The 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of Chinese rock. In this short period of twenty years, Chinese rock has risen, splendor, and declined, like a meteor breaking through the dark night sky, making people marvel at its splendor and regret its fall.
Among them, there are several talented rock stars, although almost all of them have now retired, but their glory at the peak of their time has had a great impact on the development of the Chinese music scene at that time and later. Because their rock is "tough enough", people call them geniuses, but they also planted the seeds of music under the guidance of the elders in the family.
He Yong
He Yong has always shown himself on the stage as an uninhibited, crazy and lively punk teenager, which can be said to be a standard "rock old cannon", but He Yong's father, He Yusheng, a famous three-string player in China, often holds three strings and wears a robe, and appears in front of the public dignified and steady, making the audience think that they should be a father and son who are "intolerable to water and fire".
Not really. Although He Yusheng specializes in ethnic instruments, he also plays some Western music in his spare time, and is very accomplished. He claims to be the first person in China to play the electric guitar, and has pointed out famous pop singers such as Mao Amin, Na Ying, and Sun Nan.
A large part of He Yong's love and inspiration for rock music naturally comes from his father's influence. In the prelude to his masterpiece "Bell and Drum Tower", he added a quiet three-string, which produced a wonderful chemical reaction with the lonely roar in the second half. The perfect fusion of national instruments and Western rock, Mr. He is indispensable.
Cui Jian
Cui Jian can be called the founder of Rock music in China, and the first person to have an all-round impact on society. As early as 1986, Cui Jian sang nothing at beijing Gongti, announcing the birth of Chinese rock music.
At that time, China had just opened up and was waiting for a hundred wastes. Many of the people who have the conditions to contact and learn music are the children of the beijing courtyard, and Cui Jian is certainly no exception. He came from a typical family of musicians, his father Choi Woong-ji was a professional trumpet player, and his mother Jang Soon-hwa was a member of the Korean Dance Troupe.
The biggest influence on Cui Jian should be his father Cui Xiongji. In 1975, at the age of 14, Cui Jian had begun to learn to play trumpets. Of course, it was the father himself. Later, after specializing in the music industry, Cui Jian's figure could be seen in almost every performance in Beijing. His son's musical works, Cui Xiongji will also comment on it from time to time. Hearing the lingering trumpet element in his son's music, the father should laugh with relief.
Dou Wei
In this era of rock and roll decline, Dou may be the most popular among the older generation of rock artists now. When he was young, Dou Wei had a dusty temperament that did not eat fireworks in the world, and now that people are middle-aged, they are even more fairy wind Dao bones, and they are jokingly called Dou Xian'er by fans.
At the 1994 "Chinese Rock and Roll Forces" concert in Hung Hom, Hong Kong. Dou Wei He Yong's "Bell and Drum Tower" accompaniment, the horizontal flute blowing, Dou Wei's low-hanging eyebrows, clean and cold temperament, has become the memory of a generation of times.
Like Cui Jian, Dou Wei's flute was also learned from his father. His father was a folk musician, and although his mother was a worker, she was also the backbone of literature and art in the factory, and singing was a good hand.
In such a family, Dou Wei has shown a talent for music since he was a child, and he can play the flute on stage at the age of six, and embark on his own path of music at the age of sixteen. Half a lifetime of rock and roll, in recent years, Dou Wei, who really "became a fairy", began to produce pure music, and the ensemble of several ethnic instruments must be Dou Wei's childhood memories.
Although rock and roll is now in decline, those angry roars can still give us strength and guide us forward in the long night. Thanks to the pioneers of that generation, leaving an eternal comfort. The only regret and pity is that there are fewer and fewer "hard" works nowadays!