Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 748 Special Selection
After putting this matter aside for the time being, Bian Lang and his friends began to prepare for the opening performance of Rolling Stone LAB.

According to the plan, the Rolling Stones will perform on the opening day next Friday, and a different band will perform every day in the following week.

There was no need for any publicity for the opening. Just a few official Rolling Stone accounts announced the special performance, and the entire rock circle was immediately ignited.

Who cares whether the Face Band is real or fake, or the war of words between Musa and the Rolling Stones? The Rolling Stones’ special performance is more important.

After all, this was the first concert of the Rolling Stones. Regardless of the size, the significance of this first time was enough to drive countless people crazy. However, the 400 tickets released to the public were not enough for the entire rock music fan market, even people in the circle felt that it was not enough.

Therefore, the Rolling Stones didn't have any backdoors this time, and everyone could only go to the Absolute Live site to grab tickets.

The key is that these 288 tickets have made countless people in the fashion circle ashamed. As soon as the reservation was launched, the number of reservations exceeded 10 in less than an hour.

The staff on site couldn't help but gasp at the number: "10 out of 400, that's in . Is this the same ratio for the civil service exam?"

"It's hard to say, it's only been an hour, who knows what will happen later. I really envy those colleagues who can go to the scene, this is the first live show of the Rolling Stones!"

"I don't know what songs Brother Lang will sing this time..."

"I'll ask Zhang Wei later. For a two-hour performance, there should be at least 2 songs, right?"

If this is the expectation within the Rolling Stones, what about people outside?

On the 100,000 Hippies mini program side, according to Liu Xiaokui's idea, they are planning to organize a raffle of Rolling Stones peripherals to celebrate.

As for the tickets that everyone wants, even Liu Xiaokui said: "If I want to go, I will just mobilize people from my studio to grab the tickets. There is no such thing as a backdoor!"

However, he still decided to use the back door to get some inside information, otherwise how could they maintain the reputation of being the No. 1 hippie Rolling Stones fan club with 100,000 fans?

When Bian Lang received the call from Liu Xiaokui, he was deciding on the songs to play with other members of the Rolling Stones.

This is the first Rolling Stones concert and he wants everyone to express their opinions. He hopes that this is the first time that no one will have any regrets.

Dayong was just clamoring to find a new Cantonese song in the music library when Liu Xiaokui called.

"Brother Lang, is there any inside information you can reveal? For example, can you reveal a little bit about the songs they will play? You see, my fan club needs some additional information to show its uniqueness, right?"

When Bian Lang heard about this, he said nonchalantly: "Then tell them that they will definitely sing "Shame"..."

Before Liu Xiaokui could say anything, a group of people laughed out loud: "Why would you bother asking about something that everyone on Earth knows?"

Liu Xiaokui also called out from the other end of the phone: "Brother Lang, what's the difference between you saying it and not saying it."

Bian Lang thought about it and said directly to the Rolling Stones, "Is it okay to play 16 songs?"

"Row!"

"That's it. If it's too few, I'll be sorry. If it's too many, it won't be the scale of a small live with 400 people!"

Bian Lang believed that Liu Xiaokui had heard it, so he asked directly: "Is this okay? We will not release any news related to the songs to the public!"

"Okay! Brother Lang, let me ask you one more question. How many new songs have you released?"

Bian Lang glanced at everyone and said, "There can be no more than 6 new songs..."

After hearing this, the other five looked at each other and started to think about it.

Liu Xiaokui asked in disbelief, "Brother Lang, isn't it a bit too much to release six new songs this time? I'm just guessing, if you start your tour with this concert, what are you going to do next?"

Of course Bian Lang would have thought of this without Liu Xiaokui's reminder, but who can blame him for being so willful?

"It's okay, I don't have to worry about new songs!"

"Okay, Brother Lang, you're awesome! Also, what if I can't get a ticket?"

"Come on, I can still arrange it for you if you want to stand backstage."

"Hey, okay!"

After hanging up the phone with Bian Lang, Liu Xiaokui asked his staff to create a post on the mini program to vote and predict the performance songs. Except for the new songs, all the other predictions were correct. Liu Xiaokui had a bag of all the physical records released by the Rolling Stones in his lifetime.

At first, the staff were all surprised: "Brother Kui, if more people are hit, then you will..."

