Larry Martin Factory - Early Dawn Flyers and Electric Kids & Daimler Benz (1977/1978)

Larry Martin, whose real name is Jacques Godebarge, was a renowned guitarist and session man before settling in France. He was born in 1947 in Cork, Ireland and has a childhood shared between his country of birth, France and Switzerland. Studies of the violin, then of the classical guitar under the direction of Pierre Martin at the Geneva Conservatory. A child gifted with jazz, he started on stage at the age of 14. He went to Paris at 17, studied philosophy. He meets Belgian guitarist René Thomas, MICKEY BAKER and Jimmy Gourley. By becoming a studio musician in particular for the English firm Pye, he played on a few albums and met GENE VINCENT in England. Decisive shock. He abandoned jazz for rock'n'roll and made friends with English musicians. He joined Jermemy Tombaugh's group in the USA and discovered the counter-culture. His second group, MACHINE GUN, founded in London with Ricky McCormick on bass and Cédric Berg on drums, has a fleeting existence but the experience is decisive. He abandoned the studios and returned to France in 1970, Touche à tout, He participated in Jean-Luc Godard's film group "Dziga Vertov" as a musician for one of these films.