Pavel Sedlacek for Pete Kaplan

Commemorative evening – Memorial for Pete Kaplan

The Czech – American evening on Wednesday October 24th was dedicated to a memorial for the greatest Czech rock ’n’ roll player, Pete Kaplan, who recently passed away. It would be hard to imagine a commemorative evening for this great musician without his band Mefisto and around which whole evening was centered. Pete found his band in early sixties. All famous pieces were played from times when music like this was available to be heard underground under a close watch of secret police and former establishment. Someone said once, that invention of an electric guitar was one of the biggest blows to end the communist idiocy. When the band hit the strings, the old guys suddenly became young again and they perhaps played even better than in their early years. They just rocked the club to everyone’s enjoyment that night. Besides all combinations of past Mefisto’s formations, there were solo performances by Viktor Sodoma, Pavel Sedlacek and Josef Simak and performance by Apples band. Even some band players got to sing a solo performance and almost each time with support from the whole audience. The whole evening was reminder, that this music will not get lost and Pete will sure keep an eye on it up there, now that he got the draft card needlessly too soon.




Josef Simak



Mefisto and Viktor Sodoma for Pete Kaplan



APPLE

XII. Winter League Championship - large-bore pistol
http://ci5.cz/prilohy/files/propozice.doc

Dear Mrs. Or Sir

Let us please to inform you in perfect respect about start of preparing works for basing new sisters club CI – 5 with work name Czech-American club.

This social activity is borning total naturally from goodwill of partial basement of CI-5 Club with ambition to common - on the base of subconscious society relations and values – people without consideration to their social statement , ownership , color of skin or religion.
Main goal is meet. We know about antiamerican tempers which are artifically supported and without real base. We do not make proamerican or proczech club. For us is priority value basic human need and that is the freedom. Freedom in all possible and socially toleranted plains. Freedom is not consrvative value only but solution and solution great modern and perspectivefull. And it is the first common and basic czech-american connecting too except many of historical, culture and many times family relations. Many of our friends live in USA, emigration after years 1948 and 1968, other visiting USA or study and works there. Americans conversely are studying and working here. They have „the big parcel“ home and we against this have „the great history“. We will have many themes for conversations.

In the frame of Club evening on the March 28 will be based Czech-American Club in new and very fashion areas of CI–5 Club. Evening will be full of bluegrass, old swing and western swing featuring top groups SUNNY SIDE and ROWDY RASCALS with master of violin Mr. Jirí Králík.

Let us in the Name of preparing commitee of new Czech-American Club heartly invite for March 28th in 7,45 p.m. to the new areas of CI – 5 Club with adress Hotel Globus, Gregorova 2115/10, Prague 4

Constituting commitee of Czec-American Club


www.ci5.cz
www.hotel-globus.cz

Thought a lot people did not believe, Club CI-5 continues with three night celebrations.

Club opens at 6:00PM
Official program starts at 8:00PM
Club closes at 2:00AM

Tuesday, March 27 2007 from 8:00PM

Christening celebration of the new club location with help of Pete Kaplan, Viktor Sodoma and music band MEFISTO.

MEFISTO in Olympik club. from left: Jiri Dospel, Frantisek Kopal, Viktor Sodoma, Petr Kaplan and Oto Jahn. Foto: Z. Thoma, 1966

http://www.volny.cz/mefisto-rock/

Wednesday, March 28 2007 from 8:00PM

Bluegrass night, western swing and old time music, in conjunction with establishing Czech-American Club as a sister project of CI-5 Club.

Music performance by Jirka Kralik


ROWDY RASCALS http://www.fiddlegeorge.com/


SUNNY SIDE. http://sunnyside.cz/



Thursday, March 29 2007 from 8:00PM

PABERKY and Marko Cermakem http://www.gwcheb.cz/paberky/


Reservations at 603 570 401 – Dana (until space is taken up)