Classical Composer Reacts to Radar Love and The Twilight Zone (Golden Earring) | The Daily Doug
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In this #throwbackthursday edition of #thedailydoug, I'm accessing my Fan Favorites video from June of 2022 to share my reaction of Radar Love and The Twilight Zone from Golden Earring. It turns out that I recognized both of these songs but never had known the band behind the music. This was originally included in our 'Favorite Road Trip Songs' Fan Favorites video, and I can definitely understand why after hearing them anew. I hope you enjoy!
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Awesome Doug, Golden Earring are our nations pride. One of the longest existing bands in the original lineup. Sadly they had to stop because their lead guitarist George Kooymans is too ill to perform, he has ALS. 😢
yes, but for me the best Dutch rock band ever are VANDENBERGH, with Adje Vandenbergh on lead guitars, one of the best guitar players ever! Greetz from your south neighbours in Belgium!
@Ruben I remember looking up Golden Earring a few years ago, and was shocked to find out they were together in ORIGINAL LINEUP for 60 years! That's got to be some kind of record for an original lineup. Class band with fantastic songs. edit: I just checked, and it appears that while a line-up was together for a very long time, it was not the same for 60 years, as I had originally thought. I stand corrected. Anyway, the band formed in 1961, and broke up in 2021. 60 years is a long time regardless.
@@segwayantwerpen9349 Nah, that's Pestilence, but you're nearly right :)
@@segwayantwerpen9349 The one and only Focus take that honour !!
Hallo. Dank ye wel! Sorry to hear George is not well. :(
The drummer for Golden Earring is one of the best ever. Has to be in the conversation. Switching from rock to swing drumming like it's nothing. Absolutely incredible
Cesar Zuiderwijk
Like Alex Van Halen
Criminally underappreciated band. So many great songs
She Flies on Strange Wings
Silver Ships
All Day Watcher
Big Tree Blue Sea
Brother Wind ... to name but a few.
Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
she flies on strange wings is sooo good
When the Lady Smiles
Vanilla Queen, EPIC!!
Quiet Eyes
The Fighter, great story line/lyrics
Long Blonde Animal
Evil Love Chain
Something Heavy Going Down
Mad Love
Paradise in Distress
N.E.W.S.
Freaky title award: Daddy Buy Me Girl
I love She Flies on Strange Wings and Vanilla Queen though Radar Love and Twilight Zone are classics.
I just lost somebody
Love the space in Twilight Zone. Once you know the song, it becomes a moment of anticipation for the drum fills and guitar.
Fantastic drumming in both songs. That groove under the guitar solo in Twilight Zone. As soon as he starts the 16ths on the hi-hat, it's boogie down time. 😁
Used to cover both of these in my cover band days, never found a drummer who could nail these songs. Very underrated drummer but a big part of their songs.
Wasn't mr Barry Hey from scottland? Anyway, it's one of my favourite bands
Welcome to the Netherlands!
Let's bring a big salute to guitarist George Kooijmans, who is going through rough times.
By the way, on Radar Love, guitars are played by Kooijmans with Eelco Gelling, who is a fantastic blues player. In the live version from their first live album, also featuring Gelling, the song is a lot longer. Eelco Gelling totally blows the solo part skyhigh.
There is a video of them performing these two songs when they were in their 60's. They were ageless. Their run ended when the lead guitar player (and singer on 'Twilight Zone') was diagnosed with ALS.
there is a pro-shot video from 2019, THEY SOUND GREAT!
This is one band that never gets old with me. Radar Love came out when I was born. and Twilight is one of my long time goto for uplifting my spirits. The rhythms and composition gets my groove on every time. The songs are on my top 10.
It was late August, 1974. I had just graduated from USAF basic training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. We have about two weeks before heading off to technical training school. At the base NCO club we’re enjoying our first 3.2 beer and listening to Radar Love blasting out of the jukebox. That’s my lasting memory of this song.
Damn, imagine how fast you will be flying when you put that song up! I'm already speeding in my car by accident when it comes up.
One of my favourite bands, long consistent career, excellent musicians, sadly finished a couple of years back because of guitarists health.
A lot of people only know them for a couple of songs, the ones you played in fact.
But they gave so much more for decades, if you only know their "hits", then your missing the point of this band!
Saw Golden Earring open for Rush on the Signals tour Feb. 18, 1983 at The Forum in L.A.
My first “stadium” concert.
What an incredible first big concert experience. Excellent show by both acts.
This song came out when MTV was young and many record companies did their best to get their bands on that medium, a Dutch well-known director (Dick Maas) made the video clip. When you watch it, that segment that Doug found too long is a nice background to the visual story that unfolds.
