One day one year, Dick Cowboy and a middle-aged muscular man who was drunk met on a narrow street in Beijing.
The man said to Dick Cowboy, "Many of us are listening to your songs and slowly becoming men." How many people haven't sung your song in karaoke, and how many people haven't shed tears when they sing? ”
Fierce man sensationalism, don't be a taste of life.
Before Dick Cowboy became popular, music producer Xu Changde met him at a Bar in Kaohsiung, and his first impression was that his wife must have been very hard.
A middle-aged man with three small children who earns a meager monthly salary can't even feed himself.
"This person is either a crazy person or very focused and persistent."
Dick's cowboy guitar class students sometimes come to the bar to see him and can't help but ask him, "Daddy, how long are you going to work?" ”
Dick Cowboy thought about it and replied to them, "I wouldn't have done anything better if I did anything else." ”
But in fact, at that time, Dick Cowboy had already thought about changing careers to sell Yangchun noodles.
Before singing the tears of others, he himself was already in tears in front of life.
Dick Cowboy's life has two significant watersheds, one at the age of 10 and one at the age of 40.
Dick Cowboy's real name is Lin Jinzhang.
When I was a child, the family opened a billiard room with a record player, which was my mother's dowry when she got married.
The record player plays Western music all day long, attracts many guests for the billiard room, and also opens up the curiosity of the little teenagers about music.
Lin's father is very fashionable, likes to attend dances, and sometimes takes his son with him.
In the song and dance filled with American crew sailors, Dick Cowboy saw the live-action guitar playing guitar and drumming accompaniment for the first time, and he was attracted by the extremely rhythmic rhythm, which was a long time in front of the musicians.
The superior lifestyle ended at the age of ten.
A fire will burn down their residential area, which is about the size of a baseball stadium, and dick's cowboys are not spared.
The house, the cash, the mother's gold and silver jewelry were burned down, the billiard room, which was the source of the family's income, was burned down, and the record player with Western music was burned out.
Father Lin did not go out to work again, and Mother Lin worked odd jobs everywhere.
A family of seven lives with relatives in a rented house, crowded and noisy and rushing to an end to his happy youth.
In high school, he loved playing the guitar and carried a guitar every day to school.
Later, he also wore a guitar as a soldier, so he seemed to be out of place with others.
After retiring from the army, a young man with no education, no background, and no skills gave up his hazy fantasies about music and stepped into reality.
The first job was parts processing, which I did for two months.
Mother Lin took a second job for Dick Cowboys: cutting tickets at the dock window.
At the crowded ferry crossing, Dick Cowboys often run into students from Hai college.
So there was a topic circulating in his alma mater: Lin Jinzhang, who was a sea specialist, fell to the dock to cut tickets.
Self-esteem made him give up again, and then Mother Lin took care of the relationship, and gave him a job as a park cleaner and a road survey.
At this time, he was 24 years old, his salary was 4,000 Taiwan dollars, and the income of the ordinary people in Taiwan was 10,000 Taiwan dollars per month.
A few years of social life made him feel that he was useless, and he might have to be so mediocre for a lifetime.
Later, with his long hair and wild momentum, he said very seriously, in fact, I used to be a very well-behaved child, I was a sheep in wolf skin.
People who are particularly passive especially need the help of noble people.
When he realized that his life was hopeless, Dick Cowboy's classmates introduced him to Rolling Stone Records as a salesman, in fact, he was sending records.
In the last year of the 80s, Zhang Hongliang's "Do You Know I'm Waiting for You" was popular.
Dick Cowboy carried a huge record through the streets, and the voice in his ear was "Do you know I'm waiting for you?" The song, he said in his heart: I know I know, but do you know I can't wait for you? Because I'm delivering.
By this time, Dick Cowboy was married, and his family responsibilities and interest in music had made him diligent.
While working as a Rolling Stone delivery man, he began working part-time evenings to play guitar in bars and form bands.
After improving his guitar skills, Dick Cowboy took time out of the day to teach guitar lessons.
The band he formed was a teenage guy, and Dick Cowboy was about the same age as they were a round, and the name "Daddy" was called off at that time.
In the mid-1990s, Taiwan's economy entered a depression, and the entertainment industry was greatly affected, sometimes Dick Cowboys only earned NT$20,000 a month.
Nearly forty years old, there are old and low, and the family is mainly supported by the income of the wife.
At that time, he considered changing careers, selling Yangchun noodles or serving plates at restaurants.
Thinking about it, the change of career is not necessarily better than now, so I decided to stay up again.
I remember in 1983, when Dick Cowboy, who was working in the survey brigade, heard Luo Dayou sing "Floating Around, Just Floating Around", Dick Cowboy had never left Kaohsiung, and he never thought about leaving for the next ten years.
Towards the age of forty, he was determined to change.
He began to perform back and forth in Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung and other places.
Competition is fierce among shops, no one likes to hire the same orchestra, in order to be unique, so they have to constantly change the name of the group.
So Dick Cowboy's band used "Dick & Cowboys", "Armonia" and other different group names to run around various bars.
Dick Cowboy's life is destined to be intertwined with music.
In 1996, Shanghua Records planned to prepare an album "PUB Heroes" album, and found ten more promising bar orchestras in Taiwan to sing a song each.
Dick and the Cowboys, the Power Train Band, are among them.
At the time, Dick Cowboy wasn't the lead singer yet, but because of PUB Heroes, he was signed to a contract by the record label.
A 38-year-old newcomer singer who didn't look outstanding, who wasn't taken seriously by the company, sat on the cold bench for a year and earned a pitifully small income.
