Mayday: Twenty years of debut, as always a teenager

On the evening of August 26, Asin posted a summary and shared the "Mayday Just Rock It 2019 Bird's Nest Station" which ended successfully last weekend A set of concert photos. Ashin wrote: "From the crazy world in 1999 to the Rose Boy in 2019, music is the craziest time machine. The prelude has fallen, the heart has arrived, and it is not polite."

In the blog post, Ashin also stated that Mayday has already spent the 14th concert at the Bird’s Nest. Each concert is unique and every time. It's so out of control. Finally, the blog thanked the guests Wang Junkai, Deng Ziqi and related staff who came to help out this tour.

When a lot of mainland talents tried their best to compete for the Bird's Nest to justify their name, Mayday has performed 14 concerts in the Bird's Nest, and is the singer who has performed the most concerts in the Bird's Nest so far. .

has been in a group for more than 20 years, and Mayday has been tied with many names. Now that many years have passed, those names, some are bleak, some disappear, and some are lonely. Only Mayday survives, and the better they live, they have been expanding their influence.

Eason Chan is the number one fan of Mayday. After listening to a concert on Mayday, he can’t help but sigh, “If I’m the god of song, then they can become a music religion. ."

Next, let’s listen to the story of Mayday.

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The story of Mayday begins with the encounter between Asin Chen Xinhong and the monster Wen Shangyi.

In 1991, Chen Xinhong and Wen Shangyi were admitted to the same high school—the High School Attached to Taipei Normal University.

After Chen Xinhong and Wen Shangyi entered the first year of high school, because they usually like to sing, they joined the school’s guitar club.

After Chen Xinhong joined the guitar club, his dream of music that had been silent for many years was finally ignited by guitar picks.

Wen Shangyi is a very interesting person. As long as he likes one thing, he will make it to the extreme with his heart.

He likes to play guitar, so he also wants to play the guitar to the extreme.

One day they went to other schools to observe and learn about the operation of the orchestra. After watching other orchestras, the two kept chatting along the way. The more they talked, the more speculative they got, and the more they talked, the more they wanted to talk.

That night, Chen Xinhong went directly to Wen Shangyi's house. This was the first time he spent the night out in 16 years since he was born. The two chatted all night, determined to promote the guitar club.

During the sophomore year when the two were leaders, the club had two freshmen, one named Shi Jinhang and the other named Cai Shengyan. As for these two people, their qualifications are average, and they have no talents since they were young.

Shi Jinhang is a master who likes to fight. After he joined the guitar club, his grandmother was very happy, "He won't have time to fight out now."

Cai Shengyan is a gangster. The queen can do anything, I don’t force it.”

The four people in Mayday met in the guitar club.

Shi Jinhang didn't like music very much at the beginning. When he was in his first year of high school, he not only joined the guitar club, but also joined the photography agency, spending most of the time in the photography agency.

After mixing like this for half a year, Shi Jinhang suddenly felt: "The guitar is more attractive to me." So he rarely goes to the photo agency.

Cai Shengyan is the same. At the beginning, he was just playing and playing, but after playing, he became addicted, "I seem to have found what I want to pursue in this life."

温尚翊not to mention, He has completely fallen into the music, and the lawyer's dream has begun to fade, "I hope to form an orchestra in the future."

Chen Xinhong is the one who has fallen deeper.

He has no interest in reading at all, so he spends his free time either playing the piano in the guitar club or reading in the bookstore.

Chen Xinhong never took notes in class, but one day he was struggling to write. His classmates found it strange and asked: "What are you writing?"

Chen Xinhong replied a little bit shyly: "I While writing a song, I want to participate in the competition!"

He wrote the song "Good Gathering, Good Scattering" in the classroom, which was later included in the album by Ren Xianqi.

Chen Xinhong and Wen Shangyi are very lucky. They really understood themselves in the guitar club and found what they really love in this life.

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In 1995, Wen Shangyi was admitted to National Taiwan University and was admitted to the Department of Sociology.

In 1996, Chen Xinhong was admitted to the University of Practice and studied in the Department of Interior Design.

Although Wen Shangyi and Chen Xinhong left the guitar club, they still couldn't give up their music. So they brought in Shi Jinhang, Cai Shengyan, Qian Youda and others to create a band-So Band.

In So Band, there were originally two people, one is a male lead singer and the other is a female keyboard player.

But the two later fell in love and didn't care about the music business, so they resigned from the group to concentrate on love.

What should I do if the band has no lead singer?

