In the Beijing music circle, the 46-year-old Ma Tiao is like a hero in the traditional sense, benevolent, righteous, singing without sparing strength. So friends are willing to associate with him, in their eyes, Ma Tiao is a person who can be peaceful and reliable.
On the evening of June 10, 2016, Ma Tiao performed on stage at the Guazhou Music Festival, and halfway through the performance, the power supply on the stage was unexpectedly interrupted. After experiencing the turmoil of waiting for fruitlessness and temporary venue change, Zhao Lei's fans have long been unable to hold back and shout the name of the idol. Horse strip fans are not willing to show weakness, and the two sides are in the same situation.
At this moment, Ma Tiao took the stage and said with a Xinjiang accent: "Whether you are shouting Zhao Lei's name or Ma Tiao's name, in my opinion, you are calling the name of music." The dispute was quickly settled, and there was a round of applause from the audience.
The horse on the stage smiled triumphantly and continued his performance. This problem was solved perfectly, as perfectly as the countless problems he had solved.
Negative gas
In 2005, after more than two years in Guangzhou, Ma Tiao's life has not changed, carrying an instrument and a band, running through every scattered outdoor performance in the city. Acting can earn thousands to ten thousand labor fees, a few people a point, just enough to make a living.
One night in a good mood, he and a group of friends drank and bragged. After three rounds of drinking, this time he said something on his mind. Ma Tiao said that he had a lot of songs, especially good, and could be rehearsed together.
"They thought I was sick, I thought they were sick."
This time he didn't suppress his temper and slammed the door out. Before leaving, he left a harsh word, pointing the finger at the people around him - I said you are a bunch of fools.
This scene is like a rabbit who is anxious to bite people, because ma Tiao has always been an easy-going person, never red-faced with anyone, and does not lose his temper.
After sobering up, Ma Tiao still had to return to reality, picked up the guitar and began to walk the cave and sing popular songs. The audience welcomed, the gold lord rejoiced, and everything was no different from usual.
But Ma Tiao had a new plan, he forced a few friends to rehearse, recorded a small sample, "'Blockade Line', "Taji Khan", "How Long is Lonely' were all recorded at that time, after recording, I will return to Beijing", he said to me.
Before leaving, he took the guitarist at the time and wanted him to go with him. The guitarist said, "When I get to Beijing, I'll starve to death." He did not force it, and turned to the train bound for Beijing.
The friend who was once crazy about rock and roll like himself is no longer willing to go to the wind and eat and live in the open, nor does he have any illusions about the heart of Beijing rock music, but puts his livelihood first.
The train roared, the air fermented a different taste, and the phrase "I will starve to death when I arrived in Beijing" made Ma Tian remember for more than ten years.
Lost beads
Ma Tiao's departure was an active attack, and this time he chose his position in Beijing, just as he had done 11 years ago. In 1994, Ma Tiao, a 23-year-old oil worker, broke into Beijing for the first time.
Before leaving, this simple Xinjiang boy was particularly enthusiastic about the workers in the oil field, "I will come back when the guitar is learned, and I will not stay in Beijing for a long time", which is his promise.
But when he arrived in Beijing, he completely disrupted his plan to drift north, learning the piano, working, and competing, and the world in front of him was not imaginable in the oil well mine.
The so-called "peace with the encounter" may be his most real state at that time. But this state also ultimately dragged him down. From 1999 to 2002, Ma Tiao, who had a contract, failed to release his own album, and he had to leave Beijing and go south to Guangzhou.
After returning from Guangzhou, Ma Tiao had a new view of Beijing, saying in an interview with Li Chun in "The Story of Noon": "This city has been built for more than thirty years, from the time I began to dismantle it in 94 years, and now it is still being demolished and built. "Devastated but very intimate.
When he arrived in Beijing, he remembered his old friend from many years ago. And this old friend will be the Bole of his life.
