Interview with Xu Dechang, Drummer of Rainbow Band
The reason of Rainbow Band: At that time, there was a band called RED abroad. In order to be different from this "red", we named it "RAINBOW". Later, he became a bug who worked for music. There is also a song called Rainbow in Memorial Day. Tu Huiyuan, Keyboard Player, Jiang Jianmin, Keyboard Arranger, Pisces, Tianjian Liu, Bass Player, Goat. Me, drummer, Leo. The four of us have four personalities. We are in harmony. Coupled with the appeal of the younger brother at that time, it can be said that it is the right time, location and people.
We are members of the first rainbow band
The karaoke era in Taiwan Province began in the 197s. The environment at that time was very favorable. Because of my brother's vision, I insisted on forming the Rainbow Band Studio. Rainbow Band cooperated with almost all singers in Taiwan Province at that time.
We are members of the first generation of Rainbow Band, all of whom are very young. The era of our rise was a period of music transformation in Taiwan, from the previous campus folk songs to a group of musicians and musicians. There are Li Shouquan and others in front, leading the music to a level suitable for our development. The four of us, plus the little brother, will be richer than other combinations as long as we work in harmony. The four of us are very independent in music, and the younger brother is an integrator in melody. There are different ways in creation, and finally we need an integrator. Our earliest music was inspired by Xiao Ge, Tian Jian and Tu Huiyuan. They and the younger brother asked for melody and words, and Tu Huiyuan provided the arrangement. Of course, everyone has a part in this type of music. But he led the way, and others joined in. Therefore, everyone's division of labor is quite good, and they are quite independent. It didn't take long for the four of us to do it, and we each developed in our respective fields.
Brother Tian Jian works in his production department, so he introduced the four of us together. The four of us actually knew each other when we were studying. Tian Jian and Jiang Jianmin are the same regiment, and Tu Huiyuan and I are the same regiment. I'm in the same league as Tianjian Liu, and we will be such a combination. You know, we have played with many bands. For example, I did Phantom Eyes, and I was the first generation of Phantom Eyes. I have also done Harlem's "Sad Singer". Musicians in Taiwan Province are like gossip about love in Hong Kong, and they cross each other. For example, Cecilia Cheung is in love with Nicholas Tse, and Nicholas Tse is in love with whom. Our circle of musicians in Taiwan Province is very open, because it is changing and Taiwan Province's economy is developing.
We have always had a good relationship
We four musicians have always had a good relationship. From the beginning, Tu Huiyuan had a car, and four people took his Xiali. There is a Yangming Mountain in Taiwan Province. It seldom snows. One year it snowed, so we drove to see it. Coming down from the overpass, Tu Huiyuan ran a red light and * * came. The four children were frightened, so they drove around quickly, parked their cars and hid in the stairwell of someone else's residential building for about 1 minutes. That was to scare myself, and then I found out that it was okay before I came down. We were about 2 years old at that time, and this kind of thing often happened.
our personalities are a little unique. Jiang Jianmin is a little crazy. He will pretend to be a flower or a pig. For example, when we were waiting for the recording, we were bored, so he pretended that he was a pig and was going to eat flowers next to the flowerpot. Pisces people. Ha ha. Xiao Tu is a genius. When I cooperated with him, he was only 15 years old and graduated from junior high school. He is a child who has been learning piano since primary school. At that time, the synthesizer just came out, and now it has been widely used, but it was just beginning to be used. Tu Huiyuan has been used very well. So at that time, he was a very talented child. He himself has a classical foundation. We do rock music, but the harmony, strings and orchestration he learned at school all have very orthodox knowledge. He is the only one among us who is an orthodox class. I study sailing, and Jiang Jianmin studies art. Tianjian Liu studies Chinese. Only Tu Huiyuan studied theoretical composition and minored in piano. Therefore, Jiang Jianmin entered the music circle with his unique creativity. Tu Huiyuan is different from Jiang Jianmin's. When Xiao Tu entered the music circle, he didn't use much theoretical knowledge. He used his own feelings.
little brother is the oldest. Jiang Jianmin was born in 1961, I was born in 1962, Tianjian Liu was born in 1963 and Tu Huiyuan was born in 1966. Among us, I am probably the most ungrateful. I used to record, they recorded inside, and I controlled it outside. For example, Jiang Jianmin played the guitar in it, so I said, er, Xiaojiang Xiaojiang, how can you play that prelude? He said, er, you always ask me to play this, whatever. I was unhappy, so I wanted to rush in and fight with him. Ha ha. There will be such friction, but it's all for music, not anything else.
