Trust (band)

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Trust
Bernie Bonvoisin (left) and Norbert Krief (right)
Bernie Bonvoisin (left) and Norbert Krief (right)
Background information
Origin France
Genre(s) Hard rock
Years active 1977–1984
Website http://www.trust.tm.fr/

Trust was a famous hard rock band seen by many in its early years as the French AC/DC.

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[edit] Band history

Trust was founded in 1977 by:

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 and ephemeral come back in 1992.

Repression 1979 (USA / UK version)

Savage 1982 (featuring Nicko McBrain)

Trust IV 1983 (featuring Clive Burr)

The Backsides 1985/93 (featuring Clive Burr)

Trust rose to fame in 1979 and 1980 with a music mixing hard rock influences with an acerbic social and political commentary with anarchist and anti-Soviet undertones, with a renegade attitude à la MC5. When the most successful French rock band Téléphone was doing mainstream Pop Rock, instead Trust was making a political and protestor virile hard rock rooted and dedicated to a "lower-class." At the same time Trust was the only French rock band with enough charisma to ever gain international attention, while Téléphone and the others failed.

It was probably made possible because of Krief's Guitar Hero scale 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, deshumanized pace of modern life and work in large cities, its English adaptation by Anthrax is pretty rough and mild compared to the original lyrics translation: "You work a lifetime to pay 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 which may have helped translate the songs aggressive and political messages. Songs such as Le Mitard (1980) attacked what Trust claimed was an excessively repressive handling of delinquence, featuring texts from public enemy n°1 Jacques Mesrine. Other major political songs includes Darquier (1980) commenting on notorious Nazi Germany collaborator Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, and Mr Comédie (1980) criticizing the Ayatollah Khomeini, at that time exiled in France, depicting him as a "tortionary"; While Les Brutes (1980) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact military forces at the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. Another anti-soviet song is H & D (1979), with "H & D" standing for "Hôpital & Débiles" ("Asylum & Psychos"), accusing the NKVD's arbitrary internments at the Lubyanka prison in Soviet Union.

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. The 1980 Répression dans l'Hexagone French tour, which is regarded by many fans as the band's most solid record to date, features 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 launch in the hexagon. However, the band members defended themselves to have used a such marketing strategy claiming the once-thought-lost masters were found the same year by coincidence.

The band became increasingly criticized starting in 1983 for its less "incisive" sound and the frequent changes of drummers (e.g. Nicko McBrain quit the band after Savage to join Iron Maiden and released Piece Of Mind with its legendary The Trooper). Furthermore, the French political climate had changed: with the election of François Mitterrand (French Socialist Party) in 1981 after 23 years of Conservative governments, the preoccupations that formed the basis of Bonvoisin's lyrics – denunciation of prisons and law enforcement, worker's alienation, etc. had lost their edge.

Trust disbanded in 1984 but Bonvoisin and Krief later re-formed occasionally for records and concerts. Later "compromising" the once hard rock legend with '00s notorious French rap acts including NTM.

The band's most successful song 'Antisocial' was covered by the American thrash metal band 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 Bernie on vocals with Anthrax singer Joey Belladonna.

By early July, Trust's original lineup rebands to perform a '79-'86 best of gig at Festival des Terres Neuvas. The concert will be taped in order to release a musical DVD.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio

[edit] Live

[edit] Compilation

  • 1997 Anti Best Of Flag of France France Flag of Germany Germany
  • 2001 Les Indispensables De Trust (Original versions) Flag of France France
  • 2002 Les Plus Belles Chansons (Canadian edition of "Les Indispensables", original versions) Flag of Canada Canada
  • 2004 Le Meilleur Des Années CBS (Original versions) Flag of France France

[edit] Boxed Set

[edit] Tribute

[edit] Hit songs

  • L'élite
  • Préfabriqués
  • Le Mitard
  • Fatalité
  • Monsieur Comédie
  • Ton Dernier Acte
  • Saumur
  • Antisocial
  • Police Milice
  • Au Nom De La Race

[edit] Trivia

  • Nicko McBrain performed the drums on the Marche Ou Crève ("March Or Die") '81 LP,and its English version Savage (1982).
  • After drummer Clive Burr switched with Nicko McBrain from Iron Maiden, he joined Trust and recorded Savage's follow up named Trust IV (1983). In 1985, Burr also recorded the remarkable Jack Le Vaillant track featured in the 1993 The Backsides EP. The English version of Trust IV, namely Man's Trap (1984) was not recorded with Clive Burr though.

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