The core characters in the documentary are Anvil's Robb and Lips, who have formed the band together since they were teenagers, and Anvil's first three albums have created the After the myth of Canadian heavy metal, their creations could no longer break through the top three, and sales plummeted from then on. The sudden emergence of a large number of new metal rock bands in the early 1990s further exacerbated Anvil's predicament in the market. They are like weeds for survival. It's hard to imagine how Anvil has survived those 30 years of neglect, and Lips intriguingly says at the beginning of the documentary: "While Anvil didn't make me money, it brought joy and fun and kept me going. live life".
30 years of loneliness but not annihilated the old rock spirit, Anvil, who has no financial support but has never been disbanded, should be a legendary existence in the history of rock music. Back in the summer of 1984, Anvil shared the stage with metal bands such as Scorpions, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi, etc. at the Super Rock Festival in Japan, and all the other bands at the show later became best sellers, except Anvil. Slash, the lead guitarist before Gunslinger, sighed in an interview: "They should be more popular, I really don't understand. Sometimes life will give you a bad hand." Special performances, albums that don't make money, and most of their daily lives are running around to support their families. In fact, Lips is a logistics driver for a food company. Every day, he prepares vegetables for the next day's school delivery. Robb is doing some rough work similar to lifting the concrete floor with an electric drill at the decoration site. The uncle, who still has long hair, looks a little different in the crowd.
After the amateur Tiziana became Anvil's new manager, everything seemed to be turning positive. She arranged a 40-day European tour for Anvil priced at $1,500 each. Lips said happily: "This is my biggest tour in nearly 20 years." But look at what happened in the past 40 days: they met the Scorpions guitarist backstage at the rock music festival 20 years ago, Lips stepped forward to chat with him like an old fan, but The embarrassment that the other party could not remember anyway; in Prague, because of the language barrier, he got lost in the performance bar two hours late, and the bar owner refused to pay after the performance, and Lips could only beg his collar red-faced. ; they face double indemnities for the organizer's breach of contract for missing the train; they have no place to rest on the way around the tour, and slept on the airport floor in their clothes; A small poor speaker performed a special performance with only a few hundred spectators in the audience... 40 days later, the whole band returned to the cruel reality without earning a penny, and resumed the previous bird life . What they really need to face is that they are no longer young. I am afraid that after the end of this musical journey, it is also announced that the super rock festival 30 years ago may be the most glorious moment of Anvil's life.
Just after the two hard-pressed uncles gritted their teeth and released their thirteenth album at their own expense with money sponsored by their relatives, they received an invitation from a Japanese performer again. The uneasy thing is whether this venue, which can accommodate 20,000 people, will have only a few audiences like the performance not long ago, he said: "Before the performance, I closed my eyes many times and imagined that this place was crowded. Man, pretend everything's fine." But when he stepped onto the stage and heard the sound of a tidal wave erupting from the venue that was already packed with fans, Anvil, who had been struggling for 30 years, seemed to have achieved what seemed like 30 years. Before the glory and glory, even though it was the most trashy period of the whole show, Lips still smiled like a child, and all the hardships he had experienced turned into pride.
Looking back on the past, the smiling but sensitive and kind-hearted Lips had beaten Robb's necklace again and again, and the talented Robb who spoke few words but was generous and determined would always forgive Lips's repeated attacks on him. Every time they tear and scold each other for the sake of musical ideals, they can still hug each other. The only one who expresses their loyalty to each other with the words "I love you" is such a pair of partners who never leave. That's 30+ years of this, this kind of friendship, this kind of Anvil, this kind of Lips, this kind of Robb, that brings tears to my eyes.
When Zang Hongfei talked about domestic rock musicians in the recently broadcasted online variety show "Wonderful Flower Conference", he said: "Actually, many people's anger towards society back then came from their own poverty and sexual thirst.
One day, you will heal yourself, and you will look like a middle-aged and successful person. You are no longer a rock and roll. Every day you smoke a pipe and play golf with pride. I think you will become what you hated before the person? You used to oppose this society so much because you were not vested interests. You are a little better now, you have a few girls around you, you are all satisfied, and you no longer complain about society. "This reminds me of the insistence of Robb and Lips. Although we can't make assumptions about anyone's life and get an exact result, I still want to write this hypothetical title: If "Anvil"'s career started in the 1980s From the beginning, Robb and Lips have gained fame and money early, so after sitting on countless 50-year-olds, do they still maintain the dedication that matches the present? If money and a happy life can change a person's will, then Wouldn't poverty and ups and downs in the secular scene kill a person's will? In reality, how many people change their love and ideals because of their wealth or poverty, and how many people choose to fight to the end with this world. There will be no turning back after the blood is broken. We saw all of them in the "Anvil" documentary, didn't we. When the world is filled with all kinds of so-called smart people, there is always a group of fools who live on the ground. Some corners of the world become cute and vivid because of their persistent dreams. They are so different. They have never given up their life and dreams, and occasionally they will be moved by the adoration of lonely and intelligent people. Yes, Metal is not cool, but It is a belief deduced by life.
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