Chapter 18: Hard Rock Coffee

The full name of "Hard Rock" is "HardRockcafe" Don't get me wrong, this coffee is not a café, but it is an American restaurant and café during the day, and at night, it is an American rock bar, and it is the original kind, just like McDonald's, a global chain, Hard Rock in various countries are a model, a kind of decoration, by several pure foreign bands, touring performances.

Hong Tao has been to this place in the later life, the night here is crazy, when the band brings out the atmosphere, the waiters around you will shout and curse together, at that time to Hong Tao felt like watching a football game in the Workers' Stadium, the blood was boiling.

And Hong Tao likes the decoration style here very much, which is very distinctive. At the hard stone entrance, you'll see an old Cadillac convertible sedan rigged into the door, a sign that can be seen by all vehicles passing by on the East Third Ring Road.

The most distinctive thing is not its façade, but after entering the door, you will come to the world of rock and roll, and the roof is a dome painting similar to that of a Western cathedral, but the painting is not a god, but an American rock character such as Elvis Presley, and with the stained broken glass windows below, a very Westernized style.

If you like music, especially American rock music, you're in for a rock'n'roll museum, with precious photos, guitars used by celebrities, old records that have sold more than 10 million on the walls, on the bar's wine cabinets, and in the corridors.

When night falls, the quiet American restaurant becomes an American disco, where bands from all over the world will present their signature songs to you, you can sit on the bar stool and drink and chat, or dance in the bar, and you don't want to leave until midnight.

The reason why I brought Sister Irene here is mainly because Hong Tao doesn't know much about the nightlife of this era, and at his age, it was when the Beijing song hall was more popular, and then there were game halls and discotheques. The song hall is definitely not suitable for the Erin sisters, not to mention whether they like to sing or not, the song hall at that time was to find a young lady to accompany the singing, not mainly singing, but accompaniment! There is no singing hall like the one now.

The game hall belongs to the place of gambling money, Hong Tao himself doesn't like it very much, he estimates that Erin and the two are enough to like it, and there is nothing to play there, just gambling with the machine; As for the discotheque, it is very suitable for their sisters, but Hong Tao can not guarantee their safety, everywhere they are half-sized boys, drunk and confused, Beijing hooligans have a saying: not afraid of big hooligans, afraid of middle school students. Because once these little guys are hot-blooded, no matter what they copy, they will give it to you, they really don't care if you live or die, and they don't want to go back, and when they wake up, they are afraid of the same as their grandsons, but they still care about it at that time.

So Hong Tao thought about it for a long time, and finally remembered that there was such an American rock bar on the opposite side of heaven and earth, which was just right for these two American girls, even if they remembered their motherland in a foreign country. The most important thing is that it is very safe here, their security is the kind of strong man with a big waist and a round waist, the kind that is particularly fierce with horizontal eyebrows, dare to make trouble in the bar, and throw it out of the gang directly on the ground, it is really thrown out of the gang, Hong Tao has seen it with his own eyes in the later life, 2 drunk foreign Xiaohuo were thrown out of the steps directly, and they didn't get up for a long time.

There was nothing to say all the way, and the three of them soon came to the middle of the Liangmahe Hotel and the Great Wall Hotel, because the hard stone door was not allowed to park, so Hong Tao had to take the Erin sisters to walk a few steps, through the parking lot of dozens of meters to the west gate of the hard stone to queue up. Line up? Yes, it's the queue, which is very similar to the American bar in the movies, where they decide how many people to put in based on the capacity of the bar. If the number of people inside exceeds the specified number, the security guard at the door will put the safety rope horizontally, and those who want to go in will have to line up.

The majority of the people who come here to play are foreigners, and the rest are Beijing's avant-garde and wealthy young people, and the tips here are not expensive, almost 50 per capita, plus a 15% tip, of course, this is the lowest, if you want to play well, you have to have more than 100 per capita.

There are more than 20 people lined up in front of Hong Tao's 3 people, all of them are foreigners, the older ones are more than 50, and the younger ones are estimated to be adults, and there are 2 black girls in front of Hong Tao, with a dun cloth roll at one end, which looks the same as the fake one. As soon as the two sisters arrived, they immediately attracted the greetings of several white boys, and then the line became four columns, and the two girls talked and laughed and chatted with the foreign boys, this is what it feels like to meet old acquaintances in a foreign country.

Hong Tao consciously didn't mix with them, first, we really can't speak English, and we can't understand what people are saying; The second is that people are talking about their hometown, and they have to stand next to me like a fool and be too cheap, so let's continue to line up and continue to look at the little black girl in front.

The team moved forward in waves, and soon arrived at Hong Tao, pulling out the Erin sisters from a bunch of people, in the hostile gaze of N Dao, Hong Tao deliberately patted the sisters' buttocks with his hands, and escorted the two of them into the main entrance of the hard stone, and a scolding and whistling sound fell behind, and even the Chinese security guard at the door smiled and stretched out his thumbs to Hong Tao, and then made a straight face, and stopped the team behind that was going to follow in.

Before opening the door of the bar, the strong rock music inside came to the face, and the bodies of the two little black girls and Erin immediately writhed as if they had been electrified, patting their conscience and saying, although the two little black girls looked very weird, but their sense of musicality and rhythm was really first-class, the same writhing, the movements of the two sisters of Erin were not as pleasing to the eye as they looked, although Hong Tao did not know any music.

"Oops, this is a guitar signed by Richiesambora, you see, there's Jennifer over here. Barton's guitar, this is a B.B.KING's ......" As soon as she entered the door, Erin took Hong Tao's hand and pointed to the guitar hanging on the wall in surprise for him to see, but Hong Tao's answer disappointed the sisters.

"Who are they? B.B.KING I know, the old black man who sings blues, what are the left? ”

"Which one is the state. Jovi's guitarist, this Barton is Jackson's guitarist. You know Jackson, right? Katie's explanation was very good, and then she asked a special question, as if people should know Jackson, but Hong Tao really knows Jackson.

"Well, Zhilu said, he is not...... He is also very famous in China, and I know a so-so, average understanding of music. Hong Tao originally wanted to say that he wasn't dead, but immediately remembered that this was a matter of two eras, and quickly changed his words.

"You're not as good as Sam." Katie was helpless, they cheered, and Hong Tao stood in a daze, which affected her mood very much.

"Don't mess with me, if you mess with me, we'll go home at 12 o'clock, Sam told me, let me grasp your time." Talking about American singers with Americans, don't talk about it, this is bullying, and you dare to despise me, Hong Tao immediately offered a killer feature.

“OK…… OK…… We're served! Erin has learned a lot of Hongtao's tone in the past few days, and she was defeated in frustration.

"There's a vacancy over there, hurry." Hong Tao didn't look at anything else after he came in, so he stepped around for empty seats, and the small round tables were full, only two bar stools were vacant in the corner of the long bar.

"What do you drink? Beer? Hong Tao asked the sisters to sit first, and he stood next to him and asked.

"Hong Tao, can we drink some spirits, we finally came out." Erin clasped her hands together and pleaded like a flood.

"Whiskey? Jack Daniel's? I can't afford to buy it. "It's fun to come out to play, the little girl wants to drink spirits, Hong Tao is not against it, but it's too expensive.

"Hmm...... Well...... Hmm......" The two nodded their heads like kowtow worms, and at this time, two mop heads also stretched out from their right, looking at Hong Tao and Sister Erin curiously.

"Hello......" Seeing the two little black girls looking at themselves, Hong Tao bared his teeth and scared people back, but they had already chatted with Katie, who was sitting closest to the right, and muttering was definitely not good.