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Resurrection 519 Independent Records The bright sunshine falls on the blue sea of ​​San Francisco Bay. Looking at the sparkling sea will always give people an illusion. Maybe the calm sea will appear in the next second. A mirage will appear. , Or the wonderful sight of dolphins jumping, or whales spouting water.

The University of California, Berkeley (ly. of., berkeley), located under the blue sea and blue sky, is always filled with a peaceful joy, just like the beautiful scene of the wind blowing the wheat and the waves. It is quiet, beautiful and vigorous. exuberant.

Berkeley, a city with a population of less than 100,000, is known to the world because of this university, and it is also prosperous because of this university. The most famous telegraph street (telegraph.avenue) in the city is the University of California, Berkeley. The south'gate' of the campus serves as the starting point and extends for several miles to the south.

Almost every historic city has its own cultural landmark neighborhood. New York has Greenwich Village, London has Soho (), San Francisco has Hippie District (ashbury), and for Berkeley, that is Telegraph Street. .

Telegraph Street starts with the bronze'colored' Sather's Gate to the south of the university, so the culture on this street is almost always associated with the legendary University of California, Berkeley, which is famous since the early 1960s. The movement of students demanding freedom of speech on campus to the later anti-Vietnam War movement was carried forward here, just like the hippie movement in San Francisco’s hippie district. Telegraph Street has also witnessed the history of American cultural, historical, and political changes.

Compared with its reputation, Berkeley’s campus is very small and crowded. The scattered high and low buildings leave behind the historical features embedded in the architectural era. The library is a model of the European Renaissance-style classical building, and the Sather Tower is a model of the Saint. The towers of Plaza Marco (plazza.) are built, and some buildings are modern in style, focusing on practical functions. The walls have no extra decoration except for the rectangular windows, just like matchboxes. These buildings of different styles appear to be very harmonious in this small campus.

In fact, the university is like a person, gradually growing up with the passage of time. The buildings on the campus that were built in different ages are like rock formations of different colors of sedimentary rocks or tree rings of different thicknesses. Marking that different period of history, until a few centuries later, can still remind people of the vivid years of that period of history.

Leaving the'door' of Suther and walking all the way south, seeing the unremarkable simple street in front of you, it is hard to believe that this is the famous Telegraph Street, even if it is the small alley at the'door' of your home, no one will object to it. , This huge contrast is surprising.

In the middle of the narrow street, cars are walking in abruptly bathed in the morning light; on the sidewalk are groups of students, they greet each other while marching toward the campus, preparing to start a day of classes; The music wafted from the store from time to time, riding on the light breeze, scattered in every corner of the street, fold in the sun to "shoot" different colors; the street begging "wanderer", a guitar can do The street performers performing the performances, the narrow'door' faces, and the low houses make people feel like returning to the streets of a small county in China in the 10s.

People rushing on the streets are wearing crew neck shirts and pullovers with Berkeley or Berkeley's symbol of the bear. The coffee shop is beginning to start another morning with the strong aroma of coffee, and occasionally you can see riding motorcycles. Young people passing by with smiles, and students who are wearing coats, with toast in their mouths, and full of books running all the way...

You can’t see the prosperousness of New York and Los Angeles. There are no high-rise buildings, the streets are not wide, and the buildings are all low-rise bungalows. However, the dense lawns and large tracts of'flowers' are set against the sun and blue sky, accompanied by The breeze dance blowing over the bay is peaceful, comfortable, simple, but also happy.

This is Telegraph Street, a simple and ordinary street. There are hundreds of such streets all over the world and even in any city, but it is so special because of the young faces on this street and their The spirit of pursuing ideals and fighting and struggling for ideals is hidden in the body, leaving every brick on the street with history.

The "jing" **** of a university is neither in the dusty school history archives and on yellowed pages, nor is it engraved on magnificent nameplates and stone tablets, nor is it the "jing" **** of a big figure. Speaking of Harry, sometimes it is reflected in such unobtrusive streets, in the countless young people surging on this street. If a university has a huge campus and splendid buildings, but no such street, then what is the difference between this university and a middle school or elementary school?

It is a street with historical and cultural heritage that makes a university so special. Perhaps this is the charm of Telegraph Street.

