2 PART PH FRENCH RADIO INTERVIEW on Late Night radio Program "SOUS LES ETOILES EXACTEMENT" hosted by Serge Levaillant a long time ph/van der graaf fan.


Part 1 THURSDAY JUNE 27th 4-5AM:

Transcript and Translation of the first 3 minutes from the 1st Hour:

Thanks Francis

The Undercover man

ML : PH welcome
PH : thanks
ML : But you speak french !
PH : a little...I try to speak French
ML : you speak very well French
PH : thank you
ML : do you think we'll be able to exchange ideas in French
PH : yes, hope so
ML : would I receive Elvis, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie altogether...let's add Jim Morrison...I wouldn't be more impressed
PH : what can I answer to this...? ah ah ah !
ML : did you listen recently to that song
PH : yes, it's interesting for me to listen to it, I think it was courageous to make a reunion of VdGG at the time of Godbluff and to start the LP with a song like the Undercover man, a very calm song eh ?
ML : yes
PH : we have stopped the song when a bit of frenzy was about to appear, I don't listen much these days to VdGG's music because I have done it and listened to it a lot, but it's still interesting and fun for me to listen to it again.
ML : don't tell me ! have you noticed that I know your lyrics by heart ? (par coeur)
PH : what's that ?
ML : hey ! Sabine (the translator)
....... PH : Ho ! I understand...I thought you meant Parker...like Charly Parker ! Ah ah ah !
ML : We find in this song all the ingredients of your expression
PH : yes but the "young" ingredients, for me a career, think we can say career though I've been singing and writing songs since more than 30 years.... A career is a progress process and now I'm 53 years old and I don't have the will to write anymore songs like "The Undercover Man" or music like VdGG because this was the music of my youth...I was 20 at that time... I hope I still have the spirit of those days...in that sense...yes we can say that everything was already there...all the ingredients

ML : talking about ingredients, the architecture developped, sound & melodic, of this song....
etc....