Hudební život(opis)

I probably inherited my interest in music form my grandfather, my mother´s father. All my family is rather musical, with the exception of my sister, who - although she passed all the children´s art school classes - doesn´t play much now. I preferred the piano from my childhood. The teachers didn´t want to let me study the children´s art school at first. They said I couldn´t sing. But my mother persuaded them to accept me. I don´t want to show off but at the end of the first year I belonged to the best students. My teacher, Mr. František Jirka, was great. Through my mother wasn´t content with the way he teached, I myself was pleased and enjoyed playing. But then this teacher left the school and there wasn´t anybody convenient for me. This was the reason I finished after four years of learning. From that moment I played just for myself. After The Velvet Revolution my family and me went to then West Berlin. There I saw a keyboard in a department store and become lost. I succeeded in persuading my parents that I needed it very badly, that there was nothing more important in the world. It was YAMAHA SHS200, which could be hung on a belt and had a terrible FM sound, but I was very happy.

It was the beginning. My friends and me started a band, the BFU (Boys From Úpice, Úpice is a town we were from). Its cast looked like this: 3 keyboards, a guitar and later a girl-singer. We even played at about four dances. But gradually band members dropped away and at the end I stayed nearly alone. As a gift for passing my A levels I got YAMAHA PSS590. It was much better instrument with AWM tone generator and sequencer. Then I started the military service and it was the end of my playing with the band. But I didn´t left music - one of my comrade-in-arms and me made a musical studio and played for themselves. At the army I advantageously sold my existing outfit and bought ATARI ST and YAMAHA PSR 500. At the beginning I was thrilled but gradually I found that it is a terrible stuff, especially MIDI implementation, also the sound wasn´t very good. And the life went on.

I managed to travel out on a business tour to Berlin where I nearly starved because I wanted to save as much as possible from my travelling expense. For the savings I bought my first quality instrument ROLAND JV35. Just after I bought it, I was asked by a newly originating dance band to join it and I agreed. It was the TAURUS band and I stayed with it about three years. Business tour (and travelling expense) came again and I bought YAMAHA W7. I use this combination to the present.

After personal disagreements in Taurus I left the band (together with me also the bass, the percussion and one guitar) and we started our own band KAMNAFUTRA. But this project quietly lapsed after half a year. After a little pause I was asked by a band to play the keyboard, I joined it and I still go on. We have no name yet, the provisional name is BIOGRAV SVATONOVIC (Svatonovice cinema) because our musical studio is in an unused cinema in Velké Svatonovice village.

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