chesssniper: októbra 2008

utorok 28. októbra 2008

...and another pictures from High Tatras, Slovakia...

BIJELO DUGME - Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme (1974, Yugoslavia, hardrock, 1.st album)

"Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme" is the 1974 debut LP from influential Yugoslav rock group Bijelo Dugme. Together with their second album "Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu", is considered the most heavy metal driven album of their 16 year career. At the time the band was strongly influenced by popular rock pioneers such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, together with blues and traditional Balkan music a genre that would be further explored by band leader, chef lyricist and composer Goran Bregović in latter years. Bijelo Dugme (“White Button”) were a highly influential rock band stationed in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, originally when in Yugoslavia. Active between 1974 and 1989, they are considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in the former Yugoslavia. Founder of the band was Goran Bregović, who spent much of his childhood in a Musical School for violin players, from which he was expelled for “lack of talent”. Soon after his expulsion, his mother bought him a guitar, and thus, Bijelo Dugme was born. Goran Bregović often admitted that his main motivation for forming the band was because “women were more receptive to musicians”. Bregović was the band’s sole composer and wrote most of the lyrics, although some of the most popular Bijelo dugme songs weren’t written by Bregović, for example: "Ima neka tajna veza", "Glavni junak jedne knjige", "Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu", "Pristao sam biću sve što hoće" were written by Duško Trifunović, "Da sam pekar", "Selma" were written by Vlado Dijak, "Loše vino" by Arsen Dedić etc. After recruiting the band’s first line up, Bijelo dugme under the name Jutro (translation: “Morning”) were turned down by Sarajevo based record company Diskoton, but were offered to record a single for another record company, Jugoton. The first single was named "Kad bi’ bio bijelo dugme" (translation: “If I were a white button”). After the single was released, Bregović was convinced by the band’s manager to change the band’s name to Bijelo dugme. With charismatic vocalist Željko Bebek, the band soon reached stardom in the former Yugoslavia, as one newspaper put it, they sold more albums then there were record players in Yugoslavia. The pinnacle of the band’s career was 1979’s Bitanga i Princeza, the album is often heralded as their most mature with vocalist Zeljko Bebek. They were often referred to as the Yugoslav Beatles. The turn of the decade brought the rise of numerous new wave artists, including Azra, and Bijelo dugme soon found their popularity sinking, to which they reacted by reinventing themselves for their 1980 release "Doživjeti stotu", featuring a much more new wave oriented sound. 1984 brought the departure of Željko Bebek to pursue a solo career and Mladen Vojičić - Tifa was recruited to replace him for their 1984 self-titled release. He was booted from the band because of inner conflicts and was replaced by Alen Islamović, formerly vocalist of the heavy metal band Divlje jagode for their last two, folk-inspired records. The band disbanded in 1989 after Alen Islamović checked into a hospital for chest pains during their last tour, without telling anyone he was ill. The real reasons have never been elaborated, but most people suspect the dissolution of Yugoslavia caused the breakup of the band, because the band was often seen as a symbol of unity among the peoples of Yugoslavia. Some of Bijelo dugme’s the most popular songs are: "Selma", "Lipe cvatu", "Đurđevdan", "Ipak poželim neko pismo", "Ima neka tajna veza", "Pristao sam biću sve što hoće, "Loše vino" "Lažeš", "Ne spavaj mala moja muzika dok svira", "Blues za moju bivšu dragu" etc. The band reunited for three concerts in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Belgrade in 2005 with all three vocalists, but without drummer Goran “Ipe” Ivandić who committed suicide in Belgrade, Serbia in 1994. (from Wikipedia)

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piatok 24. októbra 2008

René Lacko Band - blues rock power trio... just see and listen clip!

René Lacko is en excellent slovakian blues rock guitarist, that sounds and plays like Jimi Hendrix.
Believe or not! René with his white Stratocaster in North Carolina,U.S.A., 1996, was a semifinalist (best of european players) of competition, organized by Jimi Hendrix family every year (Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar Competition) .

http://www.renelacko.com/band.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTtLSSp8Sv0

Queen Elisabeth II. Visit in High Tatras, National Park, Slovakia, October, 24, 2008

...my older son Martin... (author of pictures - see below)

...and my younger son Michal....

...and High Tatras, Slovakia - visited by Queen Elisabeth II. today!

Aunt Mary – Aunt Mary (1970)

Self-titled album from the norwegian band Aunt Mary may be considered as one
of the first (and, possibly, the best) progressive rock product from this country.
Eleven tracks present an interesting mixture of psychedelic, blues and jazz with some
prog tendencies. Each track has a memorable melodie with short,
but sweet to ears solo part from musicians.
Jan Groth with his hammond makes a unique atmosphere on tracks like
"Whispering farewell" and "Rome wasn't bult in one day".
Alongside with with guitarist Bjorn Christiansen they provide some
strong vocal - separetly and together. Their formula of keyboard-oriented
progressive rock later will be used by such legendary norvegian groups as
Popol Vuh and Titanic, but musicians from Aunt Mary were the first on this way.
Great album by a great band! Should be heard by any lover of
early prog. - progarchives.com

Tracklist:

1. Whispering farewell (4:00)
2. Did you notice (3:18)
3. Theres a lot of fish in the sea (3:51)
4. I do and I did (4:52)
5. 47 steps (4:39)
6. Rome wasn't built in one day (2:59)
7. Come in (3:29)
8. Why don't you try yourself (2:28)
9. The ball (3:33)
10. All my sympathy for Lily (3:21)
11. Yes, by now Ive reached the end (2:51)

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