What are the names of the Wang Feng generation?

Wang Feng, Peng Lei and Zhang Wei are actually the same kind of people.

Author: Modern Sky Magazine

20 19-06- 12

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Friends who read the third issue of Summer of the Band, I wonder if you have paid attention to a detail mentioned by Peng Lei at the moment when he was moved by his words-Beijing New Voice.

At that time, New Pants had just finished performing "Don't ask me what disco is". At that time, Xu asked Peng Lei: Has the style of New Pants changed?

Peng Lei mentioned the word "Beijing New Voice" when she said "New Pants used to be a punk band". He also said that at that time, they and Wall were both called Jingxin Voice.

So, what is Beijing New Voice? This may be the reason why we put Wang Feng, Peng Lei and Zhang Wei together.

Beijing xinsheng

At the end of last century, many new bands appeared in Beijing. Their styles are different from their predecessors, but they are not easy to classify. So someone interviewed ten representative bands at that time and wrote a book called Beijing New Sound. The cultural phenomenon reflected by these bands will also become the new voice of Beijing in the future.

Beijing xinsheng cover

The editor-in-chief of this book is Ou Ning. In the 1990s, he was an event planner and literary critic active in the fields of music and art; Writer Yan Jun turned to be a real estate reporter because of his disappointment with rock music. Nie Zheng is a full-time rock photographer.

1997, Ou Ning suddenly had an idea. He was curious about how these young rock musicians who were active in the late 1990s were different from their predecessors in music aesthetics and attitude towards life.

He believes that these growths witnessed the brilliant achievements of the first batch of rock musicians, such as Cui Jian, and accepted the influence of more western rock music in the post-1970s and post-1980s period of rapid social transformation, which is very meaningful for exploring their living conditions. Therefore, there is a book called Beijing New Voice.

Ten bands are mentioned in the book, including Bao Jiajie 43, Wall and New Pants, and two bands in Zhang Yadong-Underground Baby and Good Girl. At that time, Zhang Yadong was already a producer in Faye Wong, but out of his love for rock music, he would also make free albums for these independent bands in Beijing.

Next, let's talk about Beijing New Voice and the stories of Wang Feng, Peng Lei and Zhang Wei.

Wang Feng

Wang Feng, as we all know, is the new godfather of Chinese rock and roll, and also the husband of Zhang Ziyi.

Wang Feng in Bao Jiajie's 43 years looks a little different from today.

More than 20 years ago, when Wang Feng was studying in the Central Conservatory of Music, he and his classmates formed a band called "Bao Jiajie No.43", which appeared in "New Voice in Beijing".

During the period of Bao Jiajie 43, Wang Feng's works didn't sound so depressing, and most of them were blues rock with the theme of love and life. Although the band has released an album, music is still not enough to make a living.

When I was a child, Wang Feng was practicing the violin.

Wang Feng came from an intellectual family and was influenced by classical music since childhood. At that time, he never imagined that he was not satisfied with being a violinist in the future, but became the new godfather of Chinese rock.

Peng lei

Peng Lei is the lead singer of New Pants 1996 since its establishment. The original members included bassist Liu Bao and drummer Shang Xiao.

Left: Liu Bao, middle: Peng Lei, right: Shang Xiao.

New Pants described it like this in "Beijing New Voice": They are willing to sacrifice their good image to give humor and surprise to consumers. At the age of 20, everyone is sad and sensitive, but you can get happiness by changing your tone. Why don't they?

XX has an injection in the hospital. Guess who this is?

In 2002, Shang Xiao left New Pants to study in Japan. After returning home, he wrote a book called Between Awakening and Numbness, which recorded his nine years in Japan.

Liu Bao later left New Pants. It is said that he formed a metal band, and people will see him in the bar of Beijing school from time to time.

Left: Liu Bao, right: Wang Yue used to be "hanging from a box". Today, her name is Gia.

Wowkie Zhang

Zhang Wei, a popular electronic musician, created the divine comedy of electronic music, which can appear on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening almost every year. He is also the host of Everyday, and has participated in more than 30 variety shows of music and life.

Twenty years ago, Zhang Wei was an ordinary Miyoshi student in Cheng Nan. By chance, he and several neighbors formed a band called "Flowers", which was discovered by a man named Yi Fu.

This man, Yi Fu, is one of the lyricists of Pu Shu's The Flowers. He set up a record company named Niu Bi for the album of the Wall Band, but the name was not allowed to be registered, so he changed his name to Newbee, because the English pronunciation of New Bee is the same as Niu Bi. Later, Yi Fu joined the Internet and founded a company, which is today's program.

For the post-80s generation, Wall is an independent rock band, but for the post-90s generation, Wall has become an EMO.

Bad FM once interviewed Zhang Wei on 20 1 1 and asked him how this change in music style came about. He said: "I think the music in the past was too depressing. I like happy things, so I obeyed my heart and the style of flowers changed. "

Since then, there has been a saying that every Beijing child has played in Zhang Wei. Later, we investigated and found the source of this sentence.

The name Zhang Wei was particularly common at that time. Almost every school has a child named Zhang Wei. When everyone shouted "Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei", they were inadvertently heard as "beating Zhang Wei".

As a child star of the Hai Yin Chorus, Zhang Wei performed on the Malaysian stage.

In the late 1990s, Wang Feng, Peng Lei and Zhang Wei were in different bands. Because of the public's demand for "cultural self-confidence" at that time, they were classified as Beijing New Voice. Everyone needs a word to define these bands that appeared in the late 1990s. Of course, this word can't be a foreign word like blues, punk or heavy metal.

In fact, it is silly to say that you are a punk band today, because every music style originated from a specific history, and the name of the style is only valid in that historical background.

After the 1980s, the new British and American bands were embarrassed to call themselves punk. They think they are a new generation of young people, so they define themselves as a new wave, a new wave. Our own band should be named after a localized name. This is how Beijing New Voice was born, just like the Magic Rock Three Masters earlier.

Beijing Xinsheng also mentioned a band called Sober.

Sober band

The man in the red sweater in the photo is called Shen Lihui. He later started a company and gave many bands a place to live. This company is Modern Sky.

The title of our article is "Wang Feng, Peng Lei and Zhang Wei are actually the same kind of people", but think about it carefully, are they really the same kind of people?

Definitely not. But at that time, they were indeed classified under the same noun-Beijing New Voice.

In the mid-2000 s, when music abandoned the carrier of tape and gradually went digital, the speed of music dissemination and the speed of updating the taste of pop music were unimaginable.

Everyone knows that band music has characteristics, and rock musicians have more characteristics, but this characteristic also represents their "difficulty in shaping" in business. Many bands broke up with this big wave, leaving the lead singer to develop alone. Zhang Wei and Wang Feng are very successful examples after the band broke up.

However, our time did not wait for New Pants, but New Pants waited for their time. Twenty years after the book "Beijing New Voice" was published, New Pants, as the only creative band among the ten bands that appeared in this book, participated in "Summer of the Band".

After the program was broadcast, many "so-called" music critics were sarcastic: Summer of the Band could never bring summer to the band culture. All right! Now let's go back to the conversation between Peng Lei and Xu mentioned at the beginning of the article and see what Peng Lei said:

"When I saw these bands, I was a little sad, to be honest, because up to now, everyone is still very ordinary. I hope this program can bring the band to the future, and then the future may be the golden age of independent music. "

So, has the golden age of the band really come? We don't know, but at least we have seen such signs.

Tomorrow we will continue to tell the story of another rock band, who will stand on the same stage as New Pants's former idol.