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Yup, looks like about six people to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680wuKpr7Gg

Thanks for asking! In answer to the corresponding avalanche here on PE of questions about FTV #15 "I Take My Hat Off Every Morning To All The Beauty Of The World" (working title):
1) We've begun...

Saw him open for Steppenwolf (Hour of the Wolf, post-Goldy tour)
at my very first concert ever in Pekin, Illinois in 1975. Don't remember much about it except that he wore some sort of Merlin...

It's weird how many outside writers were involved at this stage in their career---did they just not trust themselves?

Honestly don't understand anyone's problem with Greg. I've both bought and sold (French TV) cds with him for years (including twice this year), and always received my orders within a week of...

Much thanks for the compliments, fellas! For those who have been wondering, work continues on the next FTV cd. It's been tricky, as guitarist Katsumi Yoneda has been feverishly working on his other...

Mine arrives tomorrow!

Nice to hear Starcastle putting out new music.

I wonder if there will be any drum fills.

Many thanks for the compliments, Jed! However, you've now violated the Oath of Silence true French TV fans have taken towards us, and you are hereby on notice.

The very same. Steve is still in business, but does most of his selling through Discogs.

I am smiling and blushing!

Yeah, I've never been a fan of the name (thanks, Steve Roberts), and if someone had gone back to 1983 and explained to me there was going to be this thing called "GOOGLE" and what it would be for,...

Thanks for all the kind words. As a treat, I will allow you to view our ugly mugs as we navigate our way though one of the new tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26-iI9dIuQ

There IS a God.

Thanks man! It's amazing how a pandemic can make one zero in on composing. These tunes were sketched out over roughly a 3 week period Feb-March of last year, when I found myself with A LOT of time on...

A word to the wise (guys): The new French TV cd "All Our Failures Are Behind Us" is now available through BandCamp (frenchtv.bandcamp.com), the French TV website www.french-tv.net, and soon through...

Not a bad call for me, considering I never heard of the BangTower project!

Endorsements don't get much better than this!

My pick would be Robertino Pagliari from Chris Poland's band OHM.

DANG! I was really hoping it would be Elvis covers.

Boy, I coulda sworn French TV put out a cd in 2020.

According to Grohowski, the new drummer is Tobias Ralph, former drummer for the Adrian Belew Power Trio.

Any thoughts on the Manticore album they put out as "Banco"? Basically a collection of re-arranged/re-recorded tracks from the 1st and Io Sono Nato Libero, plus a couple of new tunes, all in English....

Can't say that I'm aware of any, and if so, they weren't intentional. Yes ( as well as most 70's progressive music) is part of our DNA, so I'm sure bits of it will leak through occasionally. When I...

Yep, Pat is still on our active roster, along with mainstays Katsumi Yoneda and Jeff Gard. In addition, we have FTV alumni Warren Dale coming back and contributing woodwinds to the new tracks. I have...

Many thanks! You'll be happy to know we're insanely ahead of schedule for FTV 14 and will begin mixing in a month. Could come out this year if the stars align correctly! Guess I better see what's in...

My wife & I's wedding song.

The guitar line-up for Zipper was pretty phenomenal: In addition to Dick Wagner, you also had Mike Pinera and John Nitzinger. Pinera was a veteran of the bands Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, and...

Thanks for the nice comments! I'm a little blown away by how well this cd is flying; I was really beginning to believe this is a dead medium and it might be time to hang it up. Appears I might have...

French TV ‎– Stories Without Fingerprints is also now available through ZNR Record's Discogs page: https://www.discogs.com/French-TV-Stories-Without-Fingerprints/release/15376993

Many thanks for the nice things being said about our new cd! We put more work into this one than we normally do (in terms of the mixing), so it's nice to hear the sonics are pleasing to the ear.
In...

Now up on BandCamp! https://frenchtv.bandcamp.com/

I'd like to have an add-to-cart ordering option, but I'd have to move my webs.com host account to a "premium" membership, and I don't really sell enough to justify doing so. They do offer a free web...

Considered it, but wife would have crowned me (and not in a good way).

Sure can! Use the link https://www.french-tv.net/orderingdistributors.htm. Happy listening!

WHOOPS! Forgot to put "GENESIS" in the header!

Hello all--me and the boys [TEE guitarist Katsumi Yoneda; Volare keyboardist Patrick Strawser; and longtime rhythm section Jeff Gard & MEEEE] have a new double-cd out. Disc One is 6 new studio...

French TV's new cd will be out in a couple of weeks. My regular manufacturer is shut down, but after a lot of shopping around, here is the one I went with: https://www.snjcd.com/ Based in...

If you'd like a gig in Louisville, KY, pm me. I'm sure I can set something up once things are back to normal.

Bruford's book isn't really an autobiography, although there are a lot of details and anecdotes about his career. It's more about his observations and conclusions about the music biz and making a...

Deep cut.

That should be "Bumpety-Bump".

Not true about Happy The Man. Multiple interviews state [also heard it directly from Mike Beck] that the only reason they didn't sign on was that they had a pending record deal for themselves at the...

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our...

Not a good example, as Mick Box is the only holdover from their "prime" period.

ATTENTION FRENCH TV FANS (as well as potential fans):
At last, after a good 10 years of being out of print, French TV #6 "The Violence Of Amateurs" and French TV #7 "The Case Against Art" have been...

Same deal with me. Saw them in Louisville a couple of Saturdays ago with my wife, who's more of a jazz fan, and she was pretty knocked out and asked lots of questions afterwards. As for the...

Can't wait 'til Rather asks them a) if they partied to excess, b) what about the drugs, and c) how they handled "fame".

"French TV. After hearing about these guys for probably 15-20 years, this first time I heard them they were sadly a disappointment. Only on the last tune (Cornocopia of Riches IIRC) did they really...

Got to see them back in the 90's here in Louisville, performing Terry Riley's "In C", alongside members of Ut Gret. Spell-binding!

Geez, how'd I miss that?

Of course, as with all things involving French TV on PE, it's up to me to chime in:
On French TV #7, "The Case Against Art", we recorded the tune "Partly The State", from the HtM album "Beginnings"....

French TV would like to apologize for releasing a sub-standard product that did not make any "Best of 2017" lists. We shall endeavor to rectify this in 2018.

Thanks, BD. On the crowd chit-chat: Pat's funky Wurlitzer electric piano on that section gave it sort of a Ramsey Lewis/Cannonball Adderly vibe, so we stuck the crowd noise on it.

You might be...

Why do I even bother.

The benevolent dictator behind French TV will now speak:
Have now added physical cd purchasing options on Bandcamp site, for both #11 and the new one. Hadn't bothered previously, as I assumed people...

Hey Bri! e-mail or PM me your mailing address and a freebie shall be yours!

Hi Aymeric, nice to hear from you!
All mixing done [as nearly all our other cds] at good old Louisville Recording Arts, with Howie Gano manning the controls. Recorded March 2016-July 2017.
All...