The plane flew for more than a dozen hours before slowly landing at JFK International Airport in Niuyo.

The band and the group went in first class this time. Zhou Huajian, as an assistant, also followed the itinerary.

The flight attendants in the first class are beautiful and attentive, and they also enjoy many special services that are not available in economy class.

Everyone finally has the feeling that they are really developed.

Li Lecheng even found out that a young rich man in the same cabin with them was Liu Liu, an upstart in the stock market...... Ah! Speaking of Da Liu...... Yes!

Da Liu now has assets of 500 million 1 billion, why not take a private jet?

Da Liu didn't bother to look at their group of people, obviously they were so dazzling, it seemed that they were not very happy to be surrounded by their group of demons and monsters the whole time, and they slept when they could, and even ignored the beautiful flight attendants.

Li Lecheng thought it was really interesting.

By the way, he completely completed the script of "The True Color of Heroes" on it, and wrote all the songs of the band's debut album by the way.

……

"Welcome! See you again! ”

Robert, the head of distribution at the East Coast branch of the agency Atlantic Records, came to pick them up in person, and he was the one who had come to Hong Kong Island to talk to everyone about business.

He was very experienced, brought two cars, and according to Lao Mei's understanding of pomp and circumstance, he specially arranged a lengthened Rolls-Royce to receive people, and another van to carry luggage and musical instruments.

Everyone has ever sat in this kind of car, Li Lecheng has never sat in it a few times in his previous life, except for him, everyone else feels very fresh, but they are embarrassed to touch it.

Robert took out the champagne from the car and shared it with them: "Congratulations! I've heard that you've been champions for 3 weeks in most of the countries in Europe! This week is about to be week 4! ”

He didn't expect that in an instant, this band was really about to become an international first-line band: "Boys, you guys are also selling well in North America, and the MV has received a good response after it airs, I was worried that people wouldn't buy a bunch of Asian faces, but fortunately, the MV was shot cool enough, and it didn't appear in the exclusion scene as I imagined, and you have risen to No. 10 on the billboard weekly singles chart this week, and if the show airs, you may be able to go up a few more." ”

Everyone was very happy, but when I heard him say that he was only 8th, I immediately felt a little disappointed. And Robert said that he didn't exclude, in fact, there are still some.

They have all reached the top of the weekly singles chart in Buenos Aires, you must know that the Brazzaville rolling circle is more volatile than North America, and they haven't gone to Europe yet, however, what everyone didn't expect is that North America actually sold to No. 8!

Robert doesn't think that their Atlantic Records release energy is not comparable to Momoyo, and immediately explains:

"Our band here, if they want to be a big hit, they have to go on a road tour! An active band spends eighty percent of the year sleeping on long-distance buses for touring, trekking through mountains and rivers, and singing in parking lots, live houses, and gymnasiums in North America! The same is true for big-name bands, whether it's a small show of a few hundred people or a big show of a few thousand...... Hundreds of events a year are commonplace. But considering you're not our band, that's a bit unrealistic...... It's a pity that the summer vacation is over, and you should have attended a few more rock festivals in North America! If you sing more, you can go on tour! This is very helpful to show your on-site strength and increase your popularity! ”

"It will definitely be in the future, but not now." Li Lecheng said, "At least after we release the album." ”

In fact, he doesn't want to learn from the European and American music scene to "perform in the countryside" at all, at first glance, he thinks European and American rock stars are cool?

No, no, it's very bitter.

The Asian region is densely populated, and China Entertainment singers basically rely on air to travel on tour, but Europe and the United States are sparsely populated, and they mainly rely on sleeper buses.

Once they release an album, they will prepare to do a tour, running down the United States, at least half a year, at most a year and a half, a national tour of at least fifty or sixty performances, hundreds of performances are common. Even the Beatles were no exception, they released 5 discs in 3 or 4 years from '63 to '66, during which they toured all the time except for recording, touring a full 250 shows, and after the tour, they returned to the recording engineer and never toured again.

When Robert heard that Li Lecheng did not refuse his tour proposal, his eyes immediately lit up, and he recommended a friend of him who was a tour manager: "Matthew used to be the tour manager of the Kiss band, and in terms of business operations, I'm afraid there are few bands that have more brains than the Kiss team, maybe you will be able to use him soon." ”

Li Lecheng took the business card and nodded, but he really had no plans to do a tour locally.

European and American bands often have to bring a team of as little as a dozen or as many as hundreds of people, including their band managers, tour managers, life managers, sound engineers, stage installers, costume artists, makeup artists, assistants, publicity, ticketing, accounting, photographers, cooks, cleaners, drivers, etc., as well as warm-up bands, these are usually small bands with good relationships, new bands, and then bring all the equipment and equipment, and drive a team to walk through the United States.

