i eat at chez nous?

[hoopdawg1]

does anybody know what "i eat at chez nous" means off the big generator song 'love will find a way"? thanx in advance!

[Dragonfly]

I don't think it's related (as I don't think it was open then) but there is a restaraunt in San Francisco named "Ches Nous".

Perhaps it was established by a YesFan!

Dragonfly:yesbird:

[hoopdawg1]

thanx dragonfly, interesting. i'm sure somebody will know.

[Richard]

I always wondered why Trevor wrote/sang that as it seems kind of silly. Chez nous is French and means "with you/ at your place" unless there is some recent, cryptic meaning associated with this phrase (and I don't usually use the term cryptic when describing Trevor Rabin's songs!).
;)

[yesindeed]

Could it be as simple as saying "I eat at our place". The song appears to be about trying to stay together in the face of some problem. "Eating" at "our place" could mean simply that "I" am not "fooling around"... "I" stay home to eat. The sharing of food is a basic bonding activity and could infer other (more personal) bonding activities are being kept "at home" also.

fwiw

[hoopdawg1]

thanx richard and yesindeed - sounds as close to what it means as we'll ever know.

[Earl Grey]

...good insight, 'Yesindeed'.
My guess is, that Trevor had a girlfriend/'whatever', who knew french, used this phrase accordingly, and Trevor simply 'grabbed it up', as any decent lyric-hunter will do (Beware, oh ye lovers of Songwriters: your luncheon-menu may become the next hit song...).
All things are acceptable. All things aren't ART!

[ycantibu]

Trevor has said it was just a bit of humour thrown into the song, as he was searching for a line, had about 8 of them, and was not satisfied with any of them.



Originally posted by hoopdawg1
does anybody know what "i eat at chez nous" means off the big generator song 'love will find a way"? thanx in advance!

[hoopdawg1]

kinda wierd b/c the lines leading up to it are so serious in a way and then to have that line. but it makes sense.

[Tanbar]

this is french for "at our house" (Lit. "the house of we")
Sooner,
~Zig!~

[hoopdawg1]

yeah tanbar, richard mentioned that earlier, i guess it's answered!
thanx for the back-up.

[hoopdawg1]

ycantibu - one interesting name. ok i profess to be a yes addict but i can't idnentify the verse. go ahead slam me....?

[ycantibu]

Are you referring to my signature or my nick? ycantibu = Why Can't I Be You by The Cure. My signature is from the song The Holy Hour, also by The Cure. Yeah, I'm a bit of gothic. Thanks for the compliment. :)




Originally posted by hoopdawg1
ycantibu - one interesting name. ok i profess to be a yes addict but i can't idnentify the verse. go ahead slam me....?

[Earl Grey]

...actually, "THE CURE" was the only band I liked during the 80's...
(Couldn't bear to see 'S. Howe' go, and I had to play in a 'techno' cover-band [to make a dollar] that did a 'spot-on' version of 'Owner of a Lonely Heart': we had the 'orchestral' samples on the keyboards, we played it well, and all I could think of at the time was, "Whattabout 'Close to the Edge'?).
I LOVE 'Owner' now, (it was on the radio today, at work, & I turned it WAY UP!) but at the time it felt like a cop-out...
Love 'The Cure'. Not very YES-like, but great...
How about the "Disintegration" album? Kinda epic, for those MTV times..."love Song", I still play an acoustic version of that one...beautiful thing that it is.

[hoopdawg1]

ycantibu - really cool, now i gotta go check out "the cure" didn't even know they existed....
and according to earl gray s(teve) howe played in the cure? disintegration album? not very yes like, hmmm.

[Earl Grey]

...Sorry Hoopdawg: I was just mentioning Steve leaving YES in the 80's, as the reason why The Cure was the only contemporary band I really got into during that decade; I kind'a quit on YES during their 'radio-freindly' years....
Steve never played in the Cure... See Ya! "E"

[ycantibu]

The Cure is considered by many of us to be gothic - they get in on a technicality. Not Yes like at all. They are somewhere between bauhaus and black tape for a blue girl, if that helps any. BTW, Howe wasn't in The Cure, who are nothing like Asia & GTR.

I would recommend the CD's: Faith, 17 Seconds, Disintegration, Pornography & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. If you're willing to take advice from a gothic/new wave Trevor Rabin fan that is. Do so at your own risk.




Originally posted by hoopdawg1
ycantibu - really cool, now i gotta go check out "the cure" didn't even know they existed....
and according to earl gray s(teve) howe played in the cure? disintegration album? not very yes like, hmmm.

[hoopdawg1]

earl gray and ycantibu - thanx for the clarification, i will check em out!

