Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 640 Slap Bass
At the same time, the musicians of the band who had already returned to the hotel at the foot of Lion Rock felt that the live performance was not exciting enough, so they continued to watch the video online.

After watching the video of "Enter Sandman" repeatedly, they once again felt Bian Lang's somewhat desperate dominance in lyrics and composition.

The drummer listened to the drum part several times with headphones on and then shook his head helplessly!
It is not difficult for him to copy this part, but it would be a headache for him to create it from scratch.

Thinking that they would be performing with Xie Xinyan at the last show of the Rolling Stone Music Festival tonight, they felt a little guilty. Before coming, they thought this was an extremely good opportunity.

After watching Hatter's performance today, they realized the pressure. There is no harm without comparison. Sometimes this sentence is not only applicable after the fact, just like now, they have already felt the gap before the comparison.

Xie Xinyan, the lead singer, saw that the others were in low spirits, but he said nonchalantly, "What do you have to worry about? Even if I mess up, the fans will only scold me, not you."

It would have been fine if it hadn't been said, but once it was said, several musicians were so angry that they laughed:
"You are the King of Crabs. Even if there is something wrong with your singing, your fans will only blame us!"

"Come on, you're a superstar singer, how could your fans blame you..."

But Xie Xinyan continued to laugh and said, "This is not my concert. The people who come here are all rock fans. How many of them are my fans? Besides, in the eyes of these young people nowadays, I am either an 18th-tier actor or a cook. How many people recognize me?"

Everyone felt that the first point made some sense, but they simply disagreed with the second point.

After all, since the series of events that happened after Xie Xinyan met Bian Lang in England, he has gradually returned to the public's attention as a singer. Anyone who has paid a little attention to the music industry online would not think of him as just a cook.

After this brief silence, the drummer suddenly blurted out, "Damn, the band in front of us is Hedgehog, isn't the contrast even bigger?"

The other people thought he had discovered something incredible, and they all looked at him with disdain and said, "You must be the last one to discover it. We deliberately didn't mention it because we didn't want to put more psychological pressure on everyone!"

When the drummer heard the tone, he felt like he was in trouble, but the words were already out and he couldn't take them back!

Xie Xinyan still smiled and said, "Actually, you shouldn't put so much pressure on yourselves. I used to be in the pop music scene, and even if I was called a superstar, that's a thing of the past. Now that I'm playing in a band with you guys, I just consider myself a newcomer, and you guys are the same."

The drummer might really be a bit nervous. After Xie Xinyan said this, he seemed to have a sudden realization and said, "Yeah, facing Bian Lang, who dares to say that he is not a newcomer?"

As for the three girls from the new band Nuozhen, they were more nervous than the ones under Lion Rock.

Although I had experienced a Xibiqi Music Festival when I was in Banna, that festival was simply a larger compilation of performances and could not be compared with a professional music festival like the Rolling Stones.

Especially after watching today's performance on stage and the state of the fans below the stage, they were really afraid of messing up.

Originally they thought that their previous experience performing in a bar in Banna could come in handy, but after watching the performance yesterday, the three girls found that it was not the case at all.

Even the audience of the Xibiqi Music Festival, most of the bargoers are tourists, and whether they can receive tips or not should have little to do with the music. In that kind of atmosphere, many mistakes are not taken seriously, and as long as you sing a popular song, you can get cheers and applause.

But it's different in music. Today, when Xi Que played the prelude wrongly, he was booed by the fans. In the past, this might have been laughed off. But after the performance, Xi Que apologized on stage in front of all the fans before leaving the stage.

They don't think there's anything wrong with apologizing, but if they really make a mistake and the fans in the front row keep booing them, they might collapse on the stage given their mental strength.

Even Xia Ruojie, who usually has the most eccentric personality, now has a sad expression on her face: "Sister, what should I do! It will be so embarrassing if I mess up!"

"It's okay for us to embarrass ourselves, but the key is that we're embarrassing the Rolling Stones!" Second sister Xia Ruoqing also sighed.

