Parketi

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... After all the story of Parketi began more then a decade after the first wave of Punk Rock, everything was seen and heard, we had the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, the Ramones and Joey Ramone and in former Yugoslavia there were punk rock bands already from the beginning, bands like Pekinska Patka, Sarlo Acrobata, Azra and many others were making their marks in the minds of young people in the turbulent time when the country and it’s system were falling down. Nevertheless no one really penetrated this massive barrier that the controlled media and state owned record labels had made against this strange thing called Punk Rock, or if you like, against, Rock and Roll. There was very little that slipped through all of that. In Bitola (a city of 100 000 people) at the end of the 80..s, there were only a few active underground (in the wide sense Rock and Roll) bands that were making their own music, and there was only one place in the whole city where something other then domestic folk music could be heard, and that was some kind of Disco Basement called Orfej (Orpheus). It was a disastrous situation. In other places in Yugoslavia there was a more vibrant music scene, like in the bigger cities of Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Novi Sad and Skopje, but still the really good stuff never left the basements and garages of these cities. For Bitola the biggest events in those years were the concerts of some mediocre domestic folk musicians, the really big ones never came there. At the same tim

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