Introduction 8 (November 2005)

Aus der fernen Schweiz kann ich nur sagen, dass ich die Unterstützung von PIAS als nicht angemessen angesehen habe. Also kann der Rückschritt ohne weiteres ein Fortschritt sein, auch wenn Sony für Bruce Springsteen & CO etwas mehr in Werbung investieren dürfte.

Erstmalig seh ich den jungen Henk in Aktion. Ein ähnliches Aha-Erlebnis wie der junge Mick Jagger?!

Aber der grösste Teil ist absolut neu.
Gestern hab ich die neue CD aus Holland erhalten. Der erste Eindruck ist positiv.

Konzert: ich weiss noch nichts. Ich habe wie bei der CD noch keine Berichte gelesen. Weiss also nicht, wie sie auf den unvermeidlichen Abschied von Titia reagiert haben. Nach dem Konzert wird ich einiges zu lesen haben. Und wenn Tom alles mitbringt, was er angekündigt hat, ……

- Bertus Borgers – LP Demo 74

- De Geheelontkenners – alles

- Los Alegres – alles

- Margriet Eshuys – CD The Wee Small Hours

- Rob Brautigam – LP This Pain

- Mam – CD Ontwik + Hobbel

- Frank Boeijen – Schaduw van de liefde

- Yasmine –

- De Bombitas -

Ting als griechische Pressung

Sable Promo

… und ich freue mich auf das kommende Simon Ho-Livealbum!

023 24.1.80: Velo Hal, Wateringen (AT or TV°, +TV, TV-M, TV)

1 Tent (H)* 5 Hook Of Holland (H)/

3 Who's The Killer (H) 7 Tutti Ragazzi (H)

4 Ping Pong (H)

Notes: All (??) songs shown on 13^th March in +"Countdown" (VARA?). My version with all seven songs probably taken from a 1984 Countdown special.

Song 1 televised incompletely in "Zebra", 4^th Sept., 1994 (CH-TV SF DRS).

1 Tent (H) 19 Frozen Fred (P)

2 Out Of Suburbia (P) 20 Who's The Killer (H)

3 4 Ankles (P+H) 21 1:30 (P)

4 Take A Piece (H) 22 "Burgers & Beer" (P)

5 Caravan (H) 23 Johnny Said Silver (H)/

6 London Letters (P) 24 "Monotony" (P)/

7 The Young Reporter (H) 25 "Lies" (H)

8 Hook Of Holland (H) 26 Holiday On Ice (H)

9 Aloha Drums! (P)/ 27 "Slick Ballad" (H)

10 Ping Pong (H)/ 28 Dancing Girl (H)

11 Bungalow (H) 29 I Saw Her Standing There (Le, McCa)

12 So In Love (H)/ 30 Little Billy (P. Townshend)

13 Harrow Accident (P) 31 Walk - Don't Run (J. Smith)*/

14 "If I Were You" (H) 32 Apache (J. Lordan)

15 Tutti Ragazzi (H)

16 A To B; C To D (P)

17 Ronald Razorblade (H)/

18 "T-Shirt" (H)

Notes: Songs 1 and 32 incomplete. Song 28 without Red Car part. Song 27 announced as "Slick Ballads".

HH: keyb (1-10, 15-23, 31); eg (11-14, 24-32); AR: bg (2-9, 12-25, 27-32), keyb (1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 15, 20, 26); MP: pedal steel (9), acg (23).
New: 047A Feb.(?) 1982: TV studio, Hilversum: "TopPop" (AVRO)

1 Red Tape (H)

Notes: Playback. A parody on German band Kraftwerk. With RJS.
060+ -> 060 21.3.83: TV studio, Hilversum: "Tineke" (Veronica)

1 Nescio (H)

Notes: Playback.

New: 062A Early April: TV studio, …?... (B): "Generation ‘80"

1 Interview with MP

2 Nescio (H)

Notes: Interview in French! Playback.

