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Keith Moon / Golden Earring / WTC



Hi,

Last night I went to a very special Golden Earring concert ("Radar Love", 
"Twilight Zone", "When the lady smiles"). It was in The Hague city hall and 
there was an exhibition of records & memorabilia. Amongst the special items 
of the drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk there was a picture of Keith Moon, who 
influenced him a lot (I've seen him playing live, and he is twirling his 
sticks a lot!). That night I also learned that Cesar was asked to replace 
Keith Moon in The Who in the 70's, when Keith was still alive! This 
surpirsed me! Because even though he was sometimes way out of it, his 
drumming was still extraordinary, amazing and GREAT! Just listen to "Empty 
Glass" on "Who are you", you don't wanna replace that drummer! But 
apparently it happened, but Cesar declined the offer.

During the opening a famous comical duo had an act (from Jiskefet, for the 
Dutch listers). Because of the disaster in NYC, they had made some changes 
to the program to keep it sober. 2 guys came up in Nazi uniforms dancing a 
polka. They announced that because of the disaster they had a special 
program. Kinda like the special program they had for Rotterdam a little 
while ago (in WWII they bombed it down). They started to talk about Dutch 
bands and came up with the Dutch singer Lee Towers. The other Nazi-guy was 
telling the other it would not be appropriate to make that joke, but he 
did. Lee had a brother named Twin. And after Lee Towers broke through, Twin 
Towers broke down. A lot of "oooohhh" in the audience. But that's the way 
these guys are. They want to shock you with reality. After that one Nazi 
asked for a rock-guitar. He got one and he asked if this was an expensive 
guitar, because he wanted to play something from The Who. :-) He went on 
and played the national anthem along with a tape. He went on playing with 
his teeth and later on fucking the guitar. Now that's something I've never 
seen Pete do!

Golden Earring played and I was impressed by Cesar's drumming (during one 
solo he threw away his drum sticks and went on beating the drums with his 
bare hands!).

Anyway, a great night and it was nice to see some Dutch Who fans there. :-)

Cheers,

Bjxrn Ciggaar
http://www.warande.net/~ciggaar

"The Netherlands? Fuck; that's just small, flat and full of stoned people!"
- John Entwistle (9th of June 2001)