From: leonid@tuna.uchicago.edu (Leonid Andreev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Boris Grebenschikov
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:15:17 GMT
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Organization: University of Chicago CILS

In article <1992Dec19.001335.18691@husc3.harvard.edu> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes:
>   In article <LEONID.92Dec18185117@tuna.uchicago.edu> leonid@tuna.uchicago.edu (Leonid Andreev) writes:
>   >I'm so glad to meet such a true connoisseure of BG's oeuvre, like 
>   >you are, Mikhail.  
>		      ( - thanks - MV)

Dl'a horoshego cheloveka - ne zhalko.

>	   Well, in "Delo Mastera Bo" (the authorized 
>	   "complete" collection of Aquarium lyrics, fairly recent) 
>	   this song is marked by 1982, but there could
>	   be mistakes, as BG often does not know 
>	   when and who wrote some A. song nor which
>	   text was used. 

Really? I did not know he used so much lyrics, written by
other people, he did not even know who they are. I know he sung a 
number of songs by Vertinsky, he used some well known English
lyrics as well ( "Woodstock", "Death of king Arthur", etc. ).
Well, "Gorod zolotoy" ( City the Golden ) - as for this one,
nobody really knows, where it comes from. Bob used to refere
to it as to "narodnaja", but this piece of lyrics is pretty 
strange just for a folk song. Do you know anything about
it's origin?

	   
>           Anyway, this song is pretty similar to the
>   	   Storozh Sergeev (Watchman Sergeev) chef d'oevre
>	   which was written also 1981-2.

Well, that's true, one can see some "edinstvo stil'a" 
(common style? - I've got no idea, what appropriate English 
expression should be used) with this song as well as with,
say, "Stihi pro Innokentija" ( Verses about Innokenty ). The
problem here is that Bob *really* has this uniq ability of 
"borrowing" styles from other people, he worked with. And it 
is definitely true, that he borrowed a real lot from his
friend Gunitsky.
So sometimes it's really hard to tell...


>	   BTW, the recent "hit" by BG (not A. anymore),
>	   called "Pyatnadtsat' Bab" (Fifteen Women),
>	   is also written on lyrics by Gunitskii,
>	   as well as 3-4 songs from Treugol'nik (triangle)
>	   and 1-2 songs from Acoustica (Graf Garcia,
>	   Moi Muravei, Chto Luchshe Pena Ili Dom,
>	   what else?).

"Marsh", off course!
 
>	   I am not sure about Suita:
>	   which one you are talking about? If 
>	   one going like 
>		   "U povorota na Korostyliovo
>		   Ugryumyi starets zlobno biot klyukoi
>		   Uvyazshego v bolote krokodila
>		   A tot, glaza pod'yavshi k nebesam,
>         	   Okrestnost' oglashaet khriplym stonom"

No, this is "Kartiny iz sel'skoy zhizni" ( Pictures from
Country Life ). Suita is

Izdaleka techet reka
A zhit' ostalos' goda tri
V objatjah chernogo kr'uka
Ona umret, a ty smotri.

Tam na gore u treh osin
Gul'aet poluidiot,
Zhuet on sgnivshij apel'sin
I korochki pl'uet vpered...

...

Kogda my byli molody
My vse nosili borody,
My vse rastili volosy
I peli jasnym golosom.

Teper' ne tot rasklad
Dorogi net nazad...

i t.d. In this case it's pretty clear, that the author of
the lyrics really is Gunitsky... :)

>   >BTW, where could I to get a copy of the record
>   >you guys were talking about - "Istorija Akvariuma Tom III"?
>
>	   Almost everywhere in Russia, in particular
>	   in studia Kolokol of Moscow Rock-laboratoria
>	   there is about 40 hours of BG. Unfortunately,
>	   I haven't got there a copy of this particular 
>	   recording, and I strongly believe that it is not 
>	   available anywhere in US.
>
>	   Misha.

thanx, but... kak skazal by Zosshenko - "ne ehat' zhe teper'
v Rossiju" :)

It was nice talkin' to you.

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