Trust (band)
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Trust is a French
rock
band closely associated with both AC/DC
and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
.
The band released its first single Prends Pas Ton Flingue ("Don't Take Your Gun With You") in the same year. This record was later re-released when the band made its first short-lived come back in 1992.
Trust rose to fame in 1979 and 1980 with a music mixing hard rock influences, acerbic social and political commentary, anarchist and anti-Soviet undertones and a renegade attitude à la MC5
.
Trust's success was also due to Krief's stature as a French guitar hero and Bonvoisin's both sincere and mature lyrics as well as his raw energy. Their 1980 hit song Antisocial
(on the Répression album) criticized the frenetic, dehumanizing pace of modern life and work in large cities. Its English adaptation by Anthrax
on the 1988 Album State of Euphoria
is pretty rough and mild compared to the original lyrics: "You spend a lifetime working to pay for your own tombstone, You hide your face behind the newspaper, You walk like a robot in the subway corridors, Nobody cares about your presence, It's up to you to make the first step". Trust were helped on English lyrics for the Repression album by Jimmy Pursey of UK Punk band Sham 69
, who may have helped translate the songs' aggressive political messages. Songs such as "Le Mitard" (1980) attacked what Trust claimed was an excessively repressive
handling of juvenile delinquency, featuring texts from public enemy number one Jacques Mesrine
. Other major political songs includes "Darquier" (1980) commenting on notorious Nazi Germany
collaborator
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
, and "Mr Comédie" (1980) criticizing Ayatollah
Khomeini, who was in exile in France at the time, depicting him as a "torturer". "Les Brutes" (1980) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact
military forces at the Prague Spring
in Czechoslovakia
, "H & D" (1979), with "H & D" standing for "Hôpital & Débiles" ("Asylum & Psychos"), accuses the Soviet Union
and its secret services (KGB
) of suppressing dissent by sending political opponents to psychiatric hospitals under fake diagnoses.
The style of singer Bernie Bonvoisin was compared to that of Bon Scott
from AC/DC
, with whom Trust had a friendly relationship. Ride On by Bon Scott's AC/DC was covered in Trust's '79 debut album. 1980's Répression dans l'Hexagone live album, featured two AC/DC covers of "Problem Child
" and "Live Wire
". Trust Live was released twelve years after its recording by Sony Music France to coincide with AC/DC's famed Live
album release in France. However, the band members denied using such a marketing strategy, claiming the masters they thought were lost had been found the same year by coincidence.
From 1983 onwards, the band came under increasing criticism for its less "incisive" sound and the frequent changes of drummers (e.g. Nicko McBrain
quit the band after Savage to join Iron Maiden
.
Trust disbanded in 1984, but Bonvoisin and Krief later re-formed occasionally for records and concerts, later "compromising" the once hard rock legend with 2000s French rap
acts including Suprême NTM
.
The band's most successful song "Antisocial" was covered by Anthrax
on their 1988 State of Euphoria album (adapted to English, although a French version of the song is also available) and became one of their most popular songs and videos. A live version of the 12" single for "Make Me Laugh" features Bonvoisin on vocals with Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna
.
In early July 2008, Trust's original lineup reformed to perform a 1979 to 1986 best of gig at the Festival des Terres Neuvas. In September 2008, a new album, 13 à table (Thirteen at the table) was released.
for details "http://www.trust.tm.fr/frameset_a.htm"
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band closely associated with both AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. The movement developed as a reaction in part to the decline of early heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black...
.
History
Trust was founded in 1977 by:- Bernard "Bernie" Bonvoisin (vocals, lyricist)
- Norbert "Nono" KriefNorbert KriefNorbert Krief , often known as Nono, is a French rock guitarist.Krief was the guitarist of hard-rock bands like Shakin' Street and Trust. He later worked as lead guitarist for Johnny Hallyday and Fabienne Shine among a variety of other collaborations.- References :...
(guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, composer) - Raymond "Ray" Manna (bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
) - Jean-Émile "Jeannot" Hanela (drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
)
The band released its first single Prends Pas Ton Flingue ("Don't Take Your Gun With You") in the same year. This record was later re-released when the band made its first short-lived come back in 1992.
Trust rose to fame in 1979 and 1980 with a music mixing hard rock influences, acerbic social and political commentary, anarchist and anti-Soviet undertones and a renegade attitude à la MC5
MC5
The MC5 is an American rock band formed in Lincoln Park, Michigan and originally active from 1964 to 1972. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson...
.
Trust's success was also due to Krief's stature as a French guitar hero and Bonvoisin's both sincere and mature lyrics as well as his raw energy. Their 1980 hit song Antisocial
Antisocial (song)
"Antisocial" is a song by the French hard rock band Trust, from their album . The song was written by Bernie Bonvoisin and Norbert Krief.The song is featured in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour and is available as downloadable content to Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.-Anthrax...
(on the Répression album) criticized the frenetic, dehumanizing pace of modern life and work in large cities. Its English adaptation by Anthrax
Anthrax (band)
Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
on the 1988 Album State of Euphoria
State of Euphoria
State of Euphoria is the fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was released on September 19, 1988 through Megaforce/Island Records.-Album information:...
is pretty rough and mild compared to the original lyrics: "You spend a lifetime working to pay for your own tombstone, You hide your face behind the newspaper, You walk like a robot in the subway corridors, Nobody cares about your presence, It's up to you to make the first step". Trust were helped on English lyrics for the Repression album by Jimmy Pursey of UK Punk band Sham 69
Sham 69
Sham 69 is an English punk band that formed in Hersham in 1976.Although not as commercially successful as many of their contemporaries, albeit with a greater number of chart entries, Sham 69 has been a huge musical and lyrical influence on the Oi! and streetpunk genres. The band allegedly derived...
, who may have helped translate the songs' aggressive political messages. Songs such as "Le Mitard" (1980) attacked what Trust claimed was an excessively repressive
Political repression
Political repression is the persecution of an individual or group for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing their ability to take political life of society....
handling of juvenile delinquency, featuring texts from public enemy number one Jacques Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine was the most famous criminal in modern French history. He was responsible for numerous bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France and Canada. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits...
. Other major political songs includes "Darquier" (1980) commenting on notorious Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
collaborator
Collaborationism
Collaborationism is cooperation with enemy forces against one's country. Legally, it may be considered as a form of treason. Collaborationism may be associated with criminal deeds in the service of the occupying power, which may include complicity with the occupying power in murder, persecutions,...
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
Louis Darquier de Pellepoix
Louis Darquier, better known under his assumed name Louis Darquier de Pellepoix was Commissioner for Jewish Affairs under the Vichy Régime....
, and "Mr Comédie" (1980) criticizing Ayatollah
Ayatollah
Ayatollah is a high ranking title given to Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah clerics. Those who carry the title are experts in Islamic studies such as jurisprudence, ethics, and philosophy and usually teach in Islamic seminaries. The next lower clerical rank is Hojatoleslam wal-muslemin...
Khomeini, who was in exile in France at the time, depicting him as a "torturer". "Les Brutes" (1980) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance , or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe...
military forces at the Prague Spring
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II...
in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
, "H & D" (1979), with "H & D" standing for "Hôpital & Débiles" ("Asylum & Psychos"), accuses the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
and its secret services (KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
) of suppressing dissent by sending political opponents to psychiatric hospitals under fake diagnoses.
The style of singer Bernie Bonvoisin was compared to that of Bon Scott
Bon Scott
Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott was a Scottish-born Australian rock musician, best known for being the lead singer and lyricist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980...
from AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
, with whom Trust had a friendly relationship. Ride On by Bon Scott's AC/DC was covered in Trust's '79 debut album. 1980's Répression dans l'Hexagone live album, featured two AC/DC covers of "Problem Child
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap is the third studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in 1976. All songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young, and Bon Scott....
