Chapter 287 Records
"Have you ever thought about what you want to do?" Song Yuanchao did not directly answer Luo Yang's question, but asked him a question instead.
Luo Yang glanced at Song Yuanchao, thought for a moment, and asked tentatively: "What do you think of me making a tape?"
"Tape?" Song Yuanchao was stunned and looked at Luo Yang in confusion.
Song Yuanchao certainly knew about the tapes. Now the streets were full of young people carrying four- and eight-speakers. The tapes in their tape recorders were either tapes from the south or tapes they had copied themselves from blank TDK tapes.
Could it be that Luo Yang was planning to engage in piracy? At present, 90% of the popular audio tapes in China are pirated goods, and there are very few genuine ones. There are indeed quite a few people in the south who make a lot of money from this kind of stuff, but Luo Yang is not afraid that Luo Yanhua will find out and beat him up so that he can't take care of himself? What's the difference between this and doing business in Dashilan? Moreover, although there is no legal restriction on doing this, it will be bad for your reputation if it gets out.
Song Yuanchao directly asked Luo Yang why he had this idea and reminded him that it was inappropriate to pirate tapes.
"What are you thinking? When did I say I wanted to do this?" Luo Yang rolled his eyes at Song Yuanchao. "I said I wanted to make tapes, but I didn't say I wanted to do this. I meant to make specialized audio-visual products, the kind of formal tapes."
"You're not going to start a video and audio company, are you?" Luo Yang's words startled Song Yuanchao. He didn't expect that Luo Yang actually had this idea.
Audiovisual companies are not rare in China. Such companies, especially record companies, have existed for decades. At that time, EMI, Victory and White Light were the three most famous companies, and there were many small and medium-sized record companies.
In that era, these companies released many popular records, the most famous of which were works by singers from the old era, such as the golden voice Zhou Xuan. At the same time, they also produced many songs that were once popular and are still popular today.
But with the changes of the times, these companies no longer exist in China, and domestic audio and video products are all managed by relevant state departments. Foreign-funded and private companies have no soil for survival.
But with the beginning of reform and opening up, this situation changed again.
In 1979, Yanjing Audio and Video Company and Pacific Audio and Video Company were established in Yanjing and Yangcheng respectively. In 1981, which is this year, Shanghai Audio and Video Company was also established. With the establishment of these three audio and video companies, the domestic audio and video products industry began to break the original department monopoly and began to develop towards the market.
Among these three audio and video companies, Yanjing and Huhai still have a strong state-owned enterprise atmosphere. When facing the market, they still mostly rely on the product sales and channels of their superiors, so their development is not very good.
However, the best-performing Pacific Company was different. Relying on its proximity to Hong Kong in the south, the entire company's operations were closer to Hong Kong's business methods. It stood out from the three companies in a short period of time and its development momentum was extremely rapid.
The 1980s to the early to mid-1990s were the best ten years for Pacific Audio and Video Company. The company had a large number of top singers in the country and created many albums with huge circulation for these singers, leaving a strong mark in the history of Chinese audio and video products.
In the late 1990s , with the entry of similar foreign companies into the mainland market, the influx of foreign capital from Yanjing and Shanghai, and the birth of many new private audio and video companies, Pacific's monopoly began to be broken. Under fierce competition from both inside and outside, Pacific barely managed to get through the difficulties, but it no longer had its previous glory after 2000.
Song Yuanchao looked at Luo Yang. He didn't know why Luo Yang suddenly wanted to do this. Besides, it was not easy to set up an audio and video company. Let's first talk about whether the company can be registered. Now the three audio and video companies in Yanjing, Shanghai and Yangcheng are all state-owned enterprises, which are subsidiaries of relevant departments. The country has no policy for private entry into this industry.
In addition, it is not as easy to set up a stall in Dashilan and run an audio-visual company by just hanging a sign. Making audio-visual products requires a lot of professional equipment, many of which are not available in China and must be purchased from abroad. Let's not talk about whether you can buy it, even if you can buy it, the price is not acceptable to ordinary people.
Even though Luo Yang had made a lot of money before, with his current net worth he probably can't even afford to set up a professional recording studio, let alone a professional audio-visual company.
"Isn't this easy to do?" Song Yuanchao frowned slightly and said, "I remember that there is no policy for individuals to set up audio-visual companies. Also, have you calculated the investment cost of setting up an audio-visual company? This is not a small amount. I'm afraid that the money you put in won't even make a splash. Besides, you need people to do this. How can you do it without professional talents and sales channels?"
