extinguished!

Today, here we are about to start the great show again!

Wang Xinbo's gaze swept over Gowen, and he nodded as a greeting.

After scanning everyone's figures, Wang Xinbo began to say loudly in a slightly nervous voice-

"Today, electronic bands from all over Beijing are gathered here!

Today, friends from all over Beijing who like electronic music gather here!

Many of us don't know each other, and it's a common hobby that brings us all together!

That's the love of electronic music!

……”

Wang Xinbo said as he spoke, his words gradually became fluent, and he shouted loudly with a hint of resistance and a hint of fanaticism-

"Now the officials are treating us like beasts, they forbid us to perform in public, they forbade us to gather in crowds, they forbade us to show our hobbies...... But they can't imprison our minds and souls!

Just like during the ten years of turmoil, despite the harsh official cultural rule, in addition to model operas and revolutionary songs, there are still countless songs of educated youth that are widely sung, and there are still countless legendary folk singers who are well known to everyone!

Today they may die, they may compromise, or they may still struggle with the world.

But no matter what, we are still here, we are still young, we still have dreams, and we will continue to pass on their pursuit of music, their yearning for freedom, and their decision to choose, we will never compromise! ”

Before Wang Xinbo's words were finished, he was interrupted by the crowd in the audience, who were encouraged by his slogans, and the excited cheers, whistles, applause, and shouts were endless.

"That's right! I just love electronic music! ”

"No compromise!"

"We have the right to choose our favorite music!"

"A tribute to electronic music!"

"Wang Xinbo, what you said is amazing!"

"I have the right to say no!"

"We want to be free!"

……

“rock\-n\-roll！” Govin shouted.

Attracted by the crowd around him, and encouraged by Wang Xinbo's words on stage, Govin raised his hands high above his head, stretched his index and little fingers straight, and at the same time pressed his thumb against the bent middle and ring fingers.

I used to think that Wang Xinbo and others were not rock singers at this time, but only lovers of electronic music, but I immediately heard Wang Xinbo's words, listened to him explain the purpose of this party, listened to their pursuit of music, their resistance to the official, and their yearning for freedom......

Govin knew that he was wrong, although the group of people in front of him were still in the stage of imitation, and their level of playing the piano might not be superb, but they were really rock singers! What they sing is really rock 'n' roll!

This scene in front of me is indeed the great beginning of new Chinese rock music! (To be continued.) )