1. Tsoi's first performance in Kyiv ended in deportation to Moscow. In 1984, the not yet very well-known Tsoi and the already famous Mike Naumenko played an “apartment house” (in a house not far from the capital’s prosecutor’s office). The concert was interrupted by a visit from a local police officer. The owner of the apartment managed to hide the cassette with the recording - otherwise, Tsoi would probably have been accused of “illegal labor activity.”

2. Viktor Tsoi could not stand the sight of blood. In 1983, he tried to avoid the army in the famous St. Petersburg psychiatric hospital on the Pryazhka River.

“There it was necessary to be diagnosed with MDP, manic-depressive psychosis. Cut veins and so on,- recalls ex-guitarist of “Kino” Yuri Kasparyan. — They took it with this. They somehow had an agreement there with their friends that they would take him, but his veins still had to be cut. And Tsoi could not stand blood. Finger prick—this was already a problem, especially since the man was playing the guitar. And here—cut your veins!... In general, they called an ambulance, the doctors arrived, and Tsoi was sitting so pink, there were some small scratches on his hands. Well, they took it anyway!».

By the way, “on the Buckle” Tsoi composed a song with the no-casual name “Tranquilizer”.

3. According to almost everyone who knew him personally, Tsoi was neither arrogant, nor noisy, nor, especially, an aggressive person. That didn’t stop him from being a fan of Bruce Lee, watching “Enter the Dragon” dozens of times, copying the movements, poses and even the facial expression of his idol.

4. Choi was very shy. “And regarding women, and in general,- recalls Victor’s close friend and first guitarist of “Kino” Alexey Rybin in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets. — But this again comes from Soviet life: Vitya was humiliated because of his nationality. We haven’t heard enough phrases from the pubs addressed to him! Of course, this made him closed. They teased him at school, then gopniks pestered us on the street.”.

5. In 1986, despite the Chernobyl disaster, the Kino group came to Kyiv to star in the film “End of Vacation” - diploma work young director Sergei Lysenko. It is generally accepted that this film launched Tsoi’s film career, although “close sources” claim that he was pretty depressed that “the film turned out to be such crap.”

6. Tsoi was fond of wood carving. He was first shown on television in the Monitor program as a gifted woodcarver. Tsoi especially loved making Japanese traditional figurines - netsuke - from wood. Then he gave these miniature sculptures to friends and acquaintances.

7. Tsoi loved to draw. His friends say they were grotesque images that were close to fantasy and cartoons.

8. At the famous "Kamchatka" Tsoi became a highly qualified fireman. But many friends say that he was not such a workaholic.

From the memoirs of the same Rybin: “Vitka was a terrible lazy person! So do we all. Songwriting just wasn't hard work for him. He did this in between times. In general, Tsoi’s favorite pastime was lying on the couch. I remember I came, and he, with his legs up, was reading a book with “Belomor” in his teeth.”.

9. Viktor Tsoi was interested Russian pop. He knew several songs by Mikhail Boyarsky by heart and once went to the SKK for a concert by Valery Leontyev.

10. Anatoly Sokolkov, the head of that very “Kamchatka”, says:

“He said to himself: “I am mysterious oriental man" The song “Kamchatka” was written much earlier than Tsoi got here. He wrote a purely phonetic text and liked the word. When he got a job, everything came together.”.

11. The song " good night"Tsoi wrote in Kyiv. From the tenth floor of the Slavutich hotel there was a beautiful view of the city - they say that this landscape and the mood that reigned in Kyiv inspired Tsoi to write the lines“I have been waiting for this time, and now this time has come. / Those who were silent stopped being silent. / Those who have nothing to expect get into the saddle, / they can’t be caught up, they can’t be caught up.”.

12. There is a version according to which the word “Assa” was made such a pop cultural symbol not by Soloviev or Grebenshchikov, but by Tsoi. One of the first sound producers in the USSR, Andrei Tropilo, recalls that “in his opinion, the main thesis Soviet culture in general and various youth activities in particular should be expressed by the word “ASSA!”.

