Philippe Bone is a journalist, author and editor French of the years 1960 with 1980, one of the actors of the Contre-culture and “scene Alternative”. He is the founder of the advisory Company of the Companies of the Third-sector, Réseaux and Associations, and cofounder of the Alternate Éditions.

He was organizer in concerts and festivals, programmer of clubs and Disc jockey in mobility Rock, stimulating Pop and new wave then of associative networks and legal adviser in the sector of the alternative companies in the years 1980 and 1990.

Biography

Born with Paris in the years 1940, it leaves the college to follow the courses of the University of the Applied arts of Paris, with the beginning of the year 1960. It joined then, on the quays of the the Seine, with the point of the Gallant Green to the foot of the New Pont and in the Bistro S smoked out of Huchette with the Latin Quarter, the handle of the first Beatnik S French (ten), among which it becomes friendly with the Baron of Lima, and celebrates it Aguigui Mouna. Then, it passes from the “Arts' has” with the Fine Arts' Section of the University College of London. There, apart from the hours of course, it joined like junior member the small team of graphic designers and window dressers who decorated out of orange and purple electric the famous shops with Carnaby Street, of which Biba and mythical the I Was Lord Kitchener' S Valet, which took part in launching the Swinging London in the middle of the years 1960. Integrated in the movement Mod' S , it attends the first concerts of the Who in Hammersmith Odeon, and of the hardly formed Rolling Stones, with mythical the Marquee Club (at that time, still located at Wardour Street), opposite it squattait an office empties to sleep.

1966

Of return to Paris, it is found in the mobility of the Circle of Mandala, more known under the name of “band of the Cupola”, and where the pioneers of the Parisian Contre-culture find themselves: Pierre Clémenti, Bubble Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valerie Lagrange, Marc' O, Jacques Higelin and Jean-Jacques Lebel, which launched the Happening S to France with the assistance of the Living Theater of the New York board Julian Beck, and of the London group Soft Machine.

It returns to London on several occasions, belonging to the network of the teams publishing the first newspapers of the English press underground and in particular, the team of the International Times (in summary: IT) rested by the American exiled Jim Haynes.

In September 1967, it founds then, in the middle of this London network, the first bottom of documentation in Europe, devoted to the movements and alternative practices of ground. Like all the “children” of IT (in particular bit Information Service, to see in the article Jim Haynes), his denomination finishes, it also, by “IT”: it was ExIT ( EX perimental I nternational T hesaurus). Today, always in life after soon forty years, this funds of documentation (transferred since to Paris) can be regarded as the senior of the organizations created in the mobility of the European counter-culture.

1968

In 1967, Philippe Bone attends the network of the groups Libertaire S (little structured) Noir and red, where a future protagonist of May 68, Dany Cohn-Bendit, made his “first weapons”. During the events of May, it renews contact with its former school-fellows of the Applied arts, and makes the connection between this school and the other schools of arts of Paris, creating Coordination popular inter-workshops, which drew and drew the famous posters from May 68.

1969 - 1972

In 1969, it leaves Europe for one period of almost three years and will live in Black Africa, mainly in Ethiopia. Initially, with the Harar, on the traces of Rimbaud and at the edge of the Red Sea, on those of Henry de Monfreid. Like they, it saw various local traffics, of which that of the khat, the chewed neuro-exciting green sheet all the day by the Chieftas , (but never of hard weapons nor of Drogue S…).

The last year of its stay, it becomes acquainted with John Morgan, a New Yorkean having lived with San Francisco and its partner, Julia Berger. In San Francisco, John Morgan had taken part in the adventure of the famous Whole Earth Catalog founded in 1968 with Menlo Park by Stewart Brand and Lloyd Kahn. With Philippe Bone, it founds a research center and of application of alternative technologies, the VTIE, Village Technology Innovation Experiment .

1972 - 1974

Of return in France in 1972, it takes again coordination for Europe of the only organization with world dimension resulting from the American scene underground: the UPS, Underground Close Syndicate , which gathered all the newspapers of the “free press”, including in Asia, and even reviews ultra-clandestine (and repressed) of the Soviet Bloc.

He sees himself entrusting by Jim Haynes, his creator, the direction of Contact-Information, first information center entirely devoted to the various alternatives “of ground”.

