Nickolay Kuznetsov

2. DATE OF BIRTH: August, 16, 1967

3. OCCUPATION:
Uf-f... Little - audio/video engineer (by education), little - video-operator (camera-man?). About 7-8 years I worked by loader (docker?) (delivered the furniture) - circumstances... I chanched many different occupation. Also I have diplom of TV- & cinema-director. But now (2002) I worked by loader again. Also I'm little - "journalist" (I wrote the article about Beef) and "web-master" (made site on the same theme for Russian langugage).

4. PLACE OF RESIDENCE: St.Petersburg, Russia

5. WHAT YEAR DID YOU BECOME A FAN?: Firstly - 1992, and later - 1998/99 - absolutely.

6. BEEFHEART ALBUMS IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE:
SAFE AS MILK : ____________________ =9
MIRROR MAN : _____________________=4
STRICTLY PERSONAL : _____________=7
TROUT MASK REPLICA : ____________=1
LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY : _______=1
SPOTLIGHT KID : ___________________ 6
CLEAR SPOT : ____________________   =7
UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED : _12
BLUE JEANS & MOONBEAMS : ______ 11
SHINY BEAST : __________________      =4
DOC AT THE RADAR STATION :   _____=1
ICE CREAM FOR CROW : ___________ =9

7. TOP 10 OTHER ACTS:

1.Tom Waits

2.The Doors

3.Muddy Waters

4.Robert Wyatt

5.Nick Cave

6.Velvet Underground/Lou Reed

(partly)

7.Howlin' Wolf

8.King Crimson

9.Screamin' Jay Hawkins

10.The Stooges/Iggy Pop (partly)

8. NUMBER OF ALBUMS OWNED:
I don't know exactly - about 150-200 CDs, about 100 LPs and many many tapes.

9. HOW DID YOU FIRST DISCOVER CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND,
AND WAS THERE A PARTICULAR SONG THAT MADE YOU SEE THE LIGHT?:
'China Pig' - in 1992. Later (fall 90ths) by order: 'Low Yo Yo Stuff', 'Sugar 'n' Spike', 'Love Lies', 'Making Love To a Vampire...', 'Mirror Man', 'I Love You, You Big Dummy', 'Trust Us'...

10. NUMBER OF BEEFHEART GIGS SEEN, AND WHICH YEARS:
Beefheart never been in Russia/SU, and I never been in America and West Europe...

11. ART SHOWS VISITED: Same (10.).

12. ANY CONTACT WITH DON?: Same (10.).

13. MUSICAL ABILITY / TRAINING:
Very very little - guitar (but my dauter plays violin very well).

14. ANY OTHER INFO YOU WISH TO ADD?
I like to read: Dostoevsky, Chehov, Nitzsche, Kafka, Andrey Platonov (russian writer of 20th century), Selin, Brecht,
Gabriel Garsia Markes, Ch.Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Fransua Villon, William Blake, Vladimir Mayakovsky... I just like to read.
I like cinema: Andrey Tarkovsky (number one), PP Pasolini, Fellini, Alexey German (russian), Wim Wenders, Bob Foss ("Lenny"!), Emir Kusturica, Lars von Trier, Jim Jarmush...
I'm not specialist in painting, but I like pictures of Bosch, Breigel,Van Gog, Matiss, Pavel Filonov...Van Vliet?
I like vodka, beer, red dry vine, strong cigarettes, football, ski, orientiring (such sport), to sail in the kayak... and something also.

My site - "ROAStBEEF" http://www.blues.ru/beefheart/

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