Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 127 127. Potential Audience
The venue of the performance was in Shin-Okubo. After being in the underground music circle for so long, Iwahashi Makoto was very familiar with various performance venues in the downtown area. When Haruko Akamatsu reported the name of LIVEHOUSE, he knew where it was.

After dinner, Yanqiao Shen took five girls with him and set off in a mighty way.

This formation is very spectacular, like a tour guide leading foreign tourists to strange places.

Shin-Okubo is a part of the city that never sleeps in Shinjuku. When night falls, you also enter the world of "inside".The four girls from the Rabbit Kingdom were taken aback when they saw the street turned upside down.

This is Tokyo too?
A Tokyo that is so orderly during the day that there is even a sense of oppression is Tokyo.

At night, Tokyo, which is so chaotic and chaotic to outsiders, is also Tokyo.

Tokyo has thousands of sides.

Shinichi Iwahashi led the girls out of the street surrounded by colorful signboards and came to a building.A narrow light board hangs on the building, pointing to the floor where the LIVEHOUSE is located.

The six people walked towards the stairway leading to the basement, and a performance poster was posted at the entrance, which read "Tonight is the special performance of THE BLUE HEARTS".

The poster is quite formal, not the hand-painted posters of ordinary underground musicians, but a printed poster with a photo of the band, with four young people on it.

The young man marked "Lead Vocalist Komoto Hiroto" had short hair shaved almost like a monk's head, and his eyes were fanatical and perverse.And the guitarist Changli Mashima, who is next to him on the shoulder, wears a big hood and has a slightly neurotic feeling.

Bassist Junnosuke Kawaguchi is a cute little chubby guy, and drummer Kajihara Tetsuya is a thin young man with punk hair shaved on both sides and combed up in the middle.

There was an endless stream of audiences pouring into this LIVEHOUSE. Yanqiao Shen had no prejudice or idea about the genre of the band. He only said in line with the manager's professional inertia: "It seems to be quite popular."

Akamatsu Haruko said to him, "I heard that the band's lead singer Komoto Hiroto-san and guitarist Mashima Masahiro-san were members of a band called THE BREAKERS at first, and they had already accumulated a certain amount of popularity at that time. Later The band disbanded, and Komoto-san and Mashima-san formed the current band together again."

"yes."

"Recently, the band seems to have signed a record company, and maybe they have already started preparing for their mainstream debut. The current performance can be regarded as a 'routine training'." Akamatsu Haruko told him what she knew.

The band's scene is full of charm that is not found on records and TV. Therefore, even for bands that have signed a record company, they will perform uninterrupted live performances during the polishing period before their official debut.

After having a company, the matter of contacting performances also immediately transitioned to the record company.

They will arrange performances for the band just like organizing concerts, and there are record company commissioners on site to observe them in order to give comments after the performance.

"I see." Now that the band has its own name, Iwahashi Shinichi put away his scrutiny mentality as a businessman and replaced it with a pure appreciation mentality.

This conversation was in Japanese, and the four girls from Rabbit Country were at a loss, they could only look at the poster and the endless stream of audience.

After the chat, Yanqiao Shinichi greeted them, "Let's go."

……

There are many audiences in strange costumes in the performance of punk bands.The four girls followed Yanqiao Shinichi vigorously, as if they were worried about a little lamb being taken away by a big bad wolf.

The front of the stage was already full, and there was no way to get a good seat. The six people barely squeezed forward. Just as they stood still, there was a commotion from the front of the venue, and the cheers spread backwards.

The six of them didn't know what was going on, as if they were playing a game of passing things, they took the cheers from the people in front and passed the cheers to the people behind.

The four girls were a bit reluctant to let go, like children who were shy to express their opinions in front of the turbulent crowd.

On a small stage full of instruments, the four members of the band took to the stage.The lead singer Hiroto Komoto faced the audience, and said an opening remark in a regular manner: "Good evening, we are THE BLUE HEARTS!"

Looking at it this way, it is a band with a normal typhoon.

This thought lasted only five seconds. After the drummer finished counting the beats, Hiroto Komoto sang the first line of the lyrics: "I love those gentle songs crazily." When the guitar was added, the typhoon changed immediately.

