吉他英雄

10几年的五道口，地铁的旁边原来是一个大的菜市场，几个广东人拿着卡口磁带，Led Zeppelin的磁带就像土豆一样放在麻袋里面，2块钱！挑出来，面带稚嫩的小店主三下五除二就把断掉的磁带接上。那时候的娱乐少得可怜，这一盘磁带可以给我带来一个学期欢乐，不知道这样的声音是如何来的，陌生却震撼。转过街角，商店里，长发的店主，拿出一样的磁带，擦得很干净，振振有词告诉我，这是Heavy Metal的鼻祖，值！40块！那个时候便知艺术的价值正比欣赏者的喜爱程度。

猜想导演选了他们三人是因为他们是三种不同的风格，来自三个不同的时代。他们又是相同的，70年代的英格兰，罢工、偿还美国巨额战后债务，经济一蹶不振，都柏林也是一片萧条，Jack成长在脏乱的墨西哥人街区，他们都需要快乐，需要表达，认真的表达。也许摇滚需要压抑的现实作为土壤。充满激情的年轻人在简陋的音乐室演出了一首首至今传唱的曲子。

多年后的今天，互联网把世界的距离拉近到了一秒以内，冬天纽约广场的国旗短裤会在北京西客站的大厅直播。如果他们生在这个时代，可能早就被父母揪着“步入正轨”，西服革履喷着香水出入现代化的办公楼，周末成群结队去工体、后海。这个时代再也没有人质疑“stairway to heaven”，也不会有人关心“where streets have no names”。谁还会因为一盘磁带欣喜若狂，吉他“大师”们的教学录像摆了整整一书架，谁还会去为了一个chord四处求学。

他们各有天分，但是时代成全了他们的成就。如今社会巨变，新的形式早已诞生，可是也许只有等到再过10年才能清晰地看出我们这个时代的成就。

影片开头白杰克自己造了一把“电吉他”，这里就有他最爱的那台fender老管箱子。佩奇的老G，那麻酥酥的过载。Edge的一地单块和各种机架。
这三个人都是当之无愧的大师，代表了三个时代，三种乐手，三个风格。
佩奇是传统派，对吉他的痴迷，对于传统的电声乐器的声音和技巧的诠释，他似乎代表的是在他的演奏里，吉他本身是最关键的东西；
Edge，对于效果器的痴迷代表了那个花样层出的电声乐器时代，细致入微的对效果器的调节和理解构造了U2的声音世界，华丽又精致的声音让人着迷，在影片中似乎在隐喻他代表的是中间环节，对效果器的崇拜；
白杰克，奇葩的演奏家，但是我个人最崇拜和欣赏的乐手，塑料吉他，接上音响，这个人演奏的音乐全是情绪，高超的演奏技艺足以让效果器和吉他黯然失色，但是不能忽略他自己最爱的（后来在其他的地方的采访里他透露）那台世上已经不多的老管箱。他似乎代表的就是最终的环节：音箱。

在影片行进的过程中，分别讲述了三个主角所在的乐队，齐柏林飞艇，U2，白色条纹。一幕幕一个个镜头让喜爱这些乐队的人觉得每一秒都那么幸福，刷几十遍都觉得兴奋。
不论别人怎么看，我只是觉得这部电影就是为演奏和爱好吉他的人，热爱摇滚乐的人拍摄的。
对于许多喜欢音乐的人来说，只是音乐本身，追星的人追得是花边，是绯闻和娱乐，这里不做评价，但是这部电影真正的事关注了音乐后面的工匠气质。又是谁在喜欢这些乐队的同时，去研究他们的吉他音色，用的琴，音箱，效果器，甚至是什么型号的琴弦，什么规格的连接线，什么样式的拨片呢？是吉他中国里的宅逼们哈哈。我就是其中一员。我乐此不疲。
曾几何时我不在乎这些细微的东西，一心想着做音乐当大师不要有时下所批评的“匠气”。走着走着，当回过头来再看看这部电影，觉得工匠本身的幸福，只有工匠自己知道。年龄越大越能真正的体会到能让自己幸福和快乐的东西到底是什么。我越来越觉得演奏乐器本身，弹各种好的琴，看她的贴面木材配件，擦拭她们，组合自己的单块矩阵，摆弄音响升级设备，看不同的木材，发出不同的声音，感受琴体的震动，电流的噪音，最快乐。有时候甚至因为有了一块不错的擦琴布而乐一整天。
厨师爱自己刀，锅碗瓢盆；木匠爱自己锯，尺子锉刀；乐手爱自己的琴，各种能让好声音出现的工具。大师是怎么炼成的我不敢下断言，但必然先要做好一个好工匠，对自己的事业发自内心的那种爱。

