USSR Rock 'n' Roll History 1980: 'Aquarium's Finest Hour'

[ika889]

typical quich.!

[MrBRIT234]

in 5:18 can anyone tell me what s the name of the song with violin?

[krabbrace]

What's the song towards the end? Love it!

[kintelen]

krabbrace

It`s "The Death of King Arthur", poems by Thomas Malory, 15-th century. Music was written by BG in 70-ths. The song was once recorded in studio for his first album in USA "Radio Silence" (1989).

[leonvicimutlu]

clict Rak'n Iced yazin bir bakin yorumlarinizi bekliyoruz

[realfuckinggas]

DeaDly

[Minstrey]

вот посмотришь на Бориса, он даёт один из лучших примеров, которые можно найти в жизни - идти вперёд, не смотря ни на что...

[seniorfinn]

This film was shot by a chilean cameraman Cristian Valdes. The director was Ria Karhila from Finland - she also made the interviu with BG. The soundman was Ilgis Sharafutdinov from Moscow.

16 mm colour, positiv. Arriflex and nagra. For all the groups incl. Aquarium this was of course the first professional shooting.

Without Artjom/Artemy Troitski the film would´nt be possible to shoot.

The first screening was on Finnish State Television in 1980.

[FinnishKnife]

wow

[zwoulamou]

yes, mitya123. Do you know this film? How can I found it? I look at Czech Republic and in Greece and now I'm live in Australia and i'm looking for it. I can't found it. Please, if u known something tell me.

Thanks, Katerina

[DNLARS145]

What is Boris saying at the interview? Who can translate that?

[athensoh]

I could translate, but it's 3AM - too much to type. :) Maybe some time..

[DNLARS145]

bide your time... just gimme the basic ideas

[athensoh]

Q. How was Aquarium created?

BG. Aquarium was created as a community of people with good attitudes to each other, helping each other and practically living together. Spending time together, sharing thoughts, i.e. such a community as Grateful Dad, I'd say - I have discovered this only recently.

[qxwhqxrn]

@athensoh I'm sorry but it's called "new wave", not "new way". And the name of the group was "Grateful Dead", not "Grateful Dad".

[athensoh]

Q. You are not professional singers. What is your profession?

BG. I am a sociologist with mathematical education.

Q. What about other guys?

BG. Our bass guitarist is a computer engineer. Our violoncello player is a musical editor of the recording firm Melodiya (in Leningrad). The bassoonist and flute-player are professionals, as well as the drumer.

[athensoh]

Q. Who is composing music and writing lyrics for you?

BG: All musics and lyrics is written by me, but then the entire band decides whether it's good and makes corrections.

Q. What's the value of your music?

BG: The value is that (our) music doesn't adhere to standards, it's pushing out of all templates...

Q. What does this mean?

BG: We play what we want. That's why we are not professionals, rather amateurs.

Q. What do you want to play?

BG: Music, as much as possible. Various music..

[athensoh]

Q. So, what is your genre?

BG: We are called 'punk rock', 'new way', but we are returning to the beginnings of rock, as Martin correctly said. We are giving the original sense to rock...

Q. What is it?

BG. I.e. it's music for young and a free music. It's not pop music, adhered to some conventionality.

Q. How does audience accept you?

BG: We play rarely, but when we play, we are accepted...mm, well...usually. [Smile]

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[DNLARS145]

Damn!!! How do you know Russian so well?!! Are you a native speaker? (I consider native spekaers ALL who reside from the Baltic, the Black Sea to the Pacific, not just ethnic Russians)

[athensoh]

I am :) did you like what BG said?

[DNLARS145]

Yeah, I do.... strangely, why wasn't he arrested while waiting a month to find another job? (he was fired from his teaching job for a time)

[athensoh]

well, jobless people weren't encouraged in the Soviet Union, but they wouldn't be arrested too. In 1980, the state system was already too lazy and had bigger problems than arresting rebel, "insane" musicians.

[DNLARS145]

You should also see Akvarium's first music video posted by drovanes. He said it from 1980-81, but I left several questions concernig about how it got published and I was hoping you can find find some answers.

[teplep]

It's not so horrible in Eastern Europe as you think it is GoldWc :) at least in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia...

[zwoulamou]

hallo, i want to find a russian old film. The story is that a dog, called Bim (white with a black eyer) wants to found his boss- Ivan Ivancic, he was in a hospital. And Bim wants to found him. He met a lot of people good and bad. And in the final, Bim died 5 minutes before Ivan comes and found him. Please help me. Gabriel Trojopolsky write a book :bily Bim'

[mitya123]

white bim - black ear

[ZemonerZ]

vy mudaki ne hera neznayete

[burzum2]

дааа ... а от тебя несёт интелектуальной деятельностю xD

[ZemonerZ]

idi na huy

[burzum2]

тебе тока аквариум и слушать хххх

[burzum2]

копия "велвет андерграунд"

[GoldeWC]

I like USSR countries with all my heart, because all these songs and jokew and smiles and everything else is so native for me, but the real situation in Eastern Europe is more than just horrible.