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By 1973 the cooperation between Rusty and Armand became so intense, that they decided to record a double album. Rusty was in between two bands, ending Mr. Albert Show and starting up Sweet d'Buster. He would make the accompaniments and play the various instruments, the saxes and flutes, but also the piano, marimba, and the electric guitars. Bonkie on organ, Broer on drums and the bass player was a seventeen year old bloke, Freddy Cavalli whom Rusty had discovered at some jamsession, later to become bassplayer in Herman Brood's Wild Romance etc. The Album sold 50.000 copies, an incredible result in a small language-area like Holland and Flanders, all the more because a great deal of the songs did not pass the decency-test of the media once more, be it for reasons like too long a song, cursing and swearing, lyrics about drugs, explicit sexual stories and daring political and anti-religious statements.

 

The releasing and/or boycotting of his records did not really influence the frequency of his gigs by now, he had his places to play figured out, at least twice a year, enough to keep him warm, so he felt as free as a bird to write about whatever came to mind, not disturbed by laws or conventions.

For his next product, one-and-a-half elpee to be precise, called Terug Naar De Aarde (Back To Earth) (which had nothing to do with his state of mind) he waited two years until 1976 in order to make a different sound and after having his songs worked out, he recorded them with Freddy Cavalli and Van Barschot, who played piano. No drums this time, just two electric solos by Willem van Rooy. Though highly unusual, they recorded vocals and guitar first, after that the bass and the piano played along with the recorded sound.

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