"Big brother, you play rock, what's the use of you playing it?"
Xiao Shijun used to hate this sentence: XX is dying.
Movies are dying.
Literature is dying.
The print media is dying.
Drama is dying.
Rock 'n' Roll is dying...
Until not long ago, lincoln park lead singer Chester Bennington hanged himself in his home when the news exploded, walking to the street can hear the heartbreaking voices of fans, Xiao Shijun was shocked to realize that the death of a person can touch an art.
Chester Bennington (20 March 1976 - 20 July 2017)
I remember that the last time the domestic rolling circle triggered such a large-scale mourning, it was twelve years ago, when the "Commemorative Zhang Ju Music Album" was released, and the "Gift" was always hidden in Xiao Shijun's private song list.
And now, folk songs are popular, hip-hop is a hit, popularity is still in the ascendant, and it seems inappropriate to talk about rock and roll.
As for a certain show's frequent calls to "carry the banner of XX (music genre)", obviously, they seem to think that the genre has reached the end of its rope and needs a hero to fall from the sky, chase the wind and red rabbit horse for thousands of miles under his feet, shake his head and tail, and explode his mane...
Xiao Shijun looked up, and the flags and dandruff in the sky were dazzling.
The so-called consumption is the cost of using time and money to buy forgetting.
Even Cui Jian, a man who was once known as the "godfather of Chinese rock", said a sentence that "Chinese rock music is stagnant", which was also denounced by many netizens.
We are doing a good job, no worse than you in the nineties, everything, you don't go to the underground bar, don't go to Live House, don't go to the music festival and talk about rock and roll, a certain circle classmate said this to Xiao Shijun.
If rock is so heavily fortified, is it still rock?
Xiao Shijun watched a lot of documentaries about Chinese rock, and found that they were all flashy, this one said a few words, that said a few words, more like a party highlights, everyone recalled the golden age of rock and roll together, showed their attitude, swore loyalty, and looked forward to a better future together.
▲ Thank God laughed in the documentary "Rock and Roll"
Saying it is an expression is more like avoidance. By appealing to some pink words, there is a passion in front of the camera, but the material is rough, the editing is chaotic, and there is no more direct expression of the current situation and mentality of the rolling circle.
Most of the scenes are as fragmented as director Zhang Yuan's last-century film "Beijing Bastards", and even in some places it is not as vivid as this fictional feature film, at least the latter retains a rough atmosphere of the times.
▲ The poster of the third edition of the movie "Beijing Bastard"
Some people say that "bastards" are self-deprecating and self-proclaimed. But what made Xiao Shijun sigh was that these young people, who were once called "bastards", have now become old people.
Now whose hands Chinese rock is in, no one can say for sure, and they do whatever they want. However, Xiao Shijun occasionally misses a rock band called "Bugs".
Although its producer has now embarked on the path of voice actor (the animated film "Dou Fu Chuan" was recently dubbed), the mention of his name, in the nineties, can be said to be known to everyone.
He is Chen Peisi, a former punk rock master, a contemporary musical legend.
One might ask, isn't he a sketch actor?
In fact, Xiao Shijun found that behind the Group of Artists of the Spring Festival Gala that year, there was a huge underground music world, which was only temporarily hidden by the noise of the times, and it was like a pearl at the bottom, waiting for us to excavate.
For example, Teacher Zhao Lirong is known as "China's first female Rapper".
22 years ago, a song "Fourteen Five Six Flowers in spring", single and double bets are rhythmic, with the break dance steps under the feet, a smile, is simply a model of Freestyle.
It is said that her act of absorbing the lyrics of the traditional commentary drama "Flowers as a Medium" directly inspired the later rock band Secondhand Rose, and they also went to the Northeast duo to find inspiration.
Speaking of two-person transfers, it is impossible not to mention "Midnight DJ" Zhao Benshan.
As the bearer of a famous night show in northeast China (Liu Laogen's big stage), he also played DVDs throughout the whole process and checked every program, although his face was tired, he still did not change his original intention.
▲ There is a true meaning in this, and the desire to discern has forgotten the word
Remember the "Red Sorghum Model Team" he was active on the stage 20 years ago and personally formed? When the Japanese and Korean boy bands and girl groups did not develop, I don't know how many uneasy souls were comforted.
The old man is highly respected, and also brought out an Asian dance king, Nicholas Zhao Si, which can be called a generation of good stories in the music circle. Zhao Si also lived up to expectations, blending the characteristics of ghost step dance and disco, and even won the title of "Michael Jackson in the Agricultural Age".
But among them, the most notable is the bugs band.
From the beginning of his birth, he was untamed and unruly, probably in the sketch world for too long, Chen Peisi simply left a rainbow mohican head, painted a charming eyeliner, and was bound to say goodbye to his former self and be a real protagonist.
