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On the day of the winter solstice, Cui Jian returned to the stage. He and Pu Shu, Wild Child, Second-hand Rose, Sound Toys, Waina, and Ai Ge gathered at the "Power of Rolling - Snow Mountain Acquaintance Concert".
Initiated by Cui Jian and others in 2002, the Snow Mountain Music Festival is the first outdoor music festival in China. 20 years later, the original intention of the Snow Mountain Music Festival remains the same, and it will meet music fans again.
In the circle of friends, many people have already transferred the live link to the video account of the concert, and it has been proved that this concert is worth their expectations.
At the moment of emphasizing the sense of variety shows, explosive stalks, and topics, the Snow Mountain Zhijiao Concert reflects a unique temperament. Simple, simple, sincere, and sincere, the participating bands and musicians have one thing in common, that is, their hearts are always full of love for music.
This trait forms a kind of "reality distortion field". In front of and behind the screen, the performers and viewers form an atmosphere together, as if mountains and rivers and confidants are together.
This feeling is familiar but not seen for a long time.
Among them, Cui Jian's role is undoubted. His song "Nothing" at the Beijing Workers' Stadium in 1986 ignited the fire of Chinese rock music, and inspired a spirit of the times, influencing countless people. Until today, everyone has found that Cui Jian is not outdated, still sharp, and still full of momentum. And those musicians who, like Cui Jian, have crossed the test of time are continuing this power in their own ways.
It's like a living egg rolling on the road.
On the other side of the screen, everyone who is struggling, hesitating, confused, and everyone who feels powerless and hopeful, gains comfort and strength in music.
Cui Jian is still the same Cui Jian.
Cui Jian and his band, who appeared at the Snow Mountain Friendship Concert, chose an unplugged format, but they were more resilient and powerful.
Cui Jian was born in Beijing on August 2, 1961, and his father, Cui Xiongji, said that since he was a child, he "had a strong desire to learn about things he did not understand, and often observed and thought alone."
Music has become the best carrier for Cui Jian's thinking and expression. Luckily, he has also found a companion to explore the unknown.
In November 1984, Cui Jian and six other professional musicians founded the band Plywood. Western pop music is played in small restaurants and bars in Beijing. This is the first band of this type in China.
Chinese jazz pioneer and saxophonist Liu Yuan was a member of the band at the time, having worked with Cui Jian for more than 30 years. He is the partner who has accompanied Cui Jian all the way to today, and the plywood band is also the first and only band founded by Cui Jian.
"Cui Jian and I have known each other since we were seventeen or eighteen years old. At that time, we were in the same unit, which was the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe. So we were able to get to know each other, and in addition to music, there are many things in life and thought that can also communicate with each other, and it's a friendship. "In the years of cooperation, Liu Yuan and Cui Jian have transcended the relationship between musicians and lead singers, and there is no distinction between red flowers and green leaves, but mutual achievement.
In Liu Yuan's view, Cui Jian has always been a responsible and idealistic person, especially in music, he is very serious and creative. This is also the basis on which the two have been able to work together for more than 30 years.
In 1986, Cui Jian started singing at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium and created Chinese rock music.
And today's Snow Mountain Acquaintance Concert is also one of the results of the continuation of the fire more than 30 years ago.
Only love can persevere, and as for the value of persistence, time will give the answer.
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Ten years after Cui Jian wrote his first song "I Love My Guitar", in 1993, Pu Shu was admitted to the English Department of Capital Normal University. But he wasn't happy.
Pu Shu's father, Pu Zuyin, is a professor at Peking University, so Pu Shu has also required himself to be a "good student" since he was a child, and he has always been among the best in primary school. But in the high school entrance examination, he was not admitted to the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University with a difference of 0.5 points, and he felt that he had not fulfilled his responsibility as a "good son", and his heart was very painful.
In music, Pu Shu found his own music world, he locked himself in his room every day to play the guitar, and the songs he listened to were mainly Luo Dayou and Cui Jian. He told his father that music was my life.
I don't know if Pu Shu told Cui Jian about this experience.
When Cui Jian began to go abroad and frequently led the band to carry out international cultural exchanges, the young Pu Shu chose to drop out of school in his sophomore year. Every night at 10:30 o'clock, he would take his guitar to the small canal in front of his house to play the piano and sing.
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The later story is familiar to everyone, and after Song Ke heard Pu Shu's song, he was so moved that he quickly signed Pu Shu.
In 1999, Pu Shu's first album "I Go to 2000" was released and became an instant hit. The second album "Life Like a Summer Flower" made him one of the first-line singers, and the commercial performance price ranked among the top three in the country.
