they’re here!” But in ’68, events reached a boiling point when a couple of not so sober band members dropped in on a board meeting.
Joop: Sales figures of Revolution topped 35,000, so we reached gold status. Unfortunately, our relationship with Phonogram had cooled down a bit.
Frank: Yeah, we never got that golden record, but why was that again?
Joop: Well maybe it had something to do with the fact that we told them how they should run the company. [Almost chokes with laughter] We busted in on a board meeting, looking like millionaires. All dressed in expensive designer suites with big sunglasses! Willem took his place at the big table, unfolded a piece of paper and started reading out loud the names of executives that should be fired.
Frank: “He’s got to go and him too, and the president can go to hell!” In our opinion, they didn’t look after our interests, so they could fuck off.
Joop: Well to put it mildly, the respected members of the board didn’t agree with our proposal and from that point on the atmosphere was completely fucked. But it was totally worth it to see the big bosses getting all worked up in their cheap suites, watching their faces turn green. They had absolutely no idea how to react!
Frank: Luckily the band broke up soon after that, because I think we were about to get fired on the spot.
Excerpted from the new book Q65: The Story by Pim Scheelings, published by Ugly Things. Available now from
www.ugly-things.com. Alternatively go to Amazon and select bookshops worldwide.
SO HIGH THEY’VE BEEN 10 essential Q65 sides. By HUGH DELLAR
1. Cry In The Night (Decca 45, 1966) Brutal, compelling R&B punk face-melter found on the flip of ‘The Life I Live’, a number five hit in the Netherlands!
2. I Despise You (Decca 45, 1966) Astonishingly, another hit in Holland: a twisted stop-start hate song that bled paranoia and inchoate rage all over the Top 20!
3. From Above (Decca 45, 1967) The 45 version is the loudest and is pure pop perfection thrust along on a wave of tempered feedback that erupts in the middle section.
4. I Got Nightmares (RevolutionLP, Decca 1966) Over a maracca-laden Bo Diddley beat and slashing chords, Wim Bieler violates the English language in utterly cryptic manner!
5. So High I’ve Been, So Down I Must Fall (Decca 45, 1968) Drug-addled psychedelic funk workout telling the truth of all truths with a total freakout breakdown thrown in to boot midway through.
6. It Came To Me (Decca 45, 1966) High velocity flip of Top Ten hit, ‘World Of Birds’. The rush of falling in love distilled into an insistent riff that simply never lets up.
7. World Of Birds (Decca 45, 1967) Slow, stately and very very singular, this hits like a funeral dirge to a lost love gone to a place high in the sky.
8. Down In The Bottom (RevolutionLP, Decca 1966) A Howlin’ Wolf cover, this primal punk blues strips the original down to its chassis and then revs the shit right out of it.
9. You’re The Victor (Decca 45, 1966) Their debut single, this stuttering swaggering joyful noise announced the Kjoes arrival and was the first in a slew of devastating 45s!
10. Sour Wine (RevolutionLP, Decca 1966) And now for something completely different! Dark minor chord ballad with haunting organ and accordion lines underpinning the heartache.
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