(12-13-2020, 12:38 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: Bob , I know where she is : in your mind , even after all those years .

(12-13-2020, 01:06 AM)bioman_imp Wrote:

(12-12-2020, 01:40 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I might have to agree with the VLJ , this is NOT good at all . We had some very good bands in the sixties in Holland but later it went down hill.

My personal favorite at the time (as I grew up in Holland) was Cuby and the Blizzards. A blues band with a weird singer (Harry Muskee) and an absolutely brilliant guitar player: Eelco Gelling. Reportedly the Stones asked Gelling to join them but he refused: Muskee and Gelling were natives from a tiny village (Grollo) in the most remote province (Drenthe) of The Netherlands, and he just couldn't imagine leaving home. He did join Golden Earring for a couple of years.

The band was actually really good: they played with Van Morrison, John Mayall and others.

Muskee died in 2011 but Gelling is still around (I believe).

Here is a video from 1967. I still get goosebumps when I hear and see this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWCg7v06Les

An other great song (without video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVH0WUV7Z8

(12-13-2020, 01:20 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 12:38 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: Bob , I know where she is : in your mind , even after all those years .

... and she hasn't changed a bit.

(12-13-2020, 02:16 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 01:06 AM)bioman_imp Wrote:

(12-12-2020, 01:40 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I might have to agree with the VLJ , this is NOT good at all . We had some very good bands in the sixties in Holland but later it went down hill.

My personal favorite at the time (as I grew up in Holland) was Cuby and the Blizzards. A blues band with a weird singer (Harry Muskee) and an absolutely brilliant guitar player: Eelco Gelling. Reportedly the Stones asked Gelling to join them but he refused: Muskee and Gelling were natives from a tiny village (Grollo) in the most remote province (Drenthe) of The Netherlands, and he just couldn't imagine leaving home. He did join Golden Earring for a couple of years.

The band was actually really good: they played with Van Morrison, John Mayall and others.

Muskee died in 2011 but Gelling is still around (I believe).

Here is a video from 1967. I still get goosebumps when I hear and see this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWCg7v06Les

An other great song (without video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVH0WUV7Z8

My personal favorite at the time (as I grew up in Holland) was Cuby and the Blizzards. A blues band with a weird singer (Harry Muskee) and an absolutely brilliant guitar player: Eelco Gelling. Reportedly the Stones asked Gelling to join them but he refused: Muskee and Gelling were natives from a tiny village (Grollo) in the most remote province (Drenthe) of The Netherlands, and he just couldn't imagine leaving home. He did join Golden Earring for a couple of years.

The band was actually really good: they played with Van Morrison, John Mayall and others.

Muskee died in 2011 but Gelling is still around (I believe).

Here is a video from 1967. I still get goosebumps when I hear and see this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWCg7v06Les

An other great song (without video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVH0WUV7Z8 Are you Dutch by birth , do you remember Q65 ?

(12-13-2020, 01:20 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 12:38 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: Bob , I know where she is : in your mind , even after all those years .

... and she hasn't changed a bit.

... and she hasn't changed a bit.
Old girl friends will always look the same as when we saw them the last time.

(12-13-2020, 05:29 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I was born in Zaandam in 1950 and lived in Jisp till 1974 and went to St.Michels gestel till 1977.
As Holland is so small it was easy to see great bands all over our Country . I also liked The Shoes and George Baker. I did 18 months in military service , most of the time to drunk to walk straight let alone SHOOT straight !

(12-13-2020, 03:42 AM)bioman_imp Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 02:16 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 01:06 AM)bioman_imp Wrote:

(12-12-2020, 01:40 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: I might have to agree with the VLJ , this is NOT good at all . We had some very good bands in the sixties in Holland but later it went down hill.

My personal favorite at the time (as I grew up in Holland) was Cuby and the Blizzards. A blues band with a weird singer (Harry Muskee) and an absolutely brilliant guitar player: Eelco Gelling. Reportedly the Stones asked Gelling to join them but he refused: Muskee and Gelling were natives from a tiny village (Grollo) in the most remote province (Drenthe) of The Netherlands, and he just couldn't imagine leaving home. He did join Golden Earring for a couple of years.

The band was actually really good: they played with Van Morrison, John Mayall and others.

Muskee died in 2011 but Gelling is still around (I believe).

Here is a video from 1967. I still get goosebumps when I hear and see this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWCg7v06Les

An other great song (without video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVH0WUV7Z8

My personal favorite at the time (as I grew up in Holland) was Cuby and the Blizzards. A blues band with a weird singer (Harry Muskee) and an absolutely brilliant guitar player: Eelco Gelling. Reportedly the Stones asked Gelling to join them but he refused: Muskee and Gelling were natives from a tiny village (Grollo) in the most remote province (Drenthe) of The Netherlands, and he just couldn't imagine leaving home. He did join Golden Earring for a couple of years.

The band was actually really good: they played with Van Morrison, John Mayall and others.

Muskee died in 2011 but Gelling is still around (I believe).

Here is a video from 1967. I still get goosebumps when I hear and see this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWCg7v06Les

An other great song (without video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyVH0WUV7Z8 Are you Dutch by birth , do you remember Q65 ?

(12-13-2020, 01:20 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:

(12-13-2020, 12:38 AM)Houtman_imp Wrote: Bob , I know where she is : in your mind , even after all those years .

... and she hasn't changed a bit.

... and she hasn't changed a bit.
Old girl friends will always look the same as when we saw them the last time.

Yes, and yes. They were part of the very lively music scene from The Hague. I guess you would call it garage-rock? Although we called it Nederbeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVGRuD5zSa0


There were so many good rock and R&B bands in those days: Brainbox,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxUaohD3XZU

Focus, Barrelhouse, Livin' Blues, Bintangs.

I guess every country produces a few great bands. It seems that the 60's and early 70's was a particular fertile era in Holland.