George Kooymans - founder, lead guitarist and main songwriter of Golden Earring - is 75 today

[highplainsdem]

6. Well, everyone's entitled to their own opinion about who is or isn't a

great drummer. If you think Cesar might have held the band back, that's a perfectly valid personal opinion. But it 's one I've never run across before. And since I haven't run across it before, and The Who wanted Cesar after they lost Keith Moon, I don't think your low opinion of Cesar is very widely shared.

I have a very high opinion of Cesar. Who's inspired and encouraged a lot of drummers.

Sometimes a lot of them all at once. As you'll see in the videos below, from 1992 and 2018.

Btw, if you check out the Music Appreciation thread for Cesar's birthday that I linked to in my last post (but included rather inconspicuously under the video of John Waite raving about the band and Cesar and Rinus in particular) you'll find a reply from a DUer inspired to become a drummer because of Cesar, as well as more videos and a link to a Drummerworld thread.

Here's a thread on Cesar's new band from a Telecaster forum: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/golden-earring-drummer-cesars-new-band-sloper.1084368/

Those videos of Cesar inspiring/encouraging lots of drummers: