In response to the news of the death of the famous Belgrade bassist and producer Slobodan Boba Orlić, instead of In Memoriam, we are transmitting the text of his longtime friend Peca Popović, our famous journalist:
Peca Popović
"BOBO, THAT WAS A VERY LONG ROAD, IT HAD TO BE TRAPPED
I want to keep Boba Orlić in my memory. Sadness is now part of that memory, but sadness is not all that is left of us. I can say that with pride in my heart.
He belonged to the first generation of Belgrade bass players: Branko Gluščević, Zoran Miščević, Vili Brajević, Gliša Milanović, Bojan Hreljac, Vlada Džet, Dejan Dunjić, Rade and Zika Jelić, Dragoljub Pavlović and Boba Orlić. He met us in the fall of 1966. Prele when they were together in Tommy Soville's Silhouettes. He soon moved to the wonderful Beatniks. Knowing that I go to Britain often, he asked me which bass amp I would recommend. I said: Sound City is a new company, and many who don't have money for Marshall or Orange buy that very modern model. And the first Sound City was brought by Bobby from London in a Rolls Royce! He presented it in Subotica in May 1968 at the first multi-day international rock festival in Yugoslavia. Boba and Vanca then set fire to the stage in euphoria, and the worried audience pelted them with potatoes. Beatniks saved their heads...and a modern amplifier. He soon moved to Plamenih 5 and in the early seventies was part of the exceptional composition Opus, performing with the Moira Orfei band. Later, as a law graduate, he found a "serious job" but always remained a loyal follower of musical events. And he returned to music as a producer, co-founder of the publishing house LVO, and in his Akademia music studios, some of the important rock albums of the Serbian music scene were created, from Obojeni Program, Sunshine, Goblini, Kristali and Eyesburn to Buč kesidi, Ljubičica... and many unreleased ones.
In recent years, he appeared in the company of Old Rock Masters and nurtured the project Koprive with his friend Branko Milanović. Always kind, always a gentleman, always Boba.
I will carry his memory, quietly, with sadness and gratitude that for more than six decades he was part of the goodness and building of a better Belgrade."
