Interview with:

   SANE AND JAY ONE OF THE LUNATICS
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1.
Hello    Fellas!    Please   introduce
yourself  to  our  readers (age, other
hobbies,  what's  your function in the
group etc..)
  
-Sane:   My  name  is  Pieter  and  my
pseudo  is Sane, I am 16 years old and
my  hobbies are:  Tai-kwon-do, frisbee
(ultimate  and  guts), watching a good
movie,   watching   the  big  American
sports  like:  Baseball and Icehockey.
Of  course  the  Amiga  is  one  of my
biggest  hobbies  and  I like swapping
best.   My  function  in  the group is
mainly  swapping  and  organising  the
Dutch  division  of The Lunatics but I
am  also  an  editor  of our mag and I
hope to be a pack-maker (together with
Jay  One)  when our new menu-system is
ready.

-Jay  One:   My  real  name  is Yorick
(pretty  weird name, isn't it?) and my
handle  is  Jay One!  I'm 17 years old
and  a few of my hobbies are:  Soccer,
Computing,  Tennis and watching the TV
(and  movies).   My function??  Well I
do  a  little swapping and the gfx for
our Dutch division (also for the other
ones).    Oh!   and  of  course  I  am
(together  with Sane) the organiser of
LNTS   (Holland)  and  editor  of  our
maggy.  I also have started with 68000
programming,  but  at  the  moment I'm
just a beginner!

 2.
Lunatics  have  quite a lot of members
worldwide.   Isn't it hard to organize
such   a   big   group   with  several
divisions?

-Sane:   We  have  a  lot  of  members
(about   28)   but   we  only  have  2
divisions   at   the   moment.   Today
(17-3-92)  we  more or less kicked the
Danish members because they were a bit
too  lazy, unloyal and they were below
the   average   of  the  rest  of  our
members.   Luckily  they  didn't  care
(but  who  does  these days?) so there
isn't  something  like  a  war, we are
still   friends   (???)   We  like  to
increase  the ammount of divisions, so
when  some  reader  likes  to  start a
division  in  his/her  country let him
contact me.  ++(0)2280-14126 Because a
lot  of  Norwegians read this magazine
-->>  We  really  like to start a good
Norwegian  division..   Are  you  good
enough?   Call me!!  I think it is not
so  difficult  to  organise  the crew,
only  the calls are very expensive and
we   have   to  discuss  everthing  in
letters.   But we will meet each other
on  some  partys  so  there is no real
problem.

-Jay  One:  My job as organizer is not
as  hard  as  Sane's because he is the
one  who  is in contact with the other
divisions!   So  for  me  there are no
expensive  calls,  stamps etc.  to pay
for.  (hehe!)

3.
What kind of equipment do you use, and
how  many  hours a day do you spend in
 front of your beloved Amigas?

Sane:   I only have an Amiga 500 (+1mb
of  course)  and  a  1084s monitor, no
more,  no  less!   I also connected my
stereo  (double deck, cd-player, tuner
and  pick-up) to my Amiga so the sound
of  my  computer  is much better cause
you  hear  the music trough 2-way 2*80
watt  boxes!  I have a lot of homework
to do, so I only spend about 2 hours a
day  in  front  of  my Amiga.  I spend
about   1  hour  a  day  writing  long
letters  to  contacts  (hi El loco and
Leebold!)

Jay One:  I got an Amiga 500 (1mb), an
external  drive  (Cumana), an internal
drive  (isn't  that  amazing?!), three
joysticks,  a color- printer and ofcoz
a mouse.  I also connected my amiga to
my  stereo  cause  it's  a much better
sound   if   you   hear   it   from  2
directions.   I  don't  know  how many
hours  a  day I am sitting in front of
my  compy, but I think it are at least
2,5   hours!!   (especially  if  I  am
working  on some gfx).  I also spend a
lot  of  my  time  on the amiga if I'm
writing  some  letters  to  any  of my
contacts.   I  always  have  a lack of
inspiration  so those letters can take
me hours to finish!!

