"ALL ABOUT ROUGH/HYSTERIC" an interview by tch/brutal ---------------------------------------- okay,here you've got a very long'n'cool interview done with ROUGH... enjoy reading this... ---------------------------------------- -no,my first question isn't "tell us something about yourself". i will first ask the other questions and save that one for the end... this way the readers will create their own image of you. but we ofcourse need to know some info. i'm ROUGH of HYSTERIC,i swap,crack,make the magazine "CONDOM" and supply myself with originals... -can you please give us an extract of your carrier from the beginning till this moment. 1987,PC,my own group,i was also the only member. we built up NEW GERMAA CRACKING SERVICE. it was just a lame copy of the legend. for a few weeks i joined COMMANDO SERVICE CRACKERS,but i rejoined. 1988,still in new german cracking service,because i was the leader in ngcs together with IMBECIL of ex- EXTEND and a lamer called MIC. we were a bunch of friends and when i looked around where a lot of them went to,i must say only IMBECIL and MIC stayed in contact with me... one of them called ARES is now a NAZI-HOOLIGAN,some of them suck on amiga now and one of them called SCHNÖESELSOFT drinks his beer every day,he went down a lot,when i remember the old times. then i moved to austria for 1 year. 88/89,where i met GOOFY+FOXBUSTER of HEADLINE. they both joined SILICON later... as HOL was better than new gcs,i joined and "coded" some shitty demos for'em. until the summer of '89 my handle was ON TOP, a quite lame handle,then i renamed into ROUGH... after i removed to germany i joined THE ANCIENT TEMPLE and got legal in those times,where i got to know coolies like ICE-T/TAT or jerks like AYATOLLAH. 1990,for a few days i joined "TROPIC", but they were fuckin' lame and i rejoined tat. in the summer of 1990 TOM and me left THE ANCIENT TEMPLE because ICE-T stopped the c64 and tat only released shitty demos... after a few months of non-activity i joined AUTHENTIC ARTS,but after a few days i joined together with tom VISION. in december 1990 vision died and all of us joined JIHAD's new group HITMEN... the group was very good but organisation and friendship was terrible,mostly because CURLIN is such an idiot. i got kicked out of hitmen for one day,but rejoined one day later,but got kicked later when hitmen went down the hill as jihad,curlin and racoon left. for a few days i was in DEPREDATORS,but my friend peter joined them and that's why i left to CHROMANCE,where i stayed 3/4 of a year with a little (unnecessary) time in PANDORA and recently i had joined SUCCESS,but left to join HYSTERIC!! -so you've been in VISION and T.A.T.! vision is back on the c64 and t.a.t. made somekind of a comeback. what do you think of these groups now and what is the difference between the old and new versions. VISION is as demogroup still o.k. the quality of the cracks is good,but the speed is too low. i'm still in contact with ICON/VISION which i allready knew when i was in vision. T.A.T. got some fine codings,but the design of their demos is the ugliest there is... cracker group tat? hahaha! VISION is not that different like in the earlier times,just german members are missing! T.A.T. misses coolies like ICE-T,TOM or me. t.a.t. is a shit,no more! -some time ago you joined PANDORA for a short period. why? i wanted to join a german group because wares from the chromance hq in hungary take apx 5-7 days and this sucks!! but pandora was lame,i released three possible first-releases,but none could give'em to americanos. that's why i supplied the originals to my friends in hysteric,who made 2 first-releases out of it. (wild blood prv,little ghostkid) the reason why i joined success is the same,but it's a lot better. but the chromancers (esp.mr wax,jayce and jazzy d) are still cool friends of mine... -okay,you are mainly a swapper. what makes,in your opinion,a good swapper and do you think swapping is the easiest job in the scene? well,nowadays my main worx are 50% swap and 50% crack. a good swapper must send fast,often and good own stuff. the amount of contacts is totaly unimportant. well,let me say it like this... "you don't need to think much when only swapping,but it's very hard too! it can really piss you off alot..." -you used to release a music-magazine on the c64 called "CONDOM". now,i haven't seen it for quite some time,but do you still release it? if you don't then why did you stop producing it? haven't you got the issue from december 1991? it got a new outfit done by FACES a very fine indeed! but in the future it looks bad for CONDOM,because i have serious time problems with school,partys and girl. we will see... -oops,sorry! no i didn't see the dec'91 issue... probably because i had some mail-problems... anyway,next question! have you ever thought about doing a 'normal' disc-mag or a paper-mag? oh yes! i had the cool idea of making a one-file magazine,weekly or two-weekly released only with charts,news and maybe adresses... i think the info would be quite good by that,but as i said... no time!! i never thought about doing a papermag. BULLETPROOF satisfies me anyway. i thought about doing HARDCORE FANZINE only with music,no computers,but no time/no money! -what do you think what's necessary to do a good disk mag and which ones are your favourites? hmm,i think the text and userfriendly code are most important. graphix/sounds in high quality are nice extras,but unnecessary! my fav's are...HEADLINES,BR.RECALL,BILD CORRUPTION,MISFIT,SMOOTH CRIMINAL and SPOTLIGHT... the worst shit are WORLD NEWS (sux!), BITMANIA and PROPAGANDA... -now let's go to the demo-scene. which of these statements do ya support and why... a good demo: 1-"great style,outragious music,cool graphix. the design is most important,if it's ugly it is no good!!......." or: 2-"fantastic code! the music and graphix are just to make it look better. if there's no good code,it's a flop!" also give us your favourite demo's and demo-crews... the first argument i agree totaly. it has to look good on the screen,not in the assembler editor... i respect groups like LIGHT or FLASH very much but i prefer demos like WONDERLAND VIII/CENSOR or