I just stumbled across a YouTube clip I had to share.
Ever see "Back To The Future" , and do you remember that funny scene where Micheal J. Fox plays guitar at the high school dance ?
This makes that look tame.
Before you watch the clip, let me set it up for you.
It's the Netherlands, 23rd January 1960. The Sixties just born, the country in the middle of a Dutch winter. There's one Dutch TV channel, and you are sitting in your living room watching a variety show.
There's this thing called rock and roll, and it's going on over on the other side of the Atlantic, with leather jacketed, T-Shirt wearing kids trying to channel James Dean.
And then suddenly..... THIS act comes on the old Phillips black and white.
The Tielman Brothers - Rollin' Rock
Can you imagine the reaction ?
"Honey.....call a PRIEST !"
Welcome to Dutch Indo-rockabilly.
Dutch-Indonesian rock ?
That's got to be one of the most dynamic stage show performances I've ever seen pulled off live, by the most unlikely of sources. It makes Little Richard look almost tame by comparison....
The interesting part ? The Tielman Brothers also go on to play in the same clubs in Hamburg that the Beatles were playing in. Can you imagine either group walking in on the others sets ? Might have been some interesting times...
In checking out their other music, it seems to be pretty average.
But it terms of a live rock and roll act ?
Pretty amazing, when placed against it's time period.
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