[Heeplist] Stephen Fontaine!

[Rick Wilson]

Yes, he did work with Eddie, and the four cuts up at his MySpace page are
from 2009.  Bob, I met Pete Goalby in 1985, so I have no contact to him,
these days.

Rick
[?]


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Iain Barnes <i.barnes3 at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I have the Heartache City cd along with the Joshua self titled and
> Ringleader If Licks Could Kill albums with Steff on vocals. He has a great
> voice for rock and the Joshua and Heartache City are excellent albums.
>
> Last time I heard of Steff he was working on an album with Eddie St James.
> Eddie played with Van Halen in the past. That was a few years ago now so I
> presume this album never materialised.
>
> Iain
>
> On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:54, Rick Wilson <rick.wilson.292768100 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, All!
> >
> > Recently, I have gone back to review the nearly thirty years that Bernie
> &
> > Phil have been members of The Heep.  Whilst doing so, I was reminded of
> the
> > short tenure of Steff Fontaine in the band, which was nothing more than a
> > couple of months from July to September, 1985 touring the U.S. & Canada.
> >
> > In fact, I had seen The Heep twice in 1985: April 11th in Munich and the
> > 12th in Biberach, where I was able to speak shortly with Pete Goalby, Lee
> > Kerslake & Mick Box.  These being the second and third times that I had
> > seen the band after seeing them the first time in December, 1983 in the
> old
> > Ulmer Donauhalle.
> >
> > So, I was rather surprised when I had heard that Pete would be leaving
> the
> > band, and that the relative unknown Mr. Fontaine would be replacing him.
> > There were actually tour posters hung for potential gigs with him that
> did
> > not happen in November of 1985.
> >
> > Suffice it to say that by early 1986, Bernie had joined the band, and the
> > rest, as they say, is history.  I did, however, stumble across Steff's
> > MyPage, and was able to get a listen of four cuts from his band,
> "Heartache
> > City".
> >
> > Stephen Fontaine, as he goes by these days, sounds to me like a Mark
> > Slaughter/Robert Fleischmann-type singer on these songs.  Not exactly my
> > cup of tea, but the three songs that I could hear do sound pretty decent.
> > One could go here: https://myspace.com/stefffontaine to check them out
> for
> > yourself.  "Some Gotta Win" being the best, and "Thunder & Lightning"
> > showing some of the "Journey" style vocals that he is known for.
> >
> > Keeping it real,
> >
> > Rick
> > [?]
> >
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