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Today's artist is a Dutch musician and painter. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch rock 'n' roll star". Later in life he started a successful career as a painter. Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll", he was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure .........N'Joy
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Herman Brood was born in Zwolle, and started playing the piano at age 12. He founded beat band The Moans in 1964, which would later become Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers. Brood was asked to play with Cuby and the Blizzards, but was removed by management when the record company discovered he used drugs. For a number of years Brood was in jail (for dealing LSD), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements (with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse).
In 1976, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, initially with Ferdi Karmelk (guitar), Gerrit Veen (bass), Peter Walrecht (drums), and Ellen Piebes and Ria Ruiters (vocals). They played the club and bar circuit, first in Groningen In 1977 the band released their first album, Street. The band now played all over the Netherlands, playing as many gigs as possible. And Herman's drug habit became public domain:
They are still best known for their second album, Shpritsz—a play on the German word Spritze for syringe—from 1978. This album contained Brood anthems like "Dope Sucks," "Rock & Roll Junkie," and their first Dutch hit single, "Saturday Night." The band went through many personnel changes over the years; the best-known formation was Freddy Cavalli (bass), Dany Lademacher (guitar) (later replaced with David Hollestelle), and Cees 'Ani' Meerman (drums). A frequent contributor was Bertus Borgers (saxophone).
Brood's outspoken statements in the press about sex and drug use brought him into the Dutch public arena even more than his music. He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1979 film Cha-Cha. He is reputed to be the subject of her song "Herrmann Hiess Er" (English title "Herrmann Was His Name") from the 1979 Unbehagen album, a song about a drug addict. Brood relished the media attention and became the most famous hard drug user in the Netherlands. "It is quite common for an artist to use drugs, but not for him to tell everybody. I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs," he once said in an interview.
In the summer of 1979, Brood tried to enter the American market, with support from Ariola's US division, which was attempting to expand into rock music. Following on the success of Shpritsz, the band was booked as a support act for The Kinks and The Cars, playing in auditoriums; "Herman Brood and His Wild Romance Tour Cha Cha '79" headlined in New York (Bottom Line) and Los Angeles (Roxy). A re-recorded version of "Saturday Night" peaked at number 35 in the Billboard Hot 100, but the big break Brood hoped for didn't happen. When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill. Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status. The 1980 album Wait a Minute... was a minor success, but the follow-up albums Modern Times Revive (1981) and Frisz & Sympatisz (1982) failed to make the Dutch album charts.
Brood continued to record throughout the 1980s and had a few hits—a top-10 single, "Als Je Wint" with Henny Vrienten, and a minor hit with a reggae song, "Tattoo Song," but he spent more and more time on his art work. At the end of the '80s he made a comeback of sorts; Yada Yada (1988), produced by George Kooymans, was well-received, and he toured Germany with a renewed Wild Romance (which saw the return of Dany Lademacher). In 1990, he won the BV Popprijs, one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, and recorded Freeze with Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band and Tejano accordion player Flaco Jiménez. A live "best of" album, Saturday Night Live, appeared in 1992. His 50th birthday, in 1996, was celebrated with a show at the Paradiso music and cultural center in Amsterdam, and the album (of duets) was released the same year.
After his career in music, Brood turned to painting and became a well-known character in Amsterdam art circles. His art is best described as pop-art, often very colorful and graffiti-inspired screen prints, and he achieved some commercial success and notoriety by, for instance, creating murals in various public spaces in and around Amsterdam. He continued to remain in the public eye, by appearing in the media and by his cooperation with biographical films such as 1994's Rock'n Roll Junkie.
Toward the end of his life, Brood vowed to abstain from most drugs, reducing his drug use to alcohol and a daily shot of speed ("2 grams per day"). In 2001, depressed by the failure of his drug rehabilitation program and facing serious medical problems because of his prolonged drug use, he committed suicide on 11 July by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel at the age of 54. He left a note, stating "Party on. I'll be seeing you. Soon after his suicide, Brood's version of "My Way" spent three weeks as number one in the Dutch singles charts; the market value of his art work also increased greatly. A characteristic note is that Brood's paintings had often been targeted by vandals during his life, but after his death they were stolen for their value. His popularity (or notoriety) was confirmed by the fact that his name turned out to be the strongest brand of the year.
