Forever Young, Forever Tears!
Something are destined. In 1995 when i was a medical student spending all my time hanging out at basketball court, dorm and classroom, everything seems to be simple and meaningful until one day i coincidentally overheard a Cui Jian song called Beijing Story in a fellow medical student's dorm. It is funny what a young man recollects, cause I can not remember what I got for my first birthday present, when i got my gal first bunch of valentine day's roses, but I do remember the first time I heard his voice, this special sandpaper voice, and i got totally lost into this song, totally got blown away. After five minutes of listening to his music, I went picking up my bike heading to a record shop for this album called Balls Under the Red Flag which turned out to be my virgin rock collection. In the past 10 years, i got loads of rock records, had been to lots of gigs and even formed my own rock band. I love rock'n roll all these years, and I admit that I have been heavily influened by Cui Jian who really inspired me to be a rock buff. but the truth stil remains, I have never been to his gig.
Destiny strikes me at one day ten years later when I was there, Wu Tai Shan stadium where I sang along with him, brandishing my arms and cheering all the time. His bandmates did have a consummate technical command of their musical instruments leaving their performance an irrestitable strut and swagger, so did Cui who offers a catharsis which the band on stage and the audience really got. It is more than like giving standing ovation when the repertoire was done, things like that, it is about the total audience screaming for encore. When nothing to my name were played as the first encore, everyone was relieved and sang along. It really brought back memories, my memories of those years when I got red hot blood, when i got tears.
Destiny strikes me at one day ten years later when I was there, Wu Tai Shan stadium where I sang along with him, brandishing my arms and cheering all the time. His bandmates did have a consummate technical command of their musical instruments leaving their performance an irrestitable strut and swagger, so did Cui who offers a catharsis which the band on stage and the audience really got. It is more than like giving standing ovation when the repertoire was done, things like that, it is about the total audience screaming for encore. When nothing to my name were played as the first encore, everyone was relieved and sang along. It really brought back memories, my memories of those years when I got red hot blood, when i got tears.
