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In the music world like quicksand, too many people are fleeting. After shining, it becomes dim, which is normal. But the strange thing is that some people will disappear without a trace, like a yellow crane, and the stone sinks into the sea.
Their disappearance is more real than the search notice posted on a street pole. Previously, Miss Dong had written an article about the most mysterious and famous "missing person" in the Chinese music scene - Wang Wenqing.
He once created a large number of classics such as "A Game and a Dream" and "Forget You Forgot Me" by Wang Jie, the first popular prodigal son, and "What to Ask for in Life", which made Chen Baiqiang climb to the peak of his career, is also a cover of his works, and even Jackie Chan, Ye Qianwen, Zhao Chuan, Lü Fang, Peng Ling, Wang Lihong... They all sang his songs!
He also participated in the "Rainbow Band" organized by Qi Qin. This hall band, which has long been ignored, was once the "mainstay" and "Whampoa Military Academy" of the entire Chinese music scene. This seems to be a band that has always been cursed, if you add The unknown Wang Wenqing, 8 of the previous band members have died young!
The white-clad teenager in the band is Wang Wenqing
Wang Wenqing's life history is so golden and shining, but he disappeared out of thin air, and disappeared without a trace! There are rumors that Wang Wenqing has passed away, baidu encyclopedia said that he died in 1992, but after a while someone will always come out and say that they have seen him, and even there will be new works signed by him.
Interested friends, you can move to the column article to find people to notice: the master of the red Wang Jie, a member of the Qi Qin band, is still missing
After several explorations, Miss Dong contacted Teacher Jiang Jianmin, a former member of the "Rainbow Band", on Weibo.
Jiang Jianmin: Top guitarist in China, famous sound recordist, arranger, representative works: Jacky Cheung "I really hurt", Andy Lau "Stupid Child", Zhou Huajian "Tomorrow I want to marry you", Zhang Huimei "Can I Hold You", Dick Cowboy "How Much Love Can I Come Back"
Teacher Jiang Jianmin revealed: "In fact, there are many insiders who are not known to outsiders. Wang Wenqing is alive and now working as a security guard in Taichung, which is quite desolate. Although wang Wenqing's whereabouts cannot be known exactly, it at least clarifies the rumors that he died of illness in the last century.
Today, Wang Wenqing has been hidden in the city and integrated into the crowd, burying his legendary and mysterious story deep in his heart, as a game and a dream, and now he lives the life of an ordinary person.
Video data of Wang Wenqing at Qi Qin's 91 Beijing Wild Ride Concert
Wang Wenqing's story came to an end. In the mainland music scene, there is also a talented musician who disappeared into the vast sea of people. Singer Zheng Jun and director Lu Xuechang, respectively, have released search notices to explore his whereabouts through the media, and there is also no following. This missing person is Zhu Hongmao.
During the Lunar New Year of a certain year, he pushed the door out in his shirt and stepped into the vast night, and he never appeared again. The family called the police to look for someone, but they did not know the end, and finally they were listed as missing.
Zhu Hongmao
Zhu Hongmao, the year of birth and death is unknown, because the information is too small, the Internet can not even search for his biography, trace his life, can only be through the contact with him Zheng Jun, Lu Xuechang, Jia Hongsheng and a few other people, according to Tu Suoji, pieced together his not plump, sound image.
Zhu Hongmao entered the rock circle without any preparation.
In the domestic rock circle, the famous old cannons, if you want to label them with a region, in addition to the Beijing natives, another important mountain, I am afraid to count Zhang Chu, Xu Wei and Zheng Jun as the representative of the northwest phalanx.
In the early 1990s, this seemingly glamorous circle, centered on Beijing, formed barriers to the outside world. And they are interrelated with each other, and the various forces are intertwined, and they have forged the Chinese rock circle.
There were talented and righteous people in the circle, as well as dirty and unscrupulous people who were not outsiders, and they were also the most unruly people in society at that time, rebellious and dead, which was the way most of them handled things.
In 1992, Zheng Jun came to Beijing and, through The Black Panthers' manager Guo Chuanlin, recommended him to Chen Jiantian, who had just come to the mainland to dig for gold, and the Red Star Production Society he founded.
Guo Chuanlin, known as the fourth brother, was originally the guitarist of the Black Panther Band, and later withdrew from the front desk, focusing on behind-the-scenes planning and packaging of the Black Panther, the reason why the Black Panther Band can achieve sensational achievements in the 90s is inseparable from Guo Chuanlin's operation.
Chen Jiantian is the owner of Red Star Production Company. Before entering the mainland, he signed Wang Jingwen (Faye Wong) and beyond band, becoming the biggest Bole on their star road.
Jinshi Entertainment, formed by Chen Jiantian, represented some singers of the Rolling Stones in Hong Kong, such as Zhao Chuan, Zhang Hongliang and others, and signed the Hong Kong and Taiwan economic contract of the Black Panther Band.
In the early 1990s, Black Panther returned to China to develop, and the album "Black Panther" set a record of 1.5 million boxes in the mainland and became a banner of Chinese rock.
