GENERAL SHOELACE -aka Toon Derison - Drums/backvocal (Tienen):
mental leader, "All time Nice Guy, With Complicated Grooves that One-day He Will Learn to Play".
Ses Victoires: El Fish, Neven, Don Croissant, Too Tangled GENERAL ROCK’N ROLL FROGGY -aka Marc Bodart- guitar/vocal (Namêche):
Spiritual leader, "Slowhands, Why Play It On The Beat If You Can Play it After, With an ever Smiling Face".
Ses Victoires: Doctor Brown, Buttnaked, Chico&theMojo GENERAL IMPATIENTS –aka Bart Ieven- octave guitar/backvocal (Linden):
Hungry leader, virulent as a bitch, "Why Play It On The Beat If He Get Paid
Before!".
Ses victoires: Temple Bellona, Harvey Lee
CONTACT:
thru this myspace system ! or
TOON in vlaams 0485 388328 antoon.derison@telenet.be MARC en français 0486 905704 marcbobo@skynet.be
in English ... both!?
and become a real fan!
A big thank you to Damien who help us , here and there...to give the nice concerts'sounds we need.
And also to An (the little face, behind in the pic ,withsunglasses on) who made our generals costumes.
Influences
from A till Z ....
Here is a list of our concerts for this 2008 Mrs Hippy year
Paradox in Tilburg (NL)
Mons (radio classic21 , Live blues café )
MJTamines bluesprogram
Acosse Le petit tonneau blues&rock festival
CC de Wildeman Herent
Le Belvédère Namur
Straatfeesten Kalmthout
L'echo des Chavannes Charleroi
Le grain d'orge Bruxelles
La paille en fête (festival) Lathuy
Oxfam trailwalk Signal de Botrange
Little jimmy rock&blues festival Grimbergen
Whiskey night of Thon
Dominiek birthday in Lebbeke
'Non à Mâle plume' Show à Andenne
Sounds Like
it's you who decide...
here is a review (french) from the rifraf magazine (online) of november 2008.
click on the picture if you want to see it in a more readable size.
thanx to rifraf and 'Jack'David (a nice Jack...).
Les "Generals" Jack is a trio, two guitars & drums, who bring an original mix of Rock, Funk, Reggae, Roots Music ... all songs larded with a fat layer of Blues!
The members of the band met each other on a Jamsession at the port festival of Leuven (Belgium) in 1999. This Jam appeared rapidly a windfall of format which made the idea grow of forming a band. The first rehearsals started on the boat of Drummer, Toon Derison, the boat was called 'Jack'.
Floated by the inspiration "A chacun son Blues" a first demo with 4 own numbers arose in 2001 and in 2004, they did released their first album "Small talk, Space Message".
Take a look at the followin...
And let's talk in the present tense!!
Yes, indeed
..The new album, "Mrs Hippy", is now available ..
On this MySpace you can listen to a couple demo versions out of it.
"Ticklin' The Strings" by Sweet Hollywaiians
Amazing Japanese hot string band playing 1920's, 30's, 40's style hawaiian, swing, calypso, blues, italian music and originals,featuring vintage instruments.3 songs with Robert Armstrong and Tony Marcus(from Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
"The Sweet Hollywaiians have probably the best feel for this 20's music of any string band working today. They manage the rare feat of sounding relaxed even when their playing is hot, are top notch musicians with tasteful arrangements and a full, rich, warm sound.Plus, they have a nice gamut of tunes, from King Nawahi to Giovanni Vicari to Bobby Leecan. See them live, if you can, for an unforgettable experience. If you can't, buy their Cds!" ~ Terry Zwigoff
MAAK UZELF VRIJ en leg uw agenda alvast aan de ketting op 30 augustus ... Check & recheck www. radiocentraal. be voor àlle info met routeplan, updates, line-up ...
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