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When he woke up, the internet was swept away by the news that Zhao had died, and the person who stayed in the eighties and did not want to wake up, he still left.
There was a saying circulating in the anecdote: "I stopped in that place, that innocent era, the fiery era when there were no drugs and no prostitutes, and I was reluctant to leave." ”
This is perhaps the best interpretation of Zhao's life.
He was popular in the 1980s and was known as the "King of Northwest Song", but in the end he was reduced to borrowing money and the relief of friends.
One
Zhao was born on January 23, 1963 in Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, to intellectual parents, and his father was especially good at musical instruments.
Since the age of ten, Zhao has begun to learn to pull erhu with his father, and since then he has formed an indissoluble relationship with music.
His father was a composer, his mother was a Qin actor, and under the influence of his parents' work, Zhao grew up in revolutionary songs in the voice of the Great Lama and in Mao Zedong's quotations.
This had an important impact on his future life path, and zhao before the age of four could not speak, but could sing.
This influence, after he went to school, did not get rid of, after going to middle school began to go to college, in 1980, Zhao has been admitted to Shaanxi Normal University, where he studied chemistry.
In this year, due to the influence of environmental factors, Chinese mainland finally appeared the first rock band "Wan Li Ma Wang", listening to the name to know that this is a band composed of four young people.
Their names, worth remembering, are - Wan Xing, Li Shichao, Ma Xiaoyi and Wang Xinbo.
The band "Wan Li Ma Wang" was founded at the Beijing Foreign Chinese Academy, and the band's first performance alarmed the TV station, when the domestic performance was still very traditional.
Drama and model plays, solos, choruses, recitations, these performances are the mainstream.
This kind of "bang, bang, bang" performance is still a new thing for the audience, although I don't know what the singer on the stage is singing, but it sounds exciting.
During the performance, Wu Xiaoyong, the host of China Radio International, happened to be on the scene, and this person was very knowledgeable and knew that his first rock band had appeared in China, and he was very excited at the time.
After the performance, he also deliberately chased after the interview, which was even broadcast on foreign television stations, and it can be said that Zhao has just caught up with the embryonic stage of Chinese rock music, which has also had a huge impact on his future path.
Two
Because the foundation of the Wenxuan team is there, Zhao has already entered the university and began to mix bands, but not a rock band, but a symphony band, and he is very popular in the band with great talent.
Because rehearsal music delayed his study, the student department wanted to expel him, but the youth league committee did not do it, and every day he went to the student department to quarrel.
Zhao was already in those years, the band of the normal university won the grand prize every year, how could such a student be fired at will, there was no way to finally fold a middle school, let him stay a grade, until 1985 did not graduate.
Unfortunately, the members of the band graduated one after another, and the symphony band of more than 100 people naturally could not continue to be maintained.
Just when the teacher of the Youth League Committee had a headache, Zhao Zhao, who had been traveling north and south with his father since he was a child, had already comforted him: It's okay, we can set up an electroacoustic band, through the stereo an electric guitar can replace dozens of violins, an electronic keyboard can top a bunch of messy instruments, a bass can top dozens of cellos, you give me money, I can get all this, we can still get awards.
Not to mention, the Youth League Committee really agreed, directly gave Zhao 5,000 yuan, let him buy these things, in that era, this is a huge amount of money, almost equivalent to a suite in Beijing.
Zhao is already a doer, taking 5,000 yuan and going to the musical instrument shop.
After careful selection, I finally bought a drum kit, an electric guitar, an electronic keyboard, an electric bass, and three stereos, and finally 5,000 pieces were left.
The instruments were pulled to the school and shelved on the playground, where the members of the orchestra gathered to watch the freshness.
Finally began to assign "tasks", electric guitar, electronic keyboard these instruments, the band has long been some people will, naturally quickly found the musician, only the drum kit no one competed.
Finally, the teacher had to take the initiative to ask: "What about the drum kit, is there anyone who will?" ”
Zhao already had to stand up and answer, "Teacher, I will." ”
The teacher did not really, directly let the instrument move to the rehearsal room, and then everyone quickly unwrapped, plugged in the power supply, and then began to play "whining", playing happily.
Only the drums, Zhao already let no one move, he did not move.
When it was late at night, after everyone had fun, they all went back to sleep, and Zhao had sneaked back to the classroom, began to unpack, and then assembled according to the drawings in the package, making mistakes countless times...
It took a lot of effort for him to pretend, and he thought that this should be the right thing to do, right? Then I started sitting on the drum stool, took a deep breath and started practicing, which was one night.
Three
The next day, when the members came to the classroom, Zhao was already able to beat the drum like a decent, and it can be said that zhao was already a teacher without a teacher.
The members then began rehearsing the song "Wilderness Pastoral Song" sung by Chen Meiling, and two days after filming, a dance party was held in the school auditorium.
