Superstar

The Los Angeles River merges into the Pacific Ocean from its source, and the audience is about 51 miles. The river within the planned area is 32 miles long. It is located in the center of the city and divides the City of Angels into east and west sides. The city center is located on the west side of the Los Angeles River. Although it is said that Los Angeles on the west side includes rich areas such as Hollywood and Beverly Hills, small Tokyo and Central are in chaos and poverty. The national city is also on this side.

Little Tokyo is one of the most chaotic areas in Los Angeles. After entering 8 or 9 in the evening, you must be vigilant when walking on the street alone. If there is an emergency, you need to withdraw money from the ATM. So much one companion is definitely a wise choice.

Just a block next to Little Tokyo, there is an area called Poor Street (.), which is the so-called slum in Los Angeles. Poor Street does not refer to a single street, but refers to the entire area between East Sixth Street and East Fourth Street, between Maple Avenue (maple.ave) and Stanford Avenue (.ave).

Unlike the slums of other cities, the poor streets called "wandering" districts by folklore are just beside the two streets in the city center. This is also determined by the characteristics of the city of Los Angeles-the surrounding counties and cities It is far more prosperous than the development of the city center. The alleys here are dilapidated and crowded. Minorities such as blacks, Mexicans, and Spaniards live crowdedly in small spaces like crock-pot houses, working on the lowest level in the city. Manual labor, hoping to maintain a family's livelihood.

In recent years, there has been a heavy metal rock band called Poor Street, but they have nothing to do with this slum area of ​​Los Angeles. This group began to rise in 1986 and was accompanied by the'wave' wave' of metal rock. The band started in New Jersey (new. Jersey), not a local band from the poor streets of Los Angeles.

However, the poor streets of Los Angeles have also become a paradise for many underground rock musicians. Just as street hip-hop was born in the Bronx in New York, underground rock music lovers gather in the poor streets to vent their rebellious attitude. With my inner emotions and dreams. Al Bar is located here, at the ‘junction’ of East Fifth Street and San Pedro Street, within walking distance of St. Julian’s Park.

At less than seven in the evening, Hugo arrived at the destination in a public bus. Walking on the street, you can see all kinds of bright and colorful attire, bold black and colored windbreakers, and shades. The eyeliner of the'gloomy black' color and the hot red'color' hair detonated one after another'color' colored **** in the line of sight, releasing infinite charm.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the unemployment crisis in the United States regained its head-this was also one of the reasons for the outbreak of the Rodney Gold Incident, so heavy metal rock and grunge rock began to arouse a strong response, and the 70s were all the rage. Punk music is also slowly recovering. In the beginning, these music appeared to be exceptionally unique in the mainstream market. Large record companies, professional music magazines, and top music studios were unable to accept such alternative and new ‘trend’ things, which made underground rock vigorously grow.

But then, the garbage rock led by the Nirvana band unexpectedly set off a frenzy and flooded all other music. Great breakthroughs were made in both the early word of mouth and the market, which also made the garbage rock be included in the United States. The territory of mainstream culture. After entering 1992, this kind of craze not only has not weakened, but is in a state of continuous heating. Since 1977, another rock frenzy era seems to be approaching.

Seeing the scene with the crowd of people in front of me, Hugo was in a trance as if he had walked into the magical world of Harry Potter. Although there were no wands and spells in this world, they all flowed from the fingertips of the musical instruments. The musical talisman that came out was the most beautiful spell in the world, with impressive energy. Every figure in front of me, the ones I know and don’t know, the familiar strangers, the introverted ones, the weird ones with musical instruments, are like notes, arranged and combined into different shapes in the line of sight, and then in the navy blue A beautiful melody played in the sky of'color'.

Although Hugo told himself more than once that this crossing was a godsend opportunity, today Hugo still has to sigh again that life is really wonderful. Thanks for letting him come to Los Angeles in 1992, which not only gave him the opportunity to become An actor who was outstanding was also fortunate to witness the most glorious era of rock and roll with his own eyes.

Hugo stood there in surprise, a little overwhelmed with excitement. He wanted to come forward to talk to the young girl who was clamoring for more than two dozen earrings. He also wanted to join the group on the street corner. Sitting on the floor, he started playing with unknown bands. He also wanted to be like a star chaser to contain the lead singer of the Green Day, Billy-Joe-Armstrong...This is like a Disneyland for rock lovers, let People are full of joy, but they look left and right, care about this and lose the other.

