Bass players have always been soul-like beings in the band, representing the bass part of the entire band, and they even determine the quality of a band.
They stood on stage silently playing the bass, and the low voice always exuded endless charm, but the bass was definitely the most awkward position in the band.
How many people like to play music when they are young, and after playing the guitar, he thinks of forming a band, and when he forms a band, he finds that there is such a role as a bass player.
This year, the Rolling Stones released "The 50 Greatest Bassists Of All Time", and it is true that there are no epic bass players in our country, but there is no shortage of excellent and master bassists.
Huang Jiaqiang
Wong Ka-keung is Beyond's bassist and brother of Wong Ka-koo, who joined the legendary band halfway through.
After bassist Lee Wing Chao left the band in 1983, Huang Jiaqiang added a position to join the band, and Beyond was not yet finalized.
Until 1988, when the band was completely formed, the fully formed Beyond band was like a bomb thrown into the trench, which caused an uproar, and the aftermath has not yet calmed down.
As Beyond's bassist, Wong Ka-keung's bass level is beyond doubt, and "Cold Rainy Night" is sung and lyrics by Wong Ka-keung.
The song was first written by Wong Ka-koo in 1988, but felt that it was too popular to contradict their rock style, and "Cold Rainy Night" was killed.
When Wong Ka-keung was 19 years old, he broke up with his girlfriend for the development of the band, and with a sad mood, Wong Ka-keung completed the lyrics of the current version of "Cold and Rainy Night", creating a precedent for Beyond's slow love songs.
At the 1991 Life Contact Concert, Jia Qiang stood alone in the center of the stage, playing the bass singing "Cold and Rainy Night", and JiaJu played the guitar to escort his brother.
Wong Ka-keung's Live version of singing has become a god-honored work, and the bass solo of "Cold and Rainy Night" has become one of the most challenged projects for bassists.
Many bass latecomers chose to learn bass because they listened to this singing, and some people say that Wong Ka-keung's greatest contribution is to let people know what a bass is.
In 1993, Huang Jiaju died unexpectedly, and Huang Jiaqiang inherited his brother's will and continued to move forward with Beyond as the lead singer of the band.
But Huang Jiaqiang, who lost his brother, never sang a god-like work like "Cold Rainy Night" at the 91 life contact concert.
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When it comes to Shan Liwen, 80% of people will think of his image of Simon Daguan, shan Liwen is not only an excellent actor but also one of the top bassists in Hong Kong.
In 1983, Shan Liwen joined the heavy metal band Chyna Band, the band has produced an English album, and even entered the international market with the single "Within You'll Remain", and ranked first in the Southeast Asian music chart for four consecutive weeks.
Shortly after the album was released, the band disbanded due to internal discord.
Shan Liwen, Huang Liangsheng and Su Dehua still have this musical dream, and together they formed the well-known Blue Jeans (Blue Warrior Band), and Lin Yilian's early work "Rainy Day" is from the album of the Blue Warrior Band.
While making music, Shan Liwen accidentally "mistakenly entered" the film and television industry, accidentally leaving everyone with the image of Ximen Qing's professional household, and the "Hussein" played in "Gambler" can also be regarded as a well-known villain.
Shan Liwen is a "Ximen Qing" professional who plays soul rock music.
The Blue Warriors lasted for four years and were known as the most powerful bands in Hong Kong during the period of extreme prosperity and decline.
After the band disbanded, Shan Liwen continued his career as an actor, while also composing lyrics for the works of Li Ming, Chen Huilin, Zhou Huimin and others.
In 1995, Dawn wore a white robe to play and sing by herself, and "The Last Love", which captured countless fans, was composed by Shan Liwen, as well as Dawn's "Forgive Me", Chen Huilin's "Tears Drifted Far", "Missed" and other works.
In 2007, he returned to the music scene to compose music for Zhang Jingxuan's "Repentance Poem", and used his strength to tell everyone that the talent of Hong Kong's top bass player is still the same.
Shan Liwen and Mei Yanfang had a romantic love, and they were also friends of Huang Jiaju, who rushed to Japan to visit his old friend as soon as possible after Huang Jiaju's death, and Huang Jiaqiang was also Huang Jiaju's spirit supporter.
Shan Liwen is definitely one of the buried talents in Hong Kong, and in the first season of "I Am a Singer", he was only like a sweeping monk, just playing bass and never showing off.
Liu Junli
Liu Junli first played guitarist.
His first contact with bass was after watching "The Hunt" starring Ken Takakura, and when Liu Junli heard the opening song of the movie "Song of Duqiu", he was amazed by the low bass tone inside.
"This is so good, what kind of instrument is this", after a long time Liu Junli knew that it was the sound of the bass, but at that time, the domestic can not buy the bass.
According to Liu Junli's words: the domestic bass is like a shovel handle, and the strings are all bass strings.
Liu Junli's playing bass was also a fateful arrangement, when a new guitarist was recruited in the literary troupe where he worked, and Liu Junli immediately faced layoffs.
Fortunately, at that time, there was a regiment leader who particularly liked him, so he let Liu Junli learn to play bass within a week, and when he learned to leave him, Liu Junli was blessed with misfortune and learned to play bass.
Even though the guitarist is also a bass player, Liu Junli has been engaged in rock bands since the 80s, and once formed a very well-known "White Angel" band with Zang Tianshuo, and the members of the band are liu Yijun, the first chinese to master the guitar keyboard from the back of his neck.
They are all old guns in Beijing's rock industry.
After the formation of the band, it was found that there were three guitarists, Lao Wu, Feng Mantian, and Liu Junli, and later the team said, "Old Liu you sacrifice, you still play the bass", and since then Liu Junli has been playing the electric bass.