4.
What  is your opinion about the scene?
(Is  it  o.k,  or  pure  shit?  Please
explain your answers)

Sane:   I  think it's o.k, there are a
lot  of  very  cool guys in the scene!
And  now I talk about cool guys, let's
 give  the  greets  (in  jump  to  mind
order...)  El loco/paragon, Error/TSB,
Leebold/?,     Senator/    Slipstream,
Bushbaby/Damage  inc.,  Saracen/Visual
bytes,   Ildatch/   Rich,  D  Icelord/
Catastrophy,   MC   Green/  Live  act,
Raw/Amaze,    Wolfman/RAF,   Art/Awake
Telekinetic/The  Flame  Arrows, Triax/
Disknet,  TSM,  Joe,  The Cube, Dragon
Bait/  Lunatics, Dr.  Poison/?, Duff/?
(Incomplete  as  always,  sorry) There
are  also a lot of cool and productive
groups  in  the scene but I think some
groups are becomming to BIG and ELITE.
I   also  hate  all  the  small,  bad,
unproductive  groups...   FUCK  THEM!!
(Friendship rulez)

Jay  One:   Since I'm not that long in
the  scene  I  can't  tell  you if the
scene  is  better  than in the earlier
days,   but  I  have  read  a  lot  of
articles   that  say  that  the  scene
nowadays  is less friendly then in the
past!!   I don't know if that is true,
because  all  of  my contacts are very
nice  dudes!   I  do  know that in the
past  few  years  there were many wars
between  groups,  but  at the moment I
think  that  the  scene slowly becomes
more  and  more  friendly again!!  (at
least   I  hope...)  Always  remember:
FRIENDSHIP RULEZ THE SCENE!!

5.
What  is  your  opinion  about  stamp-
faking and blue-boxing?

Sane:   I  did  it myself a while ago,
but  now  I think it's not right to do
it!!    Because   when   the   postman
discovers   the   faked   stamps   you
 sometimes  loose  the  letter + disks,
the  person  who  is  waiting  for the
disks gets angry because he thinks the
sender is lazy and the person who sent
the  disks  is  angry too, because the
other   persons   doesn't  return  his
disks!    (I   hope   it  is  not  too
difficult  to  understand  this stupid
answer  ??!!)  You  get  quarrels  for
nothing.

Jay  One:   I  don't  have  that  much
experience    with    stampfaking   or
blueboxing  cause  I never did it!  If
you  want  to  learn some ways to fake
your  stamps  then  don't hesitate and
write  to  Sane  cause  he  is  a real
expert  in that kind of stuff!!  (just
kidding mate!!) Anyway, if you want to
send  me sumthing then don't fake your
stamps  because  of  the  reasons Sane
told ya before.

6. 
What  is  Lunatics biggest project for
the moment?

Sane:   We  are  currently busy with a
trackmo called "Mental Orgasm" I think
that  is the biggest project, but also
a    multipart   demo,   a   diskmag,a
packserie  and  a  musicdisk  are  big
projects.   Unfortunately The Lunatics
have  only  5  coders  so  it  is hard
working    for    those    guys.    My
compliments:   Raise,  Duff, Sprinter,
Sponge  head  and  Polaris!!  Not only
the  visible projects are big but also
"the  search"  for  coders,  divisions
worldwide  and  a bbs are big projects
of me, Jay One and TSM.

 Jay  One  :   Do I also have to answer
this question??

Sane (again):  No, of course you don't
have   to  answer  this  question  you
stupid  pig (heheheheh) Everyone knows
I  am the ultimate leader !!  (hehehe)
Just  kiding  Joyrick  (eh ..  sorry :
Yorick !!  ain't that a wacky name ??)

7. 
Which  country has got the worst scene
in  your opinion (except from Sweden),
and who has got the best?

Sane:   I can give you an answer like:
"Zimbabwe  has  the worst scene" but I
will   make   my  choice  between  the
countries  which  have a scene.  And I
choose Holland, Holland only had 5 big
demo-groups:    Axis,   Vision,   RAF,
Desire  and  Mirage.   Axis only has a
few   Elite  members,  so  they  don't
release many productions.  Desire lost
a  lot  of  members  and  they are now
almost   dead.   RAF  hasn't  released
anything   since  the  RAF-party  last
year.  And I haven't heard anything of
Mirage  and  Vision  in  the  past few
months.    Luckily  the  future  looks
brighter:   A  new group called Origin
has  made  a  very  cool demo recently
called   "Circle  Madness"  The  Flame
Arrows have organised a great party in
march    1992   and   Catastrophy   is
becomming  cooler and cooler everyday.
Also  TSL  have  started a division in
Holland  (Multicoder/ex-Desire  joined
them  as  a  coder!!)  and we are also
becomming better.  So I hope the scene
in Holland will be the same good scene
as  a  few years ago.  I think England
 has  got  the  best scene, with groups
like  Anarchy,  LSD,  Slipstream, Dual
Crew,  Cytax and lots of others.  Also
Germany  has got a good and big scene.
Groups  as  Awake,  Amaze,  TSB,  LSD,
Complex  and  others  make  that scene
very cool too.