That year, Cui Jian re-released his first album, Rock on the Road of the New Long March, and continued to make the sound of Chinese rock around the world. He has performed at the Kresge Lecture Hall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles, and has performed at festivals in Seattle, New York, Dallas, Atlanta, and other cities.
In China, rock music entered a period of downturn after the glory of 94 Hung Hom, but in 1999, young musicians who had been more or less influenced by Cui Jian emerged in the public eye.
In 1999, the Wild Child officially cooperated with Mustard Seed Garden Productions and organized the premiere performance of the Wild Child's first self-titled album "Wild Child".
Liang Long and his second-hand rose band went out of the countryside in the northeast to participate in the Harbin Rock Festival, completing their first official performance. There was an incident that made Liang Long very angry that day, the organizer gave 20 buns to each of the bands present, but they were the only ones who did not have their share. But it was this unappreciated "dirt scum" band that was affirmed by Cui Jian the following year.
After watching a second-hand rose performance, Cui Jian said frankly: "You guys are the worst technical band I've ever seen, but the direction is very good." ”
Cui Jian and Liang Long later became friends. Liang Long said: "I want all friends to know that there are not many people like Cui Jian who insist on it, and some people have been abolished if they have a nickname, but Lao Cui is very dedicated." ”
In the western part of China, the power of rock 'n' roll was also felt.
The young Tang Lei watched Cui Jian's tour in Chengdu and was deeply shocked. In 1997, Tang Lei opened a tavern of less than 70 square meters and provided a stage for bands with works.
It turns out that one cannot walk alone forever, and it is very important to find a partner. The tavern offers this possibility.
Two years after the bistro opened, also in 1999, a new band called "The Betrayal of the Pilgrims" was ushered in, and the members included Ou Bo, Huang Jin and Li Kun, who performed for the first time.
That year, Ou Jiayuan, still known as Ou Bo, quit his job as an art teacher in Neijiang, Sichuan, came to Chengdu to make music, and formed this band. Later, Ou Jiayuan changed the name of the band to "sound toys".
In 2000, Tang Lei took several Chengdu bands such as sound toys and took the train to a bar tour in Beijing. Music fans in Beijing are still very new to them, and there are often few audiences in the audience, but they include Cui Jian and Dou Wei.
Cui Jian has always liked to go to the scene to watch new bands perform, and this Xi has always been adhered to. He's also very open to new styles, and it makes sense that the young rapper AIR will perform at the Snow Mountain Friendship Concert.
Back then, Cui Jian was also a frequent visitor to the midi. In 2004, Ou Jiayuan performed "The Most Wonderful Trip" on the midi. With short hair and plain clothing, he is immersed in his music with his eyes closed, which looks a little out of place at this hardcore music festival, forming a stark contrast to the restless fans in the audience, and the sense of distance is visible to the naked eye.
However, after watching the performance, Cui Jian told the media that Sound Toys was the only band that was singing seriously.
No one may have expected that this group of young musicians who have emerged is not about to usher in a long test.
With the rise of the Internet, the traditional record industry is rapidly declining, and the rights market, digital music payments, and live music festival performances that support musicians' survival will take shape for years to take shape.
However, before that, musicians not only had to face the potential energy of the development of the times, but also had to fight against the difficulties of reality. The most important thing that supports them is their love of music and their peers.
Cui Jian has not been smooth sailing in the past 30 years, and not everyone understands him and supports him. Even Liu Yuan, who grew up together, had quarrels between the two. But after so many years, Liu Yuan said that in such a difficult situation, Cui Jian still insists on performing and always pays attention to the progress of young people, which is something that most people can't do, and this makes him admire Cui Jian very much.
Over time, a sustainable partnership has developed between Cui Jian and the band. The members of the band do not rely on Cui Jian, they have adhered to their own ideas in different fields and achieved their own achievements. At the same time, they and Cui Jian have always been together because of music, and they are more like friends and confidants to each other.
Eddie, a guitarist who has worked with Cui Jian for more than 20 years, is "a man who speaks with strings", but it is he who is extremely low-key, and he was the first to introduce reggaeton, blues and jazz to Chinese musicians, and played an important role in the diversification of Chinese rock music styles.
When he first joined Cui Jian's band, Eddie felt that the band was divided, and everyone had a different feeling about music. However, after the baptism of time, it has been discovered that "harmony without difference" is a model that respects the independence of each other and at the same time can understand each other.
Cui Jian said: "We are still different until now, we still go with the flow and follow the feelings. ”
The world is always changing, and the important thing is to find love, find yourself, and find a partner.
