Interview With Crusaders
Interview  with  Bustman of  Crusaders,  bought myself an Amiga as soon as I had
done by Jake of Rebels                   enough  money,  and through  this way I
                                         became  a graphician  on this wonderful
Hi  Busty - you claim  to be a graphics  piece   of  hardware.   Additionally  I
man... why? (Ironic or what?)            should  tell that in  these three years
                                         that  I have  had my good  old Amiga, I
Ey  man, who said I am CLAIMING to be a  have  learned that  only practise makes
graphician?  In fact  I am one, believe  master.   This  goes both  for  coding,
it  or not. And then  you ask why... do  music  and  graphics. I have  still yet
you  want to hear  the full story right  more  to learn and experience, I guess.
from   the  beginning or  what?  Ok, it
started  at the very  moment when I was  Who do you think should be in charge of
about  three  years old and  touched my  the Norwegian government and why?
first  pencil.  I felt it  immediately,
it  stroke my mind that I was borned to  Argh,  who  mentioned  politics?  Jake,
draw.  And so  it went on,  I drawed by  what  a  question!  Well,  personally I
hand  on everything I could get between  hate   every  single  shithead   of all
my  fingers. When I was about twelve or  politicians   we have here  in our dear
so  I  bought   myself  a  computer,  a  homecountry    Norway.  They  are  just
Commodore   128  actually. I  continued  preaching  bullshit and allmighty about
drawing  on that  machine, but I always  what  they are  going to  do, but never
felt     helpless     because   of  the  comes   down to  some  real  action. If
limitations.    And then  I  discovered  somebody   was to be  in charge  of the
the  world of Amiga, totally amazing in  Norwegian   government  it  should have
the   opposite  to  a C64.  Ofcourse  I  been    ourselves,    Crusaders.   The

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everybody  would have  had an unlimited  Dr.Claw  ......... coder
beer-supply...  Joking, allright! No, I  Dr.Outtasight  ... sysop at our 'Home
do not have an answer to your question.                 ... Sweet Home' board
I  guess the readers  do not care about  Dr.Shitface  ..... coder, swapper
politics anyway.                         ECS  ............. swapper
                                         El Cubo  ......... coder
Say,  how  many  members are  Crusaders  Eno  ............. coder
actually? (Too many?)                    Excalibur  ....... coder
                                         Fleshbrain  ...... musician
Nope,  I do not think  we have a lot of  Funky Guru  ...... graphician
members.   Some people  may  have other  Intec  ........... graphician
opinions,     but we   never  kick  out  Lazerbrain  ...... mainswapper
anybody.   If you  join Crusaders,  you  Madman  .......... coder
have  come to stay as long as you want.  Raven  ........... sysop at our 'Golden
We are a group based on pure friendship	........... Gate' board
between  all members, nothing else! Ok,  Rusc  ............ graphician
we  are at this very moment 22 members.  Swapperboy  ...... swapper
Dudes, anybody asking for a memberlist?  Switchblade  ..... coder, plus some gfx
Right,  here  it comes...  alphabetical  Zapotek  ......... swapper
and everything...                        Zuggly  .......... coder

Brightblade  ..... swapper, not active   This  should be the  lot of it. Nothing
Bustman  ......... graphician, swapper   more, nothing less. And all of them are
Copper  .......... coder                 some really freaky guys, you bet!
Dr.Awesome  ...... musician)                                         FLIP >>>>>>

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Dr.Awesome  is probably one of the most  his  own  view,  everybody has  his own
known  Amiga sound  artists out there -  taste...
what do you think about his works?
)Yeah Yeah I agree... forgive me my dear
What  I  think of  his work?  Well, his  Busty!!! Anyway, How long time have you
music   is just  MEGA.  I just  can not  been  in the scene, and was it by error
explain  in  words what I  think of him  (-s HEHE!) that you entered?
as  a  musician, he  is far  beyond the
incredible.    And note,  I am  neither  Hmmm.... I have been into computers for
saying  this  because I am  a friend of  five  or  six years,  when you  add the
him  nor  because  we  are in  the same  time  I had the C128. But on the Amiga,
group.   This is my  personal  opinion,  well,I have been active on it for about
and  if you agree or  not is up to you.  two  years  or so I  guess.  Yes, it is
And  hey, my fellow  Jakie-boy, why did  true  that I entered  the scene through
you  not mention Fleshbrain? He is just  the group called Errors. It was at that
as  good as Dr.Awesome, although he has  time  that I really  started to do some
his   very  own  and   special   style.  serious  swapping. I joined Crusaders a
Fleshbrain really gets you by the teeth  year after, because I got TOO active to
his  tunes  are  enormous! So  no point  be  a member of  Errors. I wanted to do
hiding  that I just love his style too.  something, you know.
Well,  when we are at music I must also
make  it clear that  there are a lot of  Okay Bustman.. Trond is your real name.
other  really great musicians living on  How  come  so many  Norwegian  guys are
this   planet. I  could mention  a huge  called  that.  Is Trond some  kind of a
bunch,  but I  will not.  Everybody has  hero  in Norway... like ADOLF (that wa