In June 1972, it forms part, with Alternativ Stadt , of the organizers of the against-conference which proceeded with Stockholm vis-a-vis official the Conférence of the United Nations on the environment. There, it meets the delegation California carried out by Stewart Brand, as well as famous the Hog Farm (the community which had nourished more: 500000 people of the Festival of Woodstock). At the end of the conference, it is him which translated into French and English and lute the final text who was deposited solemnly before the Parliament Swedish, proclaiming “the mankind like species in danger”.

At the end of June 1972 and at the beginning of June 1973, it organizes the two festivals of Bièvres], in the south of Paris. The first lasted three days, joins together: 10000 with: 15000 spectators, and launched the career of Maxime the Forester (period San Francisco and Parachutiste ). The second lasted ten days, joins together between: 50000 and: 70000 people, culminated with the historical concert of Gong and Crium Delirium, thus devoting, without question, the French scene of the pop groups

1974 - 1977

In 1974, after having animated several days of the “free press” (in particular with Bordeaux and Paris - the Villette), Philippe Bone starts the drafting and the launching of the French equivalent of the Last Whole Earth Catalog Californian: it will be the catalogs resources . With this intention, it recruits Gerard Aimé, which had worked with him with Contact-Infos. This last recruits in its turn Patrice Aoust, which he had known with the Training center of the journalists of the Rue of Louvre (CFPJ). With them three, they Co-founded the alternate Éditions in 1975, company of edition which celebrated its thirty years of existence into 2005 before joining the group Gallimard. The catalogs resources was born finally in September 1975 and was a success as considerable as unexpected. In all, the first three volumes, gathering 12 chapters going of food to the Psychism while passing by education and artistic creation, added up (withdrawings included/understood), more than one hundred thousand sold specimens. Some even say, more: 135000 specimens. This Encyclopédie indisputably caused a true shock wave, in all the “experimental” mediums and of cultural and social innovation as in the more traditional mediums, because of quality and of the exhaustiveness of the contents.

1977 - 1981

With the re-entry 1976, conscious of the first storms of this New Wave which blow on London (what one will call later the Punk rock'n'roll), Philippe Bone will find Fernand and Gerard Taieb, the owners of the Gibus, close to the Place of the Republic, in Paris, which was already, at the time, the appointment of the musicians of the scene French Rock E. Noting that the energy of the club had fallen to low, he asks them to take again the platinums, in order to promote this musical revival which announced devastator. Thus, on September 7th, 1976, resounds for the first time in France, in a public place, a disc of this new music. It was about the first 45 turns vinyl of the Damned, introduced almost clandestinely and in preview from London.

From 1977 to 1981, where it finished the season of summer, Mezkal (the nickname, at the time, of Philippe Bone, of which had affublé it the mythical guitarist of the New York Dolls and in addition indéracinable pillar of Gibus, Johnny Thunders), animated this high-place of the Parisian nights, initially like DJ, then as programmer of some of the groups, English like French, who occurred there. Among them, let us quote: Bijou, Téléphone, 12°5, but also The Damned, The Slits (which recorded there their album Live At the Gibus ), and the musicians of The Police, which at the time, being “only” the guides of Vanilla Cherry, were completely unknown!

The Years 1980

Everyone agrees to think that years 1980 were less “pulsatory”, energy than the years 1960 and 1970.

The music, of punk, became electronic New wave, i.e., colder, more , and less rock'n'roll. In these years which followed the punk explosion, the current shifted towards the world of the structures rather than that of the abstract groups. Philippe Bone, who had already advised various teams during the years 1970, even, written their statutes (like the new bookstore Parallèles in the Halles, and limited liability company of the alternate Editions), sees himself then more and more solicited to cap the cap of legal adviser of the “different” structures, medium then in full expansion.

He modifies his old association, which then becomes the advisory Company of the companies of the third-sector, of the networks and associations. Then it will found a company with co-operative form, the co-operative Omnium.

The whole of the structures which it itself launched or of which it contributed to emergence counts per tens, and add up almost a hundred jobs fixed and stable (perennial), created, and today always active.

In the last part of the years 1980, it launches successively the Lettre of the innovation , drawn and diffused free, under private fold, with more: 1200 specimens; then the dinners of the innovation, which joined together in very nearly 800 guests, and who culminated, for the first birthday of their launching, on June 6th, 1986, with the famous to dine blue, gathering in a single giant banquet more than one hundred ten guests, all and all protagonists of the alternative networks of ground, and all equipped in blue with the feet to the head.

