Respawn Entertainment: Days of Glory

Chapter 855 The Beatles
It was already morning when Tian Xiaoliang got off work at the gas station. He first went to the place where he was going to work in the afternoon to ask for leave, and then called Lu Hai to make an appointment in the evening.

When Lu Hai heard Tian Xiaoliang say that they wanted to go together, he thought he was hallucinating. But thinking about Tian Xiaoliang's unnatural behavior last night, he didn't ask the reason, but just curiously asked where he got the ticket.

After listening to Tian Xiaoliang's brief account of the ticket incident, he suddenly asked in surprise: "You're working as a temporary worker at a gas station? What about your job at the design firm?"

"Well, let's talk about it in detail when we meet tonight..." Tian Xiaoliang didn't plan to hide it anymore. He planned to take this opportunity to give himself a rebirth.

Just after 6 o'clock in the evening, Tian Xiaoliang appeared at the door of Lu Hai's restaurant earlier than the agreed time.

Looking at his outfit and spirit, Lu Hai felt that he had become a different person after one night. But he just felt that it was a bit strange for him to wear a punk leather jacket, after all, Barcelona was not cool at all in this season.

"Brother Xiaoliang, you are so showy, why don't you come here with a Mohawk?"

Tian Xiaoliang glanced at Lu Hai and said unhappily, "Even though I haven't paid much attention to rock music in recent years, I still know what style the Rolling Stones are. Pure punk is New Pants and Hedgehog..."

"Well, you are still professional..."

As the two drove to the Gran Via Exhibition Center, Tian Xiaoliang told Lu Hai about his troubled experiences in the past few years.

As another overseas student, Lu Hai could relate to Tian Xiaoliang's experience much better than Bian Lang. Now that he was able to settle down in Barcelona, ​​he felt that he was just luckier than Tian Xiaoliang.

The various differences between the two countries make it difficult for these immigrants, whose families are not rich, to rely on themselves to establish themselves and live a better life here.

"Brother Xiaoliang, I feel like you are completely different people today than you were last night. Does the ticket that Bian Lang gave you really have that much magic power?" He believed that a person could have an epiphany, but the prerequisite for epiphany seemed to be usually when life encountered a turning point.

Either the parents die, or the children are born...

What does it mean to get a ticket to a rock band concert?

Tian Xiaoliang didn't know how to describe his feelings at the time, so he just handed the ticket to Lu Hai to read for himself: "There is a sentence written on this ticket, and we think it was written by Bian Lang himself."

Lu Hai took the ticket and waited until the car stopped at a red light before looking down to check.

"The cicada owns the entire summer, it is not alone. Before its execution, it will let out a final roar, making the summer more restless and scarlet. It becomes more courageous, but I become more cowardly." After reading this sentence, Lu Hai was stunned.

It was not until the car behind him honked several times that he realized the red light had turned green.

The car remained silent for a long time, until Lu Hai drove the car to the Gran Via Exhibition Center and stopped. He slowly uttered a sentence: "Yes, those of us overseas are like summer cicadas, but we are not alone..."

There were no partitions in the venue this time. After the two checked their tickets and entered, Lu Hai specifically instructed them, "You must keep this ticket stub!"

But Tian Xiaoliang took out a transparent plastic protective cover, stuffed the ticket stub into it, took a photo of the stage, and then carefully stuffed it into the inner layer of his leather jacket.

Only then did Lu Hai realize that Tian Xiaoliang was wearing a leather jacket not to look cool or show off, but purely to protect his ticket stub, which was the only one in the world!
This time the venue was not divided into any areas, and the two had no intention of squeezing to the front, so they just wandered around inside for a while, and after meeting up with a group of Chinese music fans of similar age, they chatted and waited for the show to start.

The warm-up band and guest bands did not change this time, but the number of rock bands present was completely different from the previous show.

Coldplay came to DGM, and most of the bands under its umbrella that had no performance plans came. At this moment, a white man with long curly chestnut hair was walking towards Bianlang with Phimos.

