V'Moto Rock were a Hungarian, well, rock band - so why are we including them? We're not sure, but it probably has something to do with the slick promo package that came with the copy of this that the good folks at Recordland pulled out of their endless piles of gold and/or garbage. It looks like at some point in the late 80's, a pair of Lethbridge businessmen with Hungarian roots tried to bring a bit of V'Moto Rock's magic touch to Canada - the fact that we can't find any mention of the band touring through here suggests that they may not have been as successful as they hoped. Also, a quick warning on the quality of this single - we're not sure if it was mastered at all, the sound quality on both sides is kind of dodgy - despite our copy looking like it's brand spanking new. The promo package also included this clipped, which we assume was from the Lethbridge Herald. [center][img width=369]//7ca49eb9f67ba1319ef136f9d52cd8b8.cdn.bubble.io/f1769287325866x569456509248975000/richtext_content.jpeg[/img][/center] [center][/center] [h2]Out of the east, it's V'Moto-Rock[/h2] Helen Metella So you think you're a rock music trivia expert? OK, name the band that's sold close to a million albums in its native country, toured Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and Cuba and had one of its translated compositions reach the highest reaches of France's pop charts. Ten thousand to one you won't know that it's V'Moto-Rock because the band is from Budapest, Hungary. And as far as the rest of the world is considered, while rock 'n' roll is rumored to exist behind the Iron Curtain, it can't be THAT big or THAT good. That's an attitude that Albertans Steve Meszaros and Lou Koncz hope to adust next month. The two Lethbridge businessmen are bringing V'Moto-Rock to Alberta in a bid to launch eastern bloc rock in North America. While they're here, the quartet will record an album in English and play a few dates to garner publicity for its first single, Can't Stop Dreamin'. The duo of Hungarian-Canadian promoters have spent the past two and a half years arranging the paperwork for the visit but, ironically, they ran into more roadblocks with the Canadian record companies they've approached unsuccessfully about distributing the band. That's shortsighted says Meszaros, who firmly believes that V'Moto-Rock's sound is universally appealing. "They're accomplished musicians, they're popular performers. Give them an opportunity here and we have an exceptionally good chance of starting something big." So, fuelled by the positive results of a survey of Canadian college students and club patrons who heard and enjoyed V'Moto-Rock's material, Meszaros and Koncz are committed to putting the record out by themselves if they have to. "What we need is a touch of luck, we have everything else," says Koncz.
