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ut in the Chinese hinterland, not all Metal fans get the by beginning every declarative sentence thereafter with “I daresay.” devil horns gesture quite right. If they throw you a Ha- By the end of the tour we’d accumulated a dozen or more of these Owaiian “hang loose” or the ASL sign for “I love you,” just dopey inside jokes – sinews that hold a band together, which go far remember that what they really mean is “Hail Satan.” in staving off cabin fever. That’s just one of the many useful things I learned on my re- But honestly, I daresay we did have some truly awesome meals cent three-week tour of China with my band Chunqiu (“Spring & along the way. I figured that I’d shed a few pounds with all those Autumn”), during which we banged our heads in nine cities, from 90-minute aerobic workouts, but there’s always some must-have lo- the Pearl River Delta to Qinghai. The tour ranks easily among the cal eats. Local friends – club or shop owners, the opening act, the more memorable adventures of my life – shows were well-attended, promoter – would make sure we sampled the most authentic. Our all our merchandise sold out, and we made it back in high spirits and tour, I soon realized, was as much “eat-your-way-around-China” good health, even with a renewed sense of band camaraderie. as anything else. There are six of us in Chunqiu. Our keyboard player, Li Meng, Thankfully, there’s surprisingly little of the compulsory drinking holds a day job as a public servant and couldn’t get time off, so the one routinely encounters in business banquets, though that didn’t rest of us, joined by our road manager, boarded a train for Wuhan on save us entirely from the ravages of baijiu: Li Bo enlivened every the night of November 14. There was Kou Zhengyu, the wisecrack- train ride with his own concoctions of sorghum liquor flavored with ing Beijinger who shares guitar duty with me and plays all the stuff wolfberry and tangerine peels. Not bad, actually. that requires real talent. (We affectionately There’s a real tour circuit that’s come call him “Death Metal Snoopy” for his into being in China now, and Beijing bands uncanny resemblance to Charles Shultz’s “To the kid in the Dimmu like Reflector, AK-47, PK-14 and CMCB all cartoon beagle.) Our drummer, Diao Lei, Borgir T-shirt in Nanning, left a trail of posters, stickers and graffiti in is a big ham who’s quite taken with the sorry again, and I hope those the clubs that we played. File-sharing and whole rock star thing, but he’s plenty af- free MP3 downloads have helped create fable, has amazing chops and a well-honed, broken ribs are healing” a good-sized fan base for us, but we were if outsize, sense of showmanship. Bassist Li all surprised how many of the kids in even Bo has a classic bass player personality: solid, reliable, low-key and the remotest places sang along. We had close to 400 people at some never flamboyant – except about his hair, but that particular form shows, and they seemed to understand the etiquette of the mosh pit, of vanity comes with the genre. though not always completely cued-in to the rituals of rock concerts. Fronting the band is vocalist Yang Meng, who came to Beijing Remember this before you stage-dive or attempt to crowd-surf – that from Kunming in 1999. He’s a poetic soul, which is my euphemism Chinese Metal fans tend to be somewhat less muscular than their for “space cadet.” He’s given to daydreaming, spouting pre-Confu- Western counterparts, especially important if you happen to weigh cian philosophy, and using weird archaisms, like this one: In Xining, 91kg (to the kid in the Dimmu Borgir T-shirt in Nanning, sorry Qinghai, when it was freezing cold, “Damn, it’s cold,” observed again, and I hope those broken ribs are healing). Xiao Kou. “No,” corrected Yang Meng: “There is a touch of Maybe it’s different for other bands, but for us there aren’t really wintertime pneuma – hanqi.” For that, we started ordering beer any “groupies” to speak of, and I’m not just saying this for my wife’s with a touch of hanqi. benefit. Seriously, our audiences are 95 percent male, and the balance To be fair, I got some ribbing for some of the are mostly girlfriends, whom their guys take care to shield from the things I said, too. I erred by earnestly declaiming twice, band’s lascivious, vulpine gazes. Occasionally, some women linger “I daresay this is the best meal we’ve had on this tour after everyone else is gone, but they tend to be seriously damaged and to date!” My bandmates rightly took to mocking me are best avoided. Exhibit A: Scary-looking Goth girl who came to our show in Changsha wearing a Bride of Frankenstein outfit, corpse paint, inch-long fake lashes and white contact lenses that made her look like she had no irises. But in the end, it doesn’t matter that there weren’t raging after-concert parties packed with slatternly women. The 90 minutes on stage at each stop made it all worthwhile, and then some. It was worth all that schlepping around of gear with no road crew to help. It was worth the crappy and poorly heated hotels, where night after night I endured the loud and arrhythmic snoring of Death Metal
Snoopy, who suffers from sleep apnea. It was ILLUSTRATION: LI XING CLASSIFIEDS even worth all those rides in hard sleeper compart- ments that smelled more and more like unwashed sock the longer we were away from home. Note to bandmates: Next time, pack more goddamned socks.
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