walk with jimmy

<I'm more important! >

There is a saying that goes like this...

If guitars are lovers, most guitarists are promiscuous lovers.

According to James, two guitars are enough for one person.One can be taken to the stage to perform; the other is placed under the head just in case.After all, who knows what problems you might encounter while performing?In case the string breaks, or any other problem, it can be used for replacement.

But Lance didn't think so.

In this regard, he is probably the same as a woman buying lipstick. You have to buy one of each color number. You can kill a straight man if you pay attention to it. Why does rosewood have a warmer tone than maple? Why does the cavity of the piano body affect the tone and cause The sustain effect is not good, a kind of wood from Guatemala is a bit hard, but the tone is brighter...

Therefore, stage performances should have guitars dedicated to stage performances, and recording studios should also have guitars dedicated to recording studios.Even, you have to pay attention to which guitar is the best for which song to play.For example, when playing the song "She is 16 years old", he prefers to use the red rosewood guitar.

In a word, buy it!purchase!purchase!

If you have no money, you have to buy it in installments.

James finally figured out why this guy was the one with the best family background among all of them, but in the end he was reduced to be as poor as them...

Thinking about it this way, it's better to sing to save money.

Ignore the guitar issue for now.

Anyway, when Lance held the guitar and exchanged technology and music with the seniors in the tour team, the other members also had contact with other artists.

You know, the characters of the band members are definitely not as jerk and rascal as reported by the media.So, they soon each made some hit-and-miss friends.

At this point, the tour process finally began to become more relaxed and enjoyable.

But by this time, it was already the second half of the tour.

At this time, the reputation of the planet has been completely blown out.

Therefore, with their journey, fans from more and more planets flocked together, just to hear them sing live.

James thought the scene was incredible.

Especially when some staff members of the tour team talked to him about the behavior of some fanatical fans out of the desire to please him...

He opened his green eyes in surprise, and blurted out: "What? Driving across two cities, following our bus all the way, just to listen to our 10 minutes on stage? Crazy!"

At this time, Garnett, the lead singer of the Seaside Boys, was particularly envious of this.

During the long tour, he and James barely became drinking buddies, and they often drank and chatted together (the original reason was that Garnett was shocked by the scolding between Lance and the audience before, so, with admiration The expression and James said that the guitarist in your band looks so strong) or something.

So, they have a good relationship.

But no matter how good the relationship was, Garnett still couldn't control his grievances and complained in front of the reporter: "We were unlucky to perform in front of them once, and before we finished singing a song, all the fans below shouted Want to ask for planets! Isn’t it too embarrassing for us? Hey, open your eyes and take a good look, I’m still on it!”

Joanne, known as Britain's sweetheart, was also very sad.

She also complained in the interview: "One day, my performance was also ranked ahead of the Planetary Band. You know, they have been super popular recently! So, when I was not on stage, the pressure was huge and I was very nervous, but After I got on the stage, I was surprised to find that there were many male audiences below, and I suddenly became less nervous. I thought, this must be my fan, because the planets have always had a lot of female fans. So, I was very moved , sang and confessed on stage, thanked everyone for coming, and said a lot of 'I love you'. But! Yes!"

"However, when I stepped off the stage, the host just said, 'The following is...', and the group of stinky men reversed their normal behavior just now, screaming and raising their arms...OK, I Got it, they're waiting for fucking planets."

The sweet girl asked angrily: "But these days, are male artists going to compete with female artists for male fans?"

The audience who saw this interview almost died of laughter.

But this also indirectly shows that the fan base of the Planetary Band is changing and expanding.

In the early days, James and the others have always attracted female fans, especially those girls who are sixteen or seventeen and full of romance.

But now, with the development of the band, there are finally male audiences slowly appearing.

This is a good sign, but no one can guess why these male audiences like them.

Maybe it's because of their unique personalities and tough external style, maybe it's simply because their songs sound so enjoyable.

By this time, Planet had begun to overwhelm anyone on tour.

Few artists would want to play ahead of them again.

Of course, it is even more reluctant to be in the back, because the audience who have listened to the planets simply don't want to listen to anything else.

At this time, Lawrence, the blues guitarist with the highest status in this tour plan, who made friends with Lance, took the initiative to stand up.

He went to the person in charge of the tour and said jokingly: "Hey, I think you should give those boys a head card!"

Cool!

The band began to take charge of the finale performance, and their show length was extended from 10 minutes to half an hour.

By this period, everyone probably thought that the four members of the band were considered stars.But James and the others still lack this feeling because they are too busy.

Can you understand?

Even if their single is No. [-], the show is full at the beginning, and the fans are getting more and more. Recently, I heard that the sales of the new album are also very good!

but……

They still have to sleep in the bus most of the time every day, traveling all over the country for long distances.

Occasionally, when the schedule is not so tight, I have the opportunity to get off the car and find a hotel to open a room for a rest.

As for the only change during the trip, James stopped sleeping on the upper berth, and Lance offered him the 'safe' lower berth.

In addition, Bill, the tour manager, personally took someone to lay a thick carpet in the car, for fear of breaking anyone's bones again.

The tour was large and lengthy, lasting more than a year.They travel from one city to another, and in a few days may have to turn back and perform again.

The specific route and arrangement, we don’t know how to make it, anyway, every day is to take time to rest, rehearse, and occasionally accept interviews. When Lance gets inspired, he continues to write songs in his notebook, and then he goes on stage and performs hard. .

Sometimes, when we go to some economically underdeveloped towns, the accommodation and food conditions are extremely poor.

James once ate a bug in a hamburger, turned around and went to the bathroom to vomit, shit star, no star treatment at all.

But every performance of the band is still very hard.

In other words, they are doing their best in every performance.

At one point, the acoustics in a theater were particularly bad.

Many of the audience below could not hear the singing clearly, but James still sang loudly for the audience, and even jumped off the stage regardless of the danger, trying to let everyone hear his voice.

This made the other tour teams a little bit incomprehensible.

But the four members of the Planetary Band never explained anything about it.

Until the media noticed the scene where they worked hard.

They thought: This is a good topic for a "dedicated" issue.

When Abel heard the news, tears filled his eyes almost unmoved, and he was super emotional: "Finally, I can create a positive image of the fuck."

He was really fed up with a bunch of annoying news about 'the lead singer's private life is corrupt, what guitarist and the audience are scolding'.

Sometimes, not to mention James and others, even he is almost annoyed by the entertainment media that talk nonsense all day long.

Are good-looking boys sure to sleep with girls everywhere?

What are you writing all day and night?Can you have a little imagination and creativity.

But James' performance still disappointed Abel.

Can't say I'm disappointed, it's just always been like this.

He didn't swear too much this time.

However, they seem to be completely uninterested in the rhetoric of 'dedication' and don't want this evaluation.

how to say?

His thinking is different from others.

That day, when he was being interviewed, James was squatting on the side of the bus, basking in the sun and smoking a cigarette. His posture was very similar to that of some unemployed street vagrants. Weird: "Dedication? No, that's not me. I perform on stage because I enjoy the process, you know? I like to sing now, and it has nothing to do with dedication. Well, it has nothing to do with the audience .They like to watch it, of course I am happy! No!"

Having said that, he shook his head vigorously again, tossed his blond hair a little messy, and corrected a sentence very childishly: "I am very, very, very happy. Then, when I am happy, I am quite willing to tease them. Everyone can work together Exchange feelings and share happiness together. After all, I also want someone to like me, and I like everyone who likes me."

"But it can't be regarded as professionalism. Professionalism is not like this. Professionalism should be...well, I don't know, it shouldn't be me anyway. I just want to do it and I will do it. For example, if the audience I didn’t like to watch that day, so I really don’t want to sing or act? That’s impossible, brother, I still have to sing. How can I not sing? I have to sing to God after I die! So, who cares Whether they like to watch it or not, I can do whatever I want. By the way, you know? Every time I take a bath, I also sing very devotedly, although Lance keeps telling me to shut up."

The reporter was completely dumbfounded.

A female reporter deliberately teased him: "Then you can sing a sentence for me now, Jimmy."

James suddenly laughed out two pointed canine teeth.

His green eyes were shining, and he said deliberately: "I won't sing for you, and you didn't pay for the ticket."

However, some reporters who wanted to make news continued to ask him: "So, do you think your own happiness is more important than the audience's happiness?"

James stopped laughing.

He lowered his head and took a few puffs of cigarettes, and replied nonchalantly: "Dude, that's for sure! If I'm not happy on stage, how can the audience be happy? You need to figure out the cause and effect before you come to me say."

This little bastard is really...

It's impossible to say!

The few reporters who came here to interview him and wanted to help him create a positive image were completely speechless.

Fortunately, Lance is much better at communicating than James in this regard.

As the Planetary Band became more and more famous, people naturally noticed that the general manager stood in the center of the stage with the lead singer. He could not only play the guitar superbly, but also write lyrics and songs, and he was also very handsome. Blue-eyed guitarist.

