Today we will talk about who Alexander Balunov is. King and the Jester is a punk band in which he was a bass player. This Russian rock musician was born in 1973, on March 19, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
Biography
Alexander Balunov studied at the 147th school in the city of Leningrad, along with those people who soon became his colleagues in the musical project, Alexander Schigolev and Mikhail Gorshenyov. In 1988, young people founded the Kontora group. Later the collective was renamed “King and the Jester”. The main composition of the group was joined by
Andrey Knyazev.Initially, Alexander Balunov acted as the guitarist of the group. From 1993 to 1995 was the second vocalist. At this time, Andrei Knyazev served in the army. Alexander was also drafted into the armed forces.
The group in 1996, on June 23, performed at the festival entitled “Fill the sky with kindness”. After that, the project "King and the Jester" left Grigory Kuzmin - bass player. As a result, until 2006, Balunov played the instrument on a guitar. In 2003, together with Andrei Knyazev and Alexander Leontyev, Yakov Tsvirkunov and Mikhail Gorshenyev, he participated in the Rock Band project, in the work on the song Pops. In 2006, he left the team. Two weeks later he returned. Having stayed there for only a few days, he decided on a final break. Since that time he has been living in the USA, devoting himself to creative activity.
In 2006, he joined the band as a bass player during her American tour. In 2008, he helped Mikhail Gorshenev to record a song called Don't crucify me with the California band Red Elvises. In 2012, he created a tribute for a song of the 70s called "Do you believe me?" In 2013, he organized a project in America called "Baloo and Boatswain." In 2014, Balunov and Knyazev released an album of rarities and archives, “The King and the Jester”. It contains rare recordings of the Heresy album, as well as a number of other previously unreleased recordings of the project. Alexander personally worked on the restoration, attracting a California recording studio to work. In 2015, our hero released a single entitled "Like a Star." The work was created in conjunction with Red Elvises - a group from California.
Personal life
Alexander Balunov was married to Inna Demidova. The couple divorced. In this marriage in 1995, a son was born, who was named Cyril. A young man is interested in guitar. Consists of a grunge group called Broken Vehicle. Our hero was in a personal relationship with Anastasia Rogozhnikova, who was the press secretary of the King and the Jester project. From this union in 2001 the son Vasily was born. At the moment, is in a civil marriage with Irina Kosinovskaya.
Guitars
Alexander Balunov chose the black Jolana Diamant as his first electric guitar. He played on it from 1992 to 1993. The first performance with this guitar was held at Igor Golubev's school at 13 Rubinstein.
Next was a silver colored Kramer Pariah Ebony guitar. He played it from 1994 to 1995. in a club called TaM-tAm. With this instrument, the first album was recorded entitled “Be at home, Traveler”.
White Danelectro Baritone allowed our hero to completely switch to bass. He played this instrument from 1995 to 1996, with whom he took part in the concerts “Fill the Sky with Kindness” and “Rusty Wires”.
The black Jolana D-Bass is the first bass. He played it in 1993 at TaM-tAm. The first professional bass guitar was the black Aria Legend STB-JB-DX BK. He played it from 1996 to 1998. With this instrument, a concert was recorded entitled "The Feast of the Buffoon".
The most famous guitar was the blue Bass Rickenbacker 4003 FL. He played it from 1999 to 2002. On this instrument the concerts “Dead Anarchist” and “Eaten the meat of peasants” were recorded. Further from the United States was brought red Fender Precision. The musician played on it in 2003. The next instrument is the exclusive model of the yellow Fender Zone. Our hero brought it from America. He played this instrument from 2003 to 2006. Took him to America. This bass played a concert at the Olympic. Balu left this instrument in his homeland; he did not take it with him to America.
Memories
Alexander Balunov speaks of the death of "Pots" (Mikhail Gorshenyov) with enormous longing. He recalls how he recorded one of the first songs with him. She was lyrical. According to our hero, despite the external manifestations, Mikhail Gorshenyov can be described by the word “touching”. In addition, he combined the antics of a punk musician with a love of comfort.
Mikhail Gorshenyov was a caring father and husband. It was the wife and daughter that significantly extended his life. So said about the death of a friend, Alexander Balunov. Photos of the musician are presented in this article.