01	Love Is Such A Good Thing						03:11
	02	Injection						01:27
	03	Baby Don't Worry						03:21
	04	I'm Glad						02:43
	05	Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out						03:39
	06	Please Come Back To Me						03:05
	07	We Are Happy						04:23
	08	I Gotta Move						02:49
	09	There Was A Day						02:45
	10	Don't Let Me Fall						02:48
	11	Crumblin'						02:58
	12	Night						08:02
	13	Sexy Legs						01:54
	14	I Just Can't Wait						04:56
	15	We're Gonna Make It						02:53
	16	Saddy						02:44
	17	On The Highway			(previously unreleased)			06:51
	18	Rock & Roll Medley						14:06

WIM BIELER - vocals, harmonica
JOOP ROELOFS - guitar, slide steel guitar, vocals
BEER KLAASSE - drums, percussion
FRANK NUYENS - guitar, vocals
PETER VINK - bass, vocals


additional guests;
RINUS GERRITSEN (vocals, piano/organ, tracks-S 4567) BARRY HAY (vocals, flute, tracks-3 4567) HANNIE BIELER, JOSETTE NUYENS & NEL VINK . (vocals track-7)
On the Highway/Graveyard Train + Rock & Roll medley recorded live on location. ( 19-07-1970 : Sarasani - Den Burg/Texel )
sound engineers:
JAN AUDIER - JOHN SONNEVELD / SOUNDPUSH STUDIO KEESBEAUDEAUX (live tracks)
compiled by HANS van VUUREN / © 1992 PSEUDONYM RECORDS ® 1970-1971 NEGRAMTICENSED FROM EMI MUSIC HOLLAND BV
1970 design HANS SCHULZ / photo CLAUDE van HEYE 1992 cover & booklet MIRROR PRODUCTIONS® 1992 RONSTIJNS(s) ^ DTP. QuarkXpress Apple Macintosh 3.0
special thanks to;
BEER KLAASSE, FRANK NUYENS (GREECE), JOOP ROELOFS, WIM BIELER , PETER VINK, PAUL de KONING, FRANK VERHOEF, MIKE STAX (USA), BURNIE MANSPEAKER, GEORGE EVERS, MARTIN FOKKENS, RICHARD GROOTHUIZEN, HANS van HEMERT, PHILIP ELZERMAN, MARCEL SLABBAERT (PHONOGRAM), LENNY HELSING (SCOTLAND), ANJA & RON, ASTRID & RON, KAREN GOMEZ (PARIS), RUUD van DULKENRAAD(BEATNACH 1980), MARK BREMER (EMI)
DEDICATED TO JAY BAAR (1948 - 1990)


Based on sheer musical ability, the Q 65 deserved to be at least as well known as the Pretty Things or the Yardbirds. Indeed, the Dutch quintet could have held their own with either of those groups or the Animals without breaking a sweat, based on the recorded evidence, and they also had room for some of the more countrified blues evident in the work of the Downliners Sect. Yet the Q 65 have remained one of Europe's best-kept star caliber musical secrets for more than 30 years. The Q 65 were Frank Nuyens (guitar, vocals, sax, flute, harmonica), Wim Bieler (vocals, harmonica), Peter Vink (bass), Joop Roelofs (guitar), and Jay Baar drums, who first got together in 1965, in the Hague. The city was known as "the Liverpool of the Netherlands," with a music scene that had been thriving since the end of the 1950s.
Instrumental groups, patterned after the sound of the Shadows had been very big at that time. Peter Vink and Jay Baar had been playing in a blues-based band called Leadbelly's Limited before they hooked up with Wim Bieler, Frank Nuyens, and Joop Roelofs to form the 65 in February of 1965. The group's professed influences were American soul acts like Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding, yet somehow, when they performed, what they played came out closer in form and spirit to the likes of the Pretty Things, the Downliners Sect, and the Yardbirds than it did to any of those soul acts, at least at first. They landed a recording contract with Phonogram, a unit of Philips Records, late that year, and put on the Decca label. Their first single, "You 're the Victor", was released in February of 1966. This was a strange record for a band professing an admiration of Sam & Dave or Wilson Pickett, a frantically paced piece of punk-style blues-rock with an infectious Bo Diddley beat, screaming, raspy vocals, and a savage attack on their instruments. The single made No. 11 on the charts in Holland rode the bestseller lists for 13 weeks. The B-side, another original called "And Your Kind", was a more low-key, relaxed piece of blues-rock with slightly more of a soulful feel, but also some crunchy punk guitar.

In May of 1966, with the group now primed for success (including a full-time manager working for them), they released their second single, "The Life I Live". This was a more soulful record that built almost bolero-like in intensity. It was a good enough record to get Phonogram's management interested in promoting the group in England, which led to a publicity stunt that was not only a waste of time, but utterly foolish, sending the group to England by boat and having them come ashore in a rubber lifeboat, a though they'd come across the ocean that way. They were then supposed to play a gig, but as nobody had secured work permits, the group was only able to pose for photographs and press interviews before returning to the Netherlands. The Q 65 were greeted at the shore in Schevenning when they landed (again manning the lifeboat to land) by 30,000 fans, and ended up playing a gig right there at the pier. The band may not have done much for themselves in England, but they garnered a top 10 hit in the Netherlands.

With two successful singles under their belt, the group debut album, Revolution, followed in 1966. Revolution was a powerful blues-rock album that included a snarling rendition of Willie Dixon's "Down in the Bottom", a rendition of Dixon's "Spoonful" that boasted gloriously crunchy acoustic guitars behind a raspy vocal worthy of Howlin' Wolf himself, and a funky version of Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life, Woman", and a handful of originals that were fully competitive with the covers. The highlight, however, was a riveting 14 minute version of Sonny Boy Williamson II's "Bring It On Home". The album sold 35000 copies, a respectable number in the Netherlands, and established group sufficiently to rate a spot playing with the Small Faces, the Spencer Davis Group, the Kinks, and the Pretty Things when they toured Holland.

During 1967, they didn't release any LPs, but did get a solid extended-play single out called Q Blues, which did well at home. Their music during this period reached what was arguably its peak-"Ain't That Lovin' You Babe" is a garage-punk classic worthy of the best American bands of the period, while their version of "Ramblin' On My Mind" thunders and surges with ferocious energy. They were unique in their approach, mixing the sounds of saxes and even an ocarina-an instrument virtually unknown in rock away from the Troggs-into country and Chicago-style blues. The group continued trying to make it as a blues-rock band for most of 1967. Their sound began to change late in the year, just as music was turning psychedelic, and around the time just before Wim Bieler was drafted into the army. His exit heralded the end of the Q 65's classic period. Nuyens, Baar, and Roelofs hooked up with Herman Brood (piano, vocals) and Henk Smitskamp (vocals, bass) to form a new, more psychedelic oriented outfit, which eventually evolved into a group called Circus, which lasted, in varying line-ups, for the year of 1968. Peter Vink, meanwhile, joined a group called Big Wheel, whose line-up included future Focus member Cyril Havermans. In 1969, a second Q 65 album was released, entitled Revival and made up of singles and latter-day tracks. The music was still powerful and very intense-perhaps too much so-if not as accessible. Had the line-up stayed intact, the group might even have found an audience. They still played well, even if it was experimental in nature (and what blues they played was more psychedelic than classic style). They might've given bands like the Creation a run for their money, but the Q 65 split up at just about this point. The Q 65 reformed in 1970 with Beer Klaasse on drums, and signed to Negram Records, staying together for one year and two LPs, Afghanistan and We Are Gonna Make It, which had a slightly more psychedelic orientation.

The Q 65's line-up changed during the early '70s as Nuyens exited to join Baar in a band called Rainman, while the Q 65 continued with a new line-up, featuring John Frederikz on vocals and Joop van Nimwegan on guitar. The original Q 65 reunited in 1980 and toured that year. The group continued in various configurations throughout the middle of the 1980's. Jay Baar passed away in 1990, but a version of the band, with Wim Bieler as leader, continued playing into 1990's. During the early 1970's, Dutch bands such as Ekseption (Holland's answer to The Nice) began getting a tiny bit of exposure in England and America, and in 1973, the floodgates fairly well opened, albeit briefly, with the chart-topping status of Focus. The Q 65 were around a little too early for their own good, in terms of finding any major exposure in England, much less America, but they were at least as worthy of being heard as any number of better known British bands of the period. - Bruce Eder

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Q '65


The Den Haag (The Hague) group Q '65 played raw garage-style music and was often compared for that with their English counterparts, Pretty Things. Remarkable, however, was the singer's voice, who never learned to pronounce English words properly, which resulted in some really amusing-sounding output on their records. Other notable affairs of the group were, amongst others, their stunt of sailing to England by a rubber boat, and also how they often managed to hang halfway over the loudspeaker boxes, in order to keep themselves from falling over. Sometimes, in concert, Peter Vink sat down on the stage, playing as if he was stoned! Apart from that, it must be noted that their first record was the very first production of Peter Koelewijn.

The lineup: Wim Bieler (vocals, harmonica, later solo with his group Dambuster), Frank Nuyens (guitar, sax, flute, in 1971 solo), Peter Vink (bass, in 1969 temporarily in Big Wheel, later in Finch), Jay Baar (drums, toetsen, later in Tantalus, in 1968 replaced by Beer Klaasse, ex-Livin' Blues, and also later to Finch), Joop Roelofs (guitar). The group existed from 1965 till 1974. After Wim Bieler left in 1971, Johnny Frederiksz became the new singer (ex-World, to Temple and solo as Edgar Allen Poe). See also Kjoe.

1966 You're the victor/And your kind Decca AT 10189
The life I live/Cry in the night 10210
I despise you/Ann 10224
From above/I was young 10248
LP Revolution QL 625363
1967 World of birds/It came to me AT 10263
Where is the key/So high I've been so down I must fall 10286
EP Kjoe blues: Ain't that loving you baby/Rambling on my mind/
No place to go/80% O. BU 70025
1968 Ann/Sour wine AT 10336
(N.B.: English single under the name of Circus in 1968)
Do you dream/House of wood Parlophone R 5672
1969 Sundance/World of birds 10383
LP Revival XBY 846515
1970 Don't let me fall/Crumblin' Negram NG 172
Sexy legs/There was a day 196
LP Afghanistan NELP 075
1971 Love is such a good thing/Night NG 220
I just can't wait/We're gonna make it 230
LP We're gonna make it ELS 914
LP Greatest hits Decca 6454409
Fighting is easy/Country girl Polydor 2050130
1977 LP Revolution (re) Decca 6440675
HITS:
[05-03-1966]^11*13 YOU'RE THE VICTOR q 65
[11-06-1966]^5*14 THE LIFE I LIVE q 65
[29-10-1966]^19*7 I DESPISE YOU / ANN q 65
[28-01-1967]^13*7 FROM ABOVE q 65
[22-04-1967]^8*9 WORLD OF BIRDS q 65
[03-10-1970]^40*2 SEXY LEGS q 65

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KJOE
Q '65 in the following lineup: Johnny Frederiksz (vocals), Beer Klaasse (drums), Peter Vink (bass), Joop Roelofs (guitar).

1972 Hoonana/Troubles Polydor 2050181



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