Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 386 Unplugged

Dayong and the others were delighted when they heard this, but they also tried hard not to laugh out loud. Bian Lang talks like this. Sometimes he gets so weird and angry that no talk show can compare to him.

Bian Lang's words didn't sound good, but no one could find anything wrong with them.

Vice President Qi had no idea how this happened before, and after arriving at the scene and hearing about the situation, he was a little unconcerned. Because in his opinion, lip-synching at this kind of party is nothing. Anyway, to ensure quality, everyone from the Yangma to the commercial performance does it, so it is not a problem at all.

But specifically, he hit a wall with Liu Yao, and coming to Bianlang was another soft nail. He finally knew the importance of this matter.

If these two people were not on board, the publicity they released before would be perfect material for users to poke their spines and scold them in the future. Moreover, you will definitely be laughed at by Goosedan.

But he is a vice president with a background in public relations. When faced with professional issues, apart from being able to do Tai Chi, he really doesn't dare to speak out and give random advice.

The smiling face remained unchanged, and then he smoothed things over and said: "Teacher Bian, we also know that your schedule was very tight a year ago. The Rolling Stones coming here is definitely the biggest honor for us at this award ceremony. We did not expect this situation, but If you don't come on stage, the audience watching the live broadcast will be so disappointed. How about you and Teacher Liu Yao discuss it again?"

If it weren't for Director Qi's background in public relations, this statement would have hit the nail on the head. According to the current popularity of the Rolling Stones, even if the Rolling Stones really don't make it, even if fans point their noses at Yun Cun, they don't care. Anyway, as long as the Rolling Stones new songs are released, they still have to hold their noses and pay for it. But the Rolling Stones care about their music fans. If they can't perform as promised, unless Bian Lang ends up lying in the ICU, otherwise the fans will accuse him of acting like a big star.

The Rolling Stones are popular now, but after being established for less than half a year, their foundation is still unstable. At this time, he believes that Bian Lang will not care about such a thing.

The second is the relationship between Bian Lang and Liu Yao. Even if Liu Yao doesn't care about Yuncun's face and music fans, Liu Yao still counts on Bian Lang to sing for her. This is not a secret in the industry. Therefore, it would definitely be much more useful for Bian Lang to discuss it with her than someone from Yuncun.

Sure enough, Bian Lang became confused when he heard this.

Within half a minute, Bian Lang said, "Okay, then please ask Mr. Qi to lead the way. Let's go discuss it with Sister Yao."

Seeing Bian Lang relaxed, Vice President Qi's heart was halfway relieved, and then he led the people towards the lounge.

When he saw Liu Yao entering the door, Bian Lang stepped forward to say hello: "Sister Yao, long time no see."

"Bian Lang, how about going to Europe this time? I heard that your cooperation with DGM is going quite smoothly. If you have a chance, would you like to run it for me too?"

Regardless of whether this was true or not, Bian Lang knew that Liu Yao's purpose was to ignore Vice President Qi, so he found a topic that he couldn't get into. Bian Lang also wanted to show off Vice President Qi, so he followed Liu Yao's lead and said, "That's okay, Olaf will fly over today, and there will also be arrangements for a management team to come over and spend the New Year busy, Sister Yao Just come over and talk.”

Hearing this, Liu Yao smiled and said: "Okay, it would be even better if you could leak a few more songs to me from between your fingers."

"Sister Yao, this is too flattering to me. Now the Rolling Stones music is as big as a plate..."

Seeing that the two of them were chatting endlessly without mentioning business, Vice President Qi could only feel anxious. After waiting for the two of them to finish a topic, he spoke at the right time: "Teacher Liu, Teacher Bian, if you two have almost rested, when can you rehearse?"

At the mention of this, Liu Yao's expression suddenly changed: "Didn't I tell you that I can't do lip-syncing? If you want to walk on the catwalk, you can just hire a model. It's easy on the eyes..."

As soon as these words came out, Dayong really couldn't hold it in anymore, and he added in a daze: "You won't go wrong!"

Seeing Dayong speak up, Huang Kai naturally couldn't hold it in anymore: "You can still recruit advertisers if you step on the bass. Anyway, no one can hear the bass, and no one can find fault!" When it comes to black bass players, who? They can't even compare to themselves.

No, as soon as Huang Kai said these words, no one in the lounge could hold it in anymore and started laughing loudly. Even the staff here also laughed. Only Vice President Qi kept a cold face and said nothing. .

After everyone had laughed, he cast a pleading look at Bian Lang, as if to say: "Teacher Bian, didn't you say you were here to discuss a solution? Why are you here to harm us?"

