[Heeplist] Stephen Fontaine!

[BARNES IAN]

Thanks Kevin, I didn't know that.  Glad Eddie finally released a new album
but shame Stef wasn't included as originally planned.


On 10 April 2014 14:23, Kevin Julie <kevinj.1969 at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> btw Iain, - eddie St James has quite a good hard rock album just released.
> Fontaine is not on it,  but I hope to be interviewing Eddie soon. Years
> back I do think Fontaine was a candidate for the VH job.
> K
> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:17:32 AM, Kevin Julie <kevinj.1969 at yahoo.ca>
> wrote:
>
> I have a bunch of Steve's stuff as well, including a tape of the one-off
> show he did with Iain Ashley Hersey. I thought the Heartache City album was
> pretty decent, tho the production not so great. He was a fan of the Goalby
> era of Heep, hence the Heartache City name. there is some more current
> stuff of him on youtube [I've posted occastionally to my UH fb page] .
> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 6:01:13 AM, 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/stefffontaineto 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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