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If you give the hottest bands in the past two years, the new pants band is definitely at the top. In 2019, the new pants band won the championship with its wonderful performance in the original music variety show "Summer of the Band", and gained a large number of fans, and then it was continuously performed and endorsed.
However, when we talk about the new pants band, we definitely can't get around its soul peng lei. From the establishment of the new pants band in 1995 to the fire in 2019, No matter what kind of lows it encountered in the past 24 years, Peng Lei has been sticking to it.
So what kind of person is Peng Lei, who does not forget his original heart? Listen to me slowly.
Peng Lei was born in Beijing in 1976, his father is the famous children's comic strip painter Peng Guoliang, and his family conditions are not bad. However, when he was a child, Peng Lei was very naughty, wetting the bed himself, and secretly changing the sheets, pretending to be like no one else. He also did not like exams, and he deliberately skipped school in order to avoid exams.
Even if Peng Lei was very naughty when he was a child, there are still two things that can calm him down, one is painting, and the other is music. He watched his father draw every day, and he slowly liked painting, and in 1996, he was admitted to the animation major of the Beijing Film Academy with his painting expertise. The year before that, he had met Liu Bao and the monk Laughing. So the three young men formed the band "Master of the Metal Workshop".
Even when he was in college, Peng Lei did not quit the band "Shape Master in the Metal Workshop", they also participated in some performances, once they performed at the University of International Business and Economics, and it happened that Shen Lihui, the boss of Modern Sky, was also there that day. Shen Lihui carefully watched Peng Lei's performance, and Shen Lihui felt that the three young people were very good, and he decided to sign them.
In 1997, the band "Master of The Shape of the Metal Workshop" officially signed a contract with Shen Lihui's Modern Sky, and Modern Sky also recorded a song called "Our Time" for them, and the band also changed its name to "New Pants", which made Peng Lei very happy, he felt that he was going to get rich, but the reality was far more cruel than he thought.
New Pants band has released "New Pants", "Disco Girl", "We Are Automatic" three albums, the response is very flat, until 2006 launched the fourth album "Dragon Tiger Ren Dan" did not get much better.
However, before 2006, in order to survive, Peng Lei found a lot of jobs to make a living, and he also took out his 100,000 savings to make a movie called "North Sea Monster", but this film violated many regulations in the "Film Management Regulations", did not pass the review, could not be released, Peng Lei could only tighten his pants and belt to live. And the new pants band also suffered the departure of the team members, the drummer Shang laughed away, fortunately Pang Kuan joined.
I saw that my life was in a mess, and I was almost 30 years old. In 2005, the 29-year-old Peng Lei told Pang Kuan that he could not continue to be so decadent, and that we must devote ourselves to music creation.
Their desperate gamble was a success, and after the release of the album "Dragon Tiger Man Dan" in 2006, it sold well, and they also conducted their first national tour and welcomed a new member bassist Zhao Meng.
In 2011, they also participated in Coachella, the strongest music festival in the United States, which is also the highest level of overseas music festival ever participated in by a Chinese band. It was also in this year that Peng Lei solved the major events in his life, and he and his girlfriend got married. This year he was 35 years old, although he had not yet become famous, but there were no big problems in life, and it was very simple.
But everything changed in 2014, the year Peng Lei's daughter was born. He had to make more money to raise children, and he had to spend time with his family and create, and his life was a little out of balance. Once, because he did not take good care of his daughter, his daughter's head was smashed with blood by his music equipment, and his wife scolded him as an unqualified father. Peng Lei felt very wronged, but he could not say anything, he could only continue to seek a balance between life and music career.
However, because of his daughter, Peng Lei lived more clearly, he once said: "After becoming a father, I no longer like to watch those stimulating vulgar literary and artistic works, no longer make movies, no longer write ugly music, no longer need to communicate with friends, and began to actively ask for accounts from record companies and all companies that have cooperated." Children let me grow up, no longer wasting time and feelings on boring things, but more actively facing endless challenges. I know my child won't need you when she grows up, so stay together when she needs you. ”
Like all fathers, Peng Lei also wants to give his children a better life, but he really does not have to worry about the cost of his children's growth or after participating in "Summer of the Band", because after participating in this show, he can earn 10 million a year.
