SEB

Seb is the lead singer of the band.
He plays the guitars and bass on the "J-BOT"SP.
He first learned the guitar at 15 to finally play bass
on stage while he was 17, on french summer festivals.
That's where he met Pascal a few years later.
He started writing very early, while he hardly could hold a guitar in his hand.
Most of his first demos were slow rocks, or simple ballads,
as would Paul McCartney write when was a teenage boy.
As he broadened his horizons, Seb developed more serious songs,
especially when he discovered Radiohead psychedelic rock.
He slowly slept through the progressive rock dimension, but he never really
left "love"songs behind. It actually depends on which guitar he's having in his hand
when he's inclined to write a song.

"I wouldn't plug my electric guitar home, cos' I'd make too much noise.
On winters, the only choice I had was to go to the garage, and try to get inspiration there.
My fingers were numb with the cold! I didn't come up with anything good for years!
That's when I realized I just had to turn the heater on so the magic could happen!"

More seriously, his introspective research could no longer take shape through acoustic soppy songs.
He also had to assume the recently chosen name that he and Pascal had just decided.

""Melody maker" wasn't free & "Cradle rock" was a too straightforward tribute to Rory Gallagher.
We didn't want to keep the word "rock" in the name, for fear that people compartmentalize us.
I wasn't so sure if my songwriting ability would ever tend to be rocky".

They finally chose "Crash Bridges".
At that period, Seb was trying hard to surprise auditors and take them to other places,
by giving a psychedelic feeling such as a Radiohead song could,
or by simply changing the tempo during the bridges, as Jimi Hendrix would do.

"I used to write "crash bridge" in the column to remember myself that the tempo
and the tunes had to be very intense and different at that particular moment!
It had to cut with the rest of the song! That moment had to be memorable!"

Little by little, for fear that people do not remember them on stage,
Seb had no other choice but to write rock songs.

"When we're given a short stage appearance opportunity, if we only sing 2 or 3 love songs,
what will stay in people's mind is that our band is kind of sissy, mawkish and stuffs like that.
We need to give a feeling of youth and energy!
We're definitely not an agressive band and I don't want to scream anyway.
So we have to sing a different rock, and a different pop,
keeping in mind the heritage that's left to us.
We're learning from the bands that nearly invented everything in the 70's, 60's and even earlier.
That's always better to learn from them rather than trying to ape
the last successful waves. So many young bands always take the easy way out!
The more we have means, and the more we can fulfill this ambition."