◎ Jin Zhaojun (music critic)
In recent years, it is often necessary to go to the Starlight Film and Television Park in Daxing District to record programs. Sitting in the car, I couldn't help but say to the driver, "This is where I worked forty years ago." ”
In February 1982, I was assigned— a concept that current college graduates don't have for a long time — to work at the Daxing County Workers' and Peasants' Education Office.
At that time, there was already the idea of "satellite city" - in order to avoid the unlimited expansion of Beijing's urban area, the development of suburbs near and far, it was planned to build Tongxian, Changping and Daxing as "satellite cities". Of course, when all the counties became districts, Beijing was already "one more ring than the sixth ring.". However, at that time, Daxing County already had a bit of the meaning of "satellite city", remembering that there was a large-scale bed sheet factory and a plastic fiber factory with the earliest imported equipment. The county town was a standard "one street" at that time, but many buildings had been built.
The newly established Workers' and Peasants' Education Office was on the qingyuan road in the northernmost part of Daxing County at that time. The first job I went to was to build a house with my colleagues, and half a year later I began to "make up lessons" for young cadres who had entered the "third echelon" but did not even have a high school education. The disadvantage of the teachers' college without subdividing the major has become an advantage, and I have to teach all the liberal arts classes, but the task is not heavy.
On the way home, you always have to pass through the tianqiao and the Dongsi area, and there is a Chinese bookstore specializing in old books in Dongdan, Longfu Temple and Dengshikou, and it is a habit to go shopping often. Two cents bought a pamphlet on universal relativity written by Einstein himself, in which I was fascinated by the concept of "bounded and infinite", and the "uncertainty principle" consciously understood when I cut in line, but when I felt the "second law of thermodynamics" again, I almost collapsed again - in the natural process, the total degree of confusion (i.e., "entropy") of an isolated system does not decrease. In other words, what I understood at that time was that all the philosophical systems of the past, whether materialistic or idealistic, religious or scientific, had a pole, the so-called ultimate truth, but if the law of entropy were followed, all this would lose its ultimate meaning.
Another book Bought is the same two-cent "Yashe Talks about Eating", from childhood to know that Liang Shiqiu was reprimanded by Lu Xun as a "lack of running dogs", after reading this pamphlet but greatly enjoyed, not in Liang Shiqiu's exquisite description of "eating", but in his description of the Beijing rickshaw driver's sigh after eating the scallion roll meat cake - "I know he is happy, because he supports himself." I feel that in one point, Liang Shiqiu is not inferior to Lu Xun's praise for the "taller and taller" rickshaw driver in Lu Xun's "A Small Thing", nor does he lose the Buddha's heart that all sentient beings are equal.
He also spent two dollars to buy two versions of "Glory and Dreams: A Record of American Society from 1932 to 1972" that happened to be put together in two volumes each. Each chapter of this book must be followed by vivid imitations of the social and cultural events and trends of the time, which will have a great influence on my future view of history, and it is a matter of later to learn that this book also has a great influence on Chinese rock musicians.
The Capital Library of Guozijian sold the old books on the shelves at a six-month discount, and I spent hundreds of yuan to buy thousands of books, which I still have no choice but to dispose of on the shelves. For example, "The Story of Zoya and Shula", "Pushkin's Lyric Poems" - and a "Old Testament" published in the 1940s.
A big thing is to save some money and my sister "joint venture" 168 yuan "back door" to buy a Hong Kong-made eight-inch speaker recording dual-purpose machine, for me it is "audiophile-level" equipment - although the sound is not yet understood, but know that in the eyes of the early music and sound lovers, the size of the speaker is an important guarantee of sound quality. So it became a great pleasure to record a weekly half-hour "Please Record" program from Beijing People's Radio Channel 94.5, which focused on classical music. TDK and SONY's blank tapes cannot afford to buy, and they buy five yuan and three plates of Taiwan-made simple "Audiologic (Shendi)" cassette tape without an outer box. It's also enough for God – it can still be played today. That's how my pseudo-acoustic "fever" career began.
