Serge Fiori (1952-2025) | The friendship guitar offered by Serge Fiori to Michel Barrette

Almost 50 years ago. Similarly, humorist Michel Barrette experienced what so many Quebecers can only dream of: a harmonium show just for him. Moreover, He would never have dared to imagine that his hero Serge Fiori would one day become his friend.

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Like all adolescents who grew up in the 1970s, Michel Barrette experienced its Harmonium phase. Meanwhile, A phase that has never ended. Meanwhile, How is it when he was not aware. Additionally, Meanwhile, in the spring of 1977, that the tour of his favorite group stopped at his home, at the Georges-Vézina Center in Chicoutimi, just a few months after serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship the publication of L’heptadelaunched in November 1976? In addition, He explains it badly.

Fortunately. Therefore, his uncle Jacques, who worked at the arena, called him in reinforcement, in the afternoon, to install the chairs on the ice. For example, “I arrive there, recalls Barrette, and I see on stage two slides of slide and a packet of instruments. In addition, Faque I ask my uncle Jacques: who is the show, evening? Consequently, And he answers me, as if nothing had happened: “It’s the harmonium.” [rire] Long hair music was not so much his bag. Meanwhile, »»

After having accomplished his task. Meanwhile, the 20 -year -old guy remains there, because we do not miss such a rare opportunity to see in the flesh, in bones and in his hero. For example, He soon sees on stage, in his highly guru serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship overalls, Serge Fiori, as well as all Harmonium members. For example, As the group was then at the start of the tour, the sound test would look like a real general.

The young man will try to be invisible, a question of not being expelled. Meanwhile, But it was much more than him. Furthermore, “At the end of the first Toune, which had to last three days, I applauded. Similarly, And as it was black. that Serge could not see me, he argued and he said: “Ah well, we have an audience”, insisting on the one. “What is your name? Michel?” And they dedicated me the spectacle which, officially, was not one. »»

In the evening. Michel Barrette attended his second harmonium concert of the day, but this time, in an enclosure filled with his compatriots. Thanks to the pass that the team had given him in the afternoon, he then went to the lodges.

“I was there, sitting next to Serge, and I was not able to speak. I was in a dream. »Like a sage, in the clouds? “I floated for weeks, yes, even if my boyfriends thought that I invented everything. Furthermore, »»

Serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship

The idol of one, the idol of the other

However, it was true. In the early 2000s. during a party From the Canada Grand serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship Prix to Montreal, Michel Barrette, who had meanwhile raised among the most popular comedians in Quebec, sees Serge Fiori at the bottom of the play.

The comic undertakes to tell him their previous. unique encountered, in 1977, assuming that it was unlikely that the musician will remember. Fiori interrupts him in half of his story, tears to the eye.

“Serge remembered!” It was not coming serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship back to me, the Michel of the Georges-Vézina arena! They would soon exchange their phone numbers and have never dropped since.

A rare gift

At the end of the line. Michel Barrette searches in his smartphone and reads several of his recent and abundant exchanges by text with Serge Fiori, all very funny, and sometimes tender, in which both shot the pipe. “Wait a little bit, I’m going to go see the guitar. »»

Michel Barrette moves in order to be able to contemplate the instrument offered to him by his friend. a piece of choice in the collection of the one who, however, does not play the slightest agreement.

It is that after having learned that Paul Piché had given Barrette one of. his Takamine on the set ofLive from serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship the universeFiori had scowl. “Serge could be a little teenager. ” underlines Michel, laughing, and there, it is as if he was bad that Paul Piché, that I do not know more than that, makes me such a beautiful gift, while Serge, he was my real boyfriend. Moreover, »»

One Saturday afternoon, in 2022, Serge called him to the Alma Universal Hotel. “I enter the bar and he is planted there with a case guitar in the hands. He said to me, “Put that on the counter.” »Michel obeys. discovers, inside, the legendary guitar Guild, six strings, with which was recorded the only album of Fiori-Séguin, Two hundred nights on time. In 1975. Richard Séguin went to the Westerly Guild warehouse, Rhode Island, and brought back four guitars, two six strings and two twelve strings.

On April 26, Serge Fiori sent to Michel, for his 68^e birthday, a link to his 2014 song, Never. Say, Michel, do you know what the first lines of this song tell? ” No. »»

We quote them: “We have the same look / we are welded. ben hard / like real twins / who are glued in serge fiori (1952-2025) | friendship the back / we talk to each other without saying anything / we drown in pleasure / it’s like fish in the water / we are all what we need”.

For its part of the line, the inexhaustible Michel Barrette cracks. The one with whom it is usually impossible to complete a telephone conversation has no more words. Or, at least, only two: “Thank you, Serge. »»