1 The Lodger (H) 15 Slip Of The Tongue (H)

2 Footprint (H) 16 Hobbyland (P)/

3 Unpleasant Surprise (P) 17 Empty Room (H)

4 Walls Have Ears (H) 18 Springtime Coming Soon (S)

5 Suddenly I Met Your Face (H)/ 19 A Touch Of Henry Moore (H)

6 Take Five (P. Desmond)/Su.../ 20 Nescio (H)

7 Holiday On Ice (H) 21 The Vermilion Pencil (H)

8 Wake Up (S) 22 Clean Shirt In Paris (H)

9 Walter And Conny (S) 23 Tutti Ragazzi (H)

10 New Flat (H) 24 …?...

11 Tons Of Ink (H) 25 ”Dark Room” (H)

12 How The West Got Lost (S) 26 The Young Reporter (H)

13 Red Tape (H)

14 Man Of Straw (P)

Notes: Songs 18, 19 incomplete. Song 24 is an instrumental.

1 Sketches Of Spain (H+S)

1 Sketches Of Spain (H+S)

Notes: Part of the CJP tour. Televised in “Omnibus”, a special about CJP and the tour.
072 23.11.83: Radio (or TV) studio 1, Hilversum: "...?..." (VARA) (RT)

1 Red Tape (H) 4 Slip Of The Tongue (H)

2 Suddenly I Met Your Face (P)/ 5 Unpleasent Surprise (P)

3 Take Five (P. Desmond)/Su... ctd. 6 Spirits Awake (P)

Notes: Song 4: Download on Nits-files site. Marimbas prob. by HH.

Broadcast at a later date or my tape is a re-broadcast. Song 6 incomplete.
076A+ -> 076A 13.12.83: Casino, Den Bosch (SB)

1 Office At Night (H) 15 Spirits Awake (P)

2 New Flat (H) 16 Acres Of Tintoretto (H)

3 A Statue (P) 17 Bild am Sonntag (…) (P)

4 Red Tape (H) 18 Your Next Tyres (H)

5 Suddenly I Met Your Face (H)/ 19 A Touch Of Henry Moore (H)

6 Take Five (P. Desmond)/Su... ctd. 20 Nescio (H)

7 Wake Up (S) 21 Sketches Of Spain (H+S)

8 Slip Of The Tongue (H) 25 The Vermilion Pencil (H)

9 Empty Room (H) 26 How The West Got Lost (S)

10 Dapper Street (H) 27 Clean Shirt In Paris (H)

11 Walter And Conny (S) 28 ”Dark Room” (H)

12 Man Of Straw (P) 29 Tables & Chairs (P)

13 Walls Have Ears (H) 30 ”I Don’t Really Know” (H?)

14 Unpleasant Surprise (P)

Notes: Part of the CJP tour. Songs 1, 10, 25, 26 are incomplete. Song 5: Introduced by a few piano doodles (looking fort he right chip) and featuring a weird drum solo by RK. ((Song 16: Henk mentions the movie Don’t Look Now.)). Song 30: Download on Nits-files site.
121+ -> 121 30.3.88: TV studio (?), Hilversum: "TopPop" (AVRO)

1 The Panorama Man

Notes: Rain storm at the start. Lightning-stroke during song 5. Then interruption, intermezzo (RJS had to re-start his "computers“) and continuation. On tape, song 1 is missing, songs 2, 14, 25 und 26 incomplete. DVD was professionally filmed and nearly complete: Song 1 incomplete and introduction of RJS is missing.

and line 10 televised on an unknown date, +songs 9, 2, 6 on 23^rd Aug. 1994. ((Songs 2 and 6 are on my DVD).

Notes : Song 1 incomplete. Pelican not played?

Songs 21, 22, 25, 26, 35: Downloads on Nits-files site.
276 24.8.96: Uitmarkt, Amsterdam (TV°, TV)

1 Intro/Soap Bubble Box 7 The Dream

2 Sketches Of Spain (H+S) 8 Nescio

3 A Touch Of Henry Moore (H) 9 Cars & Cars

4 J.O.S. Days/vrees (Nits, FdJ) 10 In The Dutch Mountains

5 Oom-Pah-Pah/ 11 Dankzij de dijken (FdJ, Nits)

6 The Train - Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof (H)

Notes: Songs 1-11 broadcast in “Greatest Nits” (AVRO). Adieu not part of the broadcast.