We used to be non-mainstream musicians in Taiwanese music.
After these years, only Xiao Jiang has not changed. Xiao Jiang always likes playing guitar in the recording studio. He hasn't changed. He doesn't like doing anything else. Tu Huiyuan started his own company, I started a powerful recording studio, and Tianjian took charge of the administrative work of the record company. He was originally the deputy general manager of Sony in Taiwan Province, and was hired to be the general manager of Warner, but it has not been announced yet. The most classic of the first generation is Memorial Day, which was published by our group in the first year. At that time, we were a kind of * *. We were non-mainstream musicians in Taiwan music and were excluded. Some people think we are fighting for jobs. There are many factors in the planning of the whole record content. His specialty is in record planning, and he accounts for a lot of the planning content. Creativity is the spark of everyone.
At that time, we were lucky to meet people like Li Gedi who wrote great lyrics.
If you ask me to make music now, I'm a person who thinks for myself. At first, I may have entered this circle because of my talent. If I don't think, I will become a "craftsman" after a long time. For example, if we create something to create a rock, which belongs to Taiwan Province pop music style or Chyi Chin style, many people will ask us to make it for them. For example, we made Xu Ruyun, If the Cloud Know. Someone will come to us to make this thing, and we will make ten different "If the Cloud Know". Then it becomes a "craftsman" and a model. Maybe we created this pattern, and later we will become copying this thing all the time. Therefore, it is said that it started from "talent" to "craftsman".
the inspiration of golf to my music
I really turned music into interest after I liked golf, because I had to make money from music. I have a recording studio with income. Basically, making music is just a job. Music used to be my interest and my job. I have never changed my job. I started playing drums when I was seventeen or eighteen, and I have never changed my job of music until now. Since I played golf, music has become my interest. Maybe it's because my recording studio doesn't need me to worry about anything. Secondly, I am a person who thinks for myself. I will classify myself. Music is to stimulate your inner feelings and concentrate on the songs you want to make. Just like an actor, he puts himself into the situation, displays his feelings, feels them with notes, digs out his heart, and tries his best to be enthusiastic. But after I played golf, I felt that it was just the opposite, and the music was deep, so you had to plan. As the younger brother said, a creator's thinking is unconstrained. If I am an operator, I have to plan this thing, and it will sell money. You know, I slowly trained myself to be a business administrator. I used to reject management, and I like making music myself. Tian Jian once advised me to say, Chang, stop playing drums and do the work quickly. I said, who likes it?
My little brother asked me before, what is your greatest wish? I said, I want to play drums at the concert of ten thousand people. This is my original intention. He said, this is too easy. hahaha.
it's been the same for so many years, maybe I'm more autistic. After playing drums, I was more intoxicated in that environment. That environment is very self-centered, and I like it. Another one, it also satisfies me.
I changed from a person who works in music to an operator, that is, I have to touch all kinds of music, which will change the original intention of making music. So, among us, only Jiang Jianmin has not been changed.
Jiang Jianmin didn't do anything else, didn't make any adjustments, and played in a recording studio in Taipei, and went to a recording studio in Beijing to continue playing. He won't be like us. He may change his job after five years of playing. He didn't think of this. He is so naive. Pisces, romantic, can't help it.
Tu Huiyuan works as a musician, so it's very hard. He has been signing new people in the mainland.
We were in the age of the essence of popular music
Taiwanese music was in its heyday. From around 197, everyone wanted to use Taiwan Province as a window to enter the mainland. Many foreign companies have also invested in the mainland market. Taiwan Province's record market has become very institutionalized. Professionals at every level are very sound. So our environment at that time was the prototype of this model now. Nowadays, copyright economy is popular in mainland China. At that time, Taiwan Province's record industry had already achieved it in this part. I think that the future record industry system in mainland China should just skip ahead. Just like we have a video era in Taiwan Province, the mainland may just skip ahead to the DVD market and keep pace with the world. At that time, we were a good opportunity, and the people in the music circle had a good overall quality, which was an era when Taiwan Province's popular music was the essence.
