As soon as eleven o'clock came, as if the time had been pinched in advance, the door of the store was pushed open, and four or five young men poured in.

The store is not big, and so many people come in at once, and there is a lot of movement. At the same time that Iwahashi looked over cautiously, the group of young people who came also discovered him, walked this way, and surrounded him at once.

Seeing this posture, the boss in the bar put down the towel in his hand and made a look of preparation to come out at any time to stop it, and the young waitress was in a dilemma and hesitated in place. Result –

"Keeping you waiting. The young man in the lead bowed to greet him and was polite.

The boss picked up the towel again, and the waitress breathed a sigh of relief and a smile on her face again.

"It doesn't matter. ”

Iwahashi Shinichi pointed to the cup in front of him, "Just here." ”

The coffee in the cup was only about a third of the way out. The young man in the lead lowered his gaze and glanced at it, the expression on his face soothing.

These are the young men who have been designated to meet here.

I took off the heavy makeup on my face, and my clothes changed back to the style of ordinary college students, looking at it this way, these young people are ordinary, walking on the streets of Osaka, and you can find a bunch of similar ones casually.

These young people are the band called "Shooting Chao Q" that I saw with Watanabe Manyumi in Osaka Castle Park last time.

"My name is Mitsuo Terada, and my position in the band is the lead singer. The young man in the lead introduced himself first.

He started up, and the other four young people also introduced in turn, this is Hatakeyama and that is Matsui. This surname is Horiuchi, and the last surname is 経塚...... This surname is strange enough.

......

About noon, Iwahashi Shinichi invited the young men to dinner.

The location was still chosen by them, and Shinichi Iwahashi was very unfamiliar with Osaka, so he listened to their arrangement.

At Osaka Castle Park, after giving out the business card, the band did not contact Shinichi Iwahashi immediately, and it took almost two weeks to call him.

The person in charge of contacting him was the young man Mitsuo Terada, who had just taken the lead.

Obedient on the phone, the band seemed to be quite cautious, and although they received a business card from the person in charge of the record company, they were not ecstatic and impatient at the time, but first asked around about GENZO and the origin of Shinichi Iwahashi.

After inquiring, I called over, and from this point of view, it was considered that Iwahashi Shinichi passed the "first audition" on the band's side.

The two people chatted while eating.

After learning more about it, Shinichi Iwahashi learned that the five members of this band were all students of University.

Originally, these five people belonged to three different bands, but later, because they were about to enter their final school year, all three campus bands had members quit the band to prepare for their careers, and the rest of them still wanted to continue to be bands, so they came together again to form the current one.

And the somewhat inexplicable band name "Shooting Chaos Q" (シャ乱Q) is a patchwork made up with the names of the original three bands - respectively シャッターズ (Shutters), Chao, and QP.

It's a little weird, but it's still there.

"So, how many of you are aiming for professional musicians?" asked Iwahashi.

The reply was a young man surnamed Hatakeyama, who worked as a guitarist in the band, "That's what I plan to do for the time being." First set a two-year deadline, and if you have a chance to debut, then continue to do it, otherwise you will go back to becoming an office worker. ”

The young man named Mitsuo Terada had been in charge of communication before, but when it came to this issue, it was replaced by Hatakeyama. Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't help but glance at Terada, and as a result, from his face, there was a hint of desire to speak and stopped.

"So," Hatakeyama turned to the point, "we wanted to know how Iwahashi-san thought of us." ”

There was a hint of anticipation in his tone and demeanor, "To be honest, I received a business card from a talent scout when I was performing in Chengtian, this kind of thing has always been heard from others as a legend, but I didn't expect us to have such a day." ”

"And," Mitsuo Terada, who was silent just now, spoke again, and these Kansai youths all spoke in a strong Kansai accent, "To be honest, isn't our performance in Joten like a joke?"

That's true enough.

But on the other hand, he was also asking Shinichi Iwahashi what point of such a joke-like performance could be favored by him, a professional producer, and he deliberately handed over a business card.

Although they called him and made an appointment to meet this time, they were not carried away, and they still knew how many pounds and taels they had.

"It's true that the show wasn't good. "Iwahashi Shinichi is not polite.

