2008-4-16
The requirement for this afternoon was something fun that was marginally related to my work. So Em and I went to the pop muzeum, an organization motivated by Czech pop music scholarship godfather Aleš Opekar, who I interviewed in 2002 about country, etc. … and it just happens to be in our Praha 6 neighborhood, in the basement of the former Kulturni Dum “u Kast’anu.”
On their web site I saw that they are carrying out some detective work, and – like I do – are farming it out to web readers – here’s the link and blurb:
The Matadors – can you help fans in Czech Republic?
We have 3 mystery tracks of this legendary Czech group from 1966, but we don’t have know where the originals are from. Singer is Czech who didn’t know English well.
His English is something like “czenglish”, so only the melodies (tunes) are a clue (guidepost).
If you think you know, please write your suggestions to info@popmuseum.cz.
Come on, pop knowledge-ists – help a brother out.
PS – In addition to an informative exhibit on the Czech new wave of the 1980s, illustrating the last gasps of a governmental ideological/aesthetic control apparatus, there’s a stage setup of instruments that are turned on and ready to play….we had fun:
