Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 706: Rock and roll should be like the Tang Dynasty
In the end, Horn still failed to go to China, but he confirmed the task of getting the song from Bian Lang with Olaf many times. It was not until Olaf swore that he would become deaf if he could not handle this matter that Horn believed and let him go.

As for Horn himself, he also wrote a long article specifically about the rhythm guitar riff of "Among The Living", the keyboard riff of "JUMP", and the issues of Bian Lang's homemade guitar and tone.

After this article was reposted by Fender's official website, countless people in the industry began to try to replicate the guitar by themselves. Of course, some people who were not good at it went to Fender's dealers or left messages on Fender's official website, asking them to replicate it as soon as possible.

Fender was also quick. Before Bian Lang even got up the next day, Mr. Qiu came to him with the contract. Bian Lang had explained this matter before, and Chen Shuting added a clause after reading the contract.

That means the annual production is limited to 100 pieces, and half of the sales share must be in China!
Hearing the second half of this, Mr. Qiu almost kowtowed to Chen Shuting: "Mr. Chen, you are really a living Bodhisattva. Such conditions are impossible for any previous Fender product. Thank you so much."

"Don't thank me. This is all Bian Lang's idea. He just wants to give more benefits to rock music fans in China. But it depends on whether they agree or not."

Facing Chen Shuting's words, Lao Qiu patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, if those people in the main factory don't agree to this, they must be crazy. If they don't agree, other manufacturers will line up to ask Teacher Bian for authorization."

After saying this, Lao Qiu asked tentatively, "I want to ask you something else. Do you have a list of Teacher Bian's tuning tools?"

Chen Shuting shook the coffee cup in her hand and said with a malicious smile: "Mr. Qiu, that's enough. Besides, these things are too professional. I'm just an agent. How can I understand them clearly..."

Old Qiu was just asking casually. If Chen Shuting showed any interest, he would take the opportunity to quote a price, buy the list and then...

But since Chen Shuting didn't have this intention, he didn't force it.

Some guitarists are happy to share their secrets of tone, but most will not release this data, not out of stinginess, but mainly because studying tone is a pleasure for many musicians.

Not to mention the original Earth, there are now many bloggers on the small broken website of Water Blue Planet who specialize in making videos with the sound of War and Rolling Stones using equipment under a thousand yuan. Some of them have benefited a lot from watching them directly!

As for the original earth, it is even more persistent in reproducing the sounds of these deceased guitar masters. Many foreign producers like to study these in addition to their official work.

……

When Bian Lang woke up in the B&B, it was already past lunchtime. After washing up and preparing to go to the restaurant to find something to eat, he ran into Liang Kuan and Chen Shuting inside.

Seeing that there was a guest at Chen Shuting's place, Bian Lang poured a cup of coffee, brought some biscuits and fruits, and sat down at Liang Kuan's place which had a separate partition.

When Liang Kuan saw Bian Lang coming over, he turned the screen of his laptop to show it to Bian Lang: "Take a look at the contract with Panama!"

Bian Lang waved his hand and swallowed the coffee in his mouth before saying, "Sister Kuan, please forgive me for these things. I'm interested in showing you the score, but I'm really interested in seeing the contract! But why are they so fast?"

Liang Kuan did not force it. He turned the notebook back to himself and looked at the screen and said, "The location has not been determined yet. It will take at least a month to go through all the procedures. If this time exceeds the plan of their Asian tour, many subsequent arrangements may be affected..."

Seeing that Bian Lang looked as if he didn't understand, Liang Kuan sighed and said, "Do you think everyone is like you, with such a high degree of freedom?" This time, she immediately added, "But if I had your output and quality, let alone you, I would definitely be more Buddhist than Chu Chu!"

Bian Lang smiled and nodded without commenting, "That may not be the case. I don't really believe in Sister Kuan's ambition!"

Liang Kuan, who just picked up the water cup, heard this and slammed the cup on the table. Then he changed his face and said, "It's all because of you guys who forced us to do this. You guys are just lying there and getting royalties, but we are so nervous!"

