Group 1850 - Mother Nohead @ van Oekel's Discohoek 1975

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 you can find a cassette recording of a never released lp by Peter Sjardin, the 'organiser' of the band: http://wiels.nl/blog/index.php?entry=entry080310-234009
Only 25 test pressings were made.

Visit http://wiels.nl/blog/index.php?category=14 for more dutch hippie music.

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[annaki1980]

Peter is my 2nd cousin :)

[wielss]

How is he? Do you see him sometimes?

[annaki1980]

I live in New Zealand so I have never seen him - he's my Dad's cousin. Apparently he is quite reclusive these days - our cousins don't hear from him much I think. I think he went through a very hard patch. My Dad and I wanted to contact him but it's quite hard - I think we'll ask our cousins again. Are you an 1850 fan?

[wielss]

Yes, and I saw the group 2 times (at least 2 times I remember) in those days.

[sachemchiefs]

Interesting video from a decent band. As I understand they used to tour with the Floyd and the Mothers of Invention. In fact, the opening of one of their songs, "Evergreen" sounds exactly like something Zappa did years AFTER this band disbanded.

Anyone translate the Dutch in the prior posts?

[wielss]

We both have the whole program on tape and we were discussing if Liesbeth List appeared before or after this fragment. Not very interesting, but Sneakerjeans was right.

[wenchy2]

other drummer David Duba?

[toprank144]

Musicians on this video:LEO BENNINK,DOLF GELDOF,PAUL v WAGENINGEN,NIPPY NOYA,DAVE DUBA

& PETER SJARDIN

[DirkjeA]

Brings back nice memories of exciting and happy times. I saw them perform life 3 times. 1x in the open air in a beautiful park in the mid of summer, the stage surrounded by trees and flowers, together with a great group of friends, nice wine, food and marijuana cigarettes.Oh my time flies having fun,so live must be beautiful,for this seems like yesterday. My fav.song was: "I put my hand on your shoulder",at least I think that was what it's called?Would be great if someone could upload that 1.

[INTERNED123]

David Duba was the guitar player and a friend of mine. i used to live near where they rehearsed and their manager was also a guy i used to hang around with.

[toprank144]

@SitarRay

[toprank144]

@SitarRay NEE,DE DRUMMER IS PAUL V WAGENINGEN MET DAVE DUBA!!

[toprank144]

@SitarRay NEE,DE DRUMMER IS PAUL V WAGENINGEN MET DAVE DUBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SitarRay]

@toprank144 En drummer Martin van Duynhoven?

[teet551]

wat een klasse nummer dat waren nog eens tijden bedankt

[auchonock]

@annaki1980

[metallicatachyon]

ik vind dit LEUNK

[fasjiman]

heeft zich teruggetrokken uit de muziek en leidt een kluizenaars bestaan