walk with jimmy

Chapter 179

With his wonderful brain circuits and unique thinking, Lance successfully solved his psychological problems.

He shakes off all negativity and recovers.

After Abel learned the cause and effect from the therapist, he didn't know what to say.

It can only be said that the twin stars of the Planetary Band are definitely the two most resistant to pressure in the entire music scene.

However, the lead singer James has a bit of a mixed character. He is strong and mentally tough. He doesn't care about everything and is shameless. Therefore, his ability to resist pressure can still be understood; but the guitarist Lance is different. .No matter from the outside, or from the inside, this person is completely out of line with being strong.

Since the debut of the Planetary Band, fans have always heard news like 'Jimmy sang while sick; Jimmy broke his arm and continued to sing with a disability'.But guitarist Lance, a food poisoning can easily knock him down, and he was hospitalized for several days.And, from time to time, the corners of his eyes turned red, and he looked like he was struggling to stop crying. He was about to quit, and in the end Jimmy had to speak out for him (Lance: No), and then he cried on stage .Later, he was scolded bloody by Jimmy for writing a song, and he didn't dare to speak back...

Such a person can't see how to resist pressure.

However, he came with Jimmy. Stuart had a quarrel with his teammates and was about to collapse to see a psychiatrist. This man can still maintain a cold attitude after a lot of tossing around.

Abel didn't understand it before, but now he finally does.

Jimmy usually wins by being shameless, but this person is too shameless, winning purely by narcissism. The logic deeply rooted in his mind is probably: 'How could I be wrong?I've been the best!How can anyone not like me?I don't blame you, it must be that you haven't understood me yet! '

But fortunately, the result is good, so there is no need to worry about him getting depressed.

In other words, the scourge lasted for a thousand years, and probably the whole world was depressed, and it was not his turn.

Lance himself didn't think too much about it. After solving his demons, he returned to work...

For a long time, although he has some flaws in character and is not as popular as James, as the core creator of the planetary band, no one can deny his talent.Moreover, he has a sharp eye and is unique in selecting jobs. For example, the theme song he created for the 007 series was well received after the film was released, fully proving his own strength.

As a result, all kinds of job invitations came one after another.

For a while, he became busy instead.

On the other hand, something went wrong with James' new band development.

He regards the day when the black dog Jiji and the pups were born as his own (new band) birthday, and he made an album with great energy, but he broke up with the record company he has been working with .

It's not all the record company's fault.

Even in the music industry, no one does business that doesn't make money. The disappearance of the name 'Planet' has made the record company somewhat dissatisfied, but James and Stewart's reputation is still there, so they also have certain expectations for this new record.But what I didn't expect was that the two leading figures of Britpop reached an agreement that they didn't intend to continue following the old way of Britpop.

The thing that record companies fear the most is experimental music from musicians.

This kind of experimental but unproven thing generally either loses a lot or makes a lot of money, but no matter whether it is a loss or a gain, the risks taken in the process are very large.And, while the record wasn't finished, Stewart got into some trouble.

At that time, someone interviewed Stewart and talked about Britpop.

In the eyes of most people, the topic of Britpop is not something that needs to be avoided.

But what no one knows is that neither Stewart nor James is very interested in any Britpop.

Relatively speaking, James doesn't care, he just finds it annoying; as for Stuart, on the contrary, it's a little love-hate.

"Britpop is a huge artificial marketing effort. A lot of the music is good, but it won't last."

Stewart unceremoniously exposed the truth and asserted: "Britpop will die soon."

When he said this, he thought of the previous Battle of England and the feeling of being forced to a high place. He was angry, dissatisfied, complicated and unspeakable. On the spur of the moment, he pointed out a fact that no one dared to say: " British local music is beautiful, but music is just music and has nothing to do with other factors. Now, the Labor Party promotes the new Britpop all day long, and tries to use it as a sign and political achievement, but you don’t know if it’s true or not You know? When Britpop really started, the political party was still the Conservative Party, right?"

As soon as I finished saying this during the day, I received a small note at night.

There is no beginning and no end on the note, but it is written politely: Please don't talk about certain things.

Stuart was extremely disappointed.

He said to James: "This is our government, our motherland? It can't even do freedom of speech!"

James was speechless: ...

He thought to himself: "You're so fucking close to saying that the Labor Party stole the Conservative Party's achievements, and blame people for restricting your freedom of speech? It's good enough that you haven't been arrested. Have you forgotten that the Labor Party is now The ruling party of our country!"

It's not that Stuart doesn't understand this truth.

But there is a kind of naive stubbornness in his character, and he always likes to make it clear what is right and wrong.In the past, many people thought that rock music was a manifestation of rebellion, and his peaceful personality was not suitable for rock music at all. However, it has been proved that music can reflect a person's essence too much, and Stewart is not a law-abiding person by nature.

