Group photo of a joint performance between Tang Dynasty and Black Panther
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"Even though we made a record and signed a contract with the company, we were still in an underground state. People in that era thought that we were not doing our jobs, playing music all day and night, and not looking for a serious job. "It's probably the inner monologue of every Beijing underground rock band.
Zhang Chu
Some time ago, Gao Yuan published a book called "Singing Youth To the End". When it comes to Gao Yuan, perhaps most people will first think of "Dou Wei's second wife", and ignore her own identity as a photographer, forgetting that she is perhaps the best documentary photographer of music in China.
The book describes the 1990s, when Chinese rock music went into a long slumber after a brief explosion, which was done after 2000. But in this decade, in the context of a special era, these music not only presented "a kind of social reality, personal inner anxiety and attempt to seek cathartic expression", but also accompanied many people through youth.
Dou Wei
The golden decade of Chinese rock and roll has become a microcosm of the era that cannot be copied because of the particularity of its era. A generation's pursuit of youth, freedom, talent, and independence has profoundly influenced that era, condensing the emotional look back of an entire generation.
Wang Feng
The book is subtitled "1990-1999: Chinese Rock and Roll and the Images of a Cultural Group", and people always say that the 90s were the most beautiful time for Chinese rock, and after 2000, Chinese rock music quickly sank after a brief explosion, as if many people ignored what happened to Chinese rock and roll before this short-lived decade.
Cui Jian
If Cui Jian sang a song "Nothing" at the first 100 singers concert of the "Year of World Peace" at the Beijing Workers' Gymnasium on May 9, 1986, which opened the door to rock and roll for the Chinese mainland and became a powerful catalyst for the development of Chinese rock music, it is more appropriate to say that Cui Jian began his own long march of rock and roll.
Few people know that he was the first to open the rock 'n' roll window for us, in 1969.
Chinese rock started late, but legend has it that some cadres' children had been listening to the Beatles in the compound in their early years, but it is still well documented from the 1980s.
Zheng Jun
In the winter of 1979, Wan Xing, Li Shichao, Ma Xiaoyi and Wang Xinbo, four young people, formed their band "Wan Li Ma Wang" at the Second Chinese College in Beijing, featuring cover songs by Beatles, Beegees and Paul Simon, who are considered to be the earliest known Chinese rock bands and officially opened a new era of Chinese rock. But with the graduation of college, the band "Wan Li Ma Wang" has broken up, and there are no works or photos left.
As the 'bellwether' of Chinese rock music, it seems to have made an ominous omen for the future development of rock music in China, that is, a reproduction.
Wang Yong, who cut his long hair
In 1981, the band Aris mainly performed Japanese songs, and the members were Li Li and Wang Yong, who graduated from the China Conservatory of Music.
This is the first taste of electric sound in Chinese rock, although this band seems to have nothing to do with rock, but this attempt has been very helpful, laying a good foundation for them to form a rock band later. Maybe you don't know the Aris band, but you must know that the 1984 tumbler band was also formed by them.
Wang Yong
Wang Yong, the character who has to be said, mainly playing guzheng and keyboard, the first contact to know Wang Yong, is actually Hung Hom rock concert, the fat keyboardist standing behind, and later accidentally bought an album "Past Life". It was 1996, and one of the songs, "Festival, Song and Dance, Pure Land", was very impressed with it, and later learned that it was based on Kitaro's music and added Chinese national colors. After the album "Past Lives", Wang Yong began a worldwide journey with his guzheng.
Wang Di accompanied Cui Jian for his birthday photos
Vipers and bands in 1982. Ding Wu, Wang Di and others formed. Ding Wu was also the lead singer of the later Tang Dynasty band, and this year was also Ding Wu's first appearance in the history of Chinese rock.
Eddie
At the end of 1983, the Continental Band was formed. The members are all foreigners who came to Beijing, including the famous guitarists Eddie, Paul, Dai Wei, Sifili, Hogard, Nancyl, Yilou, and Yiwang. The band also created some rock songs while copying foreign rock works. They often perform at international clubs and universities.
The mainland band was the catalyst that directly formed the production of Chinese rock music, and also gave birth to a great guitarist like Eddie.
If you don't know the plywood band and the tumbler band, then you don't understand the history of Chinese rock.
