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- INTERVIEW with UNCLEJOHN /CORP\VENGEANCE
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- credit: NWR
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- <Bud-> For the record (and so I don't fuck anything up), what are your
- current affils, and what groups have you been a part of in the past?
-
- <UncleJohn> My current affils are CORP and Vengeance
- <UncleJohn> groups that i've been a part of in the past include DOD /
- PROPHECY / VENGEANCE (Old Utils Group Not Curry) / RiSC /
- SCUM / SIEGE / GENESIS
- <UncleJohn> i believe thats it i might have missed a couple
- <UncleJohn> hehe
-
- <Bud-> Impressive. I remember that old Vengeance.. just barely <g>.
- <Bud-> Corp is arguably one of the top utils groups today, and has had
- quite a history in the scene.
- <Bud-> How did it come to be, and how did you come to be a part of it?
-
- <UncleJohn> Well back in hmm i'd say 94 i believe it was David & Goliath
- came to me with the idea of starting a new utils group, He had
- released a few things under The Corporation Banner, so i figured
- what the heck, i always like a new project so i decided to join
- up, i was immediatly moved to a leadership spot, and we started
- rockin
- <UncleJohn> next :)
-
- <Bud-> I remember a lot of great releases from those days, Corp earned an
- excellent reputation. What do you think were the main factors for
- your success back then?
- <Bud-> And as a side note, would you consider the formation of the original
- Corp an "easy birth"?
-
- <UncleJohn> Hmm, what were the main factors to our succes...I'd have to say
- it was when i noticed a little group named TiTAN floating around
- the scene releasin utils, They were led by hemp hoodlum, and had
- some major names in the group. In a gutsy move i talked to hemp
- hoodlum and asked him if he'd be interested in merging titan
- into Corp. In a huge suprise to me, he said yes. After that
- move, the ball started rollin and we were on top for quite a
- while, we had the top bb
- <UncleJohn> and we were releasing many releases daily
- <UncleJohn> Would i consider the formation of the original corp an easy
- birth, i'd have to say no, we did have many good people, but we
- all had to work our asses off to prove ourselves to get taken
- seriously
- <UncleJohn> next
- <UncleJohn> ;)
-
- <Bud-> That's certainly true of most groups. Releases daily back then was
- quite impressive as well.
-
- <UncleJohn> Yup quite true
-
- <Bud-> Now Corp remained dominant for a while, and then came to an "end"...
- can you give some background as to what happened?
-
- <UncleJohn> heh, well i'll explain all of the times corp has gone away so
- people will better understand the history
-
- <Bud-> Hehe don't mention all of them or we'll have a book on our hands :)
-
- <UncleJohn> haha
- <UncleJohn> i can make it short
-
- <Bud-> ok, go for it :)
-
- <UncleJohn> The ORIGINAL Corp merged into scum which at the time was the
- top group, The second time we merged into PWA (A Decision i had
- no part in since my computer was broken) and the Third time we
- went into SiEGE
- <UncleJohn> next
- <UncleJohn> ;)
-
- <Bud-> What makes the current edition of CORP a success? You've had several
- rebirths to varying degrees of success (I was even in a brief 96
- incarnation that eventually merged into SHOCK, where I am today), but
- this one seems to posses something the others didn't...
-
- <UncleJohn> I can account this success to the leadership. The way i formed
- this current edition of corp was so i wouldn't have to be online
- 24/7 to babysit the group. First i'd like to mention beck,
- without whom this group wouldn't be at the point it is now. I'm
- sure lots of people dont like him or whatever, but he is one of
- the hardest workers out there. Second i'd like to mention
- Twizted and Oasis, a couple guys i'm sure lots of people are
- familure with, their contribut
- <UncleJohn> i've seen in years
- <UncleJohn> them along with a council of people with much experience make
- this group work better than any other edition
-
- <Bud-> Nice to hear... and it's definately nice to be able to leave a group
- for a while and not need to worry that it will fall apart, I can
- certainly relate to that.
-
- <UncleJohn> Yup! ;)
-
- <Bud-> What is your current role in Corp then? Do you have a hands on
- approach, or do you leave things to the council for the most part?
-
- <UncleJohn> Recently i've been taking a hands on approach, there were times
- in the past couple months when i was just overlooking, but that
- was when i was busy looking for a job and such, so now i'm back
- to the active leader role with beck and twizted
-
- <Bud-> Corp recently formed an alliance of sorts with the renowned cracking
- group UCF, which for as long as I can remember was THE cracking
- group, when it came to quality, reputation, releases...
- <Bud-> Despite the fact that of late they've slowed a bit, I can see this
- definately helping Corp
- <Bud-> although I'm not sure of the effect it will have on UCF, as it brings
- additional work
- <Bud-> How did this alliance come to be?
-
- <UncleJohn> Well the idea was first brought to me by TK4, i figured it could
- do nothing but help so i had him work it out
- <UncleJohn> And so its been good so far, they're eager to get crackin and
- we're eager to let them start crackin
-
- <Bud-> I'm yet to see a group complain they have too many crackers <g>
- <Bud-> In it's releases, does Corp try to focus on any specific area, cater
- to a certain user base?
- <Bud-> As Siege leans towards art/design stuff, FCN to programming/
- development, and as LND claims to with cam/cad titles
-
- <UncleJohn> Well we dont really focus on one specific area, We just want to
- get things out to the end user. Whatever it may be, if its good
- then put it out i say. I keep the standerds at this, i ask
- myself, would i or anybody that i know use this? if the answer
- is a no then its a no go :)
-
- <Bud-> A good rule of thumb to go by.... I guess to wrap things up, what
- defines The Corporation as a group, if you had to select just one
- thing?
-
- <UncleJohn> next
- <UncleJohn> ;0
- <UncleJohn> hmm lemme think
-
- <Bud-> (You can cheat here if you really want, but try to narrow it down).
-
- <UncleJohn> I'd say that the thing that defines corp as a group is
- experience. We know what we're doing, most of us have been doing
- this for many many years.
-
- <Bud-> Alright, well I guess that wraps it up.. thanks a bunch for putting
- up with this, and all the best with CORP! :)
-
- <UncleJohn> thanks alot
- <UncleJohn> can i throw out some greets?
- <UncleJohn> :)
-
- <Bud-> :) .. well... we survived it ;)
- <Bud-> yeah, sure
-
- <UncleJohn> I want to put out a big greet out to David & Goliath, he was my
- mentor and i wouldn't be where i am without him...And hello's to
- hemp hoodlum and Nutcase
-