Interestingly, when he initially accepted the invitation to the "Summer of the Band" program, Peng Lei refused. However, the program team is also very smart, telling him that he can gain millions of real fans on social platforms by participating in this program, and Peng Lei was moved. As a result, when he actually participated in "Summer of the Band", he received more surprises, he "found that there was a lot of new blood, a lot of new styles appeared." I thought the band had broken the incense, but I didn't expect it to be that strong, so I felt that this show could take the band into the future, which could be the golden age of indie music. ”
On this show, Peng Lei also let everyone see the strength of an old musician who has been sticking to music for 24 years, he succeeded, and he was radiant. At this time, his view of music has also changed, before he felt that he had an "anti-popular personality", that his music did not need to be liked by the public, and that a small group of people could like it. But now he doesn't think so, he says: "It wasn't until recent years, in order to move on, that I began to notice and consider it for the general public, because music needs to be heard and understood by more people to be liked." The feeling of being needed and liked is both scary and joyful, with happiness taking on more weight. And for new pants, having so many things to share with others is a wonderful thing. ”
But it is also in this show that everyone found that Peng Lei is a particularly interesting "strange man", how strange is he? At that time, on the show, Ma Dong asked him how it was like to come to the competition? Peng Lei replied: "Listen to a few people talking, and then every time I talk for a while, I am sleepy." At that time, Li Shi and Da Zhang Wei wanted to add him to WeChat, he refused, and later he passed Li Shi, but soon deleted Li Shi. He even deleted Xu Zheng and Ning Hao's WeChat. And he also likes to black out his friends, he directly said in the circle of friends: the full black of the Beijing Strawberry Picking Festival, the full black of Dou Wei, the full black of Children's Day on June 1st, the full black of the World Cup, the full black of the tip of 10 yuan or less...
In addition to blocking and deleting WeChat friends, he also complained about Eason Chan, because once an indirect move by Eason Chan made the new pants band into difficulties, and later Eason Chan asked Peng Lei to write songs, and Peng Lei directly refused. He also complained that Xie Tianxiao sang like a Shandong commentary, so angry that Xie Tianxiao hit back at him on social platforms: "Garbage! Not cooked".
However, Peng Lei, who has such a personality and true temperament, is liked by many people, and he is also a bit "smug" in the social platform post: "I feel that I am a particularly annoying person, but the heavens especially care for me." I have a cold attitude towards others, like to be sarcastic and amplify the shortcomings of others. But most of the friends around me and strangers are kind to me and willing to help me. I always have a complicated feeling: it's uncomfortable. I have such a good life, it is a waste not to be the emperor. ”
Fortunately, after becoming famous, Peng Lei did not get lost in Vanity Fair, he maintained his original intention, he said that his greatest desire is still to write good works: "A lot of music now is a commodity, I hope to be able to write this kind of work, that is, after we are all gone, this music will continue for many years, and someone will listen." That's the greatest thing, it's the ideal. ”
Today, Peng Lei is still working hard for good music works, and he does not want to disappoint the audience. It just makes the audience regret that because of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, they can't see the offline performances of Peng Lei and the new pants band.
However, there are too many surprises in this world, and today's headlines, watermelon videos and modern sky have moved the Strawberry Music Festival online. As a signed band of Modern Sky, New Pants performed in the headlines with Band Dada, Mr. Turtle, Houhai Sharks, Tour Group and other bands, and chatted and sang with everyone, and also recorded exclusive programs for everyone. Everyone can also see the unknown side of Peng Lei.
It is understood that the online strawberry music festival, modern sky signed 82 groups of artists all appeared, from February 22 to 28 every night from 6 to 11 o'clock everyone in the headline search "house strawberry" can watch the exclusive program.
This article is written by the author as a special author of "Headline Entertainment Jun", today's headlines, see more entertainment depth good article ~