Chapter 1718 Can this song be used for disco?
Xiao Peng and Kashin spent two days in Noyabrsk without finding Zhenya. The confiscated car lot was completely deserted, so they could take all the cars away without anyone noticing.
Are all Russians so brave?
You could at least leave a contact number!
Just when Xiao Peng and his team decided to give up looking for Zhenya, they found him again...
Where did you find it? Opening Day Restaurant, of course!
In fact, when he got out of the car at the door of the opening ceremony restaurant, he knew Zhenya was inside - the song coming from the restaurant was the Russian version of "If Life Deceives You".
You're really quick in your actions!
When they entered the restaurant, they saw Zhenya singing on the stage.
"If Life Deceives You" is a rock song! Xiao Peng was worried about not being able to adapt to the local climate here, but now it seems that his worries were unnecessary. When Zhenya sang, the focus of the entire restaurant was on him, and the women in the restaurant looked at Zhenya with their eyes turning into little stars.
Xiao Peng thought about it. On the one hand, the Russians love literature, and the lyrics of this song are adapted from Pushkin's lyrics, which are easy to impress Russians. On the other hand, the melody of this song has the feeling of a Soviet ballad. The most important point is...
Russians love rock music so much! They even linked the collapse of the Soviet Union to it.
This is not nonsense from Xiao Peng. Many people say that the last straw that broke the camel's back for the Soviet Union was the 1991 Moscow Red Square Rock Festival.
Back in the Soviet era, rock music was banned, seen as a scourge from capitalist countries. The Soviet Union even gave birth to a very interesting product: Bone Records.
'Bone Records' are not records made of bones.
In that era, rock music was "banned", so it was not easy to get a Western rock record. If Soviet youth at that time could get a Western rock record, it would attract as much attention as young people in China driving sports cars today.
But how to spread these records is a problem.
This did not pose a problem for the Soviet youth at that time. Their idea was to get used X-ray films from the hospital and use them to copy records. Because these X-ray films were used and basically contained X-ray photos of various bones, these records were called "bone records."
Although this kind of "bone record" had poor sound quality and was easily damaged, in that era, if a young person had a "bone record", it was definitely the most fashionable thing - no doubt about it!
In 1991, the former Soviet Union allowed a groundbreaking rock festival, now known as the "Moscow Red Square Rock Festival '91." Actually, the festival was called "Rock Monster," an international music festival that toured from 1979 to 2006, touring numerous countries. In the USSR, it wasn't held in Red Square, but at Tushino Airport, the site of the Soviet air show. Five rock bands, Metallica, AC/DC, The Black Crowes, Pantera, and EST, were invited to perform.
To be honest, this performance lineup is really strong. Except for the Russian local band 'EST', the other four are bands that can leave their names in the history of world rock!
Xiao Peng still can't figure out what the Soviet authorities were thinking back then. The Soviet Union was in constant trouble at the time. The famous "819 coup" had just happened a month ago. Abroad, the Soviet Union was being besieged by Western countries because the Afghan battlefield was stuck in a quagmire. Riots and unrest could happen at any time throughout the Soviet Union. As a result, they still invited a group of bands that could drive people crazy at any time to hold a music festival. Isn't this adding fuel to the fire?
Maybe their original intention was to prove that we in the Soviet Union were not so closed and that they were confident that they could handle the music festival well, but they didn't expect that things would completely exceed their expectations!
The data speaks for itself: the festival had over a million attendees! Thirty-two people were trampled to death, over four hundred injured, and dozens more killed by government forces. Ultimately, the Soviet Union had no choice but to deploy fully armed regular troops, helicopters, and heavy tanks to suppress the riots! (P.S.: The casualty figures are from Western sources, and their accuracy cannot be evaluated.)
The Soviet Union should have just experienced the "August 19 Incident" at that time. The three Baltic countries had just declared independence a few days before the music festival started. Then this incident happened again. Within two months, the Soviet Union, which once dominated the world, disappeared in the long river of history.
So it is no exaggeration to say that the rock music festival was the last straw that broke the camel's back for the Soviet Union.
But even though the Soviet Union collapsed, Russians' love of rock music has certainly survived. At least that's evident in the restaurant, where many people are dancing and cheering on the dance floor.
But this isn't a dance song, is it? It's a slow rock song! Can you dance to this song?
Besides, isn't this a place to eat? Aren't you all going to get hungry just hanging around there without eating? Are you doing this to exercise and eat more?
There are so many things to complain about now that Xiao Peng doesn’t know where to start!
"Mr. Kashin, Mr. Xiao, why haven't I seen you these past two days? I was so happy when I received your call to reserve a table." The waiter Kryukov greeted the two of them warmly upon seeing them enter. He took their coats and hats and said, "I'll take you to your reserved table."
Kashin laughed and said, "Kryukov, you weren't so enthusiastic when we first came here."
After handing their coats to the cloakroom staff and the coat check tickets to Kashin, Kryukov said truthfully, "Mr. Kashin, this is the power of the euro."
Cassin laughed out loud.
Although Russia's currency is the ruble, Russians prefer foreign currencies, which may be related to the ruble's rapid devaluation during that period. Even using RMB is more popular here than using rubles. Xiao Peng and his friends didn't exchange much rubles, and basically used euros for bills and tips, which is why they were so popular here.
"This way," Kryukov pointed in a direction. "I found you a great spot where you can watch Zhenya's performance from the best angle. This guy suddenly got his act together and sang some great songs! I had to work hard to save this spot for you."
Xiao Peng actually didn't want to get closer to Zhenya's band, but seeing Kryukov was so enthusiastic, he felt embarrassed to refuse, so he and Kashin went to Kryukov to reserve seats for the two of them.
As a result, Xiao Peng almost cursed as soon as he sat down - this Zhenya is not enlightened at all! It's obvious that he is addicted to plagiarism!
His next song is clearly "Say it again" by Penicillin. If it is changed to Russian lyrics, it becomes your song?
So shameless!
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