Harmonium

Puis j'ai commencé à apprendre des chansons du cahier de chansonnier à mon oncle, euh, qui, qui avait ça chez lui.

Puis j'ai appris comme ça la chanson québécoise traditionnelle, Harmonium, Beau, Beau dommage, Daniel Bélanger, euh, les Séguin, puis tout ça.

Puis un, un, un, un, et j'en passe là, euh, tout le catalogue des chansons de boîte à chansons style Deux Pierrots des années 70, 80.

Oui, oui, oui.

C'est pas, euh, c'est pas classique ton affaire.

Je vais te préparer pour l'audition, pour la, la, la guitare jazz.

» Puis, euh, à l'époque même, j'écoutais beaucoup, beaucoup Harmonium.

Puis, euh, y a, y a Serge Léca, puis Lébert, euh, sur, euh-

chronicles of rock the stories behind the monumental moments in the history of rock here's randy renault

One November night in 1973, some young Montreal musicians gathered in the Chaume Studios on Green Avenue and thousands of Montrealers got to hear, for the first time, a band that would help define the sound of Quebec in the 70s, Harmonium.

C'est Serge Fiori à la guitare et Michel Normandou à la guitare.

Serge à la guitare, 12 corps.

And then it was like seven nights a week People in the street trying to get in.

Then there was a real, real buzz.

Were you Harmonium at that point? We were.

It was a poster where it was saying that Harmonium invited Serge Fiery, Michel Normandeau, Louis Valois.

I mean, my grandfather used to put a lot of music on, my father as well, my mother too, but different style.

And then when I was a teenager, I found out that I was in a musical family, that my aunt was singing in the band Harmonium, which is like a big Quebecois band, like in the 70s, was very, very huge band.

Almost made it big to the US as well.

They could have, but they were asked to sing in English and so they didn't want to do that.

So I was like, oh, you know, I wish I had this interest before and that I could have interviewed them and have maybe their songs or...

And I don't come from a traditional musical, like traditional environment.

Like I said, Harmonium is a rock progressive band.

Like I don't, you know, this is more jazz.