Date of birth: May 27, 1960
Date of death: January 17, 1988 (Age: 27)
Height: unknown
Weight: unkown
Alexander Bashlachev body measurements:
Waist: unknown
Chest: unknown
Biceps: unknown
Shoe/feet: unknown
Hair colour: Brown
Eye Color: Grey
We may like or not the Alexander Bashlachev’s creativity, but we can’t deny that he left behind a huge heritage. You can try to put him into the framework of a fashionable modern word “cult”, but he will not have enough space there.
His songs and manner of their performance associated with “real Russ”.
Although it was the time when a style based on Russian folklore, he was seen in the underground environment as something negative or state-owned.
SashBash was an exception. Every city of the country was waiting for him and loved him. He was listened to. But, unfortunately, not always heard…
Short, thin, regardless of the season wearing the same leather jacket … Inserted gold tooth, peeking out of the mouth as soon as he began singing…
Such image remembered Soviet informals about Bashlachev. Usually, Sasha caused one and the same reaction from the people who heard him for the first time. It was a surprise: how could such a fragile body give rise to enormous energy?
Now, wearing a cross on a neck became a commonplace, but while it was a wayward, provocative sign in underground environment.
Instead of it Sasha wore around his neck three bells. Their distinctive chime was heard on most of his recordings.
Bluebell, in general, is an important symbol in Bashlachev’s work. He sang in “Time of Bells” – large bells are broken, but everyone can make his little bell ring, in order to break the craven silence of our time …