Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 624: Dayong the Scapegoat

The album "Rock of the Past" was released in 1989. Although it was signed by the White Angel Band, the actual singers were Wei Hua, Liu Junli, Wang Xiaofang, Wang Di, Dong Hong, Gao Qi and others.

There are only some sporadic introductions about the White Angel band on the Internet of Original Earth.

White Angel was founded in 1987. Its early members included Liu Junli, Liu Yijun, Zang Tianshuo, Cheng Jin and Feng Mantian. Its later members included Liu Junli, Liu Yijun, Zang Tianshuo, Cheng Jin, Wang Di, Wei Hua and Gao Qi.

This information is consistent with the situation of that era, that is, the band lineup was unstable and members frequently moved between bands. It is estimated that this album was recorded under such circumstances.

It is important to emphasize that this is actually a collection of covers, such as Wei Hua's "Confession of Love" which is a cover of Chicago's "I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love" and Gao Qi's "The Past Is Gone" which is a cover of Bon Jovi's "Never say goodbye".

In a sense, Bian Lang's "Songs from the Past" is also a cover album.

After deciding on the title, Bian Lang went to watch Xie Xinyan's band rehearsal. As for what songs to release later, that could only be decided based on what singers would be found to perform them.

Xie Xinyan's band is called Under the Lion Rock. Looking at the rock musicians who are all in their 20s, Bian Lang does not find this name full of age incongruous. On the contrary, he feels that the sentiments implied in the name may be the real motivation that can inspire the band to keep going.

Bian Lang did not attract much attention when he entered the rehearsal room. When he saw Olaf was also inside, Bian Lang leaned over and sat in the corner with him.

Xie Xinyan is also a guitarist, and he is currently leading a group of people to play the interlude.

After listening to a few bars, Olaf started chatting with Bian Lang: "Wave, your Chinese language is really amazing. I also heard some other different dialects from the band demo that Liu Ziyang shared with me yesterday."

"Hokkien or Hakka?" Bian Lang felt that if it was the Sichuan dialect, Olaf probably wouldn't describe it that way.

After all, the dialects of the Southwest F4 are not very different, so even if they don't switch to Mandarin, they can still communicate without any problems. For Olaf, a foreigner, this difference should not make him feel any difference.

"Yes, right, Minnan dialect..."

This is entering into Bian Lang's blind spot of knowledge. There are only two Minnan songs in his mind, "If You Work Hard, You Will Win" and "No. 1 in the World".

As for Wu Tiao Ren and Jiu Lian, Hakka, Chaoshan, and Haifeng are all foreign languages ​​to Bian Lang. But if it is "Dao Shan Liang Zai" and "Don't Bully the Poor Young Man", if he works hard and spends some time, he should have a chance to restore it.

"When I have time, I'll write two songs and see if they should be included in the new album."

Originally, Olaf just wanted to sigh at the magic of China, but he didn't expect that this gave Bian Lang an opportunity to pretend: "Wave, next time please send the recorded works directly to me, so that we can continue to be friends."

Bian Lang was a little confused by the retort: ​​"Olaf, what do you mean by this?"

"How many songs do you still owe us and our fans? Don't you have any idea about it?"

Hearing this, Bian Lang did not blush, but smiled with a sly look on his face and said, "Really not, someone will help me count anyway, I don't need to worry about this kind of thing!"

After staying for a while and chatting with Xie Xinyan for a few more words, Bian Lang went to the Rolling Stones' rehearsal room.

The repertoire for this performance has not yet been finalized. Although the right to choose has been delegated to everyone for discussion, it seems that this has resulted in more opinions!
There is certainly no need to discuss classic songs such as "Shame", "Fade To Black", "Dye the Night Black", "Please Don't Stop My Music", and "Rock and Roll on the New Long March", and it is also a consensus among everyone that new songs should be released.

But when they were discussing what new songs to release, various opinions emerged. Dayong suggested Cantonese songs, Strauss wanted to perform English songs, Di Li thought metal songs should be used, and Hua Yan thought pop rock was also good.

As for Huang Kai's opinion, no one remembered it at all.

When Bian Lang entered the rehearsal room, Huang Kai was wearing headphones and was memorizing something. The aura and mental state of the others were similar to those people on the original Earth who used fallacies to mislead the audience on Qi Pa Shuo.

