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this is
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KNKKKKKKKKKKK #2
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made by K.N.K. members
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in 1993 summer
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well, this is zine of my friends and mine, made in
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spring of 1993. Now, as i have possibilities, i remaid
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it into e-zine. Few interesting pages are disappeared
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somewhere, such as Albania scene report, but all in all
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you'll have a somewhat look at Lithuanian scene at 1993
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and of our neighbourhoods too.
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Here below i include brief history of K.N.K. (thought
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it may be interesting for you):
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I DON'T KNOW WHEN KOKS NORS KELIAS WERE REALLY STARTED,
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cause I wasn't with them from the very begining. At my
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first years in University I've met Snapsas, and step by
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step here we go... At first I'va done some graphic work
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and after that there was an idea to use an advantages of
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computer world instead of typewriter...
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At that time the axis of work was "widely opened altern
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ative music fanzine". It was made in our native Lithuanian
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language and spread in underground scene for freeeeeeee.
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So there was KNK#4, KNK#6 (there's no mistake, simply
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there was a rumour that someone had seen a guy reading
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#5 already, so we jumped over this number), KNK#7 (at
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that time -- and i think even now -- it was a biggest
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Lithuanian zine -- about 40 pages -- some kind of leader),
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KNK#8, KNK#9 (with a single of some punk band included).
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In the autumn of 1993 KNK#10 was released. To make all
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this we needed mony, so there were made two issues of
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KNK in English, in order to earn money. They were
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called KNKKKKKK, i.e. KNK c(K)omercial. One of them you
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read now. Earned money were used to make copies of
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Lithuanian numbers and to make a punk festival (lots of
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fun :).
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And now were are in 1994. There's another KNK#11 made
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through spring and summer, another huge edition containing
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about 40 pages, but we have no money to make copies
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of it, because prices of xeroxing became high enough.
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And also the leader of stuff - Gonzikas - has left the
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country heading for the Praha - studies in C.E.U.
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And now all our activities are in KNK / RADIO MARABU
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RADIO SHOW on radio TITANIKA. This program is held out
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weekly on Monday evenings, and an one hour of it is
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dedicated for alternative music compilation, where
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we can promote also your's works. If you are interested
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in it, or in some more information about WHAT'S GOING ON
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HERE, write 2 us: or contact me via e-mail:
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c/o SARUNAS KARALIUS jurena@zalgiris.pit.ktu.lt
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KNK
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P.O.BOX 114
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3005 KAUNAS
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a friend of yours,
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JuNe
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and don't be afraid - we know English pretty well,
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but the way it looks here semms much more joyfool....
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TIME FOR ADVERTISMET !!!!!!
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KNK / MARABU
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alternative music
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RADIO SHOW
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is a project based on co-operating between KNK alternative music fanzine & radio show and RADIO MARABU from Germany.
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Our shows are broadcasted on radio station TITANIKA (73.73 MHz / 105.9 MHz) every Monday 21.00--24.00. Two hours of program are produced by RADIO MARABU and one hour by KNK.
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KNK hour includes reviews and music of all promotional material we've received from you. So, if you are interested, don't sleep, get in touch and send YOUR STUFF !!!
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KNK RADIO MARABU
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c/o Sarunas Karalius p.o. box 220 342
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p.o. box 114 42373 Wuppertal
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3005 Kaunas GERMANY
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LITHUANIA tel./fax 0541186713
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tel. (3707)718778
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more information available by E-Mail:
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jurena@zalgiris.pit.ktu.lt
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give us a call, and win!
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just make it!
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JuNe
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WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
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NOT A LITTLE SHIT !
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(to avoid troubles on my head, i've made one change - all over the text there are f**k,
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what it mean I think you know very vell. A original text is with full typing of this word)
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SCENE REPORT
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Ive been considering for some time what should we
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choose as a basis of a scene report of dying lith
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uanian underground.And one night as was laying on
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my pillow a nice idea came to my head:
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REHEARSAL PLACES!!!!! that's it !
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Im a bit sorry that this story is a bit chaotic,
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but I will try to cover as much bands as possible
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Rehearsal place is essential thing for any band
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as it starts and all the time on.Most bands call
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their shitty dwelling places tenderly,like 'our
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studio'.Most of the places are shared by several
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bands,like sharing also amps and drumset and then
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standing and waiting for their neighbours to fini
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sh.A sad sight. It usually takes several months
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to find any possible place and another two to lo
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se it.I believe a band which found a good rehear
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sal room is automatically committed to stardom.
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But all that punky scene which we are part of ...
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SA SA,a first legendary Lithuanian punk band of 82-
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87 (yes there were punk bands even then.Linas out
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of Turbo Reanimacija tells that when he came to li
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ve to Seskine district in 1981 found 'Punk and '
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grafitti on his house...) rehearsed in a place ca
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lled children/pioneers club cos somebodys lover was
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this clubs director.There they managed to create
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their brilliant cynical songs...but they patologi
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caly avoided any publicity and remeined a mystic
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part of our underground.They staged performances
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and plays there,which were very unique.IR VISA TAI
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KAS YRA GRAZU YRA GRAZU another brilliant avangar
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de/indie/God knowswhat our band (called lithuanian
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Cardiacs????? ) rehearsed in a cellar under guitaris
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ts house.Once they had a new song 'Death of Husse
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in' with cellos,tubes,trombones and so on.But chi
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ldrens chorus members who had to sing in that son
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g could not get inside because of lack of the spa
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ce so they ran away.SVASTIKOS SUKITES GREITAI once
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an angry guitar rock band used to rehearse in coll
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ective gardens.It is a piece of land outside the
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town usually 25mx25m given away by soviet governme
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nt for urban people to grow vegetables.It is a kin
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da strange in our country,we dont have suburbs but
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block house districts and this small piece of land
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with house.They look terrible but is a good place
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for parties.So SSG rehearsed there and moving bass
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drum left a deep trace on a luxury oak floor so as
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dad saw it he got terribly angry.Now they a pop ba
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nd so they have a place near Rasu cementary which
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they share with several thrash bands.SIAURES KRYP
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TIS,another leading lithuanian indie band,used to
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rehearse in a basement in a cinema.Their bassist u
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sed to live there and he had to listen to all the
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se sounds of strange movies.Now they grew big and
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found sponsors.LYGIAI LYJA another gothic band fro
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m Siauliai were lucky cos they got a brilliant pla
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ce in Institutes international club like in soviet
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times a prestige room to meet guests from Middle A
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sia.In general many bands especially thrash/death
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ones rehearse in their (former) schools.Sometimes
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you have a hall shared with folk song chorus (VIE
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VERSELIAI) or modern dance groop (PRESERVATIVE FAC
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TORY.By the way I witnessed how they were attacked
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by dumb macho boys with gas ballons cos the invade
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rs liked only pop music).Or you can go to school
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cellar or pioneer room,which in soviet times had
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Lenin posters and red banners all around.In Kaunas
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I 3 years ago visited thrash band ABSCESS in a sch
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ool.Their guitarist was hiding from service in so
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viet army and his own parents,so they played in
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their studio only at nights.He said the most annoy
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ing thing in his life was to be waked by school
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bells.Also often you can get into a situation when
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some ukvedys takes the keys and even doesnt allow
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to take away equipment,like when MORGAS rehearsed
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in Central Kaunas Heating Network office.Now in
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Vilnius punky band DEPRESIJA rehearsed on a roof
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of 9 floor building cos their drummer lived there
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They were extremely afraid of wind blowing...Un
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lucky ones like ALAUS ALAUS or SC had to choose
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a cellar of the same kind of building.It is as
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big as 2mx3m.The lithuanian punk77 leading band
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ERKE MAISE rehearsed everywhere including WC.
