Guitarist and composer and collector dude, inspirer and unchallenged the "Bravo" Eugene Havtan - an ardent admirer and Dovlatov Shukshin, Charlie Chaplin and Leonard Cohen, media and even the spirit of the Moscow Patriots. Musicians met a reporter "NO" on the eve of his departure for a tour of Samara and spoke about why rock has nothing to do with show business. - Group "Bravo" - record for the most songs on Moscow. This patriotism driven to extremes to survive under conditions of censorship, or are you really? In love with this city - The songs are not just conditions in connection with the city. We began to write, if the dividends in the form of housing and apartments in the Moscow itself could not be obtained. In addition, during the period - 80 years - for a song, you can go to jail. It's time to strict censorship - a fruitful time for creativity. Prohibition - a very strong incentive. If everything is forbidden, it is certainly something new. But I was like 20 years ago, and now write songs and emotions of simple human pleasures and values that are not inspired not change over the years and the dollar. So our songs are very sincere. We were all born in this city and I love it really. We - a wholly-owned Moscow group. - What in your mind and in your work, "Moscow-style"? - Always was in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and other rock divided. But because our roots are in Moscow and all that we love - in the capital, "stilyazhnoe" - comes from the '60s, we were, we know. Our Moscow this illusory, also fabulous and totally irreversible, but that she is beautiful. In the current Moscow me something like, a little annoying, but positive. Every month there is a new building, the city was a well-kept and beautiful. Frequently travel abroad, there are, to compare with. Pluses to the page. It is understandable why it attracts people who come here from all over Russia and other countries. This is a huge city with a number of options, here are rotating a lot of money, you can make a career. Of course, Moscow has changed, but my love for her has not changed. - They traveled a lot. It was not a desire to change the country? - About 15 years ago, wanted to try this western sweets. I tried to leave. It did not take place, and well, I did not make a mistake. Finally, it means starting a career from scratch. In general, the problem of "creative people abroad" is very difficult. If you were born here, grew up in this language environment is formed as a person, another place to settle is almost impossible. Before me is an example of my fellow artists who leave for the West. They barely assimilated. - The hero of the song "dude from Moscow" - is that you? - The biggest mistake - Associate hero songs to the people who wrote them. Great confusion, which often no less disappointments in life. It's just a song, it is dedicated to the best time for me when. Wonderful company that were first in the country clubs where they played good music When taking a break, no need to have a lot of money, and wanted to know a good place. Now everything is different: more expensive, richer and more Pontius. Then it was not so, and that was a very special charm. Therefore, the collective image songs, but of course I was also dudes. In the second part, and now they will stay. - What is it to be guys? What is this life philosophy? - It began with the Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow imposed the Olympics, when the whole "Western contagion" that prohibited (jazz, jeans, cigarettes) are all flooded in Moscow. My generation - the first wave of mods, and the young people who grew up on the songs "Bravo" - the second. These were young men who are dressed and acted like everyone in a gray faceless mass. And they really stood out. In those years it was difficult to get something like. But there were two channels through which we received things that were always a concert. These were the things in Tishinsky market from the closets of our parents and friends, found in samples taken from 40 to 60 knowledge. The second channel - speculators and black marketers who now is officially bring business to make money, sale, resale, exchange of things. It was a cycle of things in nature, from which you choose something better. - Save it from the time some little thing that you value? - I have a lot of boxes with articles about us, with presents fans with an orange tie, which we received, and our concert stuff. Last incredibly much, because it was on the stage in the same costume to go as bad form. And amid all this stuff, I found a big vinyl butterfly that was after one of our shows me Artemy Troitsky. Then we talked to her, in one of the clips it played Joan Aguzarova, it turned out, very funny. - Once you can pass that you have a set of all-original clothing and a collection of shoes, a hundred pairs. This passion for collecting the first steps? - I have a lot of unusual things, but never a goal to build a collection. If what I like, I buy it. Important - thing to be different from their own kind, and whisper to me: "I am yours". No matter where I was, I have to consciously seek something interesting. In general, it is difficult to name the collection because I stand in these shoes. They are all different, bright and a little shocking. "In the Light" not close it, because I'm not a social person. Not appear at parties, hang out with a group of 70 percent of the time, but visited interesting events. I like very much to attend the screenings of the European avant-garde cinema. Completely unknown to the directors, but a very interesting movie ... Talking about the process of buying shoes, my favorite author Dovlatov is wonderfully expressed: "Every time I buy shoes, I do it very carefully because I think I'm doing this for the last time in his life and in this Botik I can bury..." Brutal, of course, but I do not say. - So how do you not tell you - the author of so many joyful songs. It seems that you are prone to depression? - I deal with them. It is very important just a change of scenery, a picture that one. Constantly before the eyes Changing moods and emotions. Recently in the mountains of Italy. This is a country as for relaxation. For the first