Blue Effect

Blue Effect
Blue Effect performing in 2007
Background information
Origin	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Genres	Art rock jazz rock blues rock
Years active	1968 (1968)–1990 (1990), 2004 (2004)–2016 (2016)
Labels	Supraphon Panton
Past members	Radim Hladík Vladimír Mišík Jiří Kozel Vlado Čech Miloš Svoboda Lešek Semelka Josef Kůstka Oldřich Veselý Fedor Frešo Oldřich Kellner Luboš Pospíšil Luboš Manda Radek Křemenák Josef Havlíček David Koller Jan Křížek Václav Zima Vojtěch Říha

Blue Effect was a Czech rock band, also operating under the names M. Efekt, Modrý efekt, or the Special Blue Effect, since their formation in 1968. The band's main and only permanent member, from its founding until his death in 2016, was guitarist Radim Hladík, formerly of The Matadors. Blue Effect changed their musical style several times, ranging from rhythm and blues, jazz fusion, to art rock.