Luo Yang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.
"What are you laughing at? Am I wrong?"
"No, no, no, you're right, you just misunderstood me." Luo Yang said happily, "I'm not that ambitious. I want to open a video company or something. Who do you think I am? I don't have the ability. You also said that there is no such policy now. Besides, I don't have enough money. If I really jump in, I will be drowned in a few seconds. I'm not that stupid."
"and you……?"
Luo Yang smiled and shook his head, patted Song Yuanchao on the shoulder and said, "Old Song, I just said that I am just working on recording tapes and at most finding some suitable people to record some songs. As for the rest, it should be okay for professional audio and video companies to handle it, right?"
Song Yuanchao understood immediately after Luo Yang said this. This was what Luo Yang meant by making a tape. His operation method was similar to that of a personal studio in later generations, and was also similar to an agent company. He was directly affiliated with a formal audio-visual company and had his own singers, but the channels such as albums and sales were still operated by the audio-visual company.
This is a good way to get around the current rules of the game, and such an operation would not take up too much money. At most, it would be the cost of using equipment and some album sales at your own risk.
But what was strange was why Luo Yang suddenly thought of doing this. Song Yuanchao thought about it for a while and asked tentatively if this matter was related to Luo Lin.
When Song Yuanchao asked this question, it was Luo Yang's turn to be stunned. He looked at Song Yuanchao strangely and asked him how he knew that.
"It's not easy. You don't usually sing or dance, and you don't seem to have any musical talent. It's impossible for you to suddenly think about this without any reason." Song Yuanchao smiled and said, "Your sister is the only professional in this area in your Luo family. If it wasn't for her, would you be so enthusiastic? Tell me the truth, isn't it?"
Scratching his head, Luo Yang reluctantly admitted that Song Yuanchao's guess was correct. The main reason why he had this idea was really because of Luo Lin.
During the Spring Festival, Luo Lin was discharged from the army and returned to Yanjing. He was assigned to work in the song and dance troupe right after the Spring Festival.
As a former member of the military art troupe, Luo Lin's assignment can be considered to be a match for her major. Compared with her comrades who have also retired, Luo Lin's work arrangement is excellent.
You should know that most of the comrades who retired from the art troupe returned to their hometowns and became ordinary workers or even farmers. Some of them worked in state-owned enterprises and helped with some artistic performances within the enterprises in their spare time.
Luo Lin was different. She was directly transferred from the art troupe to the song and dance troupe, and it was a large unit like the Yanjing Song and Dance Troupe. Such an arrangement was enough to make many comrades privately envious. Of course, there were also reasons for the Luo family. If it weren't for Luo Yanhua's different status, even if Luo Lin was more professional, the song and dance troupe would not be so willing to accept a retired art troupe member.
Acceptable is one thing, working is another.
Originally, Rowling thought that after joining the troupe, she would be able to gain a foothold in the troupe with her own abilities, and at the same time learn better from the teachers in the troupe to improve her singing and performance abilities.
But she never expected that the atmosphere of the song and dance troupe was completely different from the art troupe she had been in before. Compared with the latter, the competition within the song and dance troupe was extremely fierce and the interpersonal relationships were more complicated. Although many people were polite to Luo Lin on the surface because of her background, in fact, Luo Lin felt their strong rejection of her privately as soon as she entered.
Every man has his own job. Luo Lin, who had just joined the song and dance troupe, was not as professional as her predecessors. After all, the professional level of the art troupe she had been in before was far inferior to that of a regular song and dance troupe. In addition, Luo Lin was not from a professional background. Her professional skills were developed in the art troupe after she joined the army. In a sense, she was "unconventional".
Besides, the chorus is not a military unit, but a unit. The mutual competition and vigilance made Rowling's previous beautiful expectations come to nothing. Even when she asked some seniors for advice, they were only polite on the surface. In fact, they had no intention of giving her any advice or teaching her.
As the saying goes, teaching your apprentice will starve you to death.
Everyone knew that the troupe's performance programs were limited, and there were often several competitors for one program. The internal competition was already fierce, not to mention the addition of Rowling. If they taught her and her professional level was raised to a higher level, what would they do?
Everyone has a self-preservation mentality, and the same is true for units like the song and dance troupe. Rowling's days in the song and dance troupe were not easy. Several months passed in the blink of an eye, and Rowling never got a chance to perform. She spent her days doing odd jobs in the troupe and had to endure the reality of being excluded.
