What Happens To Bands During War 

You are like no one else I've ever watched. You provide not only the details of what's happening but the social and political context of the era that the music was made in and the factors which caused some groups to split up.

I think maybe you accomplished way more than you thought you did - in the best and most heartbreaking way. When the mention of the regular gigging place being demolished, I thought of instruments being ruined, bandmates - it's silly, but it made me feel like these were one of the bands Inused to gig with. It just brought the tragedy of this war from far away to right next door And the sampling of bands - so good! Your questions were brilliant. Thanks for a n excellent journalistic perspective.

I'm a fan of Somali Yacht Club. In particular, I think their album "The Sea" is spectacular. Now I need to listen to La Horsa Bianca as well. Thank you for doing this very interesting and important video. I hope for peace in Ukraine. Greetings from Denmark.

mate I think you're the best music channel out there, plus you do what few others do, exploring more obscure music that otherwise I would have never known about

I'm trying to write a comment but I have so much to say I can't choose my words. Amazing video, thank you very much. War is not over. I don't know when I will be able to be in the same room with my band again. A day before it started we were watching Oasis Knebworth concert and having beers, and 5 days before it started we were rocking out at our music video release show in Lviv. Now as a refugee, maybe only 3-4 times I touched a guitar... All members have been scattered in different cities and our drummer got drafted just this week.

I don’t know if you consider yourself to be a documentarian or journalist, or just a big fan, but whatever you are, you are excellent at it. Such a gem of a channel!

Documenting stories like these is incredibly important. Thank you for doing it.

Shocked you don’t have a million subs yet. Fantastic content.

Thank you very much for making these videos, this is really important.

I'm glad you re keeping up with the videos!

Yes! Thank you for this. After being a fan of Stoned Jesus for a few year i found out only last month that they are from Kiev too. Crazy stuff

Speaking of Ukrainian scene during the war - please tell the history of Masterskaya, the biggest indie-label of Ukraine and one of the most influential labels for the scene of Russia for like years. The label was turned into a humanitarian-aid organization, helping injured and suffered from russian invasion, and was ceased to exist a couple of months ago, simply because the label as a business entity was surviving by making shows, tours and festivals, which became impossible since the beginning of the invasion. The label that gave hope and inspiration for the indie-scene of Russia (like really - Masterskaya became a place of help for musicians, that found themselves not needed on labels of their own country), and that was killed when trying to help people to survive the invasion of the same Russia. The guys from Masterskaya really have big balls of steel, besides - the guys from Masterskaya have managed to change the pop sound of all the ex-soviet space.

Amazing video! I'm also patiently waiting for something about the Belarusian bands. Even before the current conflict, their country had been experiencing decades of dictatorship and in 2020 the most significant wave of protests against it to date, followed by a brutal crackdown. I remember that you expressed an interest in this topic before in a comment but I understand that the making of your videos takes time and a lot of effort.

The thing i fell in love with in your videos is your focus on art of playing music, and not on the political "loud namecalling" side of things. Keep up your work, its valuable

Being a Ukrainian rock musician, I would like to thank you for this video. It definitely says it all. I was able to get my brother out of the city under russian occupation the last possible moment. His home has already been marked by the russian collaborators...

It's easy to see those pro-Russian bands sell-out and shame them, but lest we forget, that scene is all to familiar to us in the US. 20 years ago, and that was us.

Truly my favorite channel on this site- always a revelation

Really important and interesting video. I hope this whole ugly war goes away as soon as possible.

This is so dope dude! War leads to protest, protest leads to art, art changes people.

