Because of his own experience, Du Xinghe took the development of Chinese rock as a subject and did in-depth research during his addiction.

In the last plane, in 2014, before he crossed over, some new forces of Chinese rock began to release energy, just like the escape plan band that created the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", and the original creator GALA band of "Dream Chasing Pure Heart" that he sang before.

This release is sweet, but before tasting this sweetness, these rock people have suffered a lot of unimaginable hardships and experienced many tribulations that ordinary people can't understand on the way to struggle. This is also why they can release the power of life to sing the most beautiful dream chasing swan song. This is the case with "Dream Chaser Pure Heart", and the same is true for "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky".

Du Xinghe admires and envies such rock people, admires their courage, and envies them for enjoying sweet success after enduring hardships.

However, Du Xinghe also knows that these successes are not actually successful in the entire pop music scene, but for rock people, this is already a dream that is fought out of countless bones.

Behind them, countless rock and roll youths chasing their dreams fell on the battlefield, were frustrated by reality, and had to stay away from the rock music they loved.

Du Xinghe also had the idea of giving up music in the darkest, lowest and most discouraged period, but after he learned about the experience of those dream-chasing rock youths who were more miserable but more persistent than him, he found that a musician like him who was seeking in a difficult situation was in this world. Not alone.

Even around him, in the capital, there are many rock musicians who have been honed in hardship, and he has a special understanding of the history of these people.

Today's capital, the Huoying rock community, is a holy place in the hearts of rock musicians, but in the early years, when Huoying had not yet formed a scale, Shucun, the land of the rock and roll bitter Mecca. can better reflect how hard and miserable the life of Chinese rock youth was.

Now. Hearing the girl in the piano room singing "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky" in the corridor, Du Xinghe was inexplicably reminded of some rock and roll people he had studied in the last plane, and some rock and roll blood and tears history. and this former No. 1 Chinese rock village that has been submerged by history: Tree Village.

in the previous plane. Since 1995. With the decline of the first generation of rockers, bands such as Tang Dynasty, Black Panther, Overload, and Reincarnation have become the end of the crossbow, and He Yong, Zhang Chu, Dou Wei, and Zang Tianshuo are not returning to self-exile for music. It's a painstaking effort to win the status of the pop.

All of a sudden, Chinese rock has no direction, and all that remains of the "rock veterans" is to blindly show off their skills and speed, in an attempt to prove their position in the rock circle. As a result, all the rock lovers rose up on their own feet, played guitars, beat drums, and formed their own bands, and some of them flocked to the capital with a deep sense of still needing to learn.

In addition, many bands in other provinces that have been in the army for many years have also begun to march to the capital of rock and roll culture when they can get their hands on their own training. These bands are also basically formed, and they can just break into the underground rock circle of the capital as quickly as possible, and find possible opportunities to gain "fame and fortune" in music twists and dreams that are difficult to find in their respective hometowns. The fame and fortune here, in their opinion, is just to let more people know about their music, or a little performance opportunity that comes from it.

Against this backdrop, Tree Village has become a well-known rock village.

Nowadays, the tree village, which has long been changed by demolition and relocation, did not even have a decent road in the last few years of the last century, but more muddy roads, garbage everywhere, and dilapidated cottages, all of which were so ordinary.

However, in this village, which you won't even look at if you pass by, there are groups of enthusiastic young people from all over the country, who are rooted here with their dedication to music, their desire for freedom and their love of life.

The humble huts, the poor food, the destitute days and the pressure from all sides are a true portrayal of their lives, yet they are like solid seeds, strong and rooted here, to blossom and bear fruit here.

These people come from all over the world, and they want to find what they want here, and they want to start their dream here, even if it is bitter, full of tears and sourness. This qiē feeling is only clear to them, and they have chosen this path, and they will go on without hesitation, although they do not know what tomorrow will be.

The tree village is small and is made up of local residents, some waste pickers, migrant workers and dozens of young people who play rock 'n' roll.

These young people come from all parts of the motherland, including those from the east to the north, from the mountains to the west, from Jiangsu, from the north of the river, from the south of the river, from the west of the river, to the west of the country, and from the south of the river. They formed dozens of formed bands. Later, many rock bands that had the opportunity to release albums went out from here.

To the northeast of Shucun is the famous Midi Music School, which is a famous springboard for foreign music youths to come to the capital for development, and rock youth from all over the country regard it as the first stop for development in the capital.

To the northwest of Shucun is Dongbeiwang, which is also a music village that has taken shape; Coupled with Xisanqi and Loess Dian, from the perspective of phenomena, a special underground music community has been formed centered on Shucun.

In this community, the real life of the musicians is particularly shabby, even difficult. In the nineties, they rented a room for 100 to 200 yuan a month, which was stacked with a large number of CDs, music magazines and daily necessities. Bulky speakers and messy wires make the room even smaller.

In addition to sleeping and eating, they practice the piano every day. They usually go to bed late at night, generally falling asleep in the early hours of the morning and waking up almost noon during the day.

Because of the dense population, "rock noise" is easy to attract scolding from residents, and in the rented huts of musicians, they should cover the windows and doors with quilts when practicing to reduce the volume and avoid disturbing the people. Guitar and bass are a little better, while drummers. There is little place in this area.

During the Spring Festival, musicians have no travel expenses and are anxious to find money to go home, and there are many people who sell musical instruments and clothes. They live an ascetic life, they can go with a random piece of clothing, but they have to be edgy and they don't have money, so long hair is the best way to express it, because they don't have more money to modify their hairstyle.