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Then they found another childrens club and squa
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tted a cellar under it,now proclaimed a 'Vilnius
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Punk Club'.They have now all other bands rehear
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sing in this collective like 16 OBOROTOV,SKAT
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and so on.Sometimes they have bands from exUssr
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coming to play in their punkjamsessions.Luk Haas
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and Donny The Punk out of MRR have visited this
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wonderrful place.Sometimes they have catastrophes
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there.Once vamzdis broke and shitty water filled
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up all basement.Also upstairs they had a big
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collection of various animals like rats,fish,etc.
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But the guy who was responsible often got drunk
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for several days and was forgetting to feed them.
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So recently all the fauna died.Leading lithuanian
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hardcore band TURBO REANIMACIJA started in vario
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us places including all members living room (also
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very fashionable thing in our scene).When they got
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a place in school a TV came to make programme abo
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ut them.In that they shouted that they dont need
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to be sponsored,so surprisingly various businessm
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en started phoning them.Then they lost their pla
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ce and their brilliant demo 'Turbo Reanimacija'
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was recorded/mixed using Sony walkman and russian
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audio amp.Then they got a place in Pedagogical Un
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iversity campus,but were thrown away by fire secu
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rity cos nearby there were various clothes and st
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uff stored and that could catch fire.So they use
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d to get into the romm by tiny window at night cos
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they had no key.But then the pipe broke and all
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was covered by shit canalisation water.Now lucki
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ly they have a rehearsal place in Philosophy facu
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lty,but line-up is shaking.
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Now a bit of my personal experiences from Kaunas
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scene of 88-93.Many bands like DEFLORACIJA or SAL
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IN SETONA were using palepes for rehearsing becau
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se they lived in private houses.But as sound goes
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to all neighbours that wont last long.SALIN SETONA
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then skipped to private house cellar half of which
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was occupied by a bath.Another great lithuanian pu
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nk band of late 8os 33% KIAULIU PAKELIUI I VATIKANA
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first rehearsed in a living room but as walls were
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extremely thin there and they often used it as pub
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lic house they had to escape.Then they had it in a
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far suburb in Greenhouse Plant building.PIONIERIAUS
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GARBES ZODIS had a wonderful palce in city theatre.
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KELIAS I KOMUNIZMA a Kacergine villadge band had
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a place in so-called culture house,a cinema in a
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villadge,but split up when place was remade into a
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commercial building for wedding parties.But band
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KOMUNA from Svencionys play only in weekends cos
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under their place there are postoffice and villad
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ge officials.
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My own band PRIEMONES had a nice place in Televis
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ion plant in a suburb of Kaunas.Deep in its teri
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tory,you must pass posts and workshops,there is
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a tiny sauna with snooker game room made for wor
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king class parties during soviet times,full of
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empty bottles.ORFANAI C another my band used to
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share a cellar with avangarde band NAJ which was
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bought by their drummer.It included a strange em
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pty building where all alcoholics and pigeons
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from nearby bazar used to shit.But cellar was
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extremely wet even in a hot summer so all our
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equipment was covered by pelesiai.We were thro
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wn away for breaking avantgardists equipment,then
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tried out a Agriculture Academy and Trolleybus
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Park place.Vilnius based indie band SKYLE re
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hearse in a Medical Faculty place which has a
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deep smell of formaline.AS MYLIU BLIXA BERGELDA
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IR RUSIJA a noise/industrial band got a nice pla
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ce in a new district,but their noises were too
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much.A old woman came from nearby blockbuilding
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to check out who is breaking the baldai...
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She was extremely shocked to find their metal
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instruments and nobody drunk or stoned...and
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you know as you make a gig in your room someti
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mes neighbours call a police...
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The example of new economical thinking is band
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MARICHUANA.They have a rich dad who managed to
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get them a place in LITEXPO centre,big white
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building for markets and exhibitions...
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But somehow it is a big pity that we are not li
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ke latvian bands which all have one big rehear
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sal hall in Riga Tornis water tower.Someones dad
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was a director of all Riga's canalization...
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IR VISA TAI KAS YRA GRAZU YRA GRAZU
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HOW DID YOU START?
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Arturas:It was all in 1987 when I had my painying exhi
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bition with music.Then Baras came to my place and said
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- your music is very cool,lets strat an avantgardee
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band.I reply - ok,lets go.We went to Rudamina,a villadge
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where I am a music teacher,found a drumkit,my wife played
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flute,I played guitar and Baras sang.So this was the start
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of the band.Then we began searching for musicians,I found
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one more guitarist,then my brother found a drummer and we
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all arrived in Rudamina and started playing...we had no
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plans then.
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Rimas:even Atsuktuvas played drums
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A:Yes first it was Atsuktuvas we bashed out a few songs
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and a had an unsucessful gig in students fest.The work
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really started when we went to Vilnius and started rehear
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sing in some cellar.
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AND NOW ..
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A:Now I have invited two saxophonists - bariton and alt,
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no more solo guitars,I play all string instruments,also
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drums,violin and vocal.Now my little wife sings.The sa
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xofonist said that she is becoming lithuanian Laura An
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derson.Quite not bad...
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R:We dont know what will come out of her...
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A:I would like her to grow like Aras,her Aras...
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HOW DO YOUR FIND YOUR LYRICS..
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A:What??
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R:Maironis,outstanding lithuanian peot of 20s...
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A:My brother and Baras used to pick up the lyrics.This
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means Baras provided patological part and Rimas the in
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telectual part.We found some really fine verse.So spea
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king frankly it was a sort of middle between dumb wri
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ting and intelectual verse.Anyway lyrics must be lyrics.
