Dzoni Stulic Answers Hus: I Am the Composer, Not Him
The Parni Valjak guitarist called him a bad man on the show Kakodalogija. The Azra frontman replied in writing, about 1978 rehearsals and the arrangements of the first singles.
Branimir Dzoni Stulic has answered Husein Hasanefendic Hus, the Parni Valjak guitarist who called him a bad man on the show Kakodalogija on Una TV. Stulic replied in writing. Telegraf was the first to carry the response, and it appeared in the media on October 20, 2026.
Stulic, the former Azra frontman, says Hus has been “spinning the same story for decades.” He lays out his side of the dispute in order: the 1978 rehearsals, the songs they practiced and the arrangements of the first singles.
What did Hus say on Kakodalogija?
On the show, Hus said: “Dzoni Stulic is a bad man, I’m saying it again now. You shouldn’t mix the person and the work.” Of how the collaboration began, he said: “We really made an effort to push him into some kind of focus because we felt it was worth it.”
He also praised the musician, while leaving his verdict on the man unchanged: “Author of superb lyrics, superb songs, but as a person he turned out to be bad.”
What does Stulic say about the 1978 rehearsals?
Stulic starts with the music. Hus, he writes, is a lead guitarist but not a composer:
“Hus is not a composer, he won’t manage to make a song in a million years, that’s as far as music goes, but he was an excellent lead guitarist (back in the day).”
He then turns to the rehearsals they held together. By his account they lasted two weeks, and Parni Valjak was in poor shape at the time: “Valjak in seventy-eight, just before he left for the army, was stillborn.” Those rehearsals, Stulic claims, gave Hus “new blood” that he has lived on to this day.
He describes the difference between their songs in numbers:
“We rehearsed six of his songs and six of mine, and while mine lasted two and a half minutes with some thirty chord changes, his were five minutes long with four chords (A minor, G major, F major and E major).”
Who arranged Balkan and A sta da radim?
For the first singles, Balkan and A sta da radim, Stulic claims the arrangements are entirely his. On Balkan, he says, Hus plays a solo and a short phrase between the verses and at the start, but “everything else is my arrangement.” On A sta da radim Hus plays what they had rehearsed, and Stulic concludes: “I am the composer, not him.”
He also answered the claim that he carried himself like a god and wanted only people who flatter him. He calls it a complete untruth and turns it around: “he is the one who needs the yes-men.”
The text ends with a personal jab at his former colleague. Stulic writes: “I have the impression that Hus is tormented by his conscience.” Some fifty years have passed, he says, and Hus has nothing to boast about when he one day stands before Saint Peter.
As far as the published reports show, Hus has not responded to Stulic’s reply.
