Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 656: Rolling Stones on Stage
Nan Feiyan's performance had just ended. After Strauss, Yang Meng and Li Linqing handed over their equipment to the instrument assistant, they hurried to report to the Rolling Stone stage.

Yang Meng and Li Linqing both went to the chorus group. In addition to them, there was also the Mongolian man Tan Ying.

Although the Mongolian band has not been formed yet, Tan Ying is considered a member of the Rolling Stones. His skills in playing the horse-head fiddle are beyond doubt, so many bands would ask him to come over when they need to arrange music, and he also started to learn the throat singing!

Both Yang Meng and Li Linqing can sing high notes, so they need a bass singer like him to increase the layering of the tone!
At this moment, Tan Ying was already on the stage preparing with Bian Lang and the others. Although there was no arrangement, he still brought the horse-head fiddle with him.

So the current Rolling Stones stage has become the most garish one. There are more than 10 or 20 percussion instruments, plus violins, various trumpets, horns and saxophones, and five or six spare guitars, ranging from Fender to Gibson...

If this happened to another small band, they would definitely be ridiculed as a poor student with too much stationery!

But just because they are the Rolling Stones, even if these guys do twice as much, no one will say a word to them.

As a musical instrument assistant, Xiao Han was doing his job very carefully for the first time in his career.

It turns out that he does this kind of work in Nanyin, but he doesn't serve a particular band specifically. He just follows the bands according to the company's schedule. But even if he follows dozens of bands, the instruments he has played are not as good as the ones on the stage today.

In fact, it’s not that these guitars are very expensive. The Epiphone used by Bian Lang is not as valuable as the cheapest one in Lao Pan’s office collection.

But in his heart, or in the hearts of many rock musicians, the significance of these guitars is extraordinary!

Take Bian Lang's Epiphone for example. "People Without Ideals Don't Feel Sad" was played by Bian Lang on this guitar. And the red Fender and the six-string Ovation. The music works carried on each of these guitars are too precious for the current Chinese rock circle.

So after he served all these "treasures" at work today, he asked the staff to take a photo of him and post it on his social account.

Since the company specializes in dealing with musical instruments, although he only has a few hundred followers on his social media accounts, the sales representatives who came to the music festival to exhibit have established strong relationships with him.

Xiao Han had posted something before and ignored it. Now that the big guys were ready to leave him alone, he took the time to take a look at his social account.

He wasn't surprised to gain several hundred followers, but the tens of thousands of likes for the first comment really surprised him.

The comment was from Epiphone's official account in China: "Brother Han, let's make a deal! Tell me the model of Mr. Bian's Epiphone, and I'll get you a replacement with a similar quality one. I'll give you 50 yuan, but it's not a big deal!"

Although everyone knows that this is just a joke to take advantage of the popularity, the fact that an American musical instrument manufacturer can offer a 50-fold premium to buy an old guitar is enough to illustrate Bian Lang's current value in the circle.

The official Fender account added: "50, are you looking down on your boss or Bian Lang? Brother Han, get the red Fender, 88 for you!"

Looking at these comments, Xiao Han couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and said to himself: "What are these people thinking? How could these Qin Lang brothers take action! This will be the inheritance of the Rolling Stones from now on!"

Of course, he believed that as long as Bian Lang nodded, these manufacturers would not even frown at a price higher than this, let alone this price!
There was nothing wrong with his idea. When the people from Fender went on stage to take pictures, they were thinking that it would be great if they could buy back the guitars that the Rolling Stones used when they toured Europe for Hatter last year and put them in the exhibition hall.

The effectiveness of this form of publicity can be directly reflected in data.

The same guitars that the Rolling Stones used during their tour last year have seen their sales increase tenfold since their performance. The president of Fender Europe even regretted: "If I had known the effect would be so good, I should have brought the Rolling Stones to our showroom when they landed in England..."

With ten minutes left before the show started, the three girls from Compass had already arrived at the Rolling Stones' stage.

