On 03-26-97 PEDRO SENA wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 PS> Ange was more of a keyboard band 
 
        Well, yeah, they had two keyboard players and did some 
        amazing things with a Hammond, making it sound really 
        demonic and mellotron-like. But it would be hard to 
        forget J-M Brezovar's really tasty guitar solos, real 
        nice Stratocaster sound. 
 
 PS> whose real inspiration might very well 
 PS> be a combination of theatre and Jacques Brel, to whom they wrote a 
 PS> song. 
 
        Actually, it was Brel who wrote "Ces gens-la" for them, 
        giving them their first hit single, which catapaulted 
        them in France. I say hit single, but it is still a hell 
        of a prog song. 
 
 PS> It really was an extension of a very theatrical scene that Paris has, 
 PS> this time with music. 
 
        Except they weren't from Paris but were working class 
        lads from Belfort, a town very much the French equivalent 
        of Cleveland or Birmingham. They really started making it 
        big when they became the house band at Golfe Drouet, a 
        nightclub that was sort of like Paris's answer to 
        Amsterdam's Paradiso. 
 
 PS> ... But really, listen to the french singers, going as far back 
 PS> as Edith Piaf and Gilbert Becault... Ange is a serious rock version of 
 PS> those people, with like theatrical voice too. 
 
        I'd have to agree with that. 
 
 PS> FRUUP was around before them, doing it, for example. 
 
        I've still never heard FRUUP. Are they worth checking 
        out? 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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