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Street is the first studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, and the start of a solo career for Herman Brood, who had earlier toured and recorded with Cuby and the Blizzards and made one record with the short-lived band Stud. If you're a fan of late 70's punk and blues, Television, Johnny Thunders, Dr. John, this is essential. The guitar (Jan Akkerman) and vocals are very treated with flange effects - it's really beautiful at times. The subject is heroin. The songs are really well written stream of conscious - true to the times they evolve from. Not to be missed, 40 years on Street remains essential .
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Street (flac 226mb)
01 Street 2:45
02 Turn It On 5:22
03 Syrup 3:35
04 Back In Your Love 3:16
05 Crocodile (The Penthouse) 4:15
06 Pop It 7:54
07 Romanza Di Cavalli 1:23
08 Spine Pain 2:00
09 One More Dose (Lonely Pain Part 2) 4:03
10 Feels Like Love 1:22
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Street (ogg 81mb )
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Shpritsz (the name derives from a colloquial German word for "syringe") is the second studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Important part of Wild Romance is guitarplayer Danny Lademacher from Belgium. Their collaboration results in the album Shpritsz. In spite of the great playing by Lademacher the real star is the piano played by Brood. The piano is since the 50s a much ignored instrument but Brood revives it with great souplesse and timing. Listen to the hammering underneath Saturday Night (a surprise but deserved hit even in the USA). Second song is Dope Sucks, almost as strong as Saturday Night and very ironic because of Brood's addiction. Of course not all songs are that superb but especially Hit and Rock 'n' Roll Junkie are also great. All songs are direct and in your face and the album is very well produced with a dry and clear rocksound. The album produced two singles. The first, "Rock & Roll Junkie," did not chart. The second, "Saturday Night," charted in Europe and the United States. On the Dutch album chart, the album reached #8 on 3 June 1978, and stayed on the chart for 28 weeks. It was certified gold in 1978, and platinum in 1980.
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Shpritsz (flac 288mb)
01 Saturday Night 4:01
02 Dope Sucks 2:09
03 One 1:54
04 Doin' It 2:37
05 Champagne (& Wine) 3:32
06 Back (In Y'r Love) 1:48
07 Hit 2:46
08 R & Roll Junkie 2:48
09 Never Enough 2:31
10 Pain 1:50
11 Get Lost 3:13
12 Hot-Talk 1:44
13 Prisoners 1:38
14 Doreen 2:32
15 Skid Row 2:35
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Shpritsz (ogg 100mb)
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Go Nutz, recorded in the United States, was supposed to follow up on the American success of the single "Saturday Night" (from Shpritsz) and a compilation called Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, made specifically for the American market. The Dutch market was ripe for another Brood album, since the single "Never be Clever" had reached #10 in the Dutch singles chart on 16 June 1979. Herman loved 1960's American soul music; so, for his next US release, he (or his producer) added background-singing chicks, and amped up the production a tad. However, the recording sessions were a disaster; the American producers replaced the rest of the band with session musicians, resulting in the disbanding of the hitherto successful quartet of Brood, Lademacher, Cavalli, and Meerman. The album produced three charting singles in the Netherlands, but failed to chart in the US. But, the critics (or a critic, who knows?) panned it, were solidair with the Wild Romance--and Herman retreated to Holland, and started painting again. But how often do you agree with professional critics?
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Go Nutz (flac 255mb)
01 Go Nutz 3:05
02 Love You Like I Love Myself 3:32
03 I Don't Need You 3:36
04 I'll Be Doggone 3:43
05 Right On The Money 4:26
06 Hot Shot 3:30
07 Born Before My Time 4:28
08 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep 2:58
09 Easy Pick Up 4:33
10 Laurie 4:05
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Go Nutz (ogg 91mb)
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Wait a Minute is the fourth studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. After the commercial and artistic debacle of Go Nutz and the disastrous recording of that album, the Wild Romance fell apart, though Dany Lademacher and Freddy Cavalli still played on this album, the last recorded with the "old" Wild Romance. On the Dutch album chart, the album reached #26 on 20 September 1980, and stayed on the chart for five weeks.
Herman Brood - Wait A Minute (flac 212mb)
01 Dynamite 3:21
02 Girl Of My Dreams 2:46
03 Time To Split 2:30
04 Keep Playin' That Rock 'N Roll 3:08
05 Outside Lookin' In 2:42
06 1.000.000 Superstars (Propaganda) 2:45
07 All The Girls 'Re Crazy 3:31
08 Brickyard Blues 3:13
09 Workin' Girl 3:55
10 Voices 0:52
11 Blew My Cool 3:06
Herman Brood - Wait A Minute (ogg 66mb)
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Today's artist is a Dutch musician and painter. As a musician he achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and was called "the greatest and only Dutch rock 'n' roll star". Later in life he started a successful career as a painter. Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll", he was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure .........N'Joy
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Herman Brood was born in Zwolle, and started playing the piano at age 12. He founded beat band The Moans in 1964, which would later become Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers. Brood was asked to play with Cuby and the Blizzards, but was removed by management when the record company discovered he used drugs. For a number of years Brood was in jail (for dealing LSD), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements (with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse).