Liu Yao also saw the look in Vice President Qi's eyes, and immediately asked Bian Lang, "Bian Lang, what do you mean?"

"It's impossible to lip-sync. If I sing "Shameless" with this equipment, I feel like it's going to explode when I open my mouth, but I feel I can get by without plugging in the power." The explosion here does not mean that the atmosphere of the scene is explosive, but that the sound will explode. Sing loudly.

In the original Huaxia, there were a few singers who really blew up the sound system and were blown away by their fans. But in fact, everyone in the industry knew that it was because the sound system failed to keep up.

Bian Lang remembered that on the original earth, his band members once performed in a bar. After the performance, they were drinking and chatting there, and they heard someone next to them boasting that his idol was singing loudly.

The drummer of their band was also a funny guy, so he approached his idol and asked if he was Pavarotti’s teacher. He was stunned and asked, “What does this have to do with Pavarotti?” ?”

As a result, the drummer replied: "I don't think Pavarotti could even sing over the speakers. If your idol is so great, he must be Pavarotti's teacher!"

Although Bianlang's funny drummer brother didn't come through with him, Dayong's mouth is not bad either. Hearing Bian Lang's rap hit, he immediately responded: "That's not bad, it will be a big hit then! Tomorrow's headline will be that the Rolling Stones and rock queen Liu Yao join forces to blow up the speakers!"

Vice President Qi thought this was actually quite good at first, but after listening to Dayong's tone, he thought it was so unreliable.

Fortunately, Liu Yao spoke up at the right time and said: "Bian Lang, you can pull it down. If "No Place to Be Confronted" is changed without plugging in, the two of us will really be in shame."

"Just change the song. I didn't say it had to be this one."

Hearing this, Liu Yao and Vice President Qi's eyes lit up. Yuncun only announced that there will be a performance by these two, but the specific music has not been announced.

As for why we chose these two songs, everyone knows very well. Although we don’t know what award they won, they are definitely award-winning songs.

And there is a high probability that after the awards are presented, the winning singers will not have to step down from the stage, they can just sing with the trophies in hand.

But it doesn’t necessarily have to be this way. The purpose of guest performances is to make the process of awarding awards not too boring. Otherwise, the host will be chatting about awarding awards throughout the whole process. It is said that the audience does not like to watch it. I am afraid that more than half of the celebrities present will also want to watch it. Like Xin Zhilei, she didn't even know her phone fell to the ground while sleeping.

"Then have you decided what to sing? A folk song?" This is what Liu Yao is most concerned about.

Among Liu Yao's own songs, it would be no problem to find one or two to make them unplugged, but the adaptation would require a band. She didn't bring a band and could only count on the Rolling Stones. But now she has the Rolling Stones as her accompaniment. She doesn’t know who in the industry has such a face. Anyway, she doesn’t have such a face herself.

Moreover, Bian Lang had a history of singing folk songs, so she felt that Bian Lang should choose folk songs.

Of course, she also believed that Bian Lang couldn't come up with a solution and just let the Rolling Stones ignore her...

As for the Rolling Stones, none of them are surprised. Although it's all out of necessity, Bian Lang is undoubtedly the best at changing songs on the spot.

But people have never had any problems, that’s the thing!

"Don't worry, Sister Yao. There is no way we at Rolling Stone will leave you alone. You should go back to the hotel to rest first. We will communicate with the director here. In order to send you the lyrics and score later, we will find a place in the hotel tomorrow morning. Just line up.”

After Liu Yao listened, he looked at Vice President Qi and said, "Mr. Qi, do you think this can be done?"

The specific task of Vice President Qi is to ensure that the Rolling Stones and Liu Yao can play while ensuring the stage effect. Now that someone has given a plan, of course he won't say anything: "Okay! Then I'll trouble Teacher Liu Yao and the teachers at Rolling Stone."

"Okay, then I'll reply first and wait for your news..."

After saying that, Liu Yao left the lounge and returned to the hotel with his assistant, while Bian Lang took a few people back to the site to test the equipment.

Seeing that the Rolling Stones were back, the director felt confident.

But Bian Lang and Dayong just asked a few questions casually at the sound engineer, and then Bian Lang came back and said to the director: "Director, we have decided to change the song. We will go back to the hotel to find time and give you an answer. As for the rehearsal, just No need, just give us enough time when the time comes."

"Change the song? Is this okay?" The director asked without thinking after hearing this.

"Director, don't worry. We all knocked down the Red Square with tens of thousands of people. This small scene with thousands of people..." Huang Kai stepped forward to chat with the director, took out a cigarette and handed it to him.

