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oh yeah they welcome to spotlight the interview show on the hard sci fi ballerina of ensuring my guest in the studio playing the line is that of seeing. the music as ardently keeping it scattered for centuries but listen i think it's part of the issues of trying to think of the box and bring modern ideas into its hard water is that why not give them something. instead of a shuffling the power of the one song is a musician who was in a rush and. jack straw men pulled ourselves. to get in part of the guinness book of records hoping to close it up just out of gas or please welcome the spotlight because in short. least.

you've considered russia's best guitarist years of composing and playing with the country's best artists started a solo korea to find inspiration his relationship with a classical canon and emphasizes the creativity of rearranging committed to the guinness book of records nine years ago after playing. flight of the bumblebee at technically challenging composition popular with rock musicians today the. taras

his hands have been insured for half a million u.s. dollars joins us to discuss why classical music remains a benchmark for modern composition and before months. welcome to our program let me start with history i first met you in the one nine hundred eighty s. . a very popular jazz rock musician playing in one of russia's best jazz rock bands you're even invited to the status quo if i'm not mistaken the band which was extremely popular at the time why did you reject the career of a world class rock star and choose classical music instead. well you know there's a russian. each man can be useful if he's home and another thing is that perhaps here they need me more here you mean in russia. or in classical music by now it's both classical music and russian i felt that mastered everything yet i was studying at the mosque in university of culture and i graduated with honors i'm proud of the

fact that i'm one of the few more and bitterest who called a degree in classical music. eric clapton mark knopfler the beatles and many others they didn't have any musical education at all is it really necessary for a guitar player just helps it helps so it's not a must feel if you want to achieve something in classical music you needed like in my case it helped me a lot victor you've always been a rock musician are you a rock musician now or are you not any longer i'm a musician in the broad sense of the word but still again i'll divide music but just playing it piece by mozart yes it was and then beat home was rock music well yes so that means iraq musician well would you see. home in a more rock musicians considering their express you force and what kind of people they were for instance beholden. here in los art love dancing through the night

playing billiards and was partying the same way the rock stars do today you couldn't do any of them smoke yes it was johann sebastian bach oh he smoked it was one of the first people to use a cigarette holder see that's the benefit of studying classical music you get to read a lot of bug great composers and now i can share this information at my concerts i tell people about their lives and what kind of people they were. and one of the interviews he said that you're a co-author with beethoven bach and many other composers are you sure that those great composers need to get a co-author do you think they really need your interpretation. you know yes they do because you know one sebastian bach was discovered actual in the nineteenth century and in the nineteenth century it was considered good taste much like johnny marr chalo least in other composers played their own pieces together with those by bought many interpreters these were exiting something of their own to them

musicians edit their own canon says musical pieces of their own that's why i decided that it would be appropriate in the twentieth century as well as bob was well ahead of time he was a very advanced person so if you leave in the twentieth century he would compose music for such powerful instruments as electrical guitar that's eighty percent of the truth and the other twenty percent is that it's my tribute to classical music you know i was in italy in there in the mountains in a castle they told me my son and cast a horoscope for me and they told me that i was responsible for maintaining harmony so i feel good when i feel that i must do is successful at it yes we don't have enough of this kind of music on t.v. and on there were radio and people like it that's why i played it in my concerts and i feel very good it seems to be so good that it becomes can teachers soon ah there is also a feel good in people change at the end of the concert something changes in their eyes with all today's problems music works mirror. goals and its impact on people

so let's take a closer look now at the phenomenon of mixing classics and rock in a report by spotlights yulian that dimi the. car these yesterday and eleanor rigby are believed to be inspired by deval these music later the beatles would record some of this songs with the compliment of a symphony orchestra. in one nine hundred seventy one emerson lake and palmer rock the world with an interpretation of mussorgsky's because at an exhibition in the eighty's there's an fragments of question good music and rock songs became somewhat of a routine practice with guitarists liking ramones tin making rock grangemouth more classical pieces the complicated schools of cultures from the past are a challenge which more than artists i'm willing to face a guitarist steve vai before going in his fifth caprice in one nine hundred eighty six movie crossroads this is not just rock musicians who are influenced by

classical music unless i'm a made her professional debut as a traditional violinist but later turned to electronic intel british and the classics and full classically trained cellists of the finnish apocalyptica band achieved worldwide fame in the ninety's for they meant of metallica's songs while some say mixing genres is good but it popularizes classics others believe the old masterpieces are only degraded and oversimplified to be interest of modernization is to classics is a new and likely to subside in the age when music prevails and computer technology is make it possible almost for everyone to feel themselves. to stick it in all of these of centuries ago are only to grow in the plural. thirty years of worship victor i have your quote here here's what you said. you

