In 1996, it did not affect the outcome of the elections. I was on tour in one of the Volga cities, after the concert dined at the restaurant, and suddenly they called from Headquarters Yeltsyn, they said: "A special train with artists because of force majeure will not be able to arrive at Volgograd tomorrow, and there is a scheduled concert in support Boris Nikolayevich, and since you are near, could you help? " - Well, how could people help ...
The scene was located right at the water, and the high bank of the Volga became an improvised tribune. Instead of the forty-pop super-stars marked in the poster, the organizers scraped "under SUCEKAM". Local self-conceiving, Dima Harayana and me.
On a huge empty scene, in addition to microphones, nothing was due to the alleged choirs and dance groups, so it was only about the work of "under the minus". Those who wish to see Chalnk Megakoncert got more twenty thousand. According to the director, the director Yeltsyn was supposed to drive up on the boat straight to the site, say his speech and rush to the next point. Spectators (as I learned later) did not warn about the "insignificant" change in the composition of the participants in the presentation.
Started on a schedule, but for some reason the boat with a presidential candidate was delayed. When Dima ended the songs, the organizers were forced to release me, but they asked to pull until the last and complete the "raft" ... I lost about an hour, finally, when my music reserves also approached the end, sounded the long-awaited "food-UT !!!"
Under the first chords of my "closer", the boat Zalihkatsky twisted to the shore, from there the company spinning strong guys with british boots and crumbled around the neighborhood, checking the safety of everything and everything. Following them, Yeltsyn appeared, waving his hands greeting. In the same moment, two "good items" took off the scene, took away my microphone and threw out from the par. The minus one was lonely led a few more seconds, slaughtered, and a tense silence was hung over the Volga ...
By how Boris Nikolayevich climbed on the ladder, according to his uncertain gait and, finally, it was clearly seen to his busy face that the election race was a hard matter. He went to the microphone, strained, but remember the whole harvested text failed and said that:
- Hello, dear Volgograds! You do not live in a simple city, but in the city where the virus is listed ... Pour ... I hope you vote for me, and we will win! The inflexibility virus is somehow listed ... Pour ...
Covering the sunset by a fist, Yeltsyn turned around, Zigzagulya reached the assistants and, pushed under his arms, left the ravis. The boat gave a long plaintious beep and disappeared behind the raw river.
The first chords of the "fleet" again sounded, but the director was no longer possible to return me to the scene. So "under the minus" and this extraordinary concert ended, which greatly surprised ordinary Volgograd.
And the inflexibility virus slowly spread throughout the country ...