After thinking about the Rolling Stones' past achievements, the director nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's determine a time to close the deal, and then we'll be waiting for the teachers' replies."

"Okay, director, you are busy, we will go back first..."

Watching the Rolling Stones and others leaving, the director felt both expectant and anxious. Anticipation is looking forward to what kind of work the Rolling Stones will come up with, and anxiety is fear of causing trouble. After all, the people who had offended Bianlang before had not ended up well. Although the main responsibility for this did not lie with them, he knew very well that when the lip-syncing plan was given out, he was already disrespecting the band.

Thinking of this, he quickly went to find the host. He wanted to explain the matter clearly to the host, so that if something really happened, the host could help save the situation.

But when the host heard that the Rolling Stones were going to change songs, he had no other business in mind. He was wondering if the Rolling Stones would release a new song? …

On the way back to the hotel, Bian Lang was thinking about what to sing. He had already made up his mind about joining his own band, but he had been hesitant about performing with Liu Yao.

According to Liu Yao's singing style, Wang Banbi's song is definitely the most suitable. However, they just communicated with the sound engineer and found that the phase interference isolation between the bass unit and tweeter unit of the live sound unit was poorly handled. Due to the frequency of the vocal microphone It is also a medium frequency, so the bass of the song is not tense, but the high notes are ear-piercing.

This fried ear is not the kind that explodes in a rock scene, but the kind that makes people feel uncomfortable.

To give an inappropriate example, the inappropriate high-pitched sound will not only not make you feel good, but also make you feel irritated.

And Wang Banbi's songs are very much rooted in the blues, so it's easy to change them to unplugged. On the original earth, Wang Banbi had played an unplugged concert, and Bian Lang had also heard his Niu Hong unplugged concert in Spring City.

However, the choruses of Wang Banbi's works basically start with 4 groups of high notes, and the falling tone is not pleasant to listen to. If the original tone is not loud, it will be the scene of a car accident, so...

Thinking of this, Bian decided to make arrangements for the band first: "Brother Yong, do you still remember the song I recorded a video for?"

Hearing this, Dayong recalled it for a moment, and then asked with some uncertainty: "Is it the one with a bit of a reggae style?"

"Yes, that's it, do you think it's okay?"

Dayong thought about it for a moment, and then said with certainty: "That's great, but wouldn't there be nothing wrong with Huang Kai?"

Huang Kai became anxious when he heard this: "Alas, alas, this won't work. Give me a guitar so that I can follow the rhythm. Dayong, aren't you making trouble?"

Seeing that the two of them were about to pinch each other again, Bian Lang said directly: "Brother Kaizi, can you use the gradeless mubas?"

Huang Kai knew what Bian Lang meant when he heard this: "Yes, how could it not be the case? It's just that this thing is too unpopular, so I didn't bring it with me. It's probably difficult to find it now!"

"As long as you know how to do it, leave it to me to find the instrument. I'll find someone to deliver it to you early tomorrow morning."

The wooden bass is different from other musical instruments. Most other musical instruments have original instruments first, and then develop electrified models. But this wooden bass is the opposite. The original bass was an electroacoustic instrument created based on the fusion of electric guitar and double bass.

The emergence of wooden bass is a development path of reverse electroacousticization of electric bass!

The difference in timbre between the two is that the acoustic bass has a more original sound and is suitable for playing unplugged live and jazz music, while the electric bass has a wider timbre and is suitable for playing more types of music.

So the acoustic bass is an instrument that is okay but not necessary. On the original Earth, even the most famous unplugged song by the Eagles used an electric bass.

In Bian Lang's memory, he had never seen any musician use this instrument during a formal performance, but he had seen a video that shocked his jaw. There is a foreign band that really used unplugged music to complete a performance paying tribute to Pink Floyd.

Before watching this video, Bian Lang had no way of imagining how to complete the performance unplugged for Pink Floyd, who were so successful on the psychedelic rock road. Just like the classic outro of "Comfortably Numb", he could never imagine how to complete it unplugged.

But they used the flute to play the solo part, and the tone was imitated, and the wooden bass was used in this performance.

This was the only time that Bian Lang could hear the sound of the bass without actively trying to distinguish it.

So Bian Lang wanted to change it just like that, so that Huang Kai, the bass player, could have more presence in his own field, instead of picking up an acoustic guitar and following the rhythm.

Although Huang Kai can accept it, the emotional value of the two is completely different.