As a result, as soon as someone who bought lottery tickets every day started to analyze the situation, everyone began to criticize Liu Xiaokui for playing tricks on others.

"Only 33 out of 6 are chosen in the red zone of the Double Color Ball, and the Rolling Stone lottery has at least 50 out of 10, and it's not certain how many will be chosen. Do you think the probability of this is higher than winning 500 million?"

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Turning our attention back to the Rolling Stones, after listening to that sentence in the 6 new songs, everyone understood what it meant, but everyone had an idea in their hearts.

Strauss and Dili discussed for a while, and then Dili said: "We want to find a song from the series "Blue Lotus"..."

Bian Lang nodded and asked Strauss, "Don't you want to choose an English song?"

Strauss said: "This is China. If you go to Europe, I won't be polite to you." "Okay, then choose between "Lonely Orchid in the Valley" and "Paradise on Earth". The prelude to "Paradise on Earth" is "Drunkard"..."

That's enough of what we have to say. The rest is for them to choose for themselves.

After hearing Bian Lang directly give the option of choosing one of the two, Dayong looked at Bian Lang with hope and said, "Lang, how about you make a decision? After all, this is the first solo concert of our Rolling Stones band."

Bian Lang thought about the Cantonese songs in his music library, and after a moment's thought, he said, "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies?"

"Today, I watched the snow drifting in the cold night? This first sentence is not appropriate!" If we talk about the degree of familiarity with Cantonese songs in the Rolling Stones' music library, Dayong is second and no one dares to say he is first. Sometimes Dayong's reaction speed is even faster than Bian Lang's.

Bian Lang was stunned when he heard this! It shouldn't snow in Hong Kong, so how did Huang Jiaju come up with this lyrics? This seems to be a question.

But after thinking about it, "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies" is one of Beyond's top five songs, so it seems a bit underrated to bring it out now: "Then let's go with "Who Will Accompany Me?"

"Which direction is ahead? Who will accompany me to explore? There is no guide along the way. If I walk into a narrow alley again...Okay, this is the song. This song is very suitable to express our friendship with you!"

Hearing Dayong singing the lyrics seamlessly, Bian Lang gave him a thumbs up! As for the last sentence, Bian Lang didn't think much about it.

These songs were equally precious to him, but it would have been in vain if Dayong and the others had not worked with him to pull the Rolling Stones together and perform these songs on Water Blue Star.

"We don't talk about this, it's all in our hearts!"

After Bian Lang finished speaking, Dayong punched him and said with a smile: "Then I'll go and type out the music score, and then we can discuss Cantonese pronunciation... You, Youbian's Cantonese... just ignore what I said..."

After Dayong went to the printing room, Hua Yan followed and said, "Brother Lang, you know the ones I like are all English songs, save them for later."

Bian Lang certainly knows that as a keyboard player, Hua Yan's focus is of course on songs that give the keyboard more room to play. When it comes to rock keyboard arrangements in the original Earth, Deep Purp (Deep Purple) and The Gate are probably the recognized kings.

It is said that listening to the early Deep Purple makes you want to play guitar, while listening to the later Deep Purple makes you want to play keyboards.

When it comes to The Doors, almost everyone will think of the charming lead singer Jim Morrison first, but keyboardist Ray Manzarek is also the soul figure that The Doors cannot give up!

Bian Lang believes that Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist of The Door, and Jon Lord, the keyboardist of Deep Purple, are the two best rock keyboardists on earth.

Although the two bands have different styles, some of the arrangements dominated by classical keyboards bring a very similar psychedelic flavor to their rock.

The Doors' famous song "Light My Fire" has a lot of organ and keyboard solos in the middle, followed by blues guitar. This exquisite music arrangement and Jim's profound and gloomy lyrics and singing are also the characteristics of the Doors. Two-thirds of "Light My Fire" are guitar and organ solos, and the two instruments complement each other seamlessly.

Guitarist Robbie Krieger's specialty is not his showy skills. His guitar has an amazing sense of structure, which is rigorous and poetic. It can touch the eardrums of the audience and truly light the fire in everyone's heart.

This is similar to Deep Purple's masterpiece Highway Star, where the first fast keyboard solo is switched to the guitar storm after the chorus. Riders on the Storm, which is the most representative of the Doors' style, and Deep Purple's underrated masterpiece Child in Time, both reflect the ultimate arrangement skills of the two keyboardists.

