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title: Music
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I started learning the guitar when I was 13, in 1973. I told Roy Beard,
a friend of mine, I was playing the guitar, and he invited me to play in
the group he was running at the time, “_Silver Zodiac_”. We only did covers.

I practiced there until 1976, when the group split up because of musical
disagreements <schisms?>: a part of the group, including me, wanted to
continue the covers, and the other part did not. We formed a group named
“_Mantis_”, and used to play at biker's clubs and in jams.

In 1978, a friend of mine, Dave Brown, introduced me to Mick Venning, who
used to manage a band called “_Hazard_”. Mick was mainly interested in
the studio-side, recording and organizing concerts. I stayed in the band
until 1981, when the band played in the [Cambridge Corn Exchange][cornex].

[...]

Met Matthew Steinberg's at **Duxford Workshop** (turn up and learn instrument
for free), run by his mother. Also met Laurent later. I gave lessons,
met a lot of musicians.

In 1984, we had a two days party at Matthew Steinberg's, playing music:
that's how “_Charlotte's Party_” started. I did the guitars. We also played
on TV with that group:

{% youtube s-UC411IPJQ %}

“Tolpuddle episode”, did that all by myself.

[...]

'90 to '92/'93 in Cambridge, “_Jazz Ripples_” with Laurent at the
Duxford Workshop.

[...]

I came in France in May '93,

so I stopped my musical activity for a while.

In 1996, I started going at Grigny's conservatoire. In '97, we moved to
Ris-Orangis,

From 1998 to around 2000, I was in a group named “Tordus Ninjazz” with people
I met in the conservatoire in Ris-Orangis. At the “Fête des vins”, we did
a last concert

2003 -> Brunoy

[...]

I started playing with [Smiles Davis][smdvis] in November 2015.

[cornex]: https://www.cambridgelivetrust.co.uk/cornex
[smdvis]: https://www.smiledavisband.com/