Pavel Báča

"That's the legendary concert as it's on the record, but now I don't know where it was, in what pub. How we start playing there. At the time it was announced that it was going to be an engagement party... It was, of course, the concert we played. Now I don't know if we played one or two songs. The cops came in, both normal and State Security, and the pub keeper - and this is the classic line and it's on some Šanov record - 'That's enough! This isn't an engagement, it's an engagement, my ass!' Well, the end, right, it was off and they were leaving. There were a lot of these cancelled concerts or unfinished gigs back then - there were loads of that, weren't there." - "So it happened very often?" - "Yes, very regularly. Lysá nad Labem, we went to a concert there. I remember that, we went there by train and I know I was there with Vejražka, Vejr was there too. I don't even know if it started there or not, because it was such a long way to get to Lysá nad Labem in those cars at that time... Then, of course, they came in, but then they were like old guys, like old village policemen. They had whistles like that - the red ones, like a guard at the military service. I remember, but now I don't know who it was, but somebody says to him, if he'll lend him the whistle. So he lent it to him and he blew the whistle. And in Málkov, for example, it didn't happen there, it didn't even start there. That was in 1985, when everybody went to Málkov, like F.P.B. and other bands, maybe Svaz Áček, he was supposed to play there, where Ota Chlupsa played with Julek Horváth and Petr Keřka. All the Teplice people went there, and there are photos of it, as I told you, and I don't think there was even a strumming of a guitar at that time. The cops came there..." - "Did you take part in that, Málkov?" - "Yes, I was there with Pavel Kyselka and we met some people from Pilsen and then we became friends. But actually the police came there and I remember to this day, [they announced] with the megaphone that we had to leave the estates of the village of Málkov, but at that time I didn't know what estates were and how to get out of the village estates quickly on foot. Then we all went to the station to leave and there was nothing there. That was just a nice trip, but we arrived in Teplice and made a big fire at Písečák and celebrated there."

"That was the first thing we rehearsed, we went to Pavel Kyselka's place, his dad had a farm somewhere in Suchá, and we did some first rehearsals there, where Pavel had drums. Then it was just the two of us and I was still playing the Iris because I didn't have a bass. But then we said we'd start a band, and that's what we agreed on. Karel Kalousek came along - he came back, he was also after his military service, where he had saved up for a guitar, because Karel was such a saver, so he had a nice guitar, so he would play with us. We kept saying we needed a singer or something. Then somewhere in the attic on Bílá cesta we discovered Petr Čermák, alias then Biafra, who sang some Beatles perfectly and played the classic guitar and had a great voice - and musical ear. And that is how Šanov 1 came into being. The name was invented by Pavel, because it was always: what are we going to call ourselves? So we were making it up. Before that we were flirting with other bands, but I don't know exactly. But it turned out to be Šanov 1 because Pavel lived under the botanical garden and suddenly it became Šanov 1 and that's how it started."