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In reply to the discussion: George Kooymans, co-founder of Golden Earring, dies aged 77 [View all]highplainsdem
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from Music Appreciation (which I host) for reply 2 there and the list of Golden Earring threads I'd posted to that point (which included the very long thread in the Lounge that I also posted in the OP in this thread): https://www.democraticunderground.com/103480101#post2
I've also posted a lot about the Dutch supergroup trio Vreemde Kostgangers (Strange Boarders, which is a Dutch way of saying "It takes all kinds" ) that George formed about ten years ago with a pop/ska singer who'd been one of the Netherlands' biggest stars in the 1980s, and the folk and protest singer who was the Netherlands' version of Bob Dylan. Their last album, which had been mostly complete before the pop singer died of cancer and George was diagnosed with ALS, was completed and released and topped the Dutch charts. And George was also recording with American singer-songwriter-guitarist Frank Carillo. All the while still working with Golden Earring and keeping them together. He'd done his last touring with VK in spring of 2020, right before Covid shut everything down. That summer was when he first started seeing doctors to diagnose the problems he was having playing guitar, but it wasn't conclusively diagnosed till that fall and wasn't announced till early 2021, with the announcement that Golden Earring would disband.
Video below of Vreemde Kostgangers in 2018, playing old hits. Their new music was all in Dutch, and George's VK bandmates had also recorded in Dutch throughout their long careers, but Golden Earring had always recorded English lyrics (I've read that 90+% of Dutch adults know English). But in this clip they're doing two of Golden Earring's early hits, and then an old song that was a hit for folksinger Boudewijn de Groot (left). Pop star Henny Vrienten, center, would also do some old hits during VK concerts. I'll post an old (1969) Golden Earring video of Another 45 Miles below the VK video.
That song was a concert staple for Golden Earring. It had been on the Dutch charts more than two months. Live, acoustic, 1993, from a concert that became one of their biggest-selling albums:
My favorite from that concert was their acoustic cover of "Eight Miles High" - which they'd done a 20-minute electric cover of for an early album.
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