The group "Bajaga and Instructors" presented their cult debut album "Positive Geography" 40 years ago in what was then the Trade Union House, and now the MTS hall. On that occasion, they did a "remake" performance on Sunday, playing only songs from their debut album
"Bajaga and the instructors" gave the audience, as they said, a "copy" of the concert from 1984. In addition to the completely played album "Positive Geography", the repertoire also included songs that Bajaga wrote for his then parent band "Riblju Chorba", such as and some unpublished, and in that period, humorous tracks performed in concert.
During this month, the band had identical concerts in Skopje and Zagreb.
Keyboardist Saša Lokner first appeared on the stage of the MTS Hall and played the opening bars of "Let me go, friend", followed by guitarist Žika Milenkovic, who reminded that 40 years ago, Kornelije Bata Kovač (1942-2022) was in Lokner's place.
How "Positive Geography" was created
He intends to repeat a 40-year-old concert Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga revealed this in an earlier interview for "Vreme".
"By the way, we want to repeat that concert, and that is exclusive information - because it was not an ordinary performance. We didn't even have that many things: we performed the entire first album and a few more of my songs for Chorba, such as When you walk, and something I made for Chola, and Zika had a punk version of the then popular and funny composition of Ljupka Dimitrovska Cibu Cibu - he sang it in a woman's face", Bajaga said.
"The first song was Let me go., mate, and from the special effects we had 10-15 large weather balloons, which we bought for a pittance and on the song Little elephants gave the task to the technicians to throw them from the box from above into the audience - so she played a little. The concert was packed, by the way, and I think that the entire Belgrade rock scene of that time was there. We intend to repeat that now: roughly, the way we talked with Gannet Pecikos, it will be a reconstruction of the entire happening and an opportunity to play the entire album Positive geography. This marks the beginning of the celebration of 40 years of Bajaga and Instructor", added the legendary musician.
How he left Čorba
On that occasion, Bajaga also revealed how the first album of the group "Bajaga and Instructors" came to be recorded, considering that during its creation he was still a member of "Riblje chorba".
"Fish chowder just went to London to mix the album." Tonight you are entertained by drinking musicians since we previously spent two months in Ljubljana where we recorded it. I stayed in Belgrade to do a concert on the occasion of the release of my album, which was written on it Bajaga - Positive geography, since I didn't have Instructors then. Then I was invited by Dražen Vrdoljak from Zagreb, a rock critic and at that time the music editor of the program at the Kulušić club, to suggest that we play ten days before Belgrade at their place, just to try everything, and so I had my first concert there as Bajaga (ex-Fish soup) and the band. There were maybe 300 people there, but everything turned out legendary, and the next time we sold out two Kulušićs in Zagreb."
After the initial successes in Zagreb, Bajaga started organizing concerts in Belgrade.
"And then I started to organize a concert at the House of Trade Unions in Belgrade, planned to take place ten days later (April 21, 1984) - which was a very stressful experience for me because we had no sponsors and no one to help us, except for the newspaper Rock. When it came to printing the posters, which was their donation, I was called by their editor Peca Popović to ask me what should be written on them - but I didn't have the name of the band, so in the end he himself put Bajaga and Instructors positive geography. After that, we shortened it to only Bajaga and Instructors," the musician concluded.
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