know it saved me from the fact that i was born in the soviet union and i never thought whether it's profitable or not to be a musician and my happiness never depended on the fact whether i had a million dollars or not while young musicians today often can't cope with this burden. and of quote what it sounds nice but what do you think saved ritchie blackmore and mark knopfler saying and jimmy page what saved them because they weren't born in the soviet union you will heard and know because i have never lived there i was born in a different place but then in the g.d. everybody was idealistic at times in the music forbidden here was very sweet we wanted to do very much and even though we didn't have it on t.v. and on the radio people were comping records and passing them to one another everybody knew but musicians do much more than young people not a day. for midnight fruit is sweet but that's not the main reason of course the

thing is that that music was very dear to me it contains great wisdom accumulated by humanity that's why forty two the world maintaining harmony i wanted to play what do you think it's amazing that you're a person who came from the underground but it's not only in the soviet union but also in the west and around the world that the underground produces more masterpieces then official music why is it the case that something that's forbidden results in greater artistic works than the music which is open which is being supported and developed. it's no secret that when music is professional in artist depends greatly on the producers who have already decided what he's or her rematch on stage would be like and don't let them sidestep from it people get used to seeing a rock guitarist in points but what if i want to try and play the acoustic guitar but if i want to play banjo or celtic or i can do it here in the underground well i can say that i am in the. underground now but i'm

a happy person because i can go beyond the boundaries of the sword that style i just can't limit myself to want style. well you've had producers decide there are thing in professional music you sounded sad like a man who knows it firsthand are you in a similar situation now to some extent so do you have less freedom today as comes to the days when you played jazz rock and nightclubs in the dead of the night no i'm absolutely free at my concerts it's my concerts i can play anything i want but to appear on television as a musician i need to fit in the program for example in russia instrumental music often appears in comedy shows and naturally this has to be something simpler something funny of course sometimes to the air my concerts to you but that doesn't happen very often on late at night that are the guinness book of world records calls you the fastest guitar player in the world. and the flight of the bumblebee by are in ski course to go at the speed of twenty seconds true. but according to

what she said that was just for fun. but what's difficult for you then the most difficult thing is to perform at a concert that changes people and lasts for two hours and to hold people's attention we play schubert beat hollins for really use you're saying that the most difficult thing is to hold people's attention when you as this mean that you're playing your music for people who don't want to listen to it do you have to force them filming any of them know they're a little music or all over the country when i performed in italy for example one person came up to me and said you know we talents are musical people but my wife knows next to nothing about music but she wept once a listen to a bush you're working miracles and i thought to myself if i can do it in russia in a bloody boss talking some are in moscow in people understand it and listen with tears in their eyes. this means i'm not good bad at it after all says

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welcome back to spotlight i'm going of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is the victor is essential guitarist very charles though and composer and my personal friend victor welcome back welcome back to the show victor victor when you started talking about your current interests to suit you i know that to. hey you're interested in celtic music it's amazing that when we were young generation of those rock musicians tended to turn to indian music george harrison john mcloughlin many many others are today's rock musicians there's into ritchie blackmore ritchie blackmore and many others play celtic music what brought it to celtic music. you know stairway to how many by led zeppelin was influenced by celtic ballots all english ballots originated from there yes that is so i realize that to be able to play this music

really well once you know celtic music simply bought a ticket to arlen and flew there i came back with two bags of discs and musical instruments in then i started studying it you know there are a lot of young people in russia who not only imitate their looks by wearing kilts their soul to clubs where they dance and learn about celtic use tree it was very interesting for me to learn about caroline and european harpers we have boards in russia but the bharti tradition actually originates from europe. in our rich harper's were considered the best among european musicians before their music was superseded by church music alike and beat home and so i realised i didn't know anything about celtic music and i thought it would help me to learn about it then again i felt like we didn't have enough of that type of music in russia so i decided to play the music i felt will act and the celtic culture is quite popular

in russia isn't it the same patrick's day as though with the national holiday of course a lot of people say that celtic music is very reminiscent of ethnic russian songs do you think that's true i think that's my point it's a lot like the russian ethnic songs of all the singing is korsakoff simplified russian ethnic music in the nineteenth century by releasing eckel action of the two hundred. most popular ethnic songs he simplified down the old music that still leaves on in russia in the r. hunger screeching for example he's passed on from generation to generation that music sounds a lot like the celtic tunes of old in orthodox priest once showed me in an old russian troops the head is celtic cross may have something to do with the viking reign in russia or something else but where were the influence might come from the spear celtic music sounds a lot like oriental music too there is also

