Speaking of Zhang Chu, it seems that people can only pull their memories back to the performance at the Hung Hom Stadium in 1994, although his name is often tied to Dou Wei and He Yong, and people like to use the "Magic Rock Three Jie" to refer to them collectively, but today Zhang Chu lives a completely different life from Dou Wei and He Yong.
Many years ago, He Yong once famously said: "I am crazy, Zhang Chu is dead, dou wei shengxian."
Indeed, since He Yong burned down the house in the late 90s, he has become less normal, and although he has become much calmer after having a daughter, he still occasionally acts that are incomprehensible.
Over the years, Dou Wei has parted ways with rock music, and once he said to the fans who once followed him: "Thank you for worrying about me, but I have nothing to do with rock music."
Some people have seen him traveling by subway, from the noodle shop in Huatian to see him lining up to eat noodles, and some people have seen him riding an electric car carrying girls through the streets of the downtown, although he has never disappeared in the dust and smoke of Beijing, but now he is more alive in his own world, he wears sunglasses, dressed very inconspicuously, as if deliberately hiding himself in the crowd.
Today, he is making music that only a few people can understand, and the handsome teenager with long hair and wearing a leather jacket and shorts has long since drifted away from him.
And only Zhang Chu, he is not crazy, nor has he ascended the immortal, nor has he "died", compared to Dou Wei, who is full of vicissitudes, and He Yong, who has been blessed with middle age, Zhang Chu has hardly changed in the past 20 years except for a few wrinkles on his face. It seems that we can only see from Zhang Chu's body the remnants of the Three Brilliant Magic Rocks of that year.
In his home outside the sixth ring road in Beijing, he decorated the house extremely modernly, the room furnishings are very artistic and fashionable, and the shelves are all best-selling books that young people often read, and it is hard to imagine that this is not a single apartment of a fashionable youth, but a former rock superstar who has faded the aura of the past.
The house far from the city was where he lived and worked, and there were many very advanced musical equipment, probably the kind that He Yong didn't use at all. He knows all about these advanced devices, and he even knows how to use his phone to add a decoder and connect high-end headphones to create an unparalleled sound experience.
Over the years, Zhang Chu definitely did not "die", he lived a sound and colorful life, he has been following this society forward, and has not been abandoned by the times. Although we are accustomed to talking about the "Three Masters of Magic Rock" together, in fact, the personalities of these three people are very different, they are not a type of person at all, and their attitudes and handling methods towards the industry are different.
Unlike He Yong's choice of confrontation, and dou Wei's choice to be alone, Zhang Chu chose to reconcile and choose to accept.
In the late 1990s, Zhang Chu also encountered confusion, when the entire mainland rock and roll quickly came to a standstill under the impact of Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music, should it go mainstream like Wang Feng and Xu Wei? At that time, Zhang Chu did not accept it, he packed his clothes and sat on the train to Xi'an, and did not even take away musical equipment such as guitars and synthesizers, because he thought that his future life and work would probably no longer have anything to do with them.
At that time, Zhang Chu was very disappointed in the music environment in the mainland, and the short-lived flash of Chinese rock music exposed a reality in the mainland music circle, that is, no matter the practitioners in this industry or the listeners, everyone was not prepared, we did not know how to operate rock music, nor did we know where our future rock music should go, I thought that hung hom was the prelude to the opening of a new chapter of rock music, but I did not expect that it was actually the final struggle of Chinese rock music.
The more lively the musical environment was, the more sad these rockers became, and on that crazy night at hung hom stadium, the rhetoric seemed to become a joke.
During that time, Zhang Chu thought a lot and felt a lot of life truths, although we liked Zhang Chu so much before, but no one dared to say that they really knew him, few people really explored his inner world, most people can only try to understand him from his musical works.
After a period of staggering years, Dou Wei burned a car in front of the newspaper office, He Yong was later detained for intentional injury, and Zhang Chu returned to Beijing to continue to engage in his music creation, a large number of media began to interview him, when he revealed his heart, you will find that Zhang Chu is actually a very deep and complex person, when facing the public he will also talk about it, his reasoning is not everyone can understand, but about his "resurrection", he explained it very clearly: "I can understand Dou Wei's escape, He wanted to escape from this mediocre environment, but it was too hard for me to do."
So, Zhang Chu, who wanted to escape from the world and wanted to escape, returned, and he became a survivor of the glorious period of Chinese rock and roll, compared to Dou Wei's desireless Zegang, he was not firm enough, and compared to He Yong's fragility and vulnerability, he appeared much stronger and stronger.
After his return, Zhang Chu also began to participate in some kind of music variety shows that were once despised by rock people, and in 2014, he participated in the TV variety show "Dream Music Festival" jointly produced by Fengxing Network and Liaoning Satellite TV, which may exhaust the imagination of many people, and everyone cannot believe that the former rock hero will now appear in the same program as Cao Ge, Hua Chenyu and others.
In 2015, he participated in the second season of "Good Songs of China" and participated in the "Hall of Masters" series of concerts at Beijing International Pop Music Week in Beijing Poly. In 2016, he also participated in the star audio interview program "The Big Name is Coming".
For the rock tito who came from the early 90s, Zhang Chu's current state makes them feel mixed, on the one hand, they are excited to see Zhang Chu again, on the other hand, they are disappointed that Zhang Chu betrayed the unwilling kitsch, and even many old music fans only lament that it is better to see each other than to miss.
Those who were still sympathetic and sorry for Zhang Chu's situation after 94 one second began to deny Zhang Chu's growth and compromise the next second later. They believe that Zhang Chu, who did not "die", should obviously "die" in 94. This is extremely contradictory and complex emotion.
However, Zhang Chu did not intend to be bound by such a voice at all, he only cared about what he wanted to do, perhaps the fans were too selfish, they insisted on what they wanted others to insist on, and what they did not want to insist on also hoped that others could insist on. But the times are different, in Beijing, where it is not easy to consume paper money, what does Zhang Chu take to insist on what was more than 20 years ago? Do we want to see Zhang Chu also become He Yong and Dou Wei?
This may not be Zhang Chu's fault, but the lack of our environment, most of these rock fans have actually lost the ability to spend on rock and roll, so who can really pay for these feelings? Zhang Chu himself was also very clear that those people would never ride a bicycle for more than ten kilometers to see a rock music scene.
Zhang Chu is a lover of rock and roll, his passion for rock and roll has not changed in more than 20 years, can you imagine a person who never opened his mouth when he took music classes before college, how he can "go along with mainstream music"?
The Cloth Band also once said: We make music not because we only make music, because we can't do without music, maybe a few of us can do something else to live better, but who makes us love music.
This sentence actually speaks the voice of most rock people, and Zhang Chu is not.
Zhang Chu also said that in his heart, he is still the same self more than 20 years ago, dying together is not his belief, living together is his original intention of making independent music and rock music. If someone can travel into the future and tell Zhang Chu an accurate answer, telling him that China's music industry will never accept rock and roll, then Zhang Chu's mission is over, and he can leave everything in Beijing again and return to Xi'an to live another life.
What is valuable is that Zhang Chu believes that sooner or later rock music can return to the glory of 94 years, and he is willing to work hard for this, and this premise is that he needs to let more people know rock music through the current mainstream platform, which is another way for an old rock man to persist.