Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 746: Obstinacy or Redemption
"Don't look back, just keep going..."

Old Tan kept repeating this line of lyrics. Looking at his years of hard work, he had some thoughts in his mind as he realized that the work would have to survive in a different way in the future.

Since it has been incorporated into the Rolling Stone LAB, he, as the person in charge, will no longer be in the bar every day like he is now, welcoming people to drink, chatting, and getting drunk with them...

There are more than a dozen business formats, large and small, involved in it. To integrate all of them with Rolling Stone, he cannot do everything himself. He can only manage the persons in charge of each sector.

As for himself, his main focus is on organizing live performances. So the days when he regarded Mid-Levels as his home and treated all guests as friends are really over.

Lao Pan understands him. After all, Nanyin is also like this. It changed from a leading company to a label under Rolling Stone. Even now, Lao Pan himself would wonder: "Is there any need for this label to exist?"

And he himself has indeed freed himself from the state of juggling both big and small matters, and is concentrating on maintaining official relationships within his circle and with the outside world.

So he walked over to Lao Tan with the wine in his hand, clinked glasses with him and said, "Take your time, you'll get used to it, it's not a bad thing. Look at me now, I even have time to pick up the keyboard properly again!"

Old Tan clinked his glass, but he didn't drink from it. He just stared at the beer in the glass in a daze.

After pondering the meaning of Lao Pan's words for a while, he nodded slowly and said, "It's a good thing indeed. This way I have more time to pick up the bass."

"Yeah, ask Bian Lang if he's still interested in forming a band with the two of us!"

It's true that the two people in this conversation had once considered this issue very seriously.

Pan Jianhu did not continue to form a band, but chose to set up a company and continue pursuing his rock dream with a group of brothers. It was not because he lacked skills, but because he felt he had the energy and sense of mission.

As for Old Tan, he was simply disheartened.

But fortunately, they are still so close to rock, so close that they only need an opportunity to pick up their instruments and perform on stage again, and this opportunity is undoubtedly Bian Lang.

From now on, no matter whether it is Lao Tan or Pan Jianhu, they will be able to take out fixed time to rehearse from the quagmire of having to take care of everything in the past. As long as they release songs, they really will have no problems at all!

In the past, they were all well-known musicians and lead singers in the circle. Who wouldn’t want to leave one or two good records to brag about to their children and grandchildren in the future?

So Old Tan didn't even think about it and directly admitted it: "Okay, I'll talk to Bian Lang later. We should do it as soon as possible. If we wait any longer, even if we still have the energy, our body won't be able to keep up!"

"Row!"

As they talked, they clinked glasses again, put down their cups, and went straight to the stage to drive Huang Kai and Hua Yan off...

As for the Internet at this time, while the popularity of the premiere of "Summer of the Band" continued to rise, Bian Lang's new song followed the popularity of "Summer of the Band" and unsurprisingly also became a hot search.

Seeing countless old rock fans on the Internet who have been holding back for years finally being able to shout out loud: "Chinese rock is not dead!"

Those practitioners in the circle who have been persisting feel that today is happier than the Chinese New Year.

Any bar that has anything to do with rock music, which organized a show of "Summer of the Band" tonight, is now full of an inspiring and peaceful scene.

Sentimental people like Li Hao were so excited that they wiped away their tears: "Great! Summer of the Band is really good. After all these years, we rock musicians finally have a chance to stand out!"

As for those bands that were previously unknown but became popular with the premiere of "Summer of the Band", they all became the focus of the bar tonight without exception.

Tonight was probably the most extravagant night Yang Litian had drinking since he started playing rock music, and all the drinks were given to him by the guests in the bar.

When some people are happy, others are worried, such as Li Yiliang!
Maybe he no longer had the energy to feel helpless and furious, at this moment he was sitting alone at the entrance of Fanhua, watching the carnival across the street. He was smoking a cigarette, and tears were streaming down his face.

"Why, you want to argue with me even over the name of a band?"

Logically speaking, he used the name of the Face Band first. Bian Lang was a very proud person. The copyrights of the Mask Band's songs had never been mentioned to him before, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

It gave people the feeling that Bian Lang didn't care at all. According to his guess of Bian Lang's psychological activities, it was probably: "I don't want those things, I'll give them to you to keep for fun!"

