Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Group 1850 "Mother Nohead" video

Here's a performance of awesome Dutch hippie space-rockers Group 1850 from a Dutch t.v. show. It was posted on youtube by a Dutchman, i'm guessing, with a great blog of his own and tons of interesting posts. Here's what he says about the video...

"This is a late appearance of Group 1850 on Dutch television.I don't think the Group really existed at that time. It is Peter Sjardin who is playbacking, but the rest are invited friends I suppose.Van Oekel's Discohoek was a persiflage on other popular music programs. It was presented by Sjef van Oekel, who couldn't learn a single line by heart. Therefor he always hold papers with the text in his hand. The writer of the show, Wim T Schippers, exploited this: if Sjef anyway had to read his text from paper, why care for easy to remember lines? So there was no limit in the absurdness of the script.Group 1850 was not so popular in the Netherlands, I remember a concert where there were not even 10 paying visitors. Instead of doing their normal show they invited the audience on the stage to play with them. I didn't dare..."

Here is a link to his blog: Wiels Blog and without further ado, the video...

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