In 2004, Xiao Suo, the lead singer of the Wild Child Band, died of stomach cancer, and another member, Zhang Gao, settled in Yunnan, starting from Kunming, passing through Chengdu, Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and other places and finally returning to Kunming, spreading the musical concept advocated by the Wild Child Band along the way.
It is not easy for the wild child to return to the stage.
Zhang Yan didn't mention much about the wild children in the past, and this silence was a kind of nostalgia for his good brother. There was even a time when they refused to go to the show under the name of the Wild Child.
"Unless the quality of our rehearsals and performances is worthy of the word 'wild child', we will sing in the name of wild child. Wild children are a very special thing in my heart. ”
In the Lexia show, even in the face of the temptation to advance, the wild child did not compromise. In the national style adaptation knockout competition, they rejected the song list provided by the program team, but chose the national style song in their hearts and sang a song "Bamboo Branches", so they paid the price of the violation and withdrew from the competition.
If you lose yourself, you lose the power to persevere.
The wild child thinks through and does not change.
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The same goes for Oujiayuan.
Every morning, he drops his son off at school and goes to the studio to make music, as regular as an office worker.
The level of sound toys has been recognized in the circle for a long time, but for a long time, the band has been tepid. One of China's best bands, Xi performing elegant melodies for a crowd of one or two hundred people in a humble little bar. These melodies and arrangements do not follow the flow of the Internet, they are polished to such a fine level that they can now be described as timeless.
Perhaps the biggest change in sound toys is things that have little to do with music, such as Ou Bo changing his name to Ou Jiayuan, because it "sounds more intimate", and he himself has become more and more interactive with fans on stage.
It's also the power of time. Ou Jiayuan once said: "Middle age is a very delicate stage, between youth and old age, when the old and the new alternate, you have to keep in mind the past, and you are so afraid of the future, but after passing the midlife crisis, there will be a kind of open-mindedness, many problems will be opened, accept the passage of life, and accept separation." ”
Pu Shu is also coming out of the whirlpool of time.
At this Snow Mountain Friendship Concert, Pu Shu looked very thin, and said that he was in a bad state at the beginning. In fact, his physical condition has been worrying.
In May this year, at the Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival, Pu Shu, who sang to the last song, said that his condition was worse than before, and his doctor friend warned him not to perform, but because the band had not made any money for more than two years, he had to take responsibility and insist on standing on this stage.
A few days later, he posted on his social platform to report his safety: "It's been a few days since I lived, thank the people who care for me, report safety, thank you ......"
After watching this Snow Mountain Friendship Concert, some netizens said that they hope Pu Shu can be friends with Vaina, they are both real and simple people. But Vaina would be noticeably happier.
Compared with Cui Jian and Pu Shu, Vaina's achievements in music seem to be not worth mentioning. If Cui Jian has always been full of a firm sense of belief, and Pu Shu has always burned his talent, then Vaina, who has not been in the public eye for a long time, may have a stronger sense of happiness.
All three members of Vaina live in solid dirt.
The peasants were busy practicing as new farmers, the passers-by worked as bricklayers on the construction site all the year round and occasionally sang on the streets, and the eighteenth worked as a wandering singer in Guilin while farming in his hometown.
The people are born in the 70s, the eighteenth is in the 80s, and the passers-by are in the 90s, but age is not a problem, and the common musical aesthetics bring them together. They work on the land, and in the changing seasons, they express what they see and think through music.
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Through the music and lifestyle of Waina, many people have been healed. Because everyone needs to find a solid love and have several "acquaintances" of the same frequency, in order to survive the hardships of life, in order not to be depressed, not wavering, and not hesitating under the test of time.
A concert of friends in the snow mountains made us feel a lot of things related to music and unrelated things that only time can precipitate.
"Because of love, become acquaintances, have acquaintances, and love together". This Snow Mountain Zhijiao concert also made the exclusive title sponsor's brand name "Zhijiao" quickly out of the circle.
Everyone found that "acquaintance" is very appropriate to describe a relationship. This is a windfall.
"Acquaintance" is between a confidant and a friend. is not as thick as a confidant, but it has an extra layer of emotional and spiritual tacit resonance than a friend.
In the long winter night, in the changing times, a person has a few like-minded and can talk calmly about the "friends", and there is a cup of "friends" in his hand that can stimulate common passion and love, and life is everywhere a "tavern" where they can easily get together. This may be the "spiritual need" of people in the current high-pressure and fast-paced life. (Venus)
(Excerpted from WeChat public account)