Inteview with Franz

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 INTERVIEW: FRANZ of ITALIAN BAD BOYS


          BY OPTIMA FOR LSD


1) Could you present yourself and your
Amiga group story?
   
I'm one of the 2 founders of the most
important Italian group, that's the
Italian Bad Boys, and also today i'm a
member of this group.  i'm 40 (!)
years old, I work in computer-
graphics, i've made many years ago
(glorious 1968!) the superior school,
I own a normal car (no Ferrari, sigh),
and my hobbies are to collect:
Publicity Postcards, Stamps, Comics
and Science Fiction Books.  Naturally
I love the computer graphics!  I love
animals, and my cat, the tremendous
"Petronio", is a full member of our
group, the I.B.B. i've been married
for many years and my wife is a
wonderful woman, because she doesn't
make me war for all the time that i
spend on my Amiga for my hobby.  I
live in Rome, Italy, the best world's
country!  I don't like cigarettes, I
don't like alcohol, I'm a monogamist,
i'm as a saint... or not?

2) Your groups historical report.
   
Yep!  It was the year 1987 and I
swapped C64 stuff with another Italian
guy called E$G, that lives in Turin,
another city of our marvellous Italy.
As we were really friends, a day I
asked him because we didn't make a
group.  He was immediately in
agreement with me.  So i thought one
day and i found the name of "Italian
Bad Boys". E$g liked this name, and so
we officially started this group.  For
some time we were a group of only 2
people, but those were glorious TIMES,
when there were only a few groups, and
we were in touch with all them.  Do
you remember some of this names;
HEADBANGER,
SINNERS,
AMIGO,
KENT TEAM,
CHAMPS,
DOCTOR MABUSE ORGASM CRACKERS,
ECC.?

Yeahhhh!  They were great guys and
good our friends!  Only a few groups
are living today from these times, and
we are one of them and we are proud
for this!  We were some of the
pioneers of the underground Amiga
scene!  Well, after some months other
guys, many of them out of Italy, asked
us to join our group, and we answered
yes to many of them, because they were
right guys. I think that our team was
one of the first to have members in a
lot of world's countries.  Our secret?
I think that it's only one: We haven't
a boss, but we are a full democratic
group, where everyone of us can make
what he wants.  The only rule is that
no-one of us must make something that
can damage the Italian Bad Boys.

Obviously I and E$G, being the
founders, are the poles of our group,
but we have never given orders to
anyone of the other Italian Bad Boys.
I think that this is the only way to
make a resistant group in the years.
Successively other teams asked us to
make a co-operation with us, and as we
were good friends, we accepted with
enthusiasm.  so we made co-operation
with Digitech, Knighthawks and also
with Piranhas.  After a long time we
friendly loosen these co-operations
and decided to remain alone.  This
because we already had, and have also
today, a lot of members, so that, if
we want, we could make 3 or 4 new big
groups!

For all those years we were in peace
with all the other guys of the other
countries.  We had the only real
problems with some other Italian guys.
Why?  Really i don't know! Probably or
they were envious of our success, or
they want make themselves publicity in
this way, or they were quarrelsome, or
they were mad.  I don't know!  But a
day I decided to stop every stupid war
with these guys, and it seems that my
example has persuaded the other
members of I.B.B. to make the same
thing.  So today there is a silent
armistice between us and them, and I
hope that quickly this armistice
becomes a full peace, because I was
tired to spent my time to give insults
to other guys!  That is: Make the love
and not the war!

Well, only other some words: We are
yet a big productive international
group and also today after so many
years we are one of the teams that
stay at the top of the Italian scene
and one of the appreciated groups of
the world's scene.

3) Your scene history & some news
about it.  What are the best groups of
your country and their work?
   
Today the Italic scene is really
better than some years ago when in
Italy there was the desert.  Today
there are some good groups.  Someone
are good and nice, some others are
good and disagreeable.  Today the best
Italian groups, except us, are;
RAMJAM,
HALF BRAINS,
CENTURIONS,
CHRONOS,
NCC,
ICC,
ZERO DEFECTS,
DIVINA.

