Leningrad Rock Club: The Iconoclastic Venue that Rebelled Against Soviet Control
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Source/Further reading:
Steinholt, Y. B. (2005). Rock in the reservation : songs from Leningrad Rock Club 1981-86. www.amazon.com/Rock-Reservati...
Overviews:
popkult.org/leningrad-rock-club/
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/t...
www.rbth.com/arts/2013/03/02/...
Photos and Videos:
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/t...
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/t...
Rock in the USSR:
www.jstor.org/stable/4214174?...
www.jstor.org/stable/40257510...
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/t...
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/1...
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/1...
soviethistory.msu.edu/1985-2/t...
Censorship in 1983 and 1984:
www.jstor.org/stable/853286?s...
It’s a long way to the top:
www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/acdc/...
The Komsomol: www.britannica.com/topic/Koms...
Estrada: rateyourmusic.com/genre/Sovie...
The Brodsky Trial:
www.nytimes.com/1972/10/01/ar...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...
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@geographicstravel 3 жыл бұрын
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@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын
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@julianshepherd2038 3 жыл бұрын
If rock and roll is a proper job, you're doing it wrong. It's the work of the devil when you do it right.
@darter9000 3 жыл бұрын
Communists called rock music Capitalist propaganda, Capitalists called rock music Communist propaganda-what a FUN era/s
@caleblarsen5490 3 жыл бұрын
Obviously none of the old fuddy duddies listened to what rock was all about.
@bishop51807 3 жыл бұрын
Anything giving a finger to the man is going to be seen as a threat!
@deemariedubois4916 3 жыл бұрын
darter9000 Both sides totally missing the fact that rock music was about the music.
@camerancole8433 2 жыл бұрын
@@caleblarsen5490 sex drugs and not giving a ****
@michaelb1761 3 жыл бұрын
Rammstein formed in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall and were required to submit their songs to the government for approval. Not surprisingly, they had two set lists, one for the government and the one that they actually performed.
@swecheekypanda 3 жыл бұрын
My old high school teacher used to smuggle rock music into the Soviet Union from the west. After being caught by the police for selling records to his classmates he was interrogated by the KGB for days on smuggling charges. As soon as he was released he and his mother escaped to Sweden on a small boat over the sea. He told us he can never return to Russia because if he does the KGB will arrest him for escaping and the old smuggling charges. Honestly coolest teacher I’ve ever had.
@dafyddcoleman4413 2 жыл бұрын
That's a life well lived.
@tgmccoy1556 3 жыл бұрын
"Leningrad Rock Club." Movie screaming to be made.
@curiousworld7912 3 жыл бұрын
PBS did an interesting program back in 2010, called 'How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin' that you might find interesting.
@LorSTApunk07 3 жыл бұрын
Stilyagi (Hipsters) talks about the predecessors to this club/movement. Leto 2018 is a film that centers around Kino and the Leningrad rock club.
@tsartomato 3 жыл бұрын
there's nothing to be made it's a dmv building where people came to get a license to perform and to proofread their lyrics to remove all antiparty content it's boring af and there are several movies about the scene itself, there's nothing interestin either. everyone drink themselves to death and sleep with each other's wifes you can watch jersey shore or whatever
@thepagnaet6361 3 жыл бұрын
@@tsartomato You are neither rock nor roll. Go back to church.
@tsartomato 3 жыл бұрын
@@thepagnaet6361 because i'm cybergrindcore go and actually listen to it yankeeman. 90% of it stolen from the west. rest is just garbo.
@joeybabybaby5843 3 жыл бұрын
In '85 or '86 a double album of St. Petersburg music (Kino, Aquarius, Alisa, and Strange Games) called "The Red Wave" was released in the U.S. I'm surprised that it wasn't mentioned.
@sashakazmar6142 3 жыл бұрын
I remember when Iron Maiden (my favorite band of all times btw:) was officially labeled as “devil worshipers”. Yet, we didn’t have God in USSR. Go figure 🤷♀️
@annoraner4696 3 жыл бұрын
the Russian band "Aria" is called the Russian Iron Maiden.. give it a try.
