Garbage wind

• Armen Grigoryan - vocals, guitar
• Sergey Pushkaryov - bass
• Vadim Saralidze - violin
• Vladimir Vlasenko - backing vocals
• Olga Bocharova - backing vocals

The song was written by Armen Grigoryan in 1987 under the impression of the story of the same name by Andrei Platonov , and initially Grigoryan wrote the song not for the crematorium repertoire, but for the play “ Drums in the Night ” by V. Bresolt, which was staged at the Moscow Youth Theater .

At one time, people from the Spesivtsev Theater long harassed me, and in the end I agreed to write a couple of songs for ... In my opinion, for Bertold Brecht, “Drums in the Night”, if memory serves me right. At first, we didn’t even want to put it in the album - we thought that it would be performed in the theater. But some troubles happened in the theater, the performance was not staged, and we were just about to write the album “Coma” ... Such a dreary one. No one knew that she would then open so many doors to us.

- Armen Grigoryan

Due to the “unsuitability” of the song in the play, Armen had to prevent the song from “disappearing” and insert it into the repertoire of “Crematorium”. The first public performance of the song took place on March 10, 1987 on the television bridge " Moscow Rock Laboratory - Leningrad Rock Club ". In 1988, the song entered the album "Coma".

The TV show “Musical Elevator” announced a video clip contest, especially for which program managers Andrei Komarov and Dmitry Mamatov and the crematorium musicians themselves installed a video clip that became the band's first official video clip in the studio of the Ostankino television center almost overnight. The video sequence is as follows: at the beginning of the clip, a movie projector appears on a sunset background, which shows the later enlarged first frame: an actor playing the role of Andrei Platonov stands in front of a steam locomotive. Further, for most of the plot, a selection of various historical black and white frames of the chronicle follows. Towards the end of the video, silhouettes of figures of Armen Grigoryan, Sergey Pushkarev and Mikhail Rossovsky are shown against the background of these shots, and at the end of the clip, “Platonov” puts his hands to the fire and they light up. The clip ends with a logo showing - the letters "Kt" in a circle. There is a second version of the clip, which is quite rare. There is no episode with a film projector in it and at the beginning of the first couplet Grigoryan is shown with a guitar singing him, and after the episode with the silhouettes of musicians and the end of the last chorus, Grigoryan appears again, as in the episode with the beginning of the first couplet, but with Rossovsky and Pushkaryov standing far away . The ending is shown in color, the logo is not shown ^[1] . The clip shown as part of the Musical Elevator on Soviet TV brought the band’s popularity outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg .

• The role of the writer Andrei Platonov in the video for the song was played by one of the friends of Armen Grigoryan, Eugene "John" Davydov.
• In order for Soviet censorship to skip the video, the group name had to be changed to “Cream ...”.
• The song was placed by Time Out magazine on the list of “100 Songs That Changed Our Lives” ^[2] .
• The name of Vadim Saralidze, who played the main violin part in the song, is not indicated on the album “Coma” at his request ^[3] .
• Until the mid -2000s, most of the band's concerts were closed with a song. Now this is done extremely rarely, mostly the song is played in the middle or near the end of the concert.
• In 1991, at the “ VID- Anti AIDS ” national concert in the Olimpiysky Sports Complex, Armen Grigoryan dedicated the song “Garbage Wind” to the memory of Freddie Mercury , who died of AIDS on November 24 of the same year (it is noteworthy that November 24 is the birthday of Armen Grigoryan).
• In 1999, in a comic program “ OSP-studio ” by Mikhail Shatz , a parody of a song written by the scriptwriter Leonid Kaganov and called “Suicide” was performed. On February 6, 2013, the parody version was blocked on the author’s website by Roskomnadzor , who allegedly saw suicide propaganda in the text ^[4] , but later the service stated in an official letter that the copy of the text was criminal in nature ^[5] .

• The story of the creation of the clip “Trash Wind”