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Christophe
"Tof" BONCENS
Vocals
& Guitar
I
was born in November 22nd (Scorpion ! it was already like a
sign) one
leap year, which doesn't really have no importance, nor even no
incidence on the continuation of my life. I don't know why, but one
day, I awoke liking Hard rock. I was between 10 and
12 years
old…
My
first guitar - it didn't tune that well -
I
was 11 years old and nevertheless, the most important thing
was, my true first
guitar (an Aria pro 2 with a super Vantage amplifier which
screamed to death... Especially my family) and all those
bands which I was part of, and without them I would not be one
of
THE JONES.
Live at the
"Local" September
2002
With music, two things,
two shocks, gave me desire for being a guitarist... and singer (why
not?) thereafter.
There was a visual shock with KISS, even if I am not a fan of
their
albums, I remember the first time I saw them on TV, because at the
time, in France, we could see and hear all the styles of music. The auditive (and thus extreme
pleasure) shock had
as name IRON MAIDEN and mainly the album "Killers", which
remains
for
me a reference when one speaks about Hard Rock (or Metal... as you
like. In any event what counts it's not the name, it's the effect on
you.) thereafter appeared Def Leppard,
Saxon,
Helloween, Accept, Metallica, Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation,
Nightwish etc... And I forget some.
Apart from
the music I like: Drawing, the sea, and surely some other wee
things you certainly don't give a fuck.
Yeah, I went to the
"Beaux Arts" School
and I even had hair !
I like my
Macintosh, you know, the apple crunched on the side...
Macintof
Therefore,
when I 'm writing music, it's on my "PowerMac G4" with softwares like Cubase
and Reason.
However I knew prehistory in term of recording. I started,
like many others,
by an old rotten tape recorder which gave more noise than music
to my ears. (It is at that time that I started to lose some hair).
Then I got a Tascam 8 tracks, always on audio K7 and always
the noise, that didn't arrange my hair.
Then the time of Atari STF
with Cubase 2 and 3 synchronized to a Roland VS 880 came (yeah
! Finally numerical and this f...ing noise disappeared along my last
hair) and finally I'm working on Mac since 2001, a real pleasure when a
machine does'nt crash.
My set up:
a Charvel, a Lag, a Takamine, a bass guitar and a keyboard to compose,
a Marshall, a Podline 6 and of the neighbors to support all that. Not I
'm kidding, I play with earphones not to make me assassinate.
Friendly
"hello" to guys of Stormbringer, Alternatif,
Bottom's
up, Brou clean, to Laurent B, to Marc our former bassman - his nickname
: "Cap'tain cavern", a huge deal -
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