Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 482 The Summer of the Band

After Bian Lang shouted the word "understand", all the musical instruments suddenly slowed down without any free beats.

This move sounded to music fans as a sign that it was about to end, but they didn't expect that this was the beginning of the ending...

After a bar of chords and loops like the prelude, Liu Jiayun drew back his bow and started playing time with the audience.

Su Kan, who had been acting as the mascot, finally moved. She took out a blues harmonica and started playing along the chord patterns left by Liu Jiayun.

The outro is not long, only 20 seconds, but it is these last 20 seconds that bring the mood of the whole song to a perfect ending.

From the mourning at the beginning, to the rapid burning in the middle and the decelerating feeling of loneliness at the end, it is just like our youth.

But youth will eventually come to an end. When Bian Lang strummed out the last chord on the guitar, he leaned forward and prepared to vibrato to finish. But without paying attention, the whole body's movements became somewhat deformed and lost its center of gravity, and he almost fell off the high stool.

In Bian Lang's subconscious mind, as long as there are any accidents during the performance, the first priority is to complete the performance. So he didn't subconsciously let go of the guitar like normal people and use his hands to regain balance.

Instead, I insisted on hooking the sixth string with a pick, trying to complete the last move...

May your youth have sweet dreams tonight, and may your dreams be blue! "

It wasn't until later that I became colleagues with Hedgehog, and when I was chatting with Zijian, he laughed and scolded me and exposed it in person: "Bian Lang, you did it on purpose, right? You think this is reading an article, and changing the order of individual Chinese characters does not affect reading, right?"

"Okay! The hedgehog is awesome! The edge wave is awesome!"

"Day Blue Dream! Why is this person just like me back then!" Thinking this in his heart, Bian Lang said: "Don't leave for a while, let's find a place to practice alone!"

Bian Lang felt that this was definitely not Zijian's problem, so he followed the topic and asked, "What were you thinking when you wrote this song?"

Although Yang Guanlei was a little far away from the stage, his powerful voice could be heard clearly by Bian Lang on the stage.

Some people at the scene did not react at once, but those who did react smiled and cursed at Yang Guanlei: "Brother, you are finished!"

Looking at the broken strings, Bian Lang was stunned for a few seconds, and then he jumped off the stool and said to the microphone: "White waves and green mountains illuminate the eyes, and willows make spring sounds beside the sun. I don't see the singing of orioles in my dream, blue. Tailed parrots have their own feelings.

But when he lost his center of gravity, he used too much force this time, and then a sound of steel strings breaking came from the stereo.

"Um, what kind of cool move is this? How can you come up with a final poem at this time?"

"No! My youth can't end like this!"

After Ou Lu reacted, he felt a little embarrassed at this time. Fortunately, he just recited it silently in his heart and did not say it out loud.

Faced with this question, Zijian rubbed his always greasy chicken coop and replied very seriously: "Actually, I just felt that life at that time was quite boring except for making music. I think Another world created in the real society, I hope there will be no disputes, no deception, no dark night, but there will be a blue sky and a group of young people who love to dream.”

At that time, Bian Lang was so embarrassed that he almost dug his toes into the ground to create a three-bedroom apartment.

But the next second Zijian came to Bian Lang's rescue: "But you are not the first, and I don't think you will be the last! I even wonder if there is something wrong with the song itself. "

Bian Lang remembered that he had been calling this song the wrong way for several years. The strange thing is that no one around him pointed out this mistake to him at that time.

"Daydream! Awesome!"

Following the sound of a broken string, Xian suddenly fell into a strange silence.

Recalling this self-narration, Bian Lang understood better why Hedgehog would be shouted out by countless rock youths after joining Le Xia and leaving the circle: "Hedgehog is our youth!"

Because many people have the same feeling in their hearts, this unexpected disconnection seems to be destined to happen, putting an end to the hustle and bustle of youth!

"Encore, encore!"

If you want to say that among the bands of this generation on the original earth, the band that best represents youth, probably many people’s choice besides Hedgehog is Nezha. Because these two bands together represent the blue sky, white waves, green youth and the red blood in the chest that is not cold yet.

If you have been to BJ's Mao and D06 from 09 to 22 on the original Earth, then you will be more sympathetic to the previous sentence!
If there is anything else that these two bands have in common, it is that Hedgehog and Nezha belong to the same school of No Beijing in a broad sense.

