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Offline Boroda

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To Russian-speakers here: Egor Letov died.
« on: February 20, 2008, 05:49:51 PM »
Yegor Letov died on Feb 19th at home at Omsk from heart attack.

To language nazis: I translate every phrase here from Rus to Eng.

Помянем раба божьего Игоря.



Всё идёт по плану (All going on as planned!).

http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=q1X2fqBN2G0

Я убил в себе государство (I killed a State [government] inside me, welcome Lazs):

http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=29yuVTVO3qs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egor_Letov - it's a link in Eng.

http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTo8jzElrw - Glory to Psychonauts! Hail to pioneers in their own personal mental spaces!...

I am sure - drugs killed him...

They removed a Rodina clip from Youtube, here is a live record from some meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhODrF6OYfU

My defense: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=kNd7LwbOv54 - Plastic world have won, who needs a slice of a July sky?  My defense is a sun reflection of a non-seeing eye, a funeral ball of a clumsy world.
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To Russian-speakers here: Egor Letov died.
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 06:12:51 PM »
Its too bad that he died for no good cause, but I understand his charisma.  

It seems to be a disease of sudden, fabulous recognition, fame and often wealth - and maybe too much *****.  Most of us don't need to worry about that particular problem.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2008, 07:31:24 PM »
WGAS.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2008, 11:21:18 PM »
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WGAS.


What does that stand for?
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 11:38:02 PM »
Russian Punk music, gotta love it.


Все Это с Тобой is a good song.
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2008, 11:41:51 PM »
Do you guys like "Gogol Bordello"?
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2008, 05:09:23 PM »
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Russian Punk music, gotta love it.


Все Это с Тобой is a good song.


"It's all with you"

If you like it - I can put several albums on the web for you to download.

Letov was a poet. Minimalistic sound, poetry unleashed. Not exactly a "punk rock" as it was in the West, just "thee chord revolutionaries" with Yegor and his quite complicated verses. He was a poet of everyday pain, existential Communist, who wanted "happiness, free, for everyone, and may no one leave unsatisfied" (Счастья, для всех, даром,и пусть никто не уйдёт обиженым!) - it's a quote from Strugatsky brothers "Roadside Picnic" (А. и Б. Стругацкие, "Пикник на обочине", 1972), a book that inspired a Stalker computer game.

Back in the 80s they (Grazhdanskaya oborona, "Civilian defense") made records on cheap cassette-recorders and they were spread all over the Union by people sharing tapes.

Yegor was officially declared "mentally ill" and spent some time in a mental hospital. Fortunately - they didn't cure him.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2008, 05:14:23 PM »
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"It's all with you"

If you like it - I can put several albums on the web for you to download.


That would be cool. :)


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Letov was a poet. Minimalistic sound, poetry unleashed. Not exactly a "punk rock" as it was in the West, just "thee chord revolutionaries" with Yegor and his quite complicated verses. He was a poet of everyday pain, existential Communist, who wanted "happiness, free, for everyone, and may no one leave unsatisfied" (Счастья, для всех, даром,и пусть никто не уйдёт обиженым!) - it's a quote from Strugatsky brothers "Roadside Picnic" (А. и Б. Стругацкие, "Пикник на обочине", 1972), a book that inspired a Stalker computer game.

Back in the 80s they (Grazhdanskaya oborona, "Civilian defense") made records on cheap cassette-recorders and they were spread all over the Union by people sharing tapes.

Yegor was officially declared "mentally ill" and spent some time in a mental hospital. Fortunately - they didn't cure him.



Sounds like the definition of punk to me :D

I love punk :)  Mostly underground shyte like Crass, Cockney Rejects, The Adicts...
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008, 05:41:12 PM »
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That would be cool. :)


I'll PM you links tomorrow.

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Sounds like the definition of punk to me :D

I love punk :)  Mostly underground shyte like Crass, Cockney Rejects, The Adicts...


Will try DL-ing it for educational purposes ;)

I am stuck with 1960s-70s music, I am a hairy hippie :) Most punkish things in my walkman are the Dictators and Stooges.

I blame the language barrier. Seriously.

I saw Iggy here in MSK in September, and I don't want to know what he sings about, "Now I wanna be your dog" is enough for me, and I am completely lost in more complicated English lyrics. :( I have to read it to understand.
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 06:02:58 PM »
Sweeet! Thanks


Dictators and the Stooges are bad arse :)


Yeah, I don't even understand "Egor Letov" but it sounds awesome :D


If your on a 70's hippie trip, check this stuff out... right out of Nam (Vietnam)

http://www.ibiblio.org/jwsnyder/rft/rft.html


Scroll down to where it says "Original Restored Show"

The guy was stoned out of his mind and told it how it was in Nam, no BS.
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