Over the past few decades, why the whole world has spoken so highly of Hotel California and why it has been rated as a masterpiece is basically the result of one’s own feelings.
Regardless of your specific description of the lyrics, just saying that its opening instrumental music without lyrics and pure string performance is already a good listening experience.
The tune is catchy, the singer's voice appears, and various string instruments and percussion begin to interweave. As long as the listening experience is made into a fluffy large field, the ultimate listening pleasure will be revealed.
You don't even need to understand its lyrics, the touching tragic feelings are born from this.
Although no one dares to boast that their interpretation is the correct version, the lyrics also contain obvious negative descriptions and implications, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of quite a few moral defenders and has been boycotted by religious groups in several states in the United States. .
But aside from its weird and inexplicable lyrics, the classic guitar melody is mysterious and timeless, and it also embodies the most enjoyable melody in rock music.
This is also one of the Eagles' most ambitious and in-depth arrangements, with a foray into more serious themes and an excellent command of orthodox rock.
This leads to the fact that the more you understand the music, the more deeply you admire the arrangement and creation of this song, to the point of worshiping it.
Because the quality of its arrangement is so high, in a broad sense, it not only successfully integrates the local country and rock music of the United States with the rigorous European chord system, but also creates a music style of its own. .
He also single-handedly carried the banner of "country rock", an extremely vague and marginalized genre.
Therefore, this song still has a far-reaching influence as a new music genre. Based on these two points alone, the Eagles are enough to be called great.
After the chorus, there is another long guitar solo, but here it is no longer the playing of all the band members, but Liu Qingshan's personal fingerstyle performance.
Only then did people suddenly realize that they had invited him here to show off his unique performance.
So even the old fans were attracted by the huge curiosity. After all, compared to the young people who prefer to follow the trend, few of them can understand that Liu Qingshan also has a master level in fingerstyle guitar technology. .
Sure enough, Liu Qingshan's fingerpicking skills caused an uproar in the audience as soon as he picked up his fingerstyle skills. Because his technical level seemed to be even more superb than the full-time guitarist of the Eagles.
Moreover, fingerstyle is almost the highest level solo form nowadays, and it pays great attention to the progression of the bass. If the bass of a fingerstyle song is played alone, it may be regarded as a melody.
In general solos, the bass is just decoration, and the melody is basically carried out in the middle or high notes. Most people can get started after practicing for a while.
His technical level, like that of a master of fingerstyle playing, has actually reached an incredible level.
In addition to being pleasing to the eye, the extreme hand speed is like strong wine, a powerful five chord is like drinking a sip, and a distorted solo is like slowly savoring the mellow, numbing and strong taste of the wine.
The slender fingers flew up and down, and beautiful sounds floated out from the simple six strings. Sometimes they were gentle and melodious, like breeze or drizzle, bringing people to a dreamy fairy tale world.
All adjectives are not enough to describe the feeling in my heart. I just feel that the sound of the guitar at this time has color, shape and movement.
Sometimes it is like running water, sometimes it is like bleeding, sometimes it is round like raindrops, sometimes it is thorny like thorns, sometimes it comes from heaven, sometimes it comes from hell.
The playing is so fast that one can no longer see the real traces of the strings playing. It is ups and downs, deep and graceful yet passionate.
In the sound of the piano, it seemed that every still life became the master of music, and people jumped up and moved.
It seems that the whole body is immersed in the beautiful melody of music. As you listen, you will follow the notes and fly freely, carefree and happily in the sky.
But what they were not mentally prepared for was that after his solo show, Liu Qingshan actually opened his voice and sang the aria that was supposed to be Frey's.
If his opening seemed a bit sudden, then with Freyna
The almost indistinguishable sound delivery of the familiar voice completely shocked everyone.
For a time, almost everyone was as sluggish as clay sculptures and wooden sculptures, as if they had received an electric shock, and their spirits were in a state of half-dementia.
Although people's brains have lost the ability to direct their actions for a very short time, after it was clear that it was Liu Qingshan's voice, the atmosphere at the scene became frenzied in an instant.
The live broadcast from National Television faithfully recorded the shocking scene of exclamations. Everything happened so suddenly and unexpectedly that even the cameraman did not have time to move the camera. Only the screams in the audience appeared on the screen. Scream scene.
Only then did Liu Qingshan start singing in the live broadcast, but those with a quick eye could still vaguely see a mischievous and playful smile on Frey's face that he had aimed at before.
At this time, the cameraman finally came to his senses and pointed the camera at the faces of other band members. Sure enough, other people had smiles similar to Frey's.
