Buddy ran to the outside of Wang Zijun's house, climbed directly into it from the fence wall, and smiled from afar: "Hey, Wang, your song is so cool, I think you have been smoking ** for at least three years." Well, do you want to come some, I still have some stock here. ”

Wang Zijun received a call from Ron, ">, got dressed and was about to go out, and said, "I never suck that thing, you can keep it for yourself." ”

"There's no need to hide it, it's not something to be ashamed of. Don't tell me that the reactions and fantasies in the lyrics about smoking ** are all imaginary by you. Buddy said, "Dude, there's a party tomorrow night, and I think you'd be willing to go." Each person only needs to pay $500, ** enough, and all kinds of hot chicks. You must know that this is a circle of celebrities, outsiders can't enter casually, I can be your introducer. ”

Li Jinghao drove the car out of the garage, and Buddy was still pestering Wang Zijun, which made him upset and scolded: "Fake, I'll tell you again, I'm not interested in your circle." I never touch ** either, the part of that song about drug use, was told to me by a bastard kid like you. ”

Wang Zijun pushed Buddy away, got into the car and ran away, Buddy stayed where he was, dumbfounded and said, "Oh, this idiot actually refused Buddy's kindness." I would have beaten him up, if possible. ”

Wang Zijun met Ron this time at Ron's house.

As soon as Wang Zijun sat down, Ron said, "Wang, I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to listen to first?" ”

"Let's start with the bad news." Wang Zijun didn't know what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"The bad news is that I'm out of work," Ron said. ”

"What's going on?" Wang Zijun asked.

"Terrence found out about my private job and fired me." Ron laughed, "But that's not the point, Terrence has been losing money since last year, and I have a conflict with one of the shareholders, which is just an excuse for them to lay off employees." ”

Wang Zijun smiled: "This doesn't sound like bad news, but what about the good news?" ”

Ron said, "I've contacted the record factory, and your single record is in mass production. ”

"That's really good news." Wang Zijun said.

Ron said: "Wang, I'm going to start my own record company, I wonder if you're interested in becoming the company's first employee?" ”

Wang Zijun said: "I said that I don't sign long-term contracts, and I hate the kind of running around the world all day to perform. ”

Ron said, "No, you misunderstood what I meant. I would like to ask you to be a music producer for the company, or a lyricist or composer. I believe in your abilities. ”

Wang Zijun said: "You can consider it, but I don't have much free time." I'd be interested in being your partner. ”

"Really?". "I'm a bit tight on money and I'm looking for investment from RJIR, and I know their boss well, so I think it's going to go very well." Of course, if you can't get investment, it's nothing, I can take it step by step. ”

Wang Zijun said: "I can invest a million dollars. ”

The average young person in the United States in this era earns only about $1 per hour, and if you think about a million, you can know how much it is, and in a few decades, it will be multiplied by at least five.

Ron is just a music producer for a small company, and when he was young, he was a second-rate singer, and in addition to fixed assets such as a car and a house, he could only take out hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"Oh, Wang, you are the most generous Chinese I have ever met." Ron shook his head and said, "But I'm fed up with other people's fingers, I want to make my own decisions." If you want to invest, you can invest 500,000 yuan, and I have to guarantee my right to speak. ”

Wang Zijun asked rhetorically: "Do you think that if you find a big record company to invest, they will give you the absolute right to speak?" ”。

En said embarrassedly, "I said that finding someone else to invest is just one of the ideas, and I can take my time." A few hundred thousand dollars is enough to sustain a year or two. ”

"Okay, I'll invest 500,000 yuan." Wang Zijun said.

Ron was stunned: "King, you believe me like that? ”

"I've been in the U.S. for so long, and you're the first white person to take the initiative to help me, and although there are utilitarian reasons, I think you're not bad." Wang Zijun said with a smile. In fact, when Ron was making the "Hotel California" record, Wang Zijun had already seen his professional ability, and the subsequent release and publicity also did well, why not invest in such a person as a company? What's more, with a company controlled by itself, it will be easier to release songs in the future. ,

"Oh, king, I love you, and you are such a good man." Ron was so moved that he wanted to hug Wang Zijun.

