Du Xinghe is not obsessed with or partial to rock music, but has studied rock and roll as a discipline. He is quite interested in women who sing rock and roll, especially in this plane where rock and roll is banned, or a daughter in the capital Chang'an sings rock music, which makes him interested.

Speaking of which, China's local rock and roll is closely related to the rich local cultural heritage.

In the previous plane, Xi'an, as the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, was an important birthplace of local rock.

Walking around the city wall, the high-pitched Qin cavity is a tension that rushes into the sky, powerfully shaking your eardrums.

Strolling through the Bell and Drum Tower Square and the South Gate Underpass, the rock music played by the young man holding the guitar hits your heart fiercely.

A brick is a piece of history, and an old woman carries a bit of culture.

In the last year, the general qi of the Thirteen Dynasties made every Xi'an person have a strong sense of self, a keen perspective of observation and a unique way of thinking, and have their own ideas to express.

What is Qin cavity? In fact, it is rock in traditional opera.

There is reason to believe that rock and Qin are in the same vein.

The simple, rough and heroic tone of the Qin dialect roared out the infinite pride of the Chang'an people in ancient times in the prosperous Qin and Tang dynasties; The self-rocking, uninhibited, and wild singing style expresses the deep feelings of modern Xi'an people for the ancient capital for thousands of years.

In the last plane, the Chinese rock music scene has come out of Xi'an, Zheng Jun, Xu Wei and Zhang Chu, three heavyweights with different styles, and a large number of bands continue to work hard to inject a lot of underlying experience and vitality into Chinese rock music.

When Zheng Jun made the new album "Zheng Jun". spent a year in Xi-An; Xu Wei also often returns to Xi'an; Zhang Chu even moved his family back to Xi'an, just to be able to "make his music bigger".

It is this thick yellow earth that brings them an endless stream of originality - that simple, powerful impulse of life.

In the last plane, in Xi'an, some musicians who are crazy about rock and roll walk endlessly along the endless city wall, and the ancient city wall brings them the endless sense of historical oppression, endlessly suppressing their desire for freedom, making them feel manic, desperate, and heavy. They accumulate this affection until they finish the music, allowing the singing to pass through the city. Break through the clouds.

The city wall is always pampered and not frightened, and the heart is like water; Xi'an's rock, on the other hand, is intense, vivid, crazy and impetuous. Fans obsessed with rock 'n' roll. When you come to Xi'an, you will definitely experience this strong collision of the most conformist and the most unscrupulous, the most traditional and the most rebellious.

However, the last plane of Xi'an has many excellent bands and musical talents. But there is no small performance company. There isn't a single record label with a slight strength. As a result, a large number of excellent local works have not been developed for a long time.

Due to the constraints of economic conditions, the West-Ann rock music in the previous plane can usually only appear in the appearance of "underground", and the performances are organized by piano shops and bars.

The organizers of these underground events are as vigorous as the music of the underground. Libo Music Store, Oasis Music Company, Eight and a Half Bar, South Gate Bar, 1+1 Bar, Light Storm Bar, Goldfinch Bar, etc., have raised a banner of music, bringing together the masters of the music industry in Xi'an, Beijing, Changsha and other places, and unconsciously forming underground rock centers.

If the Xi'an performance market had matured, bands such as "Chrysanthemum and the Knife", "The Conjuring", "Dustless", "Impact", and "Behavior" would have become famous in 1994, but because of the immaturity of the market, the works of that era lost the opportunity to be published, and many musicians were buried.

At the beginning, led by Xu Wei's "Fei" band, he called on "We don't go to Beijing, we want to do Xi'an rock music." But sadly, in the face of the harsh reality, this slogan, which once excited a large number of rock and roll youth, did not last long. Xu Wei finally left Xi'an and went to Beijing to seek development. Zhang Chu, Zheng Jun, and Xu Wei are all famous in Beijing, if they stick to Xi'an, they may not have today's results, Xu Wei's first two albums The sorrow that seeped into the blood is about the true reproduction of the hardships and pains on the road to his pursuit of ideals, and it is the pain that Zheng Jun said in the process of growing up in this city.

In the previous plane, Xi'an did not have a better environment for rockers to create and develop, but Chang'an in this plane is different, as one of the most developed cities in the world, Chang'an can support any form of culture to break ground.

The great trend of rock and roll in the 70s was blown up from Chang'an. Du Shan and Lin Jianguo went north from Fuwan to participate in rock and roll events, and they all came to Chang'an, the imperial capital. At that time, the soil of Chang'an was completely restless, and every grain of sand was full of heavy metal notes, if it weren't for the Zhang family's suppression of this trend, the rock of this plane would have swept the land of Shenzhou long ago.

It was precisely because of the high-pressure ban of the Zhang family that the rock music of this plane became silent and gradually went underground. But the best rock music talents, the most traditional rock music form, are still in Chang'an with the tens of thousands of dead souls, waiting for the day to break the ground and sprout again.

