1965-68
Frank Nuyens(gtr.vocal.sax.fruit) Wim Bieler(vocal,harp)
Peeter Vink(bass) Joop Roelofs(gtr.) Jay Baar(drums)

R.I.P. Wim Bieler  Nov.21 .2000

Their history
Lyrics of The Life I Live
English translation of their liner notes

They released their first single"You 're the Victor" in Feb '66. It was frantic R&B punk with strange vocals and harp. It made #11 hit and stayed in the charts for 13 weeks..

Their 2nd single was "The Life I Live".  In this song they established their ugly sound.
To adverise it, the record company made them reckless promotion . They were asled  to go London by rubbur lifeboat!  Then they would play at club in London but they were unable to obtain work permits, so they only  appeared  press and photo sessions.

They went back by rubber  lifeboat again, (actually they rode on a ship"Zilver'mee"which means Silver Seagull),and as soon as they saw Schevenning shore they boaded the rubber lifeboat as if they had sailed from England that way.
At Schevenning shore,30000 fans were waiting for them.   Kjoe(same pronouced Q in Dutch, which is what the fans called the band) had to run away  to escape the enthusiastic fans. They  had a gig at the pier. This  promotion went well and it  garnered them a Top 10 hit. The strange lyric were a true stoty :

The Life I Live Sit-in' in my chair and thinkin'  Thinkin' of the crowd I'm In with  Thinkin' of the music I make  And all the things I don't wanna give  Well.I take everything I want  The girls are fighting for me  But everytime that I take one  They're indisposed,poor old me!  Well,this is my life of sadness  This is the life I live  This is my life of gladness  this is the life I live  Last week I went to the graveyard  My dog was killied by a car  Feel the pain, the pain is started  He's dead,but frind ,we still are.  Sunday we played In a dancing  The public was very down  But it didn't bore us a thing  'Cos we smoked ourselves a kick  Well this is .......(refrain)  I had a girl and I loved her  She knows, she knows I still do  But she married with a rich man  But the things she wants, he can't do  Once we were on Joops wedding  We smoked and drank all night  At twelve we were thrown out  'cos the house was changed into a crowd.  Well this is.......(refrain)

  As you see, their lyrics were difficult and the singer Willem Bieler sung in 'Haagshch' English so the audience could not understand what they sung ;but that was part of Q's charm.

In '66 they released their first album "Revolution" (they chose the title because  they felt it was a "revolutinary "album for them)which also inclueded a version of Sonny boy Williamson's  "Bring It Home" which lasted nearly fourteen minutes and other Blues and R&B covers. The album alsohad the   killer  original tunes,"I got Nightmares""Sour Wine" .

This fab R&B punk album sold 35000copies.They joined the Small Faces,Spencer Davis Group,Kinks Pretty Things in Holland. In '67 they released Kjoe Blues EP(Q's Blues), including 3Blues covers and a original "80%O"(it was an acid instrumental song about 80%  Opium).

They were into soft drag , and their sound changed. Their lyrics had mysterious double meanings. In '68 Wim was drafted into teh Army. This marked the end of the first Q65 era.
 

They regrouped in 1970.Between 1970 and 1971 they released  "Afganistan"LP and "We Are Gonna Make It".The sound was diffierent from their early era, more psychedelic.