" and "Live Wire
T.N.T. (album)
T.N.T. is the second studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, released in December 1975. Seven of the album's nine songs were written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Bon Scott...
". Trust Live was released twelve years after its recording by Sony Music France to coincide with AC/DC's famed Live
Live (AC/DC album)
AC/DC Live is a 1992 live album by Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. It was released both as a single album and as a double album...
album release in France. However, the band members denied using such a marketing strategy, claiming the masters they thought were lost had been found the same year by coincidence.
From 1983 onwards, the band came under increasing criticism for its less "incisive" sound and the frequent changes of drummers (e.g. Nicko McBrain
Nicko McBrain
Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain is an English musician, best known as the drummer for Iron Maiden, which he joined in 1982, prior to which he had played for Streetwalkers, Pat Travers, and the French political band, Trust.-Biography:...
quit the band after Savage to join Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...
.
Trust disbanded in 1984, but Bonvoisin and Krief later re-formed occasionally for records and concerts, later "compromising" the once hard rock legend with 2000s French rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
acts including Suprême NTM
Suprême NTM
Suprême NTM is a French hip hop group formed in 1989 in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. The group comprises rappers Joey Starr and Kool Shen...
.
The band's most successful song "Antisocial" was covered by Anthrax
Anthrax (band)
Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
on their 1988 State of Euphoria album (adapted to English, although a French version of the song is also available) and became one of their most popular songs and videos. A live version of the 12" single for "Make Me Laugh" features Bonvoisin on vocals with Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna
Joey Belladonna
Joey Belladonna is a heavy metal singer and drummer, best known as the lead singer for the heavy metal band Anthrax...
.
In early July 2008, Trust's original lineup reformed to perform a 1979 to 1986 best of gig at the Festival des Terres Neuvas. In September 2008, a new album, 13 à table (Thirteen at the table) was released.
Albums
- 1977 Prends Pas Ton Flingue / Paris By Night [SP] FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- 1979 Trust I (L'Élite) France, United KingdomUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - 1980 Répression France, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
- 1980 Repression (English version of Répression) United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Japan, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
- 1981 Marche Ou Crève France, Germany, ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
[ (with Nicko McBrain on drums) - 1982 Savage (English version of Marche Ou Crève) United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, PortugalPortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, Japan (with Nicko McBrain on drums) - 1983 Trust IV (Idéal) France, Germany (with Clive Burr on drums)
- 1984 Man's Trap (English version of Trust IV) United Kingdom, United States, Japan, Netherlands (with Clive Burr on drums)
- 1984 Rock'n'Roll France, Canada
- 1988 En attendant... [EP] France, United Kingdom, United States
- 1992 Prends pas ton flingue [EP] France
- 1993 The Back Sides [EP] France
- 1996 Europe et Haines France
- 2000 Ni Dieu Ni Maître France
- 2008 13 à table France
for details "http://www.trust.tm.fr/frameset_a.htm"
Live albums
- 1988 Live: Paris By Night (recorded during the Monsters of RockMonsters of RockMonsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
) France, United States - 1992 Répression dans l'Hexagone (Live) (Répression dans l'HexagoneRépression dans l'HexagoneLive is a 1992 album by French hard rock band, Trust. It was released as a single album twelve years after its recording in 1980...
1980 tour) France - 1997 A Live Tour 97 (Insurrection dans l'Hexagone tour) France
- 2000 Still A-live (German edition of A Live Tour 97, contains a bonus 6-track EP) Germany
- 2006 Soulagez-vous dans les urnes! (2006 tour, contains 3 new studio tracks) France
- 2009 A L'Olympia (2008 tour, Rockpalast 1982 gig added in the limited CD + DVD edition) France
Compilation albums
- 1981 Heavy Metal Soundtrack - Includes a version of "Prefabricated".
- 1997 Anti Best Of France, Germany
- 2001 Les Indispensables De Trust (Original versions) France
- 2002 Les Plus Belles Chansons (Canadian edition of "Les Indispensables", original versions) Canada
- 2004 Le Meilleur Des Années CBS (Original versions) France