Cuby + Blizzards

Cuby + Blizzards is one from the Drenthe Grolloo (then called Grollo)-based blues band, founded in the 1960s.

The original band was formed by Harry Muskee and also included Eelco Gelling, Nico Schröder and Hans Kabir.



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[hide] *composition 1  ==Composition[ Edit] == The band existed from the biggest success In years:
 * 2 Biography
 * 3 Literature
 * 4 discography
 * 4.1 Albums
 * 4.2 Singles
 * 4.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 4.4 DVD's
 * 5 external links

The original line-up was:
 * Harry Muskee (vocals)
 * Eelco Gelling (guitar)
 * Herman Deinum (bass)
 * Helmig van der Vegt (piano)
 * Hans l (drums)

Various others over the years, played in the band, including Herman Brood, bassist Lou Lion, bassist Jaap van Eik and drummer Hans Waterman.
 * Harry Muskee (vocals)
 * Eelco Gelling (guitar)
 * Willy Means (bass)
 * Hans Kabir (rhythm guitar)
 * Stuart Railson (drums)

In the last years (1996-2011) was the occupation:

==Biography[ Edit] == Eelco Gelling during the last opening night of Café de Beukelsbrug in Rotterdam on June 27, 2009The group formed from The Rocking Strings with Eelco Gelling (guitar), Nico Schröder (bass guitar, replaced by bassist Willy Means, ex-Sinister Silhouettes), Hans Kabir (rhythm guitar) and Wim Kabir (drums). Singer Harry Muskee was former double bass player for The Old Fashioned Jazz Group. When the first single, Stumble and fall, for record company CNR was recorded, was Stuart Railson drummer (Babu claims already to have been member of The Rocking Strings before Mahdi came into the scene). The drummer left in 1966 to the beat group Ro-d-Ys, but would return for a year in the band in 1968. His replacement was the young Hans Waterman from Groningen. The Group rehearsed at that time in a part of the farmhouse that Mahmoud had rented in Grollo . In the formation Muskee, Gabriel, medium, Aquarius and Hans Kabir, a number of singles recorded for the Philips label of Phonogram Records, of which Back Home the lower regions of the Top 40 pulled out.
 * Harry Muskee (vocals)
 * Erwin Java (guitar)
 * Herman Deinum (bass)
 * Helmig van der Vegt (piano)
 * Hans l (drums)

For the recording of the first LP, Desolation, the Group was extended with Henk Hilbrandie (piano), who also toured with the group for a year. Harry Muskee and Henk knew each other already from The Old Fashioned Jazzgroup, of which they both belonged. This LP was awarded an Edisonin 1968. In 1967 had to Hans Kinds in military service and was replaced by pianist Herman Brood from The Moan. With bread in the band was the LP greetings from Grollo included, of which Another day another road was a reasonable hit. The album also contained the classic Somebody will know someday, inspired by Muskees broken relationship with Stephanie Hammond.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">The band made in 1967 and 1968 tours with Van Morrison, Eddie Boyd, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Alexis Korner. Famous songs of the band are Another day another road, Distant smile, Window of my eyes and Appleknockers Flophouse.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">After shooting the hit Distant Smile for the first time in late 1967 the band fell apart because Herman Brood "in the cachot" came to be because of the possession of narcotics and there were differences of opinion arise between Mahdi and Gabriel on the future of the band. Muskee wanted with Willy medium and Stuart Railson, Gelling with Aquarius and bassist Jaap van Eik. Record company Phonogram to glue the break, however, and knew the new occupation of Cuby + Blizzards consisted of Mahdi, Gabriel, Beekman, bread and of oak. After about a year the band were put back out Of Beekman and Oak and replaced by Herman Deinum and Hans l (usually mistakenly written as L.) from Blues Dimension (the band of oak also in Zwolle had played and to which he returned). A few months later became Bread because of continued drug usefinally fired and replaced by Helmigt van der Vegt (even though from Blues Dimenson). The occupation Muskee, G., Davis, L and Vasquez stayed away from mid-1969 three year existence.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">After several incidents that did little good, the band was the fut look like. The "Zwolle" members got off the band and in 1972 it was done with the band. Joost den Draaijer put with Mahdi and Gabriel Red, White & Blue on, but that was not a success. The name was again changed to Cuby + Blizzards. After Herman Brood rejoined the Group had connected, got this back some fame. But after a short time the group left Bread and others. After the departure in 1977 by Eelco Gelling to Golden Earring went Harry Muskee further under the names Harry Muskee Band, then The Mahdi Gang and later Mahmoud.

<p lang="en" len="523" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Middle nineties was the old band name picked up with old-timers Herman Deinum, Helmig van der Vegt and Hans l, while Erwin Java remained in favour of solo guitarist Eelco Gelling.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2004 a theatre tour with Cuby + Blizzards made an ode to blues singer John Lee Hooker. In 2006, a box with cd, dvd, documentary photo book on the blues band, put together by former VARA-presenter Jan Douwe Kroeske. The biography of Harry Muskee by writer Jeroen Wielaert was voted best popboek of Netherlands and Flanders.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2009, after eleven years, a cd of the band. To the surprise of everyone, Cuby & the blizzards on the first place, the by Daniël Lohues produced cd Cats Lost at number 14 of the Album Top 100 and reached this early september the gold status.

<p lang="en" len="293" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Harry Muskee died on 26 september 2011 from complications of liver cancer with which Cuby + Blizzards were finally history.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In March 2012 brought Hans l Showbiz blues from his biography with many stories about Cuby + Blizzards. Also, he presented his new band, Hans la Faille's Showbiz Blues band . Erwin Java founded around that timeKing of the world on the group, named after one of the tracks from the album greetings from Grollo. ==Literature<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Jeroen Wielaert, the mission: the crossroads of Harry Muskee ' Cuby ', Amsterdam: Publishing House 521 (January 2003). ISBN 907692774X.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Hans l, Showbiz Blues, Utrecht: Publishing House VIP (March 2012). ISBN 9789071359552. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===