Chapter 33: The Ambition of the Giant Mastermind
AC/DC from Australia is an old-school, blues-based hard rock band, so their style of not pursuing flashiness, not impetuousness, and hard bridges and hard horses when playing music is especially suitable for restoring the rigid style of "Contra" BGM.
So "Contra" was naturally handed over to AC/DC by Caesar to perform.
When the classic menu screen BGM of "Contra" sounded in the darkness, the audience reacted for a few seconds, and then remembered what Kaiser had just said about the carnival, and the stadium of 100,000 people instantly erupted in terrifying noises.
In the nearly two years since Playbox was released, more than 50 million consoles have been sold worldwide, and the cartridges of "Contra" alone are more than 30 million.
As far as the 110,000 viewers at the scene are concerned, most of them are from North America, and a small number of hardcore players from all over the world.
And more than half of the players in the audience liked the AC/DC band.
This one-plus-one effect is not just a matter of greater than two, as soon as the guitar prelude of the distortion effect sounds, many viewers have already **.
My favorite band is playing the background music of their favorite game! I can't believe this kind of sourness, and it's definitely not comparable to the VGL that Caesar had seen in his previous life.
In Caesar's memory, the VGL in his previous life just pulled out a little-known conductor, plus a symphony orchestra that had always been average, and then put together a little-known guitarist town.
Let "Miss" (Zeta) come to the FC piano solo mat twice at most, and the mat is basically complete.
Caesar did a great job in this life, he invited the famous rock band and symphony orchestra, this huge fan base will definitely coincide with the player base, and this superimposed influence is definitely much stronger than a single player group listening to music nostalgia.
Besides, it's been less than two years since Playbox was released, so it's not nostalgic at all, but it's definitely enough time to make the classic background music deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Since Caesar was reborn, every step has been made with an obvious purpose, such as explaining Stephen Taylor......
first got the "child daughter-in-law" of Liv Taylor Jr., and secondly, it paved the way for entering the rock circle, releasing an album, then winning awards and finally increasing his authority and influence in the entertainment industry.
Finally, there is VGL, except for Stephen Taylor, no one in the rock circle has the popularity and influence to invite so many big-name bands at this time.
"Led Zeppelin", "Rolling Stone" and "The Beatles" may be fine, but unfortunately, the style of the first two is not liked by Caesar, and he has a mediocre view of the latter, and besides, Lennon has just been assassinated, and it is still in a period of silence, and it is not polite to ask someone to participate in the carnival.
The stage lights illuminated the AC/DC as it was playing, and an edited video of "Caesar's Contra One Kill" was showing on the screen.
Caesar's Contra metal arrangement is based on an online video he saw in his previous life, which shows an American band playing the background music of all Contra levels in an open space surrounded by a residential building.
The band's style is like a high-definition reset of some classic game, from the theme to the details of the music, it doesn't seem to change a single note at first glance, they just replace the simple MIDI sound in the game with real electroacoustic instruments.
Some people think that this is because the band's creative capacity is limited, and it is wrong, if a person is a dual identity of a player and a music fan, then he will only have a soft spot for this "reset" that is faithful to the original.
Caesar made a special inquiry in his previous life, and according to the feedback of people around him who are both music fans and players, among all the re-enactments of "Contra" BGM, the live version of this residential building vacant is the best.
AC/DC is playing this most classic original at the moment, so players and fans all stand up as soon as they hear the prelude, and follow the Contra in the picture and the AC/DC on stage.
Of course, the same score will inevitably have different styles in the hands of different players, which is caused by different moods, different understandings of the score, and different personal playing habits.
Obviously, the live performance of a master band like AC/DC is much stronger than the band in the video, so the whole "Contra" is played, and the rhythm and emotion are controlled, and the power and beauty are swayed......
Looking at the audience's feelings, Caesar can really only look up to the sky and sigh, a master is a master!
The musicians who are also following the concert in front of the TV can be said to have mixed tastes at this time.
Looking at the packed scene on the TV broadcast screen and the emotions of the audience, they are basically all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred.
In fact, not only the musicians in front of the TV, but also the AC/DC playing and the other bands warming up in the lounge below the stage, no one would have dreamed that a concert about game BGM would be so overwhelming.
First of all, in 1983, there was no concert in the world with more than 100,000 spectators. And VGL, a crossover product that is very different from the mainstream music industry and the rock circle, has been so popular that it has to make people think deeply.
What Kaisar had in mind was the two world-shaking concerts in his previous life, one was the so-called "Moscow Red Square Concert" led by "AC/DC", "Metallica", "Black Crow" and "Pandora" on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union in '91.
Actually, the concert was not held on Red Square, although in Moscow.
But the number of participants in the show was also frightening, with conservative estimates of no less than 700,000 spectators, and various accounts ranging from 1.2 million to 2 million.
The performance in the open square is completely free of charge, and the result of not selling tickets is that the audience cannot be counted at all.
Interestingly, four months after the end of the performance, the Soviet people took to the streets en masse, and they were not afraid of death when they were shot and suppressed, and finally disintegrated.
So some people joke that it's because at the concert, these bands sang too many songs about freedom, about resistance, about love, and people listened to them and aroused the courage in their hearts.
This rumor is summed up in one sentence, the Soviet Union was disintegrated by "AC/DC" they sing......
Of course, this is a joke, and the collapse of the Soviet Union may have had a little to do with rock music, but unfortunately it did not play a decisive role.
But since then, the suppression of rock music in various countries is also obvious to all.
The second performance that made Caesar, a "large-scale event planner", jealous and hateful, was the "live8" concert held on July 2, 2005.
Originating from the 1985 "LiveAid" Rock Stars, the concert spanned four continents, nine countries, and 12 time zones, including Tokyo, London, Cornwall, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Philadelphia, Barrie, Johannesburg, and Moscow.
Among these ten cities, the stars present are the most influential, the repertoire is the best, and the largest audience is the concert in London's Hyde Park.
It is said that about 500,000 spectators attended the concert to cheer for charity.
It can be said that because of this "live8" concert, July 2, 2005 was a big day that will forever be recorded in history.
However, in Caesar's mind, the concert was too influential, and one of his ambitions was to make a larger charity concert.
At least not even in the "Today in History" on Huaxia's search website, there is not a single word about "live8" on July 2, 2005.
Caesar guessed that perhaps in the eyes of the angry youth who managed the website, any large-scale performance that did not involve Chinese stars or was not held in China was not considered an international event, so it was not included at all?
Even if it wasn't for this poor self-esteem, for the sake of Chinese players and music fans, he was determined to hold a large-scale concert or concert in the largest open space in China except for Tianxmen Square.
With an audience of less than a million at the time, Caesar was embarrassed to say that he was planning a big event.
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