He pulled his neck, stared wide-eyed, as if he was entangled by a snake and couldn't breathe well. He roared on the stage, kicked his legs hard, jumped up and down like a frog, and sang the famous song hoarsely. It's a song called "人にやさしく" (Be gentle with others).

Okay, this performance is punk.

Yanqiao Shinichi and Akamatsu Haruko often hang out in the underground music circle, and they both know what's going on, but the four girls from the rabbit country are taken aback and don't know how to react.

They couldn't understand the lyrics, and they didn't understand why they couldn't sing well.However, the people around them are very enthusiastic, and out of group conformity, they also try to imitate the behavior of the people around them.

After all, when people are free to act, they often imitate each other.

Wang Xiaofang couldn't understand the lyrics, and she didn't understand why she had to use such a laborious singing method.Although it looks like you're messing around, but you also know that it takes more energy than singing well.

While imitating the people around her, she looked at the band on the stage and thought.

After singing three hot songs, the fourth song was a lyrical song. The lead singer who was bouncing and jumping just now quieted down, playing a somewhat sad interlude with the blues harmonica.

It was "normal" for a while, which gave Wang Xiaofang a buffer.However, after this song ended, it was another song with the same suffocating singing method as before.

After coming out of that gentle atmosphere, she immediately received a new round of shock. Looking at the lead singer who seemed to be stuck in the neck, Wang Xiaofang had a flash of inspiration and suddenly discovered the meaning of this singing method.

It seemed like a person whose mouth was covered and throat was choked and unable to speak, struggling desperately to speak out what was in his heart.

You can regard me as a heretic, gag me, threaten me, and let me out, but before being choked by the neck, I still have to speak the truth in my heart until I am hoarse...

She was thrilled, deeply moved, and had the urge to shed tears.

Yanqiao Shenyi was so focused on the performance that he didn't notice the change in Wang Xiaofang.This band called Blue Heart attracted him.

Although the typhoon is ferocious, the band's lyrics are surprisingly literary.However, although it has very literary lyrics, it also smells like sweat.

What he sang was the cry of the youth at the bottom, but the "sweat smell" that Shinichi Yanqiao felt did not refer to the smell of the homeless, but the sweat of the youth at the bottom after working.

Although everything is bad and full of depression, I still have ideals for life and embrace the future with my sweaty body. All these are not illusory, but a living reality.

There is such a charm in the lyrics of this band.

He couldn't help admiring the band from the bottom of his heart, and was overwhelmed by their talent.

After the show, it's time to sell records.

Although he signed a contract with a record company, but because he has not yet made a mainstream debut, what is being sold at the venue is not a regular record, but the kind of self-made record that underground bands almost always make, and he and Yoshida Miwa have also made.

Yanqiao Shenyi went to buy two tapes, kept one for himself, and gave the other to Wang Xiaofang who was still immersed in the performance with a moved face.

He didn't expect that the first time he brought this girl to watch such a strong performance, she would be able to resonate with her brain waves.

Wang Xiaofang was quite embarrassed to accept his things, but Yanqiao Shenyi didn't take it seriously, and handed it to her, "Just keep it as a souvenir."

That being said, she accepted it and thanked Yanqiao Shen.

Looking at the time, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

It was not easy to find a place to hang around again, and the six people crossed the street that was crowded with colorful signboards when they came here. Yanqiao Shenyi sent the four girls back to the hotel first, and called the staff accompanying Rabbit Country. He said hello, saying that everyone must bring back the whole tail.

After making the phone call, Shinichi Iwahashi walked towards Haruko Akamatsu who was still waiting for him in the hotel lobby.

"Let's go, Chisong-san." He said, "I'll take you home."

Sitting in the car, Yanqiao Shenyi thanked her: "I'm sorry to trouble you today."

Akamatsu Haruko didn't answer the question directly, "The two musicians from Rabbit Country are very nice, and it's a pleasure to go shopping with them."

"And, unexpectedly, your Chinese is so good."

"I am proficient in Chinese." Yanqiao Shen smiled, unwilling to delve into this topic, so he followed her example and diverted, "Thanks to you, I also saw a very good performance tonight."

"I usually don't pay much attention to punk bands. I didn't expect such a character to exist. ... Such a band must have made a lot of difference."

