Chapter 296： Band drummer

"Get out!" After Fujin said this, he saw the people in his sight. It was Hugo and Joseph. After realizing that the other party was not malicious, Fujin did not apologize. He just retracted his gaze and looked towards The mess was all over the floor.

Hugo didn't know much about Fujin, and the real ‘acquaintance’ talk was very limited, so he looked at Joseph helplessly.

As Fugin’s roommate, Joseph naturally knew him better. Joseph knew that Fugin did not continue to drive them away. In fact, it was a way of showing weakness. Joseph stepped forward and pointed to the mess all over the floor. So, do you need help?"

Fujin did not look up, and just stood there quietly. The overturned drum kit was scattered randomly on the ground, and an acoustic guitar was buckled upside down on the ground. I don’t know if the strings were broken, and a keyboard frame was already covered. It broke, and the keyboard was gone long ago, and two guitar cases were dropped on the ground, one of which had a big'hole' broken. It stands to reason that there should be bass boxes and keyboard boxes, but they are all missing. It is estimated that they were kicked far away.

Hugo raised his head and looked around. Pedestrians in New York walked in a hurry again, looking at the musical instruments scattered all over the floor. Many people were forced to make a detour or jump over the musical instruments. This made Hugo's heart uncontrollable. Up and down. As a musician who was born in a band, and a member of the band who has been ashamed for ten years, Yuguo was unable to accept the fact that the instruments were thrown on the ground in embarrassment, not to mention whether they were damaged, if To say that a reckless pedestrian stepped on his foot is truly heartbreaking.

Hugo glanced at Fujin again and found that he was still motionless and ignored Joseph's plan. As a last resort, Hugo stepped forward, picked up all the musical instruments scattered around, and took them back. The big drum of the drum set is centered and stacked. Joseph also came to help when he saw it.

Hugo looked at the torn apart drum set. Fortunately, every part of the drum was not damaged in front of it, but it is not known whether there are internal injuries inside. Hugo knows how to assemble the drum set. In the past, the drummer Lixia, who helped the glory to die, did countless things. This work, but Hugo was not sure whether Fujin wanted to assemble the drum or put it in the box to leave, so he didn't do it.

Hugo picked up the guitar lying next to the bass drum and looked at it distressingly. Fortunately, there was no disconnection, and the sound hole of the piano box was not damaged. It seems that it was not affected much in the previous fight. . However, due to the fall to the ground, the sound quality must be affected, and the strings need to be re-tuned. Generally speaking, tuning requires a piano as the pitch to be measured, but Hugo is familiar enough with the guitar, and his talent for pitch is very ‘colorful’, so he can tune the strings without the help of a piano.

Hugo subconsciously held the guitar and started tuning, which has become a habit that Hugo has cultivated in his ten-year music career.

Hearing the sound of the guitar strings, Fujin seemed to finally relax. He looked at Hugo who was tuning the strings and Joseph, who was standing beside him, who was looking at the instrument with regret. He bit his'lip' and said, "I'm very sorry just now, and thank you." Just like Fujin's "sexuality", he speaks simply and neatly, never procrastinating.

Joseph raised his head and looked at Fujin, "It's okay." Then he pointed to the nosebleeds and stains on Fujin's white T-shirt, "Are you okay?"

Fujin shook his head neatly, saying that he had no problem, "I'm sorry to let you see a farce."

Hugo, who was tuning the strings, said, "Every band has its own contradictions." In fact, this is the same as the hard-to-read scriptures of every family. The band is a small group, and everyone has their own. It is inevitable that there will be conflicts between their personal "sex", their own thoughts, and their own revenge. Some bands successfully resolved the contradiction and continued to continue, such as Lincoln Park and u2; some bands failed to persist in the contradiction and eventually disbanded, such as the Beatles and the Oasis.

Fujin glanced at Hugo. As far as he knew, Hugo does not have a band now, but then he thought about it. With Hugo’s amazing talent and deep understanding of the band, Hugo should have been there a long time ago. Started to play the team, but now there is no band anymore. Fujin subconsciously believes that Hugo must have experienced all this.

Fujin sighed and sat directly on the broken guitar box, "Today the band originally planned to perform street performances in New York. We said we would perform all the way from Los Angeles to New York, and then stay here for a month. Performing all the way back to Los Angeles. Unexpectedly, the band members drank and messed up and messed up the performance. It was terrible.” After that, Fukun kicked the other intact guitar box violently.

Although Fujin’s explanation is simple, Hugo can infer a general idea from the situation just now. It is estimated that Fujin believes that their band needs to accumulate more performance experience, and proposed this performance plan from the West Bank to the East Bank, and from the East Bank all the way back to the West Bank.