The car is usually a bus or long-distance bus modification, the first half of the bus is a normal bus seat, the second half is the sleeper, the intermediate one walkway passes, the left and right sides of each slip three layers of upper, middle and lower sleepers, whether you are a cleaner or the band boss, everyone has the same conditions, in a carriage, the upper bunk of the band members may be a handyman, regardless of men and women, wash and go to the toilet, and dozens of people in the same car share the bus toilet that is only enough for one person to stand. Unless they have to put on a lot of big shows in big cities, they rarely sleep in hotels, and they all have to sleep in sleepers smaller than coffins, which are bigger than these in cage houses on Hong Kong Island, and they don't bump.

Behind the band's convoy, it is usually directly followed by the convoy of casual media and fanatical fans, mighty, they will stop at the end of the band, every place they pass, there are cars to join, and cars to leave, the band and fans form a large travel group (group), so the reason why the bones and skins are called bones and skins (groupie) is also related to this, they are those who follow the band's tour of the fans who want to sleep in the band female fans, and the so-called love affair with the flesh and bones, In fact, most of the time it happens when the band arrives at the performance venue and the members have a chance to go down to the ground, take a break, and prepare for the stage. It wasn't until the 21st century that the mindset changed, bands started sleeping in RVs with their families and nannies, and there were fewer cases of tailgating convoys, while superstars only drove 10,000 people and toured by plane.

The paparazzi and other entertainment media in North America are not inferior to Hong Kong Island, and on the first day of arriving at the hotel, many fans and paparazzi began to gather under the hotel.

"Don't be afraid, we deliberately let out the news, and there are usually many celebrities staying here, and these people are squatting."

Robert dropped them off at the hotel and settled in, staying in a suite, supposedly for as much as $800 a night.

Everyone converted it, and it was almost 6,300 yuan, which was worth two months' income when everyone was still a poor musician!

But actually, this is not the most expensive.

"It's good that we didn't pay for it!"

The hotel is high-end, expensive and expensive, at least there will be no flesh and bones to knock on the door at night.

Everyone was in a trance, but they didn't even dare to go out of the hotel, and then they realized what they had become overseas popular.

According to the itinerary, I went to the NBC studio to record the next day.

Founded in 1926, NBC is one of the three major commercial radio and television networks in the United States, and is the oldest and most powerful commercial radio and television company in the United States. Headquartered in the central part of the Rockefeller Center complex in Manhattan, RCA is the Youss Radio Company, RCA was acquired by General Electric in 88, and the building was renamed the GE Building, and later this landmark building was acquired by the Comcast Group and changed to the Comcast Building.

NBC's headquarters have been located here since 1933. From the second floor to the dozen floors are the territory of NBC, which is best known for its 8H studio, which produced "Saturday Night Live," which was once the largest broadcast studio in the world.

"Saturday Night Live" is referred to as SNL, which starts broadcasting for 90 minutes every Saturday night at 11 o'clock EST, it is a talk show comedy show, with many sketch skits, thus giving birth to many popular comedy movie stars, here is the best springboard for screenwriters and comedians to the big screen, and also has the best live singing stage in North America, because its ratings are so buggy!

When they went to video, Atlantic Records took them away in a big nanny car, which was not so exaggerated.

The car drove to Rockefeller Center, and as soon as everyone arrived at the bottom of the RCA building, a staff member immediately came to take them to the 8H studio.

They were greeted warmly by the show's executive producer, Lorne Michaels, a white man in his 40s:

"Wow, what a great band. I like you guys very much...... Last season's last installment...... To be exact, your last music guest was Grek Kang, who also played rock, ok, of course I know you know him,...... Originally, we were scheduled to start with the Rolling Stones in September. ”

Everyone's body shook dramatically: "!! ”

"But—I didn't get it."

Michaels suddenly approached everyone nervously and whispered quickly: "I was also replaced as the producer of this show this season, my predecessor was ousted due to the decline in ratings, and he made a mess of the upper level!" A lot of people are gone, I just have a bunch of bad writers and new actors, and I was going to ask NBC for a two-month delay to start a new season, my first season, but I bought that miracle single from yours a month ago...... It made me realize that the first time doesn't have to be a miracle! So, I decided to start the broadcast as scheduled, and let you be the opening music guests of this season! ”

"Our pleasure!" Everyone was very surprised and excited!!

It turns out that it's not Atlantic Records that is powerful, it's that they are powerful enough!

Michaels laughed and said, "I invited Madonna to be the host of your episode!" Although she and you didn't intersect when recording the show, we recorded it separately, but...... The ratings for this episode should not be low, come on! ”

O Madonna!

But everyone was still stimulated by his words, and they were instantly excited!

With that, he led everyone to the side of the stage and left, and the staff who followed them handed over the people to the live music director, debugged and debugged the equipment, rehearsed, and then went back to the dressing room to change clothes and wait for the scene.

On the way back to the dressing room, Li Lecheng saw that a group of actors in the sketch skit unit of the show had just returned to another dressing room after work. Li Lecheng noticed sharply that there was Robert Downey who was still young and not well-known, short and short, with two black and red eye circles, still a little minion...... In his later life, he was once the highest-paid actor in the world (excluding shares).

Li Lecheng realized that this guy is not as good as himself now!