"With the current level, signing a contract is definitely not possible, and to be honest, even if you perform at a LIVEHOUSE, you will be booed. He said, gauging the reactions of the youths.

was criticized in such a face-to-face, but these young people did not show any displeasure at all, and they looked like they accepted it all. It's almost a bit "alternative" to being calm and like this.

"However, there are also advantages. He relayed to them what he had summed up with Watanabe Manyumi, "First of all, I insist on originality, and secondly, I am very conscious of being a glam rock." Moreover, the voice of the lead singer Terada-kun is very recognizable. ”

For record companies, it is necessary to "cast a wide net", so instead of waiting for the discovery of excellent new talents, they must make a move whenever they see the slightest possibility.

"There is a 'possibility', which is very important for newcomers who have not yet debuted. He said.

The five young men listened to him carefully and exchanged glances with each other. This time, the young man with the surname Terada spoke again, "So, what are you going to do?"

"I'm here in Osaka and I'm going to open a livehouse, so I'd like you to come and perform there. The reply given by Shinichi Iwahashi was a bit far from the fact that he was ready to make his debut after receiving the scout's business card.

However, what the level of the band is, several of them also know in their hearts that they are still far from debut.

Therefore, it is expected to receive such an answer. However, after receiving such an answer, several people, especially Mitsuo Terada, still looked like they wanted to say something.

Seeing this, Iwahashi stopped what he was about to say and asked, "Is there any problem?" ”

"It's Terada-kun who has a problem here. "It's still Hatakeyama who is in charge of speaking. In fact, Terada received a letter of acceptance from a local Shinkin bank, and he was hesitating whether to find a job or give up his job first. ”

Saying this, Iwahashi Shin thought about it and understood why Mitsuo Terada, who was in charge of speaking, was dumbfounded when he talked about the band's future plans just now.

However, a puzzle was solved, and he had new doubts.

There are five people in a band, and four of them are ready to give up their jobs, apparently to devote themselves to fighting for two years. But the lead singer of the band is a "time bomb" who is not sure whether to be an office worker.

If you are not careful, the lead singer runs away, and the band will stop directly. ABNORMAL, who personally led two lead singers to run away one after another, Shinichi Iwahashi has a particularly deep understanding of this incident.

For a band, the most important lead singer is in between quitting and not quitting, which is very dangerous.

Under such circumstances, the four of them were so big that they continued to form a team?

"Actually," Mitsuo Terada finally spoke, "no matter what Iwahashi-san thinks of our band and what you plan to do...... he showed a somewhat embarrassed expression, "I want to ask you for something." ”

"Let's hear it. Iwahashi said.

"Well, I personally wanted to work full-time with them for two years before deciding whether to go to a full-time job, but my parents at home thought that we would not be able to do anything, and wanted me to go to work. ”

"So," Hatakeyama said this time, "I would like to ask you to help me meet Terada-kun's parents and help convince the two of them to postpone Terada-kun's employment." ”

"You are the producer of the ZARD band, right?" said Mitsuo Terada.

Iwahashi nodded cautiously, "Yes." ”

"Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about ZARD in Osaka because my parents like ZARD very much......

Carefully calculated, the time when the band called Shinichi Iwahashi happened to be the time when the broadcast began on the ninth day of the month, and ZARD's promotion in Kansai was spreading.

The reason why Q called him is probably also the reason why he saw ZARD seeing hope. If you really want to talk about it, it can be regarded as ZARD urging the shooting chaos Q to Iwahashi Shinichi.

In a sense, coming to see the shooting chaos Q made Iwahashi Shinichi experience a little bit of ZARD's heat.

When these young people contacted Iwahashi Shinichi, they made their own little calculations.

If he is really signed by Shinichi Iwahashi, then he has an official identity and the matter will naturally be resolved. Even if it doesn't, using the light of Shinichi Iwahashi to stabilize Mitsuo Terada's parents can be regarded as making the best use of things.

Even, the real purpose of these young people coming to see Shinichi Iwahashi was to let him become a lobbyist.

No wonder no matter how Iwahashi Shinichi criticized them just now, these young people all looked like obedient boys. It turned out that he had already figured out in his heart that he wanted to take advantage of him.