And it turns out that last year he signed the copyrights of these songs with Magic Discs, which he thought could serve as a token of his allegiance, and now those songs have been buried in the dust!
But Bian Lang insisted on opposing him over the name of the band, which made him very uncomfortable!

The key is that he himself is very clear about the gap between the works of the two bands. His songs are influenced by Bianlang, but the original songs of the Face Band on Bianlang's side are indeed good songs.

Anyone with a little musical taste can tell the difference. As long as they compare, the difference is obvious. Although he already thought that black and red are also red, Bian Lang's obvious dimensionality reduction attack against him made him feel wronged!

Even if Xiang Kun called and said that he was ready to fight the Rolling Stones to the end, he would not be happy. It didn't matter who was the fake Li Kui. After all, it was not uncommon for the real Li Kui to be killed by the fake Li Kui.

He really wanted to call Bian Lang and ask him why he did this.

In the end, he didn’t call, but sent a WeChat message to Bian Lang with just three words: “Why?”

At this time, Bian Lang was chatting with Lao Pan and the others. When he saw these three words, a sentence suddenly came to his mind:

"In the gap of fate, we have all gone astray. Don't ignore the truly beautiful things in front of you, and don't pursue things that don't belong to you. In the days and nights when we can't get salvation, don't be stubborn. The way to salvation is often there."

It seems that he has forgotten it, but he will not say these words to Li Yiliang.

In fact, he wouldn't reply to anything because there was really no need.

However, this did make him feel a little more about what Lao Tan and the others were proposing: "How about this, if you think it's okay, call Ruan Ping, and we can form a group of four and call it the Longitudinal Line..."

"Ruan Ping? You're jumping a little too fast..."

Pan Jianhu and Lao Tan certainly didn't know what Bian Lang was thinking, but they only saw Bian Lang go to the bar to pick up a pen and write four words on his head: "Desperado!"

……

On the original Earth, in the western United States in 1880, 21-year-old Dalling Dalton finally went astray, broke the law, and embarked on the path of a desperado.

The Dalton Gang was a gang of bandits in the American West in the late 1891th century. It consisted of William Doolin, the Dutton brothers and others. It was called the Dalton Gang at the time. Doolin (Bill Doolin) did not join the Dalton Gang because he was too famous and too crazy to act as a group. In a robbery, the gang lost three brothers, and the remaining three began to follow Doolin in 1896. The latter was arrested in 50 and sentenced to years in prison. After escaping from prison, he was shot dead on his father-in-law's farm.

Later, the Eagles created the song "Desprado" based on this incident, which is translated into Chinese as "Desperado".

This song "Desperado" was released in 1973, exactly 93 years later. Desperado is Spanish, originally meaning a frustrated person. In fact, "Desperado" was supposed to be a complete album, and "Desperado" was just one of the songs.

But this song is very famous. One of the lines in this song is: "Desperado, why do you persist in your desperation?"

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
……

On July 2008, 7, Zongguanxian was established. This band, known as "the most imaginable Chinese pop group", includes Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian and Zhang Zhenyue.

The group was formed on a whim at the time. The boss of the Rolling Stones, Duan Zhongtan, was having dinner with Luo Dayou and Li Zongsheng. After drinking too much, they wanted to form a "SuperBand" to form a group that would be unprecedented in the history of Chinese music.

Things went surprisingly smoothly, and the four men settled the deal with five bottles of red wine. As for why it was called the Longitudinal Line, it was probably just a drunken mumbling.

So the idea of ​​the Longitudinal Line was decided. They called Zhou Huajian, who was promoted by Li Zongsheng, and Zhang Zhenyue to add some imagination and unexpected possibilities to the group.

The plan was finalized by the four people in a suite at the Sheraton Taipei Hotel.

The combined age of the four members of this group is over 190 years old, and they have been in the industry for nearly a century.

The first song of this group is called "Desperado", which has a similar meaning to Eagles' "Desperado".

When Bian Lang saw the title of this song, he thought there might be some kind of tribute in it...

Compared to Eagles' "Desperado" which uses the Spring and Autumn style to tell a story of choice, the song "Desperado" by Zongguanxian is more ambitious.