@sashakazmar6142 3 жыл бұрын
@@annoraner4696 my second favorite band after Iron Maiden:)
@CaptainHalibut 3 жыл бұрын
I remember once finding a rare Led Zeppelin bootleg from the USSR once in the U.S., wish it wasn’t $50 or I would have bought it, it was so cool. Also, funnily, the guy at the store mentioned that it was actually a very high quality bootleg too, same quality as the original record, except the text was all in Cyrillic. So interesting.
@tsartomato 3 жыл бұрын
if it had text in cyrillic it probably was not a bootleg, but a real release from мелодия bootlegs were recorded on rib rentgen photos
@kevintaylor791 3 жыл бұрын
Was it on a recycled x-ray? If not, it was probably not an actual bootleg.
@johnstevenson9956 3 жыл бұрын
LMAO Only a government would think to stem the popularity of rock by trying to replace it with disco.
@harrym9049 3 жыл бұрын
Then they did a 180 and decided if you cant get rid of them, join them
@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын
1:35 - Chapter 1 - How many roads must a comrade walk down ? 7:35 - Mid roll ads 8:55 - Chapter 2 - Age of akvarium 13:10 - Chapter 3 - Police on my back 18:25 - Chapter 4 - Rock in opposition
@leeneufeld4140 3 жыл бұрын
In the west we don't need to suppress creativity with direct legislation. We have insane copyright laws that serve the same purpose.
@ARIXANDRE 3 жыл бұрын
I just imagined a young Putin in a mosh pit in the Leningrad Rock Club.
@resileaf9501 3 жыл бұрын
Don't tell him or it's off to gulag.
@miriam3848 3 жыл бұрын
No, he was the one writing reports to kgb about people attending. He was an informant already
@tsartomato 3 жыл бұрын
nah bunker creaker was never a person, even in youth he was a kgb janitor in ddr
@markfletcher4605 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, I remember reading about some of these events in fanzines in the mid-80s. It was exciting to hear about rockers and punks behind the Iron Curtain.
@sailinbob11 2 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine, Karl Propst, a keyboard player, toured Russia, in 2008 ? 2007 ? anyway , with Mark Farner. If you search KZfaq, you'll see Karl singing the Grand Funk hit American Band. He passed last year. He will be missed. This video brought back a memory. Thanks Simon.
@chadwarden7977 3 жыл бұрын
The research teams for Simons channels are really impressive. Great work!
@ljphoenix4341 Жыл бұрын
Jen and Alita did a fantastic job with the editing! Love having the music scattered throughout the video.
@tuvia4082 3 жыл бұрын
The freedom of artistic expression, some people don't know how lucky they are.
@rhiannejones3815 3 жыл бұрын
Disturbingly these days several “free” countries are trying to introduce more censorship around free speech and expression If they’d lived through something like this they might have a different opinion!
@TheQuickSilver101 3 жыл бұрын
This was quite interesting. I know a fair bit about the old Soviet Union, but I had never heard of this before. Thank you!
@DerptyDerptyDUM 3 жыл бұрын
Same!! Super interesting.
@denisdrozdoff2926 3 жыл бұрын
There is 0 names that weren't butchered in this video but changing Aquariums lead singer last name from GreBEnschikov (Woodsmith or something like that) to Greshnikov (Sinners) is definitely my favorite.
@kappega 3 жыл бұрын
Поч woodsmith, если гребень это comb?
@denisdrozdoff2926 3 жыл бұрын
@@kappega а оно от этого гребня, а не того который у крыши?
@ABrit-bt6ce 3 жыл бұрын
Gorbachav.... nope.
@Asya.Pereltsvaig 2 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed (and was annoyed by it)
@grandthanatos 3 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building? I've always been curious about that building. It appears in so many anime.