Eat, for them is even simpler. Those with better conditions can eat instant noodles. Maybe ten days, half a month to eat a stir-fry, and the vast majority of people only eat five cents a vegetable bun all day long, and a meal is more than ten days, twenty days, no matter how bad the conditions are, only buy half a pound of pancakes and get cold and stomach. According to legend. Some musicians suffer the most. It's not uncommon to have only two dollars in your pocket to last a week.

At that time, 90% of the musicians in Tree Village were funded by their families. I'm afraid that other work will delay time. Musicians don't go out to do other work until they have to, so the lives of the musicians in the tree village who are too old to reach out to their families are often unsustainable. Living in abject poverty with little food and clothing.

At that time, there were generally two kinds of rockers living there, one was called "rushing", and they went to the bar several times a week to perform, and the pay was not fixed, fifty, eighty, hundred, and sometimes the reward was not much after the round-trip taxi fare; The other is to calm down and concentrate on original music, which is the true spirit of rock 'n' roll in their words, and this kind of person is dismissive of "rushing to the scene", but their living conditions are often worse.

At that time, there were at least 1,000 rock bands in the capital, both above ground and underground, and such a huge group had become a musical landscape in the capital. However, there is no tradition of rock music in China, there is no suitable foundation for development, and the society's awareness of rock and roll is not high.

At that time, the tree village, just like the painter's village of the Old Summer Palace and the east village of Liangmahe in the past, formed a very peculiar cultural phenomenon due to the low housing prices and the concentration of specific people.

Such a place is described as a bit like a utopian or a people-people-commune: in a small village of brick houses, loess roads and gray roads, people live happily, some of them rent houses, they don't farm, and the people outside don't know what they do, maybe they mainly earn money by renting these houses, they can be counted as "planting houses";

There are also some people who live in rented houses, they don't have any money themselves, and they don't live quietly in the house after renting a house, tinkling music all day long, but they don't really work, and the money will be handed over to the owner, they are like fertilizer, the fertilizer of the houses in this village, and every day there is an unpredictable chemical reaction happening inside.

As a result, the people in the village either don't have to work and purely "grow houses", or they don't work and make music, which is quite a bit of a deformed version of "paradise".

The local villagers have become accustomed to the hustle and bustle of the rock musicians and the peculiarity of their image, and the bands have become integrated into the life of Tree Village.

The average economic situation of the musicians in Shucun is beyond their means, but because these musicians depend on each other for their lives, they fully communicate from material to spiritual, basically ensuring that they think in one place and work hard in one place. There are no material blessings to enjoy, and there are difficulties together. Therefore, there has not been a single incident of starvation and starvation due to starvation caused by starvation in Tree Village.

As for the music style of Shucun at that time, Du Xinghe began to study it as a historical topic, at that time in Shucun, a large number of bands were engaged in new metal, hardcore rap and other music, of course, there were other styles of musicians, but it was relatively rare.

Although the quality of life of these musicians is very poor, they have never thought about doing anything other than music to improve their quality of life, which is very admirable and at the same time difficult to accept.

Most bands don't accept going to work and get paid if they do something else, which will affect their current state of mind and give them no time to rehearse.

Bands would always say they wanted to be able to support themselves with music when they were at their best, so they would go to the show, but the show would bring them very little income.

The Tree Village Band usually perform at a place called Happy Land, where they party every Saturday night, and usually after the show they get a small appearance fee, which is just enough to take a taxi back to the village and have a drink, and after the weekend of partying, they go back to the poverty of having nothing.

The life experience of a musician in a tree village is usually like this: he likes to listen to music in his hometown, has started to play the piano, and may have his own job, but he abandons a qiē, comes to the capital alone or with local friends, goes to the midi school, learns musical instruments at the school, makes friends with musicians in the capital, and according to the interests of everyone, he leaves the school, and may move to the tree village near the school to live before he finishes his studies, and his life has become a new look since then.

Most of these rock and roll youths who came to the capital had a dream in their hearts, and they were starving in order to realize their dreams. But the reality is cruel, poverty and insecurity over time bring all kinds of pressure, so that many people join this group, but also many people have been defeated from this "battlefield" and disappeared without a trace.

The distance between dreams and reality, shining into the tree village, is so difficult to bridge. Fortunately, in the hearts of those rock and roll dreamers, dreams always prevail, so as not to despair in reality.

The persistent spirit of those rock and roll people once conveyed a little comfort to Du Xinghe in the dark, making him feel that he was not alone.

The spirit of obsessing with music, for Du Xinghe, is the brightest star in the night sky, and it has been illuminating him for so many years! No more flinching!

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I pray to have a transparent heart~

And eyes that will shed tears~

Give me the courage to believe again~

Go beyond the lies to hug you~

Whenever I can't find the meaning of zài~

Whenever I get lost in the night~

The brightest star in the night sky~

Please light me up~

……

Listening to a girl who doesn't know how to sing and even has a little incomplete pentatonic sound, in the climax of practicing and singing this song, Du Xinghe thought about the past, recalled the past, and was quite moved!

In normal times, only the most natural voice can move him, but in an instant, such a casual singing voice from another world hit him a little inexplicably. Not only because of the song itself, but also because of a spirit hidden in the song, this girl seems to use her primitive somewhat incomplete voice to convey this spirit, which makes Du Xinghe enjoy it very much.

Du Xinghe walked lightly to the door of the piano room, trying not to make a big move, so as not to affect the practice and singing of the girls inside, and through the glass window of the piano room, he looked inside. (To be continued......)