In 1976, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, initially with Ferdi Karmelk (guitar), Gerrit Veen (bass), Peter Walrecht (drums), and Ellen Piebes and Ria Ruiters (vocals). They played the club and bar circuit, first in Groningen In 1977 the band released their first album, Street. The band now played all over the Netherlands, playing as many gigs as possible. And Herman's drug habit became public domain:
They are still best known for their second album, Shpritsz—a play on the German word Spritze for syringe—from 1978. This album contained Brood anthems like "Dope Sucks," "Rock & Roll Junkie," and their first Dutch hit single, "Saturday Night." The band went through many personnel changes over the years; the best-known formation was Freddy Cavalli (bass), Dany Lademacher (guitar) (later replaced with David Hollestelle), and Cees 'Ani' Meerman (drums). A frequent contributor was Bertus Borgers (saxophone).
Brood's outspoken statements in the press about sex and drug use brought him into the Dutch public arena even more than his music. He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1979 film Cha-Cha. He is reputed to be the subject of her song "Herrmann Hiess Er" (English title "Herrmann Was His Name") from the 1979 Unbehagen album, a song about a drug addict. Brood relished the media attention and became the most famous hard drug user in the Netherlands. "It is quite common for an artist to use drugs, but not for him to tell everybody. I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs," he once said in an interview.
In the summer of 1979, Brood tried to enter the American market, with support from Ariola's US division, which was attempting to expand into rock music. Following on the success of Shpritsz, the band was booked as a support act for The Kinks and The Cars, playing in auditoriums; "Herman Brood and His Wild Romance Tour Cha Cha '79" headlined in New York (Bottom Line) and Los Angeles (Roxy). A re-recorded version of "Saturday Night" peaked at number 35 in the Billboard Hot 100, but the big break Brood hoped for didn't happen. When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill. Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status. The 1980 album Wait a Minute... was a minor success, but the follow-up albums Modern Times Revive (1981) and Frisz & Sympatisz (1982) failed to make the Dutch album charts.
Brood continued to record throughout the 1980s and had a few hits—a top-10 single, "Als Je Wint" with Henny Vrienten, and a minor hit with a reggae song, "Tattoo Song," but he spent more and more time on his art work. At the end of the '80s he made a comeback of sorts; Yada Yada (1988), produced by George Kooymans, was well-received, and he toured Germany with a renewed Wild Romance (which saw the return of Dany Lademacher). In 1990, he won the BV Popprijs, one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, and recorded Freeze with Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band and Tejano accordion player Flaco Jiménez. A live "best of" album, Saturday Night Live, appeared in 1992. His 50th birthday, in 1996, was celebrated with a show at the Paradiso music and cultural center in Amsterdam, and the album (of duets) was released the same year.
After his career in music, Brood turned to painting and became a well-known character in Amsterdam art circles. His art is best described as pop-art, often very colorful and graffiti-inspired screen prints, and he achieved some commercial success and notoriety by, for instance, creating murals in various public spaces in and around Amsterdam. He continued to remain in the public eye, by appearing in the media and by his cooperation with biographical films such as 1994's Rock'n Roll Junkie.
Toward the end of his life, Brood vowed to abstain from most drugs, reducing his drug use to alcohol and a daily shot of speed ("2 grams per day"). In 2001, depressed by the failure of his drug rehabilitation program and facing serious medical problems because of his prolonged drug use, he committed suicide on 11 July by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel at the age of 54. He left a note, stating "Party on. I'll be seeing you. Soon after his suicide, Brood's version of "My Way" spent three weeks as number one in the Dutch singles charts; the market value of his art work also increased greatly. A characteristic note is that Brood's paintings had often been targeted by vandals during his life, but after his death they were stolen for their value. His popularity (or notoriety) was confirmed by the fact that his name turned out to be the strongest brand of the year.