“When they recorded “Night” or “Chief of Kamchatka,” communication was very difficult. Why? Constant feeling of madhouse. You are doing something with one performer, and at this time others, including Tsoi and Kasparyan, are constantly moving, jumping up, demonstrating karate techniques to each other. They waved their arms all the time. And when they constantly wave their hands above your head, it’s quite unpleasant. This word “assa” was constantly behind my back. They continuously demonstrated this “assa” to each other. A kick to the jaw or something else".

13. Biographers like to emphasize that Tsoi’s undeniably favorite color was black, but this is not entirely true. This color predominated in stage costumes, but in life Viktor Tsoi loved to dress brightly and adored yellow(in the East - a symbol of eternity). Tsoi's favorite flowers are yellow roses.

14. Viktor Tsoi and the Kino group managed to give four concerts in the West: in Denmark, Italy and twice in France.

15. People who surrounded the Kino group on tour noted their phenomenal performance. Leaving backstage after the concert, Tsoi almost always fell exhausted and lay on the floor motionless for ten minutes. I came to my senses because I always gave my all on stage.

The main researcher of the history of rock music in LJ - soullaway , discovered a photo from the 1980s: Viktor Tsoi in an American music store. In general, I have long been interested in the question: what did Soviet rock musicians play in those years. I decided to do a little research on the topic.

I’ll start with Tsoi - especially since today is his birthday. I dug through the concert photos and was able to identify some of the guitars.

Let's start with something simple - perhaps the most popular electric guitar in the world: Fender Stratocaster.


However, this may be Fender, A Squier is Fender's economy brand. For a professional musician It’s not respectable to play on this, but I think in the USSR in those years it was quite cool.

By at least, Grebenshchikov on the famous " Musical ring"In 1986 I played on the Squire.

Quite a famous photo:

The company is listed on the deck: Ibanez, but I couldn’t identify the model.

And the guitar - Kramer Ferrington

Another guitar from the latest - Washburn A.E..

Everything that was above was already perestroika times, the second half of the 1980s, when imported guitars were probably already available. A following photos- first half of the 1980s.

In many photos, Tsoi appears with a 12-string acoustic Leningrad factory musical instruments them. Lunacharsky.

By the way, Kasparian in this photo - Yamaha SG

Here's a very early photo:

The chic of those times - Czechoslovakian Jolana Star

Alla Chereshnichenko

The secret of Tsoi's guitar

The musician’s twelve-string guitar is kept in the Viktor Tsoi Museum in the Kamchatka boiler room. For fans of Tsoi it is a sacred artifact, and for its famous owner it was a high-quality instrument made in Leningrad.

PHOTO by Vladimir NIKITIN (from the newspaper archive) " class="article-img">

Once upon a time, teenagers played not on American gadgets, but on Leningrad guitars.
PHOTO by Vladimir NIKITIN (from the newspaper archive)

As we were told at the museum, Victor bought this guitar in 1978 in Gostiny Dvor. At that time, it was one of the best guitars presented in the windows of Leningrad music stores. And it cost almost the entire average salary of a Soviet citizen. In order to complete the purchase, the future legend of Russian rock had to save the money that his parents allocated to him for food. I look at the worn label on the guitar and see the almost erased inscription “Leningrad Factory of Plucked Musical Instruments named after. A.V. Lunacharsky."

“Indeed, at that time the Leningrad Lunacharka guitars were famous not only in the USSR, but also abroad,” confirm both the musicians and musical masters. And the secret of the success of those guitars was, first of all, a well-structured technological chain of the production process, a serious attitude to the selection of materials and the enthusiasm of the specialists. These guitars were made mainly from spruce and birch plywood. Beech and maple were also used. Wood from the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions was especially valued.