After saying this, Liang Kuan asked about another important matter: "By the way, Panama band invited the Rolling Stones to be their guest performer in the island country, and they said they are willing to sing for us for 45 minutes! What do you think?"

"What? You can't play like this, right? This is their special show, not a compilation..." Although Bian Lang said that, he was still interested in performing in the island country. After all, when it comes to the obsession and madness for rock music, if the fans of the island country say that they are the best in Asia, probably only the Koreans will not admit it.

Bands like Tang Dynasty and Beyond from Earth performed in the island country and were very popular. Moreover, the rock music level of the island country is currently the best in Asia.

The key point is that Bian Lang could hear that the conditions over there must be extremely good, otherwise Liang Kuan would never have spoken in that tone.

Before Bian Lang could ask the next question, Liang Kuan explained the whole story to Bian Lang: "The guest band they originally wanted to invite... Shu Ting has already checked the time. After the Golden Melody Awards ceremony, they will fly directly to the island country. There will be a day and a half of rehearsal time there..."

"Does that conflict with the time for tempering?"

"He will have to work harder, as he will have to fly back the same day after the performance..."

Hearing this, Bian Lang had a plan in mind. If Di Li said it was okay, then they would agree. As for leaving Di Li behind and taking the others with him, it was impossible for him to do that at the moment.

It’s your first time to appear on an island country, so you have to be neat and tidy.

As for whether to bring out "Endless Rain", that depends on whether Strauss can master the solo score by then.

As a band with two guitars, X-Japan has to play two parts when they sing solo. Usually Hide plays the lead part and Pata plays the harmony part. But this is not the main problem.

The main question is, who will sing?

When it comes to Japanese rock songs, Bian Lang basically knows the meaning of the lyrics and can sing along with the original music, but his level is just that he can listen but not necessarily understand.

As for the lyrics, he doesn't have the ability to come up with the lyrics as directly and accurately as he does in Chinese and English songs.

"Okay, I'll ask Di Li..."

At the same time, over at Chen Shuting's place, the customer had finished chatting with her and got up to leave. She then realized that Bian Lang had come to the restaurant. She came over to say hello, but before she could say a few words, her phone rang: "Mr. He, have you arrived... Okay, please wait at the door, I'll come out to pick you up..."

After Chen Shuting ran out, Bian Lang asked Liang Kuan, "Sister Chen, what's going on?" "They are all here to discuss the advertising sponsorship of Hatter's next stop. She said that she has appointments with seven or eight companies that will come today, and they are all companies that she has never dealt with before..."

Hearing this, Lang laughed unkindly: "Did Xibiqi get a great advantage?"

"That's not the case. If we want to invest in beer, we'd rather invest in Rolling Stone than Hatter... When your tour plan comes out, Xibiqi may have to bleed a lot of money!"

Liang Kuan looked at Bian Lang with a playful smile.

……

At night, the Rolling Stones gathered in the restaurant to watch Xia Xiao's exclusive interview with Bian Lang.

There was still a while left in the show, so Bian Lang told everyone about Panama’s invitation, but actually he was mainly talking to Di Li.

After hearing the schedule, Di Li took a deep breath and said seriously, "It's fine with me, as long as you don't assign me a difficult solo in the new song."

Regarding the new song, there is no need for Bian Lang to say anything himself, this is a consensus among all the Rolling Stones.

"The new song is a Japanese song in Mandarin, with a solo by Shuang Ji. It's average in difficulty, but there are a lot of details... I want to use the piano for the main song in the beginning..."

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Hua Yan was excited when she heard this, but what was up with this Japanese song? "Brother Lang, can you speak Japanese?"

Before Bian Lang could answer, Dayong and Huang Kai looked at each other, and then looked at Bian Lang with eyes that only men could understand and said, "Aren't the enlightenment materials all in Japanese? Who doesn't know a few words..."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone burst into laughter.