Seeing Bian Lang coming in, Dayong was the first to try to win him over: "Bian Lang, is it time to sing a Cantonese song? Tell me yourself?"

Bian Lang, who already had an idea, shook his head and said, "There's a band from the Greater Bay Area here this time, so let them do the Cantonese rock." Before anyone else could speak, Bian Lang said to Strauss, "Save the English songs for when we go to Europe for our concert..."

After hearing what Bian Lang said, the others had no objections.

According to Huang Kai, Bian Lang was just wasting time. He decided on his own that no one would say no and it would not waste time.

But Dayong still said, "Should we bring the wind and string players along as well?"

This hit the mark of what Bian Lang wanted. He nodded and said, "Yes, if we don't move, the wheels will get rusty. The song we gave to Liu Jiayun last time can be played this time."

After hearing this, Dayong thought for a moment and began to sing: "Give me a bottle of wine, and a cigarette..."

"Let's go now, I have plenty of time..." Hua Yan followed up with a sentence and then laughed: "This song is interesting, I have practiced it before, I was still wondering when you were going to bring it out!"

"I'm still young, I'm still young... We're going to have a blast opening with this song."

After Dayong finished speaking, Bian Lang put the tablet he brought on the music stand, and then said to the others: "In addition to this song, there is another new song. The score has been sent to the group."

At this time, a group of people quickly started looking at the music score on their tablets.

Seeing the trumpet and violin scores in the score, Dayong praised: "It seems that the Rolling Stones will rehearse together this time. Looking at the arrangement, we are fine, but Lun and the others will be busy."

Since he decided to release Wan Qing's songs, trumpet and violin are indispensable. These two albums can be regarded as financial products. Bian Lang plans to spend at least one year to polish each of them.

Less than half a minute after Dayong finished speaking, Lunzi, Liu Jiayun and Tao Xingyue came in carrying their musical instruments.

The three of them had had the score for some time, but Bian Lang had not given them a specific premiere time at the time. They just received news that it would be performed at this Rolling Stone Music event. The three of them were happy but also worried.

After all, the three of them were responsible for all the orchestral work of the Rolling Stones band. Although the Rolling Stones band was the last show on the last day, it put the greatest psychological pressure on people, not only because of the Rolling Stones band's identity, but also because of the quality of the song and what Bian Lang said to them when he gave them the score:
"I plan to release two albums in this style, and the orchestral arrangements will continue in both albums..."

If they mess up the premiere, then whether they will still have a role to play in the follow-up is a question worth considering carefully.

The current Rolling Stones are not the same as they were before. Back then, when Bian Lang invited Tao Xingyue, Tao Xingyue had to weigh the pros and cons. If the current Rolling Stones wanted to recruit people from the symphony orchestra, I'm afraid most of the musicians below the first rank would agree without a second thought.

and so……

Huang Kai's bass part score was not complicated. After reading it once, he began to look at the lyrics seriously. After seeing the first sentence, he laughed: "Well, before it was me, a stranger, and now it's Mr. Dong Erqian, could it be?"

The lyrics of this song, On the Original Earth, were written by bassist Ji Geng for his childhood friend Dong Yaqian. At that time, Dong Yaqian was feeling adrift for a while, and Ji Geng, who was a master's degree holder at the time, felt it necessary to remind his good brother, so he wrote this song. After Dong Yaqian saw the lyrics, he ignored Ji Geng for a long time.

In fact, the lyrics are a portrayal of Dong Yaqian himself: "He is not good at fortune-telling, nor at self-defense, hates arguments, is not good at speaking, likes to keep dogs, and doesn't like to wash his hair."

As for why every sentence of the melody of this song is almost the same, the rumor is that after Ji Geng wrote the lyrics, Dong Erqian was very unhappy after reading them. It is said that he ignored Ji Geng for several months, but later he may have felt that what Teacher Ji said was right.

I composed the music very reluctantly. So it's already very difficult to sing a song that says I'm useless, let alone write a complicated music. Is it possible?

But surprisingly, this song is very popular among many people in the circle.