说回这部影片，对于我来说，也可能对于很多热爱电吉他的人来说，就是一种福利。与长夜漫漫时一部精彩的A片一样，沁人心脾的渴望和旖旎。

一个有意思的事件，就是08年奥运会闭幕式，吉米和碧昂斯在鸟巢的表演，伦敦接过奥运会的火炬，北京提出让佩奇假弹，老爷子很惊：我这一生演过无数次演出，从来没有人让我假弹的。

数字时代来临了，时下音乐录音也都可以分轨分时。想想披头士那个年代，在录音棚一帮人同步录音这种事简直就是家常便饭，是乐手的基本素质。而今如若有人这样做了，会被称为技艺高超。

影片最后几个人回到了吉他本身，用木吉他来了段即兴。那时我觉得，似乎演奏吉他也成了“拳怕少壮”。昭示着，对于演奏音乐来说，最关键的，还是演奏者本身，能出最好的声音的关键是演奏乐器的人。

希望几十年后还有喜欢电吉他的人能看到这部影片，不知道那时候演奏的琴、效果器、音箱都变成什么样了。但是我要说，Gibson直到现在还在复刻1957、58、59、60年代；晶体管音箱问世那么多年了，还是电子管音箱最温暖最好听，也在不断复刻上世纪五六十年代的玩意；至于效果器，永远都是哪家动态好，哪家就是好东西。（动态是个啥？就是你是高手，你的牛逼能更多的体现，你是二把刀，你的瑕疵也会放大。）

即使未来巴西非洲的好木材采光了，用了合成材料代替了琴体，能完美的模拟风干年份足够的木材的震动了，还有一件事是未来的人体会不到的：打开琴箱，那股属于琴自己的香味。

PS：已知G和PRS绝对是可以闭眼通过闻味辨别真假的了哈哈哈。

guitar是乐器，也是艺术品，流畅的线条，完美的曲线，幻化出动听的旋律.... 看着片中出现的那些神器Fender、Gibson、成箱的机架效果器、集成的踏板、电子管的音响，不禁想起自己刚接触吉他时成天梦想着自己以后会有这样的设备、有自己的乐队、站在属于自己的舞台上，演奏自己的音乐......想起自己对音乐的一切幻想，想成为 Vai、Eric Johnson、Yngwie、Joe...................等一系列大师
自己弹琴也有些年头了，惭愧技术上没什么提高，但庆幸的是开阔了自己的眼界，接触了多种音乐风格，了解到音乐的美好，不然依旧可悲的听着那些口水歌，堕落下去......
回到影片中，三位乐手（就不介绍三位了，也称呼大师了，片中他们的角色就是普通的乐手）讲自己对吉他、对音乐的感受，怎样开始接触吉他，怎样怀着执着的心态走到现在，他们也说到自己如果没接触吉他，没坚持下去的话，也不知道现在的自己做的什么过的怎样的一种生活，他们用语言交流也用音乐交流，在一起jam一切都让你喜爱，让你回忆自己的经历或开始让你下定决心去接触学习吉他....也许在音乐上我永远无法达到他们那样的高度，但从吉他里找到快乐，用它表达自己的心情也就满足了，那怕直在那静静的欣赏它............
初学的时候就像Jimmy 说的那样，一个和弦可以一个人快乐的，扫弦、分解一整天...
现在没有了初学时的激情，一天几个小时的抱着琴不放、看任何有关吉他的东西.....也没有成为专业乐手，只是偶尔拿出来弹奏几首曲子，让自己沉浸在音乐里........
吉他是生活理的一部分，没有它我也不知道现在的生活是怎样的枯燥，乏味..........
有梦的人生就是美好的，也许它实现不了，也许遗憾但也不要去纠结，痛苦它离你是怎样的远，为什么成功不了.....把梦留在心里，偶尔想起自己曾为这样一个梦而努力过.........不是很美好吗？
感谢Jimmy Page, The Edge, ,Jack White三位乐手和我们分享他们的回忆，他们对音乐的感受！

