Sex - Come, Wake Up 1970

Sex was formed by Yves Rousseau (guitar), Robert Trepanier (vocals, bass, flute, harmonic), and Serge Gratton (drums). They released their self titled album in 1970. The album featured rudimentary hard rock songs based on heavy blues, a style common in Britain at the time. In fact, one could consider their debut album as a cross between Budgie and Black Sabbath. This strong hard rock/blues influence could explain why some labeled it as psychedelic during that time. The lyrics are sung in English (with the exception of this instrumental track of course), with a heavy French Canadian accent, which was pretty much the case with most bands in Quebec, until 'Dionysos', who played many shows with 'Sex', broke the trend by singing all in French. This was greatly to do with what is known in Canada as 'The October Crisis', where a series of dramatic events triggered by two terrorist kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de liberation du Quebec (a separatist organization) in the province of Quebec, Canada in October 1970. This ultimately resulted in a brief invocation of the War Measures Act by Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau, and the deployment of the national army in Quebec and in the national capital Ottawa Ontario. Many of Trudeau's critics felt that he would never bring in the military...his reply was "Just watch me"...but enough political/separatist mumbo jumbo! Just listen to the music!