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I'm Roy ter Maat, I live in Amsterdam and started to work at this pages in may 1995. I wanted to know more about HTML for my work, and so started a homepage. Of course the subject of the page was psychobilly, since it's the music and lifestyle I really enjoy. When I started in 1995 there was no other information about psychobilly at all on the Internet. Pretty soon a lot of other psychos on the net emailed me about concerts and information about bands, so I was able to make a concert list and give more information about bands. Now more and more bands are on the Internet and for some of them I make homepages at this site.
My work has always been incolved with the Internet. I worked for the better part of three years at Planet Internet, where I managed the Game Planet, a portal for computer games. I'm currently working for BitMagic, a new company that will bring entertainment to your computer by means of the Intertet.
How did I get into Psychobilly? The first psychobilly band I saw was Batmobile. I liked the
music and met other people that liked this new style. Swapping tapes
and a few concerts more and I was hooked. There's a picture above
with me and a local band called The Daltons, with whom I used to go to concerts.
Okay, so I like music, but was I ever in a band people ask. Well to be honest I was, but
never really succesful. I played the drums a band called Duke John. We played
'unplugged' way before Eric Clapton did, not because we were hip, but because we didn't
have proper instruments. Later I played electric bass in The Photon Torpedos. This
band ended when the singer/guitarist/songwriter moved to the US.
Hobbies? Well I like to browse the net every now and then.
One of my favorite websites is the
Monster-o-Matic webpage, of
which you can see a sample that the artist did with a picture of me. Another good laugh is
always The Onion, a newspaper that brings fake news.
If I'm not behind a 17" screen I like to practice kickboxing at
Mejirogym. Or spend time with hardware like
PlayStation,
GameBoy, Virtual Boy,
GameGear, or
Lego Mindstorms.
There's loads of people I want to thank for helping me to create this page. There's probably a lot of people I will forget, but the people that now come to my mind that I would like to thank are: Santino di Renzo, Charlie Chester, Simona, John Beeson, Brent, Matthias Oelkrug, Jim, Adrienne, Bettie, Jen, Liz, The Meteors, Humungus, Ant, Chuck, Allan, Quentin, Psychonaut jim, Skitzo Pete, Toini, Per Gunnar, Yvo, Aaron, Sander, Louwrens, John Hamm, Wouter, Big Dick Pictures, Platzie, Demon Kay, The Rebel, Tsubu and Bertrand Kohler.