Songs 10 and 11 with Finnish choir "Mieskuoro Huutajat". Song 11: Intro and vocals by Freek de Jonge. HH: mini synth (1), acg (2, 4-11), perc (3) (no harp on song 4); PM: perc (1, 3-8, 10), vio (2, 9).

1 The Light 17 Letter To E.

2 Three Sisters* 18 J.O.S. Days

3 Hold Me Geneva 19 Sketches Of Spain (H+S) **

4 A Touch Of Henry Moore (H) 20 Lay Lady Lay (B. Dylan) **

5 Rainfallagain 21 Have You Ever Seen … (J.F.) **

6 Nescio (H) 22 The Boxer (P. Simon) **

7 H.O.M. 23 You Really Got Me (R. Davies) **

8 Robinson 24 Space Oddity (D. Bowie) **

9 House Of Jacob 25 I’m Waiting For The Man (L.R.)**

10 "Helsinki Blues" 26 The Train

11 Soul Man 27 The Dream/

12 Dominique (J. Deckers) 28 Walk On The Wild Side/

13 Sister Rosa/ 29 Perfect Day (both: L. Reed)

14 Stand By Your Man (T. Wynette, 30 Wall In China

B. Sherrill) 31 Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof (H)

15 Cars & Cars

16 In The Dutch Mountains

Notes: Song 20 is incomplete.

HH: acg (1, 2, 6, 9-14, 17, 18, 20-29, 31), eg (3, 8, 19, 30), keyb/synth (4, 5, 6, 15), bull bull (16), harp (18).

Songs 20-25 are part of the "Tower Of Song" section**:

20 Lay Lady Lay (B. Dylan) Bob Dylan

21 Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (J. Fogerty) CCR 22 The Boxer (P. Simon) Simon & Garfunkel

23. 
    You Really Got Me (R. Davies) The Kinks
    

15 Intermezzo

1 Soul Man 16 The Wind, The Rain

2 Dominique (J. Deckers)/ 17 J.O.S. Days

3 Sister Rosa/ 18 Seven Green Parrots

4 Stand By Your Man (T. Wynette, 19 Angel Of Happy Hour

B. Sherrill) 20 In The Dutch Mountains

5 Sketches Of Spain (H+S) 21 Bike In Head

6 Ivory Boy 22 Frog*

7 Jazz Bon Temps 23 Dance Me To The End Of

8 The 'Darling' Stone Love (L. Cohen)

9 Walking With Maria 24 Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof (H)

10 Crime & Punishment 25 Nescio (H)

11 Night Fever (B., M. & R. Gibb /

12 Robinson 26 The Train

13 Robinson 27 An Eating House

14 26 A (Clouds In The Sky)

Notes: Leona joined the band after song 5. She opened song 18 with her synth. birds. Song 13 is an instr. reprise, aka Rob’s solo.
322+ -> 322 Mid April '01: De Werf Studio, Amsterdam

1 Interview with HH

2 Interview with RK

3 Ivory Boy

Notes: Telecast on 17^th June 2001 in "Nirvana (The Story of the Ivory Boy Patrick Iliohan)" (KRO’s Nederland 1). Interviews in Dutch. Song 3 is incomplete and most prob. different to the well known studio version. It’s a duo version with HH and RK. Recorded prob. at De Werf Studio. For this special or during the Wool sessions? As I haven’t seen the official Ivory Boy video, I don’t know if it’s different.

(For CD DISCH see Entry 1044A.).
331+ -> 331 March 2003: TV studio, …?...: “Geraakt door oorlog” (Nederlande 1)

1 Wees niet bang (FdJ, HH)

Notes: Freek de Jonge: lvoc; with HH: acg, bvoc; RJS: acc; RK: perc; Helga de Jonge: vio; …?...: bg.
“New” 341A+ -> 341A 2.12.03: Le Trianon, Paris (F) (AT)