What is the self-assessment of the Hedgehog Band? It's a teenage rock band. Why is this a music style that doesn’t exist? Because they really cannot be categorized...

Regarding the history of the original Earth Chinese band after 2005, no taxonomist can make an overall summary, because it is too overwhelming.

What was Chinese rock music before 05? It basically depends on BJ! But the rock music after 05 is no longer what the BJ circle can represent.

For example, the Tour Group and Turtles on the first season of Le Xia are both bands that started in Guizhou Province. For another example, outside of the program, the Dian people who are regarded as spiritual leaders, Jinling citizens, SJZ people, etc. all come from the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Also in 2005, the fresh power of BJ also started a self-renovation, that is the famous No Beijing!

In the trend of No Beijing, BJ's new sound is more obviously epochal, completely fresh, and has little connection with the previous Chinese rock. It directly seeks strength from the new European and American rock.

Of course, what is new here is relatively new. They pay tribute to the No Wave movement of the late 70s and early 80s.

From 06 to 09, many new bands such as Hedgehog, Carsick Cars, Houhai Shark, Snapline, Ga Diao, Gambling Ghost, and Wei Li created countless chaotic and hot scenes at D22, opening a new chapter in Chinese rock.

At the beginning, they would even give up localization. The most direct manifestation is that they basically created in English in the early stage.

In abstract terms, the words "Noise Hit World", the band's first official album, can perfectly explain the temperament of this movement.

People who are not very familiar with Hedgehog probably don’t know the existence of this album, but this is an album entirely in English. Specifically, No Beijing refers to a tour that includes four bands, each of whose names are as familiar to festival regulars as Pain and New Pants.

They are Carsick Cars, Snapline, Houhai Shark and Nezha. Although there is no Hedgehog Band in this narrow definition, it doesn't matter! Because they are almost from the same group, a group of top students from BJ!

Among Carsick Cars and Snapline, Zhang Shouwang, Li Qing, and Li Weisi are from BIT, and Chen Xi is from Tsinghua University. Hedgehog, Zijian is from Beihang University, and Shi Lu is from Guangyuan University. Housha's Fu Han is from Central America... The rock circle is so big, so if you want to find their previous stories, or find rock people in the alumni circle, it would be a long way off.

Carsick Cars and Snapline are two bands that are definitely not suitable to come to Lexia or other mainstream stages.

In an environment where it was difficult for modern sky to become mainstream at that time, there was no chance for experimentation and noise to be exposed. Only if they exist underground is their infinite living space.

This was also proven later in Lexia 2. Carsick Cars and Houhai Sharks both went there, but they didn't go too far.

When Carsick Cars was eliminated, teacher Zhang Yadong also expressed regret: "It may take a long time for music like noise rock to be accepted by everyone."

One of the greatest prides of Carsick Cars' career is performing with Sonic Youth. The impact of this incident is equivalent to Dou Wei opening up for Radiohead and Cui Jian sharing the stage with The Rolling Stones.

On Aquamarine, the Rolling Stones would be Hatter’s guests!
As for Nezha, this was the only band that failed to play, but it became the most dazzling memory of the No Beijing trend. Their songs are younger, easier to sing, and more legendary, because youth has been forever fixed at the time of disbandment.

"Don't stare at the sun, don't be blinded..."

"We've wasted our time, we've wasted ourselves..."

With these two lyrics from Nezha Band, Bian Lang felt that this was the summer of the band.

In that summer, I was pedaling my bicycle and looking up at the sky. From time to time I was pierced by the sunlight leaking from the gaps in the shade of the trees, and I wasted time as if nothing had happened.

Regarding that summer, Shao Chenbei wrote in "My Time with Nezha":
"In July 2005, the stagnant band started rehearsing again... We decided to change the name to Nezha. So one morning in July we walked into the serious Polytechnic University and met Levi Si. The first thing When we first met, I thought he was a fanatical Nirvana fan, but later I found out that he was also a Jesus Chain...

At noon on the third day, Zhan Pan came... During the break, he picked up a large usable metal piano from the ground, and we sang boy don't cry together. "

From summer to summer, it only took a year or two for the band Nezha to form and disband. Just like this No Beijing, in the end, like the No Wave it imitated, it was just a flash in the pan.