In 1984, the band was formed, and its members included Cui Jian, Liu Yuan, Yang Leqiang, Zhou Xiaoming, Wen Bo, An Shaohua and Li Xiuli. The seven members are all actors from the Beijing Song and Dance Troupe, and the band is named "Qiplate", in order to show that the seven people in the band are glued together, and no one can do without the meaning of the other, but the later development of the band is not as they wish.
The band mainly sings European and American pop songs in small restaurants and hotels in Beijing. In 1985, his only album was released: "The Album of The Seven Plywoods".
Liu Yuan, the "Father of Chinese Jazz"
Yang Le, guitarist lead singer.
Li Ji
The Tumbler Band was formed in the same year, with members Zang Tianshuo, Ding Wu, Wang Di, Wang Yong, Sun Guoqing, Qin Qi, Li Ji, Yan Gang and Li Li. Perhaps because Li Li did the Aris band before, tumblers still mainly sing Japanese pop songs. Tumbler is not only the first band in mainland China to try to interpret modern music with electro-acoustic instruments, but also the founder of rock in the true sense of the mainland.
The Black Panthers were formed in 1987. In 1987, Ding Wu found Li Tong to form the Band Black Panther. The initial lineup is: lead guitar Li Tong, rhythm guitar Guo Chuanlin, bass Wang Wenjie, drummer Cheng Wei and Wang Wenjie's eldest brother Wang Wenfang, Ding Wu lead singer. In 1988, Ding Wu quit black panther and formed a Tang Dynasty band with Zhang Ju and others.
In 1988, Dou Wei joined the Band Black Panther as the lead singer and songwriter. Dou Wei's performances of "Landless Self-Tolerance" and "Don't Break My Heart" have also become classic songs of the band. In 1991, Dou Wei quit Black Panther and Luan Shu joined as lead singer and keyboardist. In the same year, the album Black Panther was released. He left in 1994. Qin Yong joined in 1995 as lead singer and left in 2005. Until now, The Black Panther has undergone a total of seven lead vocal changes.
The album Black Panther has been named one of the twenty greatest records in the history of Chinese rock, and it is also the biggest record sales miracle that has created Chinese rock since Cui Jian. The Black Panthers' bias towards popular rock styles also influenced later bands, such as Paradise, Zero Point, etc.
1987 A small episode of no-say, Ado is formed. Ado is an emerging Beijing band that includes two foreign embassy employees: Hungarian bassist Barasz and Madagascar guitarist Eddie. These foreign musicians introduced Lei Roll, Blues and Jazz to Beijing. Cui Jian also officially left the Beijing Symphony Orchestra at this time, and he began to work for Ado.
Ado brings rhythmic dynamic music to Cui Jian's musical tune. It was a great help to the later album "Rock on the New Long March Road".
Cui Jian has said more than once that ado is the cradle of his music. This is a historical record of the first time in Beijing, China, after rock musicians came to the newly opened country from distant Madagascar and Hungary, met the Chinese drum king and the first sorcerer, and under the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures, they showed their enthusiasm, perseverance and fearless spirit for the first time in music.
Liu Yijun
In the same year, the band White Angel was formed. The members are Cheng Jin, Liu Junli, Liu Yijun, Feng Mantian, Qin Qi, Zang Tianshuo, and Qin Yong. We can see that there are many musicians that we are familiar with later. He has recorded one and is the only album, "The Break from Love". Disbanded in 1989.
In 1988, Gao Qi and the famous musician Cao Jun formed the "Breath" band, which was a hard rock style. In 1990, the band participated in the "90 Modern Concert" at the Capital Gymnasium. In 1991, the album "Breathe" was released, and in September it was announced that he would quit and form the band Overload. The breathing band officially formed a fixed lineup: lead singer Wei Hua, lead guitar Cao Jun, rhythm guitar Liu Wenli, drummer Ma He, keyboard Zou Shidong, bass Gu Zhong. In 1993, he released the album "The Sun Rises".
I remember the first time I heard about the Tang Dynasty was in junior high school, a rare heavy metal in China completely shocked me, from the team members themselves to the perfection of the lyrics of the song, none of them exuded charming charm. I began to like Ding Wu, like Lao Wu, like Zhang Ju, like the sun, like heaven, like flying birds. Tang Dynasty – an album that every rocker can never forget.