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WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN YOUR STYLE OF MUSIC?..
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A:Va!..we cant do it another way.And we never have in
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our minds beforehand which style we could use,when we
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get together I say "Gee,I have got an idea".And we ne
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ver cared what and how may come of it.At first stage I
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and Baras desired to have an avantgarde band.I collec
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ted many instruments,many various nonsenses,but as soon
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as we had drums it all changed a bit,wanted we it or not.
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WHY DO YOU PLAY?
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I play fifteen years already.Even more.I paint and play
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all the time.My guitar is always covered with paint.It
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is always aside me.I play and paint,I paint and play.
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This is essential part of my life.So I cant answer this
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question.I can demonstrate this...maybe then when we
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make something,so it seems it is cool,and others can
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appreciate it.
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CAN YOU TELL SOME STORY...
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A:I remeber when we wereon the merge of splitting up,I
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tried to stick it all with glue.I invited them all to
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Rudamina to celebrate national independence day.It was
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very good to rehearse then we became good friends.
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AND SOMETHING MERRY...
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It was interesting when we went to Riga to play in so
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me avantgarde festival.We didnt rehearse,because our
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singer was drunk for a month.We decided not to go,but
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drunk Baras suddenly came to Rudamina when it was
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five hours left to the train.It was really something.
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And when we came to Riga instead of going to have a
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little sleep,we went to the movies.And it was a porno
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film.We all went out like t h i s,with standing dicks.
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F**k it,we need a beer...
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AND WHAT ABOU THAT GIG?..
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A:It was cool..
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R:I was playing really loud,itwas like a toothache...
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A:The violin was really very loud.It is hard to deal
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with acoustic instrument,and that was a violin and al
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so a flute.I went to the sound engineer and told him
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that if we have no violin and skuduciai,lithuanians
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will f**ky strangle you.
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R:So he exegerrated it all.
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A:We played quite many gigs for the students,several
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times we fooled in sports hall(capacity 1000) using
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a playback.There were gigs,even a solo gig in a pla
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netarium...the vocalist though was too drunk...
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DO YOU LIKE ICECREAM?
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A:Yes!!! In general I like sweets.
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R:I cant stand them.
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DO YOU WASH SOCKS?
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A:Yes,I do.
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R:Baras didnt wash socks.So he had to leave.We couldnt
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stand the stinking,it made rehearsing difficult.
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ANYTHING ELSE?
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We had many projects,we want to jam a little with BIX,
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they have a nice place,we could use three drummers.We
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would like to have a tape or LP out,but we need to play.
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And it is hard to play in summer,the strings are too
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hard..hot.Before we wanted to do something with children
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chorus.I asked ten children to come when we did a song
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"Death of Hussein" But it was not enough place in our
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rehearsing cellar,we had too many musicians,some woman
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played violin,tube,trumpet.and children were afraid
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of music so they ran away.Now they feel sorry...I cant
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paly from notes.Once I wanted to play some spanish piece
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from notes..../wawes his hand/....
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R:choroso bylo....
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(: :)
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C.Q.A.
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this interwiew introduces one of the best punky bands
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from Vilnius,that is russian language band.Kliaksa
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conducted interwiew with their leader San Sanytch.
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STORY OF THE BAND?
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our band has a simple history.We were three silly young
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boys who couldnt play instruments and listened too much
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to SEX PISTOLS,read Bakunin and watched The great rock
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n'roll swindle who decided to change the world.It happe
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ned at the end of 1990.Later other members choose other
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styles:first our guitar player started a thrash duo ATO
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NEMENT a'la KOROZIJA METALA,also our drummer plays thrash
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only more interesting and original.Second guitarist Pepsel
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now plays with some stupid man named Coi and copies KINO.
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And I play wherever I can and whoever I meet.
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The name C.Q.A. means credo quia absurdum and I cant remem
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ber who said that but someone from first christians.Before
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we were named 16% after the strength of beer "Tauras".We
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loved it and still love it,at the time it was best brand
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of beer in Lithuania.
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU NEVER PLAYED MUSIC?
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I would draw or create sculptures.After all these possible
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stimulations my head has tons of energy and ideas and if
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you wont get them outside you can be overloaded and explo
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de.What I do in a music field is just simply shit - remains
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after my mental activity.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF GRAZDANSKAYA OBORONA?
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One can recieve,accept G.O. at two levels.First level is e
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motions.It is similar at animals (e.g. dogs) when they howl
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at the music or at shamen,witches in ancient tribes.So if
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you are into G.O. at this level then all songs are just
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curses,magic words where lyrics in fact have no sense at
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all,the words are needed to express sounds.You can check spe
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cific literature if you want go deeper.The second level --
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are the lyrics themselves.In order to recieve GRAZDANSKAYA
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OBORONA in this level one needs to be very wise or one must
|
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have lived for a longer time in conditions like Letov himself
|
|
lived in.What about me,so I love G.O. but I am not going to
|
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copy them and if my early pieces sounded like G.O. it was
|
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just because of youthfullness.
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|
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IN ONE YOUR TAPE YOU DO SOME SPOKEN WORD PIECE.IS IT TO IN
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TRODUCE YOUR SONG 'SLEPOGLUCHONEMOTA' ?
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|
This was called 'Phoenix the bird' and I am just citing
|
|
Ray Bradbury '451 F' and it has nothing to do with my songs.
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|
|
|
WHAT ABOUT YOUR GIGS,PUNK SESSIONS?
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|
There were lots of them concerts,sessions,mostly in Vilnius.
|
|
We went to play in Kiev,Ukraine aand the one in Kishinev,
|
|
Moldavia did not turn out.The best one was when I had no
|
|
bass in Cure fanclub in Vilnius this april,probably that
|
|
wont happen again.However the sound engineer was very scared
|
|
and constantly turned the vocals down.
|
|
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|
PUNX IN LITHUANIA?
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In Lithuania as well as everywhere punks split into two parts
|
|
government punk and underground punk.I dont want to talk about
|
|
government punks and I know and love punk bands like ERKE MAI
|
|
SE,SKAT,SMALKES (unfortunately they split),PILK plays punk
|
|
with a drive and also my friends Frenk,Manula and Kesar play
|
|
Letov kind of punk,before they had a name G.K.D.S.L (group of
|
|
communist diversants in free lithuania).I hate TURBO REANIMA
|
|
CIJA cos they are pigeons and play mainstreamish childish
|
|
songs.
