Liu Wei, filial clan guitarist, heartbroken dies at 38 – Blow

Today (12th), Liu Wei, a veteran musician in the independent band circuit, died aged 38.

Liu Wei was born in Taipei in 1985. He studied briefly in the United States and graduated from the Visual Communication Design Department of the National Taiwan University of Arts. As well as playing in groups, he works as a graphic designer. At the age of 17, at the invitation of Hong Shenhao, Liu Wei joined Autumn in a Corner and changed from drummer to bass player. Since then, mainly as a guitarist, he has played Biaoer, Angry Young Man, BB, The Deported, Heartbroken, Baozihu, Victory Clan, SLEDGE CITY SLASHERS and Filial Piety Clan, etc. for a long time or a short time, the punk style is mostly.

Liu Wei’s early work was influenced by the straight and clean voice of the legendary American punk band Ramones in the 1970s. He once said bluntly: “I’ve always felt that I’m a punk rocker. ” Although his sad and desperate words are simple and plain, they have a unique With a sense of humor and self-deprecation, they not only left many representative works during the heartbreaking period, but the English name of the group Wayne’s So Sad also comes from the English name of Liu Wei Wayne. For a while, he and lead singer Xu Zhengtai often wrote songs in Tianmu’s “Park with a Stage”, and left many good works, such as the early EP song “Oh I Have No Soul”.

When Xu Zhengtai was interviewed by Street Voice, he once commented on Liu Wei: “The things and difficulties we face in life are too similar, so I always feel that his song is ten times angry version of my song. It’s heartbreaking. The source of this group’s anger.” Later, the two quarreled and banned the group until they officially came back in 2015. During the group’s hiatus, he invited Hong Shenhao’s old friend Liu Wei to form the Victory Clan and release an EP with the same name.〈26th GMA GLAS〉Singing: “Another friend nominated for the Golden Melody / Nominated for the Golden Melody and he’s looking radiant / The Golden Melody doesn’t mean much to me / But there’s nothing I can do not to being jealous.”

It can only be said that God likes to joke, and then he was heartbroken and was on the shortlist of the 31st Golden Song “Best Orchestra Award” with his third album “Too Low to be a Work of Art”. Half of the album’s songs were written by Liu Wei, and he said it was the most careful album the band had ever made: “We used to mess around with a lot of things, but this time we’re more carefree. When I write songs, I talk about how boring I am. , but in the end I was still able to laugh, so it wasn’t so boring, I was happy in it, and oh at the end felt like it was just a farce. quite a positive person.”

In 2020, after Liu Wei left heartbroken, the following year, he formed another group of filial piety with equally experienced punk musicians Yaoshen and Aqin, returned to the traditional rock three-piece style, released an album of the same name , and continued to be active in various Major Music Festivals and Live House.

At the end of last month, Liu Wei was in the filial piety clanwebsiteOn the Internet, he posted a selfie in the hospital and wrote that when he was old and his body had minor problems from time to time, the doctor said to slice it: “Then cut it. The surgeon cut my mouth and burning the wound while anesthesia The side chat made me hurt a lot, they didn’t seem to have any empathy, maybe I’m delaying until they get off work to punish me deliberately. I’m sorry.” He also announced that he would go to Kaohsiung to record a solo album, so as not to re-record the plug-in method the creations in the heartbreaking, triumphant and clan filial periods.

Looking back at the performance at PAR STORE in April a little while ago, Liu Wei and Yao Shencai sang heartbreaking period masterpieces “Oh I Have No Soul” and “Maybe I Can’t See You” in an unplugged arrangement. It was originally scheduled for June 11th, the filial piety clan’s album of the same name, but two days before the performance, it was announced that it had been “cancelled due to the temporary health of the members”. Now there is sad news about the Death of Liu Wei.

(Photo source: Wayne Liu’s personal Facebook)