Les Goths : out of the black !

Les Goths étaient de Normandie.
Fils d'immigrés italiens débarqués à Gisors dans l'Eure au début des années 50 Bruno et Gino Frascone ont monté le groupe avec Bernard Faucher (bassiste) et Philippe Sauteur (batterie) très vite remplacé par Yves Journiaux, spectateur d'un de leur pemier concert alors qu'ils s'appelaient les Welkins, et producteur.


Écouter "I remember" :

Ce dernier leur offre des places pour Jimi Hendrix à l'Olympia le 9 Octobre 1967, c'est ce qui va sceller leur carrière ! Ils changent alors leur nom en Goths, tels les barbares venus de l'est.
Ils sont au programme du Golf Drouot les 18 et 19 Janvier 1968.

En Mai ils enregistrent leur premier simple (I remember/Turn over) à Paris sur huit pistes dans les studios Europasonor, dans le 14eme.
Pour la première fois l'effet de phasing est utilisé sur la batterie.

Pour "I remember" la face B, trois choristes de Nicole Croisille sont engagées.

Le deuxième 45 t est enregistré quelques semaines plus tard dans les studios Pathé à Boulogne Billancourt avec "Out of the sun" et "Le jour était gris". Un test pressing équivalent à un 33 t aurait même été gravé à l'époque !!! (...)

Début 1969 les deux disques sont à disposition du public.

Ecouter : "Out of the sun" :


Les Goths, un groupe exceptionnel, et deux 45 t très rares.

ps : on peut trouver les deux titres proposés içi sur la compilation plus ou moins bootleg : Beat it, killertracks from the roaring 60's.

Le reste à lire dans le Club des années soixante n°22. (Oct. 96)
Merci à Jean Philippe Bidaine et Eric Terral, auteurs de l'article dont est tiré cet extrait.
Merci à 45tdurockfrançais.net pour les deux scans.

Maj du 11/01/2014 : Depuis, une interview supplémentaire a été menée sur le web sur le site :
http://fuzzine.over-blog.com/

Katalunya !! the french surf of "Les Pickpockets" (2)

By demand and demand and demand... and the two minutes passed away. (private joke)
So here it is , in the comments : (Re)-post of the great demo from this fabulous but undercovered 90's French surf band :

Les PICKPOCKETS (from Sète)

The band came to play to Roanne with a "remorque" (about 600 km).
At the arriving, the Vox amplifier was dead !
(© photo F. Guigue)


See previous post (2006) for informations 'bout the band.

Ps : keep in touch for a complete wild video set of the band from 1995 to come... , on "Hectorvadair"'s Dailymotion account baby !

By request : The (almost) complete KLIEK !

The Kliek are well respected men.

As a promise is a promise, and to thank the anonymous guy who answered to my demand on the Stilettos : here is another time these great songs by this great dutch band.

For the details, go to previous post.

(I just want to be on) Week end

Great track, superb song... (and we all need more week-end !)

Week-end

Just to remember this superb artist , go to : eddiecochran.info
(Today i'd just like to talk about Eddie Cochran, one of my favorite singer/songwriter.)

You are on my mind ! (The bogeymen, part 4) French rarities vol 8)

A promise is a promise... After some shoots*, some videos, two notes with discography... here are :

The BOGEYMEN live Chambéry, 03/07/1993, in real trashorama.

photo : © F. Guigue

Don't try to put me down (live 93) (Rare never issued track.)
All rights reserved : Hectorvadair

This 03rd of July, I haven't the idea to see live this great band. I just known the name, its reputation, and I have already had the chance to see them on stage, but unfortunaltely, arriving at Macon some weeks ago, a member was ill, and the band had been remplaced by another.

So this week-end, I was visiting a friend of mine, near Chambéry, and in the middle of the afternoon, around the table, with a good wine in hand, we look for the cultural manifestations. What a surprise to read in the newspaper that the Bogeymen were programmed by the Larsen label, not far from here with the Squares and two other bands !

So we went to the Parc du buisson rond.

Notice : This is a fan document, not intended for a bootleg (for shit people). If you listen voices and sound's variations during the tracks, it's normal. It's just because I was so excited that I run in all the directions, combining the recording of the set with my walkman and the shooting of the scene with my photograph. It's fan bootleg in its true reality, with no consideration of making money with it. Just sharing.

Anyway, you will admit it's a great document, considering there is nothing else around about the band. Am I alone to have documents ? I don't think so. But you're so square...

Track listing of the set (almost complete)
1 You are on my mind (1st ending) 0:18
2 I'll get to you 2:02
3 She let me down 2:12
4 Backward child 2:06
5 I just need somebody 2:21
6 She's not mine 1:54
7 You're my candy 2:16
9 I've got nobody (ending) 1:08
10 Don't be afraid of me 2:44
11 Don't try to put me down 1:38
12 Roaming child 2:19
13 We'll feel allright 2:46
14 I feel well 2:31
15 Action time 2:48
16 You are on my mind (encore) 2:38
(missing "8 Electrocution" : end of k7)

(*) see the photo album here

Read my original chronicle in Here, le zine des sect maniacs up above.

No more players at all !

Yep, I realised that it's worst having players instead of a simple mp3 link, because you cannot download the files I intended to.
So, basta with the players, and enjoy everything !