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not   nice)  in   Germany  and  so  on?  favourites. Only a few special selected
                                         ones, though...
Listen up! Yep, I am called Trond for
sure. But this name is not as much used  Good groups .........
as people want to believe, Trond is      It  is really not many REAL good groups
ofcourse a special name as all others.   to  pick out when it  comes to the most
A hero? What, you got to be joking.      SERIOUS  ones. I  would say Brainstorm,
Well, maybe there was or is a great guy  because  they  are doing a  mighty fine
called Trond somewhere here in Norway,   job  with Zine.  Phenomena, Kefrens and
but nothing I have heard about. And the  Budbrain are great too when it comes to
name Trond is NOT connected with fear    producing some real good demos.
or such shit as the name Adolf (Hitler)
gives. I am a cool and freaky kind of    Fine graphicians ....
Trond!                                   I  would immediately say Slash/Kefrens.
                                         His  graphics is fab, I must say so. In
Crusaders   bring  out Eurochart  every  fact,  we are both  using the same main
second month or so, but the charts does  technique  when it comes to shading the
not  show your opinion. So tell us your  open areas in the graphics. I would say
own favourites!                          that  I was one of the first with this,
                                         but  ofcourse I do not know for sure. I
My  own  favourites?  Jesus,  I knew it  should  like to get  in touch with him,
would  come.  What would a  disk-mag be  but   unfortunately  I do not  know his
without  own favourites? Jake, have you  address.  And! There  is ofcourse other
remembered  to  vote for  our Eurochart  good   graphicians  in the  scene, like
then? If so, okay, here are my good old  Golem/Anarchy   and Uno/Scoopex.  I ca


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mention  a lot more,  but you can guess  ok...Hans/Euphoria,Trix/Dexion,
them out for yourself.                   Axel/Brainstorm,  Tip/Phenomena, Teeze/
                                         Anarchy,  Apache/Vertigo,  and ofcourse
Funky musicians .....                    that dude interviewing me, Jake/Rebels.
Uncle Tom/Scoopex,Walkman/Cryptoburners  They   deserve  being  listed  as  good
4-Mat/Anarchy, Tip/Phenomena,and so on.  friends,  nice  knowing you  all mates!
Also  Øystein  Eide/Maniacs Of Noise is  And  I also could  mention a kid called
real  good when it comes to my style of  Flush/PMC, also a friend of mine.
music.
                                         Tasty dinners .......
Smart coders ........                    The  best meals  I could  ever think of
Well,  no comment.  There are many good  are  spaghetti, pancakes and real home-
ones  around,  but others  will have to  made  pizza. Ofcourse  I eat hamburgers
decide.                                  and  such fastfood, but it is just some
                                         chicken  shit when compared to what you
Best disk-mags ......                    can make at home. Right?
As  stated, I would say Zine. No doubt.
There  are a few  other nice disk-mags,  Ripping movies ......
but with lower standard.                 Well,  some  new good ones  would be...
                                         Robocop  II, Total  Recall and Die Hard
Coolest friends .....                    II.  They are  all great  action-films,
Hey  up! Here  is a new  one... my best  but  that is not the  only thing I like
friends!  Note,  this is NO  greetings-  concerning  movies. I just love horror-
list   or a  list of  hellos.   This is  movies!  Nothing is like a real chiller
just  a  list of my  greatest  friends,  late  at night, with  all scary effect


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possible.  Ofcourse  there are a lot of  important  that real friends seem to be
horror-movies  that  are shit and crap,  forgotten.  So one thing I can tell, it
only   based  on  blood  and  guts  and  is  not everything  that goes through a
nothing  else.  No, I am  talking about  modem.
REAL  horror. Just  to mention the best
of  the best, Clive Barker. Hellraiser,  Does Crusaders have any kind of slogan?
Hellbound  and  now  Nightbreed... just
bloody   great films.  Stephen  King is  Ofcourse  we have! It goes like this...
also  one of my favourites, most of his  WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY! But we do not mean
films  are just as  good. And all books  anything serious with it, it just there
by  the  two above  mentioned  guys are  for  fun. We do not use it much either,
beyond   imagination,  that  would mean  nowadays.
outstanding!
                                         Who is the real legends?
Everybody  talk  about  modems, and how
they  destroyed the  scene. What do you  Simply  the guys who  deserve it. Short
think,  is it only  a swapper syndrome?  question  demands short answer, that is
                                         it.
I  have no  comments  on this  question
really,   since I  have never  done any  Any last words?
kind   of  modeming.  But  I guess  the
modem  destroys  the real  friends that  Yeah,  Jake,  in fact there  is. I just
you  gain  by  swapping  through  mail.  want  to say thanks for this interview,
When   you get  to  modem-trading,  the  it has been fun answering your question
speed   and age  of the  stuff  gets so  right  from the  beginning. A big hell


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all the rest of my friends out there,if  Hey   Bustman...   Hope  you  like  the
you read this then. And before I end, I  questiones - too ordinary?
have a final request...
                                         Listen, is this a bonus question or
Vote  for the Crusaders  Eurochart now!  what! Nope, the questions were nice
Send   your  votes  to  the   following  enough. So once again, thanks Jakie-
address...                               mate!

CRUSADERS EUROCHART                      Yep, and here I take over again.Bustman
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1474 NORDBYHAGEN                         incredible  long, I sincerely hope that
NORWAY                                   none of you out there fell asleep while
                                         reading it..... bye !!!!!
And   if   you  want  to   contact   me
personally,   mainly  to swap  some own
productions,   if you want  to exchange
some  graphics,  or if you  simply just
want   to  complain  or  ask  me  about
anything,   then  make  impact  on this
address...

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