Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 826: The Music Teacher Who Has Never Seen the World
This song seems to be inconspicuous in "Dream Back to the Tang Dynasty", and in fact, few music fans in China are following it.

However, as a song that was played on the Hatter tour, it is more famous in Europe than in China. Especially the unusual opening of the bass solo, most of the people who heard it for the first time were stunned.

There is no other way. In the long history of rock music, solos, which are specially used to highlight musicians, have always been dominated by guitarists. Even if some guitarists are willing to give way, there are keyboardists waiting in second place. Bassists really have to wait a thousand years for such an opportunity.

So the bassists present were all excited at this moment!

"How close must the relationship between these brothers be for the guitarist to give up the intro solo to the bassist?"

"I'm so envious! I can see something that is hard to find in European bands in a Chinese band!"

"It's mainly because Bian Lang is so talented and in control. He can write the lyrics and compose the music by himself, and the other band members won't have any objections. Whoever he wants to solo will have a solo..."

When the bassists were envious, the first song of the Rolling Stones' world tour finally arrived: "Everyone has longed to be a flying bird, flying between the sky and the sun..."

As an independent individual, freedom is what everyone pursues and yearns for. But whether you are a peddler or a high-ranking official, freedom is only relative, unless you become a flying bird! Perhaps that is a prerequisite for absolute freedom.

Rock! This is the freest creative medium in Bian Lang's eyes. If it is the last hope for music fans to keep the pure land of freedom, then everything he does will be more meaningful.

This is why he chose this song to sing first. Fans who can understand it will naturally help him write this story. As for the understanding of foreign fans, DGM has already prepared a plan. The English translations of all the Chinese songs performed by the Rolling Stones this time, as well as the pronunciation of the pinyin battle, have been distributed to different music bloggers.

As long as they wait for the performance to end and DGM to release the relevant videos, these music bloggers will start publishing various secondary creations according to DGM's needs.

Some of them are in London and are fortunate to be here today. One of them is a jazz teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. When she was invited, she was actually a little disdainful. It’s not that she looks down on rock music, but mainly because of her inherent concept as a teacher, which makes her extremely confident about the absolute dominance of rock music in the Western world.

But after playing 20 bars of "Wish You Were Here", she had put aside her pride as a teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began to seriously examine this band from the mysterious East.

Especially in the bass prelude just now, she directly heard a hint of religious music. Although she didn't have an absolutely certain feeling to support her inference, her intuition told her that her cognition would not be wrong.

If Bian Lang knew what the teacher named Empoli was thinking now, he would definitely think that this teacher was too ignorant.

I have mentioned before that this solo with bass prelude is Zhang Ju's tribute to the Christmas carol "God rest ye merry gentlemen", which was passionately performed by the two violinists of the Rolling Stones at Hatter's performance in Moscow.

The sales volume of this song in Europe has become one of DGM's annual money-making machines. The licensing of various adaptations alone has made them a lot of money. However, due to the Christmas attribute of this song, people often ignore the creator of this song.

Those who have not seen Hatter live on Red Square probably would not associate the two songs together when they hear the prelude of Flying Bird. But as a music teacher, Empoli could not tell the difference, which is a bit unreasonable.

But a huge question arose in her mind: "Is it reasonable for this kind of music to come from an Oriental?"

I won’t talk about rock music, although the West developed it first. However, various systematic knowledge systems have been formed, and it is not difficult for Empoli to learn and use them well.

But religious songs are completely different. If you don't have this belief, what motivation do you have to create it? With this question, Empoli decided to go to Olaf's relationship and meet Bian Lang to have a chat after the end of the day.

Her previous horizons had always been limited to the Western music scene. Although she had heard of the Rolling Stones, she had never specifically listened to their music. Even if she had listened to it passively from time to time, she didn't pay much attention to it.

When she received the invitation before, she was not very willing to come. If it weren't for the fact that DGM paid her readily, she would still want to continue to maintain her usual arrogant personality.

But at this point, she began to feel that the copywriting given by DGM was too amateurish. If she sent it out like that, it would not only be a hasty evaluation of Rolling Stone Music, but also be inconsistent with her own professional identity, so she decided to rewrite it after returning home tonight.

Just as she was thinking that, "Flying Bird" ended, and was immediately followed by "God rest ye merry gentlemen".

When the melody similar to the bass prelude came from the violin in Tao Xingyue's hand, Empoli began to doubt his life!

I watched as some people around me began to exclaim: "This song is actually by the Rolling Stones? It's the same intro as the previous song. This is incredible!"

Empoli had heard this song before, but not the Rolling Stones version. So her preconceived notion made her think that the bass prelude of the previous Rolling Stones song should be a tribute to the song "God rest ye merry gentlemen", which was also a way to please European music fans.

So she instinctively commented: "The prelude of the previous song should be a tribute to this Christmas carol. It should be to cater to our European music fans. After all, "God rest ye merry gentlemen" is quite famous in Europe..."

As soon as she finished her somewhat sarcastic words, another music blogger next to her corrected her directly: "The prelude of "Flying Bird" is indeed the same as the melody of "God rest ye merry gentlemen", but the premiere of "Flying Bird" was earlier than "God rest ye merry gentlemen"!"

Hearing this, Empoli turned to look at the music blogger next to him with an incredulous look on his face.

Before she even opened her mouth to ask, the music blogger began to educate her: "'Flying Bird' is the song that the Rolling Stones sang at Hatter's European tour in Berlin last year, and 'God rest ye merry gentlemen' was sung at the Moscow stop, so these two songs were both created by Wave."

Seeing that the music blogger was so confident, Empoli gave up the idea of ​​refuting. After all, such things can be found out by searching on the Internet. She also recognized that the other party was a music blogger with more fans than her, named Septis.

