Ivan Nekuda

"Because, of course, there was an unofficial market here, the stock exchanges were functioning in some way. I remember the day when my brother came home, he said, 'Don't even touch it!´ And he had this packet of records that somebody had brought. I still remember Joplinka, Savoy Brown, Grand Funk Railroad. That had to be transferred to tape as quickly as possible. We had an old gramophone at home, and it was recorded on B4, on those big tapes, on those 19-track tapes, through a five-track. They had the advantage of being able to fit eight vinyl records on it. And again, it was taken away, like, to whoever lent it to you, who in turn lent it carefully to somebody else. It just worked that way."

"I grew up in a home where there were... Imagine this room all the way around, the one lined with books three times, that's what I grew up in. I grew up in that my parents were members of a record club, so we listened to things like Armstrong, Fitzgerald, Brel, Piafka. If you could get it, Voskovec and Werich. It's interesting that, although it would have fit at the time, there was no Hurvinek or Tales from the Stump going on in our country. Rather, as I recall, we had records by the Golden Kids, Neckář, Kubišová, like the early Kubišová stuff... She actually made one single record and loads of singles."