Origin of Rainbow Band: At that time, there was a band called RED abroad. In order to distinguish it from this kind of "red", we named it "rainbow". Later he became a bug working for music. There is also a song called Rainbow on Memorial Day. Tu Huiyuan, keyboard player, Jiang Jianmin, keyboard arranger, Pisces, Tianjian Liu, bassist, goat. Me, the 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, geographical location and people.
We are members of the first generation rainbow band.
The era of karaoke in Taiwan Province Province began in the 1970s. The environment at that time was very favorable. Because of my brother's vision, I insisted on setting up the Rainbow Band Studio. Rainbow Band cooperated with almost all singers in Taiwan Province Province at that time.
We are members of the first generation rainbow band, and we are all very young. The era of our rise is the music transition in Taiwan Province, from the former campus folk songs to a group of musicians. There are Li Shouquan and others ahead, leading music to a height suitable for our development. The four of us and our little brother, as long as Qi Xin works together, will be richer than other groups. The four of us are very independent in music, and our younger brother is an integrator in melody. There are different ways to create, and finally an integrator is needed. Our earliest musical inspiration came from Xiao Ge, Tian Jian and Tu Huiyuan. They asked their younger brother for melody and words, and Tu Huiyuan provided the arrangement. Of course, everyone has his own role in this type of music. But he took the lead and others joined in. So everyone has a good division of labor and is quite independent. It didn't take long for the four of us to do it, each developing in its own field.
Brother Tian Jian works in his production department, so he introduced the four of us to everyone. The four of us actually knew each other when we were studying. Tian Jian and Jiang Jianmin are the same group, and Tu Huiyuan and I are the same group. Tianjian Liu and I are in the same league, and we will be such a combination. You know, we have worked with many bands. For example, I made the magic eye. I am the first generation of magic eyes. I also did Harlem's Sad Singer. Musicians in Taiwan Province Province are like gossip love in Hong Kong, crossing each other. For example, Cecilia Cheung fell in love with Nicholas Tse and Nicholas Tse fell in love with whom. Our circle of musicians in Taiwan Province Province is very open, because it is changing and the economy of Taiwan Province Province is developing.
Our relationship has always been very good.
We four musicians have always had a good relationship. From the beginning, Tu Huiyuan had a car and four people drove his Li Xia. There is a Yangming Mountain in Taiwan Province 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, parked the car and hid in the stairwell of someone else's residential building for about 10 minutes. That was to scare myself, and later I found it was ok, so I came down. We were about 20 years old, and this kind of thing happened all the time.
Our personalities are all a little unique. Jiang Jianmin is a little crazy. He will pretend to be a flower or a pig. For example, when we were bored while waiting for the recording, he pretended to be a pig and wanted to eat flowers next to the flowerpot. Pisces people. Ha ha. 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 has just begun to use. Tu Huiyuan has used it very well. So at that time, he was a very talented child. He himself has a classical foundation. We do rock and roll, but the harmony, strings and orchestration he learned at school are very orthodox knowledge. He is the only orthodox class among us. 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. When Xiao Tu entered the music circle, he did not use much theoretical knowledge. He used his feelings.
My younger brother is the oldest. Jiang Jianmin was born in 196 1, 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 in it, and I controlled it outside. For example, Jiang Jianmin played the guitar in it, and I said, hey, Xiaojiang Xiaojiang, how can you play that prelude? He said, hey, you always ask me to play this, whatever. I'm not happy, so I want 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 Taiwan Province.
After so many years, only Xiao Jiang hasn't changed. Xiao Jiang always likes to play guitar in the recording studio. He hasn't changed. He doesn't like doing other things. Tu Huiyuan started her own company, I opened a powerful recording studio, and Tian Jian was in charge of the administrative work of the record company. He was Sony's deputy general manager in Taiwan Province Province and was hired as the general manager of Warner, but it has not been announced yet. The most classic of the first generation is Memorial Day published by our group in the first year. At that time, we were a kind of * *, we were non-mainstream musicians in Taiwan Province, and we were excluded. Some people think that we are fighting for our jobs. There are many factors in the planning of the whole record content. His major is record planning, and he occupies a lot of planning content. Creativity is everyone's spark.
At that time, we were lucky to meet someone who wrote great lyrics like Li Gedi.
If you let me make music now, I am an independent thinker. 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 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 knew it. Someone will come to us to make this thing, and we will make ten different "if the cloud knows". Then he became a "craftsman" and a model. Maybe we created this pattern, and then we became copying this thing all the time. So 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 wanted to make money from music. I have an income recording studio. Basically, making music is just a job. Music used to be my interest and work. I have never changed jobs. I started playing drums when I was seventeen or eighteen, and I haven't changed my music job 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 an independent thinker. I will classify myself. Music is to stimulate your inner feelings and focus on the songs you want to do. Just like an actor, he puts himself into the situation, shows his feelings, feels with notes, digs his heart and is as enthusiastic as possible. But after I played golf, I felt the opposite. The music was deep and you had to plan. As the younger brother said, a creator's thinking is unconstrained. If I were an operator, I would plan this thing, and it would sell money. You know, I gradually cultivated myself into a business manager. I used to reject management and like to make my own music. Once advised me to say: Chang, stop playing drums and do it 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 a concert of ten thousand people. This is my original intention. He said, it's too easy. hahaha.