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|
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|
BAKUNIN,KROPOTKIN,MACHNO...?
|
|
Such people existed all the time,now it may be called punk,
|
|
later a new name may come.Such people will always be they may
|
|
only choose a different name.Anarchy exists inside oneself
|
|
it is an ideal concept.It is no use to think of anarchy in
|
|
a global perspective.Homo sapiens doesnt need anarchy it
|
|
even may be dangerous for him.F**k war.I am a pacifist,I
|
|
can talk much about my ideology but I doubt if anybody is
|
|
interested...
|
|
|
|
WAHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?
|
|
Starting from classics:DOORS,early JIMI HENDRIX,early ROLLING
|
|
STONES,some BEATLES.Hard rock - BLACK SABBATH.Punk: SEX PISTOLS,
|
|
DEAD KENNEDYS,solo BIAFRA,NO MEANS NO,LARD,TUMOR CIRCUS at the
|
|
grass,TOY DOLLS,G.O.,AVTOMATICESKYE UDOBLETVORITELI,V.V.,JMKE,
|
|
Hardcore:JESUS LIZARD,TYPE OF NEGATIVE,CRUMBSUCKERS,SUCKSPEED.
|
|
Industry:MINISTRY ir SONIC VIOLENCE.Shizo:SONIC YOUTH,BUTTHOLE
|
|
SURFERS and I also love PINK FLOYD but rather older stuff.And
|
|
many more.
|
|
|
|
WASNT I F**KING BORIN?
|
|
And me?...
|
|
:)
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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TURBO REANIMACIJA
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-----------------
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THIS A VERY SERIOUS TALK WITH KASTIS OUT OF
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|
*** TURBO REANIMACIJA ***
|
|
BEST LITHUANIAN HARDCORE BAND CONDUCTED
|
|
IN DECEMBER 1992 IN VILNIUS
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|
|
A BIT ON THE HISTORY OF THE BAND?
|
|
The main reason to form TR was that all its members
|
|
even when they werent TR members had watched too many
|
|
animation films and read a lot of books for children
|
|
(and not only).RE/animacija + TURBO (turn quickly).
|
|
I was panically afraid of musical instruments,but I ad
|
|
mired sounds.Thus our first attemps were really pseudo
|
|
minimalism.I met Kriaucius (drums) in school choir and
|
|
a week after that we were experimenting with "drums".
|
|
Only after 5 years TR have suceeded to record their ef
|
|
forts in 8 track studio.Before recording we had many
|
|
other pieces which are worse than our last songs only
|
|
because of bad quality of spaces between the songs.
|
|
|
|
LINE UP?
|
|
Up to 1991 we had 3 members,in 1992 there were 4 of us.
|
|
Kriaucius - drums,Akela/Klaidas - guitars,Artas "10/20"
|
|
bass and me on voice & guitar.Kriaucius is a student
|
|
and studies in a stupid university so he is always busy.
|
|
Akela has a wife so he was also busy and not too creati
|
|
ve so he had to leave the band.Artas worked in opera&
|
|
ballet theatre so he was the only one who took the music
|
|
seriously his bass parts reminded me the repertoire of
|
|
our opera house.Last summer new bass player was like fresh
|
|
air for us so we had many alcoholic dishes at the sunny
|
|
seaside.TR got more strength howewer after doing the new
|
|
demo "Linkime pasveikti" in february 93 he was dismissed
|
|
from the band cos he was a thrash fan.I am most unstable
|
|
member of the band,I lack strength ; I never manage to
|
|
drink more than Kriaucius,Akela,Artas...I only like to
|
|
praise Lithuanian language.Once I wrote a letter to Ger
|
|
many in which I said that our music is shit only our lit
|
|
huanian lyrix are wonderful.I never got an answer since
|
|
then.
|
|
|
|
WHAT DO YOUR MUSIC AND LYRIC MEAN?
|
|
All good lyrics must be written down lay in a notebook
|
|
and wait for some time.Sometimes Kriaucius makes pressu
|
|
re upon me,he says that I should write strong,hard lyri
|
|
cs,speak about inequality,social and partially economic
|
|
problems and I unwittingly after a few weeks...maybe mi
|
|
ndsstart appearing in my head...I write something,though
|
|
in general I am against it.Our music deals with HC and
|
|
PUNK.Kriaucius and me -- we were interested and liked
|
|
this kind of music.We have done very little things co
|
|
ming from our own...So,f**k that youthful receptivity...
|
|
|
|
WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT PUNK/HC SITUATION IN LITHUANIA?
|
|
Speaking in general about punkrock movement it is possi
|
|
ble that it was no such thing in Lithuania at all.Well,
|
|
I dont want anybody to have my opinion but if you look
|
|
at things from aside I can say that some people had
|
|
overtaken some elements of punkrock aesthetic.It is re
|
|
lated to the fact that 20th century was a century of
|
|
denying and some kind of revolt,many people really re
|
|
jected aesthetical and etical norms.This century united
|
|
all spheres in which revolt took place,like a chance
|
|
for an individual to come and say "I want it to be this
|
|
way not that way" and the authorities had to adjust to
|
|
that.This has deep roots.And when it came to Lithuania
|
|
-- now or a few years ago - it was not another western
|
|
dogm but just a moment of time when a man wants to exp
|
|
ress his inner freedom has come.It is very important to
|
|
avoid superficiality.Really nice music was made in 1987
|
|
88 when a rise of punkrock took place but now we have
|
|
very few bands.The essential things can be weighted only
|
|
by time,but anyway now I can say that only a few small
|
|
islanda left where people try to do something,to declare
|
|
something or maybe just live for themselves.Here in Vil
|
|
nius I could name only a few persons and maybe even more
|
|
bands because people often play in several bands.
|
|
It is easy to play punk if you are not looking for some
|
|
thing new.There are some quadratic tunes here,which
|
|
after some time sound like primitive musical experiences
|
|
and are very simple to be used and play.I watched the si
|
|
tuation in Lithuania in festival WEGGA92,we had many
|
|
(around 15) bands,but gain they demonstrated a low level
|
|
I should say that strange conservativity is significant
|
|
for Lithuania.Many bands,usually being unaware of this
|
|
play something like punk77.The latvians in the festival
|
|
had more interesting program.Six bands had played and it
|
|
was possible to point out something newer and more seri
|
|
ous of their music.Their point of wiew concerning music
|
|
is quite differend.Their music is more complicated and
|
|
they want to make something harder than punk...Because
|
|
really much time has passed and it is really possible
|
|
to achieve something more perfect in this field of mu
|
|
sic.It is important that the movement or its aesthetic
|
|
which destroys stereotypes shouldnt become a streotype
|
|
itself.THATS ALL.
|
|
|
|
WHY DO YOU PLAY THEN?
|
|
Usually it may be primitive and very nice wish to beco
|
|
me popular.But I think that most difficult thing is to
|
|
become nobody.There are lots of people around,who want
|
|
to wand to better than others:they are united by the
|
|
same outlook : but one tries to play do-re-mi-fa-sol
|
|
la-si in a special way,another makes efforts to hammer
|
|
a nail in a special way or to earn money.
