Robert Jan Stips talks about his Golden Earring time and his contribution to the LP "To The Hilt"

Описание: From a Dutch TV documentary recorded in 2019, Robert Jan Stips tells how he came to the Golden Earring. Also on display are Rinus Gerritsen and Cesar Zuiderwijk making music with Robert Jan and talking about the creation of the Earring their most ambitious LP "To The Hilt" from 1976.

1 Sometime in 2019, Earring members Rinus Gerritsen and Cesar Zuiderwijk will make and record music together with Robert Jan Stips.
Rinus says "I think it would be nice to put some sound effects on my bass with that Supersister music, you can do strange things with that".
Robert says "Yeah, especially with that one song". 0:00

2 They jam together, Rinus says "It's weird that G and that D count in 3", Robert says "Let's just hold on to four counts". Rinus is happy with that. 0:30

3 Rinus says "The special thing about Robert is that he has completely unpredictable counts, I can't read notes a session musician could play it right away, He asked us because he played with us for 2 years, which is nice". 1:10

4 Robert says "On the day that Supersister stopped, Cesar showed up at my doorstep and asked if I would go on tour with them, that was in 2 weeks! " That same day Rinus came to me with a mini Moog synthesizer and told me to play on it, but with a certain sound. 1:42

5 Robert says "I thought it was brave that they asked me, they were looking for new musical influences in their music, for me it was simple and it was confusing. The music I made with Supersister was much more complex and the earring songs were much simpler often only had 4 or 5 chords, sometimes I got confused because I couldn't remember the songs apart properly. 2:41

6 Robert says "it was a lot of fun going on a tour with 3 friends, we did 3 big tours in the US and all the cliches about touring are true, swimming pools and groupies showing you the city..... 3:43

7 Rinus and Cesar talk about the time they recorded the LP "To The Hilt" at George's home. Robert says "Then they asked me to arrange strings on certain songs that I had never done before". 4:31

8 Rinus and Cesar saying"He had to do it, he could also read music so he will be able to, After all, he attended the conservatory and for the first time also conducted. 5:09

9 Rinus says "And then he arranged the entire strings part on Violins around my bass part, which was just completely improvised, haha I was so proud of that bass part!". 5:33

10 Rinus says "We are pretty straightforward in our music and Robert brought the frivolity in, he flutters through it nicely. 6:20