Bole
Among those friends in Beijing, Ma Tiao highly admired the old wolf. The old wolf is easy-going by nature, pretending to be a "pop singer", not arguing and not loving to take sides. Therefore, he is very popular, like a Confucian who is both prosperous and prosperous on all sides.
This trait can also be found in the horse strip, which is why the two feel sorry for each other.
After Ma Tiao returned, he went to the old wolf's house, where he rarely mentioned the past dust and old things, but gave the sample he had recorded in Guangzhou to the old wolf. The old wolf listened and said, "You have become." ”
Ma Tiao didn't know how he had "become", and he didn't take this matter to heart. The gentleman's friend talked about the wine and went home with all his interest.
The old wolf knew his friend very well, and he was thick-hearted and open-minded, and there was no other purpose in coming to drink and talk about the day this time. But at this time, Yu Yu had to pull him. Perhaps in the personality of the horse strip, he saw what he looked like.
At a party released by Wan Xiaoli's "new album", the old wolf introduced the horse strip to Thirteen Records.
In November of the first year of the army, it was still in the entrepreneurial stage, and there was a shortage of materials. Ma Tiao remembered that when they carried their burdens and took the train to perform all over the country, the mountain band Qu Zihan laughed and called himself a migrant worker, and Ma Tiao said: Where are we migrant workers, we should be called music migrant workers.
Perhaps the immediate conditions are not rich, but it is never money that guides him to go down. Ma Tiao once said to me: "The suffering in the eyes of others must not be suffering in my eyes, because I have it, but you don't." ”
When he said this, he remembered the mood he had felt when he left Guangzhou. People with a heart can tolerate the world's most turbulent things, and they cannot tolerate even a little grievance in their hearts.
The horse stripe grins when it speaks, but the language is very powerful, giving people the feeling of chivalry.
On a tour, the old wolf sang "Love Wind and Dust", the whole audience shook with the waltz of four or three beats, Wan Xiaoli rushed to the stage, and the horse's eyes under the stage were hot and red. "Form doesn't matter, what moves people is the content", that moment, like forever.
harvest
As for when he caught fire, Ma Tiao once said on the Internet: "After more performances, the fans will slowly increase, and some people will start listening to my songs", like a natural process.
In fact, "going with the flow" can be seen as a kind of his philosophy of life. In 2013, Ma Tian naturally married his girlfriend who had been with him for a long time, and in 2014, they naturally had children, and at the end of the year, he went on TV again.
He told me: "My wife and I have no plans to have children, and if we have it, boys and girls are not important to us." Because it's too deliberate, you'll be tired. ”
"Live every day well, you will be happy in this life," he told me at the end of the interview.
The Tao Te Ching preaches that the tao te ching is natural, and selflessness is great selfishness. What do you mean? "Selflessness" means not being calculating, only not calculating, not utilitarian, not setting one's own goals or such, but getting more satisfaction.
Ma Tiao is like a "Guo Jing" character, twenty years ago, he came from the frontier, his heart is as broad as the Gobi Desert, he is not pretentious, he will not please, he just wants to learn the guitar and show off in front of his friends.
Today, he is 46 years old, has become a respected "predecessor" in the music circle, a "celebrity" in the eyes of the audience on the stage, and has been in the industry for so many years, he has a "Huang Rong" wife, a perfect family, and a pyrotechnic life. If you can manage the big things and small families well, then say that Ma Tiao is a heroic figure like "Guo Jing", I am afraid that no one will object to it.
He said he wanted to wear a floral shirt at the age of 60, throw winks at young girls, whistle, and speak in a low voice, like Leonard Cohen.
At one of the festivals, he sang a song called "Blockade Line", and halfway through he asked the stage: "What's the commotion?" After receiving a strong echo, he continued to sing: "How can you let me, an old troublemaker, go away." ”
Once again, he perfectly made the audience fall in love with his chivalrous and soft intestines, just as perfect as when countless fans fell in love with him before.
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