Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 696: In front of Bian Lang, I must be perfect
As soon as he finished singing, Bian Lang focused his hands again on playing the interlude, while in his heart he recalled the scene when Yuan Diqiu and Qiangqiang first met.

That was at the Snow Mountain Music Festival in 07. In October in Snow Mountain City, the temperature outside without the sun was so high that you needed to wear thick clothes to withstand it.

It was evening then. Mr. Wan, Brother Wolf and Ma Tiao were having dinner at the Green Forest Tavern. Qiangqiang walked in from outside, wearing a white semi-transparent sweater and a black cowboy hat.

Bian Lang was serving drinks to everyone at the bar. When he looked back at this guy, he started to get goose bumps. Then he saw Qiangqiang trotting up and greeting Mr. Wan and the others very respectfully. Then they sat down at a table and started eating.

Bian Lang, who was waiting for drinks, didn't think anything of it. The lady boss of Green Forest smiled and said to Bian Lang, "Mu Ma is so handsome! When we come over to toast, take a photo with us!"

“You mean others are also called Trojans?” Bian Lang really didn’t know before this.

"probably!"

After the wave passed, the two rock musicians and the three folk musicians started chatting.

Bian Lang didn’t remember the specific content, but when it came time to pay the bill, Lao Lang said he would treat them, but Qiangqiang insisted on playing A with everyone.

The last person paid 87 yuan. At that time, there was no mobile payment. The only way to pay was by card. Brother Wolf paid by card, and the others paid him in cash, and they all paid 100 yuan and told him not to keep the change.

Only Qiangqiang took out his wallet and gave Brother Wolf 87 yuan without missing a cent. Then the lady boss insisted on treating him to a drink, and then...

After leaving the green forest, Ma Tiao told Bian Lang about Qiang Qiang: "Their Trojan Horse band disbanded a long time ago, and now he is the only one left. This time he came here just for Shisan Yue's sake!"

As for what happened in Shisanyue, although Bian Lang was not one of them, he had heard something about it. There were more than 20 bands and artists, including Xie Tianxiao and Mr. Wan, who only asked for a total of 19 yuan from the organizer.

If it is divided equally, each artist group will not get even 5000 yuan. But it is obviously impossible to divide it equally. According to Ma Tiao's estimation, Qiangqiang will get at most yuan.

Even though 5000 was a lot at that time, in the performance market at that time, you might only have one regular job every few months. I remember that the resident singer Bian Lang at Huotang only earned more than 1000 a month.

Eleven years later, when Bian Lang heard Mu Ma's new song "The King of Old City", he was suddenly filled with thoughts. The King of Old City, wasn't it talking about himself?

At that time, almost all the men in the circle were rough old men. He was like him, wearing a hat all the time, putting on highlights and eyeliner on stage, being delicate but not effeminate. He deserved to be remembered by Guo'er every day!
But later, Bian Lang met Qiangqiang again at a music festival in the island country. At that time, he stayed on the sofa in Bian Lang's homestay for three consecutive nights.

It doesn't look like it did back then. The only thing that hasn't changed is the hat on his head...

Just like the lyrics say: "The king of the old city, young and frivolous... She is a fairy, she pledges her love to him... The stars collapse and the moon cracks, but he turns a deaf ear to them... Seven years of dependence, forgotten in the blink of an eye..."

Almost everyone who plays rock music will have such an experience once, so when Bian Lang sang: "Hey, hey, hey, hey...", many people began to recall the fairy who was willing to marry him.

The next moment, they sang along with Bian Lang: "Elephants don't have tears, but they want to shed tears... We don't have an antidote, so we have to drink syrup... There are gods around us when we look up... But there is someone who is indestructible!"

This time, before Bian Lang made any move, Li Hao and Tian Yuan raised their wine bottles, squeezed to the edge of the stage, and called on everyone to sing together: "Tonight, we will go all out and win the road to drinking flowers..."

Then he raised his head and blew it dry. Li Hao was fine, but Tian Yuan, who was drunk in front of him, started to slide down. Fortunately, Li Hao was quick to grab him, and Tian Yuan's body was no different from a bamboo pole, so he didn't fall directly to the ground.

If the two of them switched places, Tian Yuan wouldn't be able to hold Li Hao back!