Everyone asked Chen Xinhong to be the lead singer. Chen Xinhong was originally the second guitarist of the orchestra. He never wanted to be the lead singer of the orchestra, but the other four people said: "You play the worst guitar, the worst bass, and the worst drums. You only deserve to be the lead singer. "

So Chen Xinhong (Axin) did the lead singer, Wen Shangyi (Monster) became the first guitarist, Shi Jinhang (Stone) became the second guitarist, and Cai Shengyan (Martha) became the bass Qian Youda (after leaving the orchestra) became a drummer.

The orchestra is established, but where do we train? The five of them were very poor and couldn't afford to rent a room for practicing piano, so they finally had to decide to go to Monster House.

Because the five-person house is on one side and the monster’s house happens to be in the center, the monster has contributed a seven-square-meter bedroom. A Xin and Monster riding an electric car, bought back a lot of hollow bricks and sound-absorbing cotton, and redecorated the seven square meter bedroom.

From then on, they would say one sentence to each other every day: "After class, the monster's house will roll the call."

Every afternoon after school, everyone will either take a bus or ride an electric car to rush to the monster's house. set.

In March 1997, the five decided to change the name of the band.

Masha contributed her BBS id, MAYDAY, so the band's name was changed to "Mayday".

The band has a name, but who will be the group leader? None of the five people wanted to be the leader, so it was best to "rock, paper, scissors," the monster came out of the rock, and the other four came out of the cloth, so the monster became the leader.

Mayday’s performance was affirmed by a big star. This big star is Wu Bai: "Your orchestra is very good. You will write more songs in the future. Don’t just sing adapted songs.Also participate in more activities to accumulate performance experience. ”

After receiving Wu Bai’s encouragement, the five people are more motivated. They are creating their own songs while looking for various opportunities to perform.

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One afternoon in the spring of 1998, Masha skipped class and rode her "little sheep" to Shihshi University to meet Ashin. The two went to Guangfu South Road together and sent a CD of the Mayday Orchestra's work to that time The most famous record company in Chinese music, Rolling Stone Records.

After the two entered the door, they said to the front desk lady: "This is a demo of our orchestra, please give it to the producer. Even if you want to throw it away, please throw it away after listening. "

At that time, there were many producers in Rolling Stone. Mayday's luck was particularly good. The lady at the front desk handed it to Li Zongsheng.

A few days later, Monster received a call: "Hello, this is Li Zongsheng! "

The monster thought someone was playing a prank: "You are Li Zongsheng, and I am Luo Dayou! "

Then he hung up the phone with a snap. Unexpectedly, the call came again, and the monster knew: "It turned out to be Brother Li Zongsheng. ”

June 1998, Mayday joined the Rolling Stones. Soon after joining the Rolling Stones, Qian Youda withdrew from the Mayday Orchestra for some reasons.

Later, during Mayday rehearsal in a training room, he found that the owner of the training room Liu Yanming was very good at drumming, so he invited him: "You come and be the drummer of our orchestra. "

Liu Yanming thought about it all afternoon, and joined Mayday in the evening, becoming the "Drummer Guanyou" of Mayday.

So far, the new Mayday composed of Asin, Monsters, Stone, Masha, and Guanyou is officially official. It was established and has been here today.

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Brother Li Zongsheng took great care of Mayday and only provided them with planning, overall planning, recording, and publicity support. As for creation, he didn’t care about it. .

He said: "If you don’t make music by yourself, then don’t call it a Band. ”

Li Zongsheng handed Mayday to Ren Xianqi, and Ren Xianqi, who was popular at the time, took the unknown band Mayday to shoot commercials, participated in performances, and held concerts. Basically, Mayday was Ren Xianqi’s queen. Musician.

Ren Xianqi was once asked, why do you always have a young team like Mayday and you can use more experienced musicians?

Ren Xianqi: "A few of them are really interesting! Every time I make money from a performance, it exists there. I don’t go out to eat, drink and have fun, and there is no housing supply. I asked them what to do with so much money, and they said they would save money to buy musical instruments. "

July 7, 1999, the "first album of creation" was released, and Mayday's journey in the Chinese music scene officially set sail. It was beyond everyone's expectation. This album sold 30. Ten thousand copies, the same as the sales of King Jay Chou’s debut album.

August 28, 1999, was the first 10,000-person concert at the Taipei Municipal Stadium on Mayday. This was also the first album of creation. "The 168th live performance of "" was named "the 168th".

In that era without internet mobilization, only one album was released and there was no talent foundation. The newcomers of, mobilizing 20,000 people directly, is a very amazing record.

Amidst the voices of fans chanting Mayday, Asin’s voice resounded at Taipei Stadium: "We did it!

And this amazing feat is just the beginning of a more glorious achievement in Mayday.

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In 2001, Mayday ushered in the biggest catastrophe since the founding of the regiment, Ashin, Martha, and the monster were about to serve in the military.

The career has just been on the right track, but Mayday had to announce the suspension.

