Lucien FRANCOEUR : Vox
Jacques RACINE : Guitar
Michel "AWAY" LANGEVIN : Drums
Vincent PEAKE : Bass
Joe EVIL : Keyboards
Martin DUPUIS : Guitar
Denis "PIGGY" D'AMOUR : Guitar (on all tracks on the album)
Alex CROWE : Guitar
Influences
Francoeur's lyrics (he's one of the greatest/award winning poet in Quebec since 1972) are influenced by Lou Reed, Jim Morrison and Arthur Rimbaud. In Aut'Chose, he relates his own life's experience of hard drugs, sexe, and living like a bum in the nasty part of a city. His words are a fine mix of french, slang quebecois and english. In 1974, that was a unique way to express yourself! NOBODY was talking over hard rock music. Be it french or english.
Aut'Chose's music is also unique. It's basically... well, Aut'Chose ("something else" in english. A mix of 70's american hard rock, 70's english progessive rock, psychedelic rock and post punk (what we call today, stoner metal).
Sounds Like
The band has its own sound. It's stoner rock some say, psychedelic, hard rock, metal, progressive... nobody can put a label on the band. One thing for sure, their sound kick ass! Deeply. So I guess it's STONER METAL!
For in some degree a complete bio (EN FRANCAIS) go to: http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp-------
Their 1976 effort, Le Cauchemar Americain (The american nightmare) was post-punk when punk was coming out, shy, in America! They released two LP prior that, in 1975, Prends une chance avec moé (Take a chance with me - it spawned two BIG hits: Hey you woman and Ch't'aime pis ch't'en veux) and Une nuit comme une autre (A night just like the others - hits: Nancy Beaudoin (now a rock classic in Quebec), Blue jeans sur la plage and Sexe-fiction).
The band split-up in 1977 and Francoeur went on a successful solo career in pop and rock music and also, as an award winning writer and an actor (5 films/2 documentary on him, to credit). He went to teaching in 1981 and still is a teacher. He reformed Aut'Chose in 2001, released a CD called Dans la jungle des villes (In the jungle of the cities), who went nowhere because of a serious problems with the distribution and the record company, Disques Star. Slowly, Aut'Chose was going down the drain... At the end of 2004, Ronald Mc Gregor (http://www.myspace.com/ronaldmcgregor) reformed the band with Francoeur and Racine - original members, Michel Langevin and Denis D'Amour from Voïvod, Vincent Peake from Groovy Aardvark and Floating Widget, plus Joe Evil, the man from Grimskunk and Colectivo. They had a phenemonal reception on April 7th, 2005, the first concert of Aut'Chose in 30 years, and the first with this line-up. Hailed as the first supergroup of Quebec, two days later, they were in the Multisons studio, recording live, the CD Chansons d'epouvante (Terrifying songs). It came out on May 17th to an already receptive critics. More than 30 positive critics as of today!
Then, as you all know, legendary Denis D'Amour died on August 26... The band ask Martin Dupuis, from Groovy Aardvark (already an influential band in Quebec), to fill his shoes. He said yes. Denis was one of his major influences as a guitar player.
Then, after a few months, feeling uncomfortable in Denis' shoes, Martin quit the band and they asked Alex Crowe from Tricky Woo, Xavier Caféine and Kosmos fame to fill the void.
Comment ça va? On vous remercie pour l'acceptation de notre amitié. Super sympas vos compos.
On vous souhaite un bon week-end. Keep rockin’ … it’s
the only thing that matters!
The Hot Showers Live w./ The Hot Strings (OFFSPRING tribute!!)
Friday June 5 at Bistro De Paris
the show is free.
the beer is gonna be cheap.
the rock never stops...
until it does
ALSO:
MICKEY AND FRANK'S BDAYS.
ALSO:
FIRST 50 PEOPLE GET OUR DEMO CD FREE
here's the info
6 juin 2009 RIALTO 5723 avenue du parc Montreal H2V 4H2
Description: THE KINKS Konvention II is back at marvellous RIALTO THEATER on Parc ave. corner Bernard !!! WOW !!! Bands are: PRIESTESS - XAVIER CAFÉINE - LES PSYCHO RIDERS - THE HIGH DIALS - HOLLERADO - LADIES OF THE CANYON - AMANDA MABRO & COZMO QUAZAR - DEAD MESSENGER - VICTORY CHIMES - MALCOLM BAULD
Si tu n'est pas encore venue dans LA GALAXIE D'ALEXIS...
Nous t'attendons ! C'est l'occasion de rencontrer des ami(e)s tout en écoutant des artistes locaux qui nous présente leurs compositions.
TÉLÉCHARGEMENT ÉQUITABLE s'occupe de payer les artistes et donc de créer un roulement pour nos artistes Québécois. L'ALIZÉ nous supporte aussi en nous offrant des avantages considérable en comparaison avec les autres salles Montréalaise.
Il ne manque plus que TOI pour encourager le ZOOLOO BLUES BAND, GRÉGOIRE, MARIE-SOLEIL SUNCHINE et le ALEXIS ARBOUR BAND et chacun aura contribué à la culture Québécoise ce jeudi 14 mai prochain.
Au plaisir et n'oublie pas ta carte équitable en partant !
Salut vous autres, nous avons quelques shows qui s'en viennent soit le 26 avril au bistro de Beloeil, le 2 mai à Victoriaville et bien sur le 24 avril à Ste-Thérèse Allez voir sur notre myspace pour les détails Gratiennement vôtre!
Ce CD ne sera pas mis en vente car il est destiné à promouvoir le groupe, et annonce d'ores et déjà la préparation du second album d'Une Touche d'Optimisme!
Allo après beaucoup d'efforts et de travail acharné, je suis très fier de vous présenter mon 2eme vidéoclip officiel nommé Maitre du destin en collaboration avec Lunatique,Je vous rappelle également que mon album Prototype volume 2 est présentement en vente alors n'hésitez surtout pas à laisser vos commentaires .
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