“People are wasting money, and they don’t have any power. Let’s go and travel, and enjoy as much prosperity as you want…” Bian Lang couldn’t perform as elegantly as Qiangqiang did on the original Earth Music Summer stage, and he didn’t have any electronic speakers in his hands.

Just lower your voice and sing in a sighing voice: "Tiger in the cage, tiger tiger tiger tiger tiger...Looking back...at the river..."

……

Later, whenever Tian Yuan heard this song, he regretted that he had drunk too much that night and missed the scene of "the tiger in the cage looking back at the river".

According to dozens of videos from the scene and the accounts of the parties involved, after singing this line, Bian Lang blew half a bottle of Xibiqi in one breath, then poured the other half into the trash can, while muttering, "Cheers to Qiangqiang!"

Bian Lang remembered that Qiangqiang had replied to netizens on the Internet Depression Music Platform: "Being gentle in expression does not mean that one's heart is not rock and roll. When seeing ugliness, one does not necessarily have to fly into a rage, right!"

This sentence clearly explains his musical attitude, which is a slow black, with the feeling of Gu Cheng. Sometimes I even feel that he was born in the wrong era. If it was the heyday of modern poetry, he would definitely be an outstanding poet.

"Gazing at the sky, have the dark clouds dispersed? Have the hurtful words turned into flowers?", "In that strange room, who used his arms to form an island and pulled all the darkness into his palms?" These poetic lyrics were all written by Qiangqiang himself.

But this song "Purity" which is about "It's hard to dream in a prosperous place" was commented by Bi Ge as: "Mu Ma is the person who sings the words "La La La" the best I have ever heard!"

Let’s go back to “King of Old Town”. Qiangqiang revised it over and over again for eight months, and the lyrics were naturally considered over and over again. Many people are asking what it is about.

But Bian Lang feels that the lyrics are not the most outstanding part. There is a lot hidden in the prelude of this song.

The noise was obviously coming from the bar, and it seemed that someone was flipping a coin to place a bet, followed by a haughty laugh from Qiangqiang. This was not in the original song, but was added to the live version.

The highlight is the sound of the clock hands moving. In fact, these clues are enough to explain the title of the song "King of the Old City".

As for the mystery of the syrup that many people are afraid of, fans have given him a safe and reasonable explanation:
There is a plot in the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland, which tells the story of Alice meeting some frogs in Wonderland, and the frogs lived in a syrup well.

Alice asked it, "What do you eat?"

The frog replied, "Syrup."

Alice asked again, "Won't I get sick if I only eat syrup?"

The frog said, "I'm sick."

Alice continued to ask: "Have you taken the medicine?"

The frog said he had taken some, and Alice then asked what medicine he had taken. In the end, the frog's answer was still "syrup."

As for the first live version of this song, due to various conditions and coincidences, it did spread quickly in the circle. Bian Lang also took advantage of the existing environment in the video and directly put it into the prelude of the official studio version. After adding keyboards and a more complete arrangement, the people that night were once again deeply impressed by Bian Lang!

……

After lunch the next day, Hatter and his group went to Wukesong for rehearsal.

When it was time to get off work, five or six of the hundreds of thousands of hippies in BJ, at the call of Guo Changxiong, came to see if they could sneak in and take a look at the rehearsal.

They were all old rock fans. They were not very keen on signing autographs and taking photos. They just wanted to see what Hatter and the Rolling Stones looked like during rehearsal.

There was a security guard at the door, so they didn't try to sneak in. They just listened to the occasional music outside, smoked cigarettes and talked about rock music. Several of them had elderly parents and children, and although they couldn't get in, they had an excuse to come out and get some fresh air, so they didn't want to rush back.

Around 8 o'clock, I saw two people wearing masks approaching the entrance and negotiating with the security guard. Then they took out their phones, probably to contact the people inside to come out and answer the phone.

Then one of them took out a cigarette and offered it to the security guard, but he refused. When he was about to light one, he searched around his body but couldn't find a lighter. He looked up and saw Guo Changxiong and his friends, so they ran over to him and asked for a lighter.

After this excitement, Guo Changxiong asked, "Dude, that's awesome. You can go in and watch Hatter's rehearsal. Do you have any acquaintances on the partner's side?"

The middle-aged man blew out a puff of smoke and said nonchalantly, "I'm just a driver, accompanying the artists to visit the studio. From what you said, brother, are you here specifically to guard the band?"