1986 - 1988

Following the mobilization of the students against the reform Devaquet of the universities, and with the social movements which had been followed from there, of the meetings took place, at the end of 1986, at the philosopher Felix Guattari, which included/understood representatives of various political currents “progressists”: Dany Cohn-Bendit, Alain Lipietz, Pierre Radanne (of the Green ), Gisele Donnard (of Cerfi), but also Therese Clerk and Philippe Bone.

Together, they decided to launch a “call”, which would be published in Le Monde , and which would encourage all the people feeling close to these various and varied mobilities, to gather to act jointly.

Alain Lipietz, Philippe Bone and Francine Count, joined together in the latter, reflect the last hand with this call. Following a meeting of launching in an associative room of the 11 {{E}} district (Ageca), a pot taken in a coffee of the District of Charonne, with Lipietz, Radanne and Cohn-Bendit, made it possible to find the name of the new movement: Philippe Bone proposed “Rainbow”, on the model of the National Rainbow Coalition of Jesse Jackson, project comparable with the the United States. The name was immediately adopted.

1987 saw launching, then the blooming of the Mouvement Rainbow which counted quickly more: 5000 members, and gathered part of the current ecologist, current Féministe, the “self-management ones”, Anti-racisme, Pacifisme and even some (too much rare) “alternate of ground”.

Philippe Bone assured of it, in fact, the national secretariat: meetings of the bodies of coordination, from which national coordination, occurred in the buildings where it had its offices, even, straightforwardly in its office. The list (protected) of all the members signatories was on his computer.

Historically, Arc-en-ciel was the first French political organization to proclaim and put rigorously into practice “an absolute equality between men and women in all the decision-making bodies”. Influenced by those and those of its own members who had adhered to Arc-en-ciel, the party Verts finishes by adopting, him also, this principle even if it is not respected yet everywhere, on all the levels, today.

The presidential elections of 1988, unfortunately, then the legislative which followed, ended up making “burst” the movement, each one and each one reinstating its political training of origin, fault for Arc-en-ciel of having known (or been able?) to find a candidate consensual enough for the major election of this country.

Years 1990 - 2000

In the years 1990 and 2000, Philippe Bone continues his former activities, starting again, between 1992 and 1994, the drafting and the launching of new a Catalog of the resources , reflecting the main new things, as well as the dominant currents of this time: new means of communication, Internet (the Web), then hardly stammering, but also, unfortunately, the fight against the AIDS or the Greenhouse effect.

In the tread, it ensures the translation of English of the book of Ted Polhemus, Street Styles ( Looks of Hell ), reviewing all the against-cultural lifestyles, of the rockers to the traveller S, while passing by the mods or the Hippie S.

As of the end 1995, Philippe Bone was one of the pioneers of the Internet in France, out of Co-flux, with Assad Kondakji and Florence Delahaye, the first network established on the Web in this country, and suggested exclusively with the associative networks: Globenet.

At the same time, it accompanies launching by the movement of Salts, this whole of Système of local exchange which makes it possible all-a-each one to acquire or provide personal goods or small services, in fictitious currency. With the beginning of the year 2000, he will be even member of the board of directors of the deicing SALT of France, the SALT of Paris, which counts some two thousand members.

Lastly, it was recently among the creators of the first independent associative television launched since 1998 and which could emit in hertzian on all Is Parisian during three seasons: Waves Without Borders (in summary: OSF). It was the producer, the Réalisateur and the stimulating of the principal emission devoted each week, on this chain, with the alternative practices of ground: Internetwork.

Publications

Newspapers (principal references)

• 1964 : founder of the Lizard Applied (1st newspaper of the School of the Applied arts of Paris);

• 1971: founder of The VTIE Newsletter with Addis Ababa (Ethiopia);
• 1972-1974: articles in Current (France);
• 1975-1977: articles in Release (heading Culture );
• 1977-1979: cofounder of the monthly magazine Rock' roll music , with Bertrand Be worth It and Daniel Lesueur; author of the first article published on the group Telephone;
• 1979-1980: cofounder of the quarterly review Alternate ;
• 1985: creator, and diffuser of the Letter of the innovation ;
• 1987-1988: permanent collaborator of the single alternate daily newspaper ever published in France: Alive Daily newspaper , created by Jean-Luc Bennahmias;
• 1989: cofounder of the newspaper of District of Montparnasse, in Paris: the Page of the Mount Parnassus ;
• 2000-2001: writer of the Voice of the piaffeurs , newspaper of the SALT of Paris.

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