The song seems disorganized, and discusses a lot of things in the form of questions and answers. The youngest singer, Zhang Zhenyue, expressed the "desperado" part in the rap part, and raised a lot of "difficult questions about family, friendship and love."

"Why should I feel sorry for my mother?
Why can’t I grow old together with my lover?
Why do I still foolishly believe in morality when my brothers have left me? "

The answer given by Li Zongsheng is:
No matter how capable a person is, it is difficult to resist the cruelty of fate. This truth is simple, but whether you accept it or not is another matter.

The second oldest, Wakin Chau, looks more like an angry middle-aged man:
“Why are news stories just about thieves who steal bread to feed their mothers?

Why do typhoons always happen when I want to watch a movie?

Why do you work so hard but in the end, nothing gets done?
Why is it that in this world some people are so poor that they go crazy, while others are so rich that they use money as pillows? "

Compared with the questions raised by Zhang Zhenyue, the questions raised by Zhou Huajian are more difficult and more difficult to answer.

Li Zongsheng said a lot about this.

He said: "We don't care what the future will look like, like a poem written by a mental patient or a festival with fireworks. Let it be, we only live once."

He also said: "Truth is a decoration in a dark room until it is confirmed by absurdity."

Li Zongsheng's words sounded more like a murmur, but at the end he said the highlight of the song: "We are all in the sea, and I feel like we are sand."

And this sentence is the definition given to desperadoes by the SuperBand, Longitudinal Line.

Some people would wonder, what about Luo Dayou? What did Luo Dayou say?
Luo Dayou, the oldest and most experienced singer, was quietly beating the drums in the background. If you listen carefully, you will find that he was repeating two sentences throughout the song:

Will the desperate criminals go all out? Is there no way out? Is there a place to hide?
Desperado, on the run, gasping for breath at the end of the road. Give me a place to hide.

And finally, the core of this song is Redemption.

This word with a religious feel comes from the Old Testament and the teachings of Christianity: one is that we must always adhere to our own way and achieve the perfect unity of humanity and ideals.

In The Shawshank Redemption, the protagonist Andy escapes from prison through hard work and achieves self-redemption by carrying out his ideals. However, the desperadoes are all Andys without redemption.

The Eagles' perspective of the outlaws is very small. The Eagles condensed the twists and turns of fate into one person, Dalton Dutton. The misguided path of life, the anxiety of young people, and the restlessness of idealists are all concentrated on this young man. Dalling Dalton, this young man has been turning around at the crossroads of fate, but he has never been redeemed.

In contrast, the old men in the longitudinal line magnified the perspective of the desperadoes, and it was really like a train running on the longitudinal line of life to explain this problem. Talking about friendship, friendship, love, and injustice, they were all talking about ideals.

To Bian Lang, this song seems like a charity done by these four people who have experienced life, and it is a book of answers about life.

At different stages of life, you can find the real answer in this song.

These two songs seem to be poles apart, telling two different stories, but they are both stories about a group of people who have not been redeemed.

On the road of life, we are all like desperate criminals, but life is never what we expected. The struggle of injustice and misguidedness is like a tenacious vine that always spreads and grows in every corner of life.

Yes, let’s admit it, at most stages of our lives, we are unable to achieve redemption.

He could only be like Luo Dayou, wanting to escape, wanting to chase the group, and finally, wanting to find a hiding place.

However, there is no place to hide. Idealists often do not have a good ending for this world. Good endings appear in books, in movies, and in every belief of idealists before they become desperadoes. Only such faith and light are illusory in life.

Therefore, whether it is the Eagles or the Longitudinal Line, they all chose the name "The Desperado" by coincidence or in tacit agreement, which tells us a very simple truth.

In the gap of fate, we have all gone astray.

But the desperate people in fate, please do not ignore the truly beautiful things in front of you, and do not pursue things that do not belong to you. In the days and nights when we cannot get salvation, we must not be stubborn. The way to salvation is often there.

Then, Bian Lang wrote the last line of lyrics: "The night fog is so thick, the open space is also turbulent, I have a premonition that the end of the road is a maze..."

(End of this chapter)