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Boris Grebenshchikov - Early years | | Boris Grebenshchikov - Early years: Encyclopedia II - Boris Grebenshchikov - Early years | | The first six years of Aquarium's history lacked cohesion as Grebenshchikov and his various bandmates followed the Soviet equivalent of the hippy lifestyle: playing apartment jams, drinking the low-quality port wine available from the Soviet stores of the time, and intermittently travelling to remote gigs, even hitchhiking on rail freight cars.
Youthful philandering was heavily frowned upon by the Communist Party regime; decent recording facilities were out of reach because experiments in non-standardized self-expression were routinel ...
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 - Early years
Boris Grebenshchikov - Early years
The first six years of Aquarium's history lacked cohesion as Grebenshchikov and his various bandmates followed the Soviet equivalent of the hippy lifestyle: playing apartment jams, drinking the low-quality port wine available from the Soviet stores of the time, and intermittently travelling to remote gigs, even hitchhiking on rail freight cars.
Youthful philandering was heavily frowned upon by the Communist Party regime; decent recording facilities were out of reach because experiments in non-standardized self-expression were routinely suppressed as a matter of policy. The several homebrew 2-track recordings hacked out over those years ("Temptation of St. Aquarium" (Iskushenie Svyatogo Akvariuma), "Count Diffusor's Fables" (Pritchi grafa Diffuzora), "Menuet for a Farmer" (Menuet zemledel'tzu), and a motley crew of "singles") were of necessity extremely unprofessional, but already showcased the off-kilter wit, showy erudition, and a pervasive interest in Oriental thought and mysticism that eventually became BG's trademarks.
The year 1976 also saw the recording of BG's first solo album, "On the Other Side of the Looking Glass" (S toy storony zerkal'nogo stekla; the name is in fact a reference to Lewis Caroll), and a duo album with another prominent nascent Russian rock-n-roller, Mike Naumenko (web site in Russian), "All Brothers - Sisters" (Vse brat'ya - sestry).
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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