@nomdeplume5446 3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if those x-ray records are collectible? I want to frame one and hang it on my wall.
@corinneirwin8406 3 жыл бұрын
Those are so wicked.
@alyssa6876 3 жыл бұрын
They are in certain circles.
@Asya.Pereltsvaig 2 жыл бұрын
They are hard to get and very fragile. You could only play it maybe a half dozen times.
@ryansampaulesi6234 3 жыл бұрын
How about West Berlin rocking out in front of the wall to the east could hear it
@rcknbob1 3 жыл бұрын
I dunno, would you include David Hasselhoff?
@killerninjakitty815 3 жыл бұрын
They probably would have laughed at Hendrix and said "We have that but in Soviet Russia guitar lights you on fire".
@vladimir.zlokazov 3 жыл бұрын
Very nice of you to cover this! :)
@tajiki2 3 жыл бұрын
I think this is the same rock club talked about in the podcast Wind of Change. It’s 6 episodes tracing back a story that the CIA secretly wrote the song Wind of Change, which was the ‘song of the end of the Cold War’ super interesting!
@Bryanhenderson123 3 жыл бұрын
Love your videos! I fall asleep listening to one every night
@BIGBLOCK5022006 3 жыл бұрын
There's a video here on KZfaq from a show that Billy Joel was playing at in Moscow and the police would shine lights periodically on the crowd to anyone was dancing or enjoying themselves and Billy started shouting "Stop lighting!" and the police kept doing it and he eventually went off on the police.
@78RMP 3 жыл бұрын
Incredible band names and super interesting story.
@jonthebeloved6094 2 жыл бұрын
Very cool. I saw Aqvarium in Seattle. Very fun show!
@benchippy8039 3 жыл бұрын
I see us needing a club like this in the Uk, along with speakeasies. Strange how history rhymes
@Adrian-zd4cs 3 жыл бұрын
This was absolutely amazing!! As a history and music lover, this was the bees knees 🤣🤣💕☺️
@dodge96neon 3 жыл бұрын
it's funny at what khruschev said about the twist when stalin had him do crazy dances
@andycollins3978 3 жыл бұрын
A final postscript to this. In 1991, not long after the wall fell, ACDC, Metallica, The Black Crows, Pantera and others played the Monsters in Moscow festival in front of 1.5m people at Tushimo Airfield
@MrTexasDan 3 жыл бұрын
Yep ... also no mention of the Aug 1986 Moscow Music Peace Festival - Bon Jovi, Ozzy, Scorpions, Skid Row, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Jason Bonham, etc.
@briangarrow448 3 жыл бұрын
We know what kind of “rock” Simon and Danny prefer! That would be the Bolivian variety.
@SEAZNDragon 3 жыл бұрын
You meant Colombian right?
@aceundead4750 3 жыл бұрын
March, march, march
@sashakazmar6142 3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@mikieswart 3 жыл бұрын
is it crack? do you smoke crack?
@albertlira7443 3 жыл бұрын
The fashion of the stiliagi though...
@houseofschenck6230 3 жыл бұрын
Things I learned today: Nikita Khrushchev hated the twist. I guess I have a new favorite dance.
@jamiehale2503 3 жыл бұрын
Hello Simon. Would love to have one of your videos situated around the Admin box Burma WW2, the 14th (forgotten army). Love the channel and continue to grow J
@TheEvilCommenter 3 жыл бұрын
Good video 👍
@pamelamays4186 3 жыл бұрын
Here in San Diego, there's a very popular rock music radio station with the call letters KGB. Now solely an FM station, at first it was both AM and FM. The AM KGB played more softer rock while its FM twin offered more edgier fare. KGB has promoted many rock concerts over the years. It even had its own set of albums called Homegrown which featured many local rock bands. X-ray records sounds like it could be the legit name of a record company.😎
@tendaivushe23 3 жыл бұрын
Hi Simon 😊😊😊
@milk-it 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting video. It sheds light on the influence of communism on the music scene, which was absent in my studies that focused on literature and film.
