Golden Earring #1

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Op dinsdag 24 maart 2009 13:55 schreef wallofdolls het volgende:
Deze maand zijn ze naar Engeland afgereisd om een paar concerten te geven!

Golden Earring, Candy's Going Bad, Ipswich Regent Theatre 2009

Golden Earring, Johnny Make Believe, Ipswich Regent Theatre 2009

Golden Earring - Liquid Soul - London Empire 14 March 2009 (clip)

Golden Earring - Radar Love - London Empire 14 March 2009 (clip)

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Op zaterdag 25 april 2009 11:03 schreef Leeuwinneke het volgende:
Ik vind Vanilla Queen een mooi liedje van de heren

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Op zaterdag 25 april 2009 14:24 schreef Smart_ass het volgende:

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Dat dus. Wat een prachtnummer.

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They take their sole break from the Switch material by diving into "Big Tree, Blue Sea," originally featured on their self-titled 1970 album and revamped with an additional flute arrangement. This is a highly adventurous modular piece, with obvious similarities to later era Jethro Tull and having a distinct progressive-rock bent. Initially mixing electronics and flute over a delicate groove, this contains some very sparse sections where Hay plays the flute through a delay unit creating a very spacey sound. Eventually a nice grooving jam develops into a lengthy hard rocking guitar workout, while reflecting back to the Moontan sound.

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Op zondag 3 mei 2009 15:06 schreef wallofdolls het volgende:
Ja? wat speelden ze?

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Op woensdag 6 mei 2009 06:56 schreef 3FMaster het volgende:
Ze gaan spelen op Appelpop, Tiel. En het is allemaal gratis!

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08 jun 2009
Golden Earring krijgt Top 40 Decennium Award
Drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk van de Golden Earring heeft vanmiddag een Decennium Award gekregen van de Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

Ook de George Baker Selection, BZN en 2 Unlimited kregen een Decennium Award. Uit het naslagwerk van de Top 40 blijkt dat de vier acts in de jaren zestig, zeventig, tachtig en negentig de meest succesvolle Nederlandse artiesten waren.

De onderscheidingen werden uitgereikt tijdens de lancering van de nieuwe website Top40.nl.

Borsato
Zanger Marco Borsato kreeg een Nummer 1 Award van de Top 40 omdat hij de meeste nummer 1-hits op rij heeft gescoord: namelijk negen.

Langst genoteerde act
De Earring ontving vier jaar geleden ook al een Top 40 Award als langst genoteerde act in de Nederlandse Top 40. Als alle hits van de Haagse band worden opgeteld, staan de Haagse rockers bijna 400 weken genoteerd in de lijst.

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"We're really going to blow them off the stage" In my eight years of covering the national rock music scene, that's the quote I've heard most often. It usually comes from the manager of an opening act who's desperate for publicity. The manager explains his act is much stronger than the headliner. It never is. Golden Earring is the exception. You can count on one hand the number of rock groups in the world capable of topping tons explosive new group from Holland. Currently on its first major tour in the U.S., Golden Earring has been the opening act for a number of top recording groups. From the reviews I've read, no one has been able to follow them. Among the groups the Earring has upstaged are ZZ Top, Procol Harum, J. Geils, Marshall Tucker, the Doobie Brothers and last Friday night at the Allen, Brownsville Station. Combining electrifying theatrics and acrobatics with a very sophisticated blend of rock 'n' roll. Golden Earring put together the finest stage show by a new act that I ever saw. In fact, I'd have to think awfully hard to come up with an "old" act that is capable of giving a better performance. Each musician in Golden Earring is a star. Together, they're dynamite. The audience is given a double treat of watching a spectacular show and listening to some classic rock. Flutist Barry Hay has to be made out of rubber. Besides bending his body in every position imaginable while singing, he's, brilliant on guitar, sax and any percussion instrument that's available. I usually hate drum solos, but Cesar Zuiderwijk made me love them. During an extended version of the group's smash hit, "Radar Love," Cesar showed what drumming's all about. He completed his already spectacular show with an unbelievable eight-foot leap over his drums. Just when I thought nothing could top Cesar's performance, bassist-keyboardist Rinus Gerritsen put on a demonstration that I still don't believe I saw. He made his bass guitar do everything but talk, and completed this super solo by deservedly collapsing flat on his back. It was the only time during the group's 50 minutes of playing that one of the four musicians wasn't moving. Guitarist George Kooymans - who executed a variety of leaps and glides throughout the performance - ended the show with a Beatles' version of "Money" that included a few Chuck Berry hops far good measure. Fans in the audience went wild. We all stood and screamed for more, but the Earring already had played longer than the time limit set for an opening act. The fans remained standing and lit matches in appreciation. It was quite a sight. At this point I felt very sorry for Brownville. There was no way that they were going to follow this act. They should be credited for trying, however. They did everything from passing out party favors to having motorcycles revving up on stage to get the audience to respond. Nothing worked. Like their two-million selling hit says, they would have been better off "Smokin' in the Boys' Room." If you're lucky enough to catch the Golden Earring in concert, better clip out the photo on this page see what the musicians look like. On stage - like the other photo from last week's concert shows-they're a blur. But the music is the most important thing, and Golden Earring's MCA Track album "Moontan" is audible proof that this will be the next supergroup.

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Op vrijdag 11 december 2009 17:47 schreef wallofdolls het volgende:
En nog wat...

wat wordt Golden Earring belachelijk onderschat. Dieptreurig dat NEderlanders daar zo weinig interesse voor kunnen opbrengen.