There is a huge warehouse on Telegraph Street, not far from Suther's Gate. The walls simply painted with self-colored paint are full of rough historical traces left over from the 1960s, and the light is shabby by dust. The street lights make people wonder whether they can work normally. The plane trees planted next to the street divide the sunlight from the sky into countless fragments, which are scattered in front of the warehouse's door, reflecting the whitewashing of the wall above the warehouse that covers the entire wall. Oil paintings, colorful paints outline the musical castle built together with guitars, drums, bass, keyboards and staff. The mottle after being washed by wind and rain makes the paint no longer fresh and'bright', but it is still full of hippie flavor.

This warehouse, which occupies nearly half a street, is not used to store goods. It is a storefront facing the street. The large transparent glass is hung with a flashing neon sign, annotating the name of the storefront, "Amoeba Music ( .. The cheap neon lights with blue'color' and red'color' complement the dilapidated store decoration, making people subconsciously feel that this is a large supermarket selling second-hand or cheap goods, which is obviously incompatible with the humanistic atmosphere of Telegraph Street.

But this is not the case. Amoeba Music is one of the most popular storefronts on Telegraph Street. What does not match its dilapidated appearance is the store’s merchandise capacity. This store is located in a space of nearly 20,000 square miles. Collected more than 100,000 records, from vinyl records to CDs, from out-of-print collections to the latest works, from second-hand records to new albums, this is simply a paradise for music lovers.

If it is placed ten years later, people will know that Amoeba Music is the largest independent record store in the United States. It has not joined the ranks of large-scale record stores from the beginning to the end. There are only three branches in the United States, namely Berkeley. There are three branches in San Francisco, San Francisco and Los Angeles, but only these three branches have made Amoeba’s hundreds of thousands of album collections a feast of music carnival.

Amoeba Records has always adhered to a style, that is, there is no decoration. The entire store is surrounded by records, posters, and album covers. Everything is music. This is like a sea of ​​music, which can be easily integrated. Surrounded by every consumer, even if they stay here for ten and a half days, they are reluctant to leave. Hmm, for a moment, listening to all the 100,000 collections in one of the branches, this is a huge, magnificent and heart-warming proposal.

Now in 1993, Amoeba Music has only one branch in Berkeley, located on Telegraph Street, but only this question has been established as a warehouse store less than three years ago, and it has become one of the most famous record stores on the West Coast. . Since the record store is not a large chain store, many music lovers travel far to Berkeley just to spend a few days and nights in the amoeba music.

As an independent record store, Amoeba Music almost does not hold any commercial events. Of course, no record company would want its own singers to hold commercial events here, but Amoeba Music, like the Al Bar in Los Angeles, invites it from time to time. Some underground bands perform here. In fact, it is not so much a performance as a music'communication', and it is more like a grand gathering for music lovers. It's not a music festival, but it's just as fascinating.

However, just today, December 2nd, an ordinary Thursday, Amoeba Music invited a band to perform, and this performance attracted a lot of attention.

Glory to Death, which was a topic of road tour before, will release a new album today. However, unlike most new singers who hold a press conference or directly go on the radio to promote, Glory to Death chooses to hold a small performance at Amoeba Music. Song'fans' meeting to announce the release of their new album in this way

This is bad news for the news media, because it means that the difficulty for them to issue press releases has risen sharply, because they all know that Amoeba Music will not allow them to enter the infield for interviews, so as to prevent infield albums from meeting. It was damaged and the band did not have a special “door” to hold a press conference, which also means that it is more difficult for them to obtain materials; but for many loyal fans of music ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is good news, because it means Since there is no official debut, the band still uses music to complete the'communication' flow, and they have another performance to watch.

But regardless of the good news or the bad news, the reporters and fans of the song took a step towards Telegraph Street and arrived at the scene before ten o'clock in the morning, hoping that they could watch the band's performance as soon as possible.

At 9:30, about three hundred fans of the song gathered on the scene. This scale is not very large. Most of them are fans of the song near Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland. The streets are not spacious, so the scene is very crowded. As for reporters, most of them are based in California. Compared with Los Angeles, San Francisco has a lot of media gathered. It’s only a 20-minute journey to Berkeley, so about 30 reporters came today. For a rookie band, it’s still a fan meeting for a newcomer band without a special interview session. That said, the number should not be underestimated.

Just as I chose San Francisco as the first stop of the tour, this time, Glory To Death chose the starting station in Berkeley, not far from San Francisco, and started his own musical journey. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to read it in chua, and vote for a monthly pass for the work. Your support is the biggest motivation for me to continue to create!)