The cunning of the people of Osaka made Iwahashi Shinichi understand it in this kind of place.

The more Mitsuo Terada spoke, the more embarrassed he became, "It's a bit difficult for you to make such a request...... However, if I can get the approval of the ZARD producer, I think my parents will be relieved of my employment. ”

Please, Iwahashi Shin's cunning little abacus laid down in advance, this is them. But they are also ashamed and uneasy to make such a request.

But the contradiction between cunning and shame is their dedication to working hard as a band.

However, it doesn't matter if it's a dream or a persistence.

Iwahashi thought for a moment, "First of all, I want to say that at your current level, even if the band works full-time for two years, it may not be able to make a debut at all, and in the end it will only end up disbanding. ”

"Yes. Mitsuo Terada bowed his head.

Maybe in the end, it's just a waste of two years of time, a waste of good opportunities to find a job now.

"If I can bring you to debut immediately, I will say otherwise...... In such a situation now, it is too arrogant and arrogant to endorse you in front of your parents. ”

Dreams and attachments are not built on hypocrisy.

The five young men on the opposite side had a slight change in their expressions just now.

Iwahashi Shinichi was unhurried, "Now let me continue with the topic just now, is it okay?"

A few young people didn't speak, so he acquiesced, "That's right, after the LIVEHOUSE here in Osaka opens, I want to invite you to perform." LIVEHOUSE will be open in Tokyo and Osaka, and if you are interested in Tokyo, I would like to invite you to regularly exchange performances at LIVEHOUSE in Tokyo and interact with musicians there. ”

Exchange performances.

After the opening of the livehouses in both places, Iwahashi Shinichi planned to hold regular exchange performances, with Kanto and Kansai musicians performing on each other's territory.

On the one hand, Tokyo is the absolute center, and singers discovered in Osaka will definitely go to Tokyo in the future. On the other hand, the Kansai market is not small, and he is ready to seize it from the very beginning, the most basic place.

"Besides, I hope you'll bring me a new tune every time. Shinichi Iwahashi said, "If within these two years, I think you will be able to make your debut, I will arrange for you to make your official debut." ”

Of course, there is no reason to train new people in vain. If there is no contract, the band is signed by another company, and this kind of thing of making wedding dresses for others cannot be done.

However, this two-year contract, Shinichi Iwahashi signed with them not in the name of the record company, but in the name of the production company.

After signing the contract, they became employees of the production company, just like Seiichiro Kuribayashi.

Of course, the treatment is completely different from Seiichiro Kuribayashi.

I have a basic salary but I have a small salary, and my monthly salary is only 60,000 yen for the first year. The production company of the song is the right of first refusal, and the basic salary for a performance at the LIVEHOUSE is 2,000 yen for five people, but if there are more than 100 people in the audience on the day, they will participate in the box office share.

However, the production company is not an empty glove white wolf, and will provide them with some convenience and arrange some relevant training for them. This group of amateurs has all sides to be beaten.

During the contract period, if the debut criteria mentioned by Shinichi Iwahashi are met, he will sign a new record contract with them.

In this way, I will take this band in my hands first. Instead of signing a record contract, he signed a contract with the production company, on the one hand, to facilitate follow-up operations, and on the other hand, Iwahashi Shinichi also had selfish intentions, in order to increase the production company's bargaining chips.

To prepare for a rainy day, we must not let the production company become a shell company, but try to make it restarted.

If this band can't get up, there will be no loss to the production company, but if it can really reach the level of debut, it's another matter.

At least the copyrights of the songs written by the band during this period and bought by the production company were in the hands of Shinichi Iwahashi.

"In short, that's what I give. ”

Iwahashi Shinichi didn't sell it either, "It's okay not to reply now." However, if you are interested, you can contact me later, and then you can sign a contract in Tokyo. Of course, I will bear the cost of carriage and horses. ”

"After signing the contract, compared to the ordinary bands that perform in Chengtian, they have a serious place to go, but they still have to go to work or be helped by their families. Iwahashi Shinichi didn't go around in circles, "Of course, it's far worse than the office worker who went to work as a credit bank." ”

The last sentence was addressed to Mitsuo Terada.