After saying hello to Bian Lang, Feimos introduced him to him: "Wave, this is Jiuli, the lead singer of the Longicorn band..."

After Jiuli shook hands with Bian Lang, he said politely, "Wave, if that bastard Feimos hadn't sworn to God, I would find it hard to believe that those works of the Rolling Stones were created by you alone!"

The words were a bit harsh, but judging from his expression, he meant no harm.

"I don't think there are so many great shooters in this world!"

Bian Lang didn’t know how to express the word “hot-selling” in the English context, so he just used “gunman”.

It is very likely that Jiuli did not understand, but this did not prevent him, a person with a strong divergent thinking, from changing the conversation from another angle: "Sorry, I am a fan of Villarreal. We should have no common language on this point."

Of course Bian Lang understood it immediately, and then a cheerful melody popped up in his mind:

“We all live in a yellow submarine, Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine yellow submarine

We all live in a yellow submarine, Yellow submarine, yellow submarine…”

This song by the famous Zombie Band was a brainwashing hit of the era. It is said that the nickname of the original Earth's Villarreal Yellow Submarine was due to this song.

When the Beatles' masterpiece "Yellow submarine" was popular in Europe in the 60s, Villarreal fans would sing "Yellow submarine" whenever they were deeply moved when watching the game at home.

Therefore, for Villarreal, which has never had an official team song, this popular song has quietly become the team's quasi-team song. In addition, Villarreal's home uniforms are also bright yellow, so Yellow Submarine has also become the team's nickname.

"Don't worry, I don't have a favorite team in La Liga!"

"Thank God. Even if the president of Barcelona came to you, you wouldn't write a song for them, right?"

"That's for sure!" Bian Lang said, adding in his mind: "Even if Boss Mei and Ronaldinho come to invite me together, it won't work..."

If you ask me why, I just don’t like it!
"That's great, so can I ask you to write a team song for Villarreal?"

Now, it was Bian Lang's turn to be speechless. He felt that this was the real reason why Jiuli wanted to come and get to know him, but if Bian Lang didn't mention the "gunman", what would Jiuli use to start the story? "As a fan, why don't you create your own story?"

"I admit that my ability in propositional creation cannot compare with yours! I've heard the songs you wrote for Hatter, and they are really more suitable for his band than the works of Phimos."

If I think about it more deeply, it means that I want to see if you can also write songs suitable for our band!
Of course, Bian Lang would not understand this as a provocation. After all, the main appeal was for the team, not for the Longicorn band.

As for whether foreigners would use provocation, they certainly would, and it is definitely effective. Otherwise, Zidane would not have used the iron head skill in an occasion like the World Cup final!

Since Jiuli had already explained his purpose, Feimos also spoke up: "Wave, this man's words are indeed hard to like, but he is indeed a very good friend."

"Yeah." There was no need for Phimos to explain this, Bian Lang could feel it.

After all, Feimos was called a jerk again and again by him, but he was not angry and even smiled and spoke for him, so they must have a close relationship. And he brought people to find Bian Lang, so it was a private matter, not a negotiation at the DGM company level.

"Then let me learn about the team first. If I have any ideas, I will contact you!" Although "Yellow submarine" is good, it would be useless if the Villarreal home jersey of the blue star is not yellow!

"Wave, thank you. If you really have an idea, please tell me as soon as possible. The team may not be able to come up with a budget that matches your worth, but the fans and I will..."

"Let's talk about this later. By the way, what's the style of your band Longicorn?" As a partner of DGM, Bian Lang certainly knew the name of this band which is almost as famous as Hatter, and he had also heard the band's works.

But I feel that the style of this band's works is also unsystematic, just like Bian Lang, they come up with whatever they want, so that's why Bian Lang asked that question.

Jiuli was quite calm when he heard this question, and it was obviously not the first time he was asked this question: "We were playing psychedelic music in the early days, but we felt like we were starving to death, so we released a pop rock album.

We made some money and started doing progressive rock, which flopped, and then we did a folk-rock album... and that was it."

Although the driving force is different, the band Longicorn is quite similar to the original Earthworm.