|
|
By the way the most perfect choice is to take an inst
|
|
rument,go to the mountains stay there for a ten years
|
|
and learn to play,make the sound perfect (if one can
|
|
express perfection at all) and hide from everybody el
|
|
se.Its the most perfect way to hide and know that you
|
|
are nobody.It is absolute rejection of the world.Then
|
|
you dont care about hardcore,punk,disco,etc.
|
|
|
|
POLITICAL BELIEFS..
|
|
Every authority is violence.But also you should know
|
|
that there are so many people,so somebody started to
|
|
rule them.Political beliefs is a sort of childrens ga
|
|
me,no,sorry,-adults games.Authority does all kinds of
|
|
things which makes the society be patient and have a
|
|
hard skin.I should say that masses f**k me up - they
|
|
understand only hammering of their heads,they are not
|
|
able to see any culture or movement.Time and violence
|
|
have done their job - the masses really became harden
|
|
ed creature with a hippopotamus skin.MY morbid wish -
|
|
to sacrifice the comfortable life of the masses,maybe
|
|
together with themselves for the sake of the culture.
|
|
|
|
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A MILLION?
|
|
If I had a million I would catch an ilness of spiri
|
|
tual onanism.I would use it terribly,that million...
|
|
It would be my friend and would kiss my ass,then it
|
|
would kis my friends' asses,it would kiss our music
|
|
between legs.I would cherish that million and it
|
|
would ride around free country.Then I would give half
|
|
of a million to the unemployed and it would kiss their
|
|
asses.And when winter comes I would by an overcoat,
|
|
scarf and a pair of boots
|
|
|
|
DO YOU WASH YOUR SOCKS?
|
|
Member of TR wash their socks regulary when they begin
|
|
to stink.But we have some exceptions:some days I dont
|
|
wash my socks.I hide them under my archair,but my dog
|
|
finds them and pulls them into the daylight;somedays
|
|
we have rain and socks wash themselves automatically
|
|
in the shoes in need only to dry them.Artas was always
|
|
speaking of bourgeois in the west that they dont wash
|
|
socks they buy new ones and throw the old ones out.By
|
|
the way people can also be socks,but it is another
|
|
topic...F**k such system - there is no freedom for ex
|
|
pression of personality...ha ha!!
|
|
|
|
ALCOHOL,WIMIN..
|
|
I can only say about alcohol and wimin that this is
|
|
good.In any case alcohol and wimin are dangerous only
|
|
when music brings them.Music cant give you pleasure,
|
|
it must give you joy
|
|
|
|
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF TR NOW (that is last autumn)?
|
|
I feel that we are moving forward.If we will go on
|
|
"flowing" we will be Turbo Reanimacija.Now we have
|
|
many various things,so if somebody says that ESSEN
|
|
TIALLY,really,there are less things,it will be par
|
|
tially our foult.
|
|
|
|
|
|
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
LATVIAN SCENE REPORT
|
|
--------------------
|
|
|
|
Latvia is aside with Lithuania and have many coommon featu
|
|
res including the one that latvian language is the only one
|
|
taht at least slightly reminds lithuanian.Not much of close
|
|
ties or unification has left now.Latvia was forced to become
|
|
more multinational - over 50% of Riga people are not latvian
|
|
and now erm... they live better all north Lithuania tries to
|
|
sell bread and butter in Latvia because of higher price.So
|
|
here we include Latvian scene report done with help of Janis
|
|
Daugavietis at Dziga fanzine.Some summer I vivited Latvia
|
|
and the famous Tornis tower where all underground groups re
|
|
hearse in Riga,drink,f**k,talk whatever.It is big old water
|
|
tower tower in the 3rd floor there are two rooms equipped for
|
|
modern two track studio and reel tapes,latvian and russian
|
|
fanzines all thrown around....creating a real underground work
|
|
shop atmosphere.Most of the time bands just not rehearse but
|
|
jam around or in summer they just go to the seaside and play
|
|
football and basketball oh whatever.Janis said that the main
|
|
fun is to go to shows arranged by Western capitalists in Riga
|
|
parks drink beer and watch singing children.
|
|
Whatabout conclusions to punk and related movements in Latvia,
|
|
Janis once said : punk in Latvia is not dead yet because it
|
|
was not born.And then it waas a talk that Riga should be ca
|
|
pital of northern underground.A la la la,so here we introduce
|
|
all latvian bands...
|
|
:|
|
|
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
|
|
|
LINKSMA MASTURBACIJA was fun
|
|
punk hc band from a little town
|
|
aside of Riga.Now leader of the
|
|
band Wimboo Fish said ;"no
|
|
more this"and they have split
|
|
up,leaving a demo "Brutal Com
|
|
pensation"(Tornis rec93).Bassist
|
|
Mad Rob hopes to start his own
|
|
band RAMAIS TUPLIS.
|
|
|
|
DILONIS is the strongest band from
|
|
Kuldiga earlier working
|
|
under the name of N.D.A.The members
|
|
of the band also did a fanzine "WILKS"
|
|
which was produced in a typing house
|
|
by someones dad at nights one time
|
|
it was all green.They had several demos
|
|
out all in fasty but traditional punxo
|
|
style.Now they incorporated two former
|
|
LINKSMA M members Vesturs so they
|
|
sometimes use two bass guitars oh what
|
|
ever.Their rehearsal,drinking,f**king
|
|
place in Kuldiga is called VONS and
|
|
in fact is a squatted place...
|
|
|
|
TRUBAPSIHS is a band of former member of
|
|
FUNIS & PIJOLI Martins which
|
|
now has changed name into
|
|
AINIS SARKANAZOBIS.The band plays in schizoick style .
|
|
|
|
INOKENTIJS MARPLS - DAMBIS leader,singer and vocalist of the
|
|
band started it in fact in 1985,the name comes from around
|
|
1987.They "started recording something in a room,first appea
|
|
ring in public in 1986.The the drummer was taken to soviet
|
|
army and put in jail for 4 years for escaping it and he spent
|
|
3.5 years in prison.I imitated 'suicide' in order to get
|
|
to mental hospital and avoid army thus I had to spent some
|
|
time in psychiatric clinics and once in army hospital.
|
|
In 1987 we made a debut in Riga rock club -- at the time
|
|
in Latvia it was a band ZIG ZAG playing some post punk.