At this time, everyone realized that Liu Qingshan's performance had just begun, but this was no longer important.
The important thing is that he can actually produce the same voice as the original lead singer, and even the frequency of alternating nasal cavity and guttural voice is almost the same.
In other words, Liu Qingshan's deliberate imitation was so realistic that it was almost unreal. If one could only identify it through ears, no one would be able to tell that it was not the voice of Gulliver Frey.
It can be seen from this that his imitation show has reached a terrifying level of resemblance. Even though the original singer's voice is already familiar and detailed, there is no flaw at all.
And what people don’t know is that even Frey and his teammates were more shocked than the audience’s expressions when they first heard Liu Qingshan’s singing, because no one knew their old friend better than them. sound characteristics.
They have been collaborating with each other for nearly forty years, and professional musicians have very sensitive ability to distinguish sounds. Their ability to imitate is invisible even to themselves, and ordinary audiences will only think that the sound is the original singer's voice.
Therefore, this kind of imitation sound with extremely high degree of restoration is already magical. No wonder people just had a dumbfounded expression.
At this moment, the audience's eyes widened in horror, astonished as if there was a thunderous explosion above their heads, and they shouted "No" unconsciously!
The order of the scene was completely disturbed. Liu Qingshan was so shocked that he was so shocked that his head was covered with smoke, and he kept hearing short and spasmodic exclamations. His immersed appreciation state was completely interrupted by all kinds of noises. People who didn't know it thought it was a performance. There was an accident at the scene.
This kind of chaos did not last long, and was quickly replaced by a state of listening that still had not come out of the extreme shock.
It just so happened that the chorus part came again. At this time, not only Frey's harmonies appeared in time, but the other musicians' mixes also came in time, one sentence after another, sometimes low and sometimes high, overlapping and overlapping.
The singing at this time has restored the classic four-part sense of one after another pouring out. The multiple similarly weathered voices, along with the firm rhythm and the gradually enriched chorus, allow people to once again hear the kind of song that has washed away all the glory, A familiar melody that doesn't like to be modified.
However, the change from the previous exaggerated and sensational dramatic performance style not only did not reduce the authentic and classic quality of the original version, but on the contrary, due to such interesting plot settings, it moved everyone at once.
Because effective improvement will always be more attractive than the same thing, and the lasting impression has its life value, but beyond the surprise additions wrapped up in the classics, it will also have a happy bonus.
If not, why do the lyrics with strong negative connotations, which are full of darkness and pain, not affect this song at all from becoming a masterpiece, and fans also look forward to it as the ultimate listening enjoyment?
So the conclusion comes back to the essence of music.
That is, "Good music does not require lyrics, thoughts, or educated brain filtering. As long as it has unforgettable melody and attractive rhythm, it will naturally bring people the hallucinatory experience of having their nerves anesthetized."
This song is a formal beauty created by layers of clanging guitars and gentle vocals.
It has the double charm of a mature man. It is not about vicissitudes of life, but it is definitely not impulsive. It is more plain and calm, but the listener has greater passion.
Since the addition of Liu Qingshan's voice does not affect the original classic quality, what follows will only be the pure nature needed by those who long for tranquility and leisurely life. This is also true country music and folk rock. the most ideal state.
Moreover, he also has countless fans, and his status in the industry has a wider influence than that of the Eagles.
Otherwise, even if others imitate it accurately, it will never be recognized by all senior fans, let alone achieve the magical effect that comes naturally.
Because nostalgia sometimes goes beyond the scope of nostalgia, but sublimates to a sense of integration of feelings and life experience itself, and more often than not, it is never allowed to be changed at will.
There is no doubt that the addition of Liu Qingshan has prevented this golden song from being qualitatively changed, but instead satisfied people's curiosity and a little sense of inner vanity.
The sense of vanity comes from the collision of influence between two generations of idols from completely different eras. Old fans hope that the new generation will bring blessings to their idols, while young fans hope that the seniors will support their idols.
If the sparks generated by this collision can meet the needs of both parties at the same time, the most harmonious sense of tsundere will naturally bloom from the bottom of my heart.
So after the song ended, the whole audience was excited.
The professional musicians in the first few rows all took the lead and stood up to applaud the wonderful performance on the stage, with surprise and praise written all over their faces.
The atmosphere at the scene was more like adding fuel to a fire, and the explosive sound waves could burn people's passion to a new level!
Everyone was enjoying the pleasure of being pushed back by the sound waves, and their throats were almost torn apart as they screamed.