Xiao Han looked at the complete lineup of the Rolling Stones today, and began to count them one by one in anticipation: "Brother Lang, Brother Kaizi, Brother Yong, Brother Li, Hua Yan, Teacher Shi, Lunzi, Tao Xingyue, Liu Jiayun, Tu Ling... Including the chorus, there are 13 of them, what a lineup... wow!"

Although compared with the Chinese rock scene, not every person in each position is the best, but now no one, inside or outside the circle, will deny that the Rolling Stones are at the top.

At this time, Bian Lang handed a bottle of water to each of the three women who had just arrived.

Then he said to Yang Meng and Li Linqing: "Sure, you two have really given the fans a big surprise this time!"

Yang Meng was blocked by the mineral water bottle and couldn't speak. Li Linqing spoke first: "What about you? What do you think, Teacher Bian?"

"Teacher Li, you are a proper teacher. You can just call me Bian Lang. I am not surprised, I am astonished. So what did you teach her?"

Li Linqing used to have a celebrity filter for Bian Lang, but since she came back from the Spring Festival Gala, she came to the Rolling Stone Music School and started to get involved in this circle, and then she started to look at Bian Lang as an equal.

So after Bian Lang said this, she didn't hold back: "Now I'm just correcting some of her bad vocal habits. In fact, I found that many people in the Rolling Stones have this problem!"

Of course, Bian Lang knew what she was implying. It was nothing more than a hoarse voice caused by overusing the voice.

Not to mention the Rolling Stones or the rock circle, the entire singer circle actually has this problem.

Especially in China, where modern music started relatively late, many singers who are not professionally trained did not pay attention when they were young. They only began to repent after being scolded like dogs on stage. But what can they do?

It doesn't help!

Even the top entertainment stars from the original Earth could not avoid it. Wang Jingwen's later performances could only be adjusted by emotions, and Tao Zhe's magical transitions no longer had the agility of his youth. Even Jay Chou's voice had faded, and the pitch of all four sets of high notes in the concert dropped.

Bian Lang feels that the only immortal legends in the Chinese music circle are Chen Hui, Zhang Geshen and Lin Zixiang!
Now that Bian Lang had this awareness and thought of the heavy burden on his shoulders, he said to Li Linqing: "After this is over, you plan to hold a large class and let everyone come to learn. I will take the lead!"

Hearing this, Li Linqing smiled and said, "With you taking the lead, do we have to rent a classroom..."

Before the joke was even finished, the staff from the backstage came over to inform: "Teachers, can we start the countdown?"

Bian Lang did not answer immediately, but looked at all the band members with an inquiring look.

"Let's go!"

"OK!" "No problem!"

After a series of responses and nods, Bian Lang waved his hand to signal everyone to take their seats, and then made an OK gesture to the staff!
After a moment, a sound came from the speaker.

The fans immediately started shouting excitedly, but after hearing clearly they realized that it was a little too early to be happy.

The person who spoke was Liu Ziyang at the control desk. He was just acting as a DJ, announcing that the Rolling Stones were about to appear, and guiding the fans' emotions:
"Hello everyone, I am Liu Ziyang, the substitute DJ for today's Rolling Stone Music Festival! I believe many music fans have been looking forward to this last performance for the past three days. So let's count down together..."

At this moment, the enthusiasm of all the fans in the audience reached the highest point in the past three days.

No matter whether it was the anticipation of music fans for seeing the Rolling Stones for the first time, or the feelings of old fans towards rock and the Rolling Stones, they all turned into passionate release at the first moment!

The flags with various slogans written on them fluttered in the evening breeze, as if they were cheering for the Rolling Stones.

Looking at this area in the quarantine, those pop singers have become accustomed to it after watching them for three days.

But when facing the Rolling Stones this time, the fans' different madness still made them astonished!
Xia Yuxi, who no longer had any burden, stood with Liu Chuang at this moment. Looking at those female fans who were shouting at the top of their lungs and waving their coats above their heads, Xia Yuxi said blankly, "Compared to them, our younger fans are simply..."

