Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 635: Preface to Enter Sandman
When the two arrived at the isolation area under the Rolling Stones stage, Bian Lang and the others had already arrived.

When Liang Kuan saw the two female "skulls" wearing Katrina's skull makeup, he first joked, "Are these two girls with compasses? This makeup is really beautiful, and it has a taste of death metal."

Bian Lang smiled and didn't answer, waiting for her to confirm her identity. Guo Sichu was holding back his anger, and didn't give any reminders in any way.

Feeling that the atmosphere was a little off, Liang Kuan looked the two women up and down carefully again, and finally recognized Guo Sichu from some details of their clothing.

"Chu Chu? You? Who did this makeup? Our people? Impossible..."

Under her gaze of shock and suspicion, Guo Sichu said angrily: "Sister Kuan, we have lived together for more than ten years. You can't recognize me even if I changed my makeup. Should I consider..."

"What are you thinking about? I can only say that the guy who designed this makeup is too good. Don't you just want to have fun at the scene like an ordinary fan? Just tell me, did anyone recognize you tonight?"

After saying this, Liang Kuan winked at Guo Sichu, and then introduced his own queen to Evelyn. Then the queen took over the conversation and introduced An Feng, the national goddess, to Evelyn.

Evelyn didn't find Guo Sichu surprising, but An Feng made it impossible for her to remain reserved.

After all, An Feng is one of the few Chinese darlings of the Oscars, and she likes the role of Mulan portrayed by An Feng very much.

"Miss An, hello, it's my honor to meet you here. I wonder if I can take a photo with you? Excuse me, if you really go there with this makeup, you will definitely be a goddess there! I don't know which stylist did this. If possible, I would like to introduce him to a few major fashion shows to try his luck!"

Although it was a bit unkind to say this, Evelyn felt that only this way could she express the amazement in her heart at the moment.

However, An Feng did not feel offended. Instead, he smiled and raised his chin to Bian Lang and said, "It was designed by Bian Lang. We just want to enjoy the music festival like ordinary music fans tonight!"

Hearing that, Evelyn pretended to be annoyed and "complained" and said, "It seems that not every designer can hire this stylist..."

As for Bian Lang's cross-border behavior, Evelyn was not so surprised, but she was a little envious of Liang Kuan and Chen Shuting. However, for Bian Lang, who was determined to get the position of overseas agent, these would be the capital that her foreign colleagues would envy her in the future.

After taking a photo with An Feng, the sound of electric guitar began to be heard from the stage, attracting everyone's attention.

Hatter did not start the performance directly like New Pants did. As the last band to perform, they attracted the audience's attention with their impromptu instrumental performances. Then, with the help of a translator, Filmos interacted with the fans in the audience.

"Hello everyone! We are the Hatter band. We are very happy to be on the stage of the Rolling Stone Music Festival again. Let me see how many people were here to listen to us six months ago?"

This kind of interactive question is very clever. Even if there are only a few hundred people, as long as these people cheer together, there will definitely be a lot of people who will follow suit.

But even Hatter and his team didn't expect that this time more than half of the people in the stadium shouted together!

Evelin faced the scene and said a little awkwardly: "The enthusiasm of Chinese music fans really opened my eyes!"

But who knew that Liang Kuan replied to her: "Although this data is not very accurate, according to the previous statistics on online ticket sales, the overlap rate between this group of audiences and the Rolling Stone Music Festival is 57%!"

To say it was not quite accurate was because Liang Kuan felt that the actual ratio would be higher than this, but to Evelyn, this was undoubtedly a great blessing!
After all, Hatter is about to start a tour in China, and such a high stickiness of fans is definitely a rare good thing for them.

"This should be good news for Hatter's tour. Ticket sales information will be pushed to these fans first! This is the first major domestic performance project that the Rolling Stones and DGM have cooperated on. The Rolling Stones also hope that the box office of Hatter's tour will achieve good results."

After Liang Kuan finished speaking, Evelyn nodded and said, “We also hope that this cooperation will be successful!”

As soon as the words fell, the translator's voice came from the stage: "Thank you for your enthusiasm. After the Rolling Stone Music Festival, the Hatter band will start a national tour in China. I hope to see you again in person then!"

As soon as these words came out, the fans in the audience burst into exclamations again.

After all, it was the first time for a big foreign rock band to tour in China on the Blue Water Planet! An occasional concert or two was not unusual, but a tour was truly the first time!
In fact, whether on the Blue Water Planet or the original Earth, it is not an easy thing for foreign bands to come to China to perform.

Bian Lang remembers that the first band from Earth to perform in China was Wham! They played two shows each in BJ and Yangchang in 1985. It was said that the preliminary communication alone took more than a year.

It was only after China joined the WTO that the band began to visit China more frequently. However, the lack of box office sales was the biggest reason why the tour could not be carried out!
It is said that Led Zeppelin's plan to come to China was discouraged by the dismal box office. Even when the famous Shui Ye came to Shanghai, many seats were empty in the 10,000-person show. At that time, Bian Lang, who was at the scene, even muttered to himself: "How much money will this lose?"

Although Shui Ye’s concerts often lose money, this is the most intuitive epitome of the information cocoon and the Chinese rock market.

Although every big foreign band has a lot of online fans on various social platforms, when they actually hold a concert, it can be said that the scene will become a large-scale collective star-chasing scene for domestic singers.

Metallica also came to China, but the most popular news after the show was Lang Lang who took a photo with them.

Therefore, Hatter's approach of attracting a group of music fans at music festivals is undoubtedly an approach worth trying.

Although they do not lack the performance market in China, this is Bian Lang's hometown. No matter what the reason, they are willing to pay attention to it!
There were many people in the audience who were just joining in the fun, but there were also some real Hatter fans who were so overwhelmed by the news that they almost fainted!