I remember this video vividly.
Yes, the video is very much intertwined with the song in my mind. Those heady early days of MTV were something.
The song was released in 1973. MTV first went to air in 1981. Am I missing something?
@@paulhagger3895 The original poster is referring to the second song he reacted to, The Twilight Zone, which was released in 1982. Hope that helps. My previous comment was also a reference to The Twilight Zone
@@kbusby4824 I see, my apologies
The (US version) of Moontan (the album from which Radar Love is taken) is a masterpiece of prog - vastly underrated and easily their pinnacle, not a dull second on it.
Great Dutch band. Love both these tracks. They have a deep catalogue, but these two were the only ones to really receive airplay on AM radio here in the US.
I was talked into seeing Golden Earring live in the mid 70’s. I thought they were a one hit wonder but they put on one of the tightest sets I’ve seen. Amazing live show.
Twilight Zone was played endlessly on MTV - and the music video was cool too!
The cause of thousands...millions of speeding tickets. "Radar Love". And then "The Twilight Zone", another killer tune. Still have my original vinyl copy of Moontan, the cover with the closeup of the Golden Earring, not the naked girl one. Damn. The song you were singing Doug was "Jungle Love" by The Steve Miller Band, another really great song.
Darn, I wish I could go back 40 years or so and listen to Twilight Zone for the first time again. Then again, when I heard it the first time I was watching the video and never noticed the dragging part.
Always loved that bass line in Twilight Zone. Monochromatic, but it works.
Very enjoyable listen. "Where am I to go now that I've gone too far" is such a great line.
Also liked seeing the sipping of what appears to be a smoky Scotch out of what appears to be a Glencairn glass.
I own a 29 CD boxed set of their compete catalog. It's almost all great. The Live disc is one of my top ten all-time live recordings.
OK I am officially Jealous , where did you get That 29 CD box from?
Radar Love the best groove drum in the WORLD!!!
@@bernardb4081 Looks like Amazon has one left for only $379.00. A bit rich for my blood, but it's there for somebody. 🙂
@@bernardb4081 The best and cheapest way is an import from the Netherlands.
After hearing your story of chasing the sunset you should hear Roy Harper’s song “Twelve Hours of Sunset.” It’s a great eerie song about a flight he took from the UK to L.A. at sunset where his plane kept chasing the sunset the entire way. Beautiful song. Roy Harper is brilliant.
I remember Martha Quinn was interviewing them on a new album after "Twilight Zone" put them back in the spotlight. The album was "The Hole" and she was wearing the T-shirt. When she realized what that name stood for, she couln'd get the T-shirt off fast enough. (think about it)
One of my favorite concerts was in 1982. Golden Earring, Grand Funk Railroad and ZZ Top. Golden Earring were touring in support of the album "CUT" where this song is from. Awesome show all around
I used to DJ on college radio, and would sometimes do "road trip" sets. _Radar Love_ was ALWAYS included. Since I'm not (yet) a Patron, I don't know what else you covered, but two more that were always in the set were:
Roxy Music, _Love Is The Drug_
Pearl Harbor & The Explosions, _Drivin'_
If i remember right BBC Top Gear did a poll of the best driving songs a looooooong time ago and Radar Love was no.1
You mentioned Bluetooth: another great Dutch invention, greetings from the Netherlands 🧡🇳🇱
Radar Love has one of the greatest bass lines in rock. I remember when Twilight Zone came out. Not long after I graduated high school. Used to love shooting pool in the Student Union at my first college with that song going
Top driving song. What a groove. They're a great band with a very impressive and deep catalog!
Mr Doug that whole Moon Tan Album is great. Two favorite are Vanilla Queen and Candy's Gone Bad. Great songs.
Another good one by the Earring is “ce soir”. I love that song.
I'm sure someone else has commented on this before, but a little side "delight" of Throwback Thursdays is seeing the change in your room decor/background from the time of the original reaction video to the current intro/outro. Classic album sleeves are slowly taking over! 🤣
Thanx Doug for putting these two great tracks together for a great reaction. Two of the best driving tracks that are guaranteed to make you a lead foot Lindstrum! two more great tracks from my misspent youth. Thanx for the flood of memories.
I love that you comment about the guitar riff being a little buried. I’ve listened to this song for decades and I heard the guitar, but you are right, it should be more pronounced. Thank you
I had a good laugh at your attempt to pronounce those Dutch names!
How about a reaction to Dutch musicians Kaz Lux & Jan Akkerman, the album Eli?