And if you really want to understand the Chinese band, or just understand the younger part of the Chinese band, then you'd better not miss these four bands from No Beijing. They either represent the cutting-edge level of Chinese bands but are not suitable for the stage, or they are not available for the stage at the right time, or they disband too early and do not have time to go on the stage.

Youth stories from almost the same period, and the young gang represented by Joyside, Penicillin is a senior fan of Joyside.

There are too many short-lived youths, so hedgehogs are particularly precious. This band is not classified as No Beijing, nor is it classified as the Young Gang, but it has a similar temperament to both, and both have violently influenced and are influencing a group of young people.

Even today, even their stories are old. They all sang "A generation will eventually grow old, but there are always people who are still young." Isn't Chinese rock still young?

They have gone from the white paper years of youth to the infinitely sad golden years, from the seven-year itch to the seven-year precipitation. Now they sing songs to commemorate their youth, still in a youthful tone. Now this song is sung by Bian Lang in another time and space. For him, it is a kind of nostalgia and an inspiration.

Bian Lang remembers that before the Hedgehog tour one year, Zijian was asked in an exclusive interview with Q magazine to explain this aging generation. His answer at that time was this:

"In 07 and 08, when D22 was still there, people like Li Qing and Levis would definitely drink after the show, and drink until dawn the next day. We had a saying at that time called "sitting through the hall", and we had to I sat through the restaurant and then drank again in another place, but it lasted for a year or two at most, and then I got tired, and suddenly I wanted to do it once a year. "

"In the past, it was impossible not to see Li Qing for a week, but for about five or six years, everyone was silent and didn't even perform. The happiest time was when everything was unknown, and everyone didn't know anything. It seemed like What a wonderful new era everyone has created together.”

"Later I found out that it was nothing, and I suddenly felt very depressed. Now it seems that I have gone up from the trough, and everyone suddenly has something to talk about. Maybe they are all over the confusion period, or they have thought about it. Everything is indeed okay. It’s okay, I’m not dead either. When we get together, we can still be as happy as we were in D22 ten years ago. Everyone is still there. Suddenly, we no longer feel sad. It becomes another kind of happiness, from burning youth and not fearing death to cherishing it. Feelings for each other.”

"Especially the time we spend playing music together is even more precious. For example, Shi Lu, you see she has become a mother..."

When he said this last sentence, Zijian was a little helpless.

Just like Bian Lang at this time, he was also thinking: "I have died on earth, and I have to start over from the beginning, but I have to walk the rock and roll youth road that the people of Aqua Planet do not know!"

It’s a little lonely to say, but it’s definitely worth it! This is the youth that belongs exclusively to the post-80s rockers on the original earth!

If you have to divide them by age, those born in the 70s are the ones who admire the new pants, and those born in the 60s are the first generation of rock and roll.

On the original earth, the old rock music that Bian Lang saw before traveling through time was from those born in the 50s and 60s, and the most popular music festival finale was born in the 70s.

But now even the bands born in the 80s are beginning to enter middle age. Therefore, we need an opportunity to complete a succession and give more stages to people in the 80s, 90s and 00s.

These bands all created their own stages when they were young, and they all burned their youth in the summer of their twenties.

As the New Pants band said in Le Xia: "Back then they were all very handsome young men, but now they are all middle-aged people, which is quite sad."

Yes, those born in the 80s are also beginning to reach middle age, this is an unavoidable topic!
Now that the mood has reached this point, let's continue playing with the hedgehog. Bian Lang wants to use this to re-illuminate the youth in his heart, and at the same time, leave a rock and roll scene for the young fans of Aqua Blue Star. Memories of youth that exist.

And in this memory of youth, there can’t be only rolling stones, hedgehogs, new pants, second-hand roses and Mayuan poets.

There should also be Nezha, Yao, Evergreen, Prism, Island Mood, Mr. Turtle, Houhai Shark, The Right to Reshape the Statue, Sound Fragments, Sound Toys, Wutiaoren, Kawa, Combs, Daytime Whispers, Fulu Longevity, Lost Train, Ideal Back Garden, Trojan Horse, Dada, etc...

After thinking so much, Bian Lang's silence didn't last long. The audience thought he was trying to use some encore.

But who would have thought that Bian Lang would just say: "Tonight, our concert ends here!"

But before any objections came out, Bian Lang continued: "Everyone, give us some time to prepare. When summer comes, I want to take you to the band's big carnival and experience "Summer of the Band" together. !”

(End of this chapter)