Inokentijs Mārpls12

Dambis leader, singer and vocalist of the band started it in fact in 1985, the name comes from around 1987. They “started recording something in a room, first appearing in public in 1986. The drummer was taken to soviet army and put in jail for 4 years for escaping it and he spent 3.5 years in prison. I imitated ‘suicide’ in order to get to a mental hospital and avoid army, thus I had to spend some time in psychiatric clinics and once in army hospital.

In 1987 we made a debut in Riga rock club — at the time in Latvia a band named ZIG ZAG were playing some post punk. One nice day our bassist left us because he lost a finger of his right hand. At the same time we went to Vilnius to play in some punk fest but we didn’t know when it happened so we went there 3or 4 days earlier. We knew nobody in the town but we met some punks and had a drink(well, maybe more tha one) with them. They also knew nothing about the fest and made effort to leave, most probably they thought we were hippies and cant play Hardcore. So after spending 2 days in the Vilnius railway station we had finished our first Lithuanian tour. In the end of 1987 we did a festival in Riga - all with new bands, different styled but at the time it was all UNDERGROUND, it was once again in summer 1988. Our appearence was tragic, I fell down from the stage and fell asleep. Somebody awoke me and we performed something. I howled into the mic because I couldnt see the mic hang on my guitar (I was told about it later). We staged a show then as well as another man who was as much gone as me and was cutting a chair with a mechanical peel. I wonder how nobody was injured then. A Friend told me that he escaped the show because he did not to watch somebody cut into pieces. By the way our bassist brought 50 bottles of homebrewed vodka at that show…

We appeared in Lithuania also in fest “Purvinoji Ziema” in Kaunas 88, and fest VILNIUS UNDERGROUND 89 made me a huge impression, it was a big MADNESS, a forced anarchy was in the air. Our drummer from nthe ew line-up wanted to run away, he probably was scared. Our show ended when somebody jumped off the stage and tore off the cables. When we went home we felt like returning from a war.

In 1989 I got a phone call from Moscow, some men intervieved me and invited to OSTANKINO television to record and make a video for a programme ‘Devils circle’. The Video was quite shitty and it was all about the Riga rock club. Howewer the program was not aired and censored. Later I read in a newspaper that it was propaganda of nazism and had pornography in it…

During 1990 we still apeared in Riga rock club, but later it was all broken for some time”. Up to now IM has no stable line up and Dambis plays with occasional fans of jazzhendrix and develops his band AMORALA PSIHOZE.

“My band is not influanced by anybody, I have no favourite and listen to different kinds of music. I play what I like and never dig making covers. Lyrics are different - about social problems, political, philosophical, humorous, sometimes schizophrenic. I express my world wiews and the current day in them…”

Dambis still continues being active with band, gigs, tapes,etc…
(from lithuanian fanzine “KNK” Nr2, 1993)