time skiing. Cool. It is another great remedy for all diseases - shopping. It is foolish to assume that this is an exclusively female occupation. According to statistics, an American magazine, as a percentage of the number of men get the pleasure of shopping, much higher! Only one - his own. I, for example, happy shoes. - For you, and it is very interesting shoes. Stylish, excellent quality. Obviously not from around here? - In the only domestic. Now, at last, and here you will find everything you want. The main thing - the taste and the desire to find his own style. Example of bad taste for me - mass production, mass TV, everything is intended for general consumer. Although Andy Warhol was able to create an art of consumer goods, but that is the exception rather than the rule. - Do you have any other concerns: They breathe irregularly on the guitar. In the Russian collectors guitar once or twice and a handful. Tell us about your collection. - It consists of tools native to the Americas and Europe, in the middle of the last century, with the legendary personalities, musicians, guitarists, he left a great mark on history connected. Like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix. They played on a similar model. Here need to find these tools are not - in our country, they just do not get. These things are very dear to me. I collected them and appreciate them endlessly, as well versed in this. This collection is of value and interest only to people who know something about this, and it is negligible. For ordinary people, just my guitar wood for the stove. - The prosperity never intervened, not trying to pull? - There have been several attempts. But this semi-mystical stories, because somehow my guitar back to me. For example, ten years ago, the home of our equipment, musical equipment lost robbed, including one of my favorite guitars. What is the missing tool in massive hemorrhage of crime? We are happy that the chief of the police station granddaughter a fan of "Bravo" was. Police have raided several places where they "float" was our tools and found them! - Why is your passion is guitar, and any other musical instrument? - Guitar - profitable tool differs from others, and the universal language of communication between young people at all times. So I was taught in the school of music six-string guitar. He went in deliberately aged to study - in 13 years. If you play guitar and you know the six magic chords, then - the most important person on your stairs, in the yard, in the classroom. I liked it and helped to feel more secure in the room. I started writing music until much later, but somewhat understandable for the first time came when I was in college. Habitats and circumstances affect humans. The emergence of the group and then Joan to write in their stimulating new songs and some creative explosion. Those people who have joined together under the name "Bravo", could not be overlooked. They were bright and brilliant. - What has helped your group to survive in such different times? - We came in the 80th, while the word "stylist" a decade later. Then what we have - the work of our hands, imagination and talent. We have never seen people who'd had advised us. Only once, in 1983, guys - our colleagues - Grease dragged and distributed our hair so that they shone. As I recall, he was from Riga similarly placed in a glass shoe polish. On that external influences and limited. Unlike the songs as it is strange, but they are influenced by house music 50 and 60 years. If you compare it with the current Russian show business, it was much stronger and more professional than today. Then I thought that the music that we like, went, but when compared with the present VIA -. It was the Best Romance In the 70s there was a problem with the spread of new products - it was just a coil. Then we rushed to the quality of foreign music on vinyl records. She suggested that the sustained and infinitely important for us the style we have. I remember 20 years ago, when you see a band and looked at the front pages of their bad records and not stylish, we have not even heard of. In short, a dangerous mixture of Russian and Western rock and roll was at the time in the world a group of "Bravo". - He lives grandfather rock and roll, and if alive, as he is? - The subject is complex and ambiguous. Answer it most succinctly and accurately could only those who put them in his songs - Boris Grebenshikov. I will say that rock and roll, of course, still alive, but his condition so so. He's a little out of his head. At the same time as the beautiful legend of the love he gives. It warms the heart of many young people who are taking up the electric guitar. In my head - he's dead. Because the music industry has changed dramatically over the last thirty years. Even those groups who consider themselves part of the rock, and it is a big responsibility, but in reality they are not. They - part of a well-planned entertainment and nothing more. For me, there is no rock, but the legend lives. - "Bravo" - and the reality, and the legend which, fortunately, is still alive. But the change of the soloists - critical period: Aguzarova, Syutkin, Lentz. You, Jack, in this case - is a constant, a kind of chronicler. There were times when? Life of the collective only by a thread - This moment happens regularly every five years. This is a normal cycle for each group. It has a lot of benefits. If something changes, something new happens, there is a strong incentive to create, to create, to write. It's boring to see a group of non-developing countries, a couple of decades in a row singing the same song, flashing the same faces. Nice to have fresh blood. There are new songs and new fans. In addition, our audience will grow with us and are constantly updated with the young and even teenagers. - How do you explain that your songs live so long and knows them by heart several generations? - Because they are clean and easy to bribe sincerity. Because it all comes down to the lies and cynicism that prevails around. It's great that the number of young students increases at our concerts. This is not only beautiful, it is - a good sign.
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