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Tublatanka is a Slovak rock band formed in the fall of 1982 in Bratislava, Slovakia best known for the hits Pravda víťazí and Dnes. The classic lineup consisted of Maťo Ďurinda (also known as Martin Durinda), Palo Horváth, and Ďuro Černý from 1982-1992. In 1992, Palo left the band leaving Martin and Ďuro to record their 1993 album with Martin composing guitar and bass melodies. Ďuro left the band in 1995 due to complications with drugs. Currently the band consists of Maťo Ďurinda, Juraj Topor, and Peter Schlosser.
The band formed in 1982 in Bratislava, Slovakia by Maťo Ďurinda (also known as Martin Ďurinda), Palo Horváth, and Ďuro Černý. Ďurinda was a student at Comenius University in Bratislava at the time where he met drummer Ďuro Černý in a wine bar called Veľkí Františkáni thanks to a friend of his. The two talked about their favorite bands such as: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Nazareth, The Who, Yes, Pink Floyd, etc. After much discussion the two decided to form a rock trio much like their heroes Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and ELP (Emerson, Lake, and Palmer). But they would need a very talented bassist.
Take a little from here and a little from there
And forge a personality
Mimic the idiosyncrasies
Of those you’d most like to be
Play your whole life out behind a mask
So frightened and so dumb
You Infiltrate and mutilate, set the trap and lay the
bait
Just how hollow you’ve become
Drop it!
Show me who you really are
You just fake it!
A double tongued, two face whore
You say!
Only what you think I want to hear
Been pretending so long
That it’s become a career
No – Face – Man – No, No
So sycophantic and obvious
Makes me nauseous when you speak
You learned the lines and ape the pose
Your true self plays ‘hide and seek’
Leachin’ off their enigmatic
Hanging by my coat tails
And what you lack is showing cracks
This cheap façade is getting slack