The "White Angel" band did not last long before it disbanded, Liu Junli was invited by the musician Zhu Xiaomin and Liang Heping to recommend a meeting with Cui Jian, the two chatted together, and talked well as the bass player of Cui Jian's band, which was 4 years.
Within 4 years, Liu Junli participated in the recording of Cui Jian's album "Solution", engaged in "Rock on the New Long March Road" with Cui Jian, toured the country in nearly 30 cities, and rushed to many countries with the band for cultural exchanges.
In 1994, after Liu Junli left Cui Jian's band, he participated in the album recording and song production of Xu Wei, Wang Yong, Mizuki Nianhua, Zhao Muyang and others, and wandered in the band of Chang Kuan and his "music is small" Zang Tianshuo and others.
Liu Junli once wrote Tian Zhen's famous song "Wild Flower", which was known as Tian Zhennian in this year.
Liu Junli is a representative figure of Chinese rock music and an absolute top Bassist in China.
Zhang Ling
In 2014," "Good Songs of China," he carried his bass on his back and sang an original song called "Drinking Blues."
After Liu Huan saw Zhang Ling, he pointed at Zhang Ling with tears and laughed, commenting that Zhang Ling was "one of the best bass players in China."
Zhang Ling himself has a great advantage in bass learning, he was born in a musical family, and has lived in the southern hemisphere since he was a child to study jazz bass.
At the age of 19, Zhang Ling formed the "Mayday Band" with Cao Jun, He Yong and several other friends, and participated in Cui Jian's special concert at Peking University as a guest.
Zhang Ling, who has been in the band for a while, listened to Blues music by chance in Beijing and became deeply fascinated by Blues music.
At that time, there were very few domestic information materials, and nothing could be learned.
Zhang Ling resolutely went to Australia to study, and many friends later said to Zhang Ling: "You lost money at that time, and you lost a lot of opportunities for development in China." ”
But Zhang Ling has never regretted it, saying he is very lucky because he has been exposed to his favorite music.
Indeed, after returning to China, Zhang Ling joined Cui Jian's band, which was not long after Liu Junli left the team, and he succeeded Liu Junli to accompany Cui Jian for ten years.
In the past ten years, Zhang Ling himself and his friends have formed two bands, one is the jazz fuSion band "Tianchang" - the TIEN SQUARE, which was formed with Drum San, Jin Hao and others, dedicated to the perfect combination of Chinese music and Western jazz, and also released the album "Made in China".
The second band, formed in late 1996 called "The Rhythm Dogs", was the first true blues band in China, zhang Ling was the band's lead singer and bassist, and released the album "Dogs of Rhythm".
Zhang Ling has actually been doing Blues music all along, and blues music is about ordinary life and people in life.
He himself said on the show that if he could sing the feeling of Blues with Chinese, he would succeed.
Zhang Ju
Zhang Ju, bassist of the Tang Dynasty band, is the most famous bass player in China to date.
Zhang Ju's work as a child has nothing to do with music, he is practicing sports, and Zhang Ju, who has liked sports since he was a child, has also won the second place in the national junior high jump competition.
After a chance encounter with the guitar, Zhang Ju could no longer hold back his restless heart, he was also the guitar he learned first, and then learned the bass.
After learning Bass's Zhang Ju, he also became a veritable rock youth.
In 1988, at the age of 18, Zhang Ju went to Beijing with a dream, and it was here that Zhang Ju met Ding Wu, and the two saw each other as they were, and from then on, he began his career of drifting north.
At that time, Ding Wu had already formed a band, and Ding Wu had experience in forming a band, pulling Zhang Ju, friends Guo Yiguang, and SARPO to jointly form China's first heavy metal band- the Tang Dynasty Band.
Ding Wu served as the lead singer and guitarist, and Zhang Ju served as the bassist.
Not long after, Guo Guangyi and guo Guangyi returned to China, and because of this, Liu Yijun and Zhao Nian, who had worked as guitarists in the "White Angel" band, joined the Tang Dynasty, and the "Prosperous Tang Dynasty" also began.
Zhang Ju was the youngest and most popular, and since then, Zhang Ju's home has become a place where Beijing's rock circle often gathers.
The band reached its peak under Zhang Ju's balance, signing to Rolling Stone Records in 1990, and releasing its debut album "Tang Dynasty" in 1992, "Dream back to Tang Dynasty" and "Flying Bird" and other songs that won blockbusters at home and abroad.
At that time, there were few bass players, zhang ju was popular and high-level, so he helped other bands record albums.
In 1995, in the first album "The Instinct of Fire" released by the band Faces, Zhang Ju participated in the creation.
The basses on the album are basically played by Zhang Ju, which is also the last time Zhang Ju participated in the recording of the album, and soon after on May 11, Zhang Ju unfortunately died in a car accident.
Zhang Ju's death had a huge impact on rock circles, and the Tang Dynasty, which lost Zhang Ju, soon became divided.
At the end of August of the same year, Liu Yijun announced his withdrawal from the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty fell into a downturn from then on.
The Faces also announced their dissolution in 1996, and then reunited again at the call of the Tang Dynasty in order to record the compilation album "Goodbye Zhang Ju", and Guo Guangyi also returned to the Tang Dynasty in the United States to participate in the recording.
The album covers almost all of Beijing's first generation of rock singers, ding wu, Zang Tianshuo, Dou Wei and others participated in the recording.
Some people say that Zhang Ju's bass level is not at the peak, but there are very few people in China who can call him a bass player in the 90s; others say that Zhang Ju is China's first bass player.
In fact, no matter what kind of statement or comment, Zhang Ju's contribution to Chinese rock is huge.