The eldest sister Xia Ruobing thought about it, and finally picked up her phone to send a message to Ding Ding, who had a good relationship with them. In fact, she didn't have much hope to learn any experience from Ding Ding, but she just wanted to find someone who had experienced it and talk to her.

Ding Ding happened to come out of the rehearsal room of Compass. After receiving the news, she went straight to the room of the three girls and brought the lead singer Yang Meng with her.

On the way there, Ding Ding and Yang Meng knew what was going on, which reminded them of the first time their old band Qi Meng performed at a large music festival. Compared to Nuozhen, they felt more nervous at the time, because other bands were either independent or bands under niche music labels such as Magic Disc.

Bands like theirs, packaged by Chunchun Entertainment, were actually basically unpopular before they even went on stage.

Yang Meng sat cross-legged on the carpet, opened a can of Xibiqi and said while reminiscing: "You know, we were even more nervous than you at that time. When our agent asked the organizing committee for a rehearsal location, they almost wrote on their faces that you three don't need a rehearsal room. Ding, I remember that we ended up rehearsing in the hotel's fire escape stairwell, right?"

Talking about this memory, Ding Ding swallowed the wine in his mouth, laughed and said: "Yes, yes, because there were no drums, we played the sample during the rehearsal, and then we were reported and we ran away, leaving the bassist to take over..."

Hearing this, the girls in the room burst into laughter!
"Then I remember that the night before the performance, we were rehearsing in front of Zhao Ge's pastoral band. It was such a mess. It felt like the three of us were just playing our own music and couldn't play together at all."

As soon as Ding Ding finished speaking, Yang Meng continued, "Later, Brother Zhao probably couldn't stand it anymore, so he ran up and stopped us. He played Ding Ding's loop for us again, asked me to follow his rhythm, and helped Ding Ding to play the snare again... In the end, he told us not to be afraid, because the people below would not care about anything else as long as they were high...

If you are really unsure, ask the tuner to turn up the volume of the microphone and reduce the volume of the guitar. Then, as long as you can keep up with the beat, basically no one will be able to hear the difference..."

"Another time, we went to warm up for an idol..."

Yang Mengchang, who had just reopened a map, was saying this when Xia Ruojie interrupted with a curious look on her face, "Ah? Really? A rock band going to warm up for their idol, this, this..."

"It's not important within the company... We already had some live performance experience at that time, but you know that feeling of singing half a song in front of tens of thousands of people but feeling like you're just singing to the air?"

Just this description made the three girls feel very uncomfortable. Compared to acting to the air, how strong a sense of belief does it take to bear the feeling of being ignored by tens of thousands of people?

"It's also because the stage is far enough apart. Otherwise, I think I could hear the fans complaining that we were wasting their time!" As soon as Ding Ding finished her sentence, her elder sister Xia Ruobing asked, "Then how did you manage to hold on?"

Yang Meng took a sip of wine, laughed and said: "After I finished singing a paragraph, during the interlude, I cursed the audience in my heart for being idiots..."

"I just think of the snare drum as these people's heads, and I'm playing a rock version of Whack-a-Mole!" Hearing Ding Ding's description, the three sisters all laughed out loud.

Then Yang Meng changed another map and continued, "Let me tell you about what happened at the Haicaihua Music Festival. That was also the first time we met Bian Lang. When we were rehearsing that night, my speakers burned out, and it was impossible to buy my model in Lugu Lake. I wanted to die at the time, and then Brother Lang came up and used his speakers to play the prelude of "Fade To Black" for me..."

"Really? Was "Fade To Black" written at that time?" The three sisters watched the video at the Hai Cai Hua Music Festival and were deeply impressed by the Golden Horse Awards where they became famous.

But they never imagined that there were such stories behind it, and "Fade To Black" was actually produced at that time.

"Maybe it was already written a long time ago, and it was just an opportunity for Brother Lang to bring out the song. After I heard the prelude, I suddenly felt that my somewhat hypocritical stubbornness was really too childish in front of an absolute big shot like Brother Lang."