"Jingle Bell"

Ron's mood was interrupted by a phone call "> ringing, he picked up the phone" >, and his face changed after just two sentences. After hanging up the phone" >, Ron said with a grim face: "Wang, there is really bad news this time. ”

"Something wrong with the record?" Wang Zijun asked.

Ron nodded and said, "The TV station has changed its mind, and they refuse to let you be on TV." ”

Wang Zijun asked: "Because of the skin color?" ”

"They said the show was full." Ron smiled wryly, "It must be the color of their skin, maybe one of their heads is racist." You have to know that since Martin. Luther. After King's death, blacks and yellows have enjoyed more and more rights in the United States in recent years, which has made some people very unhappy. Until now, many high-end restaurants still do not allow blacks to enter. ”

"No, it won't." Wang Zijun asked, "Isn't there already a black TV presenter now?" Michael. The Jackson brothers are also black, aren't they also very popular? Why embarrass me, a Chinese. ”

"Black music has been hyped up like crazy for more than a decade, and it's hugely profitable," Ron said. In the face of money, skin color is no longer a problem. But the Chinese are different, the current Chinese do not have any influence in the political and entertainment worlds, of course, there may be a Bruce. Lee, but that's all. If you can be a big success and bring ratings to the TV station, I think the racist will greet you personally. ”

"Okay." Wang Zijun finally knew why Los Angeles TV went to USC to shoot his singing scene but didn't broadcast it, he sighed and asked, "What are you going to do now?" ”

Ron's face was grim, but he said in an affirmative tone: "Leave it to me, just change to another TV station." ”

Wang Zijun smiled: "Maybe it's better to maintain a sense of mystery." Even on the packaging of our records, we don't need to print my photo, just find someone with a guitar on their backs and take a backlit backlight. Mountains and silhouettes of hotels in the distance, desert and highways in the distance......"

"Good idea," Ron clapped.

……………………………………

It's been three days since "Hotel California" first aired on radio. From one radio station to five now, "Hotel California" quickly spread among a small group of rock lovers.

Some people started calling the radio station "> asking where they could buy records. Of course, it's more of the owner of the video store who contacts Ron directly, as people come to the store from time to time these days to ask if Hotel California is for sale.

Ron sat at his Free_Will label, already laughing so hard that his facial nerves stiffened, and all the market reaction was expected by him. With years of experience in record production, he has a deep understanding of the needs of the current American rock market.

Although, "Hotel California" is now only making a name for itself in Los Angeles.

Two days later, the entire Los Angeles video store was filled with "Hotel California" records, and the distribution company of the record became Free_Will company, and the producer was Zachary. Wang, Ron. Smith.

Overnight, the citizens of Los Angeles found themselves walking down the street, at least half of the ten video stores were playing the same song -- "Hotel California."

"Jack, come here, Hotel California is sold here." A hippie youth in a jacket shouted into the distance.

"Really?". A young man dressed in the same costume as him came running up, and the two of them went into the video store together, listened to the singing on the record player, and scolded, "Oh, *son, I've been looking for you for days." ”

The owner of the video store was obviously also a rock fan, and said to the two: "Dude, let's have two, this song is amazing, I listened to it all night last night after I got it." ”

"Of course, how much?" The youth asked.

"$2 a piece." The boss said.

"Fakes, this is a single record, not an album, how can it be so expensive?" The young man grabbed the boss by the collar and scolded, "How much is it, don't think about deceiving the uncle"

The boss said: "It's really so much, if you don't want to buy it, then I have to say I'm sorry." ”

"Black-hearted businessman, I curse you to hell" The young man gave the boss a middle finger, smashed the money into the boss's arms, took two and left.

