Talking about the rise, Lao Zhou picked up the guitar and improvised and sang a song "The Hill", because he was good at singing Li Zongsheng's songs, Lao Zhou was called "Li Zongsheng of Tongzhou" by his friends, Lao Zhou said, "Those notes jumped out one by one, and when they drilled into my ears, I felt that I could get a very great sense of satisfaction, so playing the piano and singing for me is a kind of entertainment, whether it is when I am proud or frustrated, as long as I do these things, I will feel happy and happy."
Sheng music that closed before it opened
Lao Zhou' real name is Zhou Jinghua, is an old singer in Tongzhou, as "Tongzhou Li Zongsheng", he has always wanted to open a music restaurant in Tongzhou that is really about Li Zongsheng.
"I'm from Tongzhou, I started playing music as a teenager, I'm going to make a music-themed restaurant in Tongzhou, called Sheng music, everyone comes to dinner, I sing Li Zongsheng's songs on stage, this is my ideal state."
Lao Zhou was full of expectations for the opening of Sheng Music
In May this year, Lao Zhou met a landlord friend surnamed Sheng, talked about the music restaurant, the two hit it off, ready to open a "Sheng Music Theme Restaurant", Lao Zhou said that he was a bit like a demon at that time, the ghost made God a person dare to open the door: from design and decoration, equipment installation, to making menus, customized restaurant logo, before and after for several months. "The restaurant was originally planned to open on July 19 (Li Zongsheng's birthday), but in early July, the old father-in-law of the family suddenly fell ill, and it was more than two months after being hospitalized, and my lover did not have time to run the hospital due to work reasons, so I took turns running with her." Lao Zhou shuttled through the windows and restaurants of the hospital, and in the dense busyness, Lao Zhou found that his energy was difficult to take care of the affairs of the store.
What makes Lao Zhou feel sad is that his musical partner and old friend who has known him for more than 30 years also died on July 17, "He was the keyboard player of my band, because of the sudden death of a heart attack..." Between the memories, Lao Zhou's eyes were a little moist.
"During that time, the blows were one after another, probably because of nervousness and sadness, the old man was hospitalized, the death of a friend, the misunderstanding of a friend, plus this time has been very tired, less than 4 hours of sleep a day, one day suddenly felt very uncomfortable in the heart, accompanied by a sense of suffocation and oppression, rested in the shade for a long time to slow down." Lao Zhou confessed that the whole month of July made him realize that he was no longer young, the death of his good brothers touched him a lot, Lao Zhou suddenly felt that life was very tired, "still tossing something, drink some wine, sing, and friends to talk about getting together, this is my life, the restaurant is not open, but the stage is everywhere." ”
Lao Zhou completely dismissed the idea of opening a restaurant.
"A few days ago, I handed over the key to the landlord, I have renovated the house, let him rent it out again, I will not mention this paragraph." The shop is yellow, the singing is more flavorful, and my story is in the song. Lao Zhou said with a smile, more open-minded than expected.
Some of my years are hidden in Li Zongsheng's songs
In 1983, the 16-year-old Zhou received a precious birthday gift - the first guitar in his life, which was given to him by his eldest sister.
"At that time, there were no guitar teaching materials on the market, and the big brothers around me were also playing some irregular tunes, and the adults were very disgusted, the guitar was once called a 'rogue instrument', but I listened to Teresa Teng's gentle Hong Kong and Taiwan love songs on the tape recorder and the Taiwan campus songs on the radio and felt particularly beautiful."
The melodious sound of the guitar in the song gave Lao Zhou's initial musical enlightenment.
Lao Zhou and Hou Dejian are also teachers and friends
Later, Hou Dejian came to the mainland from Taiwan and opened a national correspondence class in Beijing, and Lao Zhou registered as his No. 001 student.
Perhaps the current post-90s and post-00s generations do not know who Hou Dejian is, but in the memories of many musicians in the 80s, Hou Dejian had an enlightening effect on mainland pop music, and he brought advanced arrangement and production concepts, fresh and non-academic voices, and lyrics full of humanistic care to the mainland. During the time spent studying with Hou Dejian, Lao Zhou accepted many teaching materials that were not available in the mainland, and broadened his insights through videotapes. Those sounds represented freshness and shock to the young people at that time, and they immediately caught Lao Zhou.
Lao Zhou said, "According to the age at that time, I was relatively good at playing guitar at that time, but unfortunately he went back to Taiwan a few years later, and it was 28 years after he met his mentor again." Hou Dejian brought another improvement in guitar skills to Lao Zhou.
In 1991, Lao Zhou formed a band in Tongzhou, and his like-minded brothers shuttled between the two worlds, playing guitar bass, playing keyboards, drumming young people together, under the name of "Little White Boat Band", opening up their own stage, Lao Zhou also won the first batch of commercial performance certificates in Beijing. Everyone goes to work and performs at the same time, two worlds, double identity. "In fact, there were no serious performances at that time, mainly to find places to play and rehearse." At that time, for Lao Zhou, music was not the foundation of his life, but a hobby that brought him happiness.
In 1992, when Lao Zhou, who was in his 20s at the time, was already famous in the circle and was in the limelight, an accident completely shattered Lao Zhou's life. On the way back from that foreign performance, Lao Zhou's hand was cut by the train window glass, and the index finger tendon was almost torn, and the wound slowly recovered after some treatment, but due to the heavy injury, Lao Zhou's index finger bending has no consciousness since then, which also means that he can no longer play the guitar.