In a way, he is also an important soul role in this band.

Therefore, every time the communication with James is not smooth, the reporters will come to talk to Lance to relieve their depressed mood.

For the same question, Lance was very empathetic and answered in a satisfactory manner: "Yes, the audience is of course the most important thing, every time we stand on the stage, we want to do our best to present the best performance for everyone. Yes, it has been the audience that has supported us all the way. The cheers from the audience have been our motivation since the beginning when we performed in the club, thank you all.”

So fucking hypocritical!

James complained to Theo in private: "Although I love this guy, sometimes I can't stand his nonsense! If he really loves the audience so much, why didn't he walk off the stage and go to Shake hands with the audience? The one who really insists on interacting with the audience is me, not him!"

Theo, who was not interviewed by reporters at all, plucked the bass strings in frustration, drooped his head, and didn't want to talk.

Hey!

Didn't anyone notice that it's important that a bass player is also handsome?

Baldwin: Yeah, and the drummer.

<back home>

At the end of the show one day, the tour manager Bill came up out of the blue and said, "Come on, I'll show you something good."

Everyone was very tired at that time.

Especially James and Lance, who almost took on all the tasks of 'running around the stage to catch the audience's attention'.

So, every performance, James has to run more than ten kilometers, and then, Lance will be less, but he has to carry weight (guitar) for five kilometers.

Therefore, James, who was too tired to die, replied to him in a particularly angry manner: "Is there anything you can't talk about tomorrow?"

But Bill, who has always been good at reading people's eyes, seemed to be blind this time, insisting on saying: "You have to see, you must see."

James clenched his fist and wanted to punch him.

In the end, he took out a box, handed it over, and said, "Look, your new album."

Interesting to say.

As everyone was busy with rehearsals and performances, as a result, the album had been released for a long time, but they themselves hadn't seen the finished product at all.

For a while, everyone was a little surprised.

But James wanted to take it a little bit, but squinted his eyes hesitantly and asked: "What's the matter with this cover?

"what happened?"

Bill didn't react and asked, "The cartoon portraits of the four of you."

James stared at himself with cat ears on top of his head, feeling nauseous.

I really don't know who is so fucking talented and draws such a mind-blowing picture.

Let’s not talk about the blond-haired lead singer being cat-like; Lance’s extra dialogue wings on the back are also very cheating; although Theo has always had abnormal aesthetics, the portrait of the little devil also makes him terrified. Baldwin is relatively better, he is still a person.

Abel later proudly told them: "This represents the whole world, heaven and hell, animals and people, all of which have been caught by you."

Go fuck it!

Why am I an animal?

After James took out the record inside, he angrily smashed the outer box with a stone.

Lance regretted so much.

At the beginning, I worked so hard to make an album, why didn't I just stick to it?

If I had known that there would be such a ridiculous cover, I might as well have made a blank sheet of paper and copied some lyrics as the cover.

All four members hated the album cover anyway.

But unfortunately, for a long time after that, they will all have to face a group of fans holding this album and running to sign it.

At the same time, a large number of music reviews began to emerge.

But honestly, don't expect to hear anything good from the critics.

In this regard, Lance has been heavily criticized.

He pretended not to care, but in fact he cared to death, because he had been looking forward to getting some praise, so the blow he received was a little bit bigger.

At that time, a particularly harsh music critic liked to talk nonsense, saying: [The melody sounds like a nursery rhyme, which can be written by simple elementary school students, but the lyrics are empty and vulgar, meaningless.However, who can expect a group of teenagers to write any in-depth works?Also...their scene was a mess. The audience bought tickets not to enjoy the music, but to watch the lead singer perform a [-]-meter sprint, right?I don't see the point of this!There is also a guitarist with a guitar on his back, dangling like a telegraph pole, is he drunk, or is there something wrong with his body?The weight of a guitar seems to be able to easily crush him! ]

Lance was angry.

For a long time, he kept a cold face and ignored everyone.

James had no choice but to walk over and take on the responsibility of the 'lead singer should make the guitarist happy' that Theo had made out of his nonsense back then, hug him, coax him, and praise him sincerely: "It's all just talking nonsense, those The cheering audience, everyone knows how good you are. Listen, Lance, you are my fucking God, from the bottom of my heart."

At this time, Lance usually reached out to pat him on the back, or simply hug him back.

Then, for a change of mind.

The two of them started working on some new songs together.

Music is always the best way to express emotions.

When Baldwin and Theo ran out to make friends and play, the two would hide together on their tour bus, studying how to change the lyrics, and fumbling to generate some new beautiful melodies.

