Karel Kahovec Jiří Jirásek Michal Pavlík Jiří Čížek Petr Eichler Karel Novák
ex Vladimír Mišík, Michal Ditrich, Slávek Janda, Luboš Andršt, Petr Novák, Jan F. Obermayer, Petr Formánek, Ladislav Klein, Ivan Pelíšek, Josef Havlíček, Miroslav Dudáček, Petr Bezpalec, Miloslav Benýšek, Zdeněk Juračka, Miroslav Helcl, Pavel Zuman, Stanislav Staněk, Oldřich Wajsar, Jiří Sluka, Hubert Täuber, Adolf Seidl, Martin Rychta Czech rock group from Prague. Founded in 1965 by vocalist
Petr Novák with lyricist
Ivo Plicka, named after their drummer
Jiří Jirásek (Jiří = George). Pioneers of authentic rock songwriting in Czech language with their 1965 radio hits “Já budu chodit po špičkách” and “Povídej” (re-recorded in 1967 by Petr Novák with
Flamengo and released on Supraphon). Temporarily disbanded in late 1965, reunited in 1967. Evolved to more progressive rock à la Jethro Tull by 1970, disbanded again in 1972. In 1980 Petr Novák began to use the shortened name “G&B” for his backing band, the original English name was banned by the communist authorities until 1989. After Novák’s death in 1997, the group was eventually revived by
Karel Kahovec and is still actively performing as of 2009.
Members:
Petr Novák (1965–1997, vocals) Karel Sluka (1965, bass, vocals), Michal Burian (1965, guitar), Jaroslav Bednář (1967–1968, guitar, vocals), Zdeněk Juračka (1968, guitar), Vladimír Mišík (1968, guitar, vocals), Miroslav Dudáček (1968–1971, guitar, vocals), Bohuslav “Slávek” Janda (1973–1979, guitar), Jiří Jirásek (1965–1971, drums), Ivan Pelíšek (197?–1979, drums), Pavel Zuman (1980, drums), Jiří Čížek (1967–1971, bass, vocals), Michal Ditrich (197?, bass), Oldřich Wajsar (1979–1982, bass), Miroslav Helcl (1967–1968, keyboards), Jan F. Obermayer (1968–1971, keyboards, saxophon, vocals), Petr Bezpalec (1970–1971, saxophone, flute, vocals), Jiří Sluka (1975–1976, drums), Petr Formánek (1975–1977, keyboards), Stanislav Staněk (1979–200?, guitar), Ladislav Klein (1977–1990, keyboards), Hubert Täuber (1983–1989, drums), Adolf Seidl (1981–1989, guitar), Karel Novák (1982–200?, bass), Zdeněk Nedvěd (live rhythm guitar), Martin Rychta (1988–1997, drums), Michal Pavlík (1991–200?, keyboards), Karel Kahovec (1966–1967, 1993–200?, guitar, vocals), Petr Eichler (1995–200?, drums)