………………………………

Night, Los Cody Records Nightclub.

Record nightclub, that's a strange name, and if you say what it does, I think many people will understand what it is.

Record nightclubs are a new thing that has only emerged in the United States in the past two years, and it plays neither jazz nor rock music, but only a kind of "bang-bang-bang" single-rhythm pop record, which is called disco. Men and women dance wildly to the beat of the music on the dance floor, and their movements are free-spirited. ,

Well, record nightclubs are basically discotheques (discos should have been born in 1974, but they didn't catch on until around 1977).

"Bang-bang-bang-"

The lights in the nightclub are swirling, and men and women are swinging their waists like crazy.

At this moment, the music suddenly stopped, and the young men and women who were dancing vigorously did not know what was going on, looked at each other, and stopped moving.

"Guys, I found something good today, you might want to hear about it. Well, it's music time. The DJ sound hit the dance floor, followed by a flurry of guitar sounds.

"Floss, you bastard, I don't want to listen to rock, we're going to disco, we're going to dance," the people on the dance floor yelled, and if it weren't for the DJs sitting in the backstage music room, the angry crowd would have rushed over and killed him.

Soon, however, the noise fell silent, and only the voice of a man echoed in the air.

"Oh hell, it's 'Hotel California, I heard it on the radio, can I buy it on record?".

"Bastard, don't be quiet, be quiet"

"Hey man, which band is this song from?"

"How would I have known, the first time I heard it."

"He's Chinese, and I've seen him at USC."

“……”

After the seven-minute song was played, many people clamored to play it again.

DJ Floss, smoking a cigarette in the playback room, legs cocked high, turned the record back.

The music came again, and no one on the dance floor wanted to dance anymore, and everyone stood and listened to the song.

……………………………………

Outside of Los Angeles, in a single-family house.

In the dim light, three white men in their thirties, gathered around the coffee table, smoking drugs with glass tubes. Behind them are guitars, drums, saxophones......

In the distance, there are photos of several bands in concert, and in the cabinet under the wall are several glittering trophies.

After a long time, the three people lying on the sofa gradually woke up from the excitement of drug addiction, and lay on the sofa lazily and weakly.

A man walked in the door, put the record in his hand, and said, "Perhaps, you should listen to it." ”

The singing of "Hotel California" echoed over and over again in the villa, and the three people with numb expressions on the sofa finally couldn't sit still, and when they put it into the fifth time, they heard "Please_bring_me_my_wineHe_said, We_havent_hadrit_here."

_since_nieeny_nine ("Please bring me some wine.") And when he said, "We have not provided anything since 1969"), they hid their faces and wept one by one.

American rock 'n' roll was a smash hit in the '60s, and it was also a golden age of rock 'n' roll freedom, a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the hearts of young people, who used rock to accuse the world and express their opinions.

Then, the pomp and circumstance of rock and roll attracted countless greedy businessmen, and in the seventies, rock and roll no longer symbolized freedom and rebellion, but represented money and enjoyment, and drug addiction and music became the final destination of all rock bands at this time.

The people in the villa are a popular rock band from the sixties, and they can naturally hear the deeper meaning of "Hotel California".

"I told the foreman, please bring me some wine.

And he said, since 1969 we have not had any supply."

These two lyrics ostensibly mean that Hotel California has stopped serving alcohol since 1969. But to those who love rock and roll, it is since the peak of the Woodsstock Rock Festival in 1969 that the free spirit of rock and roll has never been there, and rock has become a slave to money.

The lyrics in the back show that drug addicts know the dangers of drug use and want to escape, but they can't stop; At the same time, it indicates that rock singers want to escape the control of money and record companies and return to the arms of freedom, but they are unable to do anything.

The four singers of the old band sat quietly on the couch and listened to "Hotel California" repeatedly, and when the light outside the window brightened, someone said, "Perhaps, we should go and meet this singing friend." ”.

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