Chapter 3: How "Oblachny Kray" Got Wasted with the Band "Aquarium".

In January 1982, a band from Leningrad came to visit us in Arkhangelsk. Until then, they were unknown to us—a certain group called "Aquarium". We were maximalists, and it seemed to us that if we didn't know someone, they simply didn't exist, or were complete rubbish not worthy of our attention. The day before, my friend Oleg Zaitsev, the host of a local salon, dropped by to invite me to a concert at the Builders' Palace of Culture, but I refused. I told him I wasn't a fan of Russian-language rock bands; as a matter of principle, we didn't listen to or take anyone seriously back then. Just three days earlier, we had just finished recording and editing our first serious album, "Oblachnyy Kray – 1", and going to concerts was the last thing on our minds.