“As for the guitar that Viktor Tsoi had, it high quality depended, among other things, on natural technological features,” explains hereditary guitar master Andrei Babichev. – To speed up the varnishing process, the guitars were coated with a special varnish in only one layer. The peculiarity of Soviet varnish (and there was no other) is that it dried to a smooth surface only if the thickness of the coating was more than a millimeter.”

As a result, almost all “Lunachar” guitars of that time were too heavily impregnated with this varnish, which naturally affected their sound quality. And only 12-string models were not afraid of the excessive mass of varnish due to the high tension provided by 12 metal strings swinging the soundboard.

According to the factory legend, the model for such instruments was Spanish guitar famous musician Anders Segovia, who in 1927 paid a friendly visit to the Leningrad factory. He gave his instrument to the craftsmen (according to another version, they used the instrument secretly while the owner was distracted). The craftsmen studied the overseas guitar inside and out, copied patterns from it, and carefully studied the measurements and location of the springs. It was those copied patterns that served as the basis for the best domestic instruments, many of which are still alive.

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Vladimir Vysotsky

There are few people, not only in our country, but abroad, who would not be familiar with creativity Soviet bard and actor Vladimir Vysotsky. He went down in history thanks to his unique singing style and lyrics with humorous street slang under seven string guitar. Vysotsky acquired the first famous instrument after the death of Alexei Dikiy (Soviet actor) from his wife and, according to his stories, it was made 150 years ago by an Austrian master. Subsequently, Alexander Shulyakovsky made four or five guitars for him, the first with a lyre-shaped headstock. In addition, Vladimir had a guitar with two necks, which he really liked for its unusual shape, although he did not use the second bar.

Victor Tsoi

One more extraordinary personality national culture 20th century is Viktor Tsoi. He is known to everyone as a songwriter and founder of the rock band "Kino". Victor received his first guitar from his mother as a gift - it was a twelve-string. It was on it that almost all of the group’s hits were written and acoustic concerts were played. The next electric guitar appeared - the Stratocaster brought from America. But when he saw Kasparyan’s white Yamaha, he began to dream of the same one and even tried to exchange it with him. Soon Tsoi managed to purchase a white semi-acoustic Washburn EA20, which he played in last years life.

Jimi Hendrix

The greatest virtuoso guitarist Jimi Hendrix of all times can rightfully be considered, since during his lifetime he was called a genius and a phenomenon. At one time, Hendrix's live performances were among the best in the world, and to this day, many guitarists try to emulate him. Now everyone knows that Jimi was left-handed, but he bought right-handed instruments because they were mostly sold only, and he knew how to turn the guitar upside down and achieve a unique sound. Perhaps his most famous was the Fender Stratocaster, which was set on fire at one of his concerts in 1967. From mid-1967 to January 1969, he used a Gibson Flying V, which he painted on immediately after purchasing it. psychedelic patterns and played only certain compositions on it. He also had an acoustic one - a Martin D-45. My favorite electric guitar was still a white Fender Strat.

Kurt Cobain

American guitarist and vocalist of the rock band Nirvana, Kurt Donald Cobain, owned his fair share of guitars throughout the band's career, occasionally breaking them, but only two models became his favorites: the Fender Jaguar and the Mustang. And instead of choosing one, he made a collage of both, and from his sketch Fender created the Jag-Stang, although he rarely used it. After Kurt's death it went to Peter Buck (R.E.M.).

Angus Young

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Ritchie Blackmore

Hard rock star and founding member Deep Purple, Ritchie Blackmore (Richard Hugh Blackmore), remembered by many for his ability to mix guitar riffs with organ sounds, played a Gibson ES-335 for a long time. But since 1968, he began using the Fender Stratocaster, and when recording, the Fender Telecaster Thinline. In the 70s, the main guitar was a white Fender Olympic Strat with a rosewood and scalloped fingerboard, to the headstock of which Richie attached a straplock.

The Beatles

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