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| From | Ralph Alfonso <ralph@nettwerk.com> |
| Subject | elton motello |
| Date | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:42:35 -0700 |
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>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:25:38 -0400
>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: six degrees of Rockpile
>Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20040715012538.00efacf0@pop.theworld.com>
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>Plastic Bertrand is dead frickin' simple: Lowe>Brian James>Plastic Bertrand
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>Nick Lowe produced the first single by the Damned. The Damned's guitarist
>Brian James was later the guitarist in the short-lived band Elton Motello.
>Plastic Bertrand's "Ca Plane Pour Moi" uses the exact same backing track as
>Elton Motello's single "Jet Boy Jet Girl": he simply wiped the English
>lyrics and inserted his own.
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>I'll tackle the others tomorrow when I have more time to ponder.
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>S
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er... i beg to differ.... Brian James did not play on Jet Boy Jet Girl...
http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/eltonmotello.htm
http://www.mp3.com/Elton-Motello/artists/15604/biography.html
Elton Motello/Alan Ward was the engineer on the Ca Plane session and
did Jet Boy as a lark (version of the story I was told at the
time).... I actually met him
when I was working at Attic Records, which released the 12" and the album and
much later, the post-punk Plastic Bertrand (if you can find the Attic
greatest hits lp,
you will see my liner notes plus the live tracks recorded in Canada
feature Aldo Nova
on bass!).
Both Elton & Plastic were on RKM Records, Belgium (since folded into
Universal).
Elton Motello engineered all the RKM tracks (RKM stands for Roland
Kluger Music).
As an added trivia - Plastic Bertrand (aka Roger Jouret) does NOT
sing on Ca Plane
Pour Moi - that is actually the song's writer/producer Lou Depryck.
They cut the
track & then had to find somebody to be Plastic Bertrand....
according to Lou (http://houbi.com/belpop/groups/lou.htm ) at the
time,
HE sang on all the singles, but I can assure you, having been on tour
with Plastic Bertrand,
the man can sing and is pretty great live, so i take some of that
with a grain of salt...
and... much to my utter disbelief - i just did a Google - and....
Plastic is currently touring Quebec with an amazing
Montreal new wave pop band called Poxy.... there apparently is a
whole glam/sleaze/pop rennaissance going
on in Montreal.... wow! great stuff!
http://www.poxy-music.com/
they are supposed to be playing New york! on July 22!!!
there you go... i can't believe i just did all that :)
I have a certain fondness for Belgium and all those guys is probably why....
Ralph
And in case you were wondering, ex-Belgian pop pixie Mino has a kids
music school in the suburbs of Montreal...
Dig that crazy Bongo Beat!
Visit my web site
Http://www.bongobeat.com
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