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Street is the first studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, and the start of a solo career for Herman Brood, who had earlier toured and recorded with Cuby and the Blizzards and made one record with the short-lived band Stud. If you're a fan of late 70's punk and blues, Television, Johnny Thunders, Dr. John, this is essential. The guitar (Jan Akkerman) and vocals are very treated with flange effects - it's really beautiful at times. The subject is heroin. The songs are really well written stream of conscious - true to the times they evolve from. Not to be missed, 40 years on Street remains essential .
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Street (flac 226mb)
01 Street 2:45
02 Turn It On 5:22
03 Syrup 3:35
04 Back In Your Love 3:16
05 Crocodile (The Penthouse) 4:15
06 Pop It 7:54
07 Romanza Di Cavalli 1:23
08 Spine Pain 2:00
09 One More Dose (Lonely Pain Part 2) 4:03
10 Feels Like Love 1:22
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Street (ogg 81mb )
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Shpritsz (the name derives from a colloquial German word for "syringe") is the second studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Important part of Wild Romance is guitarplayer Danny Lademacher from Belgium. Their collaboration results in the album Shpritsz. In spite of the great playing by Lademacher the real star is the piano played by Brood. The piano is since the 50s a much ignored instrument but Brood revives it with great souplesse and timing. Listen to the hammering underneath Saturday Night (a surprise but deserved hit even in the USA). Second song is Dope Sucks, almost as strong as Saturday Night and very ironic because of Brood's addiction. Of course not all songs are that superb but especially Hit and Rock 'n' Roll Junkie are also great. All songs are direct and in your face and the album is very well produced with a dry and clear rocksound. The album produced two singles. The first, "Rock & Roll Junkie," did not chart. The second, "Saturday Night," charted in Europe and the United States. On the Dutch album chart, the album reached #8 on 3 June 1978, and stayed on the chart for 28 weeks. It was certified gold in 1978, and platinum in 1980.
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Shpritsz (flac 288mb)
01 Saturday Night 4:01
02 Dope Sucks 2:09
03 One 1:54
04 Doin' It 2:37
05 Champagne (& Wine) 3:32
06 Back (In Y'r Love) 1:48
07 Hit 2:46
08 R & Roll Junkie 2:48
09 Never Enough 2:31
10 Pain 1:50
11 Get Lost 3:13
12 Hot-Talk 1:44
13 Prisoners 1:38
14 Doreen 2:32
15 Skid Row 2:35
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Shpritsz (ogg 100mb)
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Go Nutz, recorded in the United States, was supposed to follow up on the American success of the single "Saturday Night" (from Shpritsz) and a compilation called Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, made specifically for the American market. The Dutch market was ripe for another Brood album, since the single "Never be Clever" had reached #10 in the Dutch singles chart on 16 June 1979. Herman loved 1960's American soul music; so, for his next US release, he (or his producer) added background-singing chicks, and amped up the production a tad. However, the recording sessions were a disaster; the American producers replaced the rest of the band with session musicians, resulting in the disbanding of the hitherto successful quartet of Brood, Lademacher, Cavalli, and Meerman. The album produced three charting singles in the Netherlands, but failed to chart in the US. But, the critics (or a critic, who knows?) panned it, were solidair with the Wild Romance--and Herman retreated to Holland, and started painting again. But how often do you agree with professional critics?
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Go Nutz (flac 255mb)
01 Go Nutz 3:05
02 Love You Like I Love Myself 3:32
03 I Don't Need You 3:36
04 I'll Be Doggone 3:43
05 Right On The Money 4:26
06 Hot Shot 3:30
07 Born Before My Time 4:28
08 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep 2:58
09 Easy Pick Up 4:33
10 Laurie 4:05
Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Go Nutz (ogg 91mb)
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Wait a Minute is the fourth studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. After the commercial and artistic debacle of Go Nutz and the disastrous recording of that album, the Wild Romance fell apart, though Dany Lademacher and Freddy Cavalli still played on this album, the last recorded with the "old" Wild Romance. On the Dutch album chart, the album reached #26 on 20 September 1980, and stayed on the chart for five weeks.
Herman Brood - Wait A Minute (flac 212mb)
01 Dynamite 3:21
02 Girl Of My Dreams 2:46
03 Time To Split 2:30
04 Keep Playin' That Rock 'N Roll 3:08
05 Outside Lookin' In 2:42
06 1.000.000 Superstars (Propaganda) 2:45
07 All The Girls 'Re Crazy 3:31
08 Brickyard Blues 3:13
09 Workin' Girl 3:55
10 Voices 0:52
11 Blew My Cool 3:06
Herman Brood - Wait A Minute (ogg 66mb)
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