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En tiedä onko ollut täällä jo, mutta Steve Vain kertomus Bangok biisistä:
 
IB: (to Steve) I was surprised to hear Bangkok on the Fire Garden album - I never had you down as an Abba fan. How come you chose that?
 
SV: Oh, thats a long story. I have a stack of music: when I was on tour I would just write whenever I had an idea and I threw it in a pile. Then I would get my engineers - when they werent doing anything - to type them into the computer so I could hear them. Thats how I discovered a lot of the songs that I have recorded, from these pieces of scrap paper. So I listened to one of the tapes and I heard that melody (sings) and I thought Thats kind of nice, I could make a song out of that. And I saw the manuscript and it had my name on it, it said Taurus Bulba. I remembered writing a song called Taurus Bulba; the melody was so familiar. So I recorded this whole thing and I sent it to my manager, and her boyfriend listened to it and said Yeah, thats Bangkok And she calls me up and she goes Is this Bangkok from Chess And I said Ive never heard any of that - thats crazy. No, its just like a Russian folk dance. So she played it for me over the phone and I almost died. I thought I was in a dream - how did those guys get my music? Then I realised what had happened: years ago, when I was with David Lee Roth, he gave me this tape - didnt tell me what it was - and said, Transcribe this. Lets learn it and play it in the band between set changes. So I transcribed it and we only did it a few times. Then I took the music and threw it in my pile. I didnt know the name of it or anything. So ten years later when I dug it out and listened to it, I couldnt remember that was the event so I thought I wrote it. Its a great melody - I thought it was too good to be mine!
 
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