Death Dealer (Deaf Dealer) - Strange Cuts 1984

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Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Fiend is Bleak	03:24

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	I Still Don't Remember	04:26

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André La Rouche and Robert Williston present the remastered tracks for streaming exclusively at citizenfreak.com

Death Dealer - The Last shows... Stage cuts 1984

Death Dealer in live performance was always a trip of five friends playing their own creations with no compromise but to offer fans the best. In the first days of 1984, right into the New Year's Day, Death Dealer ran out for a memorial and terminal tour where the very cold nights gathered inside bars fans to perpetuate these non-stop events of the summer of 1983. This tour was 6 days - 6 shows. I drove guys with my Volvo 244 repainted in full black. It was our Death Dealer’s van. Everywhere we went, bars were sold out! This tour was a funny one. Only that to remember!!!

These two songs were played live in this ‘Live Tour’ in Saguenay-Québec including city Anse St-Jean, La Baie, Chicoutimi, Jonquière, St-Prime and Roberval. It was the first time we took the road for a major regional event. They were hundreds of our fans listening our songs on every radio stations. We were playing there in front of hundreds of fans addicted to Death Dealer.

The first song ‘Feind is Bleak’ was composed in the summer of ’83 between two games of ‘Donkey Kong’ in the break time of a rehearsal. This song went off right after to the production of the 1983 demo album including the firsts 15 songs of Death Dealer. It is still in continuity with the energy of songs like ‘Coercion to kill’ and ‘The Faddist’. ‘Feind is bleak’ is the bad side of the melody, the dark side of the earth, the sad side of every side… It has been composed to clearly represent where leads the narrow paths of arrogance! The answer was to allegate that we are too pretty to DIE…This cut is from the show in Chicoutimi at ‘Le Mur du Son’ January 03, 1984, where we opened this tour. That night I remember a fight occur between the two first sets when Jean-Pierre and I was involved with a drunk fan. There, the scene was only on the dancing stage where we were playing right in front of the fans with no kind of stage to elevate us. In our back, a huge floor in so people in the street were looking at us while the shows was running.

The ‘B’ side is the newcoming song ‘I still don’t remember’ composed in the late 1983 and that we presented for the first time in this tour. The text was at the final revision so an inversion of was we can say’ I don’t still’ instead of ‘I still don't 'occurs in this version played during the show. This song was taken from the last show of this tour in Roberval the January 08 at ‘La Turlute’. It was a fantastic song with its solo part ending by a pure Maiden combination of the two Guitars and remaining right after in the real Death Dealer style. A perfect mixture of old and new DD sound. Even for the first time playing, fans immediately adore this song. We played this song right after ‘Phantom of the opera’ from Maiden and it has been well received. I still don’t remember is the search for the remembering of the first years of my life. How to reconstruct the traces of this formatting memory in the brain. Should pieces of the past could be reanimated again! And after so many tries ‘I still don’t remember’…But only for the past of Death Dealer!!!

André La Rouche: lead vocals
Marc Brassard: lead guitar, backing vocals
Yves Pednault: lead guitar
Jean-Pierre Fortin: bass
Michel La Rouche: drums

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