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turbinetree

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Wed Jul 23, 2025, 10:29 PM Jul 23

Golden Earring - Vanilla Queen - 4/25/1975 - Winterland






George Kooymans.......................
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Golden Earring - Vanilla Queen - 4/25/1975 - Winterland (Original Post) turbinetree Jul 23 OP
Great song and performance. highplainsdem Jul 23 #1
Golden Earring - I've Just Lost Somebody turbinetree Jul 25 #2
One of the early (1968) songs George cowrote with their bass player, Rinus Gerritsen, who the next highplainsdem Jul 26 #3
Thank you.............. turbinetree Jul 26 #4
You're welcome! :) Btw, there's very old video of that song, done for a Dutch TV show in 1968, highplainsdem Jul 26 #5
That was very cool to know.............. turbinetree Jul 26 #6

highplainsdem

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3. One of the early (1968) songs George cowrote with their bass player, Rinus Gerritsen, who the next
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 03:03 PM
Jul 26

year became his brother-in-law. George and Rinus cowrote a lot of their songs at first. Then for a few years George did all the songwriting, and then he started writing songs with lead singer Barry Hay, letting Barry write the lyrics for most of their songs (not all; Barry came up with the lyrics for Radar Love, while George wrote Twilight Zone by himself).

highplainsdem

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5. You're welcome! :) Btw, there's very old video of that song, done for a Dutch TV show in 1968,
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:50 PM
Jul 26

with the band for some reason down in a construction pit for the Amsterdam Metro.



The drummer there, Jaap Eggermont, was replaced in 1969 by Sieb Warner - he can be seen in their video for Another 45 Miles - who was replaced in 1970 by Cesar Zuiderwijk, creating the lineup (with Kooymans, Hay, and Gerritsen) that lasted till they disbanded a few years ago.
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