btw, here's a scan of a totally useless live report, from Enfer Magazine, feb. 1987. Voivoid.
Pretty lame, there's nothing worth translating. The french Metal press really sucked, we needed the internet badly!

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"You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable"

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Originally posted by xXniaXx:
interesting (and funny) stuff.

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heh heh... I thought there might be one or two bits that tickled you!

btw, when was that published?

Thanx for posting.

Still wish I had my old Noise magazine article.

Malcome Dome’s article on the history of Dimension Hatross from your June
2005 issue was fascinating. However, my recollections of that time are
less colourful than Michel Langevin’s. His memory of bikers from the
topless bar bursting into our place and threatening to kill us is over the
top. The guys I spoke to weren’t even bikers ­ the bikers were in the
building next door. And the “rockets” being lobbed at us in Berlin were
fireworks being thrown by kids on New Years Eve.

Personal dramas aside, the article seemed to suggest that we used samplers
during the period that we were making DH but in fact we did not use
samplers until we made our fifth record, Nothingface. Prior to that it was
all processed live sound layed on tape.

What I found most interesting was Langevin’s claim that the music for
Dimension Hatross “came easily” considering that he didn’t do any of the
initial composing. His role was to add his drum ideas to what Piggy (Denis
D’Amour) and I had already come up with. But he did come up with the
concept and storyline for the record (which may have come easily).

He is correct that I often changed my mind about musical direction, but
that is part of the creative process, and not a result of being easily
led. I was stubborn and did not hold back when it came to pushing the band
towards making the most innovative recordings we could. This may have made
me difficult to work with but I have always believed that remaining
stagnant in your approach to making records only yields boring results.

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Originally posted by xXniaXx:
hamsters are so not metal.

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well, if you replace the Robin Hood theme by the opening of Experiment, this wall of hamsters becomes, let's say, hypnotic.

And nice answer Blacky!

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It is good to hear Blacky's side of the story.

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