Guo Changxiong nodded without comment: "Well, I just want to see if there is a chance to go in and take a look at their rehearsal. By the way, which artist is your boss, and why did you come to visit a rock band?" Although Guo Changxiong felt that the word "visiting" was a bit inappropriate in this situation, since others said so, he followed suit.

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"You are definitely not interested, it's Liu Xiaokui!"

When they heard Liu Xiaokui's name, they were all stunned: "Number one among the 100,000 hippies?"

Guo Changxiong and his friends had only heard of Liu Xiaokui before, but they had no idea what he was like. It was not until they got involved with Bian Lang that they began to understand this traffic star who looked a little silly but appeared very sincere.

Especially Guo Changxiong, who got a free ticket, wanted to thank Liu Xiaokui in person. After all, he was not Dayu, who had passed by his own doorstep. If he missed it, he really missed it!
"Well, so you brothers are all 100,000 hippies?" When the driver asked this, Guo Changxiong and others nodded in unison.

The eldest brother thought about it, took a few deep puffs, put out the cigarette, said, "Wait," and ran towards Liu Xiaokui.

Without asking, Guo Changxiong and the others knew that the eldest brother had gone to ask Liu Xiaokui.

Several people were also thinking in their hearts, whether Liu Xiaokui was pretending or really a fan of Bianlang, it all depends on this time.

After a while, the driver and Liu Xiaokui came over together, and several people went to greet them.

Just as he was thinking about how to start the conversation, Liu Xiaokui took off his mask, trotted over and said, "Hey, you guys are all family. Come on, come on, follow me in a bit."

Seeing that this person was not arrogant, Guo Changxiong was the first to speak: "Mr. Liu... Mr. Liu..."

"Just call me Xiaokui. We are all good brothers of 100,000 hippies." Liu Xiaokui spoke at the right time to resolve Guo Changxiong's embarrassment.

Guo Changxiong responded with a smile: "Okay, thank you brother, otherwise I would really just have to stand by the door and watch you go in."

Hearing this answer, Liu Xiaokui immediately reacted: "Brother, are you the one who lives nearby and didn't get a ticket?"

"Um……"

At this moment, Liu Xiaokui's phone rang. It was Chen Shuting calling. He cut off Guo Changxiong's conversation and said, "Let's go in and talk. Don't keep people waiting!"

When Chen Shuting arrived at the door and heard that there were 100,000 hippie music fans, she was naturally very welcoming.

However, he still gave a few verbal instructions: "You can take pictures as you like, but I hope you won't leak the list of songs to be performed."

They all understood and nodded to show that they would definitely cooperate. Anyway, they were not the type to rely on exclusive videos to gain a presence on the Internet. If they recorded it, they would just show it off when they met with their friends!

After I went in, I saw that the person on the stage was Hatter, and the song he was playing was "Fade To Black".

When they heard this, they immediately became excited and trotted straight to the nearest part of the stage.

It was the first time for everyone to watch from such a distance, and it was also the first time for everyone to watch a rehearsal, so they were all quite excited. Especially when Bob's ending solo sounded, they were all dazzled.

"It's different when you look at it up close. Look at Bob's hands climbing the string. It's damn fast!"

However, when the group was enjoying themselves, the music suddenly stopped. Bob said a few words of apology to his teammates in annoyance, and then took off his earphones and walked backstage.

Everyone was confused. Liu Xiaokui felt that he was the least knowledgeable, so he asked Guo Changxiong and other old rock fans for advice.

After thinking about it carefully, Guo Changxiong said tentatively: "It sounded like there was a problem with the beat just now, but I don't think it's a big problem."

Just as he finished saying this, he saw Bob coming to the stage, and it seemed that he was sulking with him.

When he approached them and learned that they were fans who came to watch their rehearsal, Bob put on a happy expression and greeted them and took photos with them.

Less than two minutes later, Olaf came over and asked immediately, "It didn't seem like a big problem to me just now. What's wrong?"

Bob spread his hands and said helplessly, "I'd better wait for Chlorella to treat my nails before practicing again!"

"It's just a rehearsal. Besides, I don't think it's a big problem. There's no need to be so hard on yourself!"

Although Olaf said that, Bob didn't buy it: "No! Bian Lang is here, in front of him, I have to be perfect!"

(End of this chapter)