DUTCH BREEZE by BLACKMAIL! i also like demos with new ideas. CENSOR DESIGNS absolutely kixx ass.. WONDERLAND I-VIII rule! before i forget,PRETZEL LOGIC is also kewl! -what do you think what makes a graphic artist or composer one of the best? can you give us your fav's too... graphic artists have to be able to make good pictures AND good logos,chars etc. like HEIN DESIGN/BML or REDSTAR/FLASH. musicians just have to be good and have an own style... favourite artists:HEIN DESIGN,OGAMI, DRAGON,GOTCHA... favourite musicians:JEROEN TEL,TIM FOLLIN,ROB HUBBARD, REYN OUWEHAND,MARC COOKSEY,MARTIN GALWAY and more... i'll never understand why everybody loves DRAX's musics... they're boring! -okay,let's go illegal.. we can devide the cracking-scene in two categories,sometimes combined:'speed' and 'quality'. what is in your opinion real important to be the best cracking group? also give us your favourites please. quality AND speed is the best ofcourse, but SPEED is in any case the most important,or do you really care about the LIGHT versions... who plays the games anyway? all needed trainers are allready in the speed versions. old versions are unnecessary. also important is the kewlnez of the crack... the intro-design,scroll-texts, extras,i think! favourites:LEGEND,SUCCESS,HYSTERIC, TALENT. -some time ago 'SHORT INTROS' were being used by almost everyone... now the GAMERS GUIDE died this amount reduced. do you or don't you like these short intros? in early times i only used short intros because i thought speed rules,but if you can't do speed...make quality!! nowadays i mostly use long intros... i just use shorts,some time to make 1 block shorter versions than my pals in chromance,like fireman sam,only just for fun... hehehehe!! good crackers don't have it necessary using short intros... -some other favourites by rough: food:pizza,lasagna,chinese food. drinks:beer,tea,milk,bailey's,etc... music:hardcore,punk,trash,death,ebm. day:friday+saturday,no school on the next day! i love to sleep long! season:spring+summer,ofcourse. movies:highlander i,mostly strange fantasy+sc.fiction,but also horror and funny movies. (naked gun rules!!) country:italy is fine,countries in the south are cool anyway! sports:skate-boarding,tea-kwon-do, SLEEPING (my fav!) -can we consider you a PARTY-ANIMAL or do you hardly visit any parties or meetings. please give us some hints to organise a good party... i don't like the word "party-animal",it sounds stupid. but i'm often on parties and concerts. there i like to have my fun,booze and fcuk!! i also like compu parties,but only with cool guys,no computer nerds!!! organising a party... PRIVATE:DO NEVER MAKE A PARTY AT YOUR HOME!! you will be pissed afterwards. invite a lot of people who know many people!! COPYPARTY:make partys in short holidays like CHRISTMAS,EASTER. only with other,amiga,groups. don't promise 2 much bullshit! -last year you had left the scene for a month or so. what made you leave and will you ever leave the c64 again before the scene dies? well,i was pissed off by computing and wanted to spend time on my girl-friend and learning to play guitar,but as i said before. it's like a DRUG... i am addicted! i only leave when i'm 100% out of money or when santa claus will be german's president (insider joke!) if c64 dies,hopefully a new computer has launched the world allready,because amiga is not the top! -have you ever had troubles with the post or the cops!? no troubles with cops except fighting against NAZI-SKINHEADS. hehe! FUCK NAZIS!! only troubles with the post due to cheating of other guys!! -how's the weather overthere in ebersberg? snow is lying in ebersberg and it's fucking cold... I HATE IT!!! -is there one thing you want to do for sure in the future? hm,for the scene... -improve my cracking abilities. -visit a scandinavian copy party. -see the face of ANTICHRIST/OMG for real... it must be quite funny. -can you give me a short description of the scene in germany? SUCCESS,X-RAY (rip) and HYSTERIC rule, rest mostly sux. demogroups... SPIRIT is very kewl... vote'em... -let's get more into your social life... do you still go to school or are you working allready? i go to school! gymnasium to be exact, the 10th class!! i HATE skool... latin sucks... baaah! -do you have a fiancee or do you have a crush on some one? fiancee? i'm married with DEMENTED of HYSTERIC... haha! no seriously,i'm not married nor i have a fiancee. but i got a girl-friend called SWEEDY! stupid name,but nice, pretty and intelligent girl! i really like her a lot! she's 17 years old,dark blond/red color hair,fine figure... ---------------------------------------- damn,just out of memory error... okay,here you got the rest of the interview which are surtenly worth to check out... ---------------------------------------- -in germany there are pretty many NEO-NAZIS. what do you think of them? NEO-NAZIS and SKINHEADS suck! remember... "HAVT DIE GLATZEN,BIS SIE PLATZEN!" there may NEVER be a 4TH REICH! by the way,i'm left in political terms! -do you think the amiga is a menace to the c64. and will you ever leave the 64 for this machine?? maybe it's a menace for the c64,but surely i won't leave to amiga... it's too uncomfortable!! -now here's the question that's always first. please tell us your name,looks, age and other personal things... oops...here we go...real name: ADAM... haircolour:dark blond,hairstyle:a flat! face:beautiful(yes,i know i'm conceited sorry for that!) some t-shirts,parker or orange bomber jacket,jeans,doc marteens highlander or some fucked up sport shoes! size:180 cm. weight:67kg. eyecolour:grey-blue. -now,is there anyone you would like to greet and or is there something you would like to tell to the scene? greets to all and none! -okay,this were all the questions. i hope you enjoyed answering them and i hoped you had to let your brain work to answer some of them... thank you very much and so long! yo,at least not one of those boring interviews! a fine one indeed... see ya...+++ ---------------------------------------- and that was really all concerning ROUGH of HYSTERIC... i really hoped you enjoyed reading this and...well,you know the story... ----------------------------------------