"Hey, Hugo!" A shout came from behind, causing Hugo, who had recently been trained in anti-shooting conditions, to look back, and face a golden'colored long-haired handsome man walking long.' The leg' strode over, "You are Hugo, right? I didn't recognize the wrong person!" The handsome guy in front of him combed his long hair into a ponytail, and showed a clean and cold face, that blue and green. Lu's eyes are deep and far away under the soft street lamp.

Hugo recognizes this face and is very familiar. He can even remember where he saw it. It was the guitarist he met when he was performing on the Avenue of Stars with Charlize last time, but Hugo could not remember the other party’s. Name it. In this aspect of talent, Yuguo is weak, only a little better than the sense of direction.

Seeing Hugo's tangled expression, the handsome guy smiled clearly, "I am Neil Anderson, last time..."

"Yes, Neil!" Hugo's eyes flashed in bright'color' immediately, and his eyes filled with narrow crescents because of the brilliant smile at the corner of his mouth. "Avenue of Stars..." Hugo said quickly, proving There is no error in my own memory. But looking at Neil's paused smile in front of him, Hugo's ending voice rose involuntarily, "Right?"

Neil chuckled and nodded, "Yes, Avenue of Stars. I didn't expect to meet so soon." Neil's eyes were shining brightly, and he wanted to be with Hugo very much last time. It was a pity that Neil couldn't make the trip because he had something to do that day. This has always been a pity for Neil.

Neil did not ask Hugo for contact information that day. In the United States in the early 1990s, besides landline telephones, pagers were the most reliable means of communication. If neither of them were available, then you would want to be in Los Angeles. Finding another stranger in a big city is undoubtedly like finding a needle in a haystack.

But Hugo was right in one sentence. Two people have common hobbies. As long as they can find the same circle, it is not that difficult to meet again. So there was the second encounter today.

"Do you have a performance mission tonight?" Hugo saw the guitar on Neal's shoulder, and then pointed to the Al bar just around the corner and asked.

"Oh, no, it's just a habit." Neil shook his head. "How about you?" Hugo also came with his guitar today. He chose a white'color' t-shirt with a pattern of crows all the time. , With a light blue'denim' pants', and finally took a white superman icon'flower' pattern jacket, compared to the afternoon, this outfit seems to have a sense of integration.

Hugo chuckled, seeing Neil's eyes, he also ‘showed’ a smile, Hugo said, "Me too. I don’t have a band now, I’m just a music lover."

"Me too, for the time being, I will make a living from street performances at ordinary times." Neal simply said that when it comes to rock, there are actually fewer single rock singers, and they should be like David Bowie(.) It's not so easy to break into a career like that. "So, last time you performed a jazz song, have you created some rock and roll recently?"

Neil seemed a little impatient, so he didn't say a few words, so he went straight to the subject, but Hugo didn't mind at all, "Oh, of course, I usually write to play and I can create more or less, but it is suitable for guitar performances. There aren’t that many, you know, most of the time the instruments need to be complete."

"Do you have research on other musical instruments? Wow, I thought it would be enough for your guitar to be so ‘colorful’." Neil looked around and sat down directly next to the street.

"Oh, no, no, I'm not good at everything except guitar. The keyboard is just basic." Hugo also sat on the floor and said honestly, "It's just that I like to create, so other instruments will be involved. That's it."

“It’s impossible to have no guitar solo in a rock band in recent years~www.readwn.com~Most of the guitarists who are outstanding will improve the quality of the whole band by a notch. Therefore, the guitar is That's enough." Neil said with a smile, and his excitement can be clearly seen with the flying look between his eyebrows, "By the way, how did you set the chord for that song last time?"

Hugo and Neil were chatting enthusiastically here, and at this time, there were also crowds of people around, and people were everywhere in their sight. Everyone gathered in twos and threes, standing or sitting, and discussing enthusiastically. Almost everyone is discussing music, and there are even many people who have already begun to play on the spot. This kind of scene is like the scene of a grand rock festival, but most of these music lovers have two brushes to make the scene The atmosphere is full of enthusiasm of gunpowder smoke.

It is hard to imagine that there is such an unknown corner in Los Angeles under the ‘color’ night of the navy blue, where countless musical notes are surging, quietly infiltrating the land and becoming a part of the city’s blood. Recall how many days and nights in the past, Hugo was in such a sacred land, but never really came into contact with this group of people who love music. What a pity it is; of course, the more regrets about the past. At this moment, the "excitement" in Hugo's heart is more surging. This is the feeling. Even the street lamp on the street corner can see the graceful curve of the notes, making everything covered with a hazy and mysterious light.