"What happened next?" Xia Ruojie asked curiously.

"Later! Later, the disloyal Ding Ding was seduced by the rolling stones!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"You're going to die, Yang Meng, you shameless woman, just tell me, is it better now or before..."

"Of course it's better now, but what does this have to do with you..."

Amidst the laughter and playfulness, the tension among the three sisters was relieved a lot.

When Ding Ding and Yang Meng were half drunk and walking back, Yang Meng said in a daze: "See how serious they are, we can't let them down the day after tomorrow!"

Then she let go of Ding Ding's shoulders, staggered forward, and sang: "Happiness is when others can't keep up with your pace, and worries and sorrows have long been left behind you. All opportunities, you don't need to be cautious and force them..."

Ding Ding chased after him with a smile, thinking to himself: "Kumian is not here. If I get complained about, there will be no one to blame!"

……

Before the next day's show started, Guo Sichu's makeup artist had already teamed up with Lu Zao to make a small profit today with the Katrina skull makeup.

There is no way around it. After the video was released on Bilibili, these two queens and goddesses, who were ultimately unrecognized, became a hot topic on the Internet, even though it had nothing to do with them.

Looking at the hundreds of comments below asking for the same product, these two people with official authorization will certainly not miss this opportunity to make a little money.

Green Algae directly used her social account to release the makeup photos of the two of them last night, and attached the number of her booth.

Not surprisingly, some female Bodhisattvas who wanted to make a movie in their lifetime rushed to the market area as soon as they passed the gate, just as if they were buying tickets for Disneyland.

The sight of thousands of horses galloping towards this side startled Bian Lang, who had just come out from Old E with a cup of coffee.

Bian Lang, who had no idea what was going on, quickly climbed onto the roof of the coffee truck, went into the tent, and started to install the mascot with Brother Skeleton.

Old E, who also didn't know the inside story, was a little panicked. She had heard about the madness of the female Bodhisattvas, so she was afraid that her small coffee cart could not withstand such strong winds and waves.

But who knew that under the leadership of the leading horse, the female Bodhisattvas didn't even look at her coffee cart and rushed into the market area, leaving her stunned.

A moment later, she laughed wildly at Bian Lang, who was still pretending to be a mascot, "Ahahahahahaha, Bian Lang, I never thought you would have this day..."

This is just a very insignificant episode in the music festival. The real protagonists are still the band on the stage and the fans in the audience.

As the first attempt after returning to all-rock, there were naturally many bands that we hadn’t seen last year but are already quite famous in the circle.

The Arashiyama band that opened today is a band that has been quite popular in recent years, not only because they have one or two pretty good Chinese-style rock songs, but also because their band has a female lead singer who plays bass, which is extremely rare both in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

Moreover, this female bassist was not the kind of bassist who would just stand there. Her slap bass made Huang Kai lose all his confidence: "Lang, do you know how to play that?"

Of course Bian Lang wouldn't, but he knew that there was an islander named MIYAVI who played slap with guitar on the original Earth. In a video he recorded long ago when he was still a visual kei, he showed off to Bian Lang.

Even now, two lifetimes of rock music have not made him interested in learning such techniques that are both excellent in both technology and aesthetics.

As for the Slap Bass of the original Earth, it is a bass playing technique invented by a musician named Larry Graham.

The thumb strikes the string at the base of the guitar neck, and after striking, the string stops on the frets to produce a clear and thick tone. He invented this technique because the drummer of the band ran away, and he wanted to use the bass to make up for the rhythm problem of the bass drum!
Thinking of this, Bian Lang jokingly said to Huang Kai: "Brother Kaizi, if you can master this technique, you can help Dayong achieve his eighth career!"

Huang Kai certainly got this point, but he didn't have much confidence and pretended to be calm and said: "No, we can't let Dayong go to other bands again. He is an ominous creature, and I think only you can control him!"

(End of this chapter)