|
|
One nice day bassist left us cos he lost finger from his
|
|
right hand.At the same time we went to Vilnius to play
|
|
in some punk fest but we didnt know when it happens so
|
|
we came 3-4 days too early.We know nobody in the town but
|
|
we met some punx and drank with them.They also knew not
|
|
hing about the fest and made efforts to leave us,most
|
|
probably they thought we were hippies and cant play HARD
|
|
CORE.So after spending 2 days in Vilnius railway station
|
|
we finished our first Lithuanian tour.
|
|
In the end of 1987 we made a festival in Riga with all
|
|
new bands,different styled but at the time it was all UN
|
|
DERGRAUND,it was once again in summer 1988.Our appearence
|
|
was tragic,I fell down from stage and fell asleep.Some
|
|
body woke me up and we performed something.I howled
|
|
into the mic because I couldnt see the mic hangs on my
|
|
guitar (I was told about it later).We staged a show
|
|
then cos one man who was as much gone as me was cutting
|
|
a chair with a mechanical peel.I wonder how nobody was
|
|
injured then.Friend told me that he escaped the show
|
|
because he did not to watch somebody cut into pieces.By
|
|
the way our bassist brought 50 bottles of homebrew vod
|
|
ka at that show...
|
|
We appeared in Lithuania also in fest "Purvinoji Ziema"
|
|
in Kaunas 88,and fest VILNIUS UNDERGROUND 89 made me
|
|
a huge impression,it was a big MADNESS,a forced anarchy
|
|
was in the air.Our drummer from new line-up wanted to
|
|
escape,probably he was much scared.Our show ended as
|
|
somebody jumping from stage tore off the cables.When
|
|
we went home we felt like returning from war.
|
|
In 1989 I got a phone call from Moscow,some men intervie
|
|
ved me and invited to OSTANKINO television to record
|
|
and make a video for a programme 'Devils circle'.Video
|
|
was quite shitty and it was all about Riga rock club.
|
|
Howewer the program was not aired and censored.Later
|
|
I read in a newspaper that it was propaganda of nazism
|
|
and pornography in it...
|
|
During 1990 we sstill apeared in Riga rock club but
|
|
later it was all broken for some time" Up to now
|
|
IM has no stable line up and Dambis plays with occaso
|
|
nal fans of jazz\hendrix and develops his band
|
|
AMORALA PSIHOZE.
|
|
"My band is not influanced by anybody,I have no favou
|
|
rite and listen to different kinds of music.I play
|
|
what I like and never dig making covers.Lyrics are
|
|
different - about social problems,political,philoso
|
|
phical,humorous s\\mitymes schizophrenic.I express
|
|
my world wiews and the current day in them..."
|
|
Dambis still continues being active with band,gigs,
|
|
tapes,etc...
|
|
|
|
M.GVARDE was a glitter punx band
|
|
which has done their second
|
|
tape "Dublu valsis this winter".
|
|
But them the band has split up
|
|
because their sound engineer Ingus
|
|
has died tragically.The bassist
|
|
Ivars Poskins has returned back
|
|
to his old band BEZ GREZNIBAS
|
|
playing proletrock it has started
|
|
again after one year of missing.
|
|
|
|
SHINE ON a indieyouth band was
|
|
considered one of best really
|
|
new bands in Riga after recording
|
|
their demo "Hronikass" /s.youthstyle/
|
|
in 1992.Janis says they are the
|
|
only band that continued rehear
|
|
sing even in summer after theey
|
|
had joyned new member El.
|
|
|
|
TUKSA MUCA a indie band with depres
|
|
sive elements was considered to be
|
|
best running Tornis band,they are
|
|
very productive with producing seve
|
|
ral demos early this year "Trajektorija:
|
|
sapni-relejs "and "Mikroskops".Only
|
|
the founder of band Andizons has left
|
|
from first line up with former guita
|
|
rist Juris on dr and Raimonds on g,
|
|
but girl Liene playing sax has left...
|
|
|
|
ULDIS DUMBIS is a representative of
|
|
tornis core style - the one that oc
|
|
asionally records some tape in Tornis
|
|
and is constantly looking for a drummer.
|
|
|
|
VIHERS a country punk band with fenomenal
|
|
screaming vocalist Sviests have started
|
|
again they hope to mobilize themselves
|
|
with a new drummer and deep into wawes
|
|
of latvian punk.Though
|
|
abortion?Shimmy foetus???
|
|
well,nevermind they can remembertheir shows go on...
|
|
|
|
R.A.F> is defined as CCCP punk band
|
|
but they have just started rehea
|
|
rsing and getting ready for their
|
|
first demo.Janis also mentioned the
|
|
surprrising fact that in spite the
|
|
fact that there are more russian popu
|
|
lation in Riga than latvian there
|
|
are practically no russian bands.The
|
|
only one who was at least a bit active
|
|
was II3MEHA.Also some bands happen in
|
|
Ventspils.
|
|
|
|
GRINDMASTER DEAD is another Tornis band
|
|
but they have left the only heavy grin
|
|
dddd underground band.I remember them
|
|
doing a song of a man who died and left
|
|
nothing after him and all for got him.
|
|
Let it be! Fly little latvian angels and birds.
|
|
As you see I always end with a happy note.Din!
|
|
|
|
P.A.G.A.N. is now proclaimed best new band in
|
|
Latvia being a 4 men pure hardcore (death me
|
|
tal influenced) with name standing for people
|
|
against good and normality.They come from
|
|
russian town Liepaja and rehearse in
|
|
a garage there.Now they appeared in Riga,did
|
|
a gig and 22 song demo,though before they
|
|
went to Moscow to hang around...
|
|
|
|
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
|
|
|
|
All Riga -- TORNIS,TORNIS TAPES,BANDS
|
|
(l) Eau de cologne compilation with 19 bands
|
|
(2) Latvian punk/HC compilation with 15 bands
|
|
' is contacted thru JANIS DAUGAVIETIS
|
|
A/K 35
|
|
LV 1055 RIGA LATVIA
|
|
|
|
all Kuldiga - ROTTED RAT recs,DILONIS etc
|
|
is contactec thru EDGARS EMBERGS
|
|
MUCENIEKU 28A - 32
|
|
LV 3300 KULDIGA LATVIA
|
|
|
|
Useful adresses for Lithuanian underground
|
|
PASIDARYK PATS tapes
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(offers all lithuanian underground esp.punky
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tapes,compilations and so on)
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c/o ALEKSAS NAVICKAS
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TAIKOS 1-12
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4730 SVENCIONYS
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NEIROM tapes
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(KANCIA grunge,NEIRO NOISE mope etc)
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c/o R.NAUJOKAS
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PARKO 77-47
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5309 PANEVEZYS
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TURBO REANIMACIJA
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(all their tapes,SILVIJA+IZVRASCENCAI,etc)
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c/o LINAS KRIAUCIUNAS
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MUSNINKU 7-16
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2010 VILNIUS
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KOKS NORS KELIAS (i.e. KNK)
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(if you want anything else,IR VISA..etc)
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c/o SARUNAS KARALIUS
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P.O.BOX 114
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3005 KAUNAS
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Best Latvian tapes ever: (voted by themselves)
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1. INOKENTIJS MARPLS Dambija izlase 1991
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2. N.S.R.D. Medicina & Maksla 1985
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3. PRUSAKU ANSAMBLIS Dvesele uz gridas 1975
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4. INOKENTIJS MARPLS Hubb 1992
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5. Janis Sils/Bedre Aprila eksgumetas potences 89
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6. DILONIS We love Eva Braun 1992
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7. DZELTENE PASTNIEKI Bolderajs dzelscels/naktis 81/7
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8. TUKSA MUCA Smaragda pilseta 1992
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9. RADIATORU REMONTS Darbnica slegta 1992
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10.ZIG ZAG Koncerts 1987
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AHIMSA
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P.O.BOX 30
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02-105 WARSZAWA
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POLSKA
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WHO ARE YOU REALLY...?
