Chapter 3 The Little Shrimp in the Rivers and Lakes
Backstage at the Forget-me-Grass Bar is a large room with two smaller suites.
Backstage is a space for the bar singers.
There is a row of dressing tables and storage cabinets in the large room outside, plus five or six soft chairs for the resident singers and callers, and two small suites with sofas, TVs, wine coolers, independent toilets and other facilities, which are the territory of the contracted singers and bands.
is also singing in a bar, and the status of the singer is very different.
When Lu Chen came in, there were already two resident singers, a man and a woman, sitting outside, the male singer was playing with his mobile phone, and the woman was touching up her makeup, and no one paid attention to Lu Chen, who had just pushed the door in.
Because in this small circle, Lu Chen's status is the lowest.
"Brother Ye is early, Sister Hong is early!"
Lu Chen greeted the two as usual, then sat down in his place and placed the piano case.
His position is in the far corner of the backstage.
The male singer ignored the "um", but the female singer put down the cotton pad in her hand and said with a smile: "Xiao Lu, you are late today, you were criticized by the boss, right?"
Sister Hong is in her thirties this year, she has been resident at the Forget-me-Grass Bar for five years, she is good at love songs, and her voice is very good, although her appearance is not outstanding, she is still a little famous in the bar singer circle in Houhai.
However, compared with Sister Zhang Nana, a contracted singer who is one of the pillars of the Forget Worry Grass Bar, she is still a lot worse.
Despite this, she has always maintained a condescending arrogance towards Lu Chen, which sounds like a concerned inquiry, but there is actually a trace of ridicule and mockery.
Lu Chen, who was left yesterday, would definitely be depressed because of this, and he was angry in his heart but couldn't attack.
But after experiencing three different lives in his dream, his mentality has changed even unnoticed, and he smiled indifferently: "Thank you Sister Hong for your concern, I confessed my mistake to the boss." ”
Sister Hong was stunned, and what she wanted to say later suddenly couldn't be said.
She snorted softly, ignored Lu Chen, and picked up the cotton pad she had just dropped again.
At this moment, the door of a small suite inside suddenly opened, and a man wearing a black jacket and a shawl with long hair walked out.
"Brother Qin!"
Sister Hong and the male singer reacted quickly, and immediately stood up and greeted each other with a smile.
Lu Chen slowed down, and also stood up: "Brother Qin is early"
This jacket man Qin Brother Qin Hanyang is the real Taipan in the Forgotten Worry Grass, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the Wandering Band, he is the indispensable soul of the Wandering Band, and even the boss Chen Jianhao is polite to him.
The band has a total of five members, in addition to Qin Hanyang, there is also a lead guitarist, a bass player, a drummer and a keyboardist.
It is not easy to support a band in a bar like Forget-me-Woes, and in turn, the existence of a wandering band has also enhanced the reputation and popularity of the bar, so it is a well-deserved pillar.
Qin Hanyang didn't have any expression on his face, and nodded in response.
He picked up a few sheets of paper that had been placed on the dressing table, then folded back into his room and closed the door.
Sister Hong and the male singer's faces couldn't help but be a little sneering, but where did the two of them have the qualifications to be more serious with Qin Hanyang, you must know that the latter's words can make them get out of the Forget Worry Grass, and they can't even get along in the circle of Houhai.
Lu Chen smiled secretly in his heart, he and Qin Hanyang were too far apart, and he didn't have the idea of clinging, so it didn't matter what the other party's attitude was, of course, there would be no embarrassment with a hot face and a cold ass.
A bar is also a small river and lake, and Lu Chen is just a small shrimp in the rivers and lakes.
He sat back down and began combing his messy hair.
The atmosphere of Houhai Bar is different from that of Sanlitun, where the kind of decadent and depraved singers who are dressed in fancy clothes and sloppy are not popular here, so their own image is very important.
On the stage outside, the voice of the live host was already heard, and that was the beginning of the warm-up.
Lu Chen must hurry up and prepare, and soon he will be on the stage.
As for what song to sing tonight, he already had a preliminary idea in his heart.
While the host was telling jokes to liven up the atmosphere, the waiter who had been guarding the door of the bar sneaked into the electronic room on the right side of the backstage.
The electronic sound room is very small, and there are equipment and computers to control sound and lighting, and all kinds of cables and wires are densely packed like cobwebs, and red, green, and blue LED indicators are flashing non-stop.
Sitting in the middle of the "cobweb" is a fat man weighing at least more than 200 pounds, wearing huge monitor headphones, shaking his head and listening to songs, and there is still half an unfinished burger on the workbench in front of him.
"Fat brother, fat brother!"
The waiter shouted twice in a row, but the other party didn't hear it, so he had no choice but to step forward and push hard.
The fat man opened his eyes suddenly, and when he saw that it was a waiter, he couldn't help frowning, took off his headphones and said unhappily: "Xiao Gao, you don't pick up customers outside, what are you doing here with me, go out!"
He is the sound pipe of the electronic sound room, and in this small room, even if Chen Jianhao comes, he has to listen to him.