Generally speaking, THE BLUE HEARTS is doing punk that is easy to get into, especially it will resonate with teenagers. Presumably even if it debuts in the mainstream, it will have good commercial results.

This is especially rare for punk bands.

Haruko Akamatsu mentioned another thing, "Now, your name is famous in the underground music circle."

"is it?"

"Because you made this music festival possible, everyone is saying that you gave underground musicians a chance to be in the public eye." Of course...

"Of course, some people will say that I brought the stink of business into the underground music circle." Shin Iwahashi said "Of course" that Akamatsu Haruko didn't say.

She smiled, neither admitting nor denying.

"It doesn't matter." Yanqiao Shenyi didn't care, "Commercial things are not necessarily bad, and it is a kind of narrow-minded thinking to draw a clear line between indiscriminate and commercial."

"However, people who hate me don't mind hating me, as long as there are some people who think that I have given underground musicians a chance. The real seeds are in these people, and sooner or later they will germinate."

As for those who insist on being Artiste, they can only say that they are not conspiring with each other, and there is no need to despise each other.Shinichi Iwahashi has always believed that the act of despising business is somewhat bluffing.

Putting others down does not elevate yourself.

The real Artiste is "none of my business, I just make my music".

……

On February [-], Joan Jeter arrived in Tokyo.

This is the second visit after half a year. It was a task assigned by Mayumi Watanabe to receive the girls from Rabbit Country, but it was her own name to receive Joan Jeter.

The person who kidnapped her to sing at the music festival was Iwahashi Shinichi, so he will be responsible to the end.This elder sister didn't say it directly, that's what she meant.

No way, Yanqiao Shen threw away the girls from the rabbit country in the recording studio and went to meet this great god.

From the bottom of his heart, he is still very grateful to her. Joan Jeter not only gave him inspiration, but also gave him the confidence to expand.

Today, this music festival not only attracts domestic attention, but also attracts attention from all over the world.The organizer not only received applications from domestic media for on-site coverage of the music festival, but foreign media also ordered the music festival to send reporters to cover it.

For a time, "the unprecedented female rock feast in the Japanese archipelago" and "the collective voice of female rockers" emerged endlessly, attracting the attention of the public.

In the evening, Shinichi Iwahashi went to the hotel to meet her, and had necessary communication with her and her staff before the performance.I haven't seen her for a while, but this one is still very cool. When Yanqiao Shenyi went, I ran into her killing chickens again.

It seemed that she loved the feeling of being kneaded like dough.

"Long time no see, Shinichi!" She lay there with her arms on her pillow, turned her head and smiled at him, her eyes fell on his hands, "What is that? Tape?"

"A present for you," Shinichi Iwahashi told her, "an album by a punk band called THE BLUE HEARTS. I think you should listen to it, it's great."

"Blue heart?"

"That's right," Yanqiao Shinichi smiled, "And yours is a 'black heart'."

After the disbandment of THE RUNAWAYS, Joan Jeter formed a band called THE BLACK HEARTS. One blue heart and one black heart, is it a forced relationship?

Touch porcelain ah.

That's not quite the case.

On the one hand, Shinichi Iwahashi just heard this band and found it very appetizing, and Joan Jeter just arrived in Tokyo. The wonderful coincidence of Blue Heart and Black Heart made him choose to bring this tape as a gift.

"Okay, let me hear it then," said Joan Jeter.

Yanqiao Shinichi read the schedule of the day for her, and after confirming it, Joan Jeter's horse killing came to an end, and he asked him to go to dinner together.

Starting from receiving the girls from Rabbit Country, he has been working as a receptionist, a sound engineer, a driver and accompaniment for the past few days. Even without PPK, he feels that he has become the omnipotent 007.

In such a busy schedule, he went to the recording studio where Yoshida Miwa worked part-time the night before the festival, and the three of them had a meeting to confirm the performance.

Since the formation of the band, they have been performing in a LIVEHOUSE with 200 people, but this time, the audience suddenly swelled to 5000 people.

Although in fact, few people who came to see the performance came for them.

However, Shinichi Iwahashi encouraged Yoshida Miwa, "The audience who don't come for us are all our potential audiences."

"Well said, as expected of Shinichi-kun!"

This sentence hit the acupuncture points of the optimist Yoshida Miwa, and she happily echoed.

(End of this chapter)