Davie504 in Moscow
All bass guitarists (and many others) will or should know Davie504. In 2019, after initially being denied a visa, he went to Russia to play ‘Rasputin’. Yes, from our very own Boney M, from the time when TopPop still existed.
Davie’s small tour through Moscow (2019, 3 m) is worth watching, but you can only see it on YouTube. From a year earlier is When you’re a bassist but you visited Russia once (2018, 2 m). Featuring ushanka, the Russian national anthem, сука блят, and vodka. So you have to watch it on YouTube.
Also to be inserted is a clip with Russian voice-over.
Everybody said this Bass Solo is IMPOSSIBLE is translated here as Все говорят, что это соло НЕВОЗМОЖНО сыграть.
Nothing is impossible.
From the same channel is ПЕРЕСТАНЬТЕ так поступать со мной, a rendition of STOP doing this to me (2019).
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