It's been like this for so many years. Maybe I'm more autistic. After playing drums, I was even more intoxicated in that environment. That environment is very self-centered, and I like it. Another one, it also satisfies me.
I have changed from a musician to an operator, that is, to be exposed to all kinds of music, which will change the original intention of making music. Therefore, among us, only Jiang Jianmin has not been changed.
Jiang Jianmin didn't do anything else and didn't make any adjustments. He played in the studio in Taipei and continued to play in the studio in Beijing. He won't be like us. I may change my job after playing for five years. He didn't think of it. He is so naive. Pisces, romantic, no choice.
Tu Huiyuan does business from a musician's point of view, so it is very hard. He has been signing new people in the mainland.
We are in the quintessence of pop music.
The heyday of Taiwanese music began around 1970, when everyone wanted to use Taiwan Province Province as a window into the mainland. Many foreign companies also invest in the mainland market. The record market in Taiwan Province Province has been very institutionalized. Professionals at all levels are sound. So our environment at that time was the prototype of this model now. Nowadays, copyright economy is very popular in Chinese mainland. At that time, the recording industry in Taiwan Province Province had already done it in this part. I think Chinese mainland's future record industry system should leap forward. Just as we have a video era in Taiwan Province Province, the mainland may jump directly into 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. It was an era in which pop music in Taiwan Province Province was the essence.
The mainland is familiar with the former campus folk song "Like Your Gentleness" in Taiwan Province Province, the era of Liang Hongzhi ... "Reading You" ... and then the same moonlight by Li Shouquan ... "Lugang Town" in Tayu Lo ... The music style in Taiwan Province Province gradually tends 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 Province is a different market. If it is aimed at the consumption power of the island, it is only an island, which is quite small. Its music has little economic benefit on the island, but it has a great influence on the whole Chinese music scene. If we talk about politics, I think it has something to do with politics. Under the control of the Kuomintang, beauty, beauty, beauty and beauty are constantly improving. It seems that Taiwan Province people are not allowed to participate in politics, but Taiwan Province people are allowed to do business to make money. In this environment, the whole cultural background is learning Mandarin, so Hu Shi, vernacular Chinese and classical Chinese are all like this. These expressions and cultures have taken root in Taiwan Province Province. But at the same time, the mainland may have lost something very valuable. No one can predict what will be popular in the future.
From the heyday of Taiwanese music in the 1970s to the present, the structure of the whole record market has changed, so it has declined. This is global. The record industry all over the world is not good, and neither is America.
I didn't feel the 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 lead. If I appreciate it as a musician, his songs have simple advantages and good ideas. From the sense of the market, the biggest consumer group is students, from middle school students to college students, and they are the strongest consumers who listen to music. These people are all from the new era, and they all want to make some changes in the new era. Jay Chou is a person who is accepted by everyone in the process of change. He wrote many songs that everyone can understand. He doesn't just write songs that others can't understand. Therefore, I admire Jay Chou because he really has a solid foundation. It's like someone said, who arranges music for him, who writes lyrics for him. This statement is certainly possible, but the arrangement has not produced another Jay Chou. Do you understand what I mean? The honor of 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 is a little Chinese, everyone is a little hip-hop, and everyone is a little R &；; B, he changed the whole era like this. For me, he proved one thing, that is, for music, no one can predict what will be popular.
Ten years of success? Forever rainbow band
1988, Taiwan Province Orchestra is an endangered animal in the music world. The owner of a record company would rather spend a lot of money to hire an idol singer than spend money to support an excellent band. At that time, the survival of the orchestra was very difficult.
1988 is 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 in Renai Road. Perhaps the atmosphere was very pleasant when we got together that day, and everyone suddenly thought, "We have been playing and making music together for so long, why not just form a band!" "Chyi Chin and these members of the orchestra who often work together form the Rainbow Orchestra; And Rainbow Music Studio.
The living conditions of rainbow members are better than those of other bands. 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 work and income, all members of the orchestra can perform more and better performances and creations with peace of mind. As a result of the establishment of the studio, these outstanding musicians and musicians gathered together, not only making records with a wider range of materials, but also many wonderful music creations unexpectedly sparked in generate.
This is the first time that Taiwan Province Province has created such a combination mode as Rainbow Orchestra. Chyi Chin feels that he has gained a great sense of accomplishment, and the members of the orchestra are constantly changing in recent years. But the orchestra and studio have been operating continuously.
The earliest members of Rainbow Band now have their own sky. 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 year or two, all members will get together, get together again, talk about music and creation. In addition to the members of the orchestra, singers, Zhang and Zhang of Rainbow Studio have also made admirable progress.
1997, the Rainbow Orchestra, which had not performed with * * * for a long time, got together again because of Chyi Chin's first English album "Longer-Pursuing Eternity", and * * * produced this English album with far-reaching significance to everyone.
Just like the title of the album "Love Pursue Eternity", the affection between the members of "Rainbow" band is always there.
Rainbow band forever.