Many great songs on that.
As a 16yo i saw them live in Essen Belgium
Being a young djj for a local radiostation, had the opportunity to interview them shortly ... became a fan of them and never lost that thrill... now try 'when the lady smiles' and 'she flies on strange wings' you'll love those too
You simply cannot road trip without this song.
Great track and great drumming. Used to play it a lot when it came out. Marvellous to hear it with you Doug. 😊
Golden Earing is the only "two hit wonder" I can think of. Its super interesting because the his were a decade apart, and they toured from 61 until the late 10s, so were active for such a long time.
Here in Australia, you could believe Golden Earring were a one hit wonder. Radar Love was played on radio fairly often and reached No.10 on top 100 chart. The Twilight Zone was apparently aired less, as I’ve never heard it but is listed as reaching No.79. Great to hear these oldies but goodies. Thanks for debunking my belief that they were one hit wonders. ❤️🤘🎸🎻🇦🇺
Well in the Netherlands you could be mistaken that Midnight Oil are one hit wonders. Two bands with such a large and quality rich backcataloques.
@@HerrBert1976 I agree sometimes great groups are not played overseas which is shame. Good music is good music. Just shows how much control the radio stations had back then. I can say that of other groups as well Nightwish, Delain, Within Temptation to name a few, as I said it’s a shame. I love these groups.
Steven , it was briliantly performed by your Rockwiz band along with Bull sisters , very similar to original .
White Lion’s cover of Radar Love is great. Definitely gets the pedal to the metal!
Wow. What kind of rock do you have to live under to have never heard Twilight Zone. An incredable movie you should watch. Listening to Twilight Zone in a car is like listening to the Jaws theme while swiming in the ocean.
So, last night before I went to sleep, I reminded myself to check if Doug has ever covered Twilight Zone by Golden Earring... and I didn't have to check! I like coincidences!
Radar is driven by the drums. Awesome. Great lyrics, singing, song structure, dynamics, guitar riffs, bass, brass or keys, and mood all woven into a totally embracing musical experience.
I think that the extended repetitive section in "Twilight Zone" may have been reflective of how an isolated spy may feel while they're going through the motions of life, waiting for a return of direction and purpose. During that sort of time, the spy would have just been marking time, or as some people may describe it, spinning his wheels and getting nowhere. The night weighs heavy on his guilty mind, he can't make a connection to a contact or superior, there's nothing to encrypt or decode.
We go back to the 70ths, my teenage decade. Fantastic.
Our greatest rock band from the Netherlands. The oldest band unfortunately already playing in the early 60ths they stopped as a band.
Radar love was a number 1 hit also in America
I bought my first guitar in the shop Rinus and Cesar have (had?) in The Hague. Ludlum's books were very well known in the Netherlands at the time; his stuff (and Kirst, and Konsalik) were perennial "book of the quarter" with the local book catalogues (remember those?)
Gotta do Vanilla Queen and Are You Receiving Me? Heck, do the Moontan album.
I see it was released in 1982. During this era, dance versions of songs were released to play in the local dance bars (discos) and they were waaaay too long. There would be long versions of filler interludes. It was to keep people out dancing on the floor. The shorter radio release is so much better for the timing.
Twilight Zone - One of the greatest guitar (and bass) riffs of all time. Just 3 notes. Let that be a lesson to all.
Radar Love is one of the all-time greatest songs in my opinion. I still involuntarily jack up the volume whenever it comes on the radio, even today!
2 great songs. Never knew The Bourne Identity connection to the Twilight Zone.
Two cool songs. I played both of them in bands at least a hundred time. The bass lines are so much fun to play.
One of my all time favorite driving tunes is Jude Cole’s “Start The Car”. I have a long “Driving” playlist on my iPod , and I’ll be using it for an 8-hour road trip I’ll be doing next week. And it’ll start off with “Start The Car” 😎🚙
It was almost impossible to drive the speed limit when Radar Love came over the radio, especially at night.
Radar Love - not only the best driving song ever, it's my 12th favourite single of the 20th century (I did a top 200 to mark the millennium and I stand by most of the decisions even now!) Some other good stuff in their catalogue but it's vast and I doubt if I've heard more than 20% of it.
I love every second of that full-length Twilight Zone - that mid section never struck me as "too long", but I'm not a composer or musician by any stretch, so what do I know, lol.
I do a lot of editing and I reckon some of my "extended" efforts would offend the trained ear, lol.
Being Dutch and a sister who is a big fan I saw them live many times. Love them still even though they sadly had to stop. They are still as good if only... ALS is so ... sending love to George.
