It's typical of the light music, that the favourites of the public and the admitted musicians are not the same people. Of course exceptions can be found - although not a lot. One of these is Tibor Tatrai. If you have to vote, who is the best Hungarian guitar player, the name "Tibusz" occurs both to the simple music fans, and to the musicians. And what is more: usually he has been the winner of the competition for about twenty years.
The Guitar Player, who was born in 1952 in Angyalfold, started his career in the same way as the most rock musicians. He started to play is school - bands, and he was doing the exercise more and more. He had got a teacher, i.e. he became the road (carryman) of Bela Radics. The members of Tuzkerek realized his talent, so when one of the members leave the band, he has decided to invite the only 16 years old guitar player to play with him. The first real band was Karpatia for Tibor Tatrai.
The next year the young talent got higher: he became the member of Tuzkerek. At this time the whole business knew his name and his talent. The next station of the quick carrier was the Juventus, after that Jackie Orszaczky invited him in the band Syrius, which is respected as a legend even today. The group stayed, as you know, before a serious foreign carrier in 1973, but that time the Hungarian conditions didn't allowed to take the chance, so the band, which was thought about is the best, fell to pieces.
Then Tibor went to "Mini", the group of Adam Torok. After that he returned to the Syrius, which was changed, and played other music. Then he went into "Olympia", the band of Charlie Horvath. Just then the members of General, the "number-one-group" of the 70's, had got their eyes on Charlie and Tibor, when they had some empty place. The General was among others with its song "Zenegep" even in foreign countries very popular. Tatrai Tibor was the member of the band to the dissolution in 1979. During this time General made a lot of Hungarian and Polish albums.
After he left a year out, Frenreisz Karoly visited the guitar player, to found together the New Scorpion. Tibor Tatrai has given a lot of concert and recorded a lot of songs with the group for three years. He was invited to Hobo Blues Band in 1983. He cooperated with this group several years, and the "Hunting" the biggest and most effective business of the band fell on this time.
Tibusz, who was never a "boss", only a member in a group allowed to be persuaded and established his own band. The Band Tatrai was running to the top with talented members (most of them was earlier the colleague of Tibor), for example Charlie, Geza Palvolgyi, Janos Solti and Tamas Papp. A lot of albums and "number one songs" made the group together. New York, New York, Without Illusion, Travel to the anormity – only to mention some of them. Among the walls of the one-time Budapest Sports Hall and the Congressional Centre they gave a lot of overwhelming successful concert. The group relax recently, after it was on the top for one and a half decade, to fill up and conquer the audience again.
It is frequent nowadays that a musician has interest in several bands at the same time. The reason is money. So does Tibor Tatrai, but the reason is not the same, it isn't money, it's the pleasure of make music. We can say, it's a hobby - that's another question, that "Magyar Atom", "Boom Boom" and "Latin" became in this way the favourite of many people.
On the stage of the Petofi Hall celebrated Tibusz his 50th birthday. The man in the street and in the same age usually "cuts the tape measure" to know, how much he has to sleep to be pensioner. But Tibor Tatrai is neither as a man, nor as an musician ordinary. He play his instrument even more and more, then ever, he try to learn more and more area of the music. His guitar play is developing year to year, which can be heard by an unprofessional too.
"Why is this obsession?"- can have the question those nowadays typical people, who only have one purpose to survive. When it's not enough as an answer that the guitar is waiting for him every time on the stage, than the answer will be: for those people. He wants to solve every painful bitterness with some wonderful voices.