Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 607 Staying Power
Bian Lang had already made up his mind, and at this time he was unwilling to reveal a single word about "California Guest House". He even pretended not to see the resentful look that Di Li gave him.

But when it came to the reggae band called Lone Walker that lost to them, Bian Lang extended the most sincere invitation: "If you have any ideas for the song that you improvised, you can come to Rolling Stone and I will help you make it!"

The lead singer was obviously very concerned about the signals released by Bian Lang.

The news that the Rolling Stones are building a recording studio has been widely circulated in the circle. Who in the circle doesn't want to try out those world-class recording equipment?
"Then I'll be polite. I'll contact you when we finish the song..."

The two of them hugged each other tightly, without any awkwardness because they were competitors and had to decide the winner and the elimination.

In the Lone Walker's concept, this time it is more of an exchange rather than a competition. To have come to this stage and to have competed once with the Hedgehog Band led by Bian Lang, it can be considered that they have exceeded their mission.

The key point is the same as mentioned before, at today's music festivals and live compilations, everyone in the band basically leaves after the performance, and there is rarely any opportunity for communication.

This time, the recording process of the variety show lasted for almost a week, and everyone had many opportunities to exchange music while rehearsing.

The Lone Walker is a band from Guangxi Province. They usually perform in the province and neither appear in BJ nor stay in Chuncheng. They don’t have many opportunities to communicate with musicians who they don’t usually see, such as Luo Lin, Kong Liang, Di Li, and Bian Lang.

Now they have received an invitation from Bian Lang himself, and there will be an opportunity to tour with "Summer of the Band" after the show is over. This is simply pie in the sky for them.

At the farewell dinner later, many musicians were drunk, especially those from the 15 bands that were eliminated.

The drunk rock musicians turned Mid-Levels into a large-scale social death scene.

Fortunately, the theater is reserved today, otherwise, when the program is broadcast, I don’t know how many bands’ “collapse” videos will be released.

In addition to those who are going to the Xibiqi Music Festival, there are also some bands who want to take this opportunity to make some money in Spring City.

Mid-levels is a good place to play now, but if you want to hold a professional live, you have to wait until the Rolling Stone LAB is fully renovated. However, Lao Tan, the head of the Yunnan music industry, is not in vain. After discussing with Ai Hao, they invited all the managers who have suitable venues in Chuncheng to come.

One of them is the boss behind Oscar.

This behind-the-scenes boss nicknamed Little Bird has been trying to introduce the Rolling Stones' performance resources to Ai Hao for a while, but the bands he wants don't have schedules, and he feels a little bit unkind to those who do have time to perform.

This time, when Ai Hao called him to tell him about this, he hung up the phone, hailed a taxi and rushed over from his own place.

After meeting Ai Hao at the mountainside, Xiao Niao came up to him and started to criticize him without saying anything: "Brother Hao, you are so mean! You should have told me earlier that there was such a good thing as recording a variety show, and let me go to the scene to broaden my horizons!"

This matter was indeed not handled well by Ai Hao. Whether it was public or private, there was absolutely no problem in giving up a few backstage spots to maintain customer relationships.

Feeling his face turn red with embarrassment, he immediately stood up, opened a bottle of Xibiqi "Ton Ton Ton" and finished it before saying to Xiaoniao: "Boss Bird, this is my mistake. I'll let you know in advance when we record next time!"

Seeing that Ai Hao agreed so readily, Xiao Niao wanted to push the envelope. After buying a bottle of liquor, he asked tentatively, "Can you organize an event so that we can draw a few spots for the event?"

Ai Hao didn't dare to respond to this. Although they were also one of the financial sponsors, he would not find ways to make things difficult for Bian Lang.

Even the biggest sponsor, Bai Gou, has not asked for a spot in this kind of event, let alone their family members.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Old Tan felt that he was thinking about how to refuse, so he opened his mouth to help him out and said, "Boss Bird, don't mention this. Who sitting at this table tonight doesn't want it?"

Xiaoniao was not stupid. After hearing what Old Tan said, he basically guessed the identities of the people present.

