SBB - Ze słowem biegnę do ciebie (Full Version)

This video is for the purpose of entertainment only...
Imagery for this video is sourced from various photos & scans of my personal vinyl SBB albums;

SBB - "Ze Słowem Biegnę Do Ciebie" (1977) Polskie Nagrania Muza SX 1434
SBB - "SBB" (1974) Polskie Nagrania Muza SXL 1142
SBB - "Nowy horyzont" (1975) Polskie Nagrania Muza SX 1206
SBB - "Pamięć" (1975) Polskie Nagrania Muza SX 1345
SBB - "SBB" (1978) Supraphon 1 13 2218 H

Biography courtesy Wikipedia:

SBB (first known as Silesian Blues Band, later as Szukaj, Burz, Buduj -- Polish for "Search, Break up, Build") is a Polish progressive rock band formed in 1971 in Siemianowice by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Józef Skrzek.

SBB is acclaimed as the best Polish rock band of the past 45 years. "The three musicians that revolutionized Polish rock", "Beyond doubt the most prominent representatives of progressive rock in Poland": it is only a mere sample of the way the band has been referred to. A complete list of references and opinions would be far too long to quote. Yet apart from the groups formidable and praiseworthy history one must not forget that SBB is in the first place an active band, far from being dormant, regularly giving live performances and shunning to choose a soft option as far as music is concerned. Invariably Seeking, Breaking and Building...

Silesian Blues Band emerged in 1971 in the Polish town of Siemianowice Slaskie as a trio led by Józef Skrzek, a young and promising bass player and pianist who by then had already had almost a year's experience with a blues band called Breakout. The initial line-up saw, apart from the group's leader, two individuals: Apostolis "Lakis" Anthimos (guitar), a 17-year-old Polish-born son of Greek immigrants, and Jerzy Piotrowski (drums). The dense schedule of rehearsals, regular gigs in the Silesia region and earliest radio sessions have all resulted in the band's winning substantial acclaim beyond their native region. By the end of 1971 Silesian Blues Band commenced their cooperation with Czesław Niemen: a group called Grupa Niemen was subsequently formed and was to last for more than eighteen months. They toured Europe (a famous appearance at the Rock and Jazz Now Festival, Munich) and Poland as well, releasing a total of four studio albums. The summer of 1973 saw the group's breakup as Czesław Niemen formed a new band Aerolit. In the meantime, Silesian Blues Band was transfigured into SBB - the famous abbreviation was soon to be deciphered as "Seek, Break, Build", an idea ascribed to Franciszek Walicki, the group's early patron.

The band's first official release, which was a live album, was recorded on the 18th and 19 April 1974, barely two months after the musicians' public debut as [SBB]. The first pressing - a true record in the history of Polish music industry - was immediately sold out (the asking price on the black market doubled twice). The album contained vivid and reckless music recalling Jimi Hendrix and Cream, abounding with hectic guitar solos and distorted bass lines (one of the group's trademarks of that time!), as well as quite a few lyrical piano pieces.

The following months brought an overwhelming number of performances throughout Poland and other early east block countries; the band appeared regularly in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Along with numerous gigs a considerable number of radio sessions followed; recordings were initially made in the Polish Radio 3 studios in Warsaw, then in Opole. Out of these sessions SBB's second album, [NEW HORIZON], was compiled. Shortly after that two successive releases saw the daylight, namely [MEMORY] and [WITH A WORD IN HAND I RUN TO YOU]. Every new album was stylistically more and more distant from the unrestrained free-rock featured on the first record; instead, the band experimented with carefully studied synthesizer-based musical pieces, quite expanded in their form, and indulged them in the lavish multi-track technique.

In 1977 SBB eventually found a representative in the Western market (German company Aries from Göttingen). This resulted in launching a tour in West Germany, Denmark, Finland and other countries from behind the "steel curtain". In November 1977 the group recorded their first album that was intended to hit the Western market [FOLLOW MY DREAM].

Weariness came in 1979. Strenuous toil of the past years finally marked its presence. The arrival of a new member, Slawomir Piwowar (g, formerly Paradox and Niemen Aerolit) helped to eliminate the deadly pressure. His emergence turned out to be truly refreshing after the band has returned triumphantly from the local seaside tour. In 1980 the enhanced line-up recorded a fabulous album called [MEMENTO WITH A BANAL TRYPTYCH]. Though it turned out to be the last album of that era, it was no doubt the most mature of all the band's releases and clearly showed the way that SBB has gone so far. The group's autumn tour in West Germany was their very last...