1 Boy In A Tree 12 Fire In My Head

2 The Train* 13 Eifersucht

3 Bike In Head 14 Welcome Back (S)

4 The Dream 15 Rumspringa

5 Aquarium 16 In The Dutch Mountains

6 Sketches Of Spain (H+S) 17 Sugar River

7 Doppelganger 18 Woman Cactus (H)

8 Savoy 19 Adieu, Sweet Bahnhof (H)

9 Nescio (H) 20 Home Before Dark

10 The Espresso Girl 21 J.O.S. Days

11 The Infinite Shoeblack

1 Wees niet bang (FdJ, HH)

Notes: “Op de hielen gezeten”. TV special to celebrate Freek de Jonge’s 60^th birthday. Backstage jam session. Song incomplete, with FdJ: lvoc; HH: acg, lvoc; RJS: acc; RK: perc, bvoc; Hella de Jonge: vio.
351 14.12.04: Paradiso, Amsterdam (TV°, TV)

1 Totdak ik niet meer ben (

2 “Het uiterste“

3 Pakze aan die provincialen (

4 “Prins Bernhard“

5 Jonas (FdJ, RJS)

6 De vendeling van Ameland (FdJ, BdG)

7 Quarantaine (FdJ, RJS)

8 “De ezel“

9 De beer is los! (DL)

10 Vadermoord (FdJ, RJS)

11 Dankzij de dijken (FdJ, Nits)

12 Kom zitten mijn vrienden (FdJ, Bob Dylan)

13 “Het inzicht“

14 Vergeet mij niet (FdJ, RJS)

15 Reikhalzend verlangen (

Notes: “freek & nits en gasten”. Part 14 of the 15 week De Vergrijzing project (see Entry 5137). A part of the show was telecast on 19^th December: “De Vergrijzing” (Ned. 3).

No concert sequence. Song 3 is from the second part of the show, etc. After Bello de hond was an intermission and Freek changed clothes (white -> dark).

Lines 2, 4, 8, 13 are monologues. On line 2, Freek was accompanied by Henk’s guitar.

FdJ: lvoc, harp (9); RJS: keyb, bvoc (3, 5, 10, 11, 15); HH: eg (1, 9), acg (2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 15), lvoc (7), bvoc (3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15); RK: dr (except 14), bvoc); Cok van Vuuren: eg (1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15), banjo (3, 5), pedal steel (11); Daniel Lohues: dulcimer: (5, 12); harp (9), lvoc (9); Jan de Hont: eg (9); Hella de Jonge: vio (Wees niet bang only).

The songs according to a found setlist (without monologues):

1 Kom zitten mijn vrienden

2 +En stoet malloten

3 +Harde waarheid

4 +Rode wijn

5 +J.O.S. vrees

6 +de maan

7 +OLVG

9 +Bello de hond

10 De beer is los !

11 +Jonas

12 +Stan Meijer’s blues

13 +Er toen ik 18 was

14 De vendeling van Ameland

15 Quarantaine

16 Vergeet mij niet

17 +Dracula

18 +Wat ik geleerd heb in dit leven

19 +Twee bussen

20 Dankzij de dijken

21 Pakze ze an die provincialen

22 Reikhalzend verlangen

23 +Wees niet bang

24 Vadermoord
354+ -> 354 8.9.05: Paard Van Troje, Den Haag (AT)

1 House On House 9 Ivory Boy

2 Sketches Of Spain (H+S) 10 Eifersucht

3 Nescio (H) 11 Walter And Conny (S)

4 Walking With Maria 12 Crime & Punishment

5 Giant Normal Dwarf 13 In The Dutch Mountains

6 Room No. 3: Like A Shell 14 Giant Normal Dwarf

7 Room No. 6: Energa 15 Giant Normal Dwarf

8 Room No. 9: Cars & Cars 16 Cars & Cars

17 Sketches Of Spain (H+S)

Notes: Nits (with VvdP) & Residentie Orkest. For a short time on Nits-files site. Had to be removed after intervention of Aad Link. Songs 14-17: Encores. Didn’t they rehearse more songs with the orchestra?? Song 15: short instr. reprise.
1053, see Entry 331
1044A+ June-Nov. 1998, De Werf Studio, Amsterdam

+Disch - ...?... (...?..., 2000)

Notes: Song 6 is an instrumental.

TV documentation telecast on 17^th June 2001 in "Nirvana" (The Story of the Ivory Boy Patrick Iliohan) (KRO’s Nederland 1). Interviews with HH, RK, PI, JM, YV’H and Patrick’s parents in Dutch. Lots of stuff with HH and RK, esp. a duo version of Ivory Boy (See Entry 322.)