"Don't take me with you, I don't have any young fans!"

"Brother Chuang, what you said is just that you don't know it."

After saying this, Xia Yuxi has already started thinking about this problem. Brainless fans is a malicious label given to these young fans by the outside world. Although sometimes these young fans do do a lot of ridiculous things, this is the effect that capital needs.

In fact, to put it bluntly, all of this is caused by the company imitating the way of cutting leeks from the two small countries in the East and misleading fans.

Now that I want to transform myself, I will lose at least 90 percent of these fans!

With over 10 million fans on Weibo, this wave of pain does seem painful, but when he thinks that one day in the future he will be able to enjoy a music festival with tens of thousands of people, he feels relieved!
After all, his original intention was to spread his own music, rather than relying on his personality and high exposure as before, doing things that the company thought could maximize the exploitation of fans' wallets.

With this decision, he now just wants to try his best to get the position of lead singer of Hedgehog.

Looking at Xia Yuxi who was silent, Liu Chuang asked curiously, "Do you really want to be the lead singer of Hedgehog? Are you willing to give up all those things you had before?"

"Yeah, I think that's cool! How can a concert where you sit in a seat be this exciting?"

Liu Chuang nodded and said, "Yes, I hope the song that Bian Lang gives me can be a more exciting one. Then I will sign up for the Blueberry Music Festival!"

On Guo Sichu and An Feng's side, several female singers including Tao Xiaoyu have already joined in.

It was the first time for all of them to see the Rolling Stones perform at a music festival. Even though they had been in the industry for many years, they were all sighing in admiration at the sight of such a performance that they used to think was too much!

Guo Sichu: "I think my previous concert with 30,000 people was pretty good. Compared to this, it's totally different!"

An Feng: "Sister Xiaoyu and I have been to Hatter's performance in Berlin. We thought it was amazing then! This is simply..."

Tao Xiaoyu: "Yes, when we were abroad, we mixed in with the fans and played tricks. Today, I wouldn't dare to do this even if I had 10 guts!"

Ma Rui: "Why didn't I notice it when we were in school? Bian Lang actually..."

"By the way, Ma Rui, did Bian Lang leave any works when you were in school? If you can find them, you can put them in the Rolling Stones' office now. It will be a great commemoration!"

After hearing what Guo Sichu said, Ma Rui directly replied: "I think Lao Luo might have it..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the clean sound of an acoustic guitar coming from the speakers!
As soon as this voice came out, everyone at the scene seemed to have pressed the mute button, staring straight at the stage.

But the black curtain was still there, but this complete chord didn't sound like it was still being soundchecked.

New music fans are still wondering what this operation is?
Old fans have already heard it:
"Wow! How much did Shanhaijian pay for the placement? Singing the jingle at the beginning?"

"Oh, with this quality of advertising song, Dianhai Group should be really happy. Other real estate companies are probably scrambling to get Bian Lang to write a song like this for them!"

"Indeed, if you don't stand here and put yourself in their shoes, who can connect this song with the advertising song?"

While the old fans were chatting, the black curtain on the stage finally moved. As the curtain opened to both sides, Bian Lang's singing voice came out:

"I call out to the mountains, but my voice is always interrupted by the wind..."

At the same time, what appeared to the fans was the Rolling Stones dressed entirely in black on the stage!
There is no fancy style, just a simple black shirt and black pants, with a bright red "big tongue" logo printed on the T-shirt!

Bian Lang, who was at the center of the stage, was wearing an Ovation with his hands behind his back. Under the overhead light, he seemed to be covered with a layer of divine light.

The lyrics he sang with his eyes closed seemed like the gospel leading his devout followers in the audience.

The first thought in the minds of countless music fans now is not to cheer, but to take a breath and have the urge to worship the stage.

No one expected that the Rolling Stones would start the concert with such a song that they thought was not exciting, but the shocking effect was surprisingly good!

In Xie Xinyan's words: "This is not a song, it's heavenly music!"

(End of this chapter)