In Storm Riders at the Gate, Jim Morrison's deep and unique magnetic voice seems to be intoxicated and mumbling in a hazy dream, and this hazy dream that seems real and illusory was woven by Ray with the keyboard.

The sound of rain in the prelude was also simulated by him using a Fender Rhodes series electric piano. Of course, this is not Fender's special ability, but Ray's special ability. It also reminds people of the prelude of Lynyrd Skynyrd's free bird, in which the wonderful slide guitar played the melodious sound of birds singing.

Of course, the Doors' guitarist Robbie was no less impressive, and together with the world's greatest keyboard player, they composed a rainy night storm that was sometimes quiet and suddenly fierce, laying the most gorgeous foundation for the appearance of Knight Jim.

In Deep Purple's hit song "Child in Time", lead singer Ian Gillan wailed dozens of times with a slight tremor, and the high-pitched and slightly neurotic voices gradually progressed, and finally burst into a high note that tore the earth apart. The world he cried for also had its origin from Jon's classical to psychedelic keyboards.

Deep Purple's guitarist Ritchie Blackmore also continued to extend this mood with distorted noise. In the end, Jon's keyboard and guitar's increasingly rapid and fierce ensemble pushed everything to the peak of collapse, reaching the spiritual height that only psychedelic music can achieve.

This is as shocking as "Riders on the storm". The exquisite combination of guitar and keyboard of the two bands, The Doors and Deep Purple, amazed the people who first heard it. There is such rock music! It is not the tacit cooperation of two guitars, but it is better than the fusion of two guitars and keys, which made many bands pale in comparison.

Ray's genius in arranging music helped the Doors stand out among the countless traditional guitar-oriented bands. The flexible and angular keyboard also gave the Doors a free and easy, more improvisational temperament. The Doors are also different in that Ray uses a Fender Rhodes electronic keyboard to play heavy bass, which is what a bassist should do.

The Doors don't need a bassist, but there are still countless listeners who praise the unique charm of the non-existent bass when they first hear the Doors, and Bian Lang is one of them.

For The Gate, Ray's most irreplaceable role is to serve as the accompanist of Jim's gloomy image and unpredictable stage personality. He is responsible for bringing the audience into the vortex of keyboard music when Jim is aggressive or loses himself, allowing them to break free from Jim's self-consciousness and enter a moment of true freedom.

He is not only a skilled keyboard player, but also a rock musician with profound connotation.

Neil McCormick, the chief rock critic of the British newspaper The Telegraph, said that he is both the root of the Doors' sound and its highest and wildest branch. His left hand flows with a tight blues bass, while his right hand is full of various melody and rhythm, lingering, illusory, surging, flowing, and colorful.

Playing Fender Rhodes with his left hand and adding organ accompaniment and solos with his right hand, he made the Doors like a four-sided diamond instead of a sinful five-sided diamond. He treated rock music as he treated life, using it as a channel to explore himself and greater possibilities.

The Doors are one of the few bands that can make people calmly immerse themselves in every song of theirs and even forget the time. Other bands that can make Bianlang feel the same way include Pink Floyd and REM. If Jim Morrison's life was longer than 27 years old, Bianlang The Doors would definitely be a legendary band in the field of progressive/psychedelic rock, and would not be inferior to Pink Floyd.

But all this came to an end with the passing of lead singer Jim, drawing an imperfect full stop. Jim is irreplaceable to The Damen, as only he can perfectly express the profound thoughts in The Damen's works and interpret the charm of the lyrics and music with his own singing.

After thinking about this, Bian Lang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you!"

As soon as Hua Yan left, Huang Kai came over. He said without hesitation: "I won't choose this time. When I go to my hometown to perform, I want to be able to bring out that song!"

Bian Lang patted Huang Kai on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't agree to anyone else if I agree to this with you!"

Then he sang what Huang Kai was thinking: "Lanzhou, always leaving in the early morning... Lanzhou, warm drunkenness at night... Lanzhou, the endless Yellow River water flows eastward... Lanzhou, the end of the dream is the entrance to the sea..."

Huang Kai listened to this song and thought about how proud he was to be able to perform this song in his hometown. He couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "Following you really is... I can do anything!"

(End of this chapter)