As for the reason why Bian Lang dared to guarantee that he could borrow this unpopular musical instrument, it must be because Xinghai Music is located in Yangcheng next door. He couldn't borrow it anywhere else, but it was definitely available in Xinghai. As long as he called Dong Shuxian, Comrade Dong would definitely help him make arrangements.

Hearing this, Huang Kai felt relieved.

Then Bian Lang sent the video of that time to the band group, and everyone began to think about it individually.

When he arrived at the hotel, Zhou Ketong hurriedly found someone to arrange a rehearsal room.

As soon as Bian Lang and Dong You arrived in the room, Pan Jianhu's call came: "Bian Lang, when you've finished packing, come out first and I'll tell you something."

Hearing Pan Jianhu's serious tone, Bian Lang said directly: "Go out now. Where do you want to meet?"

"lobby!"

Bian Lang hung up the phone, said hello to Dong You and went downstairs. When we arrived at the lobby, Pan Jianhu was already waiting there.

Looking at his worried look, Bian Lang was sure that there was nothing good going on.

"What's the matter, Brother Hu?" Bian Lang asked as he walked up.

"Didn't I just get a list of guest performers? I see that except for you, Liu Yao and some second-tier singers, the rest are all idols."

If you say this to others, you may not hear anything wrong, but at this moment, Bian Lang, how can you not understand what Pan Jianhu means.

"Let's talk over there." Bian Lang called Pan Jianhu, asked the hotel staff about the location of the executive lounge, and the two went directly there.

They found a small private room where they could smoke. The two of them ordered drinks and lit up their cigarettes before Bian Lang said, "You're afraid that if they talk to each other, we'll suffer a loss during the singing session, right?"

"Yeah, they just play the accompaniment, and the sound engineer can create a good effect, but the risk for you is too great. If something goes wrong, the public opinion will all be directed at the Rolling Stones. To be on the safe side, I think we’d better stop acting.”

Bian Lang knew this very well. He had seen many such cases in his previous life. That was the same party. The lip-synching idols and actors were praised to the sky, while the singer with a full microphone had only the slightest flaw, which became a stain on the entire party in Laqua.

There are even some outdated old singers who, in order to meet the needs of the organizers and capital to bring idols or Internet celebrities, always open the mic and lip-sync during the chorus, but they are instantly killed by the million-dollar sound engineer.

To still be laughed at by these idols and Internet celebrities, in Bian Lang's opinion, this was the saddest thing in the Chinese entertainment industry at that time. What's even sadder is that this kind of thing still happens!

But Bian Lang was not afraid. The song he chose had a heart-to-heart. Even if the sound system was not good, if he could find a loudspeaker for each of them, he was confident that the effect would be better than that of lip-syncing.

On the original Earth, a heavy rainstorm caused a power outage on the stage at the 2010 Haidian Park Midi Music Festival. Afterwards, Xiao Rong found a loudspeaker from nowhere, picked up a box piano and sang a song about brain-related problems.

This scene is more likely to make the young people who come to Midi get excited than high-quality sound and magnificent stage.

Later, when the stage had no power, he used emergency flashlights for lighting and ordinary speakers to amplify the sound. Together with countless rock youths, he created the most unforgettable performance in the history of Chinese rock...

The heavy rain that extinguished the stage made the performance that night the most classic night since the Huaxia Music Festival.

Bian Lang was at the scene that night, and he was also the rock young man who accompanied Gao Hu to find Safina.

Their slogan at that time was: "Forever young, never find a partner!"

The melody of "The Most Beautiful Day in My Life" played later, and many fans in the audience could not restrain their excitement. Tears began to fill my eyes.

On the grass below the stage, members of the On the Road fan group had begun to light candles, forming a huge "On the Road" pattern. Each of them held a candle and sang loudly along with Gao Hu. When the song reached an emotional point, everyone started to hold hands and formed a circle to sing and run.

As I ran, I couldn't tell whether it was tears or sweat on my face.

The scene that Bian Lang remembered the most was when Gao Hu was singing with a loudspeaker, and the fans in the audience sang together, and he saw the tears in Gao Hu's eyes.

Then Gao Hu pointed at the crowd in the audience and shouted: "I don't know if this is the biggest unplugged scene. We are a big stage. If there is MIDI, there is hope."

Later, Xie Tianxiao couldn't sit still and rushed to the stage to sing with Gao Hu, once again setting off a climax of the night...

When the band from Bianlang had the opportunity to perform with Tongyan, Gao Hu would sigh with emotion every time we talked about that night: "The unplugging that night was to give us and the guitar the greatest dignity!"

Thinking of this, Bian Lang suddenly knew what song to sing with Liu Yao!

(End of this chapter)