Taiwan Province's former campus folk songs, "Like Your Gentleness", Liang Hongzhi's era ... "Reading You" ... and then Li Shouquan's "The Same Moonlight" ... Tayu Lo's "Lugang Town" ... Taiwan Province's music style gradually turned to rock and roll. For those of us who prefer rock music, of course, it is like a duck to water. The music environment in Taiwan Province is a different market. If it is aimed at the consumption power of the island, it is just an island, quite few. Its music has little economic benefit on the island, but it has a great influence on the whole Chinese music. If we talk about politics, I think it has something to do with politics. Under the control of the Kuomintang, the United States, the United States, the United States and the United States are constantly promoted. It seems that Taiwan Province people are not allowed to participate in politics, but Taiwan Province people are allowed to do business and make money. In this environment, the whole cultural background is learning Mandarin, so Hu Shi, the vernacular and classical Chinese are all like this. These expressions and cultures have taken root in Taiwan Province. But at the same time, the mainland may have lost some very valuable things. Everyone can't predict what will be popular in the future
Since the heyday of Taiwanese music in the 197s, the structure of the whole record market has changed, so it has declined. This is global. The recording industry is not good all over the world, and so is the United States.
I didn't feel a new situation until I arrived in Jay Chou. He is also controversial. Some people don't listen to his songs, but he is still in the leading position. If I appreciate it as a musician, his songs have the advantages of simplicity and good ideas. Judging from the feeling of the market, the biggest consumer group is students, from middle school students to college students, who are the strongest consumers who listen to music. These people are all people in the new era and want to have some changes in the new era. Jay Chou is the person who is accepted by everyone in change. He wrote many songs that everyone can understand. He didn't just write songs that others couldn't understand. Therefore, the reason why I admire Jay Chou is that he really has a solid foundation. It's as if someone said, whoever arranged the music for him and whoever wrote the words for him. This statement is of course OK, but the arrangement didn't produce another Jay Chou. Do you know what I mean? The credit for originality must be given to him. Of course, there are advanced arrangers and talented arrangers, but I think Jay's contribution should be affirmed. So, you see, now everyone has a little Chinese flavor, everyone has a little hip hop, and everyone has a little R&; B, he changed the whole era into this. For me, he proved one thing, that is, for music, no one can predict what will be popular.
ten years? Forever Rainbow Orchestra
In p>1988, the orchestra in Taiwan Province was an endangered animal in the music world. The owner of the record company would rather spend a lot of money to win an idol singer than spend money to support an excellent orchestra. The survival of the orchestra was very difficult at that time.
1988 was also the eve of Xu Dechang's retirement. Chyi Chin, Tianjian Liu, Jiang Jianmin and Tu Huiyuan, four music partners, took advantage of Xu Dechang's holiday to meet in front of the Far East Department Store Circle on Ren 'ai Road. Perhaps it was a happy atmosphere when we got together that day, and everyone suddenly thought, "We have been playing and making music together for so long, so why don't we just form a band!" "Chyi Chin and these members of the orchestra who often cooperate together to form the Rainbow Orchestra; And the Rainbow Music Studio.
The members of Rainbow have better living conditions than other orchestras. They are all full-time staff of Rainbow Studio, some are responsible for arranging music, some are responsible for playing and some are responsible for recording. With the support of fixed jobs and income, all members of the orchestra can perform more and better performances and creations with peace of mind. Due to the establishment of the studio, these outstanding musicians and musicians are brought together, not only making records with wider materials, but also many wonderful music creations are unexpectedly sparking.
It's the first time for Taiwan Province to combine the rainbow orchestra. Chyi Chin felt a great sense of accomplishment when he created this mode, and the members of the orchestra have been constantly changing in recent years. But the orchestra and the studio have been operating continuously.
The earliest members of "Rainbow" Orchestra now have their own sky. At present, Jiang Jianmin is the first guitarist in Taiwan Province, Tu Huiyuan is the best arranger, and Tianjian Liu is a well-known producer … and so on. Every one or two years, all the members will meet and get together again to talk about music and creation. In addition to the members of the orchestra, Lin Dongsong, Zhang Qiongyao and Tao Jingying, who used to be singers of Rainbow Studio, have also made admirable progress.
In p>1997, the Rainbow Orchestra, which had not performed together for a long time, got together again because of Chyi Chin's first English album "LONGER- Love Pursuing Eternity", and * * * co-produced this English album which was meaningful to everyone.
Just like the title of the album "Love Pursue Eternity", the feelings among the members of the "Rainbow" band will last forever,
The Rainbow Band will last forever.
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