20 Photos about how to conduct appartment in the USSR

Modern youth, armed with YouTube, is unlikely to understand what "appartment." Whereas for the human ear, to catch Soviet Union, this word means a lot. This is not just a home concert. It is only in the appartment could be heard, and the main thing - to see your favorite band. Due to the lack of permits for concerts, many musicians do not even dreamed of performing in front of the general public. So for appartment, where the great mystery going only his - reigned special atmosphere of coziness and the spirit of unity, spiced port. Children 70 and 80 dedicated. Let's remember how it was.

Appartment on "citizen" in St. Petersburg, 1991





Apartment concert, Moscow, 1988.





Choi in the appartment.





Appartment - it's the same show, but he was held in an ordinary residential apartment. In this speech as the right to participate small number of performers who played on acoustic instruments. Musicians played as their own songs, as well as works by other authors, as well as organized "jams" improvising on a particular musical theme.

Sergei Borisov. Appartment. 1985.





Appartment, Moscow, 1985.





Choi in the appartment.





Leon Max, Marina Vlady and Vladimir Vysotsky. 1969.





Pyotr Mamonov. Moscow, 1985.





In addition to music, often poetic arranged appartment, where the authors recited poetry classics and their own creations. Then enthusiastically froze in anticipation of the approval or criticism, even though it was often both, always conducted a lively discussion.

Aquarium.





Mike and Kinchev.





"Sounds of Moo" Alexander Lipnitsky Alexei Bortnichuk Paul Hawtin, Alexei Pavlov, Pyotr Mamonov, 1988.





Mike and Kinchev.





Armen Grigoryan and the band Crematorium.





About what will be appartment, usually learned from word of mouth. Often concerts were held in the house of one of the band members. Concert venues could serve as kitchen, bedroom, living room, depending on the number of invited spectators. Sometimes, wishing there was so much that had to hover in the hallway and on the balcony. The main beverage at such events, of course, was the port - a symbol of Soviet rock.

Mike Naumenko, Vsevolod Gakkel, Boris Grebenshchikov.





Mike Naumenko appartment on 12 January 1986.





Alexander Mitta and Yuri Vizbor.





Egor Letov.





House concert have been one big disadvantage - the neighbors who do not like these big events, sometimes can span until the morning. As a result of calls to the door, knocking on the walls and batteries and of the worst - or call the district police, who unceremoniously terminated gatherings. Therefore appartment preferred to arrange for the holidays, when the noise behind the wall treated more easily, even then, all that noisy.

Egor Letov and Janka.





Rizhenko, Choi, Fish, Mike.





Group Zero. 1987.





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