walk with jimmy

Abel, who was tortured by the band, deliberately frightened everyone like this: "From now on, you'd better seize every minute and go to sleep! Because of the upcoming schedule, I will not let you have a moment of leisure."

But none of the Planets cared, especially James...

He seems to have gotten a little addicted to teasing Abel lately, responding in a flirtatious tone that borders on provocation: "What can you do? It won't be another boring TV show, will it? Well, just let it go." , I'm feeling very lonely."

Not to mention the TV show!

When it comes to TV shows, Abel wants to perform an explosion in place.

He stared closely at those green eyes that made people love and hate, and forced a smile with hatred: "I promise to satisfy you."

Immediately afterwards, he rushed out like a violent whirlwind, and began to devote himself crazily to the preparation work, the most performances, the greatest exposure... The man who was pissed off made up his mind to let this bastard completely fall into the busy I'm so busy that I don't have time to say some annoying things, and I don't have time to provoke people with green eyes!

"Jimmy, why do you keep messing with him?"

Lance frowned, and reminded privately with dissatisfaction: "Abel's thinking is a bit outdated, and sometimes he often can't keep up with us, but he is still useful now, and you are almost enough. It's good for us to make the relationship stalemate. No good."

James replied with a smile: "It's just for fun. Don't worry, I have a sense of proportion."

Lance glanced at him dubiously, and stopped talking.

Next, everyone in the band began to prepare for the tour wholeheartedly.

The regular tour is completely different from the previous driving around to sell and sing. First, they have to cooperate with the publicity and take various posters and promotional photos under the manipulation of photographers; second, they can no longer sing whatever they want, but need to Submit a fixed performance list; finally, keep rehearsing the repertoire to be performed on the stage until the four are combined into one and become a perfect whole.

On the other hand, the formation of the tour team is also in full swing.

A proper band will have a whole team behind them to follow them around and serve them.

In this team, there will be electrical engineers who are in charge of stage circuits and various mechanical facilities, supervisors who are in charge of safety, equipment managers, guitar tuners, and the most annoying financial people who control the budget of the tour team. people.

And under this group of people, there will be some errand runners who help with odd jobs, as well as some necessary low-level workers.

In short, the resident permanent personnel of a big rock group usually have at least 30 people.

If they catch up with some large-scale performances, they may also need to hire hundreds of people locally as temporary workers. Only in this way can the daily basic operation of the entire team be maintained.

In a sense, these guys live off the band.

Bands get famous and make money, and they get richer too, with some seniority benefits in addition to salaries and bonuses.

This benefit is generally invisible.

But when they want to change jobs in the future and need to mention their previous resumes in the industry, saying 'I have been with the planetary band that is the protagonist of the full text' and 'I have been with the kangaroo band that only appeared in the early stage but has been almost forgotten by the author' is completely true two concepts.

However, a well-functioning team rarely changes internal members frequently.

After these resident personnel join the tour team, as long as there are no accidents, they are likely to follow the band for more than ten years, or even 20 years. The Northern War, shared weal and woe.

In a sense, these people and the band are in a symbiotic relationship.

Therefore, they tend to maintain the band extremely, and are willing to help the band clean up all kinds of messes, protect all the members of the band, like what the band likes, and worry about what the band worries about. After a long time, they will even form an alternative family relationship with the band members relation.

But how to manage these people?

Band members definitely don't have time, so that requires the presence of a tour manager.

James and the others naturally thought that this position should belong to Davis at first.

The man who struggled with them during the most difficult period, did not have a high sense of presence, and worked part-time in various roles, but always helped everyone with his duty.

But Abel didn't trust him: "Too young, haven't led a group independently, and the result of inexperience is to screw up your performance."

Then, he strongly recommended an experienced tour manager who is said to have led the group to [-] live performances, a man named Bill.

Due to James' previous series of disobedient behaviors, Abel was probably driven to the brink of madness at this time.

Therefore, everyone in the band is a little unsure if they continue to raise objections, will they drive him completely crazy?However, Davis is their good friend, how can they not speak for their friends?

For a while, the atmosphere became a little depressed.

In the end, James felt that he could not let down the friendship with each other, and decided to go to the edge of danger again to spread his wings...

Davis took the initiative to take a step back.