Jay  One:   Phew,  finally I can write
something  again!  What are you trying
to  do  Sane?  Fill this whole diskmag
or  something?  O.K., you want to know
the  worst  scene  there is!!  I think
that  the  Mongolian  scene is fucking
lame!   Well,  actually I don't really
have  an  opinion about this subject!!
But  I certainly do not think that the
Dutch  scene  is the worst.  Now about
the best scene:  Since most big groups
have   got   different  divisions  the
scenes  are  more  and more mixed up I
think,  but  I will give you a list of
my  favourite demo-groups:  Phenomena,
Anarchy,   Silents   (also  Crionics),
Razor  1911  (not many prods, but when
they  release  something  it  often is
very  good.), Alcatraz and I liked the
first  demo  from  Origin (a new Dutch
team)  called  "Circle  Madness".  Oh,
and not to forget Axis with their cool
productions!!   Vision  is also a good
democrew  but  they  are  too  lazy  I
think!!!   (Are  you  satisfied enough
with this answer?)

8.
Who is the most selfish bastard you've
ever met?

Sane:   I  never met a real batard who
is  famous  in  the scene, (except for
Jay  One  of coz (heheheheh)) The only
 guy,  he  is so ugly his own mum hates
him.  I know and who is really shit is
DANIEL  A.   (his  pseudo is Sallow or
Hush)  He  is  in the same class as me
and he lives a few blocks away from my
home,   he   is   also   on  the  same
Frisbee-club  as  me  (Discmen) and he
plays,  just  like me, in the national
Dutch frisbee team!  (wow !!)

Jay One:  I only know 1 ugly bastard!!
(Sorry  for  so  less...) His name is:
(guess??)  Yep, you're right DANIEL A.
Why  he is a bastard?  I will tell you
why!!  I also was in the same class as
D.  but fortunately he went to the VWO
and  I  went  to  the HAVO!!  (I don't
know  what  these forms of schools are
called  in  English) Anyway, he is the
most  ugliest, dummiest pig I ever met
in  my  whole  life!!   I  don't  play
frisbee  or  something so I rarely see
him!!   (hehehe!!,  too  bad  you play
frisbee Sane!!)

9.
How many parties have you attended?

Sane:   Just  one!!!   (lame  eh?) and
that  was  The  Flame  Arrows party in
march  1992.  Which was very cool, met
a lot of cool guys there.

Jay One:  You can't believe it but I'm
the record holder with 3201 parties on
my  list!!   Okay,  okay..   it's  not
true!   I  have  been  at two parties:
The   Royal  Conference  '91  and  the
T.F.A.  pardy!!

10.
The  following lines are free, so type
 whatever you want:

Sane:   I wanna thank Paragon for this
interview  and I want to use these few
lines for a few IMPORTANT messages.

=Owam/Razor 1911, Why don't you return
my disks anymore?  Please send
 soon again!
=To  all  qualified  (Dutch!)  coders/
swappers/  gfx  &  music-artists:   We
need you very much, please think about
it and say "yes" and call me at:
     ++(0)2280-14126 (Pieter)
=To   all   readers   of  Free'n'Easy:
Rember that this cool mag can't excist
without  your  support!  So help these
nice guys!!

Jay  One:  I first wanna thank you for
interviewing  us!   It  was  the first
time  I  was  interviewed and I really
enjoyed  it.   Now I want to thank the
TV  for  some entertainment during the
answering  of  these  questions.I will
blow of some greets to:

MAGICIAN LORD:
- How's  it  going Anthony?
TOMCAT/COMPLEX:
- Really cool gfx mate!
ILDATCH/RICH:
- Is your mag already finished?
CHUCKY/SILICON LTD:
- Nice sendings!
SUAVE/SILICON LTD:
- How was the meeting?
LONERIDER/PMC:
- Keep producing these great packs.
FRANK JOPPE:
- Keep on the good work!

 DISKMAN/STAX:
- Good luck with your group.
SHOCKER/ORIGIN:
- Nice demo!!
PGCS/ALCATRAZ:
- I hope ya will contact me!!

Sign'n off, Jay One/The Lunatics...