The opportunity came in the second episode of "PUB Heroes", and it was so overwhelming that everyone was surprised.
In the second series of "PUB Heroes", the company helped Dick Cowboy pick "You Don't Want Anything".
In the original lyrics of "Which Woman Is Not Selfish and Not Extravagant about Love", "Woman" is changed to "Man", and Dick Cowboy sings his own prayer for life.
After the album was released in Taiwan, the response was mediocre, and Dick Cowboy was disheartened and ready to say goodbye to the music scene.
But the song unexpectedly became popular in Hong Kong.
His friends in Hong Kong came to him in Kaohsiung and told him that everyone was asking who Dick Cowboy was.
Bigger surprises are in the back.
Dick Cowboy received an invitation to perform in Hong Kong, and for the first time in his life, he faced the cheers of so many people at the "China Mix" bar, which was very popular in Hong Kong, and the people in the audience wanted to listen to "You Don't Want Anything", even Zhong Zhentao was in it.
In September of the same year, he received his first concert at the Elizabeth House in Hong Kong.
During the day to promote the album and concert, some viewers on the radio program wanted to hear him sing, and he said, "I didn't bring a guitar, so I couldn't play and sing on the spot." ”
The spectator rushed to the radio station from North Point within thirty minutes and brought him a guitar.
Dick Cowboy used his unique voice to sing the tenderness out of the taste of rock, the vicissitudes and excitement and with a little tenderness, conquered countless Hong Kong people.
Before the first concert began, he was uncontrollably nervous and shook offstage for thirty minutes.
But picking up the guitar and walking to the center of the stage, hearing so many people below shouting his name, all the nervousness he forgot.
At that concert, he returned to the scene four times with shouts, stomping feet and clapping hands of four or five thousand people, and finally the organizers had no choice but to light up the stage lights before officially announcing the end.
Dick Cowboy thought that day that he should be rich, and he wouldn't even have to pay the rent.
In September 1998, Dick Cowboy released the album "Roar" topped the Hong Kong IFPI sales chart for ten consecutive weeks, and in January of the following year, the album "Bei Hong Kong" was released, once again topped the top ten of the Hong Kong IFPI sales chart.
After returning to Taiwan, he released his first original album "Forget Me or Forget Him".
At that time, when I first met Dick Cowboys in the bar, Xu Changde thought to himself, this person looks cute and really needs a little help.
In this original album, Xu Changde wrote him a song "The Road of No Return": I have no way out, although you are also hard and unwilling to admit defeat.
Xie Mingyou wrote him "Thirty Thousand Feet", "Sailor", and "Guitar Man on the Corner".
"Everywhere you look, in the same direction, southeast, northwest, and north, this sea is very wandering, waiting for the wind to urge me to set sail."
Several songs have positioned the image of his wandering singer, uninhibited, lonely, full of indifference, but shining with a light, which is another ideal vision of men and women in that era in addition to success in the secular sense.
Dick Cowboy had been in Kaohsiung for forty years and had never left, and he didn't know he had such a temperament. He even wondered if he had gradually sung this way, and finally became a character in the song.
Xie Mingyou told him: "Father, no matter how old you are, no matter how many places you have been, you are a prodigal son who insists, a static rolling stone." ”
The others saw it better than he could.
As he always said, if he didn't make music, he didn't know what to do.
"Insisting on a kind of dependence, in fact, I like this thing, leaving this circle, I may not live well." 」
This may be a man who is not good at expressing feelings, introverted.
In 1999, Dick Cowboy's cover song "How Much Love Can Come Back" became popular again, this time in the mainland.
Listening to more subtle love songs, Dick Cowboy's blunt roar in the song hit people's hearts, and the thoughts that red dust men and women were ashamed to express were nakedly sung.
They silently counted the regrets in their hearts through the song of Dick Cowboy in KTV.
In Beijing, Dick Cowboy went out with a friend and got into a taxi.
The taxi driver was particularly excited to see himself carrying Dick Cowboy: "I have been fortunate in three lifetimes, my ancestors have virtue, and today I finally got a superstar!" ”
At that time, Dick Cowboy was comparable to the Uranus superstar.
To be called a superstar, there are always some deep feelings.
In 2007, Dick Cowboy released the album Wind and Sand.
Looking back on his ten years of singing career, it is like the sand flying with the wind, leaving his hometown, standing forward one stop after another, without stopping.
He borrows the theme song of the same name to tell the voices of those who are wandering for their dreams and their families.
The album was also a hit.
However, in the years that followed, he was like the wind flying away, gradually disappearing in front of the public's eyes.
In October this year, when various variety shows were scrambling to be on the hot search, someone remembered him and asked him on the Internet where he went.
I didn't expect to get a reply from the Buddha-figures.
Over the years, Dick Cowboy, who disappeared from the stage, often appeared in performances such as real estate opening ceremonies and ribbon cutting in Furniture City, making a living from commercial performances.
Xu Changde said bluntly: "Nowadays, singing does not rely on strength, and if you sing well, your records may not sell well." ”
The popular trend in the music world has made some musicians no longer rely on enthusiasm and concentration alone to do well.
Long ago, after becoming popular, Dick Cowboy would ride half an hour into the studio on a rainy day, sometimes soaking wet.
Although the company will pay for the taxi, but the day to save back and forth is the family's day's vegetable money.
Simple and unpretentious people always leave the scene first.
On his first original album, Dick Cowboy loved the song "Guitar Man on the Corner".
Go where you can go
It's not a tired footprint
Sing until there is no strength
On the corner of the street there was my destiny
A broken guitar accompanied by a very old melody
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