My Rock Culture, with Alain Pire

A biweekly one-hour show re-discovering a collection of absolute gems from rock history, by someone who knows a thing or two about this exciting topic: the guitarist Alain Pire.

In Alain Pire’s own words:

“You can only speak about what you know and love…

I’m a child of the Sixties, actually of the Fifties but I lived the key moments of my early life from 1962/63: The Beatles, the British Invasion and all the culture around it.
I come from a modest background: my father worked in a factory and my mother stayed at home. Were I born 5 years sooner or later, my life would have been completely different. I was educated in a public school and it’s thanks to music and a few essential friends that I was introduced to a world I couldn’t imagine…

At the end of the Sixties, psychedelic drugs, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Ken Kesey and many others unveiled to me a brand new dimension, both spiritual and cultural.
This was the breeding ground of my existence, which naturally led to my thesis in cultural anthropology on the British psychedelic movement.

Musically, I’ve been deeply influenced by British rock music. I will spin a selection of tracks which have moved me all over the years.”