Taiwanese female singer Tian liked Universal Youth Hostel very much back then. When she learned that Wan Qing could not perform in Taiwan, she looked very unhappy and even played Wan Qing's song while filling in at the radio station.

The song's cold and heavy theme, with its black humor-like playfulness and playful external expression, has attracted many literary and artistic young people.

When Wan Qing sings, it has the black and white silence of a northern industrial city, a kind of documentary-style resistance. But when Tian sings it, it is the wet and humid wind on an island, the confusion of rustling traffic under the street lights in a metropolis, and infinite insignificance.

It’s when you’re eating ice cream while walking your dog and thinking, “This day is so awful and this ice cream is so sweet.”

Bian Lang went to Wan Qing's live performance twice to listen to this song, and was truly amazed by the blues scale arrangement of the orchestral part.

Although the rock market was still sluggish at that time, Wan Qing seemed to be a special case. Even because of some objective reasons, some lyrics could not pass the review, but they still insisted on performing the instrumental version on the spot.

At that time, the scene of the large-scale chorus with the accompaniment of the band made many of Wan Qing's die-hard fans break down.

There is no Mr. Dong Erqian in this world, and Bian Lang doesn't want to make any changes. Anyway, as for how to interpret it specifically, he believes that the fans of the Rolling Stones will naturally help him come up with a more reasonable version of the answer than what he could come up with himself.

But in fact, there is no need for his fans. Several good brothers in the rehearsal room are already looking at him strangely.

"What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"No, it's nothing..."

After Huang Kai hesitated for a moment, Dayong asked directly, "Lang, is it really okay for you to write about Teacher Dong like that?"

At first, Bian Lang hadn't figured out who Teacher Dong was referring to, but after seeing the strange looks from the group of people, he quickly realized, "No, it's really not..."

But thinking about the fact that Dong Shuxian also loves to raise dogs, he doesn’t know whether he likes to wash his hair or not, but if he sings it out, this misunderstanding is definitely unavoidable.

"Brother Lang, how about I let Teacher Dong play the violin part!" After Tao Xingyue said this half-jokingly, Bian Lang decided to change this sentence.

He scanned the band members one by one, and finally fixed his eyes on Dayong: "Brother Yong, I remember you are a dog owner, right?"

"Ah?" Before Dayong could react, Huang Kai said, "It's obvious that Dayong doesn't like washing his hair. This is fine!"

Amid the crowd's echoes, Dili joined in making fun of Dayong without saying a word.

His intuition told him that Bian Lang was not lying, and "Mr. Dong Erqian" was definitely not referring to Dong Youbian's father, but Bian Lang definitely did not just randomly think of a name to appear in this song.

As for the exact reason, he really wanted to know, but he would not ask proactively. He just silently wrote down the name Dong Erqian, hoping to see if he could find some clues from other works in the future.

……

At this time, over at the Dianhai Group, He Yan was reporting the situation to several local leaders in charge on the site.

"This time the scale is almost twice that of last November. Last year's traffic pressure was already very great, so we hope that this plan can be approved this time!"

Because the surrounding roads were blocked like parking lots during the last music festival, after communicating with Dianhai, the Rolling Stones went to discuss with the local authorities whether it was possible to temporarily re-plan the traffic routes here, that is, to change the original two-way four-lane main road into a one-way road, so as to better facilitate the surrounding traffic network.

Although everyone has a certain tolerance for traffic paralysis in tourist areas during major holidays, who wouldn’t want to have a better experience?
Hearing this, the leader in charge of transportation became a little worried: "Your plan sounds feasible, but no one has actually implemented it. If there is a bigger traffic paralysis, who will be responsible?"

At this time, of course no one would come out and say that they would take responsibility for this matter, but He Yan, who had already prepared his words, said: "Leader, we have combined the experience of large-scale music festivals in other provinces in the past few years. Some of them even closed the surrounding roads for several kilometers and only used shuttle buses for transportation. But considering the normal operation of other facilities and units in our area, our plan may be the best choice!"

As the leader was nodding, his phone rang.

The moment he saw the name on the mobile phone number, the leader frowned, then walked away for a while before answering the call.

About a minute later, when he came back, his face was so gloomy that it felt like a thunderstorm was about to hit...

(End of this chapter)