I’m Roland Paquette. The week before Hal passed, we had been talking about doing something cool with his domain - halbenoit.com - and sadly, that didn’t come to pass. The domain (which wasn’t under my control at the time) fell off the internet cliff and this blog went with it. Billy Klock - who’s done some drumming for Hal - after I explained what happened, had the brilliant idea to see if the domain was available now & gosh darn it, it was! So here it is, as it was the last time Hal saw it.
I used to play bass in one of Hal’s many bands… ZOOM it was… Barry Hayes on Drums, me on Bass and of course Hal on guitar, between roughly 1980 & 1983. The original lineup included David Tisdell on guitar, and Marc Adamchek on keyboards.
I found this great photo of Hal by Paul Shoul:
I’d love to see contributions (recordings, mp3’s, photos, thoughts, whathaveyou…) from Hal’s many friends, so please fee free to send your thoughts and or content to roland@songsformachines.com and I’ll put them up.
From Hal’s MySpace page:
