Trust (band)
Trust was a French hard rock band.
Trust was founded in 1977 by:
Trust rose to fame in 1979 and 1980 with a music mixing hard rock influences with an acerbic social and political commentary with anarchist undertones. They were largely seen as a harder, more "lower-class" counterpart of Téléphone. Their 1980 hit song Antisocial (on the Répression album) criticized the frenetic, deshumanized pace of modern life and work in large cities. The style of singer Bernie Bonvoisin was compared to that of Bon Scott from AC/DC, with whom Trust had a friendly relationship.
The band became increasingly criticized starting in 1983 for its less "incisive" sound and the frequent changes of drummers. Furthermore, the French political climate had changed: with the election of François Mitterrand (French Socialist Party) in 1981 after 23 years of Conservative governments, the preoccupations that formed the basis of Bonvoisin's lyrics – denunciation of prisons and law enforcement, of the worker's alienation, etc... had lost their edge.
Bonvoisin and Krief later re-formed occasionally for records and concerts.
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