- Blue Coupe
- Photo: Roy Harrison
When Bouchard Dunaway and Smith stopped playing and the Dennis Dunaway Project stepped up their gigging schedule and released a CD, things didn't look good for a continued Bouchard/Dunaway collaboration in the future.
But there was no need to worry! Enter Blue Coupe - Albert Bouchard on drums/vocals, Joe Bouchard on guitar/vocals and Dennis Dunaway on bass/vocals. They started off playing a heady mixture of Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper songs (hence the name), and sprinkled this with a liberal helping of some "classic" covers from the likes of the Stones, Doors, Hendrix, etc.
Realising there's too much talent in the band to simply limit themselves to continually replaying their old hits, they made the conscious decision to create some new music and so, in October 2010, they released their excellent debut CD, Tornado on the Tracks. If you haven't got it yet, you can buy it or download the MP3s at CD Baby.
The Blue Coupe giglist is here, the known setlists here and reviews here. If you can add any information to any of these pages, please let me know.
So - have you ever seen Blue Coupe live? If so, please send me a review - your contributions are very welcome so please get in .
The Blue Coupe debut recording, "Tornado on the Tracks" has finally been released both on CD and as a digital download on cdBaby.
It's a great album, and also features The Doors's Robby Krieger and Tish & Snooky from the Sic F*cks as special guests.
Here's the tracklist:
- You (Like Vampires) [ 3:29 ]
- Angel's Well [ 3:29 ]
- Deep End [ 3:23 ]
- God I Need You Tonight [ 4:52 ]
- Dolphin's Smile [ 2:53 ]
- Tornado Warning [ 3:40 ]
- Man Up [ 3:31 ]
- Untamed Youth [ 5:19 ]
- Waiting For My Ship [ 3:52 ]
- On the Darkest Night [ 4:25 ]
Here's Albert's latest news on Blue Coupe...
Blue Coupe have been hard at work the first half of 2010 making a new record. The title is Tornado on the Tracks. On the record we have Manic Panic's Tish and Snooky from the Sic F*cks and Robby Krieger from the Doors as special guests.
The CD will contain 9 new songs and one Byrds cover but we have 4 more that will either be used as bonus or promo material or reserved for the next record. We will be launching a band website and doing a series of webcasts to promote the new record.
We only have one mix that is ready yet but we've made a video for it and we also have 5 more mixes that are almost done. I'm not sure when it will be done because we originally set August 1st as a deadline but it looks like we're not going to make that. We'll do as much as we can before we go on tour in Canada and France in this August.