In fact, this plan is worth advocating objectively, not only because the rich performance experience will bring the band's strength to the next level, but also the difference in music atmosphere between the east and west coasts, coupled with the performance experience of road trips, can increase the band. Vision. But the problem is that, first, this plan is time-consuming and costly; second, the journey itself is full of countless difficulties and challenges; finally, months of coexistence, which means that the band members 20 Staying together for four hours increases the possibility of conflicts.

Therefore, after Fujin made his suggestion, he was strongly opposed by the band, no matter what, he finally made the trip. And they succeeded in getting from the West Bank to the East Bank. But more than a month’s persistence has allowed the band’s conflicts to accumulate to a certain extent. Hugo doesn’t know if they have exploded during their previous trips. From the intensity of the outbreak today, it can be seen that the resentment has been accumulated for a long time. The guy named Brown delayed the show because of drinking, which completely detonated the anger of both parties.

Judging from the situation just now, although Brown and the other two are in the same group, the five band members still have their own conflicts with each other, as if the person who helped Fujin just now finally quarreled with Fujin. .

Hugo looked up at Fujin in surprise, his eyes full of surprise, "I think your band is not only small, but also capable..." Hugo's words are direct and hurtful, and the subtext is "you The band doesn't look very good now. "It seems that today, under the influence of Catherine and Fokkin, Hugo's speaking style has become a lot sharper.

Fujin didn't mind Hugo's words at all, "It's because of a bit of fame that makes me forget it." With a mocking look, he was obviously dissatisfied with the performance of the band partners.

Hugo thought about it carefully. Fokkin’s band should be a brand new day. He had been with Neil and Pedro for a long time, and he also had a certain understanding of the underground rock music circle in Los Angeles. Brand New Day can be regarded as a middle-level band in this circle. There are many performance opportunities, but the members of the band vary in level. Among them, Fujin, the drummer, is the most famous and the leader of the band. The drummer who is "behind the scenes" enjoys the leading position of the band, which is a bit top-heavy for the current rock environment where the lead singer or guitar dominates the ‘show’.

In fact, in Hugo's opinion, a band must have a soul figure, no matter what the position of this character, whether it is a lead singer or a drummer, he must give the band enough'essence', and then unite the band together. , This can make the band grow up.

In the past, the soul figure of glory to death was the lead singer Su Zinan. Hugo has always admired him, but with Hugo's creative talents gradually being brought into play, Hugo's influence on the entire band has been increasing. Fortunately, the glory is The dead friends gathered from the beginning, even replacing them because of sucking. poison. Zhang Xiaoye's second guitarist, Gu Xiaoguai, who died of an overdose, also followed the band for more than seven years, so their cohesion is still very strong. Of course, the most important reason is because Hugo did not have the idea of ​​competing with Su Zinan. On the contrary, the rapport between the two people, mutual help and mutual assistance, made the band favored by the ‘Midi’ Rock Festival.

But obviously, in this new day band, people who are eager to get attention do not have enough ability to become the soul of the band, which has led to the continuous expansion of contradictions within the band.

This is indeed ironic. One must know that a new day is still rolling in the underground rock circle of Los Angeles, and even if it hasn't even entered the underground rock circle of the United States, some people are short-sighted and start to forget about it. On the contrary, Fu Jin's vision is very sophisticated, he wants to take the band to the whole of the United States, and then make the band's strength to the next level. No wonder the soul of the band is Fujin, not so and so.

"Everyone hopes to follow a band to the highest point of their musical dreams But life is not always satisfactory, is it?" Hugo knows more about bands than actors. Industry, so Fujin just said a few words, Hugo can already see the essence of the problem. "If this band can't succeed, choose another group of partners and seek new "flowers". Isn't it normal? With your strength, I think there should be many bands willing to invite you."

Among the drummers in the rock circle in Los Angeles, Fukun is indeed the number one person. Unfortunately, he was dragged down by those unproactive teammates on a new day, and he has never been able to go further.

Fujin knew that Hugo was right, but he shook his head, "I can't bear it." He puts too much'exquisite' in this band on a new day, too many memories. It may not be difficult to leave his teammates, but to leave here A band, but it’s not that easy.

The sentence of "reluctant" made Hugo stunned like this. In fact, he was so willing to be honored to death, and the yearning for his teammates in his mind began to overwhelm. Hugo pulled out a helpless smile, then took a deep breath and looked at Fujin, "I am willing, it has never been so easy."

Having said this, Hugo paused, and suddenly remembered something, and then a weird smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Hey, Fujin, there is no drummer in my band until now. Would you like to join?"