Chapter 57: The Age of Vinyl
"Old Xia?"
"Xia Shaosheng?!"
"Wu Zhikun, you negative man, die for me!!"
Lao Xia's original name was shouted!
At noon, Ah Don took Li Lecheng to pat Lao Xia's door panel: "You open the door!" Don't hide inside and keep quiet, I know you're at home!! ”
"Negative men are not so useful, you should watch less soap operas!" Li Lecheng couldn't listen to it, and immediately stopped him, this person grew up on Hong Kong Island since he was a child, how can he not learn Chinese well?!
Ah Don was very angry: "He is secretly married to Warner Pearl, can you still bear it?!" ”
"I'm sure he must have had his reasons." Li Lecheng was devastated and mourned: "Compared to him going to Warner, I feel more uncomfortable that he is 32 years old, and he also plays rock and roll, Warner actually wanted him, and he refused to ask me before." I'm so beautiful, isn't it really ugly for me to sing...... I thought I was pretty good among ordinary people. ”
Ah Don said a particularly good sentence at the end: "You sing as well as Bob Dylan, but it's a little bit unremarkable." ”
"......" Li Lecheng was angry, "Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated!" ”
Ah Don went to Warner yesterday to record an accompaniment tape for a singer to earn pocket money, and found that Lao Xia appeared in the record department over there, as if he was signing some documents inside.
Ah Don crossed his waist: "He must be signing a singer contract, he wants solo!" He's a traitor! This man hugging left and right!"
"I'm not a traitor!"
said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, only to see Xia Shaosheng climb upstairs, and the three of them collided.
"Wow! A filthy breath and a strawberry around his neck! You've stolen it again! I'll just say it's a negative man! "Ah Don exclaimed!
Li Lecheng also began to accuse Lao Xia: "Are you worthy of your fiancée of a rich woman in the island country?!" ”
"It's not like you see this." Lao Xia Dead Pig was not afraid of boiling water, so he slowly took out the key to open the door and let the two of them go in and sit down.
"As for me, after thinking about it, I'd better be solo, and I don't want to form a fixed band anymore. I mainly play blues rock and pop, Alok likes heavy metal, occasionally a little soft rock, and has a tendency to play more and more miscellaneous lately......"
"But our two styles are really different. The previous band was based on my preferences, and now the band is the band of Alok. Instead of everyone fighting in the future, why don't you have a good time, although the final countdown is heavy metal, but I like it very much, so I want to participate too, sing this song, I have no regrets, and then everyone will be fine. If necessary, you can also find me to make a cameo appearance. ”
"I did sign a solo album with Warner, and for the next four years, I will release an album on Hong Kong Island every year. I posted my first one at Warner in December of this year, and I can fully cooperate with Lok for anything until December! ”
"If you've played it, you're not going to be responsible, are you?" Ah Tang grabbed Lao Xia and asked sadly, "Do you want to leave your mother and son?!" ”
Lao Xia and Li Lecheng raised their heads to hide their faces, and Ah Don was really spicy when he spoke!!
Li Lecheng is not congested about this, Lao Xia was in the first band with him, in fact, he also posted as a solo singer, and sang vocal to the legendary blues rock band Blues Creation in the island country, he has always been a butterfly.
Since we only have a few months to get along regularly, we should cherish it.
Li Lecheng gathered all the band members together again and discussed how they should arrange them next.
"I have found agent distributors in Europe, North America and island countries, and I will first send these big markets to see, and then entrust Huaxing locally, and if they sell well, I will try to distribute small markets in the future." The final countdown will be released as a single disc, and for commercial reasons, we will also be playing the backing tape on the B side. ”
Ah Hua hesitated: "Just an accompaniment tape?" Don't you need to record another song and put it on the B-side? ”
Single discs, generally the A side is the single song, and the B side will also have one or two songs attached, often playing old songs that have been released before but are not particularly popular, and some really don't know what to put on, and they will also put on the accompaniment or something.
When it comes to releasing singles, it's not that there is really only one song on the rap disc, so who will buy it! Of course, there has to be a lot of money!
Ah Bao also felt that another song should be played, so everyone voted, and they all felt that they should put another song, after all, English songs, or send overseas money to make ghost money, just with a song to fight the world is very bottomless!
In the final vote, except for Li Lecheng, everyone felt that they should add a song.
