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Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years | | Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years: Encyclopedia II - Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years | | BG's big break (or, in retrospect, his and the band's "watershed" moment), however, came in 1980, when Artem Troitzky (web site in Russian), the first public Russian rock critic and the enabling figure in many a Russian rock musician's carrier, invited Aquarium to perform at the Tbilisi Rock Festival.
The festival was a state-sanctioned attempt to channel the then-burgeoning Russian rock music movement into a controllable ideological vessel. If featured a laundered list of party-proof bland rock bands, but also Kraftwerk, whose ...
See also:Boris Grebenshchikov, Boris Grebenshchikov - Early years, Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years, Boris Grebenshchikov - Going West, Boris Grebenshchikov - Returning East, Boris Grebenshchikov - And back to basics, Boris Grebenshchikov - Worth noting, Boris Grebenshchikov - Singles | | | Boris Grebenshchikov, Boris Grebenshchikov - And back to basics, Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years, Boris Grebenshchikov - Early years, Boris Grebenshchikov - Going West, Boris Grebenshchikov - Returning East, Boris Grebenshchikov - Singles, Boris Grebenshchikov - Worth noting | | |
| | | Boris Grebenshchikov: Encyclopedia II - Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years
Boris Grebenshchikov - Classical years
BG's big break (or, in retrospect, his and the band's "watershed" moment), however, came in 1980, when Artem Troitzky (web site in Russian), the first public Russian rock critic and the enabling figure in many a Russian rock musician's carrier, invited Aquarium to perform at the Tbilisi Rock Festival.
The festival was a state-sanctioned attempt to channel the then-burgeoning Russian rock music movement into a controllable ideological vessel. If featured a laundered list of party-proof bland rock bands, but also Kraftwerk, whose performance was accompanied by frisbees being launched into the public. Members of the jury (the occasion was officially an artistic contest) were not amused. A covert KGB-bound report pinned the shennanigans on Aquarium, which caused BG to lose his day job at a backwater design bureau (of a kind that employed the majority of technical specialty graduates in the Soviet Union; Russians called them "P.O. Box" (pochtoviy yaschik) because their street addresses were never revealed), and membership in Komsomol, a Young Communist League, which was a career kiss of death for a Soviet citizen in 1980.
The band's underground profile, however, had continued to rise sharply over the next 7 years, post-Brezhnev KGB-fueled reactionism and Gorbachev's perestroika notwithstanding. This was both due to talent, and the scarcity of supply - Western rock music was still officially banned at the time. Over the first five albums, the band attracted guitarist Alexander Lyapin, considered to be among the best rock guitar players of Russian origin, the pianist Sergey Kuryokhin, renowned for the impressive speed and virtuosity of his playing and boundless avant-garde experimentation, and Igor Butman, a world-class jazz saxophone player and one of the reigning kings of Russian jazz.
By the time Aquarium disbanded amid internal squabble in 1987, they had 11 "official" records behind their belt and were considered a living legend of Russian rock. BG himself was likened to Bob Dylan, not least because of his borrowing amply from Dylan in his earlier years. "Railway water" (Zheleznodorozhnaya voda) off the 1981 "Blue album" (Siniy albom), for example, is a spitting image of Dylan's "It takes a lot to laugh" off the 1961 "Highway 61 revisited".
Other related archives1953, African, Alexander Vertinsky, Annie Lennox, Aquarium, Armenian, Bardo Thodol, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Brezhnev, Bulat Okudzhava, Byron, Cat Stevens, Chrissie Hynde, Communist, Dave Stewart, Eurythmics, Gabrielle Roth, Gorbachev, Hinduism, Indian, Jivan Gasparyan, KGB, Kate St. John, Kino, Komsomol, Kraftwerk, Kriya yoga, Leningrad, Lewis Caroll, Mashina Vremeni, Nautilus Pompilius, November 27, Radio Silence, Russian, Russian Orthodoxy, Sergey Kuryokhin, Shakespeare's Sister, Tbilisi, The Band, Thomas Malory, Ticket To Ride, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Upanishad, Yajur Veda, blues, chanson, perestroika, port wine, samurai
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