Du Xinghe knows a little bit about this history, so as soon as he came to Chang'an, he saw a person who likes rock and roll, which did not make him feel unusual, but as the daughter of Longke Group, Qu Luoying also likes to play rock music, which made Du Xinghe very surprised.

Although Longke Group is not one of the top 100 enterprises in China, it is also a large group that plays a pivotal role in the increasingly fast-growing computer industry.

This group developed locally in Chang'an, and there is a legend that the Zhang family controlled a high-tech group with a royal background, and their head must have been mixed with the upper echelons of Chang'an. Because the Great Thought-Trend movement was inspired by rock and roll, rock and roll was a very taboo thing in the upper circle of Chang'an.

As the daughter of Longke Group, Qu Luoying is also considered a young lady in high society, and she is so rebellious. likes to play rock music, how can this not surprise Du Xinghe?

Du Xinghe asked Qu Luoying curiously: "Miss Qu, are you out of a rock album?" Do you have it on your car CD? Can you show it to me? I'm also interested in rock 'n' roll. ”

A slightly bitter and helpless smile flashed on Qu Luoying's face, and said: "Don't listen to Ah Qin's nonsense, my album is not a rock album, just a few songs recorded in the studio that I think are better, if you have to say that it is rock, it can only be regarded as a random slow rock, not the kind of fierce rock that A Qin said, the kind of fierce rock." I've stopped playing for a long time. I can't play anymore. ”

Qu Luoying's so-called can't play, of course, it's not that she can't sing, she is only 20 years old and is young. It's just that the pressure on her at home is too great. She didn't have the capital to continue.

Lu Qin smiled: "Luo Ying." When did you become so humble, I haven't seen you for a few months, how did you change so much? Are you or not you? ”

Qu Luoying smiled bitterly: "Of course I am." But do people always become? I used to like the dry music, but now I like it a little quieter. ”

Du Xinghe nodded understandingly, seeing that Qu Luoying didn't mean to put her own CD, he simply didn't force it. After all, the other party is from a wealthy family and has a lot of constraints, although they usually get a lot, but they actually lose more. Du Xinghe's intuition could tell that Qu Luoying still liked rock and roll, but unfortunately, due to family pressure, she couldn't touch these things anymore. Rebellious, there is also a limit, if the limit is exceeded, she will not have good fruit to eat, obviously, she is a smart girl who knows what she should do and what she should not do.

Qu Luoying and Lu Qin immediately chatted, and Du Xinghe was infected by Qu Luoying's "rock and roll dilemma", and emotionally recalled some memories of rock and roll in the previous plane.

To say that the radical music form of rock music, no matter how time and space change, cannot develop in the land of Shenzhou, the last plane is so, this plane is still the same, this may be related to some restrained qualities in the Chinese that have been precipitated by Chinese culture for thousands of years.

In the last month, Du Xinghe has studied rock music in depth, and if it is divided by region, there are several major rock towns in the land of Shenzhou in the last plane.

First and foremost are the two cities that have given birth to countless rock bands, Beijing and Xi'an.

Removing these two cities, if Du Xinghe is asked to elect the third largest rock town in the previous plane, Du Xinghe will hesitate, because he doesn't know whether to choose Lan-Zhou? Or Chengdu-to-Du? Or Wu-Han? On - the sea? Guangzhou? Inner mongolia?

With the development of underground rock music, rock music all over the country seems to have the potential to burn the prairies, but there is one city that impresses Du Xinghe very much, this city may not be regarded as a rock town of the level of Beijing-Beijing and Xi-An, but this city is closely related to rock.

This special rock town is a stone-home-village.

In the previous plane, some people on the Internet spoofed and translated "RockHomeTown" as "RockHomeTown" as "Rock-Home-Village", which is a kind of funny story, but in fact, Rock and Roll is very closely related to the Rockhometown.

When Du Xinghe studied the history of rock music in the last plane, he also went to Shijiazhuang to investigate, and that experience left a deep impression on him.

It was a cold winter night...... (Du Xinghe began to replay memories in his mind)

Location: Shi-Jia-Zhuang Pacific Plaza Speakeasy.

Several muscular men in black were vigorously playing with their instruments and brushing their long hair.

"Shake your hair up!"

After the lead singer summoned hoarsely, there was a boiling wave in the audience.

This is a Shijiazhuang performance, a collective performance of an underground rock band.

The team was hailed by a band called "Doll Harvester", which included eight bands, including Edible Autopsy-Dissection, Mechanized Carbon, Plasticine, RED-FIVE, Feathered Wings, Milk Metro, and "Reverse Ear" from Handan.

The band's name may sound unfamiliar to the general public, but it is well-known in local circles, and fans who come to the band crowd the bar with a capacity of about 500 people.

There is no usual host, no routine opening statement, and the band takes the stage in turn according to the arranged sequence, reporting to their homes, this non-confined arrangement narrows the distance between the audience and the band.

It doesn't matter where the show starts, develops, or climaxes, because each of these eight bands has its own characteristics. New metal, black metal, punk, gothic, and rap styles are very different, and each one is unique and unique.

