TSA

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ALL CURRENT INFORMATION ABOUT TSA YOU CAN FIND AT WWW.TSA.COM.PL

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TSA is one of the most important bands in Polish rock music; they are unanimously considered precursors of heavy metal in Poland. The band was formed as an instrumental quartet in 1979 by Andrzej Nowak, Stefan Machel, Janusz Niekrasz, Marek Kaplon.

TSA gave an immensely successful performance at Jarocin Rock Festival, which resulted in winning the Audience Prize. On 12 July 1981 at Pop Session Festival in Sopot they debuted with Marek Piekarczyk on vocals. In 1981-1983 they ruled the scene - a few hundred gigs a year and hysterical crowd reactions anywhere they went. Their singles and albums - "Live", "TSA", and "Heavy Metal World" - set standards for Polish rock music, at the same time achieving great commercial success - they sold in hundreds of thousands of copies. In December 1983, after Rockowisko'83 concert, Andrzej Nowak and Marek Kaplon left the band.

In the new line-up (with Antoni Degutis and Zbigniew Kraszewski) TSA returned in spring 1984, supporting Nazareth during their Polish tour. The same year "Spunk!" was released in England. The album got great reviews and was re-edited in the USA and Canada as "Heavy, Heavy Metal". However, the announced foreign tour was cancelled. Next year saw a foreign release of "Heavy Metal World", promoted by gigs in Benelux. Their quest to conquer foreign market was this time stopped by label going bankrupt.

In 1986 they recorded "Rock'n'Roll" which was released 2 years later. In spring 1987 Nowak returned to TSA. They played numerous gigs in Poland (Metalmania Festival, among others), as well as in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany and The Soviet Union. They also took part in preparing music for the Polish version of "Jesus Christ Superstar" rock-opera, in which Marek Piekarczyk played the part of Jesus. Very intense touring (also in USA) and the exhausting work on the rock-opera resulted in several conflicts among the musicians and eventually TSA suspended their musical activity. One year later two bands emerged: TSA and TSA Evolution, but they both broke up after a short time. Soon after that Piekarczyk and Nowak moved to the States.

In the years that followed TSA returned several times with different line-ups, but none of the variations lasted long. On 5 May 2001, thanks to the laborious negotiations conducted by the band's fan club "Alien", TSA played a gig in their original, classical line-up: Marek Kaplon, Stefan Machel, Janusz Niekrasz, Andrzej Nowak, Marek Piekarczyk. A few weeks later the band officially announced their reunion and started to regain their position on the music market. On 5 April 2004 their newest album "Proceder" was released, thus opening the new chapter in the history of this legendary rock band…

In November 2004 the band visited USA & Canada to play gigs in Chicago, New Jersey and Toronto. During the years 2004 - 2009 TSA played over 400 concerts.

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W sprawach organizacji koncertów prosimy pisac na adres e-mail tsa@tsa.com.pl



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