Jiří Větrovský

"The concert was conceived in such a way that it consisted of three parts, I painted a fabric poster, there was a programme. We had played one concert before in Služetín, which was a famous farm near Mariánské Lázně here, and we played there, at that time the Psí vojáci, Ženy and the Pathological Orchestra of Mariánské Lázně played there. We played our set and we moved, we rented a bus in Pilsen for our friends and for the bands. We loaded up the bus and when we were driving, there were four antons and six police cars coming towards us, the cops raided the place. They made a big deal out of it, and we escaped it because we needed to get to Pilsen early. There there was a raid, which was written about everywhere, I have the articles here - the Festival in the Stables. Everybody drugged, their expressions exaggerated about the corrupt youth supported by the dollar and the imperialists... Well, we played the whole concert again at that Roudna, it was called Služetín 86, then Ivan Wernisch was there, he's my favourite, and then Jiri Grusha. The poster was taken away from us when the concert was interrupted. They interrupted it after the first third, we had agreed that we would play that one part and then Lada Líbal would be there in between, that he would do a theatrical performance with Heřman Chromý, but somehow he couldn't, we have some photos of that too, but they are of very poor quality. And when Lada Líbal finished the performance and we went on stage, they stormed in."

"I stayed with my grandmother in Bušovice, which is fifteen kilometres from Pilsen. I was there in the morning before ninth grade and I remember exactly at about 4:30 in the morning a neighbor was banging on the door and calling out that there was a war. The only thing I remember is that at seven o'clock in the morning in front of the consignment shop in the village there was a line of all the women, they had carts, they were buying flour, sugar, just everybody thought it was war. The tanks started coming around the pond, and they drove into every street like that, firing blank cartridges everywhere, just to emphasize the deterrent effect, and they tore everything up. I was still there on the 21st, we listened to the radio and television, if the radio was free. In the evening, my friends and I set up a tent and went out like good cowboys at night with our paint brushes and wrote on the roads Idite damoj and Moscow 5000 kilometers, that's what was done, that very day. Then about two days later we arrived in Pilsen, and by then I was sweeping all the demonstrations like a 14-year-old boy, signing petitions against something on every corner."