Lao Zhou said that during that time, he began to drink, "when he saw the guitar, he wanted to cry, so he burned the guitar and the score, and the band broke up." Lao Zhou is decadent and lonely, he said, "I feel like a fly in front of the window glass, giving up or finishing, I feel powerless." ”
Going to work, leaving work, going home... In those two years, Lao Zhou lived an ordinary life, "That was when I was at my lowest and lowest ebb, and I always longed to find spiritual shelter in ordinary life."
Two years later, in 1994, I became a sound engineer without the old turnover of music. But it was at that time that Li Zongsheng walked into the inner world of Lao Zhou, who was fascinated by every song of Li Zongsheng, "Maybe now li Zongsheng's music is a bit outdated, but some things can pass through time and reach the hearts of some people." His songs are a kind of spiritual code of that era. I'm sure it's the lyrics that are meant to be something, not the musical form of the album itself. Old Zhou said.
While chatting, Lao Zhou's friends walked in and said, "My brother Zhou, this is my idol, an eternal idol." He has a characteristic, drink some and then sing..." Lao Zhou said, I want to sing "The Man Who Races With Himself" to you now...
Pick up the guitar again and be associated with bean blossom fish village
In the interview, Douhuayuzhuang repeatedly appeared in Lao Zhou's mouth: "First in Laotongzhou North Street, later moved to Pear Garden, and now came to Ximen JinJie next to Wanda..."
In the eyes of friends, Lao Zhou likes to wander around, can't stay in one place, looks restless, superficial, does not calculate money without utilitarianism, does not want anything, is a wandering habit. Lao Zhou recalled that after working as a sound engineer for a few years, he decided to go to a distant place. "At that time, I was going to change places to relax when the millennium came, and I wanted to go to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, to be a sound engineer. Before I set out on the long journey, I thought, I have to buy a piano, watch my brothers play the piano, I shed tears, just think to see if I can restore the art, it is really not OK, hanging on the wall to watch. So Lao Zhou went to a friend's piano shop to see the piano, "At that time, this piano sold for 1900, it was a Korean piano, there was such a one in the store, I bought it, tried it very painfully, could not play, and the fingers did not feel." ”
At that time, the old Zhou who was carrying a new guitar walked into the bean flower fish village that was still on North Avenue, "There was no one in the store, as soon as I entered the door, the boss played guitar at the bar, watched me carry the guitar, the boss came over to chat with us after the dish, and then we became friends, the boss called Brother Yong, we talked until 4 or 5 pm..."
"At that time, I looked at the layout of the Bean Flower Fish Village, and proposed to dismantle the small private room to make a platform, I have equipment, it is better to make a music restaurant, when Brother Yong and I left each other on the phone, the result was that he called me at more than 10 o'clock at night, saying that it had been demolished, and the platform was made according to my design. That night, Brother Yong came to my house to discuss the music restaurant, and the two of us looked for a place to drink, and he tore up his ticket to Chengdu and asked me to accompany him to buy audio equipment the next day.
After everything was ready, Lao Zhou began to call his brothers to play the piano, he came to sing, Andihuayuzhuang became the first music restaurant in Tongzhou at that time, and later there were many resident singers, "I have never been to Douhuayuzhuang, I am not called in Tongzhou mixed..." Later, Lao Zhou never went to Sichuan to work as a sound engineer, and in lao Zhou's words, he was "left" in Tongzhou by Douhuayuzhuang.
After that, Lao Zhou began to deliberately train to restore the guitar skills, "During that time I opened a small bar, during the day in the bar to practice, little by little practice, recovery, in fact, until now has not fully recovered, but the original basic skills, the feeling of playing the piano slowly returned, now playing the piano mainly depends on the feeling." ”
The singing stage in the Bean Flower Fish Village
Now, Douhuayuzhuang is still a happy base for Lao Zhou and friends to drink and chat, from an intersection of Ximen Jinjie, Douhuayuzhuang is behind a red signboard, completely "private small pavilion" look, into the hall, the right hand side of the door is a small chord, directly in front of a two-story small attic, there are some music equipment on the stage, and the guitar that Lao Zhou can use at any time, in Lao Zhou's concept, here is a livehouse that can be performed at any time.
This is something that can be really liked
You can also do things for a lifetime
Lao Zhou sighed more than once: Time will tell you a lot of things.
In 2018, the 50-year-old Lao Zhou appeared on the CCTV Music Channel's "Longing for Live" theme music performance program, and the soulful sense of live immersion triggered the memories and strong resonance of the audience, and Lao Zhou achieved excellent results. Some people commented, "Lao Zhou's singing is basically more closely integrated with the personal life state, and after the personal life is moving towards prosperity, and the enthusiasm and resistance of youth are tempered by real life, it is more transparent to the attitude of entering the world." ”
Lao Zhou frankly said that those who engage in music have a special feeling for bars, and they also have obsessions with opening bars, and bars can play musical instruments to facilitate performances.
In recent years, he has fallen in love with the scenery of the grasslands, and in the grasslands of the dam, he and his friends jointly run a knight's club called "Legendary Manor", where he can get closer to nature.
"In the summer, everyone enjoys the blue sky and white clouds, the vast starry sky, and when you come to the bar, you can also listen to me singIng Li Zongsheng..." Lao Zhou often invites all kinds of friends who play music to get together here, and the moving music rings on the grassland, and Lao Zhou really feels the music's contemplation of a person's life, "This is something that can be really liked and can be done for a lifetime." ”
In a person's personality, part of it is shaped by his life experience, and part of it is strengthened by these experiences, Lao Zhou's WeChat name is "wine boat singing evening", drinking, rafting, playing the piano, singing... It is his personality, but also his experience, Lao Zhou said, these are all together with the things he did when he was young, stumbling, dissolved in the days, "how big the heart is, how big the stage is." ”
Text/Qingyuan