Vladimír Mišík

[3][4] In 1970, Mišík left Blue Effect and became a member of Flamengo, with whom he recorded Kuře v hodinkách, the only studio album the band released.

[8] In 2007, after dealing with serious health problems, Mišík returned to performing with Etc...[9] In 2012, on the fortieth anniversary of Flamengo's Kuře v hodinkách, Mišík joined the briefly reunited group onstage at Prague's Palác Akropolis for a concert that included two of his Etc... bandmates, as well as other guest musicians.

[14] In 1990, Mišík was elected to the Czech National Council for two years, as a member of the Civic Forum party.

[15] In October 2013, he refused to accept a state award from President Miloš Zeman, as an expression of dissatisfaction with some recent decisions made by the Czech leader.

[16] Mišík's father, John Gaugan, was an American soldier, and his mother was a Slovak nurse who worked for the Red Cross in Germany at the end of World War II.

Čundrgrund in 1977. From left: Petr Kalandra, Vladimír Merta, Vladimír Mišík
Let Mišík sing! – graffiti on a wall in Holešovice, Prague, April 1983, from the period when Mišík's concerts were banned by Communist authorities. The graffiti was repeatedly painted over, but it always reappeared.
Mišík performing in 2005
Poet Jaromír Pelc and Etc... – Vladimír Mišík, Jaroslav Olin Nejezchleba, Jan Hrubý (1985)