@TheWaterboarders 3 жыл бұрын
I've met a few Russian bands. Interesting to talk to - even jeans were banned at the time.
@evilenaprotektore5044 2 жыл бұрын
It’s actually Boris Grebenschikov that played in Aquarium, and he’s still active :)
@BomChickyBowWow 3 жыл бұрын
I spit out my drink at “how many roads must a comrade walk down?”
@TheTomlinson 3 жыл бұрын
Let me say, congratulations on 666k subscribers and 69 million views!!!!
@RedaGio 3 жыл бұрын
Ideas for new videos: Venice Genova Naples Palmanova Italian lakes: Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lake Maggiore Catania Trieste The Alps Great Ocean Road in Australia
@chip9649 3 жыл бұрын
CBGB would make a great video
@testicularoxide5055 3 жыл бұрын
Joan bayzzz?? Joan Baez, Bye-ez...
@terryenby2304 3 жыл бұрын
Today’s video watch order (in case you care, Simon!) is XPLRD, Geographics and then Side Projects 🤩
@sandybarnes887 3 жыл бұрын
What about Top Tenz?
@quicksilver2k97 3 жыл бұрын
Please do a geographic on action park, that would be so good
@michaeldoubleday9985 3 жыл бұрын
I went to Action Park back in 1978 or 79 i think. i went down the Alpine Slide at 9 years old, that thing was a death trap
@quicksilver2k97 3 жыл бұрын
I’ve seen one or 2 videos about it, made me wince just watching them 😅
@bsjeffrey 3 жыл бұрын
in mother russia the kremlin rocks you.
@dillonrose2089 3 жыл бұрын
SIMON YOU TRULY ARE A JEWEL TO IN MY LIFE. NOT A DIAMOND THO, MAYBE A EMERALD OR RUBY BUT TY IVE LEARNED SO MUCH.
@MoshJckay 3 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on "The Salem witch trials." Love the videos brotha!!
@samvimes7495 3 жыл бұрын
Any chance of doing Wigan Casino and Northern soul
@jacko250 3 жыл бұрын
Please do Geographics on: Berghain The Cavern Club CBGB Dōtonbori Glastonbury Grand Ole Opry The Haçienda
@zch7491 3 жыл бұрын
Do a video on banff national park?
@thegunslinger1363 3 жыл бұрын
Could you do a video on Siberia?
@XLAdvRider 3 жыл бұрын
Got a feeling you rode a Vespa at some point in your life ;)
@multiyapples Жыл бұрын
Interesting.
@harrisonmiller6475 3 жыл бұрын
Can you do 1 on Macau?
@bsjeffrey 3 жыл бұрын
the soviet shredders is a good band name.
@Asya.Pereltsvaig 2 жыл бұрын
The Aquarium lead singer is Boris Grebenschikov. You got the name wrong in the caption.
@EdwardGregoryNYC 3 жыл бұрын
Profile Los Frikis - the Cuban punk rock/AIDs movement. One of the strangest movements in music.
@juliusceasar8987 3 жыл бұрын
How about a Biographics of Vladimir Vysotskij?
@mantasgedgaudas6787 3 жыл бұрын
Please upvote this everyone
@joshsoriano2875 3 жыл бұрын
Just a heads up, your banner for the last festival held says March 7h - 10.
@jacksone5856 3 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool man. Imagine all those leningrad rock club kids that (hopefully) got to see rock from the rest of the world finally when the iron curtain fell. Sounds like a scooby doo episode lol. "leningrad rock club meets metallica"
@tsartomato 3 жыл бұрын
now they all perform for the glory of the putin's party scream about poisonous capitalist threat and demand to ban all western music
@Jeff.mp3 3 жыл бұрын
Anybody know the song at 13:10?
@MAashChick 3 жыл бұрын
Though I understand, what was the official reason for banning the saxophone?
