The Needles

AKA: The Frenchman, Frenchy, Gut, daddy Rochelle, Frenchy the Grump, Chris, The Turtle.

This multi-talented Needle plays his brown Gibson SG and Farfisa organ through a Sound City 50plus and Marshall cab. He tackles tambourine and handclap duties that rival all the young dudes. Canadian women refer to his personae as “groin thunder” as his fervor is 50% gind, 30% trance-like, 15% psychotic, 3% pain and 2% beer. The Frenchman eats very healthy, surfs, skates and destroys, has a cell phone so he can call Canada, the first one asleep after any show and likes pink daggers. The Frenchman is 28, currently is the live-in bodyguard for professional Skateboarder Chet Childress, has never been to France (or Canada) and cannot speak one word of French.