Li Lecheng groaned: "Then don't send a 3-inch mini disc, you have to send a 7-inch mini disc!" ”
Lao Xia couldn't listen to it: "3-inch mini dish?!" That's a thing? I'm embarrassed to take it out! ”
The mainstream of this era is still vinyl turntables, and there are two common sizes: 7-inch and 12-inch.
The 7-inch side holds 10 minutes of music.
The 12-inch room holds 30 minutes of music on each side.
The bigger the sheet, the more it can be stuffed!
This is also why, everyone calls the "album" a "big album", if there are many songs, the disc is big!
In addition, there are 3-inch mini singles, special edition gobo discs, and color discs. A 3-inch mini single disc is really only enough to stuff one song, with a single on one side and an accompaniment tape on the other.
Everyone thinks it's better to add an add, for example, add a Cantonese song or something, after all, they are a Hong Kong Island band.
Besides, the price of a 7-inch single disc is high!
The price of a 7-inch single disc is more than a dozen yuan on Hong Kong Island, 7800 island dollars for island countries, 1.99 to 2.5 US dollars in North America, and the exchange rate between Europe and North America is about the same price.
There are also 12-inch singles, and the song version and the addition are more, and the people in the rivers and lakes call it "big single"! For example, this year's Tam Yonglin's "Love Trap" 12-inch single disc includes the official extended remix version of this song, which became a hit in Hong Kong as soon as it was released!
The same is true for singles, as for albums, 12-inch vinyl album albums, 29 pieces on Hong Kong Island, and often 9.99 or 8.99 dollars a piece internationally.
At this time, everyone is fighting for sales, and IFPI often only announces vinyl sales in various markets, which shall prevail.
It's not that I look down on the cassette. The cassette version of the album, a box of cassette is only 10 yuan, and only one disc is sold out after selling three boxes, and the expensive discs are sold out, so it is needless to say that the cassette is naturally necessary. Hong Kong Island will be able to sell 6 million cassettes in a year, and the international sales of cassettes will be even greater, which is why most music charts only count vinyl, and mature and developed markets will only count laser discs and cassettes when they have spare capacity.
Li Lecheng decided that this 7-inch single disc will have 16 pieces on Hong Kong Island, 800 pieces on island countries, and 2.5 dollars for European and American countries.
As for the Cantonese song of the head.
He glanced at Lao Xia faintly: "In order to commemorate the first lead singer who only had a spring breeze with us, I decided to put a song that suits him according to his preference." ”
It took him an hour to get the score of "Kong Deng" out. Hum! Get you to Warner! It's not good to let you go to any house, go to Warner who turned him away and cut off his singer road!
He earned the money first! Don't earn for Warner! Lao Xia's solo masterpiece!
In my impression, this song is also one of the top ten golden songs in the fourth quarter of this year, and it is a very good song, but it is not particularly popular.
Lao Xia is like a treasure: "This is the music I like!" Ah Lok, we ......" Lao Xia looked at him wistfully, his eyes full of pursuit.
Obviously, he plans to sandwich the band with Li Lecheng in addition to Li Lecheng's band.
Li Lecheng sighed: "Good horses don't eat back grass, how can they be capricious." ”
Lao Xia was annoyed and angry: "You have a kind of don't continue to be unclear with your ex-girlfriend!" ”
Ah Bao listened for a long time and asked, "By the way, what is the name of the band?" ”
Ah Don began to show off his language skills again: "It's called the Li Lecheng Band." But you even ran away when your band was first formed, and two members still asked Tai Chi to borrow it, and I can only be sure that Ah Lok won't run, and the top band with guitarist Van Halen as the core is the Van Halen band, and the flowing market is the Van Ha......len band."
Ah Hua's face darkened: "I'm a righteous ......"
Ah Leopard's fist hardened: "My character is also very good......
Li Lecheng's face twitched, if you really call this, will you be laughed to death!! How are they still messing around in circles! If you are not a member of your own band, your heart will be different!
"Oh, Lok, I think what he said was a good idea." The dog-headed military advisor Fat Bo suddenly said: "A Lok Band." Be sure to add bands. ”
Li Lecheng was dizzy for a while, grabbed Fat Bo's shoulders, gritted his teeth and tentatively asked: "Have you ever watched a mainland head show?" ”
Fat Bo is really knowledgeable: "Mainland? Stand-up comedy in the mainland? ”
Li Lecheng was angry:
A Lok Band?
A Rock Band?!
——Homophonic stalk deduction of money!!