Of course, Xiao Gao knew this, and he hurriedly grinned and handed over a Jinwei beer.
The fat man unceremoniously took the beer, glanced at him and asked, "Say, you kid has nothing to do, what do you want to do?" I said ugly things in front, small things are easy to discuss, big things are not to be discussed!"
"What a trifle"
Xiao Gao suddenly perked up, and hurriedly leaned over and whispered a few words in the fat man's ear.
The fat man's face became strange when he heard this, he looked each other up and down as if he was re-acquainted, and said, "You kid is yin enough, this is still a trivial matter?"
Xiao Gao said with a smile: "It's really a trivial matter, I just see that Lu Chen's kid is unhappy, relying on the little white face and no one in his eyes, we just teach him a lesson, let him know that it is not good to rely on his face to mix in the forgetting worry grass!"
"Hmm"
The fat man nodded thoughtfully, raised his hand and rubbed his fat chin and said: "What you said also makes sense, you said that others are handsome and can't sing well, don't go to Sanlitun to be a young master, go to Houhai to pretend to be a literary youth, and I have to wipe his butt with the fat brother, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?"
Xiao Gao Yin smiled: "Yes, yes, fat brother, you are also good for him"
His expression suddenly moved, and he pointed to the single glass window of the electronic music room and said, "Lu Chen has come to the stage!"
A single-sided see-through glass is installed on the wall separating the room from the stage, so that those inside can see the entire stage, while those on the outside cannot see inside.
The person who was walking to the middle of the stage with a guitar was not Lu Chen or who?
"Fat brother, do it quickly!"
Xiao Gao's eyes were fixed on Lu Chen, urging anxiously in his mouth.
"Panic what!"
The fat man glared at Xiao Gao and said, "I know it in my heart, I don't need you to teach me how to do it!"
As he spoke, he reached out and turned off a button on the audio console, and the LED indicator on the auxiliary mixer next to him immediately turned off.
The singers in the Houhai bar are basically live singing or even live accompaniment, and it is difficult for people who have no skills to mix here, but the singer's voice can be adjusted in the electronic sound room, and the sound is repaired well, and it has the ability to turn decay into magic.
A truly professional tuner doesn't bother to mix in a bar, and he can't afford to hire a worry-free grass, so the backstage sound repair is done by a semi-professional sound pipe, and with quasi-professional digital equipment, it is no problem to blind the layman.
Among the customers who come to the bar to consume, there are also insiders who know the insiders, but there are not many, and they don't know the inside story.
Lu Chen's playing and singing level is very ordinary, he can have the opportunity to appear on stage to make extra money, in addition to the advantage of appearance, the backstage tuning of the fat man's voice tube is also credited.
What makes the fat man unhappy is that Lu Chen has never given him benefits, and he is even bigger than the resident singers!
So now that he was instigated by Xiao Gao, his resentment was overflowing, and he temporarily turned off the mixer.
In this way, the voice that Lu Chen plays and sings on the stage will not be optimized in any way, and it will be directly presented in the original JBL speakers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He will be revealed!
The fat man smiled and gave Xiao Gao a look: "You wait to watch the show!"
Xiao Gao nodded vigorously, and clenched his fists excitedly-Lu Chen, look at what face you will have in the future to continue to mix in the Forgetful Grass!
And at this moment, Lu Chen didn't know that he was being calculated.
He sits on a piano bench with the guitar in his arms in his right hand and frees his left hand to adjust the angle of the microphone.
After 8 p.m., and on weekends and Sundays, more and more customers appeared in the bar, and now almost two-thirds of the seats are occupied, many of them regular customers.
After the preparation, Lu Chen said into the microphone: "Thank you for coming to Forget Worries, today I will first sing for you, a flying pigeon, I hope you can like it!"
There was sparse applause in the bar, and a female guest who knew Lu Chen blew a loud hooligan whistle.
"Come on, Xiao Lu!"
Many guests laughed, and the atmosphere became lively and lively.
Lu Chen waved his hand at the other party embarrassedly, and then prepared to start his performance.
"Brother Jianhao"
Behind the bar, the charming woman looked at Lu Chen on the stage, her eyes flashed with a little light: "You young man has a good appearance, he is very handsome, and he can play and sing, let him come to my company." ”
"Him?"
Chen Jianhao smiled dumbly, shook his head and said: "Xiao Lu's hardware is okay, but the level of playing and singing is too amateurish, and the pad field here is the limit, and you have to repair the sound behind to support the field, do you really want to sign him?"
"Forget it"
The charming woman said decisively: "Don't have a foundation, my small company can't afford to cultivate." ”
There are more than three in the capital, many officials, many rich people, and many handsome guys and beauties, and talents with excellent appearance abound.
In terms of music alone, there are three major music academies in Beijing, plus various music training institutions, and I don't know how many freshmen come out every year, so why bother to train a guy who has no roots?
The charming woman just said it casually, and she didn't take it seriously.
At this time, Lu Chen plucked the guitar strings.