Beyond also left Jiantian Chen's Jinshi Records and joined the Japanese amuse company, after which he traveled east to Japan, laying the groundwork for the tragedy of the death of his family.
Wang Jingwen from Chen Jiantian and Rolling Stone cooperation of Jinshi, jumped to the music factory jointly established by Rolling Stones and Luo Dayou in Hong Kong, was assigned by the godfather to study in the United States, the arrogant and petite Wang classmate felt that he was not valued, coupled with the fact that Tianhou Mui Yanfang withdrew from the award ceremony, the high-ranking people clicked her to return to Hong Kong quickly to seize the opportunity, so she and Luo Gong shot and scattered.
The study course in the United States has not yet ended, and Wang Jingwen hastily returned to Hong Kong and began to embark on the road of sealing. Among the students who went to the United States for further study with Wang Jingwen, there was also a doll Jin Zhijuan who sang about the streets and alleys with a song "Crossing the Ocean to See You".
In the early 1990s, along with Chen Jiantian, there were also Zhang Peiren, Jia Minshu, Fang Wuxing, Liu Zhuohui and other people in the mainland gold digging and shining rock circle.
In 1992, Zhang Peiren, Jia Minshu, Fang Wuxing and others founded Moyan Culture in Beijing, which is a subsidiary of Rolling Stone Records in Taiwan. The big names of "Chinese Fire" and "Magic Rock Three Jie" should not need to be repeated. The Raptors' concert across the river to land in Hong Kong does not need to be mentioned.
To digress, in the Chinese music scene of that year, there was a shadow of rolling stones wherever they went. The flying saucer that fights with it, the momentum is so bullish, after the foreign record wolf came, there was still no scum left, and now the local music forces, the Rolling Stones are still struggling to support.
In 1990, Hong Kong lyricist Liu Zhuohui founded Dadi Records, the origin of the company name is because Liu Zhuohui very much likes the song of the same name he wrote for beyond, in addition, "Lover", "The Great Wall", "Lost Days", "Gray Track" and so on are also Liu Zhuohui's handwriting, he is the main lyricist of Beyond.
After Hong Kong was acquired in 1992, Liu Zhuohui moved north and signed Gao Xiaosong, Lao Wolf, Ai Jing and others, and the album "Campus Folk Song 1" set off a popular campus folk song in the 90s, and "You at the Same Table" and "Brother Sleeping on My Top Bunk" spread throughout the streets.
After Gao Xiaosong and the old wolf used the folk song to catch fire, they started to make a record "Youth Without Regrets", looking for their Tsinghua senior Song Kela to invest 200,000 yuan, and after the release of the record, song Ke brought a rich return of 500,000 yuan to Song Ke, and Song Ke turned from a jewelry merchant to a music businessman.
Park Shu, Dao Lang, and Li Yuchun are all proud works of Song Ke. He and The Dwarf are tight, from Taihe Wheat Field to Evergrande Music to Ali Music, he has been tired and crooked until now.
Chen Jiantian and his Red Star Production Company were the last of the "music businessmen" in Hong Kong and Taiwan to land on the Beijing pop music market. Coupled with Beijing's local Star Disc Records and Jingwen Records, it basically constitutes the record market pattern of the Beijing pop music circle before 97.
To put it simply, Wang Xiaojing and his star disc are the driving force behind the godfather of rock and roll, Cui Jian. Jingwen Records is the owner of zero point band and 43 Baojia Street organized by Wang Feng.
Going around in such a big circle is the general environment before the Guangdong music scene was moved to Beijing, and it was explained that eight or nine were inseparable from ten. Let's catch up with the progress and return to the section where Zheng Jun and Chen Jiantian's Red Star Production Society is.
Zheng Jun was the first singer to sign a contract with Red Star Production Society, when the two sides formulated a contract, Zheng Jun released two albums at Red Star, the first one is the well-known "Naked", some people say that this is Zheng Jun's creation of "half a classic".
The so-called half-classic refers to the tape a face singing of "Naked", "Cinderella", "Back to Lhasa" several songs, there is a saying that the creator of these songs is actually Zhu Hongmao, but there is no way to verify.
Zhu Hongmao served as the lead guitarist of the album, arranged some of the songs, and even designed the album cover. Zheng Jun later also said that Zhu Hongmao was the most talented person around him, who could do graphic, industrial, decoration, architectural design, especially composing, stringing, and harmony.
Miss Dong brushed up on Weibo that someone commented on Zhu Hongmao, and she was deeply impressed
Zheng Jun's first recording guitarist Zhu Hongmao is definitely a very powerful guitarist, around 1994, when most of the other musicians were pursuing heavy, speed, Zhu Hongmao pursued taste and consciousness, the performance in the naked album is really fantastic, typical of the United States blues, country feelings! Bruce is the root of guitar music!
This is also the reason why Zhu Hongmao was able to quickly enter the rock circle and be photographed by Zheng Jun to make an album for him. But how Zhu Hongmao hooked up with Zheng Jun, or who introduced him, we don't know. It is only known that the original guitarist was Zhai Qiang, who was later replaced by Zhu Hongmao.
