What appeared in front of Iwahashi Shin was a group of young men wearing heavy makeup and fancy clothes.

This outfit, if it appeared on the street, would probably be regarded as some kind of weirdo. But if you like weirdos, then they're all beautiful.

Of course, in the music industry, these young people are not called "weirdos", but "visual kei".

Shinichi Iwahashi and Manyumi Watanabe have reviewed the videos of many amateur bands, and they have watched all kinds of bands and performances of various levels, so no matter what kind of band they see, they will not be surprised.

When Takao Tajima saw the group of young people who came over, he first greeted the person who congratulated him just now: "TOSHI-kun." He greeted a few others.

The members of ORIGINAL LOVE also seem to be familiar with this group of young people.

Although the strange costumes and heavy makeup look like they are unapproachable and don't even look like good people, these young people are very polite, and even have a little personable.

Takao Aritajima introduced that these behind-the-scenes people soon learned that these young people were members of a heavy metal band called "X".

Knowing that they were X's people, Iwahashi looked at these young people for a while. In the underground music scene, the band has long made a name for itself as a pioneer of visual kei, but it has never made a mainstream debut.

When Shinichi Iwahashi was still active in the underground music industry, he had heard the name of this band, but he had never met them.

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Meguro Lumeikan is X's nest in the underground music circle, and has been performing here frequently for several years, and when ORIGINAL LOVE was in the underground music circle, he was taken care of by X's captain Hayashi Yoshiki, and although the two bands have different genres, they have such a small friendship.

It is precisely because of acquaintance and knowing Tajima Takao's dream that there is the sentence "congratulations" just now.

Iwahashi Shinichi is familiar with X's name, and on the other side, X's young people are not unfamiliar with Iwahashi Shinichi's name. Among them, Lin Jiashu, the leader of the band, looked at Iwahashi Shinichi with the most different attitudes.

Lin Jiashu spoke to them on behalf of the band, although he is a young man who plays heavy metal, but his personality is not withdrawn at all, and in terms of socialization, he should be said to be a master.

Shinichi Iwahashi took out his business card and gave his name.

"Iwahashi-san. Lin Jiashu took the business card and smiled at him, his expression was gentle, but he had a moderate sense of distance.

He's about the same age as Shin Iwahashi, but they're two completely different people.

Lin Jiashu not only sounds elegant in his name, but also has a personable demeanor and elegant manners. He is tall but slender, and his skin is so white that even women are willing to bow down. There is a feminine delicacy between the eyebrows and eyes, but the whole face is not lacking in masculine demeanor, such a person is a perfect match for the visual kei that blurs gender.

Compared to these delicate youths, Shinichi Iwahashi is an out-and-out rough man.

However, Shinichi Iwahashi, who can only have a chance to play the leading role in Toei's Ren Xia films, and Hayashi Kaki, who can play the role of a dreamy noble son in a movie adapted from a shoujo manga, at least have the same idea on one thing.

In the underground music circle, "not dealing with the mainstream" is regarded as a rule that cannot be violated by a considerable number of musicians, especially heavy metal bands, who are more committed to maintaining a sense of mystery and maintaining a distance from the mainstream.

However, among these bands, X is a staunch opponent of this set.

This band does not have its own agent, and for a long time, the captain Lin Jiashu has been the agent concurrently work, responsible for dealing with the outside world and contacting work.

In Lin Jiashu's view, music, no matter how well it is done, is meaningless if no one listens to it.

Therefore, visibility is necessary, and exposure is also necessary. Rather than sticking to the old rules of not dealing with the mainstream, conveying their music and ideas to a wider audience is the path that the band should really take.

Such Lin Jiashu is looked down upon by some people in the underground music circle, thinking that he is too humble. However, rather than saying that he was humble, it should be said that he was very proud.

It is precisely because of the confidence in one's own music and the belief that what one has made is excellent and high-quality music that there is this kind of unwillingness that these music can only be circulated in a niche circle, and that they hope to go to the mainstream, to the public, and even to the world.

Such a Hayashi Yoshiki is quite compatible with Shinichi Iwahashi, who is committed to creating a platform for underground bands to go mainstream, in the point that "good music should be heard by more people, rather than sticking to the old rules".

It's just that Shinichi Iwahashi doesn't know Lin Jiashu's philosophy, and he has only heard the name X. Lin Jiashu is very familiar with the name because Iwahashi Shinichi has done several things in succession to bring the underground band into the mainstream, even if the two parties have never met.

If it weren't for the fact that he didn't like the competitive format of the band Kingdom of Heaven, maybe X would have signed up for the band Kingdom of Heaven and found a chance for TV exposure.

However, whether it is won by others or won by others, it does not conform to the concept in the band's heart that "music cannot tell the winner". While opportunities are important, so is self-assertion.

Even so, not liking the band's competition system and not signing up for it did not prevent Lin Jiashu from thinking in his heart that Shinichi Iwahashi had opened a way for the underground band, even though this Bole had never met him.

Especially a while ago, he also worked as a producer for the Human Chair and produced a single. Lin Jiashu, who is also a heavy metal band and has a wide range of contacts in the underground music circle, has heard of the band Human Chairs, and after the release of the single, he bought a copy out of support, but after listening to it, he was deeply surprised by the excellent production of the single.

I noticed the name of Shinichi Iwahashi on the arranger column and the producer column, and I was even more impressed by this person.

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X WAS ABOUT TO PERFORM NEXT, AND TAKAO TAJIMA'S ORIGINAL LOVE QUICKLY PACKED UP HIS THINGS AND VACATED THE BACKSTAGE OF THE KAMING HALL FOR THEM.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Manyumi Watanabe just came to visit the class and didn't go with them, and they were ready to say goodbye at this time.

met by chance, and the two sides didn't actually talk much, just said hello. Despite this, before leaving, Lin Jiashu took the initiative to talk to Iwahashi Shinichi.

If nothing else, I hope that Shinichi Iwahashi will be able to accept the band's performance tape. When the band performed at LIVEHOUSE, they distributed free performance videos to the audience every now and then.

This evening's show also had this part of the show, and they had prepared enough tapes in advance.

Being able to send videos to the audience for free with such a large amount of money is quite a stark contrast to bands that need to make a living by selling their own records and video tapes.

That being said, taking the initiative to send a videotape is quite a gesture of goodwill.

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