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We are little,green creatures with triangled
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heads,three tubes and two teeth and knockles on
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both sides of the head.Generally our shape mostly
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does re mind something like samowar...
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I USED TO KNOW OLD POLISH HARDCORE.WHAT DOES
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POLISH SCENE LOOK LIKE TODAY?
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Bands like Dezerter and Armia go on
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playing.Nowadays they are very popular bands
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having big audiences sometimes several thousand
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people.They are as much as popular as big stars
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of polish rock,winning various f**ken readers
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polls ,etc.
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Today Poland has quite many various bands - at
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least we have a country with 38 million
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nation.Some 'corpses' decided to play again
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mostly
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because they lacked some money.Many new bands are
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coming,trying to introduce something new,trying
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to show that music doesnt end with exploited and
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oi destroy,that it is obvious that instend
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mutting the water one should move own ass and
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start working.The scene here means young bands
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which indentify themselves with positive side of
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hc/punk (wegetarianism,ecology,antifascizm,fight
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against racism,sexism,church,nationalism,etc...),
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Hundreds of zines appear.We had some protest
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actions against atom power station in Zarnowiec,
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buildings in Czorztyn,korrida,against army...this
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also comes with a number of charity gigs,in 1991
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we played in a gig for free Lithuania.
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WHAT DOES NOTHER EARTH MEAN TO YOU AND WHAT ABOUT
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PLANS FOR SAVING IT?
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'Saving of Mother Earth' is a very wide
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conception.This is something more that things
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around industrial ecology - all tthese clean
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technologies,flirts are not enough.It is needed
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to juump inside peoples minds to have an
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ecological consciousness - man must come as a
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little part in harmony with other little
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particles in a huge nature system,but not like
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mad exploiters of the earth.Life according to
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nature,RESPECT FOR YOURSELF are the things to
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start from...
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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT JAZZ?GRIND?
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Jaazz - sometimes is nice sometimes is not,but I
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think it is rather nice,a sort of rock jazz -
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king crimson,yes or jazzycore - victims
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family,assasins of god,primus,24-7 spyz...
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grind - a pile of noise and someone vomiting,I
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dont understand this kind of music.It was a
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spreading of this style in Poland 4 years ago,now
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all these bands play death metal.This is the end
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of it...
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CAN YOUR MUSIC BE CALLED A COMERCIAL PUNK?
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Never heard anybody defyning us in that way
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though people want to find some name for our
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music.Most simple name for our music could be
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emojazzhippiesoulprogressivesoftcore. Commercial
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punk that could be sex pistols or exploited and
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we have nothing to do with this music.Smash
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rock'n'roll!
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF TROTTEL? Nice band.
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WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE ANIMATION CARTOON?
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THere lots of them like our polish: Bolek&Lolek,
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Zaczarowany Olowek,Porwanie Baltazara gabki,
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czech A je to!.. ,russian wolk i zajac ,french
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barbapapa ... and lots more.I am nervous when I
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see any shitty american piece with all these
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robots,cosmicshits,f**king supermans...
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WHAT ABOUT STRAIGHT EDGE?
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Ideas of S.E. were very important for us when we
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started (late 89) it was a sort of revolt.Up to
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now we dont drink,but it is rather about our
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personalities,nnot some sort of indentifying with
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S.E.Straight edge would be very useful in our
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drunk and vomiting land.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF LIFE IN LITHUANIA?
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/some sort of bragging on end of bolshevism and
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independence in our kingdom/
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..urm seriously speaking we hope that Lithuania
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escapes this soret of situation in Poland where
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absolute capitalism is introduced by
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politicians.It looks lie some 19th century
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bouergoise forms,instead of people living better
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it gets worse more hungry and homeless people
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more of them life on the verge of
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poverty.Politicians avoid social problems but
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f**k oround things like abortion,changing of
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anthem etc... and they steal milions from state
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with massive economic corruption.Christian
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nationalists seem tto take power with dangerous
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and fanatic looks.It feels like a totalitarian
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state
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It seems like f**king ruler as comunist must be
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changed into some image of priest...
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WHAT ABOU A QUESTION WITH A HOOK?
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erm its a sort like - why do you fish without a
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hook? answer is because fishing is
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bloody,f**king sport ...
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LITHUANIAN BEER REPORT
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LITHUANIAN BEER INTRUDUZIOOOO!!!
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Starting this lithuanian beer report we must say that
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the main idea about it is that we suggest that anyway
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you could better go and have some beers instead of re
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ading idiotic braggings about from our piece.But in
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the case your hand holds some styupid beer can made of
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shitty metal so you beter go on reading all our story
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The production of ber in Lithuanian began ages ago.
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These days nobody knew f**k pistols but ALUS (beer in
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lithuanioan) and MIDUS (another mystic lithuanian dri
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nk that nobody has tasted but supposedly vodka meets
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honey).It was years before Christ.The lithuanian cele
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brations included worshiping of bbeer god Ragutis to
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gether with consuming beer in enoprmous quantities.
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Thuis is absolutely natural,no? In medieval chronic
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les lithuanian ancestors are described as drunk barba
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rians with rare introductions describing pagan fests.
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OK,here we start travelling thru beery Lithuania.You
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can supposedly sail into our port named Klaipeda.This
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good town has brewery named "Svyturys" founded in 1784.
