The T.I.V.S
idea begins one evening in 1961 when Laslo (Dutch and chemistry
student) and Gersido (Italian and artist in general), meet for the
first time in a party held by the London Medical School. They happen
to meet right in front of the pick-up, and over there they share
musical opinions and some homemade amphetamines. They end up being
arrested for scandalous behaviour and it is behind bars where they
decide to create an association for lovers of music and cheap thrills.
Over the following months, them and half a dozen of boys and girls
get together to organise their first parties in the refrigerator
of an abandoned butchery.
One year after, when Laslo is sacked from University for using
the lab to manufacture amphetamines and other strange drugs made
from his own formulas, he decides to move to Paris to have a shot
at being famous. Gersido joins him one year after and they form
The International Vice Society, with headquarters located in a
room of the Grand Hotel at the "Place de la Contrescarpe".
They paint a sheet with the acronym of the Society, suggested
by the beautiful Amber (third member of the club,) and they hang
it on one of the windows of the hotel façade for the three
following years. During this period, many characters will come
in and out of the society... such as Juanito, the Mexican Whirlwind,
Olat, the Belgian Inventor, and...
This compilation includes some of the records from all corners
of the world that one could hear at these ritual and wild parties.
A society in which fun was always guaranteed. DOCTOR
ZAZ