These events are really sad and I hope the war ends as soon as possible. The Pro-Russian tours have been one of the biggest blows to the credibility of Russian Rock bands in history. However I think it is good to note that none of the bands performing there have ever been put in the ranks of legends, or even critically successful artists. A lot of those people performing are using names that are half-dead in terms of musical relevance. Sergey Galanin has never topped his fame since his time as a bassist in Brigada S, and Smyslovie Galyutsinatsie have been performing without their original band founder and main songwriter (who works solo now, remains a decent human being and makes much better music than them). If you look at bands and artists who actually influenced the Russian mainstream and underground music communities, the list of people who spoke clearly against the war is pretty big, and these aren't some one-hit wanderers from the mid 90s. Boris Grebenchikov, DDT, Time Machine, Televizor, Nautilus Pompilius, Mumiy Troll, Sekret, Nol, Bravo, Krovostok, Nogu Svelo, Kruiz, Tequilajazzz, NAIVE, Megapolis, the list goes on. I think the younger bands are the ones that speak out less because they never experienced these sort of conditions. People like Boris were cancelled by the regime since 1974, he doesn't't have lots to loose nowadays. I also want to mention how the Russian government is doing their fullest to turn dead icons into a symbol of the war. There was news about the Russian soldiers receiving performances of Victor Tsoi and Egor Letov songs to amp up the "fighting spirit". These are two people who are dead and their music is being bastardized in such a way. on a sidenote (I know this might not be an appropriate time) but I really recommend checking out the Baltic countries and their scene throughout the USSR till today. They had a vibrant Psychedelia, Punk and New Wave scene that many music journalists (such ad Artemiy Troitsky) believe to have been the best in the USSR.

This was great. Thank you. We must do what ever we can to help Ukraine and Ukrainians.

Hello, I recently found your channel over your video on russia's band crisis. Even though this video is very good, I was expecting to see some commentary on the band that formed during the war, as one of them, "Hatespeech", has become one of my favorites. I was wondering if you would be willing to make a video doing a general dive into war-time bands, even unrelated to the current events. Glory to Ukraine!

Talk about having relevant topics. Great idea indeed.

Thank you SO much for ur amazing content!

Thank you for doing this

when i saw this i immediately thought of CCR

Damn, we can only support them and hope they can play music and find happiness again.

Never a bad day when you upload

An interesting question especially when it comes to nations more affected by war compared to the the U.S

The man who sang Smoke on the Water became the voice of a man who walked on water... really makes you think

K'naan is a good example, he's a Somali expat living in Somalia who makes some fantastic Hip-Hop.

Thanks for this amazing video, slava music

Excellent! Thank you!

Hey man.. hopefully you see this but what is your Rate Your Music (RYM) profile name?

Thank you for the video! 💙💛

A great video, bravo 👏

whats the track at around 3:31? the synth is fire. but in all seriousness it really sucks these people have to go through this, hope the bands can get back together someday or at the very least their members will still pursue music

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2:36 just this snippet of music and I had to add them. Love me some Stoner metal. This is just such a sad situation. Can’t wait to see Putin in the gulag

Thanks

Hearing what you have to say about the war and music and Ukraine, I'm surprised that you had absolutely nothing to say about Jinjer, which at least I would consider to be the largest Ukrainian band. In March '22, they paused their career to focus on relief efforts after the Russian invasion and in June '22, they received permission from the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to leave Ukraine as ambassadors of the nation.

Good vid man

Bro if you can here this. I know its not relevant to this vid. But I have listened to so much kino because of your soviet vid. I've shared it to so many people. Could you please maybe do a deep dive on that band? It's very hard to get info that is in English or well translated. Thank you

Anyone know how these guys are doing?

Ask Elvis.

Ngl, I kinda was hoping this would be historical. Like bands from Vietnam era or maybe even Iraq/Afghanistan days. Would be cool to hear from Jinjer tho, only band from Ukraine I care about lol

So are you Ray Romano or do you just sound like him?

The Russian bands probably have to be on the down low, regarding public opinion. The whole Z thing going on is complicating things.

War = Bands Failing

Glory To Music & Freedom... Glory To Ukraine!

The members of the Russian bands could be arrested for showing sympathy for the bands in Ukraine. Putin has made it illegal to even refer to it as a war or an invasion.

I don't know when you talked to them, but it seems that western Ukraine is quite safe and people are going back to their country, I heard from people I met that they can go back to their jobs for example in Kyiev.

Great Channel. Please Don't Virtue Signal. It's not the Ukrainian citizens fault for the this stupid war.

awesome videos but i hate how u say songs

"A war where cilivian deaths have become common place", so a war then. The end where you say you come from a country withe free speech was a good joke too!

Why are they not fighting?

What happens? They either break up and pick up arms after getting draft or they leave the country End of video

I’ve been following the music scenes in Eastern European for a few years now, and seeing what both sides are going through breaks my heart, a side where their passions might get snuffed and the other side that is scared and fighting for their lifes.

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