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You've been given a robot that can be trained to perform one standardized task perfectly, as often as necessary. What do you train it to do?
Stéphane Plante: Play my guitar parts for certain songs.
You are seriously ill. There are two vaccines that will save your life, but both have side effects: one will permanently eliminate your sense of taste, and the other will permanently eliminate all feeling in your genitals. Which vaccine would you choose?
Stéphane Plante: The one about the sense of taste. I hope I don't have to say why!
Somehow you've gotten into a fight with someone twice your size. Where do you aim the first punch?
Stéphane Plante: The brain, by asking all kinds of questions that a guy with that shape won't be able to answer.
The fast-forward and skip buttons on all your stereo equipment are broken, and you can't afford to repair them right now. For the time being, you can only listen to albums from beginning to end, without skipping any songs. What albums in your collection are still listenable?
Stéphane Plante: Any album by Serge Gainsbourg from before 1974.
If given the perfect opportunity to be unjust, would a just person succumb to it?
Stéphane Plante: Huhh? The question is not clear -- I'm a French guy, you know!
You've been asked to write the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on yourself. What does it say?
Stéphane Plante: First of all, it will say "born in 1974", but after that it's getting confused.
You've somehow been given the chance to spend the day with a character (not an actor) from any film or television program. Who do you choose?
Stéphane Plante: Jack Tripper.
If you could instantly learn to play one instrument that you don't currently play, what would it be?
Stéphane Plante: Trombone.
The people of the town where you were born want to name a building after you. They've asked you to choose the sort of building that best matches your personality. What kind of building do you choose?
Stéphane Plante: A school of architecture.
What month of the year do you least anticipate? Why?
Stéphane Plante: February, because it's too hard to pronounce for a French guy like me! March is easier.
What animal would you most like to house in your back yard, if you could?
Stéphane Plante: Animals have to be free in the nature, not stocked in any backyard.
When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Stéphane Plante: A priest.
If you could buy any rare collection in the world, which collection would you choose? (This doesn't have to be a famous collection...but it can be.)
Stéphane Plante: The collection of La Pléiade by Gallimard edition. These books are not that rare but fucking expensive!
What's the best advice you've ever received? Who gave it to you?
Stéphane Plante: You shouldn't sing in your band; Perry Como.
You've been invited to perform as the middle act in a three-act bill. You get to choose the other two artists. Who opens for you, and who follows you?
Stéphane Plante: The Statisfaction reunited, and Jacques Dutronc.
You've been placed in the Witness Protection Program, and must change your name. You're able to pick your new name. What do you call yourself?
Stéphane Plante: O.J. Simpson.
What lesson should the world learn from the failure of all those dotcom businesses?
Stéphane Plante: There are a lot of failures with regular businesses too. I don't get the point, sorry.
What steps should airlines take to help avoid a repeat of the September 11th tragedy?
Stéphane Plante: Convince the US government to change their politics with other countries and inform the American people about their own government. The United States doesn't give a fuck about the UN decisions and they act according to their own intere$t and they are manipulating the NATO; don't make me start about that!
What is the greatest invention of the last ten years?
Stéphane Plante: South Park.
Thanks to a breakthrough in technology, you can have a perfect memory-recording of one event in your life. Everything is included -- taste, smell, sound, vision and feeling; it basically means that you can relive the event over and over again. What event would you want to relive?
Stéphane Plante: Sorry, I would have to name someone and I still want her to respect me!
What toy from your childhood would you most like to track down now?
Stéphane Plante: LEGO.
Assuming that money, legality, etc. is no object, what is your intoxicant of choice?
Stéphane Plante: The best bottles of wines in the world.
Which is more dangerous in the wrong hands -- guns or knowledge?
Stéphane Plante: What do you think? Have fun in Texas, my friend! In fact, the real answer is guns without knowledge!
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From Grenadine Records:
Les Séquelles have been playing their French 60s cocktail rock & roll since 1995, first as a three-piece when the band played Montreal's legendary Monstre-A-Go-Go garage showcase.
Les Séquelles then went on to play a slew of shows in very intimate quarters of the provinces' major centres. In early 1999, the band took some time off when logistics made it hard for the band to practice and play shows.
This gave the members a chance to experiment and play in side-projects including Les Macchabées and the all-girl garage group, The Slot Machines.
Later in the year would prove to be a new and different time for Les Séquelles. Stéphane and Jean, moved to Montreal near Stéphanie and greeted their fourth member and new guitarist, Daniel Fiocco (formerly of Les Incapables & Platon et Les Caves). The new line-up started playing shows out-of-province including jaunts in Toronto, Hamilton and Detroit; put out their first 7" single in 2000 (Le Pick Up label); and started developing a concept for their first LP, which was released in 2001.
-- George Zahora
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