There is no need for people to lie to me on this issue. "But this is too unbelievable! How could he, a Chinese, possibly..."

Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by Septis: "What's impossible? Are writers of fantasy novels magicians? Wave should have brought the Rolling Stones to Europe for a tour a long time ago. Some songs really need to be recognized by European fans first, and then influence Chinese rock fans, in order to truly reflect their value!"

Empoli disagreed with the sophistry of the first sentence, but she couldn't think of a rebuttal. But she absolutely agreed with the second half of the sentence.

In Europe, the number and taste of real rock fans are much higher than those in other regions. The total number of tickets sold for the original Rolling Stones European tour was approximately 70 to 85.

Music fans in other regions tend to have a blind herd mentality to a certain extent, so some songs of the European Rolling Stones are not widely recognized in their own country.

So when the Rolling Stones' songs go around Europe, they are worshipped by European fans, and then when they are spread to fans in other countries, the effect will naturally be different. So when the Rolling Stones go around Europe, as long as the box office performance is not a Waterloo, the effect will be different when they return to China.

If it were in the domestic entertainment idol circle, there would be no need to go through all the steps. Just post today's scene back, fans would line up in long queues at the airport, and book a big screen at Times Square. These are all basic operations...

As for what the Rolling Stones will be like after their tour, no one knows.

After "God rest ye merry gentlemen", the Rolling Stones followed with "Don't Break My Heart". Just looking at the song title, these foreign music fans thought it was an English song, but when Bian Lang started singing, they found out that it was a Chinese song!

The few Chinese music fans present had all seen the video, but none of them had expected that the Rolling Stones would actually sing this song!
According to many people's analysis of the lyrics, combined with the subsequent news of the two breaking up, most fans think that this song should become a reserved song that the Rolling Stones will not sing easily...

But who would have thought that the Rolling Stones would release this song at their first show in Europe.

Perhaps there was only one person at the scene who could truly understand Bian Lang’s intention, and that person was Chen Manman.

"Maybe there are too many things I don't understand, maybe it's my fault. Maybe everything has been slowly missed, maybe there's no need to say it anymore..." She sang along with Bian Lang's singing, thinking in her heart: "You Bian's choice must be right, she really can't control a man like Bian Lang. But there's really no need to hide the matter of the child, what a bomb it will be in the future..."

Although things have come to this point, Chen Shuting has no intention of letting Dong Youbian go. All the conditions such as the distribution of various benefits have not changed, giving people the impression that Dong Youbian can retire peacefully at Rolling Stone.

After the Rolling Stones arrived in Europe, Chen Shuting went to find Dong Youbian as soon as possible. There was no tension as expected. Chen Shuting just chatted with Dong Youbian calmly for an entire afternoon. Chen Manman felt strange after hearing the specific content. The two did not talk about anything related to Bian Lang, but were talking about Dong Youbian's future.

Dong Youbian certainly did not reveal her pregnancy. The last thing she told Chen Shuting was: "I want to take a rest first, just like Silva, and live a normal life here for a few years. I'll think about it later..."

Perhaps what Dong Youbian was thinking was just like what the lyrics said at the end: "Don't break my heart, be gentle again, don't want to see your silence, wait alone and endure silently, joy always appears in my dreams..."

Putting down the phone that was recording the video, Chen Manman wanted to transfer it directly to Dong Youbian, but after thinking about it, she gave up the idea and turned her phone to flight mode: "I'll show it to her when I get back..."

Silva was sitting next to her, and he noticed her behavior intentionally or unintentionally. As for the couple Bian Lang and Dong Youbian, she only felt that Bian Lang was just like that because of his personality. For such a talented and proud person, there are some things that he may never turn back from even if he hits a wall.

Dong Youbian's idea was not wrong, but he just didn't use it in the right way. She could already imagine how crazy Bian Lang would become if he knew that she had a child...

After the end of "Don't break my heart", the Rolling Stones went straight back to thrash metal from hard rock. When the prelude of "Dream of Tang Dynasty" came, people like Empoli, who only listened to the Rolling Stones seriously today, were a little confused.

Empoli even began to wonder in his heart: "Is this the Chinese style metal of the Rolling Stones? How can this band switch between these rock styles at will, and the effect is still so good?"

After being slapped in the face just now, she would not make any comments directly. After all, there were too many unreasonable aspects of this band, and she was really afraid of being slapped in the face again if she opened her mouth.

Although the Rolling Stones have showcased three genres of music so far in this concert, from psychedelic to thrash metal to hard rock, who knows what will happen next?

In the first few songs, Bian Lang actually didn't show much of his singing skills and voice.

But when the opera-style recitation came on in "Dream of the Tang Dynasty", Empoli felt bad! Because she now realized that her previous indifference to the Rolling Stones was a complete mistake.

Although she was not teaching rock music directly, she would inevitably quote some rock music knowledge when she was teaching jazz. She used old materials because she felt that after the millennium, there was almost no rock music in the world that she could talk about in class.

But among the five songs performed by the Rolling Stones tonight so far, she feels that three of them can be used for teaching analysis!
"I must find Olaf as soon as this is over!"

But just as she had this thought, the next song by the Rolling Stones made her unable to calm down again.

When the American dry sound of the electric guitar in the prelude came out, the slovenly feeling that could not be washed away no matter how hard she tried surprised her: "Is this grunge?"

Seeing her naive look, the music blogger next to her kindly gave her some advice: "This song is called 'Dye the Night Black'. It should be one of the earliest songs released by the Rolling Stones in Europe. To exaggerate a little, the prelude is world-class..."

(End of this chapter)