Description
D.C. Lacroix is the musical entity conjured up by Dan Christopherson (aka DC) and Sylvie Lacroix. They met in Seattle Washington in the early 80’s when a band Sylvie was in (The Jetzenz) was looking for a lead guitarist. The two immediately started writing songs together and soon learned they shared a similar vision which pulled them away from The Jetzenz to start their own band DC Lacroix in 1983. They pooled their resources together enough to record 7 songs which they released on their own as an EP late 1983. Worried that people would not be able to pronounce Lacroix they named the album DC Lacroy – Call it What You Like. Named as such due to the various musical styles on the record. In 1984 they recorded a 4 song demo shifting their musical style into the hard rock/metal realm. Once they started circulating the demo they were approached by Renaissance Records to appear on the Lady Killers album, soon followed Pacific Northwest Metal Meltdown Vol I. Early 1985 they were approached by Black Dragon records in Paris, France who somehow got their hands on their 5 song demo some of which would later be included on Crack Of Doom. The Crack Of Doom album was released in 1986 mostly Europe distribution. DCL started playing any and every club on the Sunset Strip and San Fernando Valley to get USA attention. By mid 1987, DCL had signed a one album deal with Enigma Records on one of their subsidiary labels, Medusa. The album was Living By The Sword, released at the beginning of 1988. The ball was starting to roll the next step was to tour and that’s when the ball stopped bouncing. The A&R rep that signed DCL had moved to NY for a new career at Atlantic Records, which left no one at Medusa Records to support the next step in DCL’s future. However, unbeknownst to the band Enigma was in the process of closing their doors and selling their catalog to Capital records. The band would struggle on for a few more years but final broke up in early 1990. The From DC Lacroy To DC Lacroix contains the complete Crack Of Doom album along with previously unreleased demos, early pre-DCL band projects, and more. It is a true musical history of the band and one that will surely satisfy old Hard Rock fans and new.
Track list:
1. Rip It Up-Crack Of Doom 1986
2. Burn The Bridge-Crack Of Doom 1986
3. Black Leather Monster-Crack Of Doom 1986
4. Day Of 2 Suns-Crack Of Doom 1986
5. Prelude-Crack Of Doom 1986
6. Black Sunday-Crack Of Doom 1986
7. Devil’s Son-Crack Of Doom 1986
8. Tomorrow Never Came-Crack Of Doom 1986
9. Shooting From The Hip-Crack Of Doom 1986
10. We Are The Force-Crack Of Doom 1986
11. Crack Of Doom-Crack Of Doom 1986
12. Call It-Call It What You Like 1983
13. Echos In Space-Call It What You Like 1983
14. One Kiss-Call It What You Like 1983
15. Sweet Talking Man-Call It What You Like 1983
16. Up In Lights-Call It What You Like 1983
17. Notice Me-Call It What You Like 1983
18. Would You Tell Me-Call It What You Like 1983
19. Fantasy Man-The Jetzenz single 1981
20. Little Blue Dragon-The Jetzenz single 1981
21. Looking For Patterns-demo 1984
22. Won’t Give Into Love-demo 1984
23. When The Lights Go Out… It’s Heaven-demo 1989
24. Bad Luck-demo 1989
25. Do You Wanna Rock-demo 1989