a legend that says if it landed sever existed and plants in music was similar to celtic music because this celtic tone system was given to the druids by giants the children of atlanteans it's hard to check with religion is true but the story is beautiful if it is true that will explain why everybody loves music so much i keep hearing stories about you you're a legendary person and not only in russia i've heard among other things that you have several dozen guitars if not several hundred not several hundreds more like several dozen i've heard that the world's leading guitar makers consider it an honor to send you a guitar for your birthday each here is not true well they didn't do it when i just started out but after i had made certain achievements and started happening and they made it does especially for you it's very nice of them is it true that one of the guitar makers that fender is a russian and that he's making it does for you yes it's true russian guitar maker by the name. does work at founder and then one of his guitars is a prison for fiftieth birthday during my concert at the it's beautiful and very

expensive we have the guitar right here in us to play it at concerts it's called indorsement many guitar companies coppery it with musicians must be profitable since our market is quite big and companies want popular musicians to play their instruments as the same as rockets and tennis players yes i think they're considered as when we were younger some of our idols like jimmy page and so on played. gibson guitars others played fender when we were following god it was important to us what guitar brands our favorite musicians preferred to know you're playing gibsons fender's that you've been as does this mean you have no principles i have principles but i'm not the narrow i really can't be pigeonholed when i play a piece that i want to sound fed into c. like for example against pollen is using jeeps and guitar when i need to refine sounds the group can glass tone that it being self g.g. kaleb or mark knopfler i use a fender stratocaster besides that i have

a soul to corner that i bought in germany i go there to buy acoustic instruments because i play the classical guitar to both a metal and nylon strings i even have a pedal steel guitar any ukulele i play this one by certain songs on a ukulele i did that at my kremlin concerts with a famous ballerina all of these instruments are there like means to me that i used to paint a lot of different beautiful pictures so your answer to the question of what's better than there are gibson who leave or leave your answer everything good for you your name and peace loving man seriously no guitar is a simple instrument as great but it is simple do you think it's possible to make a perfect guitar one that you would be able to take with you on tour instead of the five you carry around now is such a guitar possible to make or do they have to be different have you ever thought about it you know they have to be different that's the thing guitar does not play

itself and there is no instrument that you can pick up and just start playing everyone wants a guitar like that but it doesn't exist guitar is an extension of the guitar player the secret is that you have to merge with the instrument and fully yourself as much as you play the guitar the strings when you put them on true fingers become an extension of your hand. that's how you gained it huge power to influence the audience but you depends on the guitarists personality his culture he thinks he's purity to his knowledge and many other personal qualities in his physical condition all of these things affect stage presence and whether the musician is able to perform well on stage. that wait a minute to say that all great musicians well you said just the guitarists of this kind that alone musicians with all these people who have lots of fans. even to

say that they're all people of high moral standards they're all good people just dedicated to music you know many ways yes they're all outstanding people there is no doubt about that you are. right there are no bad people among them. when a person like that comes on stage is negative charisma will make you want to watch but only for a certain time there are people like that of course but the general rule when i'm pure person performance she's someone who doesn't like what they do you or doesn't like people perform their performance does not turn out very well people don't notice that but it's true i believe the genius and villainy are incompatible i'm not the first person to say that there is a certain steer a type regarding rock star behavior rock stars drink and to but they do it in order to give all they have to music they want to serve music and serve their audience

they destroy themselves during that so we can condemn musicians or taking drugs. so you're justifying them. but it is a fad that drugs help make music they help you be more creative to go to another dimension so you don't condemn drugs and rock music this has already happened. that's how a lot of musical styles more invented look at jimi hendrix and psychedelic music. of course i can't condemn those people to do because russia and the whole world are promoting healthy lifestyle. you know when you grew up your realize until you mean to say that musicians have already taken what they could from the drugs is a thing in the past now you hear some relief so musicians changes the grow up and they grew to understand that if they keep on taking drugs who are smoking you know

there is a great football team in russia called star cool a lot of musicians play for that team and i'm very happy that i started playing football that was twelve years ago i quit smoking and kicked all my bad habits the lot of people come to our concerts also we organize charity games giving the money to sick children i know that you know we and other countries have similar projects but i you realize that i was at the next stage that stage was in the past the music sixty eight and now i have to stay fit if i want to give concerts and reach out to people with my music and i'm not the only one like that russia does the insurance company that insured your hands for half a million dollars to play football you know it's a true story but i did that a long time ago you know last century i was defers to russian musician i believe to have his hands insured for half a million dollars but that was only for

a year and the contract was actually quite elaborate i was not allowed to engage in mountain climbing and gliding or other dangerous sports you can stick your fingers into the sockets yes that would avoid the contract if i see about spicy videos by say about it on the thank you very much for being with us it was a great pleasure thank you just a reminder that my guest today was guitarist and composer. by. thank you for being with us in the spotlight and just to remind you watching spotlight on our t.v. . a famous russian musician composer and guitar hero to i was out was with us on this show. take care listen to music.