The man with the old-fashioned glasses and the lovely freckles volunteered to admit his inexperience and expressed his willingness to be Bill's second-in-command and contribute to the tour team together.

He's a really nice guy.

Regardless of whether the outside world admits it or not, he should be the fifth member of the band.

But the situation at that time was really troublesome to deal with.

Able has failed to establish his prestige in a row. If even the matter of changing the tour manager is dismissed again, he will probably be so angry that he will let it go, but the band also needs him.

Reality is always such a dilemma.

Most people hope that they can be a good brother and friend with affection and righteousness, but in fact, everyone can only make a relatively correct choice after weighing the pros and cons.

Still, the success of the tour manager change has brought back some of Abel's shattered self-confidence.

He continued to be busy, and even kept two phones on at the same time every day, constantly checking the specific time and place of the band's performance, and suddenly had an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and any vague or uncertain words would immediately make him angry and become aggressive.

During this period of time, his beautiful assistant lady trembled every time she entered the office, for fear of being angered inexplicably.

But Able felt a strange sense of excitement and satisfaction from this busyness, a kind of passion that he was full of energy and focused on when he was in this line of work when he was just graduated.

"After staying with young people for a long time, how can I become impatient?"

Sometimes he couldn't help but think about it this way, thinking that it was a bit silly for him to be so easily provoked by a few words from a minor as if he had been beaten into chicken blood.

But the next time he saw James, he would still be furious with that blond little bastard.

That kid is absolutely gifted in irritating people, and he is self-taught. Even if he doesn't say a word, his pair of green eyes can always vividly express a half-smile of "Oh, is that all you can do?" feel.

In short, the entire team is working day and night at high intensity.

Soon, large posters of the upcoming tour of the Planetary Band were hung on the London Underground.

a month...

All 23 performances were confirmed.

The band's first performance was arranged in a theater.

They'd never played in a place like this before, and the stages in previous clubs, bars, and other random makeshift venues were always small.The distance between the four people will be very close. You can see your teammates smiling at you by turning around and turning your head.But the stage here has become very large, and they must re-acquaint themselves with the stage and confirm each other's positions, so as to avoid problems during the official performance.

But these are not problems.

On the day of the early audition, Baldwin sat behind a pile of drum kits, turning the drumsticks in patterns like a pen (drummers usually do this hand), with a natural and casual look, very general; Theo posed Cool poses, fiddling with his bass; Lance sits calmly changing strings on his guitar; James looks around the theater, pacing up and down the stage, earnestly like some wild animal patrolling its territory early in the morning.

Then, a member of the tour team came running out of breath.

He exclaimed with great excitement: "God! You know what? The tickets for the show are all fucking sold out!"

Standing on the high stage, James immediately showed an unusually bright smile.

Later, the staff member said: "Just looking at that confident smile, I feel that the show will never fail!"

But there really wasn't much to say about the show that night.

Because it was the first game, everyone started off flat and tried to win steadily, first trying to get familiar with the venue and the new spectators.

As they became more and more used to the stage and the audience below, they slowly set off a few small climaxes.

But even these small climaxes are nothing compared to their previous performances.

only……

In this performance, James clearly exposed the character trait of 'emotions become difficult to control at their peak'.

Just like that single album, he can happily sing 'strawberries are rotten' in the first second, and suddenly burst into a high-pitched curse of 'you will be killed by hyenas' in the second second, the sound line is extremely While the transformation brings the audience audio-visual enjoyment, there will also be a lot of shock.

Every time he did, though, some of the girls started screaming in a dignified manner.

As a result, the band's performance will be more comfortable, flying freely in the noisy voice of the audience.

Although most of them acted instinctively during this period...

But obviously, among the boring choirs, Planet, a band full of strength, rhythm, vitality, insisting on refusing to return to mediocrity, and sharp-edged, has become unique in the entire music scene, and they are also trying hard. Create your own unique style.

This time, after the performance, a reporter finally came to interview.

A reporter from an unknown tabloid rushed forward and asked, "Excuse me, I heard that your song "Rotten Strawberries" Inspired by Strawberry?"

So, everyone in the Planetary Band stopped.

The blond lead singer looked back in slow motion with a look of surprise and bewilderment: "Wha...? Strawberry Band, what is that?"

The author has something to say: it should be what at the end, Jimmy's dialect sound swallowed the 't'.