Shturcite - Rok V Minalo Vreme (Rock In Past Tense)
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"Rok V Minalo Vreme" zasneto po vreme na poslednia koncert ot turneto "30 Godini Shturcite" na 20.10.1998
The Crickets is the most popular and loved rock band in Bulgaria. They are together since 1967 - the days when in this country rock music was branded as an instrument of ideological diversion imposing pernicious influence on the youth. Still with the name of the band start the problems for the four musicians with representatives of the political regime in these days. The reason is the close meaning with the name of the Liverpool's band Beatles. Nevertheless despite all obstacles and bans thanks to the fans love and their talent, The Crickets manage to establish themselves as the biggest Bulgarian group for all times.
Even in 1967 at Golden Orpheus International Festival The crickets together with the singer Georgi Minchev win fist prize with the song "White silence" -- the same song is announced Song of the year. In the next year 1968 their first album shows up, but the song "Ring" is number one hit in the year chart of Bulgarian National radio. 1969 is the year of their second album and their song "A song for the crickets" that becomes a favorite hit of the young people for the next couple of years.
The band makes lots of concerts throughout Bulgaria and abroad -- USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland and GDR.
During the 70's The Crickets record four more albums, one of them in Germany where the songs "Remote bay" and "Give me little tenderness" leads the local charts.
In 1978 starts the second decade of success for The Crickets. The album they record the same year reaches 100 000 copies and marks the border between the two periods of their music history.
The group is on its pick and will not leave it during the next 10 years.
In 1980 is recorded the first super album of the group -- 20th century. The songs "Two traces", "Date", "Wedding day" and "20th century" lead all charts and are absolute hits at that time. In that period the band makes 1600 concerts in front of over four million people and also tours abroad.
In 1982 with their first double album - The taste of time, they broke all records for a second time. The legendary songs "You have a friend", "The taste of time", "Magic blossom", "Allen Delon", "Boy from the band" and "Enyov den" take the first places of the Bulgarian charts.
In 1985 the album "The rider" shows up. It becomes their bestseller album and reaches the record for Bulgaria with 250 000 copies. "Rock in past tense", "Hamlet", "The rider", "Don't die", "The ladder" are just another magic dose from The Crickets.
In 1987 the album "Musketeer's march" is recorded. The members of the group think this is their best album and The crickets decide to organize big anniversary gig -- 20 years later.
"They are one of the fewest rock bands not only in Bulgaria, but in the world who can mark 20 years of artistic life with 2500 concerts made and popularity that grows year after year.", the Bulgaria press writes.
In their most glorious moment The crickets instead to go slowly down the hill of the time just leave their guitars aside and ... disappear. But probably they had known they had to come back at least for one concert and one album.
In 90's they miss a lot to their fans, but still show up in the light with one of the anthem of democracy "I am just a man" (1990) and with their super hit "An oath" (1996).
The crickets are together again in 1997. This is the year of their 30th anniversary and they made national tour and also an album called "The crickets 30 years" and again have big success.
In 2004 The crickets record their Anthology -- 4 CDs with 71 songs dated from 1968 to 1998. They also make 20 golden rock concerts.
During the past few years they made a lot of concerts for the Bulgarians abroad:
1999 -- Austria -- Vienne, Hungary -- Budapest, Slovakia -- Bratislava
1999 -- Izrael -- Tel Aviv
2000 -- USA -- Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angelis, San Francisco, Boston and New York
2001 -- Great Britain, London
2003 -- Great Britain, London
2004 -- Spain -- Madrid
2005 -- France -- Paris
Since 1976 up to now members of the band are:
Kiril Marichkov -- bass guitar, keyboards, solo vocal
Petar Giyzelev -- electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal
Valdi Totev -- keyboards, guitar, concertina, solo vocal
Georgi Markov - drums
Information taken from www.lovechrockfest.com (more)