作为一个蹩脚的吉他手和狂热的摇滚爱好者，此片属于必看系列。还好，此片没有陷入传统纪录片那种忸忸怩怩做作模式，对电影结构分析我是外行，看了一遍后，虽然细节不甚了解，但整体感觉不错。
导演应该对摇滚乐有很深刻的理解，选的三位主角分别是不同时代真正的吉他大师，尤其是Jimmy Page和The Edge我尤为推崇，如果新生代的吉他大师选择红热辣椒的John Frusciante，那么光看阵容我就要给五星。
对电影的理解我就不班门弄斧了，浅谈一下我对三位大师的了解，有不对的地方希望指正。首先Jimmy Page无需多谈，多大的赞美都不为过，真正的吉他英雄，摇滚乐与吉他技术发展中重要的推进者，影响无数后辈力量。Jimmy Page最为人知的还是在齐柏林飞船阶段，此乐队是继披头士与滚石两大摇滚乐队巨头之后的顶级乐队，与黑色安息日和深紫一起缔造了重金属这一摇滚乐最重要的流派。80年代的流行金属，比如中国乐迷数量相当庞大的枪花，就可以听出齐柏林飞船的影子。从根源上讲，齐柏林飞船还是深受布鲁斯影响的摇滚乐队，其中Jimmy Page更是布鲁斯吉他大师，最出名的绝技是重复段演奏。在电影中的Jimmy Page是一个慈祥安静的老人，可在电影影像上可以看到年青时期Jimmy Page的风采，当时也是风靡万千少女的帅锅。人到老年的Jimmy Page，已经无需再从技术层次上来演奏吉他，吉他更像是与其融为一体，这种境界无法用语言来形容。难能可贵的是，鼻祖界别的Jimmy Page对晚辈更多的欣赏与鼓励，丝毫没有架子，与晚辈的JAM中甚至还有谦虚的一面，让我敬佩不已。说到此，想起08年奥运交接仪式后，在天涯上有粪青因为对英国人不满，甚至对老jimmy出言不逊，也难怪，Jimmy Page在中国的知名度可能还不如贝克汉姆的万分之一，摇滚史甚至音乐史上最重要的人物在中国甚至受到轻视，令人唏嘘。

U2就不会如此尴尬，此乐队不仅风靡全世界，在中国乐迷数量也众多。但是最为吉他手的The Edge就另当别论了。在相当长的时间里，The Edge都被认为是蹩脚的糟糕吉他手，“仅仅是因为在U2所以知名度大”。还好现在基本已经平反了。The Edge是和Tom Morello一样颠覆传统吉他概念的吉他手，Edge的吉他哲学是“Less is more”，他是当今世界上少见的以出神入化地运用效果器而知名的吉他手，也许是因为早期受到朋克运动的影响，他总是希望用最少的音符来表达最好的音乐，对此我非常推崇，因为我厌烦了众多“吉他高手”复杂繁肿的吉他solo，如流水一般而没有韵味，失去了弹琴的本质而成为了炫耀的资本。老外称那种速弹而没有技巧的吉他手叫手淫，我认为有相似之处。被低估的Edge面对外界的质疑，从来没有改变自己的方向，20年如一日，为我们奉献了众多杰出的摇滚作品。在电影中看到Edge那一大堆复杂的效果器了吗？我想起了周星驰鹿鼎记中的一个片段，韦小宝进宫前师傅陈近南教他武功，给了一小册子，韦小宝惊讶道，这么厚我看要看个把月，陈近南眉头紧锁道：这是目录，武学秘籍在那边，随手一指，墙角一大摞书，“我看了三年，练了三十年才今天的境界”！世界上的效果器就如同那一大摞武功秘籍，想要达到Edge的境界，不知道要花费多少功夫和精力。我常听说，中国吉他手与世界最大的差距就在于音色的理解上，现在更少有人能静下心来研究音色，Edge的伟大之处就在于此，他是吉他历史上一个怪才。

Jack White是当红乐队白色条纹的灵魂人物，对此君我不甚了解，不敢妄加多言。在如今的乐坛很少有像白色条纹一样搞布鲁斯音乐了，并且还玩的这么好，这么流行，唱片还能大卖。难能可贵的是他还是白人，一直都以为布鲁斯是黑人的专利呢，就好像说唱界的痞子阿姆，比较另类。

在电影片尾，三人一起JAM，其实我有一点小失望。我更希望看到的是三个人各自拿出看家本领来擦出激烈的火花，比如jimmy的连复段，Edge的吉他音效，Jack White的布鲁斯，脑海里浮现这样的片段，想想都让人激动，好比洪七公拿出降龙十八掌对抗欧阳峰的蛤蟆功，效果肯定不同凡响。

