Between the best and the worst | Les Trois Accords still can’t believe the joke

In Between the best and the worst, an artist revisits, one song at a time, the peaks and valleys of his work. Singer Simon Proulx (SP) and drummer Charles Dubreuil (CD), of Les Trois Accords, took part in the exercise, without hurting their thighs.

Your most misunderstood song

SP: The idea that St-Cyrille-de-Wendover And Yuri [sur Grand Champion international de course, 2004] are related because there’s someone sledding and getting a plaque on the head in both songs, it’s a conceptual thing that’s never been understood. Often, when I wrote with Olivier [Benoit, deuxième chanteur jusqu’en 2009], we said to ourselves “It’s going to be stupid” and no one understood. We had a very cerebral conception of what we were doing.

CD: From album In my body [2009]Simon always had to explain the text to Gus [van Go, réalisateur]and since French is not his first language, it required greater clarity.

The song that changed public perception the most

CD: Arrive with a song like The doctor’s office [2009]where the distance between the text and the emotion is so small, it certainly changed the vision of people, but also the vision that we could have of the latitude we had on the creative level.

SP: I remember playing it at Olivier and not being sure that it was a Trois Accords song, because even if we had touched on more emotional elements with Megaphotocopy [2004]there was always an absurd dimension.

CD: During the promotion of In my body, we started being more honest about the fact that we were working on the songs. Before, we always joked in interviews saying that we did everything on the corner of the table and we realized that people believed us.

The song that makes you laugh the most

SP: piece of meat [2004]. Explaining why it’s a really good idea to call your child Piece of Meat gives me great pleasure.

CD: When we were recording In my body, I was already looking forward to being at a trucker festival in Abitibi and seeing them sing the tune. And In my body also has something that borders on touching. Because there are also 15, 16 year old girls who identify with it completely.

SP: But perhaps truckers also identify with the subject. Maybe they have already felt that in life. We all go through changes in our bodies. We all go through it.

The song that moves you the most

CDs: Chinese dough [2022], it’s a tune that hit hard. In the studio, Simon was not able to play it for us. I remember just trying to explain to my girlfriend what the song is about and not succeeding, because I was too emotional.

One of your fondest festival memories

SP: The first time we did Woodstock en Beauce, we had been hired before it got up and we had been scheduled in the Découvertes tent, then Hawaiian had taken off in the meantime. The tent was full, and there were people as far as the eye could see on all sides. It was hot, there was mud and we had the feeling that everything had just exploded.

Your best guitar solo

CD: For months, Alex [Alexandre Parr] put on a sickening solo for In my body, of which he was very proud. Once in the studio, he plays it for Gus, who replies on the talk back: “Can you just dub the vocal melody, please?” Alex was in criss, but he tried it, and Gus just said, “That’s perfect, we’ll keep that.” It was a good lesson for Alex, PL [Pierre-Luc Boisvert, basse] and me: the objective, when we play, is not to flatter our ego and end up in the magazine Guitar World Or Modern Drummer. The objective is to serve the tune.

The phrase from one of your songs that best represents you

CDs: [Dans Les dauphins et les licornes, 2015] “That if narwhales and horses together/made unicorns by mating/we could always do something beautiful/with different loves. » The idea of ​​doing something beautiful with something different, it’s a bit the credo of the band.

The song you would like to correct

SP: We would put “different loves” in the feminine. Love, in the plural, is feminine. It’s a rookie mistake.

Your favorite cover of one of your songs

SP: Last year, Dumas filmed two guys aged 15-16 at a festival, one on the piano, the other on the bass, who were playing Corinne. That’s my favorite cover.

The song you can’t play anymore

SP: We are often asked if we are tired of playing Hawaiian, But no. She still gives me the same feeling of doing something irreverent as when we started. It always satisfies me so much to sing “I wish you were Hawaiian”. I just can’t believe the joke.

At the Festival d’été de Québec this Monday, July 10 and at the Just for Laughs festival on July 29

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