153【Rock Album】
The summer in July is hot. After the Little Heat, the weather in Beijing becomes more and more stuffy. It is like an oven. The steamer is sweating profusely. Even if you stay at home, the electric fan will blow out the hot wind that is unbearable.
Early in the morning, Li Yange was still washing by the pool, and Xue Ke came to the door and said that he had found the place to Kaiqing Bar, which was located in Sanlitun, not far from the Workers' Stadium and adjacent to the largest embassy area in Beijing.
"Why did you think of coming here?" Li Yange looked at Xue Ke with some confusion.
In front of me is a two-story house with an exterior wall made of red bricks. Although it is not dilapidated, it looks a bit old.
"Isn't this introduced by Cui Jian?"
Xue Ke smiled and said, "Cui Jian's team member, a guitarist from Madagascar called Eddie. I mentioned to him that we were going to open a cleaning bar. He recommended this place and said that people from foreign embassies often came out to visit this street. It would be great if they opened a business here."
"I came to see the two people from AiKong before, and I felt quite satisfied. What do you think?"
Li Yange looked around and saw that this was the Sanlitun Bar Street, which was famous in Beijing in the future. However, there is no bar on this street now, and only a few clothing stores and small food stores are opened scattered.
If he remembered correctly, the first bar in Sanlitun should have opened in Nansanlitun in 1989. The business was so hot at that time. Almost half of the young people in Beijing went there to play, and there were endless customers. Every day, there were long queues at the door of the bar.
Seeing some blonde and blue-eyed foreigners on the road, Xue Ke couldn't wait to say, "Yan Ge, did you see it? Foreigners have gone shopping so early. Let's start a cleaning here, and the business is absolutely good!"
"The place is OK, but have you asked for the rent?" Li Yange noticed that the entrance of the second-story residential building in front of him was quite good. On the right is the direction of the embassy area. If there are foreign employees coming out to play, this is their must-pass path.
"I asked, I'll buy 300 yuan a month, so I won't bargain!"
“The price is not expensive.”
"This is not expensive? It's three hundred a month, not thirty!"
When talking about rent, Xue Ke felt a pain, 300 yuan a month, which is almost equivalent to the two months of salary of an ordinary state-owned enterprise employee.
"You don't think about the city entrance. There is the embassy area in front of you. I guess those foreigners are fine on weekdays. If you go out for a walk, you can only buy clothes and eat something around. If you open a cleaning here, those foreigners will definitely come here often."
After hearing what Li Yange said so well, Xue Ke hesitated for a few seconds and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, then here is it! I'll find Yuanchao to go to the landlord to ask if it can be cheaper."
"Well, if it's not cheap, I'll extend the lease and sign it for three or five years." Seeing him making the decision, Li Yange stretched and looked at the scorching sun gradually rising in the sky. "Okay, I have to go back, and there is still something on hand that hasn't been done."
Now most of the soundtracks of the Three Kingdoms have been completed, but a small part has not been completed. This requires discussion with him after director Katsumada Shizuo comes.
"Hey, don't leave in a hurry." Xue Ke stopped Li Yange.
"What's wrong?"
"Well...that's something I want to ask you."
"What's up?"
"Last time I heard you said that the record company you distributed in Japan opened an office in Beijing?"
When Li Yange heard Xue Ke's words, he looked up and down, as if he had seen through his thoughts, and said with a smile on his lips: "You don't want to ask me if you can sign you up?"
"Hehe..." Xue Ke smiled and touched the back of his head. He wanted to mention this a few months ago, but there was no good opportunity. Moreover, Dou Dawei had just joined the band for less than two months, and the band was not well connected.
It’s different now. The five people have been working together for more than half a year and have become very tacit in their cooperation.
Li Yange thought for a while and said, "I'll ask you when the time comes. I don't know if it can be done."
Although Polykin has set up an office in Beijing and has also set up a recording studio, Li Yange is not sure whether there is a distribution channel. On the one hand, he has never asked Fujiwara Yuki, and on the other hand, his album has not been released in China.
However, with Polygin's status as an Asian record company, even if there is no independent distribution channel for the time being, it should be able to cooperate with state-owned record companies.
"Haha, I'll say Yan Ge, you will definitely agree. OK, I won't delay your work. I'll go back first, and leave the work of the Qingbing to me and Ai Korea. You'll wait for the opening of the business and come to cut the ribbon!"
Xue Ke grinned, patted his butt, and left happily.
"This kid!"
Seeing Xue Ke running away happily, Li Yange laughed and scolded, and began to calmly remember the band's signing contract.
Although Li Yange rarely participates in the activities of Baojia Street Band, as Cui Jian introduced last time at Dongzhimen Teahouse, Li Yange is the soul of this band.
Not to mention Li Yange's identity as the founder of the band, just a few rock songs written for the band made the Baojiajie band stand out in the Beijing rock circle and be well-known.
He is not a soul figure, who is?
And if Baojiajie Band now signs Polykin and releases a record album, it will definitely be considered the first rock record in China.
The first record in the mainland that includes rock music was the two rock songs by Cui Jian included in the commemorative album of "The Hundred Singers' Concert in the Year of Peace in World" in 1986, namely "Not I Don't Understand".
However, the first rock album in the true sense is "Rock on the New Long March" created by Cui Jian in 1989. This album contains nine rock songs in total, namely: "Nothing", "The Flower House Girl", "Fake Monk", and "Rock on the New Long March"...
Each song is a well-known song, so once it was released, it quickly became popular all over the country, and it also honored Cui Jian's title of the number one rock player, and it also opened the first year of Chinese rock music records.
In the past few years, there are so many rock albums that have emerged. For example, the Black Panther's "Black Panther 1", the Tang Dynasty's "Tang Dynasty", He Yong's "Garbage Site", and Zheng Jun's "**Naked"...
Chapter completed!