These are groups born in Italy, after
this there are also some cool Italian
guys that are members of foreign
groups as Filippetto of Vega, or
Tomcat of Nemesis, and so on.  Their
productions cover every field of the
Amiga possibility, so we can see
Italian megademos, demos, dentros,
music disks, magazines, collections,
cracks, etc.  As for modem trading, I
think that we in Italy are at the top
of the scene, as we've all the newest
stuff immediately as all the bbs are
"0 days warez".

4) Send us some details about your
group projects, work and members.
   
Our project are all and noone!  In
this sense: We live at the day.  We
don't make long programs.  We like the
individuality also in a group, and we
like the spontaneity, so when one of
us thinks to have some good idea, then
he calls some other of our group and
tells it to them, and if they are in
agreement with him, then the project
go on!  You can think that this is a
stupid method, but you then are in
error.  You think only that at the
last Italian Amiga Expo (and
copyparty) to Milano, Italy, called
"SMAU", we, without big announcements,
were the most productive group, with
the best productions!

We don't have declared projects.  The
only thing that we continue to make
every some month is our fanzine called
"The Bad Tongue", and this only
because we are always loving it.  As
our member list it's very difficult
count us, because as every month some
guy asks to enter with us.  I can only
say that we are many, many and many!

5) Have you other computers, consoles
and why?
   
Uhmmmmm, except my Amiga 3000, where i
make graphic, i've an Amiga 500, where
I can run all other kind of software.
After this i've a C128 and this is
because i'm a big sentimental man, and
recently i've bought a MS-DOS 386 to
see with my eyes what are the
possibility of this machine (and the
result is that the Amiga is of a
superior category!).

6) Send us a chart of of your best
crackers, coders, swappers, trainers
makers and pack makers.
   
I want first premise that I don't
believe to the charts of "The best
in..." (for me the Crusaders Eurochart
is a big fake, because I know a lot of
guys that are really better than many
of the guys that are on it and for
this they are minus capable?).  After
this i can answer you: For me the best
cracker group is Skid Row, the best
coders team is Phenomena (what
other?), the best swapper team is all
the French guys I know (yes, it isn't
a group, but I see that the French
guys are the best swappers, so I
decide to answer in this way!), the
best trainers makers are my friends in
Energy and the best packs makers are
the Subsoftware.

7) What you think about the actual
world scene?
   
I think that it's always the same!
many cool groups and guys and also a
lot of lamers.  Some time someone came
on, open his mouth and spike shit as
about the "friendship" (as if before
this slogan we weren't as all friends
and as if after this slogan all these
bastards that profit of the friendship
to make their dark business were all
died!), some time 2 groups can to make
war, and some other time they make
peace.  It's the same world!

8) Do you think there is too much
magazines?
   
Really today they are a lot!  as every
group want make one and this goes
against the quality of the products.
So we can see only a few really good
products.  I would give an idea:
because many groups that make bad mags
don't join together their forces so to
make a good product?  This because a
group can have a good graphic and all
the rest is shit, another group can
have a good coder (and the rest is
shit), another a good musician and so
on.  However I can add that the old
magazines, as Cracker Journal (the
oldiest), our Bad Tongue (the second
oldiest), Zine, Ice and some other are
also today the best!

9) Do you have already write articles
for a disk magazines?  If not say why.
Of course my answer is: yes! I've
written a lot of articles for our mag,
The Bad Tongue, but there is a lot of
time that I didn't write something,
because some months ago I had the
sickness to write again another
article!  This is the first time from
then that I write something for a
magazine (I hope you appreciate
it!  Ehehehehehe).

10) Tell me the date of this interview
and some actualites eveniments which
have interested you or shock you.

I've written this poor words on the 9
December 1991.  I can say that there
is a thing that interested and shock
me on these last times, but it haven't
anything to make with the Amiga world.
It's the radical change in the Urss
and more generally in the East Europe!
I now hope in a better future for all
us!

11) Have you a question that you would
like that I ask you and what will be
your answer?

The question could be: What you think
is the best thing that the Amiga's
given you?  The answer should be this:
I think that the best thing the Amiga
given me was that thanks to this
machine i've a lot of friends around
all the world, guys that I never saw
and that probably never will I see,
and we are really friends, as dudes.
This is a marvellous thing!
12) A last word?

Shit, but when the Commodore will get
out a computer that an really speak
with us i'm waiting......

End.