Chapter 1, Part 1 Insult on Duty.

This was back in the late 80s, around the winter of '88-'89. The band Alisa invited us to Leningrad for a return visit—a year prior, we had hosted them as guests of honor at a rock festival in Arkhangelsk. The band Autodafe traveled with us; their frontman played drums in our band. The very first surprise 'delighted' us right at the train station, when we realized that Autodafe's drummer hadn't shown up for the train, and his ticket was lost. So we decided to go ahead with the show—first Autodafe somehow, then us, and Alisa would wrap it all up, of course.