This paper discusses the phenomenon of the North Moravian underground in years 1970–1989. It focuses primarily on the “other” culture, alternative culture, parallel culture, in which music bands were considered as “defective” bands and people with long hair or people involved in unofficial art were considered as “defective” youth. During my research I encountered a different meaning of the term “underground” in Northern Moravia, to the meaning associated with the term in Prague, where the society was more politicised.