After everyone had calmed down, Bian Lang continued, "Don't worry about this. I'll find a way. At worst, we won't have to do this..."

Since no one had any objections, Bian Lang asked Liang Kuan to reply to Panama and added one more thing: "Ask them if they can find a Japanese singer to perform with us. I plan to write a song in the Japanese language."

Liang Kuan nodded and said, "It's not a big problem. I'll do it for you. Anyone who doesn't want to is a fool!"

Liang Kuan now has unconditional faith in Bian Lang’s production. She doesn’t even need Panama to look for it, she can handle it with her own resources!
……

Xia Xiao's exclusive interview with Bian Lang, which was broadcast on satellite TV, was basically the process of their indoor conversation, with a little bit of school output and a small number of interviews with Bian Lang's friends and colleagues.

As for other materials, they were edited into a documentary and broadcast on Xia Xiao’s own social account.

Everyone present here is very familiar with what happened to Bian Lang, but after watching for a while, they found it boring, so they took out their mobile phones, put on headphones and went to watch the documentary over there.

But for those music fans who were watching on TV, it was different.

Especially when asked about the background of some song creation, everyone was particularly interested.

When Bian Lang was asked how to interpret the album Tang Dynasty, he said something that all rock fans who heard it kept in mind: "In fact, it is an experiment for me and the band, and even for Chinese rock music. We dare to make experimental music and leave a mark on the times. This is what we hope to do for Chinese rock music.

I hope that in this era that we have all created together, rock music is not so far away, and rock music is not so unprofessional, so that this era can look like the Tang Dynasty of rock music..."

It is indeed as Bian Lang said, this album and the song "Dreaming of the Tang Dynasty" are still one of the most awesome works in the history of Chinese rock music. It illuminated a way forward for the nascent and confused Chinese rock music in the early 1990s.

When Lao Cui sang the first song at the Workers' Stadium, Chinese rock music officially began.

The music of the first generation of rock musicians like Lao Cui was more about direct presentation, and the production was not as delicate.

The musicians of Tang Dynasty were more like another product of that era. They made Chinese rock more diverse. Punk, heavy metal, death metal, folk rock, grunge rock... they were gradually refined from that time.

The album "Tang Dynasty" is a representative of that era. The song "Dream of Tang Dynasty" is mixed with the beauty of ancient things, and it also has the power of rock music itself. The other songs are also well-arranged, and the works have a certain style and connotation.

It is definitely the most enlightening album of that era.

The total length of the song "Dream of the Tang Dynasty" is over seven minutes, which was considered a special move at the time, similar to the situation when "Bohemian Rhapsody" was created.

During this period, a large number of rock bands emerged, including Compass, Iron Kite, Samsara, Overload, etc. According to incomplete statistics, the number of domestic bands during this period was as high as 300. As the second generation of Chinese rockers, Tang Dynasty, Black Panther, Dou Wei, Zhang Chu, He Yong and others also took over the banner from their predecessors and raised the banner to where the sun shines.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" has not been released yet. I wonder if someone will use other works to say that this is their country's "Dream of the Tang Dynasty"!
Because the content of the album "Tang Dynasty" was magnified a lot in the editing, the audience, whether they were rock fans or passers-by, began to reinterpret this work with a high degree of cultural confidence after learning about it.

In particular, it also includes some footage of Guo Li interviewing fans at live performances abroad, as well as flattery from Silva and Filmos.

So much so that some people who didn't like it before, after patiently listening to it a few more times, will pinch their throats and sing along with a few lines of opera tunes: "Remembering the heyday of the Kaiyuan era, all the friends in the world were close friends, the world was vast and boundless, and I wish I had thousands of mansions..."

Many music teachers in art schools plan to use this interview in their teaching after reading it. It's not that there are any unique technical things in it that can help students improve, but mainly this kind of concept and spirit, which they think every Chinese student should have!
Especially for those students who blindly worship foreign countries, let them know that there are also musicians in China who can use the things left by their ancestors to create musical works that will be admired by foreigners.

(End of this chapter)