"Мы все марионетки". Александр Кутиков о себе, "Машине времени", дружбе, войне и России.

"We're all puppets," says Alexander Kutikov, but for over half a century he himself has remained a man who finds it difficult to force someone else to live by his own script. In our long and personal conversation, we explore the "Time Machine" from the inside, his friendship with Andrei Makarevich, the courtyard on Patriarch's Ponds and Yaponchik, the Beatles, after whom, for fourteen-year-old Kutikov, "Soviet power ended," songs the country never heard, and friends the war forced him to part with. Why "Time Machine" will no longer perform in Russia, can the country liberate itself after Putin, and why, in Kutikov's opinion, the system won't let him go so easily. My new VPN "The Coachman Knows the Way": https://t.me/kuchervpnbot This project will only grow thanks to your support: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=57050683 Money transfer card numbers: Dollars - 4117737028508330 (Bank of America) or, if you're in the US, Zelle/929 257 9132 Venmo @Stanislav-Kucher PayPal: [email protected] Screenshot and cover - Andre Anisimov My Telegram channels: https://t.me/StanislavKucher (current politics) https://t.me/metodkuchera (self-improvement, meditation, spiritual quest) Timecodes: 0:00:00 "I'm just a regular guy, I love bass guitar, and millions of people won't recognize me." Greetings, a little about myself. 00:07:57 "Crisis Manager and Team Player." On his role in "Time Machine" 00:12:00 "Sometimes you just have to punch someone in the face." On his childhood in the yard, friendship with Yaponchik. 00:17:44 "I wouldn't have joined the KGB." On parallels with Putin's childhood. 00:22:10 "I understood everything in 2014." On his attitude towards the war in Ukraine. 00:25:07 "They offered me, I didn't go." On McCartney's concert and Makarevich's relationship with Putin. 00:30:40 "Time Machine" will not perform in Russia. On the country, the people, and the system that won't let go. 00:49:44 "I was raised by Jews, so I'm Jewish." On childhood, the Komsomol, and his relationship with his grandfather. 01:00:24 "Major" "Cloudless rock 'n' roll." What Kutikov brought to the band. 01:06:55 "My Homeland." Kutikov's favorite songs and those that Russia missed. 01:13:18 "Our lives cannot be glued together." About his relationship with Andrei Makarevich. 01:21:39 "Those who are for war cannot be friends." About his attitude towards people. 01:31:34 "I didn't make anything from this." About his favorite songs and favorite bands he produced. 01:38:37 "We are all puppets." How did it happen that people who grew up on "Mashina" supported the war. 01:43:05 "I'm not crazy, but I have some weird tendencies." A questionnaire for a spontaneous Buddhist.