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 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 almost a 100 bands I make a promotional pages at this site.
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.
Work
My work has always been incolved with the Internet. Companies that I worked for:
Planet Internet (from 1995 to 1997)
BitMagic (from 1997 to 2000)
Bol.com (from 2000 to 2001)
Genie/O2/Telfort (from 2001 until now)
I started to review games for Planet Internet. Then later BitMagic, where I did reviews in Flash and also produced Shockwave games. For bol.com I worked as a product manager and was responsible for the DVD's. Now I work for Telfort as an operations manager and I am busy making the online shop as succesful as possible!
Thanks to...
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 really helped me in the beginning of the wreckingpit include:
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.
With the new formation of the wreckingpit I feel really fortunate to work together with Chris, Destin, Johnny, Misha, Eric, Mary, Simon, and Doyley.