In the 1960's the Earrings been touring the USA and Canada, when in the late 60's . They where opening for Led Zeppelin, Carlos Santana, ZZ-Top, Ted Nugent, Had KISS and Aerosmith as their openers...jimi Herndrix personally asked Bassplayer rinus if he would play with him in his band The jini hendrix Experience, in the mid 1970's while Keith moon wqas still alive, but unpredictable more and more, Cesar was approached by The Who if he would consider to be their drummer.Iron Maiden's Bassplayer Steve Harris names Rinus Gerritsen one of his main playing influences.
Black Sabbath had in 1974 a writers dip, Toni Iommi couldn't come up with any riffs due to his writersblock... Someone gave him Golden Earring's Moontan album, and Toni got his inspiration back,.
Radar Love is owning its own website, is covered over a 1000 times by many variation and genres of arists. Iton Maiden covered Ce Soir
lol We had a synchronicity moment, though you weren't aware. I was slowly raising my one-hitter to my lips with one hand and lifting my lighter with the other, when you reached down and picked up your pipe, so we took that hit together, spontaneously. Also got a chuckle out of your singing a bit of radar love chorus to the tune of Jungle Love by Steve Miller.
_"It's called Bluetooth"_
LOL! The technology-era remix version, lol.
One of my favorite songs, "Are You Receiving Me?" is on the same album, and it contains one of my favorite guitar solos, too. It's a little more on the progressive rock side of things.
Golden Earring may be the greatest underrated band of all time. They are known for these two songs best, but their catalog is deep. The live album "Golden Earring Live" is incredible.
Underrated? Over 1.5 million albums, 30 top ten singles. Maybe you have not heard much of them
@@classicraceruk1337 in America, they are only known widely for these two songs. Also they were never critical favorites. In Europe may be different. And I have lots of their albums.
@@aquatarkus2022 You mean American critics. You really must do research outside the USA before commenting on how underrated a band is or not. Of preface you comments to just within the USA or just your experience. There is a wide wide world outside of the USA.
His "radar lover" is a "Siren", luring the driver to his death.
I had 2 firsts in one night, Golden Earring opening for Rush on their Signals tour...yes a very EPIC night!!!
Fun Fact, they never composed music the traditional way. They just played tunes and worked from there. They said in Interviews that don't always know what they are doing, but it works so why change it xD
My dad always been a mega fan, and when I was 14 (40 now) he decided it was time I began to learn to appreciate real music instead of the crap I was listening too, so he took me to my very concert. Back then their Burning Stuntman was just released and we went to a unplugged concert of them. It was a great experience but my love for their music was truly awakened when my dad took me to a plugged concert a few years later. After that they took a break from performing as the Golden Earring for a while, each having their own projects. Once they returned me and my dad went every year to a concert of theirs, even the 50th anniversary , till we sadly heard about George. We never knew we had visited our last concert till a few months later :(
One more funfact, they were growing big in the States as well with Radar Love and Twillight zone, however George got really homesick. So they decided as a band they would break off their adventure in the States, even though that could have made them world famous and return to the Netherlands. They always kept the mantra, we rock together, or we don't play at all as the Golden Earring. They would never replace any bandmember (after they swapped the singer and drummer for Barry and Ceasar). So when George got ill, they just stopped with the band. They will not replace him, they will never perform as the Golden Earring again, cause they rocked together, or not at all as the Earring.
I was entranced by Radar Love when it first came out. I had no idea Twilight Zone was also by Golden Earring (I was not a big fan radio-friendly 80’s Rock.) Both are great road trip songs.
I once put BOTH these songs on a mixtape and titled the mix "A Pair of Earrings"
😂😂😂
Love both these songs. #3 in my Golden Earring trifecta is "Last Frontier Hotel".
Cool songs, but my favorite by them is "She Flies on Strange Wings." There's a video for the song with the band set up on the rooftop of an apartment building. Awesome song!
Yes, that is on the rooftop of the Amsterdam Hilton. 1972. More rock history : from that same rooftop Herman Brood, another Dutch rocker with great song “ Saturday Night” went jumping from that roof ‘without a parachute’ (in his own farewell words on paper) on July 11 2001. He toured with Golden Earring and George guitarplayer of GE produced some of his albums. Herman remains a great rock ‘n roll star out of the Netherlands , especially known for “Saturday Night”, his lifestyle and his paintings.
My brothers had several of their albums. I loved studlff off every one.
