唐朝


Tang Dynasty (唐朝 - Táng ​Cháo​), formed in 1988, is often credited as being China's first Heavy Metal band. The music of Tang Dynasty was in their beginning mostly melancholic, partly depressive, lost in the effort to escape into an imaginary dreamworld and full of contrasts. It expressed what Tang Dynasty saw as their way to show honesty and true feelings. Tang Dynasty had four initial band members: Ding Wu, Zhang Ju, Kaiser Kuo and Andrew Szabo. Lead vocalist Ding Wu was born on December 30th 1962 in Beijing and has spent most of his youth in the northern province Heilongjiang before he returned to Beijing in 1972 to start studying at the Industrials Arts Academy. After his graduation he was working at on of Beijing's colleges, where he had his first contacts to foreign Western rock music. In 1981 he bought his first electric guitar on which he immediately started practising. In 1984 he joined the the band Bu Dao Wung. In 1986 he joined the band 黑豹 (Black Panther) for a short time. Zhang Jun was born 1970 in Beijing as youngest of three children. He started learning guitar from 1984 on and switched to bass in 1986. In 1988 Ding Wu and Zhang Jun met Americans Kaiser Guo and Andrew Szabo at a party and decided to form Tang Dynasty. They played several gigs at small parties, but had to abandon touring plans after the Tiannamen incident 1989. Kaiser Guo and Andrew Szabo returned to the US. In autumn 1989 Ding Wu and Zhang Jun met Liu Yijun (Lao Wu) and Zhao N...

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