Biography
At the peak of popularity, the Forum Group gave up to 40 concerts per month. Words of the songs "Islet" and "White Night" knew the midst of fans in any city of the USSR. The team of the team changed not once, at different times, Viktor Saltykov and Sergey Rogozhin sang in it. The creative potential of the syntipop group was enough for a decade, however, since 2011, the Creator "Forum", Alexander Morozov, is attempting to revive the once popular project.Compound
The history of the creation of the legendary team is associated with the name of the composer and producer Alexander Morozov. The musician is known for fruitful work: they created more than a thousand songs for the artists of the Soviet and Russian pop. Part of the compositions are mistakenly considered folk. Among them songs "in the Hubber of My Light", "Dawn Alay", "in the edge of the magnolia", "flew leaves."
The last hit, by the way, was performed by soloists created by the "Forum". In 1983, when the team was born, frosts have already acquired weight in the musical environment. He just finished the conservatory N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, having received a second education, and, as the composer said Interview magazine, "I wanted to shake up." Collecting a new ensemble, Alexander Morozov did not assume that the union would achieve such success.
The first team of the Forum Group became the participants of the collaborated team called "Forward". Vocalists Vladimir Yermolin and Irina Komarov also played musical instruments: on guitar and violin, respectively. At the same time, Yermolin was a parallel project - the group "Zair", in which he sang with Mikhail Boyarsky.
Together with Komarov and Yermolin from Forward, the bass guitarist Alexander Nazarov came. The year later, when, after the debut speech of the Forum and the Small Tours, the Forwards decided to stop cooperation with Morozov, Nazarov preferred to remain.
The keyboard player Mikhail Menacher, Percussionist Alexander Dronik and guitarist Nikolai Hellors came to the place of departments. In addition, the group joined the guitarist Yuri Smeevanov. The performer spoke with a team of just a few months: Pokhimanov attracted music more. After leaving the "Forum", the musician went to Augustus.
The second-line star was the soloist Victor Saltykov. Before that, he sang a few years in the Leningrad Rock Team "Manufactory". In 1984, at one of the festivals, Nazarov appealed to Him with an invitation to join the Forum. Saltykov agreed. "Manufactory" then was on the verge of decay due to the appeal of the participants in the group to the army, and the departure of the vocalist accelerated the process.
During the "golden three-year" group "Forum", from 1984 to 1987, the composition was stable. Only in 1986 the team changed the keyboard, due to the call of Mikhail Menacher to the urgent service. Vladimir Saiko took his place. Also a year earlier towards the team joins the drummer Konstantin Ardashin.
The second change of composition occurs in 1987. Musicians quarrel with producer because of his desire to control the creative process. In a conversation with a journalist, InterView Morozov admitted that departure from the group Viktor Saltykov turned out to be a real blow.
The ensemble was in front of his eyes, because after a vocalist, not only the percussionist and sound engineer left, but also the bass guitarist Nazarov - the very nazarov, which three years ago did not take the side of his comrades and remained with Morozov. Musicians are moving to the new team of David Tukhmanov "Electroclub".
Saved the team coming to the group of Vocalist Sergey Rogozhina. The rest of the vacant places were gradually filled. For the drums, a familiar friend Vladimir Saiko Sergey Sharkov. The sound engineering entrusted Sergey Eremin. Several guitarists changed before in the spring of 1989, Vladislav Sheremetyev came.
However, Alexander Morozov is already here, seeing that the group is losing popularity, decides to leave the team leadership. In 1994, the musicians leave joint creativity and switch to solo careers.
In 2011, Morozov tries to revive the team. The basis of it is the former participants of the Forum - Percussionist Konstantin Ardashin and Guitarist Nikolai Heel. An ex-participant "Laskovaya May" Oleg Savrska comes to the keyboard player. Vocalists are now two: Musiclov's soloist Anton Avdaev and Showman Pavel Dmitriev, speaking under the pseudonym Pavel Art.
Music
For the first time before the public, the Forum Group appeared in 1984. The international rock festival held in Czechoslovakia was the platform for the debut performance. For execution, the team chose the song "You understand me", written by a participant of the first composition, Gitarist Alexei Fadeev.The composition was among the best among those who sounded at the festival. After the successful start, "Forum" began touring. Speeches were recorded. Later, they made a collection of concert versions of the first songs of the group. Material published in 1984.
In 1985, the flourishing of the popularity of "Forum" begins. In the updated lineup, the team records the debut album "White Night". First, it is produced on bobbins, and in 1987 it comes out on the vinyl record. Until this time, published under different names and with various tracks. The classic track list includes the main hits of the Forum: "Islet", "White Night", "flew leaves", "Crane in the sky" and others.
In the television, the first clip is broadcast, shot on the song "Let's call!" In the same year, the video "Together with the younger" creates video for another three hit. According to surveys of students who conduct printed publications, the public constantly includes a "forum" in the top five popular domestic teams. The group is invited to the program "Music Ring", and a year later the composition "flew leaves" brings musicians to the final "song of the year".
In 1987, after the change of vocalist, the ensemble protrudes with concerts in Denmark. Listeners are loyal to the newcomer Sergey Rogozhina, and frost decides that it was time to release a new musical material. In 1988, the plate "Nobody is not guilty" comes out. In the following years, the group's popularity is reduced.
Despite this, in 1992 it comes out the third album "Black Dragon". The plate does not have a strong influence on the fate of the team, and, having left a couple of years, the "Forum" decays. One of the last bright songs is the composition of Mr. President dedicated to Mikhail Gorbachev. Frames with a politician appear in the clip.
On the wave of lift interest in Retro in the "zero" Victor Saltykov and Sergey Rogozhin perform together at concerts dedicated to the anniversaries "Forum". On the 20th anniversary of the Saltykov Group performs several songs along with the singer of Dasha May. But the return of the "Forum" does not go to the scene.
Such an attempt is made by Alexander Morozov only in 2011. With the support of the former members of the team Ardashin and Kestukov, he finds new vocalists and an arguer. As the starting site, one of its own anniversary concerts is used for the premiere of the revived ensemble. For some time after recreation, the "Forum" group tours to Russian cities, performing both hits and new compositions.
"Forum" now
Now the fourth of the Forum has no permanent concerts. Alexander Morozov's charts and Vocalist Anton Avdeev for months are filled with performances not related to the group's tour.
There is no actual official website of the Forum. So it can be assumed that now the "Forum" is going to joint speeches only on the iconic reasons.
Clips
- 1984 - "Release, Moms"
- 1985 - "Let's call"
- 1985 - "White Night"
- 1985 - "Fielded leaves"
- 1985 - "Zhuravl in the sky"
- 1986 - "The door is encoded"
- 1987 - "On the next street"
- 1993 - "Mr. President"
Discography
- 1985 - "White Night"
- 1988 - "No one is to blame"
- 1992 - "Black Dragon"