Later, James couldn't help complaining to many people: "Hey, you accuse me of talking nonsense and swearing at people all day long, but when did you see me say something wrong? Or, did you swear at someone who shouldn't be scolded? No! I usually just swear at the street casually. But some people, you see that he has a good temper and can talk, but occasionally he utters a few words, which makes people want to kill him."

In order to prevent the new teammates from saying the wrong thing, plus being killed.

James grabbed Stewart and worked together in the recording studio, resolutely not going out, staying up for days and nights, forgetting to eat and sleep.

At the time, both drummer Abe and bassist Sanderson were a bit overwhelmed.

The two of them lay on the floor unable to get up, and wailed together: "I want to eat, I want to eat steak, tuna sandwich, pasta... anything, I don't want to record anymore."

Afterwards, everyone sleeps under the mixing console in disarray until the new album is finished.

It's a very grueling album, very fast-paced, ferocious, like a battle.

In this regard, James did have some differences with Lance in terms of music philosophy.

In the later period of the Planetary Band, perhaps because life was getting better and better, Lance’s music style became more and more lyrical, with a heavy commercial meaning, and the melody was catchy, which was more popular with the public; this direction, James said It’s not that he hates it, but he prefers some of the early works of the Planetary Band because of his rambunctious nature. The aggressive, cool-sounding and masculine works.

Therefore, when the album was completed that was completely in line with James' preferences, he felt unprecedented satisfaction.

It's a pity that the style is a bit different from the previous Planetary Band, and at the same time, it doesn't conform to the current Britpop trend. After listening to the album, the record companies are afraid to take it over, for fear of losing money.

As a singer who has always been popular, this kind of encounter has been rare since he became famous.

James felt like he was back to when the Planetary band was first created, without a contract, and looking for ways around.

Still, Able is solid.

He ended up contacting a record label that, while small, was willing to work with him.

Because the newly cooperated record company is not strong enough, so during the tour, James simply paid for it out of his own pocket.

Of course, the money can't be spent in vain, and he will take the bulk of the income from the performance.

In this way, in addition to being the lead singer, he seems to have played the role of the boss again.

"It made me sick all over."

James whispered privately to the bodyguard who had carried him off the stage: "Davis actually started reporting work to me, I know a damn thing! I can only pretend to understand and say, okay, you Let's see."

Mr. Bodyguard, who has been with him for many years and is an adult, can't laugh or cry.

He couldn't help protesting: "Can you not tell me any secrets, I'm just a bodyguard."

"You can only be a bodyguard, with no future."

James said angrily: "Do you fucking want me to say it directly? I want you to tell Davis, don't ask me for everything, I don't understand, you can solve it yourself."

"Then why don't you just go and talk to Davis?"

"...Do I not want to lose face?"

When Lance was here, the touring team didn't have so much going on.

No, it should be said that when Lance was here, due to his control freak personality, he had already dealt with all these matters.

James, who doesn't like to be in charge, sighs to himself, and his annoyance at the dark-haired guitarist subsides slightly.

It happened that Guy Ritchie called him and asked him to help introduce some musicians. For the soundtrack of the movie "Two Smoking Barrels", he thought about it, and simply gave Guy Ritchie the number of Lance. They connect themselves.

However, Lance had a terrible impression of Guy Ritchie.

It's not just the fact that the documentary was rejected back then, but also James' inexplicable emphasis on the director aroused the jealousy hidden deep in his heart: "What the hell is the relationship between these two people", so he really didn't want to help.

But Guy Ritchie came with a gift.

In addition to the documentary set many years ago, there are actually two or three hours of shooting highlights.

Leaving aside the documentary, in the shooting highlights...

Lance looked at the screen, the unscrupulous blond lead singer sitting on his lap, putting his hands on his shoulders, singing and grinning at the same time, with bright green eyes but a bit of malice, staring blankly. Can't get back to God.

He later said: [I don’t know if it’s a shooting problem, I always feel that Jimmy has an amazing beauty on the screen.It does not lie in the external beauty (I am definitely more beautiful on the outside), but in the wild and lively energy, like a bird with flapping wings in the sky, or a fish swimming lightly in the water with its tail. ]

In short, for James' sake, he reluctantly agreed to Ge Ritchie's invitation.

But after participating in it, he was surprised by how exciting the movie was.

As a broker, Abel naturally knew the whole story.

He was completely speechless to James: "Why can you write songs and yell at Lance, as if the two of you have completely broken up and never get in touch with each other, and on the other hand introduce jobs to Lance?"

Considering Guy Ritchie's new directorial status, this movie may be a bad movie.

Abel even wondered: "Could it be that Jimmy deliberately framed Lance? It shouldn't be, he also invested money in the movie!"

Puzzled!

In the end, he could only give up the idea of ​​thinking about two people, and once again proved that he and these two people are definitely not the same kind of people.

While the two wonderful flowers were developing independently and were busy with work...

The music industry has ushered in another change that can be called bloody.

The MP3 player was invented, Jobs put the technology on the ipod, and everyone ran to buy ipods.

The recording industry has suffered one of the greatest upheavals ever—records, unsold.