I was 14 years old and heard for the first time on radio Veronica the song ‘You’re the Victor’ by Q65, also known as De Kjoe. This appealed to me very much and I went looking for this band, which turned out to be from The Hague. Not much later, their LP REVOLUTION was released. Everyone was talking about it and I knew one thing, I wanted and had to have this LP. I worked at the local grocery store on my afternoon off from school and was able to buy the LP at the record shop in our town with the money I made there. It had to be ordered, because this was music that did not belong in our narrow-minded village. A week later I collected the LP. Fl. 18.00 poorer but musically priceless richer. Back home I played it a lot on my ERRES suitcase record player. To this day, this LP has left an indelible impression on me. The song ‘Middleage talk’, a real Blues song written by themselves and with the beautiful acoustic guitar work by Joop Roelofs, is for me one of the highlights on this MONO LP. In 2010 I bought the LP again in stereo, but that one doesn’t reach the atmosphere of the MONO version from 1966. In short, a standard work which I think will be on the record shelves of many fans and which is still perfectly playable in this day and age.