"Mr. Tan, I was talking too much. Brother Hao, just pretend that I didn't say that. Then why don't we go together and talk about the band's performance. I'm sure you guys know more about this than I do, so give me some advice later!"

Seeing that this guy spoke reasonably, the other managers did not argue with this colleague who was not even in the same industry.

Then there are the agents of each band. If there is no agent, the lead singer will come and talk to everyone.

Oscar's situation is different from the others. The others negotiate venue fees and ticket prices, but it is unlikely that Bird will follow the normal Live process, so he negotiates with the bands about appearance fees.

The average salary of musicians performing in his venue now is between 8,000 and 10,000 yuan per month, and the lead singer's salary is in the range of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

Plus, most bands weren't interested in night parties like the Oscars, so no one came to Xiaoniao.

After waiting for a while, they saw the Washe band coming over. Ai Hao asked on behalf of Xiao Niao, "You all made it to the next round, why didn't those other bands come to an agreement?"

Everyone has their own thoughts on this matter, so there is no need to hide it, so the lead singer of Washe did not hide it: "The venue fee is a bit high. Although we have entered the next round, we still have an idea of ​​it."

Although we were sitting at the same table, the music outside was loud and we were chatting close together, so I had no idea how much the managers paid for the venue rental.

He is now also curious about how much money it would cost to discourage this band that has already entered the next round of the Summer of Music competition.

"Brother, can you tell me how they charge?"

"The venue fee ranges from 5K to 8K. If we sell tickets at 50 each, we need 300 tickets to break even..."

Hearing this, Xiao Niao was a little confused: "Uh, this amount is not even the minimum consumption of those young masters in the venue. They spend more than this to open two sets of champagne..."

After thinking about this, Xiao Niao said to Ai Hao, "Why don't we work together? You talk to Brother Lang about the band. We at Oscar have no objection. I'll take a 5-point commission from the drinks and give all the tickets to the band. Let's try this and see if it works."

Ai Hao also couldn't understand what Xiaoniao was thinking. After all, in his opinion, it was a bit far-fetched for Oscar to ask guests to buy tickets to come in and drink and listen to the band's performance!

Although Xiaoniao said this to Ai Hao, he actually also meant to test Washe.

Before Washe could say anything, Bian Lang walked into the private room.

These live venues have more or less cooperated with the Rolling Stones in the past six months. The overall plan of "Summer of Band" was put together by the Rolling Stones, and the Rolling Stones also wanted to make Spring City a rock music center besides BJ, but the Rolling Stones cannot handle this alone, and they still need the support of the bands and these managers.

So he came in to smooth out the relationship between the two sides, but he didn't expect that Ai Hao would call Oscar as well.

Seeing that the lead singer of Washe was also there, Bian Lang said hello to the other managers and went straight over there. "Brother Lang, let me introduce you. This is Oscar's Bird Boss, who I mentioned to you before..."

As Ai Hao was speaking, Xiao Niao quickly stood up and said, "What's Boss Bird? Brother Lang called me Xiao Niao..."

"Brother, you are too polite..." Bian Lang greeted Xiao Niao, sat down and looked at the lead singer of Washe and asked, "What does this mean?"

After telling the whole story from beginning to end, Bian Lang looked at Xiao Niao in surprise and asked, "Brother, what do you think?"

Xiaoniao's idea is actually very simple. It is because the nightclubs nowadays are too homogenized. There are either topless female DJs or various young ladies. If they can really try to change the taste of these customers, then they can distance themselves from their competitors.

He wasn't sure whether the customers would accept it, but he was determined to give it a try.

"I just think that the old ways of playing are quite boring. If the big brothers who play rock music are willing to give us a try, we Oscar will definitely show our sincerity!"

Seeing that Xiao Niao didn't seem to be trying to save face, Bian Lang also asked seriously: "Then during the performance on that day, can dice cups and other things that affect the performance be banned?"

"Of course!" Although the bird didn't think it was a big deal, he still agreed without hesitation.

If his previous idea was quite immature, then after meeting Bian Lang, he felt that what he had thought of should come true.

From Ai Hao, he basically has a complete understanding of the situation of "Summer of the Band".

Based on the on-site atmosphere described by Ai Hao, he felt that it was impossible for this variety show not to be popular.

