The original core of the band came together in 1965 and consisted of François Guy (rhythm guitar, vocals), Charles Prevost Linton (keyboards, vocals), and Louis Parizeau (drums and percussion). The bandmembers came from a Montreal neighborhood known as Notre-Dame-de-Grâce that had a mixed French/English population, so it was natural that they should record in both languages. For about two months the band went by the name of the Silver Spiders and then changed their name to Les Sinners. There were changes in the second guitarists over the next several months – Georges Marchand and Jay Boivin – before the line-up stabilized with the addition of Ricky Johnson on lead guitar.
When I looked up one of the related bands, La Révolution Française, they seemed more like Les Sinners than the post-1968 line-ups of the actual band did. When François Guy left Les Sinners in 1968, the band evidently broke up. Guy then put together a new band consisting entirely of former members of Les Sinners: Jean-Guy Cossette (guitar), Georges Marchand (bass guitar) and Louis Parizeau (drums). Their debut single did well enough to justify an album in 1968 on CANUSA Records, called C. Cool. Louis Parizeau also produced the album.
(April 2013)