5136+ -> 5136 3.2.04: Ahoy, Rotterdam (Internet)

1 In The Dutch Mountains

Notes: Band Blof with HH and RJS. HH: Lvoc, acg; RJS: keyb, bvoc. Blof: Paskal Jakobsen: g, lvoc; Peter Slager: bg, bvoc; Bas Kennis: accordion, bvoc; Norman Bonink: dr, bvoc.

A video of Money Makers was televised sev. times.

2 "Blue Diamond" (H)

Song 2: Also known as "Blue Diamonds". Written for Jean-Pierre Burdorf. (A musician and record company owner. See Entry 001.).
036B 7.2.81: Kolfbaan, Gorcum (SB)

14 Safety In Numbers (P) 32 "Australia“ (H)

Notes: Nits Archive Tape, Vol. 33. (Tape says Gorichem, Nits book Gorcum. On my map, I can only find Gorinchem. www.gorcum.nl says that Gorcum, Gorkum and Gorinchem are right.).

Song 17 incomplete. Song 31 is an instrumental. (Only instr. middle section of the song.). Song 32: aka "Going To Australia" (see Entry 039).

Songs 24, 32: Downloads on Nits-files site.
038C 1.6.81: Quasimodo, (West) Berlin (D) (SB)

+038D

version on Omsk MC and CD. Download on Nites-files site. Song 21: aka "Going To Australia". Song 22: Their Finnish promoter gave the song to Finnish radio stations.

058 13.3.83: LP Omsk, CBS 25364

 Henk designed the sleeve for the LP and the single, i.e. here the spelling is almost certainly correct. The information on the labels was Sony's job. Probably mistakes have been made there. It fits that only "vermilion" is English. Has someone let himself be inspired by the French "vermillon" or by the English "million", or is "vermillion" American? In some 1983 concerts Henk announced the song as The Vermilion Pencil.

I stick with The Vermilion Pencil!

1 The Knife (RK)

2 Horror From A To Z (Parts I and II) (RK) ex 2009A

RK: perc, samples.

Notes: Song1: Recorded for a documentary by Celia Loewenstein for BBC television (1995). (Free Download, 13.3.02). Song 2: Recorded soon after the DaDaDa sessions. With TT: whispering sounds; Astrid Seriese: screaming.

1 Les nuits

2 The Rising Sun

3 The Eiffel Tower

4 The Red Dog

5 The Long Song

6 The Launderette

7 The Pizzeria

8 The Key Shop (War & Peace)

9 The Wind-Up Bird

10 The Hole

11 The Milkman

Songs 1-11 released on CD Les Nuits, Sony BMG 82876754722 (24.10.05).

Notes: Jan Erik van Regteren Altena and Michiel Commandeur: vio; Anette Bergman: viola; Eduard van Regteren Altena: cello (all from The Mondrian Quartet):; Jasper le Clerq: string arrangements; Marjolein van der Klauw: bvoc (2, 4, 8); Ciska Ruitenberg: bvoc (1, 5).

It was quite a surprise for me, when I saw in May pictures that the band was working on a new record. Another surprise was the return to Sony. The intention was to release a mini Longplayer (CD), but Sony insisted on a normal CD. So they had to record some more stuff.

December 2005:
B Band 1974-1981: 30 pages with 78 entries,

1981-1985: 25 pages with 87 entries,

1986-1987: 11 pages with 35 entries,

1987-1990: 31 pages with 118 entries,

1990-1992: 20 pages with 42 entries,

1992-1996: 31 pages with 102 entries,

1997: 3 pages with 3 entries,

1998-2003: 26 pages with 69 entries,

2003-…….: 13 pages with 48 entries,

“Internet”: 2 pages with 8 entries,

making a current total of 580 entries. (1996: 258)
271+ March(?) '96: Maxi-single, COL 662681 ?

A1 Bike In Head (Elephant Mix)

A2 Bike In Head (Cuckoo Mix)

B1 Bike In A.

B2 Bike In Head (live)

Recorded: 243 (A, B1) + 204

Notes: Or is it a +maxi with 2 tracks? (SAMP 3221)