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After the disbanding of the band "Kvazimodo", the musical paths of its members diverged. Varik, Andrei Zelch, and Kuzya formed the band Carpe Diem, while I fell into the atmosphere of hitchhiking, Rezekne hippies, Daugavpils artists, raves, and freedom from work and unpleasant obligations.

I gladly hitchhiked across my native Latvia, meeting new people and playing the guitar.

I remember that many of the creative crowd hanging out at the "Saucer" [central fountain square in Daugavpils] moved into the Railway Technical College dormitory under the guise of Saules Art School students. There, in bursts of self-expression, the doors quickly became covered with drawings of various fish, eyes, and occasional stinking dogs.

Life in that dormitory was very cheerful. Hippies came to visit, and local alternative youth, rockers, and artists dropped by. We lived like one big, happy pseudo-commune.

At some point, I asked my friends from the "Saucer" — Guna, who played the accordion, and Tosya, who played the piano — to play along with what I was strumming on the guitar.

We began rehearsing from time to time at my place in Pervomayka.

The girls took it seriously. We composed, jammed, and laughed. Time went on like that. I kept dreaming of putting a program together and finally performing in this lineup somewhere at a rock concert.

However, that never happened. Instead, Vaida appeared one day, and he and I started playing electric rock.

As for the songs played with the girls, we went to record them with Aivars Jansons — once again at "Jaunība".

He told us: "My equipment is broken, only one channel works." But did that really matter to me then? It no longer mattered to me at all.

Jansons sighed, and we recorded everything onto a single channel. With hiss, crackle, and background noise — whatever material we had.

That was how that casual amateur project ended, which at the time didn't even have a name.

The name only came later, when Vaida and I released a cassette of the band "Glazki stekolshchika" and put what we had recorded with the girls on the other side. And, playing off the main band's name, we wrote on the flip side: "Stelki betonshchika".