[Bugeyes]

We know what it means now, right?

[Sheerah]

It's funny to read how formal everyone was with one another in 2001.

[Bugeyes]

Yes it was!

Man, what a ride YesFans has gone thru.

er...it was described to me as going from pretentious to childish. :lol: I probably shouldn't have shared that, right?

[Sheerah]

Yes it was!

Man, what a ride YesFans has gone thru.

er...it was described to me as going from pretentious to childish. :lol: I probably shouldn't have shared that, right?

I think all of the pretentious people have moved on, Peggy.

[Bugeyes]

It was an outsider that described it to me. One of the people I tried to make a referral out of. A totally untainted observation.




:lol: Hey, wait a minute...I'm still here. :dunno:

[RandyC]

How about the "Disintegration" album? Kinda epic, for those MTV times..."love Song", I still play an acoustic version of that one...beautiful thing that it is.

"The Same Deep Water As You" - GREAT Song!
I can't listen to The Cure anymore, though.
My Ex loved them & when I hear them
it makes me think of her:mad: , unfortunately.

[Melissa]

We know what it means now, right?

I eat at our place? Is that it?

uh, oh, did I miss something???

oh, boy, is that an understatement :lmao:

[cinderella]

I guess nobody really answered the original question.

It's actually Trevor's way of thanking Robert "Nu Nu" Whiting who was Alan's drum roadie. During the recording of the Big Generator album, Nu Nu cooked for the band. Trevor referred to it as eating at Chez nous. (With different spelling of course.)

[pedro skychaser]

Yes it was!

Man, what a ride YesFans has gone thru.

er...it was described to me as going from pretentious to childish. :lol: I probably shouldn't have shared that, right?

pretentious+childish...do we contradict ourselves?...yes we do...we are large,we contain multitudes!...




btw we eat at nuNu?...hmmm....maybe....:dj:

[Andrea YouAndI]

It's actually Trevor's way of thanking Robert "Nu Nu" Whiting who was Alan's drum roadie. During the recording of the Big Generator album, Nu Nu cooked for the band. Trevor referred to it as eating at Chez nouz. (With different spelling of course.)

Well, apparently back in 2001, a Rabin expert like you wasn't here to dish all the juicy information. What would we do without people like you and Scotty? :clap:

Ha ha, just made a food reference without even realizing it. I'm eating at chez nous tonight myself...in fact it's suppertime now. TTFN!

[Bugeyes]

pretentious+childish...do we contradict ourselves?...yes we do...we are large,we contain multitudes!...




btw we eat at nuNu?...hmmm....maybe....:dj:Yep, Yesfans is EVERYTHING! :lmao: Name an emotion, any emotion, we have it here.

[Bugeyes]

I eat at our place? Is that it?

uh, oh, did I miss something???

oh, boy, is that an understatement :lmao:
:lol: I see where you were going with this... :appl[1]: We YesFans... :hearts:


But no, it was a very innocent answer! :angel:

[yesiam]

Chez Nous was the cafe at the student center at my school around the time that song came out so I thought that was cool :D

[pedro skychaser]

HEARD IT FINALLY...couldn't make it out...will try again...

[Imperatrix]

Chez Nous is a restaurant in LA---Trevor did, indeed eat there. It's not too far from where we live. Funny this thread reappeared; not long ago, I met the daughter of the restaurant's proprietor!

There are pics of Trev on the walls, too!

[Imperatrix]

It's funny to read how formal everyone was with one another in 2001.


It sure is, sweet t!ts. :hearts: :lmao:

[smatt]

Chez Nous is a restaurant in LA---Trevor did, indeed eat there. It's not too far from where we live. Funny this thread reappeared; not long ago, I met the daughter of the restaurant's proprietor!

There are pics of Trev on the walls, too!

Trevor lives pretty darned close to the place to this day...... Not sure if he still eats there though...

[Yes.2]

Always wanted to know what that line ment....Could never remember to ask though.....I'm vary greatfull for this thread!

:clap:

[zenslinger]

I am a total Trooper (well -- not a total Trooper but lean hard that way), but I find myself missing Trevor just a little bit here.

[Sharp Distance]

Yesiam - I can't believe you said that the student cafe at your college was called Chez Nous! I was just going to say that. I don't suppose you went to Kutztown University in Pennsylvania? What a small world. I was class of '88.
:beerchugr:

[jaynote1]

worst lyric ever...........

[Bugeyes]

Yesiam - I can't believe you said that the student cafe at your college was called Chez Nous! I was just going to say that. I don't suppose you went to Kutztown University in Pennsylvania? What a small world. I was class of '88.
:beerchugr:Hi new guy... :wavey: