Devant les progrès de la mécanisation, beaucoup ont annoncé, voici un siècle, “la fin du cheval”. Cette prophétie de malheur ne s’est pas accomplie : le cheval s’est adapté. Il s’est trouvé de nouvelles fonctions dans le sport, les loisirs ou la santé. Mais voilà qu’aujourd’hui des menaces d’un genre nouveau pèsent sur la relation que l’homme entretient avec le cheval. Sous prétexte de protection et de “bien-être”, certains vont jusqu’à préconiser la rupture totale du lien qui unit ces deux espèces depuis cinq millénaires au moins. …
Cheval Fou gave a first whinny as a French rock trio around the frontman and a guitarist named Michel Peteau in 1970. Michel had got pretty impressed by European Rock scene, especially the Who, and strove to make a similar impact by playing guitar, that could be crystallized as an incarnation of Heavy/Psych/Krautrock movement by three talented underground musicians in Paris - Jean Max Peteau (guitar, bass), Stephene Rossini (drums), and Michel (guitar, saxophone). Cheval Fou had recorded some material from 1970 until 1975, that had not released in their active days. Fortunately a short-lived French independent label Legend Music compiled their material and released in 1994 (and this compilation has been reissued and rereleased via Psych Up Melodies in 2011)…