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Svyturys in english means lighthouse which is very
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simbolic.THe best beer "Baltijos" (alc.vol.4%),the
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weaker variations are "Baltijos light"(3.2%)and "Bal
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tijos original"(3.6%).Another zajabys beer is "Sirve
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nos"(4.4%)."Kursiu" beer is legendary but shitty cos
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it is light (2.8%).Anyway we must say that lithuanian
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beer is much different from western beer.We cant ima
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gine these idiotic stories of high priced beer sold
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only for adults.Beer in lithuania is all ages show and
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not anything like higly pasteurized light lemonade
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shit with a tiny bit of alcohol.Our beer is thicker,
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harder,heavyer and after having some you feel like a
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very brave knight! Klaipeda also has f**kin great
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old city where you can come across nice pubs (Ugnius
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recommends "Siksnosparnis") with old germanic atmosp
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here.
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Lets go to the next time.Another town in western li
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thuania region named Zemaitija is Mazeikia another
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bastion with brewery "Lokys"("Bear",founded in 1932)
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but new ber brads produced here "Zemaitiskas light"
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"Zematiskas dark","Lokio"(3.2%),"Venta"(2.8%)do not
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promise much.In general this area Zemaitija people
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dont like beering too much and dont understand it.
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There peasantss mostly f**k with vodka.Lets quickly
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skip to more merry corners:
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Siauliai is a town in centre of Lithuania,though it
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is mostly understood as part of Zemaitija with nice
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brewery (founded around 1890)"Ggubernija".Beer is go
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od and original and earlier it used to be even bet
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ter.Smiling bbeers are "Gubernija"(4.3%),and also
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"Siauliu"(3.7%),"Pirslio"(3.4%),"Sodzius"(3.9%),"Dva
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ro.".THere aro no more nice facts about Siauliai.
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Kaunas is second biggest Lithuanian town.The best
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and power old brewery "Ragutis" (named after fam
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ous lithuanian beer god,founded 1861) now splits
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into some productive ancestors which cover at le
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ast with 1/3 of lithuanian land with beer (more
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job is done by "Utenos gerimai").Among many scree
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ny bear sorts are "Birzieciu"(6.1%),"Sirvenos"(4.4%),
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"Ukininku"(3.9%),and during the heavy/thrash festival
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in Kaunas i tasted a new thing - "The old Kaunas"
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(4.2%).VERY GOOD! (but it's not clear , what is bet
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ter : "The old Kaunas" or the festival , where i did
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stage diving). So , everything seems to be O.K. in
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Kaunas with berrr.Come and hyujumkukbyj !
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Before going to lands that are owerflooded wiht
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beerry we have a little stop in most shitty towny
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"Panevezys".It is most full own american styled
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shaved sportswear kids (not exactly skinheads),
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which enjoy attacking newcomers.A little nice bre
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werty is "Kalnapilis" (founded in ... dont know
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Besxt brands are "Aukstaiciu"(5%),"Birzu"(5%),
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other "Cicinsko","Zveju","Panevezio"are a bit
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more bitter but weak and smell like shit like all
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Panevezys very specific to all this town.Beer from
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Panevezys is better when bought in some other town
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witout going into this crusty hole.
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And now welcom e in NORTH LITHUAANIA! Please belie
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ve this is nice land with kind people.Anyone who has
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at least some respect toi himself here makes homebrew
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beer,shares it with neighbours and makes efforts to
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distribute it among people.Homebrew is many times bet
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ter than factories production.This taastes good and
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IS strong.This is awesome!.The capital of homebrew
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beer is little town Pasvalys.Ber is produced here
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almost in every second house.This town has a really
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good name in underground circles.Each year they have
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small musical fest which attracts hitchhikers from
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all country.Many people dont have a chance to see
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anything besides beer when they come there,but in
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the next morning friends teel each other stories
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what did they did last night,what they saw though
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their memories often have blach holes.All these sto
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ries have a shape,smell and taste of magic,absurd
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and wonderful tales...everybody go to pasvalys!..
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Birzai is a town near Pasvalys.There is another
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brewery "Kalnapilis" with nice brands "Sirvenos
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"Birzu","Baltijos","Kauno"(3.4%).Also this town has
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an old castle and lake so you can have a rest and
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drink on the grass and riot on.On tthe road to Pas
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valys there are many gardens with fresh apples so
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when we missed the bus and walked we survived on
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apples..then we were attacked by a bull when we
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decided to steal some water from the cows in the
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night.Then we got into a truck...Speaking frankly
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Birzai is nice.
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Also homebrew beer is produced in towns Joniskis,
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Kupiskis,Rokiskis.
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Region named Aukstaitija was always OK.It has many la
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1kes and forests - good places to drink.Also it has
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Lithuanian Beer Capital - Utena.The circulation of
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beer lovers never stops at huge brwwery "Utenos Geri
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mai" (founded in 1975).Beer is here very good it is
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produced also for export.The most weird story is that
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much beer is exported to Australia for lithuanian exi
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les,which prefer it to local brands.Most strongest
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beer in Lithuania "Porteris"(6.4%)is produced there to
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gether with "Utenos"(4.6%),"Lietuviskas"(5%)-wowww!!!,
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"Baltijos"(4%),good brands are "Bociu"(3%),"Aukstaiti
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jos"(3.2%).Also they started producing elitist kind of
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beer which is quite highpriced (0.5$)"GJ" which sounds
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like "Utenos " beer meets german brands.Wuilia.! The
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town itself has a lot of metalfans,bikers and stuff.
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Beer is everywhjere,life can not proceeed witout it.
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And also Vilnius.The capital has good brewery "Tau
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ras" (founded in 1869)with reallu good brands like
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"Tauras"(4.5%),"Senieji Trakai"(4.2%)& "Vilniaus"(3%)
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Also beer can be bought by liters.Almost every day
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in green parks of Vilnius young underground genera
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tions spend many hours drinking beer.Each 5 minutes
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some older people dressed in rags come and ask for
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empty bottle.
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IN general in Lithuania there are no problems with
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beer.Previous comunist regime was controlling too
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many things,so it was a bit of disorder in beer in
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dustry.Now you can drink what you like and as much
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as you like.Usually in our country the beer is avai
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lable in liters so you need some can to avoid f**king
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with glass bottles.The most popular is 3 liter jar.
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Underground people drink in cellars in winter and
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in the parks or near the lake in summer or you can
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go to the bar or on the roof.We are happy!!!
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THAT'S ALL FOR NOW.... HOPE YOU LIKED THIS
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ANYWAY, YES OR NOW, KEEP US IN CONTACT - WE NEED IT,
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AND YOU NEED IT TOO !
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POST ALL 2: K.N.K.
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c/o SARUNAS KARALIUS
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p.o.box 114
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3005 KAUNAS
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LITHUANIA
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or contact me with e-mail:
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jurena@zalgiris.pit.ktu.lt
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Cheers and beers!
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JuNe
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