In '73-'74, after Cobi finished
his 3 years of IDF duty the two of us attempted to put together another band. We
had some rehearsals with Kitsch & Poliker but my wife kept complaining about the
potential late hours of a musician so I actually gave that up. I didn't think
much of the two of them anyway, They belonged to a class of Israeli wanna-be-rockers
who didn't speak English but they insisted on singing in it - sounded quite
funny. Poliker used to work in a salon that belonged to his mom I believe and we
used to laugh at his attempts to pick up riffs from the radio in between drying
customers' hair - cooky kid - like the one who used to sit in the window and
pretend to play guitar (Richard Goldblatt - I don't think he knew how at the time,) to impress the
girls. Later on Richard (the window kid) actually became a studio musician and
movie music composer. In the '80's Kitsch and Poliker had a couple of hits with
their band "Benzine" and after the band broke up Kitsch wrote a couple of good
songs for the movie "Volkan Junction" (Hayim Romano of Churchill's fame was the
music director.) Yehuda Poliker became one of the top Israeli pop stars.
The
music itch never left me - over the years I have played in other bands and I have written quite a few songs that
I am very happy with. I never quite reached a point where I could give up my IT
career and get back into music until now. I have finally retired from that and
am slowly getting back into the field where I belong. Check out some of my songs
here: http://www.llime.com
Musically speaking it is too bad that I have
left Israel all these years ago. Cobi who has been a banker for many years now,
got together with Kitsch and a couple of younger kids and they are playing
again. I still hope that we will do some stuff together eventually.
Spent November 2013 - March 2014 in
Israel - lots of fun. Got to play a couple of
gigs with Cobi -
great! Just found a rare one on
you tube:
The Chocolate & the Lions together singing Mary-Anne |