Skyhigh 20 About Rambones of ex-TST

About Rambones of ex-TST




We are live at the Party 5 in Fredericia, Denmark. The
date is 28th of December and the time is 22.40.
I have had the luck to bump inti an old legend. To
tell you the truth, then it was actually Authentic of
Excess * Acrise who had the pleasure to do the bum-
ping. Well to cut this story short.
Long before I ever heard about this lovely scene I
used to collect old demos. One of the groups I for
some reason remember is the long gone TST, or The
Supply Team. Maybe you haven't heard of this before
but now you will. Ok no more hiding, let's get down to
bisness.. I have the pleasure to present no one else
than Rambones of ex-TST.

* Yo Rambones, first of all; nice to meet a person
from one of my greatest 'idol-groups' from back then
Quite a big surprise to actually talk to one from the
past. Anyway, please give us an introduction of the
person behind the handle : Rambones.

- My name is Jan Diabelez Arnt Harries, and I'm 26
years old, soon 27. I got my C64 in August 1985, and
have loved it ever since. Many people have not been
able to understand my handle Rambones, and often
misspelled it Rabones.  This is it: I was a skinny
person and weighed only 40 kilos. I liked the film
music from Rambo, and I took that name, because
of the music, not the muscles. My friend Hagar then s
aid one day: you are nothing but skin and bones, why
don't you call yourself Rambones. And so I did.

* Well, at least you have a valid reason for your
handle, not just an invented one. BUT, you almost
slipped between my fingers, so I will continue where
I left. Please tell us a bit about your 'career' on this
machine. I mean what groups have you been into and
when did you have your glorious years in TST?

- I got my C64, needed some games, and was invited
by a guy called Per to buy games from another guy
named Torben Sj£rslev Nielsen (TSN).
After having known TSN for 10 minutes, he decided
I didn't have to pay for the games, and till this day
he's still one of my best 2 friends.
He then taught me BASIC, and together we learned
MNemonic.
My career is really simple: I wanted to be a great
coder, but my interrest in composing my own music
was bigger, and so I spent most of my time with
Soundmonitor which was all there was at that time,
and I only do music today. TST was founded in 1985
by Karsten Pahuus Petersen (KAZE), and we were on
C64 until early 1989, when we had to give in to the
wonderful magic of Amiga.
There are a few of my own demos that I'm proud of,
but I'm even more proud to have been together
with my 3 friends now for 10 years.
We never made it on Amiga, 10 demos, that's the
story.  I have never been in a group since.
I swapped with everybody that wanted to do so,
and that's the main reason that TST had more than
300 contacts thru 85-89. If you have many contacts
your demos will spread worldwide. It doesn't matter
that some of them were lamers, cause so was I when
I started, and now I am again :)

* Lamers, damn I hate that word... I prefer the better
one : newcommer. But enough about that. (Yes!!!)
No something more exiting. I don't know all the demos
on the C64 from TST, but there is one particulary
which has been interpreted into mind : NO LIMITS! This
demo had one killer routine; the whole screen sprite
scroller. Yes I still love it. Of todays standard it
might not seem like much, but it simply sticks!. What
other demos should I have had remembered from TST?

-Well, I'd like you to remember my Zound-Muzak 1-3,
which were my first attempts on music. and then
offcourse New Limits! and Mip Mip Police, which was
simply state of the art. :)

* Mip Mip Police!!!! He he what a cool name. Well I also
remember that not everything where happines back
then. I can not recall the name of the demo, but I
know that in at least one of them you had some quar-
rels with another group. Could you fill in the missing
details on this one?

-Yes, the history of TST is that of WAR!!!!! hehe...
At that time we were only kids (12-15) years old, and
when Wizz and Kaze (better known as WIZE), left
TST, to join Wizax, TSN and myself felt let down
by them personally, and so we used our demos to
hack on eachother, while we were still friends and
copied stuff and made demos together every day.
There never was a real war, it was childrens lack
of communication skills that provoked the wardemos
to be made. But if you have to know about F.A.S.T.:
hehe, I lost 1 contact due to the war, and got 1-n
new. And besides from that, I swapped with some
of the groups supposedly 'against' TST. (funny.) :)
TST started out in 1986 by doing war against
Danish Gold, just to get some attention.

* Hmmm, this gives the story an entire new angle to
me. What might have seemed like a kind of war was
more or less an internal struggle which was taken
out in the public. Well change of subject.
Now we are almost writing 1996 (we are when this is
released!!). How do you see the entire thing now. I
mean the computer business, the C64 that is?

-For me the C64 is a part of my growing up, and
I will never dispose of it, nor my data.

Today: the C64 is a part of the users upbringing, if
you're a newcomer. If you're a pro, it's nostalgia.

* Well a quite small answer. Erhm, it shall be no se-
cret that we are talking inbetween these questions
aswell, and you just mentioned your point of view
concerning the computer of today. You see it more
like a 'every mans' tool to reach his goal. Please
explain what you mean by that!

-When I was 5 years old I wanted to play piano, but
not enough money. So I played my grandfathers
violin. Then I got money for my C64 and used it as
a piano. I am and want to be a musician forever.
So, that's why it's a tool to me.

I am educated in computers also, and while studying
I learned to use computers as a constructive tool
rather than wasting your time by using a computer
just for using it.

* Well I do see your point there. Maybe it is moving in
that direction. People have started to really USE
their computer instead of just having it as another
piece of furniture. Well as mentioned in the beginning
of this interview then we are here live at TP5. Here
we had a very fine example on this. In the wild compo
we saw examples of works from people who works
professionally with their computers. A nice touch to
see these two areas merge. I agree 100%.
But something else (again!). Now you are here in the
atmosphere again, isn't there something which draw
you back again. In other words, could you imagine
yourself returning to any computer scene in the fu-
ture. And if yes which one?

No, I haven't planned on starting in the C64 or
any other 'computer' scene. I'm allready in a scene.
It's my own scene: I have a computer and a modem,
and still a lot of friends on the mail-swap side.
I am on the internet, and it seems that the border
of the 'scene' has moved a lot since 1990.
Everything is flowing together and forms a higher
picture which no one can see clearly. But there
will always be a scene anyway, it's called a
subculture.

* Said in other words, the scene is more of a multi-
computer scene now, with deep roots and behaving
around the Internet?

- Yes, but the internet is just a link or a passage-
way for communication. The real contact lies in the
mutual wish to create art: demos/gfx/music etc.

* Well I agree on that too.

Hmm, the gfx compo is having a rerun now, and the
light has been turned off. So to be honest, it's quite
hard to concentrate anylonger. So I think it is time
to brutally end this interview. Is there any thing you
have on your mind, which you would like to share with
the rest of us?

Any little story from back then!!! What about this
dear computer type, the C64, what do you think will
happend with it?

-I know that there will be C64 groups until there
is no more working C64's left. But it won't even
happen, cause people are building their own new
and improved C64 allready today. So maybe it will
never stop.? :)

I have made a small project with some friends from
the internet. If you collect C64 music, and want
more (more than 3800 now), write to me and maybe
join forces with us.

write to: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

I wish you all a great journey, into the unknown.

* I will wrap all this up by saying that it has been a
pleasure and a thrill to talk with someone from back
then; back in the 'good old days'. I wish you the best
in the future, and who knows; maybe I will bump into
you again. Best of luck!

BIZ KID
BIZ KID


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