In 1988, the Tang Dynasty Band was formed by Ding Wu (lead singer and rhythm guitarist), Zhang Ju (bassist), and Kaiser (Guo Yiguang, Chinese-American) and his classmate Szabo in Beijing. In 1989, guitarist Liu Yijun (Lao Wu) and drummer Zhao Nian joined the band due to the return of Kaiser and Szabo, which later became the most influential lineup of the Tang Dynasty band.
At the "90 Modern Concert" at the Capital Gymnasium at the end of 1989, the tang dynasty band took the stage to win them a large number of rock fans. In May 1990, the band signed to Rolling Stone Records in Taiwan, and in 1991 released their heavy metal style debut album Tang Dynasty, which established Tang Dynasty Band's important position in the Chinese rock music scene.
Zhang Ju and Ding Wu
A pain for all Chinese rockers and rock fans, on May 11, 1995, bassist Zhang Ju died in a car accident.
Zhang Ju had participated in 3 bands before joining the "Tang Dynasty", and although he was young, he was already the elder of the Beijing rock circle. He was the youngest in the band, but he was extremely savvy and skilled among his peers in a very short time. There is an unknown secret here, because Zhang Ju's family was the richest in the rock circle at that time, because of his righteous and helpful personality, he indirectly created the Tang Dynasty.
Many bands have befriended and teamed up because they knew each other in Zhang Ju's home. It is also the main event and rehearsal venue of the "Tang Dynasty" band, and many of the band's works were also born here. Zhang Ju's personal talent is quite outstanding, and his contribution to the integration of the Tang Dynasty is irreplaceable. Many people do not understand Zhang Ju's contribution, he created a platform for rock exchanges in beijing rock circle, indirectly creating the advance of Chinese rock, once said that if Zhang Ju is still there, China may move forward again, although a little exaggerated, but the outstanding contribution to Chinese rock is indelible. Let's remember Zhang Ju.
Subsequently, Liu Yijun announced his departure. Gu Zhong and Kaiser, the bassists of the original "Breath" band, have joined and returned to the band. In 1998, the band released their second album, Rendition, with a new line-up. After that, Kaiser left the team again, and Yu Yang and Chen Lei successively served as guitarists in the band.
After frequent member changes, the original member Liu Yijun finally returned to the band in early 2002, and the new band lineup was officially determined as: Ding Wu, Liu Yijun, Zhao Nian, Gu Zhong, and Chen Lei.
In 1989, Cui Jian went to London to participate in the Asian Pop Music Festival, which not only marked the official entry of Chinese rock music to the world, but also opened the myth of Cui Jian.
The Faces were formed in 1989 in a heavy metal style. This was the first juvenile band in China, many years before the Flower Band. The average age of band members was less than 18 when they joined the army.
Guitarist Acura, that is, later at the concert of Magic Rock Sanjie in Hung Hom, he served as the guitarist of He Yong's band, and picked up the guitarist who jumped around next to He Yong.
In the same year, the Bronze Band was formed. This is also a band worth mentioning, let's take a look at the musicians who have joined this band: Gao Xiaosong, Old Wolf, Zhao Wei, Xu Ningfeng, Jiang Tao, Bai Fanglin, Zhai Qiang, Yang Haihua, Li Wei and so on. The style is heavy metal.
Although it is also imitating foreign heavy metal bands, the harmonic sleeve used in bronze is extremely simple and ordinary, and a large number of imitation harmonic vocals are added. It seems that Old Wolf and Gao Xiaosong should indeed sing campus folk songs, but it is still quite interesting to think that they have also made heavy metal.
The first all-female rock band, Cobra, was formed. The members are Xiao Nan, Wang Xiaofang, Lin Na, Wei Wei, and Tana. As the first female band in the history of Chinese rock, Cobra not only filled the gap of female vocals in Chinese rock music, but also attracted the attention of foreign media. In 1992, German National Television one made a special musical film for the Cobra.
At the same time, Cobra was the first Chinese band to tour In Europe and debut at CbGB, the most legendary rock club in New York. Cobra has undergone several personnel changes, but has always maintained an all-female lineup active on the stage, and the most important performance in the history of Chinese rock music has never lacked their presence.
High flag
Living for an ideal comes at a price, and it's possible that you'll have to fight for an unattainable ideal all your life. Most people don't gamble like this and give up under the pressure of reality, so most people, as generalists, become passers-by of history.