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What did it with my life? I think quite alot.
I started early, I was hooked as I heard Funny Funny the first time. 4 lovely guys, talented, colourful...it made my days sunny.
Whatever I could read (mostly German Bravo, that we bought in Germany), every TV program with them, I didn't want to miss one bit.
Then a big surprise came up. My friend's dad invited her and me to go to a Belgian gig. I was so excited, I couldn't sleep.
Two days before the gig was I got pneumonia....over and out for me. Imagine how I felt. And let thát be the famous gig where Brian and Steve were arrested!!!!
I never saw them live anymore! When Brian left the band, we in our part of the Netherlands, more or less thought it was finished. Once in a while I heard that they were still busy as a three piece, but there was no internet and it faded.
I read about Brian's death, as he had passed away a year or so. It shocked me.
A year of 4 later I was looking into gigs for Hans and me and I saw that Brian Adams would play in Belgium. When I wanted to order tix, I suddenly read about Andy Scott Sweet playing too. I thought: huh????, didn't think twice, ordered tix, went to the gig and that was it. I was sold. I heard one of my idols live and I felt as in Heaven. It was with Jeff Brown, Steve G. and Bruce.
Later I found this message board, got on the board in touch with sweet fans, Steve (who I adored more than the others as I was a young girl) and due to some musicians who posted here I got to hear when there were gigs and where. I went. Music that often live, never ever had that before; it was like a roller coaster. ASSweet, Slade, Suzi Q, Middle of the Road, Dave Dee and Co, Trems, Rubettes, Uriah Heep, Quo, BCSweet, T-Rex and so many others that I "found back", but no matter who and where, I stayed an ASSweet fan in the first place. They were for me the source, that was where it started and where I went back every time.
Later I got completely coincidentally involved in a booking, due to illness of a promotor. I didn't like it at all then, because I had no idea what to do. I then got asked to do several translations for a small German booking office and for some musicians. Before I knew it I was helping out at some events too. First I thought why should I do that all, it's not my world. But it happened all so suddenly. How did my life change..I got invited in a radio studio, found myself later doing interviews for that station with The Easybeats, The Troggs and Equals. It was all so unreal. Of course I must have liked it, but I still had the feeling as being on vacation and that it would end the next day. Nothing less than that, coz Hans and I started to organize too, sometimes great, but we also had a big financially disaster with another event. Yep, c'est la vie. That was not good. It hasn't been nice always, I learned some really tough lessons (you need to know the risks and you only get to know them if you fall), but we liked it all so much anyway that we decided to start an own little agency officially. Really on a small, not risky base only and mostly non famous bands from here, but I do it with the time I have apart from my normal work. Also some bigger festival, gig or radio live show, where I can book our 70s bands for, like Slade, Trems, Rubettes etc (not Sweet yet, maybe one day, who knows). It's nice doing it all. I had the pleasure to be at recordings, I got to know numbers of great fans, travelled to several countries for the gigs. They actually were unreal rocking years, but it's the most fabulous thing, being busy and involved with music that much. A completely different world. Laughs and tears, happy times and less happy, a roller coaster which of course.... can't last. I started to got tired sometimes from gigs, also had times that I came back home in stead of being at the gig where I supposed to be. Now my youngest, Marco, has a band. He's really a damn good guitar player and I notice that this starts to become more and more important for me. My own kid... , going his own, way musically; writing their own songs and being on stage. He gets asked now to help bands, gets spontaneous asked to play with them on stage for a song and I see that he loves it. I am still very much into music and I really can't live without it, but I concentrate more on Marco than that I go to my own gigs lately. It's the youth that takes over and it's good like that.
This little story started actually with Sweet, the most lovely band....but it was due to Andy's Sweet at that first gig a year or ten ago, that changed my life totally, threw it upside down so to speak.