好了，一口气说了这么多太累了，有时间再补充，大脑需要休息片刻。

但是当一个讲故事的人，真正的创作者，不断赋予陈旧的生活以新的色彩是很有意义和趣味的事情。
当你创作的时候，必须全神贯注，眼望地平线。

I drive myself totally crazy, trying to get the sound that I can hear in my head to come out of the speakers.
As writers, we start with the feeling and everything follows from that.
We are always worried about being satisfied. When you become satisfied, it's sort of like you just die.
There is a tension in that music that you can feel. It just feels like there's this place where, you know, my soul rests and these guys were expressing it.
I got really into drumming, playing along with the records. Those rhythms got into me early. 100% only caring about music and rhythm. I had a bedroom that was about 7 by 7 feet, really small. There was so much junk I had collected. I had two drum sets in there, a guitar amplifier and a reel-to-reel, and no bed. I took the bed out. I slept on a piece of foam on an angle by the door.
...and so I found ways of playing these chords where I'd eliminate certain notes. So there's a more clear sound... Really paring it down to the absolute bare minimum. When it's so simple, you can turn it up really loud, and it's got more aggression.
Pop music was rubbish, so we weren't gonna be playing that...not going with the flow.
They thought it was going to be counterculture or something. It wasn't doing harm to anybody. Not then it wasn't.
When people take a guitar that's known for a certain sound, and throw it into a whole different context, something interesting happens.
I got this echo unit and I brought it back to rehearsal, and just got totally into playing, but listening to the return echo, filling in notes that I'm not playing, like two guitar players rather than one. The exact the same thing, but it's just a little bit off to one side. I could see ways to use it that had never been used. Suddenly everything changed.
This spoke to me in 1000 different ways. I didn't know that you could do that. Just singing and clapping. And it meant everything. It meant everything about rock'n'roll, everthing about expression and creativity and art. One man against the world in one song... I heard everything disappearing. It didn't matter that he was clapping off time. It didn't matter that there was no instruments being played. All that mattered was the attitude of the song.
Jumping off into the unknown. Hope and have faith that the next chord or the next few notes will come to you. On occasion you get nothing and you come out feeling like a complete idiot and that you don't know everything and you can't play guitar and you can't write songs.
So many lives destroyed. Perverted, distorted ideas of freedom. No life was sacred.
And I thought about it for a long time, for days. There's this whole new world that's just opened up in front of me and I have to figure out, "How do I get there?" "Am I not allowed to get there?"..."Am I a writer, or just a guitarist?"
I shed this coat off me, and then I wanted to try everthing that was breaking rules. I wanted to do things that sped up. I wanted to do things that were like playing a bow and hurting people's ears.
We're presenting ourselves in a really childish manner, almost like cartoon characters. And a lot of distractions to keep people away from what was really going on, which was we were just really trying to play this.
Total disregard for human life. We are not buying into this.
Clarity of Vision. What you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seeing at all. You labor. You sweat to see, what you couldn't have seen from that other perspective.
I come in here and sometimes it's just not a great day. But there's always gonna be something if you just keep going.
There's a total concentration on music and creativity and writing. Pushing the boundaries. Looking over the horizon. Musicians that were absolutely on top of their game.
The biggest thrill is creating something that has the power to really connect with people.
For me it was a much bigger world. I had a voracious appetite for everything. All of it.
Music keeps progressing and moving on and people come up with new ideas and new tricks and new ways to tell the same story in a different way. We are all doing the same thing, attempting to share something with another human being. In essence, we are effectively the same band. We are a little bit more complex. But we are really still the band that's crowded into the small rooms, trying to play with each other, and find those clues that will take us somewhere new.
I loved this whole idea of, you know, getting a band together.

Music keeps progressing and moving forward and people come up with the new ideas, new trickes and new ways to tell the same story in a different way.

It can do whatever you want and it reveals a complex emotion you have but you haven't concerned about.

So I love music very much, I love guitar every much. I am usually alone in my dormitory playing guitar to myself, making some sole and writing some music maybe, if I have inspiration at that time. It is really interesting. Just like relax myself haha...

So music is also one of my dreams, which I have cherished and it do change my life. To be honest, I prefer to perform to myself and people who I love, rather than show from the front of people around me, arguing that, in the long run, for most amatures just like me, music is serve as a sanctifier to sanctify our souls, while for the artists or maybe guitarists, music just as a implement to release most people's souls.

So I will still be perseverance to pursue for my dream, which contain so many stuffs, such as my plan, my music, my website, my company and so forth.

I always convince that people who have dreams will have perfect lives.

Alvin