@blueberrypirate3601 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Big Spender recorded on the USSRS one working cassette recorder cos the other was broken and the TV had caught fire.😂
@anarchyantz1564 3 жыл бұрын
Can you do the Bronze age collapse please?
@etonbachs4226 3 жыл бұрын
I'm fairly certain this is Mr. Whistler's official video shirt. He sports it quite often.
@just_a_turtle_chad 3 жыл бұрын
This video is Turtle Approved 👍
@PhuckedUpPhilosophy 3 жыл бұрын
you should do one on the moscow theater hostage crisis
@roobscoob47 3 жыл бұрын
A 'whistle-out' for Whistler...!
@thepagnaet6361 3 жыл бұрын
"Is this really rock'n'roll, or a form of state control?"
@mattpaul5441 3 жыл бұрын
Do more geographics
@twocvbloke 3 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia, Rock Club is Siberian Gulag... :P
@dodge96neon 3 жыл бұрын
it would have been wild if the soviet regime had guys who would compose songs that when played backwards would say things like " up with stalin, down with hitler"
@arrow1414 3 жыл бұрын
This sounds like the Soviet Union's version of Nazi Germany's Adelwiess Pirates. I wonder what the Red Chinese and North Korean versions are-if they existed.
@guateguy4533 3 жыл бұрын
Simon pls upload more Biographics podcast episodes on Spotify. They stopped after Prince for some reason. Thanks from a bio geo mega side today top highlight casual fan.
@itarry4 3 жыл бұрын
They really didn't mate there was 1 yesterday. There's been around 50 since Prince have you even looked on the channel page?
@guateguy4533 3 жыл бұрын
@@itarry4 I'm talking about him uploading the videos to Spotify as podcasts. I know he puts them out on the KZfaq channel all the time but on Spotify he stopped uploading new ones. I just edited my comment to clarify.
@Gayanega 3 жыл бұрын
Nostalgy is the perfect paradise...
@hetalianotaku7103 3 жыл бұрын
Wow, last time I was this early… Wait, I’ve never been this early.
@Homeschoolsw6 3 жыл бұрын
14:57..." Da! "
@LorSTApunk07 3 жыл бұрын
Цой жив!
@joniroxanne96 3 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised, or shocked, you didn't mention the Peace Festival. 😔
@unculturedweeb4240 3 жыл бұрын
Well this video was somewhat appropriate given that I just finished watching the anime the legend of black heaven.
@PineappleStickers 3 жыл бұрын
Gee, and i thought Sydney and Wollongong's music venues were anal about who they let perform... no wait, they're pretty similar
@conservativeokie 3 жыл бұрын
Comrade’s arresting anything disco is completely justified!!! To the gulag disco!
@hanglee5586 3 жыл бұрын
Did Soviet bands performed Rush Cover songs?
@PentonMitch99 3 жыл бұрын
Do a video on Timbuktu
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 3 жыл бұрын
_"WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!"_ 😊😊😊
@cadepeterman4276 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not gonna lie, I thought the rock club was about geology when I saw the title for the video.
@sabbyd1832 3 жыл бұрын
The x-ray records are quite amazing. So were all the folks involved. They definitely fought for the right to party, back in the USSR
@evilenaprotektore5044 2 жыл бұрын
Another name for x-ray recordings was “the fish”, becase there were bones there :) The quality was horrible, I had a couple of those :)))
@mikhaildomakhin9401 2 жыл бұрын
Boris GreBEnshikov. Greshnikov means the Sinner
@smileysatanson3404 2 ай бұрын
typical rock, even in a state like USSR, it finds its way into peoples hearts
@alexrakowski919 3 жыл бұрын
Cool turtle
@joseybryant7577 3 жыл бұрын
Should cover Karabesh. A very toxic town, according to a Russian KZfaqr.
@ciannolan9713 3 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry, did he say they made chewing gum out of Kerosene?!?! The fuck!?
@a_friendly_alien4289 3 жыл бұрын
Nice shiny head
@Alien-XK 3 жыл бұрын
epic
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