"Touring! That's much more fun than a music festival!"

"This is your first time performing in China, so you must be performing 40 or 50 songs per show, right?"

"Forty or fifty songs! Bro, why don't you just let them hold a Hatter Music Festival?"

"Everything else is easy to deal with. I just want to ask if the Rolling Stones can still be a guest."

"But I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. If I were Bian Lang, I would definitely not agree to this. After all, if I have time to be a guest, but not to go on tour, I'll be hung on the street light!" The fans kept talking, and the translator's voice came over: "After telling you the good news, I have to announce a bad news to everyone. Because of my playfulness, I injured my finger, but it's not a big problem.

Therefore, we invited Mr. Di Li, the guitarist of the Rolling Stones, to help us complete this performance together, and he will continue to help us in the subsequent tours..."

After all this was said, they began the performance.

When the overloaded electric guitar sound rang out from the speakers, the enthusiasm of the fans, which had just cooled down a little, was ignited again on the scene.

The first four songs are the band's own famous works. Although not many people can sing along, the emotions of the fans are still well aroused by the excitement of the rhythm and drums.

When the fans were looking forward to the fifth song, thinking it would be a seamless transition, Feimosi and the others stopped and picked up a paper cup of beer. After taking a sip, he said jokingly: "You should know what I drank, but I can't tell you! But I can tell you...

The new song from Bian Lang that you've been waiting for is coming soon, but we need to take a short break and give you some time to relax, because your hearts and bodies may no longer belong to you! "

After this speech, the Hatter band completely stirred up the emotions of the fans:

"This Rolling Stones Music Festival is really a mess! Even if foreigners come, they have to follow the Rolling Stones rules!"

"The encore at Hatter is "New Rock", the last new song to be released this year. I wonder what they will sing for the encore?"

"It seems that this band has been completely tamed by the Rolling Stones. It's not easy for a metal band of this level to perform in China. Now they have to go on tour and sing songs written by Bian Lang. No matter how you look at it, they are much more serious than some of the bands in China..."

The so-called domestic bands mentioned by music fans are definitely related to the Magic Disc. In fact, before the rise of the Rolling Stones, many large and small rock bands in the Blue Water Planet were still very twisted in performing.

Even though it has reached the point where even a small live show with a few hundred people cannot be fully sold out, people still cannot take the performance seriously. It’s not that there aren’t people who want to be serious, but they are often easily excluded.

So in fact, the music fans at the scene cherish the Rolling Stone Music Festival very much, because the bands here don’t deliberately do anything out of the ordinary, and even the Joystick has issued a limit on alcohol before the performance.

As for the unexpected incident involving Phimos, that is another matter. The point is that judging from the performance in the first four songs, there is really nothing to fault with their singing skills and coordination.

Even the group of domestic industry insiders in the audience gave very fair comments...

As for the fact that Hatter got Bian Lang's new English song, they would not have any other opinions. So far, Bian Lang's selection of singers and bands cannot be said to be 100% perfect, but at least it is the kind that no one can find a substitute for.

Now everyone in the circle wants to see the quality of the final product!

At this time, Evelyn took the initiative to approach Bian Lang and asked seriously, "How well do you think Hatter can perform this song tonight?"

"What standard should be used to measure this?" In fact, it was difficult for Bian Lang to comment on this matter, because he had at least three or four versions of the judging criteria in his mind.

"According to your highest expectations for this song!"

Bian Lang didn't know whether Evelin was showing off or testing his bottom line, but he still honestly said what he really thought: "I think it's enough to get halfway!"

Evelyn didn't know what to say after hearing this. Bian Lang was there to give instructions during the rehearsal, and there was also a Rolling Stones guitarist helping out. If this was only halfway through, she was very curious about what the perfect version in Bian Lang's mind should feel like.

Of course, she wouldn't think that Bian Lang said that to leave room for the Rolling Stones to perform the song themselves in the future.

Seeing Evelin didn't say anything, Bian Lang pointed at the stage and added seriously, "There won't be any big problems with Phimos' singing, but there are too many uncontrollable factors in instrument performance. Besides, as long as the fans like it, what's the point of my standard?"

"But……"

Just as Evelyn was trying to continue saying something, the sound of cymbals came from the stage. Although it sounded very light, everyone knew that the prelude of the song had begun!

Almost in the blink of an eye, a clean electric guitar performance began to reach the ears of music fans.

Looking at Di Li on the stage, he was like Bian Lang who was doing the demonstration, kneeling on the ground and playing the piano, and his figure was like the springboard in a gymnastics vaulting horse competition.

The strong reverberation combined with the blues-tinged riff directly creates a dark atmosphere and mood in the listeners' minds.

Anyone who has listened to the rehearsal knows that the connection between the prelude and the following lyrics is very close.

After hearing this, if you ask Bian Lang what else he was dissatisfied with, it would be that he probably forgot to talk to Di Li about the guitar.

According to his memory, the pickup for this riff in the song's Black Album (Metallica's album of the same name released in 91) was an EMG single-coil.

If nothing unexpected happens, this is the only pickup device combination in Bian Lang's knowledge that can process the clean piano sound like the one in the album recording. The sound is as clean as the electric guitar sound that has only been processed by DI!
At this time, the cleanliness of the sound of the electric guitar on the stage was only half of what Bian Lang remembered.

Despite this, the people in the audience were still fascinated by it!
When the prelude was halfway through, Bob, who had been on standby, trotted forward two steps, slid to his knees opposite the grinder, plucked the EM chord, and joined in with the sound of a wah-wah guitar.

Feimos then knelt down and started to "play" the air guitar.

At the same time, other instruments in the band joined in...

(End of this chapter)