This Zhai Qiang is also very famous, because he has two well-known teammates, Gao Xiaosong and Wang Yang, the campus folk leaders we mentioned earlier, Wang Yang is the later old wolf, and they used to work together in a rock band called Bronze in the late 80s.
"Naked" as the founding work of the Red Star Production Society, and Zheng Jun's music debut, the album genuine circulation of more than 1 million copies, instantly laid the foundation for Zheng Jun's rock standard-bearer status, Chen Jiantian and his Red Star Production Society are naturally also a source of wealth.
Earning a pot full of Red Star Records, signing Tian Zhen, Xiao Ke, Xu Wei, Cobra Band, Paradise Band, Xi Linayi and others in one go, Zheng Jun turned into a superstar of the year, and took over the olive branch handed over by Hong Kong PolyGram Records.
After three years, Zheng Jun released his second solo album "The Third Eye" in Polygram, still following the style of the first record, but the producer behind the scenes changed his stubble and could not find Zhu Hongmao's name.
It is said that in the copywriting of Zheng Jun's "Naked" and "The Third Eye" two albums, there are traces of thanks to Zhu Hongmao inside and outside the words, Miss Dong does not have these two albums in hand, there is no way to verify, if any Tibetan friend has these two original discs, please inform, so as to corroborate.
At the beginning, Zheng Jun signed a contract with the Red Star Production Society for two albums, so after Zheng Jun issued the second album, he was sued by the jealous Red Star in a paper complaint, and this grudge we will no longer entangle.
Turning around, turning into a producer Zheng Jun, released the third chapter album "Blooming", the album sold well but the reputation gradually declined, participated in the production and singing gao Xiaosong directed the movie "When the Flowers Bloomed" theme song "Why Are the Flowers So Red", fell into a state of silence. It is said that the drinking buddy who accompanies him to buy drunks at night is short and tight.
After the millennium, Zheng Jun mentioned Zhu Hongmao twice.
The first time was in 2002, when Zheng Jun went to a field called "Hot Wine City" in Tianjin and was interviewed by tianjin local media "Daily News", and it happened that Zhu Hongmao's participation in the movie "Yesterday" was still warm.
"I haven't seen Hong Mao for a long time, he's been missing and sometimes gives me a call. I couldn't be more familiar with the life of him and Jia Hongsheng in the movie, during which time they were together all day taking drugs and listening to music. ” Talking about his friend's drug abuse experience, and then thinking of the recent death of the lead singer of the American band AlicesInChains, Zheng Jun calmly said: "I will not take drugs, and I also advise those friends who use drugs not to self-harm anymore." ”
The second time was on November 28, 2010, eight years later, when Zheng Jun posted on Weibo
From Lennon to my first guitarist Zhu Hongmao, the most talented of the people I know, can do graphic, industrial, decoration, architectural design, can arrange strings, always compose as beautiful as painting, professional guitarist, starring in adulthood, all kinds of wonderful, all kinds of unbearable, in a certain Spring Festival shirt pushed the door away, still life and death is uncertain. Sigh, tears.
After Zheng Jun's Weibo was issued, it attracted feedback from many mainland singers, including Shen Qing, the leader of campus folk songs, Liu Zhuohui, the founder of Dadi Records, zhang Yang, the director, Xiao Ke, the musician, Luan Shuwei, the brother of Luan Shu, the actor Cao Weiyu, and so on.
Search Weibo messages, extracted as follows
Liu Zhuohui: Search notice Director Zhang Yang: Later, I also acted in my film [yesterday], I went to his house once a year later, and I heard that there was a period of running to Shenzhen to paint in an advertising agency, just to stay away from Beijing, life was very bitter, and then there was no news Xiao Ke: There are many people who have lost in their lives, most of them are geniuses, and finally we are left with those who are hard-working... Shen Qing: One year I met him on a plane, from Shenzhen to Beijing, about the year before I left, and when we talked, I thought he was trying to walk into the ordinary Actor Cao Weiyu: One day in a certain month of a certain year, I went to climb the mountain with Brother Zheng, he lived in the courtyard under the mountain, and the woman will be chicked, so that he can be warm! Only today do we know that he has been lost for many years!
Based on these messages, we can roughly sort out that he once worked as a painting artist at an advertising agency in Shenzhen, and once lived in a small courtyard under the mountain in the suburbs, and already had a family.
Zhu Hongmao, who disappeared into the sea of people
Zhu Hongmao disappeared and disappeared into the vast sea of people. Maybe it's for the sake of the mundane, or something else. In short, no one could contact him.
Next article, we continue to track down Zhu Hongmao:
In the 1990s, Zhu Hongmao participated in two very important films, "Grown Up" and "Yesterday".
His intersection with director Lu Xuechang and actor Jia Hongsheng is also very exciting.
Before his death, the road guide issued a search notice and even mobilized the power of the media to find Zhu Hongmao.
More exciting, please stay tuned to the column "Good Songs for You"