▲ This gesture that parodies the American conscription advertisement is full of postmodern meaning
After setting up his own music label (Sheep's Head Studio), Chen Peisi, who was in pain, decided not to perform noodles anymore. He drank and smoked all day, trapped by creative inspiration, wandering in bars and city ruins, from the outside in, close to a real rock state.
The short film "96 Rock Guide" produced by Sheephead Studios documents the punk rock master's short but brilliant artistic career.
"In the future, as long as you see me coming, you will put less of this garbage."
Before leaving the bar, the master gave the waitress a harsh word. The reason is that this bar is playing Michael Jackson's song Bad, which is naturally outdated in the eyes of punk pioneers.
Aren't you Bad? I'm more Bad than you! I will always stand at the highest point of the chain of contempt!
Then he assembled the most unique musical team in history.
The team must be talented, must grow out of the ground, must be untrained in music, and only in this way can it present the most unrestricted and comfortable rock.
Thus, the Bugs Band came into being.
There will be more legends about them later.
Now, you just need to remember their names: lead singer and guitarist, Yao Erga; bassist, Liu Jinshan; drummer, Li Qi.
It all started with the posture and movement of the three of them scratching bed bugs on the roof, and the innate sense of rhythm excited the master, who felt dizzy and ecstatic: "I have been doing rock and roll for so many years, and today I know what art is."
And once you have the innate conditions, becoming a great rock star only needs to be in two steps:
First, do not pay attention to civilization.
Course Task: In seven days, complete seven hundred foul words and a hundred lewd gestures.
Second, destruction.
Course Task: Abandon everything you have in the past, including parents, wives and children.
"If you want to live a good life, you can't have a home."
When all this is ready, you just need to meet all the upcoming honors.
With the novel, avant-garde visual appearance of the bugs, stripped of the single characteristics of the gender, accommodating a variety of genres such as industrial rock, heavy metal, death electronic music, gothic, punk, hardcore, etc., and soon set off a musical frenzy in the land of China.
▲ The TV host is also a fan of the bug band
In a television interview, a monologue by lead singer Yao Erga is very representative of the band's attitude:
"I am the killer of human reason!" My name is Satan! ”
First clearly and clearly tell you that we are going to destroy human reason, then gently reveal their identity and source of inspiration, and finally pounce in front of the camera and shout, worthy of Chen Peisi and his bed bugs.
The most amazing thing is the end of the legend, with an official spokesperson covering the fall of our band Bugs.
▲ The back of the band's three farewells
In a male voice as formal as a news broadcast, Chen Peisi retreated, saying that he would run after the circle of money; bed bugs also disbanded, saying that the band members were actually three blind streams in the wave of returning home.
But everyone clearly remembers their performance at the construction site of an iconic building in Beijing.
The 1996 bugs rooftop performance was one of the most dazzling chapters in the history of Chinese rock music, echoing the Beatles' final performance on Apple's rooftop on May 20, 1970, and is also known as the pinnacle of Rock Live in the East and West.
Behind their shouting figures are clusters of new cities and rising modern civilizations
After that, rock 'n' roll gradually declined.
As a result, many people say that Chinese rock and roll has lived forever in the nineties, and it has returned to the opening sentence: rock is dying...
The above plots are not made up by Xiao Shijun, they are all from the "96 Rock Guide" of Sheephead Studio, also known as "96 Rock Record".
▲ Sheep's Head Studio means "hanging sheep's head, selling dog meat", which is very punk
Two years later, Chen Peisi also bid farewell to the Spring Festival Gala stage, just like the bed bugs band formed before, fading out of people's vision.
In the era when all our news was spread by television, because of copyright issues, he offended CCTV, and although the court ruled that he won the case, he still "disappeared".
Fortunately, this is not the time for television to dominate.
In those "forgotten" days, Chen Peisi and his wife went up the mountain to become fruit farmers, used the money earned from contract orchards to invest in dramas, and once the sketch king and rock superstar made dramas, a purest and least expensive performing arts, until now.
▲Chen Peisi's dramatic work "Drama Stage"
And his apprentice, former lead singer of the bug band, Yao Erga, also died of a drug overdose.
▲ Yao Erga once played Gu Lunmu in the movie "Sunny Day"
Li Qi and Liu Jinshan, after the dissolution of the band, are still active in major TV series, playing supporting roles.
▲The two still have a lot of cooperation
After experiencing so much, Chen Peisi gave himself the evaluation of "a very clean person".
Every time Xiao Shijun saw his gray beard, he would think of Chen Xiao'er, a flesh-and-blood young man who could eat a pound of wontons many years ago, and his heart was full of feelings...
Compared with those "comedies" who pretend to be crazy and stupid, go down three roads, and occupy the screen, his works have always been more dignified and closer to art itself.
A person who says goodbye to the roll circle is more rock than anyone who lives.
On the other hand, some of today's "Chinese rock" are like a farce, with everything in it, full of posture, full of feelings, and no music.
The most painful thing about Xiao Shijun is that the "Rock Guide" of more than twenty years ago is still in the world.
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