The group performed four songs on it, and achieved very good results on the spot.
The students were happy to watch it, and the band members also felt that this kind of performance was really fun, much more fun than the symphony orchestra, and it was more able to release their inner emotions.
Of course, at this time, Zhao did not know that he was engaged in rock and roll, and he just loved to be lively at that time.
In addition to playing an orchestra, he also loves to dance.
Around the sophomore and junior year, I started dancing disco, and on the weekend, I ran to the park with a stereo, and a few people began to jump there, probably similar to the current bungee.
At that time, Zhao was already having a good time, but he still graduated.
In 1985, Zhao had already returned to Yinchuan, where he was assigned to a local fertilizer factory and worked in the education department, where he basically had nothing to do.
In his words, there is basically no work except for receiving a salary, and he is bored all day running outside, holding dances, driving guitar classes, and being very busy.
Later, he simply quit his decent job and concentrated on making music.
In 1989, Zhao had already gone to Beijing to develop, when his younger brother, already famous in the Beijing rock circle, was nicknamed "Northwest Drum King", and even Wang Feng couldn't help but marvel: this brother's drum is playing a real cow.
However, acquaintances always like to call Zhao Already "Drum King", because his drum is more cattle than Zhao Muyang.
After a year of mixing in Beijing, Zhao has begun to go to the south to develop, because the money there is easy to earn, as long as the atmosphere is in place, money is never a problem.
After two or three years in Minnan, Zhao has already made more than 1 million yuan, and in the nineties, this money can be said to be quite a lot of money.
The result was that he spent as much as he wanted.
"After graduating, I worked a few days, and in the ten years since, I haven't made a single penny outside of music."
When Zhao already said this, his face was full of some smiles, relying on music to support himself, which may be the greatest pride for every musician.
Four
Strangely enough, from 1989 to 1998, this decade should have been the most beautiful time in Zhao's life, but there was no video data left.
Didn't even get a single photo left.
Since 1998, Zhao's life has been completely contrary to the previous decade, and in the days that followed, he did not make a penny in music.
Zhao had already shut up about what he had experienced, and he said he couldn't say anything anywhere.
Around 2000, perhaps to hide his inner inferiority or to resent the musical environment at that time, Zhao had moved to the countryside around Beijing and moved farther and farther away, when he had begun to borrow money to get by.
And the singers of his contemporaries, some have already mixed up, started a family in Beijing, and those who have not mixed up, have also bent their waists on life and begun to change careers.
Only Zhao was already alone and insisting, he had never done any work except playing music.
At that time, the popular songs in the Chinese music scene had begun to rise, and "Da Zhang Wei" once said in the program: "I always thought that Jay Chou killed Chinese rock music." ”
Although this sentence is not absolutely correct, it also has a certain truth.
Without economic income, Zhao can only live like a "parasite", the rent is paid by his girlfriend, and relatives and good friends will give him some money to spend.
Zhao has already begun a long career of "degeneration".
Life is very simple, a pair of slippers, a toothbrush, the Chinese environment has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Zhao has still stayed in the eighties, unwilling to wake up.
Five
By the time Zhao had officially made his public appearance, it was already 2002, and he had lost the spirit and reproach of that year, and the frustration of life made him look a little decadent.
The erosion of tobacco and alcohol also hollowed out his body.
In this year, some of Zhao's friends in the circle began to lend a helping hand one after another, hoping to help him change the current situation of embarrassment.
At that time, the lead singer of the Wild Children Band opened a bar called "River" in Sanlitun, and Zhao had already sung several times, and with the help of friends, released an album called "Living in 1988".
This is also the only album in Zhao's life.
In terms of singing, Zhao's voice is also the intermediate level of KTV, but his rich life experience and his unique understanding of music have given him a unique soul to the song.
People who like his songs, regard this album as a god work, people who don't like it can't listen to a song, coupled with the environment of the music market at that time, Zhao's album naturally sold very little.
He didn't make any money.
In fact, as early as ten years ago, a friend persuaded him to commercialize it, and specially pulled him a job, going to a French restaurant to sing a song for 4,000 yuan.
He was also suggested that he record an album, and after recording it, he would not be poor.
Zhao already knew that his friends were right about what he said, but he didn't do it, and in his words, all his emotions were in his songs.
His inferiority, sadness, misfortune, and all the good and bad are in the song, and even his craftsmanship, the expression he has when he loves it, is in the song.
These things were originally his own things, how could they be shown to others, how could they be exchanged for money?
It was this kind of pride that caused Zhao to be poor and destitute all his life.
By the time he put his head down and was bent on getting rid of his "parasite" life, he had missed an era, an era that belonged to him. Zhao can only turn his own youth into an irreparable old dream, melting bitter wine and hot tears into sighs. #歌手赵已然去世 #