Mao Weili, a classmate a few grades younger than me, is an uncompromising classical music enthusiast. From him I transcribed a lot of classical music tapes, but one of the popular songs, "Once Upon a Time," fascinated me and made me reminisce endlessly about my past from elementary school to middle school:
The dream-like past is full of laughter,
The cute little river in front of the door still sings the old song.
The dreamlike past exudes fragrance.
The beautiful butterfly flowers in front of the door are still in full bloom.
Little river, I want to stay by your side,
Listen to you sing the eternal song.
Let me look for the past in my memories,
The little girl with the butterfly flower.
In the future, although Meng Tingwei covered this song, I still like this early version of Chen Qiuxia.
Another song is also heard from classmates in "Song" - "When I die, dear you don't sing sad songs for me." I don't have to plant roses on my grave, and I don't need shade cypress trees. ”
At that time, I did not pay attention to the singer and the author, and many years later I learned that it was Xu Zhimo's poem written by Luo Dayou, and the singer was Zhang Aijia. Later, when I sang this song when luo Dayou was in Beijing, when we were both "playing the piano", he laughed: "This should be the first song I wrote, and I almost forgot how to sing it." ”
During this time, the old classmates of the middle school band came to me, and they regathered to dance with the then-booming dance party and asked me to give me a few pieces.
Zhou Yong, the leader of the band, began to learn to play sub-drums, often sneaked out to dance, and one day asked me to save an electronic keyboard field, which was my only "hole walk".
Recently, the musicalian Xiao Ke's musical "Under the West Bell" is being staged, recalling the "cave walking" life in that year. The term "walking cave" first appeared in quyixing, which is generally composed of agents (cave heads) who form teams of a group of multi-professional and medium-level actors and performers according to the tastes of the audience at the performance site, and tour some towns. It flourished in the early 1980s. Nowadays, many big names in the show business almost all started their acting careers from the "cave". "Walking the cave" not only enlivens the literary and artistic life of the masses, but also brings many problems. I've always suggested that someone make a TV series with the theme of "walking the hole", it must be good to watch and have fun.
Zhou Yong told me that once he went to Ningxia to "walk the cave", after the performance, the local small "cave head" said that he did not find a car. A singer who was just red gave him a mouth and said, "Your uncle has never been in a big car since he was a child." As a result, after a while, a group of Tibetan friends of the small "cave head" were holding Tibetan knives to cut the singer, frightening everyone to flee, and when they got to the train, they found that they had not yet settled the bill.
I also worked for half a year in a company owned by a friend of my second brother's who owned fifteen or six "official seals." It was an era of upside-down "wire rods" (steel bars), cement and sacks. The only product the company ever produced was a Venus-style table lamp, but it quickly went to an end. One of the things I learned in between was that the boss's brother played the guitar and sang a lot of pop songs to me, among which I liked and moved a lot, "I loved to listen to radio broadcasts since I was a child, listen to my favorite songs..." A few years later, I learned that this was a Taiwanese filler, Carpenter brothers and sisters' "Yesterday once More".
Naturally, there is also Liu Wen's genuine version of "The Great River Goes East", and it was later learned that it was also a filled version of the American song "The River Of No Return", and now you can also find a video of Marilyn Monroe singing lyrics on the Internet.
In fact, at this time, many people in Beijing have begun to fill in the lyrics for foreign classic songs, but this is something I will learn later. Among them, Chen Zhe filled in the lyrics and Wang Di sang "Don't Feel the Flowing Water Is Old", the original version was the theme song of the 1984 movie "Take a look at me now" composed and sung by Phil Collins. The information about this song on the Internet written as Huang Xiaomao is misinformation. Huang Xiaomao filled in another song, "Dan Hill-Sometimes When We Touch" sung by Sun Guoqing, which was also popular.
A few days ago, I met the musician Lao Mao who wrote "I Am Not Huang Rong", and I mentioned that I wanted to pay tribute to his father, Mr. Liu Tianli. It was in the first few years of my work that Mr. Liu Tianli's popular folk guitar textbook was all the rage, and almost all the popular songs of that year he adapted the guitar score, and I still have several copies, but the guitar playing has not improved.
2022-9-5