I was very disturb by the interview Banane (Chewy) did in 2018 for Decibel in which he implied that he wrote many of the songs for Target Earth and did most of the arrangements, leaving me with basically no credit, which is far from the true, since most of the song, except for Mechanical and Kluskap, were actually composed and arrange on bass and he simply just had to wrote his parts, I still have all the original recordings that prove just that. But the major insult was when he talk about me having moved to MTL with no job...etc. Who the fuck is he, anyway...just a fuckin session musician working for Away and emulating the original writers. Ok I've said enough, someone will probably complain and delete my post...to the fuckin death I say.

On Target Earth I came with most of the structure including some arrangement on my own. I have all the early tapes that show just that, song structures with a simple bass line from start to finish. He (banane) did work with me before we started to officially work on a new VV album, but he forgot about it, I give him at the time 3 songs for a project with a friend of mine, he did one guitar track on one song, that song didn't endup on Target Earth. For Target Earth I had close to 20 songs to choose from. Then I give lots of instructions and story ideas to Snake for the lyrics, that's why that album is more political, more punk, more older vv style, That was my influence in that aspect. I saw what he also wrote on the Target Earth tab book. I feel odd talking about that sometime, cause it sound a little surreal. In studio I pretty much did all the production, some which Pierre did at first but after 3 to 5 days I told him that I would be fine to do the rest, so I did, setting sound for bass, guitar and vocal. Pierre and I did a quick plan on how we would do the session, we work together before and I like him a lots, he is very good engineer and producer. We also had a drummer (technician) that set the drum and tune it up the first day, cause you know, pros don't touch their drums, Everyday before a the recording started I tune it up a little (it goes down at night ;-)). I spend alone 3 days doing my bass tracks. Banane came only a few days at the time to do his guitar tracks, he didn't help much, perhaps a few hours with Snake at the end coaching him with me, he was too busy with work apparently, this created odd situations but he never mention those. The only photo we have in the studio of all of us, he is not there. He took a bunch of selfy that he put online, so people think he was really present, good trick of his. We had much problem with the manager that did not follow on promises, anyway I won't say more but it will come up some days, I can promise you that. My side of the saga will be told, even if no one want to hear it ( that's a crack to a bunch of voivodian that can't handle the true) How's that for a single response H?

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Originally posted by h:
"At the time, Blacky hadn’t touched a bass since he left Voivod seventeen years prior, so I had to teach him to play again. It was a lot of work. I went to his place and told him where to put his fingers, even on his own songs, and we became friends and played the show."

I'd like to hear your side of this JY.

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Originally posted by nothingface:
Any Voïvod fan knows better. Interviewers have a way with making the interviewee comfortable enough to talk shit and make a few regrettable statements. That's what gets the splash.

Every album you played on resonates with your fingerprints.

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I believe that MWH = Men Without Hats, seeing that Away did play on their Sideways album circa 1991.

Sadly, this place is pretty quiet anymore.

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