It is also in these creative processes that James can understand more and more about his creative partner, not only those beautiful sides, but also hypocritical, vicious, and contrived sides.

For example, when he was in public, he would humbly say something like 'thank you Mr. Daly for his evaluation, although I don't agree with it, but I will continue to work hard', but in private he wrote a song "Congratulations Mr. Daly dies this year > curse song.

By the way, Mr. Daly is the one who wrote that mean music review.

In that swearing song, the lyrics are terrible, with all kinds of profanity and cursing about wanting someone to die soon.If you take it outside, absolutely no one would expect it. It was made by Lance, a nice-looking and polite guy.

Of course, that kind of shitty shit is purely venting, and it's torn up after writing.

But James knew it all.

how to say?In fact, sometimes he felt that Lance was very tired like this, and he was so angry, why not just go there and beat him up, why bother?

But from another perspective, compared to Lance's usual pretentious external performance...

He found that he seemed to prefer this guy to reveal the little viciousness in his heart, because it seemed more real, especially when this side was only revealed in front of him, it was really a very pleasant feeling.

It's as if they've become so close that they've become one.

Lance probably shares almost everything he has with James, except for the guitar.

For him, this is definitely a rare candor.

There was no way to conceal their rapid intimacy, and it was directly reflected in the stage performance.

Lance has always been relatively indifferent on the outside.

The Capricorn's sullenness is vividly expressed in him. Even if he really wants to do something in his heart, he will always suppress it in his heart every time, and only look at James quietly with those blue eyes.

Then, James always realized it in time and responded immediately, ran over actively and enthusiastically, hugged his shoulders, kissed his face, took the microphone over, and asked him to sing with him.

"Can you stop being sticky all day and sing well?" Lance said pretending to be unhappy.

"But I want you to sing with me," James replied.

"The album cover is definitely wrong." At this time, after Lance got used to the ridiculous cover, he began to joke about it: "They should draw you dog ears, cats are not as sticky as you .”

"Come on, I don't like either. I hate dogs. I was chased and bitten by dogs." James muttered.

"You must have provoked it, so the dog will not bite people casually." Dog lovers made statements that had no basis at all.

However, no matter what the music reviews say.

Throughout the year, that album has been selling well.

It's just that the external reviews of the four members of the band still show a trend of polarization.The fans who love them love them very much, but the people who bother them are still hooligans and scolding them every day.

After that, it was almost December again...

After going around the tour route, they actually returned to their hometown Liverpool.

The four members of the planetary band haven't been home for a long time.

At that time, everyone was still used to writing letters.

Therefore, Theo and Lance often sent home letters one after another; Baldwin occasionally wrote letters, but he seemed to have run away from home back then, and his relationship with his family was not very good, so he wrote fewer letters.

James, on the other hand, relatively rarely writes because of his dyslexia.However, every time he changes a city, he will send postcards to his father at home and his elder brother Linde who "goes back to Liverpool early because he doesn't want to tour with him, nor is he interested in music".

He likes to write something in elementary school handwriting on the back of the postcard, "I sang in XX today, I sang so fucking well, it's a pity you can't hear it".

Then, after a while, he would receive a reply from his father and brother.

And Lance's fucking 'you have to protect yourself, eat well, take care of your health, mom misses you' will never be the same style of painting.

Old John: "Come on, I'm proud of you, son. PS. If you can, please try not to wear skirts on stage, except for kilts."

Linde: "Hehe, I'm sure you're blowing your ass off! I wish you all the best, buddy."

Regardless of the similarities and differences in the painting style of the reply letter.

When you don't think about your hometown, you can pretend that you don't remember it and wander around, but when you arrive at the door, the suppressed homesickness in your heart will all rise at once.

James was the first to jump up and ran to talk to the tour manager, trying to persuade him to arrange a few more shows so that he could spend more time in Liverpool.

The general manager of the tour is also very familiar with them now.

After all, everyone has been on tour together for almost half a year.

But it was because he was so familiar that he was extremely surprised.

The kid who usually wished to be so proud to go to heaven, now came to help serve tea and water to show his hospitality, doesn't it feel really good?

So, he kept a straight face on purpose, pretending to disagree, and after enjoying it for a while, he told him: "Don't worry, we're going to stop here for a week."

Get what you want.

James put the teapot down, turned and left.

The head of the tour, who was still holding a teacup and waiting for tea, immediately laughed angrily: "You bastard, next time you have something to do, don't try to ask me again!"

James crossed the river and gave him the middle finger back.