Despite a solid tradition of music inspired by American mavericks like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, the Prague rock scene was still lying low when Miroslav Wanek started playing in the 1980s.

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Czech prog-punk band Už Jsme Doma formed in 1985, four years before the country’s Velvet Revolution brought four decades of communist rule to a peaceful end. Before the revolution, the authorities ...