Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 116 Three Little Birds (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

At Changshui Airport, Liang Zi walked out of the terminal with the other four members of the band.

As soon as the few people who came to Yunnan Province for the first time came out, Liang Zi turned on his mobile phone and recorded a message: "Old irons, let me chat with you, it's not me, Liang Zi, the weather in Spring City is really like turning on the air conditioner, too special How comfortable! You look at the blue sky, look at the clouds... how lucky you are to see them in BJ!"

After Bian Lang sent out the invitation, Liang Zi went back to discuss with his brothers. When they heard that they were going to play duo rock, everyone felt unreliable.When the second episode of the variety show aired, Liang Zi still went to the live broadcast. Without Bian Lang and Huang Kai, his number of fans dropped.

Later, Li Hao gave them a thorough analysis, and finally made a decision.

Just like Li Hao said: "Before Bian Lang played "Rock on the New Long March Road," had you ever heard of what red rock was? Even if you can imagine it, can you play to Bian Lang's level? So now people have to give You are setting a precedent, why should you hesitate? In BJ, you can’t support yourself through music. If you sign with the Rolling Stones, it will be different. Rock and roll is not about staying underground all the time. Sing rock and roll to everyone like Bian Lang. In my heart, that’s the real thing, really rock and roll!”

On the way to Rolling Stone Music, Liang Zi looked at the newly posted video and there were already many comments:
"Liangzi, great job! Go live to the Rolling Stones rehearsal studio and see how much stock Bian Lang has yet to release."

"Liang Zi, if you join Rolling Stone, don't forget that your main business is an anchor. You can't see the side waves in the live broadcast, and we will immediately lose fans!" Seeing this sentence, Liang Zi scolded with a smile: "I'm used to it."

When they arrived at Jianshe Road, Liang Zi and the others discovered that the conditions here at Rolling Stone were completely incomparable to their BJ.

Chen Shuting has already rented a house for them in the old community of Potato Lane behind. Although it is old and small, it is an old and small in Spring City. A set of three bedrooms and one living room is more than 80 square meters, which is much better than their conditions in BJ. up.

Then I went to the studio upstairs of the record store and saw that several people were really happy. There is a rehearsal room of more than 50 square meters alone. The name plate at the door is still blank. Chen Shuting handed over a marker and said: "Write the name of the band yourself Go up, this land will be exclusively for your use in the future.”

Liang Zi's hands trembling when taking over the pen, Bian Lang didn't explain this treatment to them in detail, he just told them to bring their own things, and everything else was ready-made.

Along the way, they were still thinking that as long as they could be as close as BJ, they would be satisfied, but only then did they realize that this was the treatment they dreamed of being treated by an underground band.

BJ’s rehearsal room is the basement shared with two other bands, and the shared equipment is fundamental. The drummer often quarrels with others about using his cymbals.

Holding the brand-new KT board nameplate, Liang Zi asked with some uncertainty: "Sister Chen, is this really for us to use alone?"

"Yeah, the Rolling Stones from Bianlang are blocking the front, and next door is his other band's new pants. They rehearse separately, and no one will come to compete with you."

Liang Zigou glanced at it, and then wrote the name of their band on the name tag with a few strokes - Qiangwei.

Walking around the rehearsal room, he found a stack of scores on the music stand. He picked it up and saw the title of the song on the first page: "Xian'er"

Turning over the sheet music, he read out unconsciously: "It's not bright in the east, it's bright in the west, and I'm sad when the sun is gone..." While reading it, he looked at the score of the band, and suddenly said with joy: "Old man. Wu, you haven't lost your family skills, have you? This time, you can play..."

"What, you want to play the suona?"

……

In the office building of Cang'er Beer's branch in Spring City, sales director Liu Yi and marketing director Yang Lei were looking at sales reports.

After Xi Biqi and Xia Yuxi signed the contract, they did regain some market share, but not much, only [-]%.Compared with the millions of dollars that was disclosed to the outside world, both of them felt that this was a bad move.

But the two of them also paid attention to the big news caused by Xibiqi's sponsorship of the music festival. Their bar business was similar to that of Xibiqi before, and now Xibiqi has won so much share. It made the two of them jealous.

After Kleiber acquired Cang'er, the sales director there did suggest to the two of them about sponsoring the music festival, but the two had been focused on grabbing Xibiqi's original market share, so they didn't care at all. Now it seems that I do have some regrets.

"How much did they spend in total this time?"

"Several million is definitely there. I think this money is much more than the one who hired the endorsement. This has really boosted sales, and the bar is considered a mid-to-high-end market. This market share in Kleiber in Spring City is not small. , I wonder if there will be any reaction from Kleiber this time."

"It doesn't matter, that's not our market, but I'd like to go to the music festival and try my luck at the Oscars tonight?"

"No need, I have a little friendship with Oscar's shareholders, so it should be fine." The marketing director said confidently.

Kleiber did notice Xibiqi's movements, but he didn't pay much attention to them. In their opinion, it was just a short-term activity and posed no threat to them at all.

……

The time came to August 8th. Bianlang and Rolling Stones went to the music festival ahead of schedule. Tomorrow is the first day. They didn’t perform, but they had to come and wait for a tuning session first. The formal rehearsal is scheduled for tomorrow. After the show.Regarding the arrangement of tuning, the organizing committee treats everyone equally, and they all follow the order of the performances. It is another matter for the bands to change the order of each other. If they fail to catch up, they will follow behind.

