Chainsaw is the name of a punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band from Brussels

Brussels

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, Belgium

Belgium

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, formed in 1976 and split in 1978. It was one of the first punk bands in Belgium.

Chainsaw made one very sought after 7" in 77. In 78 they split and all members went to different punk bands. Dan Dee went to Modern World, Luna Park and made a Plastic Bertrand

Plastic Bertrand

Plastic Bertrand is a Belgian musician, songwriter, producer, editor and television presenter, best known for the 1977 international hit single "Ça plane pour moi".-Early life and bands:...

 like single with Lou Deprijck

Lou Deprijck

Lou Deprijck is a Belgian singer and music producer born in 1946 in Lessines, Wallonia. He was a major figure in the Belgian pop scene of the 1970s and 1980s, with more than 20 million copies of his compositions sold worldwide...

; Jerry started X-Pulsion

X-Pulsion

X-Pulsion is a punk rock band from Brussels, Belgium, that formed in October 1977 and split in May 1978. Peter Schlager formed a new band of the same name but with a new line-up that played between fall 1978 and summer 1979.- Line-up :...

 and Micky Mike did the thing with Fame and The End.

At the time of the split of Chainsaw, Jerry Wanker

Jerry Wanker

Jean-Pierre Poirier was a guitarist from Brussels, Belgium who played in several punk rock bands....

 wrote for the rock music mag En Attendant and there he displayed his love for Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...

, David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

, Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 and the upcoming electromovement with the Human League

The Human League

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

 and the like. He commented on the first Human League

The Human League

The Human League are an English electronic New Wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977. They achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s and have continued recording and performing with moderate commercial success throughout the 1980s up to the present day.The only constant...

 gig in Belgium and reviewed Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...

's Man Machine.

With the birth of this movement he split from X-Pulsion

X-Pulsion

X-Pulsion is a punk rock band from Brussels, Belgium, that formed in October 1977 and split in May 1978. Peter Schlager formed a new band of the same name but with a new line-up that played between fall 1978 and summer 1979.- Line-up :...

 and formed Digital Dance with members from different punk bands. He placed an ad for more members and a few months later Jean Marc Lederman (Jah-Marc) entered the picture. With this band he released 3 singles, one Kraftwerk cover with the lyrics substantially changed to reflect his love for his pet dog, one on his own label and one on the freshly founded Dirty Dance Records. The latter morphed into Soundworks Records and carried all Snowy Red's early vinyl.

Text from this page retrieved on 2005-08-15.

Line-up

• Jean-Pierre Poirier alias Jerry Wanker
  Jerry Wanker
  Jean-Pierre Poirier was a guitarist from Brussels, Belgium who played in several punk rock bands....
  
  alias Jerry WX: guitar
  Guitar
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• ... alias Dan Mac Roll alias Dan Dee: lead vocals
• Marcel Thiel alias Micky Mike: bass
  Bass guitar
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• ... alias Bob Seytor: drums
  Drum kit
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See Saw 7" EP 1977 - Romantik Records

1. What Goes On
2. Nuclear Apocalypse
3. Kill in the Blanks
4. Z'Heroes Guts