September 2010
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Please indulge me in this little disruption of my story’s timeline but I just recently came across this old bit of digitized film from 1966. It’s from the very first band that I was in called SuikerPad Genoemde Jesus (SugarToad Named Jesus). I’m the one in the white t-shirt playing guitar - the singer is Heinrik Rotmensen (dead now almost 30 years), aka Harteloze Duivel (Heartless Devil)....
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SuikerPad Genoemde Jesus – Ik Ben Vrij...
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Every night as a young man, Dik de Poepjes got on his knees and asked God to tell him what he should do with his life. By the time God got around to speaking to Dik, he had already met Elsa and was serving an apprenticeship as a muffin maker at the famous Gerard Besseling bakery in Amsterdam.
This is what God finally said to Dik on that fateful night…
“Dik de Poepjes! Dik de...
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So how did a skinny white kid, who was raised as a Namibian Bushman, end up in a punk band on the stage of CBGB? I’m not sure I remember exactly. I’m old now. Memories are starting to turn to smoke. I just want to get them written down somewhere … the hunts, the runs, Bujimi and Manu, The Crise, the eatthepenis song, the bangy bangy dance, hookerman, bone whistles, sauci leaf dreams - the...
