| Sledge Hammer: |
Okay! First of all the usual stuff. Hey, Romeo, tell us your real name, how old are you, what are your hobbies, etc.,etc. ?!? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Well, my real name is EIKE STEFFEN, and I am 22 years old now. My hobbies are ofcourse music! I'm not making music only on the Amiga, I am also playing guitar, bass, and with my Synthesizer, and that became more and more important for me during the last time instead making music on the Amiga. |
| Sledge Hammer: |
For how long are you making music, or how long are you in the scene? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Huh, in the scene ... Well, I also made music on the C64, but that was some time ago, and I hadn't any contact to the scene. And on the Amiga, well, I think about 7 years. Yes, 7 years, since 1987! But I'm not much interested in the so called "Scene"... |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Have you been in any other groups before TRSI or Masque??? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Yes, but only for a very short time, in a Danish group called Jewels, that was at the beginning. And I wasn't very long in that group, and I have also never seen any member. Then I joined RED SECTOR... |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Hm, it was very quite about Romeo Knight during the last years. Can you tell me why??? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Well,I was in the army, so that I couldn't compose very much. But I made some tunes nevertheless, but they simply did not get released. |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Hm, your musicstyle changed a lot in opposition to your old tunes. When I remember tunes like "Rise up" or "Cream of the Earth", and I compare them to tunes like "Cosmic Dog II" or "Gonna be Infectious"... |
| Romeo Knight: |
Well, I always tried not to orientate, like many others do, on other musicians style or to convert the style from the C64 to the Amiga. I tried to make some Pop- or Rock-music on the Amiga, and so I used more and more guitars in my last songs, becoz that's the music I personally like. I would, for example, never compose a techno-tune, coz I really don't like it! |
| Sledge Hammer: |
To what "real music" are you listening to? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Well, I'm listening to diverse metal-groups, but I don't have a real musicdirection. I like Sucidial Tendencies for example, or Depeche Mode, but in the past I heard much Hip Hop-music. But I think that you probably could hear the influence of the music, in some of my rhytms or so... |
| Sledge Hammer: |
I have heard that you also made a tape??? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Oh, Hm, I made about 8 or 9 songs with my synthesizer, just for fun, and not for any commercial reasons, more for my personal further development. I only copied some of these songs to some of my friends, which wanted to have some of these songs, and that's all. |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Well, many guys are saying that YOU are the best musician on Amiga. What's your opinion about that? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Oh, well, I really wouldn't like to contradict here, but I think that's exaggerated, becoz there are for sure other musicians which are really of the same value. And I wouldn't depend it only on the music, coz I made for sure also some bad songs. |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Hm, what's your position to the so called Scene? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Hm, most of the time I really don't care about the scene, it's more important for me that I'm working together with some people, which are really doing their job, and not telling me to compose a song, and at the end nothing happens, and it's also important to have some fun with it! |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Yes, I really know what you mean! Well, what's your opinion about other Amiga-musicians? I'll tell you some names now, and please tell me your opinion about them, okay? |
| Romeo Knight: |
That's quite difficult, coz, as I said before, I'm not much interested in the scene, and I don't know much demos or musicdisks, so I can't judge someone. I probably heard some tunes of these guys, but I really can't remember which song was from which musician, and for sure I don't know much of their compositions ... |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Oh, too bad, so let's come to the next question. You have been at the Scoopex-Cebit party in Hannover'93. What was your opinion about this Party? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Also a difficult question for me, coz that was the first real Copy-Party which I visited, so can't compare it with other Copy parties! But I was a bit angry that I won only the second prize at the Music-competition! |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Why did Masque leave TRSI??? |
| Romeo Knight: |
That's another thing where I can't say you much about, coz I hadn't much to do with that. That was a disagreement between Wayne M. and some other guys, but just a typical scene-crap, and I really don't care about that, coz for me it's only important that I know the people where I'm working with, and I also don't care, under which groupname my tunes get released. |
| Sledge Hammer: |
What are the future-projects from Masque? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Wayne M. wanted to code a new trackmo for the next WOC, but that's not 100 percent sure actually. |
| Sledge Hammer: |
If you would leave Masque, which group would you like to join? |
| Romeo Knight: |
I really don't know, and I really don't care. It's important for me that I know the people which are in this Group, and I think I would join a group where most members would live near to me. Anyway, I'm very unactive on Amiga now... |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Okay, we finally reached the end. That's it. Is there anything you would like to say at the end??? |
| Romeo Knight: |
Hehehe, maybe ... Everyone should use more drugs! |
| Sledge Hammer: |
Okay, nice, hehe ! Thank you, EIKE, for that nice interview with you, and have a nice Scene-time... |