Surprisingly, each band has a decent number of fans. When their favorite band takes the stage, they will collectively flock to the front of the stage, shout along with the lead singer, twist their bodies to the rhythm, or many people use the collision of bodies to vent their feelings. At the end of the show, they will automatically leave to make room for the fans of the next band, whose loyalty and organization are no less than that of the legendary Supergirl fan group.

At that time, Du Xinghe, who was not exposed to underground rock and roll much, originally thought. Most of the fans of these underground bands are alternative young people with long hair, piercings, and fancy costumes. But after careful observation, he found that there were many good girls with glasses and short hair with ears.

The performance lasted for four hours in a frenzy, but the frantic crowd seemed unaware of the existence of time.

Get out of the bar. The streets are bitterly cold. Du Xinghe's heart was boiling. Because he was deeply affected by the love of the band and the audience. The yearning for ideals. The critique of life, as well as the yearning for love, is the sentiment that these bands want to express.

He suddenly understood why those people were in a situation where they were regarded as decadent and alternative by outsiders. Still one after the other.

Because they are still intoxicated by the long-haired and flowing Tang Dynasty band chanting the memory of history with the beat of heavy metal drums, the ideal value that Black Panther explores in life, and the loss of love that he writes...... In their hearts, ideals and love are the true meaning of rock and roll.

Rock 'n' roll is a breeding ground for the ideal of freedom - that experience gave Du Xinghe a very intuitive understanding of rock music.

It was precisely because of that experience that Du Xinghe became more interested in the rock market of Shi-Jia-Zhuang, which stimulated him to study the history of Shi-Jia-Zhuang rock in the same way that he studied rock in Beijing and Xi'an.

Speaking of the history of rock, we have to mention the two local heavyweight magazines "Popular Songs" and "I Love Rock and Roll".

In the previous plane, underground music, always because of its "underground" quality, gives people an ambiguous sense of mystery, and has become synonymous with avant-garde and avant-garde.

The city of Shi-Jia-Zhuang always has a mediocre temperament and a thin cultural atmosphere, except for Cui Jian's concert in the early 90s, Shi-Jia-Zhuang's memory of rock and roll is basically blank.

At that time, Beijing, as China's first rock town, is undoubted, and the music commune represented by Wang Lei has established the status of Guangzhou's southern rock town, in addition, there are a number of outstanding rock singers such as Zheng Jun and Zhang Chu, Xi'an, Sichuan, Chengdu, and Shenyang, northeast, the development of underground music in these cities is far better than Shijiazhuang.

The real origin of Shi-Jia-Zhuang is the growth of two rock magazines, "Popular Songs", which is known as "the first magazine of Chinese rock", and "I Love Rock Music", which is a best-selling magazine in China, both of which were born in Shi-Jia-Zhuang.

On the last plane, "Popular Songs", which was founded in 1987, was originally a well-known pop song book, and well-known songwriters such as Xu Peidong were members of the editorial board of the magazine.

In the late 1990s, when the Chinese rock scene was in good shape, "Popular Songs" changed its positioning and began to focus on pure rock music. Known for its timely reporting and professional interpretations of rock music at home and abroad, it has become a bellwether magazine for the record industry as well as the youth subculture.

"Witnessing the development of domestic rock music, disseminating international and domestic rock information, and discovering many potential bands, this is a little contribution made by our magazine to Chinese rock since the revision." Mr. Cao Xianbang, president of the magazine, said.

If "Popular Songs" is regarded as a civilian reading, then the target audience of "I Love Rock and Roll" is very clear, that is, "underground".

With unique writing and novel content, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" is an audio publication published monthly with CD, in which several of the latest domestic singles will be released, and a large amount of information provides a reference for the policy and route for the majority of rock lovers. It is known by many as "the enlightenment book of rock and roll youth".

Because of these two popular magazines all over the country, when people mention rock, they will think of Shijiazhuang. This is also one of the most important reasons why Du Xinghe thinks of rolling and thinking of Shi-Jia-Zhuang.

But in reality, Shijiazhuang is still far from the real rock town, the lack of communication between the band and the audience, the single or double lack of technology and awareness, the chaos of the band, and what is more worrying is that the word "underground" is being misunderstood, and underground music is becoming a self-entertainment in a small circle and a cover used by some people to show off...... It's a long way to go, and the city has more to do if it wants to become a true rock town.

In fact, the rock-family-village rock in the previous plane is basically the same as the pace of the entire domestic environment, and has experienced the initial ignorance, the former glory, and even the later dormancy.

In the 80s of the last century, after pop music began to swaying onto the stage of history, people began to accept different lifestyles at an unprecedented speed, and began to use music as spiritual sustenance, which laid the foundation for Cui Jian to bring his understanding of rock to the stage of history.

In 1986, at the concert held in Beijing to commemorate the 100 singers of the International Year of Peace, Cui Jian wore a dress that looked like a Qing Dynasty gown, carried a broken guitar, and jumped on the stage of the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium, one high and one low, and the audience still didn't understand what was going on...... (To be continued......)