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He doesn’t look happy about it.
I bet he’s angry because he knows the built in mics are crap and will pick up just as much noise as they will music, and then he got even angrier as he considered how Poland was part of the USSR and that there was no way he’d be able to pick up a high quality microphone for an affordable price.
Poland was not part of the USSR…
Correct, but the ruling party at the time was under the influence of the USSR.
Not influence, control. They were allowed to do their own thing only as long as they did nothing to annoy Moscow and followed all orders.
That’s a difference without distinction.
Most Polish people would disagree. Poland got pretty fucked in ww2, from all sides, but at least they managed to hold on to some of their sovereignty and not be forced to join USSR as a Soviet Republic.
This partially allowed the democratization movement to form in Poland in the 80s (with Solidarność) and eventually for Poland to get out from under Russia’s boot and join the EU and NATO, and avoid the fate of former Soviet Republics like Belarus and Ukraine.
Most Polish people would disagree.
As a Polish/American, that has not been my experience.
Tell me you’re recording this concert for your daughter without telling me you’re recording this concert for your daughter.
maybe he realised he didn’t like the music and he’s wasting his time
Looks like a JVC RC-660
The guys in the back both have some kind of Grundig - probably C260 or similar.
Here are a bunch of Grundigs as well, also in Poland.
Even more here
Edit: found the same guy as well
I really dislike live recordings.
Like here is your favourite music, but in bad quality and you can’t hear half of it because people are screaming over it.
You have to realize that popular culture was very tightly controlled and restricted by the Polish communist government at this time. This photo was taken at the Jarocin festival, which was a rare chance to see many bands play that otherwise had no radio play or record contracts and often played styles of music that were viewed with great suspicion by the establishment. Recording these live performances and trading tapes was often the only way people got to hear many of these bands.
I grew up in a neighboring country during this time, but I wasn’t much into the rock scene then - I was into folk music, which had a similar scene in my country - many folk artists were straight up banned by the government, so it was impossible to hear them on the radio or buy their records, but tape recordings of live performances existed and were traded among the fans. Same of my favorite music from this period only existed in this form. There were even recordings of shows that got shut down by the police mid-set.
The 80s were a period of economic stagnation in eastern Europe, resulting in a lot of pent up anger and angst in the youth, and at the same time, the establishment was slowly losing its grip on the population. As a result artists were getting increasingly bold in channeling this anger and dissatisfaction, of pushing the boundaries of what was allowed, sometimes crossing them and getting slapped down - but you never knew what could happen at a large gathering of the youth back then - taping was an important tool to document and spread this to the wider population.
Thank you.
sometimes they get it from the board which is great
I remember hearing a live version of some Garth Brooks song years ago on the radio during a car ride where the audience was so loud, Garth stopped singing and basically told everyone to STFU. It’s always the first thing I think of when I hear the phrase ‘live recording.’
i feel the same way but i make an exception for the live album “stop making sense” by the talking heads. specifically the songs “crosseyed and painless” and “once in a lifetime” sound so much more energetic on the live album. depending on my mood, i sometimes pick the live versions over the studio recordings. they feel like different songs to me
I have liked exactly one live album and it’s was the Wilco Kicking Television: Live in Chicago album. Any other live album I’ve wanted to check out a window.
*men
Now that you mention it, it looks like this was a concert exclusively for men. I don’t know how concerts worked in Poland at that time, but I’d expect at least some women. I was super involved in my local punk and metal scene growing up in the early 2000s and the crowd was always around 50/50.
I think OP was mainly referring to how there appears to be more than one man recording.
That’s how I read into it as well - I just also thought it weird that there were no women (at least not obviously) in the picture.
Well check this out, there are literally zero women there. Interesting.
That’s bonkers! What is this - the annual meeting of Polish Men and Their Tape Recorders?
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Henry Kissinger for the win.
Kissinger can rest in piss.
And less resting more water boarding.
I was disgusted when I realized he only just died. I just hope that I will live long enough that I know that I have lived longer after his death than during his life.
He died on 2023/11/29, so almost seven months ago.
He’s really embodying “Be the stereo”.
Kissinger?
Not enough blood on his hands.
Killinger
*Men
I really dislike this trend of making not so old photos black and white in an effort to make them seem older. It seems disingenuous and misleads people into thinking it was longer ago than it actually was.
Black and white photography was cheaper than color all the way into the 90s. It was widely used.
And still is. I shoot a fair bit of black and white film. It’s cheaper, I can develop it at home, it produces a silver negative that will last centuries. The medium itself had been around for a century, so it imparts a sense of timelessness. I appreciate a good photo that you can’t tell if it’s 1924 or 2024 until you notice some dude with a cellphone in the background.
That’s true and still quite possibly why this photo is black and white, though regardless, that’s a trend I don’t care for.
I realize I’m probably in a gray area, no pun intended, but I just think it’s used as a tactic to make certain past events feel longer ago in an attempt to make it seem like a different time with problems that no longer affect us.
I guess I was just briefly triggered and realize it doesn’t really apply here.
Poland was actually in black and white all the way up to 2004 when they joined the EU.
Hey ’20s Americans:
Look how freaking thin these people were