At that time, no idol group could escape the "soldier curse."

The five people of Mayday did not know what the future of Mayday would be, so they held a farewell tour.

When the concert started to Changhua Stadium, 20,000 fans went to see off. It was raining heavily in Changhua that day, and the fans under the stage cried into dogs. They worried that they would never see Mayday again, so the concert ended. They Still reluctant to leave.

Everyone thought: Mayday will no longer exist. But Mayday did not give up: Guanyou waited, Stone waited, waited for Ashin, Martha and the monster to return.

In March 2002, Ashin and Monster ended their military service early due to flat feet and thalassemia.

After they came back, they also waited, waiting for Martha to come back. In June 2003, Martha finally returned.

Two months later, the Taipei Municipal Stadium held a "Reunion" concert on Mayday.

Ashin stood on the singing stage and said affectionately to the fans: "From August 16, 2003, Mayday will always accompany everyone forward." That idol group could not escape the "soldier curse." So it was broken by Mayday.

This walk brings us to the present. It has been 20 years since the five people gathered at the Rolling Stone in 1999. In China, the combination that hasn't changed in 20 years is only one Mayday.

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Mayday’s first performance in the Mainland was in 2004. At that time, they posted air tickets and musical instrument fees, and they had a very low appearance fee. Boarded the stage of "No Name Highland" in Sanlitun, Beijing. The on-site ticket price is 30 yuan, and if you have a student card, you can get another 10 yuan discount. The list of performing bands was scribbled on a whiteboard with a marker. In front of them are Mirai Bike and Joyside. Among them, the latter is the main one. The name is followed by a big exclamation mark, and Mayday’s name is followed. A bracket, label: from Taiwan.

There were only a few 20 people at the show, and most of the audience went to the joyside. It was a band that looked very punk visually. In contrast, Mayday, wearing long-sleeved trousers, looked a bit "behaved". When she first came to the stage, she was booed for not having enough rock.

At the end of 2004, Mayday opened the mainland market because of the popularity of the two songs "Stubborn" and "Contentment". One year later, they held a concert for 10,000 people in the Gongti.

In 2006, the prevalence of ring back tones and the rampant Internet piracy made the entire record industry into a cold winter, and the era when you can earn a lot of money by selling records is gone. . In an interview, Chen Yongzhi, then general manager of Rolling Stone Records in Taiwan, said: “In the past, 60% of records would not lose money. By 2006, 70% of records would lose money.”

In Taiwan, Chen Yongzhi persuaded the senior management of Rolling Stone, and Mayday’s agent, Xie Zhifen, independently established Believe Music. Only Mayday and Liang Jingru were signed under the company. They began to try to jump out of the profit model of selling CDs and use live performances and celebrity derivatives to support them in music.Investment in investment-for the next 12 years, Mayday also became a commercial success because of this decision.

On April 29 and 30, 2012, the two-day "Noah's Ark" Bird's Nest concert became an unprecedented milestone in the history of Mayday and even the entire Chinese pop music history. Among them, the speed of "100,000 tickets sold out in 3 minutes" showed the outside world the super charm of the Mayday concert.

At the scene, Ashin said: "How long did it take you to come to the Bird’s Nest? Some people are faster, 20 minutes. Some people are a little longer, two hours. I also know that many people have come from far away. The place took a train and took three days. But I want to tell you that it took 13 years to set foot on the Bird’s Nest on May Day.”

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五月天 Broker Xie Zhifen: "Axin said in an interview, please don’t remember my name, just remember my song. I think they hope that Mayday will bring music influence, not human influence. If you listen to "In Love", you will want to fall in love very much; if you meet your ex-girlfriend, you will think of "Suddenly Miss You"; if you are criticized by your boss, you will think of "Stubborn". I hope everyone will remember Their songs, not their people. Mayday has always wanted to change the world with music, and they have been working hard like this. I think Mayday is really great."

From 1997 to 2019 From a small bar with an audience of only 20 to the Bird’s Nest concert of 300,000 people, from no one knows to everything, Mayday has walked an extraordinary legendary road.

We who liked Mayday because of a certain song have long surpassed idol worship. For more people, Mayday is a kind of faith and a guide. For more than ten years, watching them gradually grow up and mature and become a group of people who are no longer young, but Mayday is still Mayday, when they are standing on the stage, they are still passionate and sincere.

Axin said: Mayday is a monster, Martha, a stone, Guanyou, I still have you.

Mayday will accompany you all the way, will not disappear and will not leave, no matter what dreams you have, no matter what tomorrow you have, no matter what wishes you have, no matter what you want How to sing and dance, Mayday will surely accompany you to the very beginning. Therefore, Mayday and Wufan have an agreement: when you are 80 years old, come and listen to Mayday's concert together!