Now we are building relationships with these bands and trying to get the regular customers of the nightclub to adapt.

Wait until the variety show becomes popular, and then invite these bands to perform. What will the Oscar competitors have to compare with then?
He didn't believe that none of those who came to the nightclub would watch "Summer of the Band"! He even more didn't believe that all the fans who watched the show or rock music fans would not come to the nightclub!

Seeing Xiaoniao's firm answer, Bian Lang still had many questions he wanted to clarify. However, since the other party was determined, he couldn't ask her everything he was thinking in front of her today.

"Okay, it's settled. Xibiqi will also cooperate with a series of activities. If I suggest, Xibiqi will pay for the venue fee for Haozi's live performance!"

Bian Lang made his words so clear that Ai Hao finally reacted: "Okay, whatever you say, Brother Lang, I'll just follow your instructions."

The bird figured out what was going on and now looked at Bian Lang with a different look.

At the beginning, his impression of Bian Lang was that he was a tool that could help capital make money.

After seeing the incidents that occurred at the Ximangmang Music Festival and the songs that had to be covered the next day after they were performed at his own venue, Xiaoniao began to think that Bian Lang might be the kind of artist who could control the capital.

But today, after listening to Bian Lang's decisiveness and organization in arranging things, he felt that he would be able to become a capital sooner or later.

It's a pity that they met too late. If he had pestered Ai Hao to introduce them earlier, he felt that maybe he might have a chance to buy a small stake in Rolling Stone. Now it can be said that he has no chance at all!
Not to mention whether the Rolling Stones have any demand for this, even if there is, it is not something that Xiao Bird can participate in with his wealth now.

However, he was smart and realized that the only thing that could bring him closer to Bian Lang was not necessarily the Rolling Stones, so he took advantage of this opportunity and said boldly, "Brother Lang, I heard from Brother Hao earlier that the Xibiqi factory is preparing a craft beer production line..."

Even Ai Hao knew what he was going to do when he said this at this time: "Boss Bird, don't you have a big appetite?"

The birdie who was discovered had no shame at all and said directly: "If you two brothers don't mind, can you leave some for me and take me to play with you once?"

Although it was Bian Lang who proposed the idea of ​​craft beer, he didn't want to worry too much about things other than music.

"You can discuss this with Ai Hao...By the way, everyone from Washe, what do you think about this?"

In response to Bian Lang's question, the lead singer of Washe agreed directly: "Thank you so much, Bian Lang!"

Although he said that, Bian Lang still had to ask one more question: "Don't you feel embarrassed to sing in a nightclub?"

But who knew that the lead singer of Washe would directly say: "What's there to be ashamed of? I can have the opportunity to perform my own work and get paid. I wish this good thing could happen every day!"

Since he thought so, Bian Lang felt relieved.

After I got up and left the private room, I found that there were only a few sober people on the second floor halfway up the mountain.

There were two guitarists who were half drunk and half awake, and they took advantage of the alcohol to study "California Guest House" on the small stage.

Bian Lang stood there listening for half a minute, then shook his head helplessly: "This is still a long way off!"

After he sighed awkwardly, he was spotted by Luo Lin who was at the mixing console: "Bian Lang, don't hide! Hurry up and show everyone how to play your song."

Before Bian Lang could even reply, he was pushed up by two people who were also half drunk and half awake.

After taking the acoustic guitar handed over by the guitarist, Bian Lang was about to shake his head and said, "That song is impossible. I'll talk about it after I finish writing it!"

He also knew that it would be unacceptable if he didn't perform tonight.

"Well, it's a rare opportunity for everyone to get together and have a good drink, so I'll sing you a song that you would only sing when you're drunk..."

Just when he came out of the private room, Bian Lang looked at the drunkards on this floor and this song started to repeat in his mind. Now was a good time to sing it.

After hearing this, everyone stopped caring and started to join in the fun.

Then Bian Lang swept the rhythm of two bars, and then he suddenly sang: "What can I think about after getting drunk? It's pure love and beautiful sorrow. Don't say that you and I can't break free. As long as you close your eyes, you will be moved..."

(End of this chapter)