The Insects played hard rock, symphonic rock, folk rock, avant-garde rock, psychedelic rock... so much so that after the millennium, people began to question whether they were a rock band...

In this regard, Bian Lang felt that those people were just too idle! Also, they had too little knowledge.

First of all, the concept of rock and roll in the era when the Beatles were born was fundamentally different from the rock music we understand today.

The representatives of rock music in the late 50s were Chuck Berry (Johnny B. Goode) and Elvis Presley (Jailhouse Rock). The characteristics of rock music are distinct rhythms and suitable for dancing. This is also in line with the entertainment methods of young people at that time.

From today's perspective, it has neither a band nor rock music, and it plagiarizes a lot of blues, so there is basically no originality.

This is the kind of rock that the Beatles were exposed to a lot before their debut and during their training in Germany. The native British "local rock" is called Skiffle, and their early works after their debut were basically in line with this style, so the early Beatles were serious rock.

With the huge success of the Beatles and the subsequent "British Invasion", two concepts became popular: originality and band.

Although these two concepts are not new at all, the Beatles made young people realize that it is cool to form a band with a few like-minded friends to sing their own "adapted" songs. It also made record companies realize that this market is huge and appeals to both men and women.

During this period, the Beatles almost defined rock music for the public based on themselves. Although the Beatles quickly shed the blues coat, the blues rock represented by the Rolling Stones became the predecessor of later hard rock.

In the middle and late stages, the Beatles came into contact with American folk leader Bob Dylan and each absorbed the characteristics of the other. From then on, the Beatles added thinking to rock music, and Bob Dylan added strength to folk music.

The prototype of modern rock music was determined during this period, and all kinds of rock music in later generations developed on this basis.

The album "Sgt. Pepper" was a huge success, marking the entry of psychedelic rock into the mainstream. From this point on, rock music began to pursue art.

So it is meaningless to discuss whether the Beatles are rock music or not. As one of the founders of modern rock music, whatever they do is rock music, there is nothing to get hung up on.

Of course, it is also true that there is a difference in the sound quality of the Beatles' works compared to those of later rock bands, and this is largely due to distorted guitars.

Ever since the Kinks accidentally "invented" the distorted sound, many subgenres of rock music have followed suit and embarked on the path of increasing the gain of the guitar. The distorted effect has also developed from the initial overdrive to fuzz and distortion, and then to the modern metal hi-gain tones of extreme metal and nuclear music with higher distortion levels.

Distorted guitar is, to a large extent, a defining feature of modern rock music.

Distorted guitars can have a huge impact on the sound quality of music. Just look at the promotion of pop music and you will see that pop songs that use distorted guitars as the main instrument are often called "rock style." Of course, it could just be a gimmick...

The Beatles' era happened to be the time when the distorted sound of electric guitar was first born. At that time, distorted sound was even considered a small-scale music revolution, and the gain that the equipment could provide was very limited.

Therefore, many of the Beatles' songs are played with clean guitars. Even if a distorted guitar is used, the distortion is not high. At most, it is an overload with a high gain. The listening experience will definitely be significantly different from the later high-gain rock genre.

This is why many covers of old rock guitar videos, such as the one by Zeppelin, sound fine at first glance, but sound off when you listen closely. It's not that the guitarists were bad at it, but that they used several times the distortion of the time.

The aesthetic system of this group of high-gain genres is more directly based on the originators of hard rock and heavy metal such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, so the influence of the Beatles left on them is relatively much lower.

Of course, high-gain rock music has not completely monopolized the rock music scene. There have always been genres and bands that do not engage in this. Even in the 80s and 90s when metal and grunge were rampant, there were a group of bands that focused on low-gain rock music genres, and these genres were often more directly influenced by the Beatles.

For example, Britpop and some post-punk, you can definitely find more Beatles heritage in these genres.

From what Bian Lang heard, it seems that the songs that Longicorn are currently selling well may not be the ones they think are musically good, but they have never given up pursuing them.

"It's hard to say whether we can get the insect group out this time!"

(End of this chapter)