Musical feuilleton by Vladimir Kuzmin

In the Soviet Union official rock-n-roll bands were rare and very popular. The career of Dynamic started in 1982 at the Tashkent circus.

The founder of the band Vladimir Kuzmin: "We were forbidden to be a rock-group and we registered as circus artistes. We received circus salaries with extra money "to feed the elephants." I invented the term "musical feuilleton", so that my satirical songs would be approved by the artistic council. I called it a musical feuilleton and sang about the acute problems of the time and nobody forbade me, because it was in circus. It would have been different if we were classified as a rock-band. The poster said "Vladimir Kuzmin", but on the wall next to it we wrote "Dynamic", and people went to our performances. This is how we travelled to the arenas and sports halls. It did not stop us from becoming a very popular band. The newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" gave us first place in the rating of musical bands. Although the person responsible for that was soon fired. After that we were banned. Only 25% of our songs could be ours, while the rest had to be written "by Soviet composers". I found a way out. I attributed my own songs to other composers, I was ready to give up my authors' rights. I did not really give them up, because they were still registered in my name. It was fun. We did all this with light hearts, without being pathetic, and that is why people liked us.

I think this event - 30 years of Dynamic - is very important for our fans, because our main task has always been to make people happy. They have good memories of their youth connected to us and we would like to revive this on the stage on October 7. I do not know whether we will succeed, but we have concerts very often so I hope everything will be great.

The main emphasis will be put on the first album of Dynamic that appeared in 1982 and also on the concert in Kirov that became even more famous than our studio album. We will basically play the same songs. We invited the musicians who played then - my brother Alexander Kuzmin and Yuri Kitayev, who was the first drum player in Dynamic. The songs that we will play will include "Exercise", "Rain", "Mother", "Sadness" - all our legendary songs, although I am not sure they are legendary, but I already said that I value the opinion of the audience. We are rehearsing now to provide material form that time. But I know the audience too well and I realize that if we play only  songs of one type it will be too boring  Everybody wants "Siberian Frosts" and "Simona". We want people to smile. The greatest happiness for me is to see people smiling or crying from positive emotions at my concerts and it happens quite often."