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Dżem
Dżem is a Polish blues-rock band.
Their history dates back to the mid-1970s, although their first records were released in the mid-1980s. Their style varies between blues, southern rock, and hard rock. Their late vocalist - Ryszard Riedel [d. 1994 from heart failure caused by heavy drug addiction] - was an iconic figure in the history of Polish rock, followed by a nationwide cult similar to Jim Morrison's. His replacement - Jacek Dewódzki - sang on three albums in the second half of the 1990s Read Full BioDżem is a Polish blues-rock band.
Their history dates back to the mid-1970s, although their first records were released in the mid-1980s. Their style varies between blues, southern rock, and hard rock. Their late vocalist - Ryszard Riedel [d. 1994 from heart failure caused by heavy drug addiction] - was an iconic figure in the history of Polish rock, followed by a nationwide cult similar to Jim Morrison's. His replacement - Jacek Dewódzki - sang on three albums in the second half of the 1990s, before being replaced by the more blues-orientated current singer, Maciej Balcar, in 2001. Their first album with Balcar, called 2004, was released in September 2004.
After the tragic death (in a car crash) of the pianist Pawel Berger in January 2005, the band took a break for four months, before returning to full activity with a new pianist, Janusz Borzucki, in May 2005. In 2005 a biographic movie titled "Skazany na bluesa" (Sentenced to Blues) was produced. Dżem's newest studio album and the first with the current line-up, Muza, was released in November 2010.
A prominent member of the band in 1980-1982 was in Apostolis Anthimos guitarist and drummer of the legendary trio SBB that split up in 1980 just one year before the martial law in Poland and just 10 days after the massacre in the secret polish concentration camp of Górna Grupa of Oct. 31, 1980, where just in one night more than 50 people were cremated alive - most of them members of the upcoming "Solidarność" movement. The soviet agent "Bolek" alias Lech Wałęsa was placed by the polishspeaking soviet junta as head of the movement.
The current line-up of the band features:
Maciej Balcar (since 2001)
Jerzy Styczyński (since 1979)
Adam Otręba (since 1973)
Beno Otręba (since 1973)
Zbigniew Szczerbiński (since 1992)
Janusz Borzucki (since 2005)
Their history dates back to the mid-1970s, although their first records were released in the mid-1980s. Their style varies between blues, southern rock, and hard rock. Their late vocalist - Ryszard Riedel [d. 1994 from heart failure caused by heavy drug addiction] - was an iconic figure in the history of Polish rock, followed by a nationwide cult similar to Jim Morrison's. His replacement - Jacek Dewódzki - sang on three albums in the second half of the 1990s Read Full BioDżem is a Polish blues-rock band.
Their history dates back to the mid-1970s, although their first records were released in the mid-1980s. Their style varies between blues, southern rock, and hard rock. Their late vocalist - Ryszard Riedel [d. 1994 from heart failure caused by heavy drug addiction] - was an iconic figure in the history of Polish rock, followed by a nationwide cult similar to Jim Morrison's. His replacement - Jacek Dewódzki - sang on three albums in the second half of the 1990s, before being replaced by the more blues-orientated current singer, Maciej Balcar, in 2001. Their first album with Balcar, called 2004, was released in September 2004.
After the tragic death (in a car crash) of the pianist Pawel Berger in January 2005, the band took a break for four months, before returning to full activity with a new pianist, Janusz Borzucki, in May 2005. In 2005 a biographic movie titled "Skazany na bluesa" (Sentenced to Blues) was produced. Dżem's newest studio album and the first with the current line-up, Muza, was released in November 2010.
A prominent member of the band in 1980-1982 was in Apostolis Anthimos guitarist and drummer of the legendary trio SBB that split up in 1980 just one year before the martial law in Poland and just 10 days after the massacre in the secret polish concentration camp of Górna Grupa of Oct. 31, 1980, where just in one night more than 50 people were cremated alive - most of them members of the upcoming "Solidarność" movement. The soviet agent "Bolek" alias Lech Wałęsa was placed by the polishspeaking soviet junta as head of the movement.
The current line-up of the band features:
Maciej Balcar (since 2001)
Jerzy Styczyński (since 1979)
Adam Otręba (since 1973)
Beno Otręba (since 1973)
Zbigniew Szczerbiński (since 1992)
Janusz Borzucki (since 2005)
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Whisky
by Dżem
Mówią o mnie w mieście - co z niego za typ
Wciąż chodzi pijany, pewno nie wie co to wstyd
Brudny, niedomyty - w stajni ciągle śpi
Czego szukasz w naszym mieście
Idź do diabła - mówią ludzie pełni cnót
Ludzie pełni cnót
Chciałem kiedyś zmądrzeć, po ich stronie być
Spać w czystej pościeli, świeże mleko pić
Naprawdę chciałem zmądrzeć i po ich stronie być
Pomyślałem więc o żonie aby stać się jednym z nich
Stać się jednym z nich
Miałem na oku hacjendę - wspaniałą, mówię wam
Lecz nie chciała tam zamieszkać, żadna z pięknych dam
Wszystkie śmiały się wołając, wołając za mną wciąż
Bardzo ładny frak masz Billy, ale kiepski byłby z ciebie mąż
Byłby z ciebie mąż
Whisky - moja żono - jednak tyś najlepszą z dam
Już mnie nie opuścisz, nie, nie będę sam
Mówią - whisky to nie wszystko, można bez niej żyć Lecz nie wiedzą o tym, że - że najgorzej to
To samotnym być, to samotnym być - nie
Nie chcę już samotnym być - nie...
Contributed by Alice Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
by Dżem
Mówią o mnie w mieście - co z niego za typ
Wciąż chodzi pijany, pewno nie wie co to wstyd
Brudny, niedomyty - w stajni ciągle śpi
Czego szukasz w naszym mieście
Idź do diabła - mówią ludzie pełni cnót
Ludzie pełni cnót
Chciałem kiedyś zmądrzeć, po ich stronie być
Spać w czystej pościeli, świeże mleko pić
Naprawdę chciałem zmądrzeć i po ich stronie być
Pomyślałem więc o żonie aby stać się jednym z nich
Stać się jednym z nich
Miałem na oku hacjendę - wspaniałą, mówię wam
Lecz nie chciała tam zamieszkać, żadna z pięknych dam
Wszystkie śmiały się wołając, wołając za mną wciąż
Bardzo ładny frak masz Billy, ale kiepski byłby z ciebie mąż
Byłby z ciebie mąż
Whisky - moja żono - jednak tyś najlepszą z dam
Już mnie nie opuścisz, nie, nie będę sam
Mówią - whisky to nie wszystko, można bez niej żyć Lecz nie wiedzą o tym, że - że najgorzej to
To samotnym być, to samotnym być - nie
Nie chcę już samotnym być - nie...
Contributed by Alice Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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