Bian Lang and the others were second to last on the second day, so the scheduled time was also the second to last today, which didn't matter to them who were all in Spring City.But Mocheng, the last one, was a little reluctant to tune in the second half of the night. In addition, they would definitely meet Huang Kai, so they directly switched the order with another band from Modisc, so when Bianlang and the others arrived during the day , it happened to be Mocheng's turn to tune on stage.

Dayong took Kapok and Huayan for a stroll, while Bian Lang and Huang Kai each carried a bottle of Rare Pieces and helped organize the entire disc at the Rolling Stone Records stand.Zhang Wei, a newly recruited graduate, was in charge of watching the booth. He also likes rock and roll after graduating from a 3rd university in Spring City, so he submitted his resume to Rolling Stone with the idea of ​​chasing stars at work, and unexpectedly he was selected.

"Brother Lang, Mo Cheng and the others have been grinding away for almost an hour. The people behind you must hate them to death."

"You have to ask Kaizi about this matter... Just this sun, I will remind Ai Hao to get more ice cubes tomorrow." Bian Lang said after taking a sip of beer.

"Yes, it's the best day to drink cold beer. What do my old buddies say, people are not really bad, but they have raised their tempers in Magic Disc in the past few years. To be honest, even if it weren't for you. , I guess I won't be able to play with them for long..."

As the two of them were chatting, they saw a group of people with dreadlocks in red, yellow and green outfits walking towards them. The leader directly greeted Huang Kai: "Brother Kaizi, we are queuing behind you now. Okay, if you’re done, please give me a midnight snack.”

"Okay, as long as you are not afraid of spicy food, I will wait for you at night. If you are not afraid of making trouble tomorrow, you can open your mouth and drink." After speaking, Huang Kai introduced to Bian Lang: "My former colleague of Magic Disc, The Wailers, Play reggae."

Needless to say, Huang Kai said the next sentence, but Bian Lang could already see it from the attire of several people: "They are very Jamaican, not many people play reggae, come on!" Bian Lang is not disgusted with all Magic Disk types. , since Huang Kai has introduced them, it proves that these people have a good relationship with him.

"Master Bian, we are all younger brothers in front of you. Besides, the world's reggae are in Jamaica, and the Chinese reggae are in Yunnan Province. We also want to stay for a while this time, and go to Cang'er for a walk."

This is true, the Wa people in Ximeng, who have the reggae gene in their blood, are all the best in China's reggae.In the KAWA band who had a lot of interactions with Bianlang in the previous life, several important members came out of Wa Mountain.

It's a pity that two of the musicians in this band, Ai Yong and Tu Zhengzheng, passed away one after another, especially Ai Yong who was only 35 years old when he passed away!
Bian Lang remembers chatting with Ai Yong when he was alive. The reason why they are so good at playing reggae is that the most traditional music form of the Wa people is very close to reggae, so reggae is more like their own music.

Anyone who knows a little bit about Jamaica knows that Jamaicans have suffered from heavy historical sufferings, and reggae is closely related to the sufferings they have experienced. This is their pursuit of freedom, love, and faith.No matter how long it takes, the suffering that has existed will be passed down through the blood.

XMZZ Autonomous County in Yunnan Province is rich in mineral resources. It was unfortunately reduced to a colony of Gaul in the past, so the people on that land also experienced the same misfortune.They can better understand the freedom and love conveyed by reggae, which may be the reason why they are good at reggae.

Thinking of this, Bian Lang said casually: "You can go to Cang'er later. I suggest you go to Ximeng. The Wa music there is very close to reggae, just like something flowing in the blood. Then The rhythm of the wooden drum is very similar to the reggae beat..."

Hearing this, the leading musician named Tu Ling asked with great interest: "Oh, really? Then you must go and see it. Master Bian, do you also play reggae?"

"Played..."

"Then you really have to come up with a reggae band to lead us quickly, otherwise we reggae players will starve to death." Tu Ling said this from the bottom of his heart. Bian Lang is now in and out of the circle. This kind of popularity has the energy to make a niche music genre popular with one song.

"Don't worry so much, these are all trivial matters, just keep playing and it will be fine!"

Speaking of this, the song of the great anti-racist fighter, the Godfather of Reggae, appeared in Bianlang's mind.

"Lend me a piano and a tambourine..."

Hearing this, several members of the Wailers were stunned.Huang Kai quickly winked at a few people and said, "Come to sing, Bian Lang is coming to sing, don't hurry up."

Only then did Tu Ling realize that he untied the guitar behind him and handed it to Bian Lang, then put it in his drum bag and took out the tambourine.

Needless to say, Zhang Wei has already set up his mobile phone and is ready to shoot.

I saw Bian Lang holding the acoustic guitar and tuning down the strings, then closed his eyes and began to play the guitar, which is unique to reggae in that it omits the mid-range bass and slaps upward.

Accompanied by Tu Ling's backbeat drummer, Bian Lang squinted his eyes and sang with a smile:
"Don't worry about a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right...

Singin: dont worry about a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right..."

The Bob Marley in his head, smiling and showing his white teeth, seemed to be saying to him: "Love the life you choose, choose the life you love. You will become someone after all!"

(End of this chapter)