Vanilla Queen is probably my favorite Golden Earring song. The dynamics and the horns at the end 🤘🧙♂️🤘
Rich the Ancient Metal Beast
Cool stuff. I saw GE open for Crimson in 75 in Central Park @ Wollman Rink. Great concert but they were booed off after the set. They even threw fireworks at them during radar love. The drummer threw his sticks at the person, almost hitting me, as I was in the second row, stage center. Body guards the size of Schwarzenegger chased him. Can only imange what they did to him. Brings back some great memories of that concert.
You have four more Yes epics. In order: "Endless Dream," "That, That Is," "Mind Drive," and "Fly from Here" (the original 2011 version, not the Return Trip version).
Radar Love came out in my single buying younger teenage years and still have my copy
I think you would absolutely love the acoustic version of this that they did. Search for Golden Earring - Twilight Zone acoustic and its the video labeled from 1992. You can actually buy the entire acoustic performance they did from 1992 and its called Golden Earring - Naked Truth and Twilight Zone and even Radar Love that they do acoustically is perfect
When floor get her kicks.
Really this is and definitely was Dutch musical history.
Much more interesting is the title: "Love Is A Rodeo" from the album "Switch" (by Golden Earring). The whole album "Switch" is great.
Absolutely!
When the lady smiles was a big hit as well. Especially the pretty explicit video. Couldn’t be made in this era I guess😂
Was even at the time banned on MTV and other places in the USofA. They had to make a censored/cleaned up version.. but even that cleansed version would be hard to get on TV today... Killings, shooting and other violence no issue at all, but seeing nipples... Aaah panic galore
It wasn’t about seeing nipples but he kissed a “nun” in the video. Although in the story it was an accident (he thought he was kissing his fantasy girl) but it was enough to get the video banned at the time.
Wow I've heard this song "Twighlight Zone" so many times and never knew this was the band Golden Earring. Doug, Rush has a song called the "The Twighlight Zone" It's on the Album 2112.
Moontan is in my top ten albums of all time. well worth a listen all the way through.
Both of these songs have really cool bass parts! Twilight Zone especially . That line is so simple, yet so freaking badass
Loving discovering your channel 😊 Radar Love and a shorter version of Twilight Zone were played a lot on Australian radio & I absolutely loved them. I felt Golden Earring never quite got the recognition they deserved outside their home country of The Netherlands.
The Bourne Identity is one of the five best books I have ever read.
I scoured the web and found a copy of the twilight zone from each of their first 40 years put them in a folder and uploaded them to amazon music for their 40th anny, hehe they run from 4:40 to 18+ mins depending on their mood that day!
Great to see you so "happy"😁
Big tree blue sea, is my favorite by them. The American release of moontan is a time capsule worthy album👍
Agreed - absolute classic.
16 november 2019 was the last time Golden Earring performed this song live on stage. The band stopped in 2021 when George Kooymans got ALS. I visited live sohow of them many times. I loved the atmosphere in the venues when they played.
Great choices for today... takes me back to my teenage years!
LOL! Doug's mashup of Radar Love and Jungle Love (The Steve Miller Band) - that's awesome, lol.
That's a fair error to make, cos those songs were probably from the same era of sound.
Radar Love is a great drum solo with a melody attached!
I think Child In Time (studio version) by Deep Purple is a great driving song. DEFINITELY responsible for a few speeding tickets I would imagine 🙃When that galloping beat starts up...hell yeah! I believe it was featured in the movie Twister.
"Bluetooth!" Love it!!
My only copy of Radar Love is on a compilation LP of 1970s hits. It's followed there by Leo Sayer's The Show Must Go On, and I can never hear RL without having the intro to TSMGO starting up in my head immediately afterwards.
Two cool Golden Earring songs. I think that Twilight Zone was played on MTV every 30 minutes back in the day.
White Lion did a good cover of Radar Love (ua-cam.com/video/KFMyJxluMYQ/v-deo.html)
What Metal Mike said 💯
Every 30 minutes feels accurate. This and "I'm On a Mexican Radio." The beans....
Nice! My favorite Golden Earring songs are Instant Poetry and Grab it for a second. You should try them for a spin.
Eelco also a true nr1 guitar guy best wishes to George and he BAND😊
I had forgotten what a badass song this was/is!!!! 🔥
"The radio plays some forgotten song.... Brenda Lee Coming On Strong
a conversation with my now 80 year old mom:
Me: What was your first convert?
mom: Brenda Lee, then she started singing Coming On Strong...
lol
Well done! Those were the AM hits, but I first heard GE when Vanilla Queen (also from Moontan) was a big FM hit, and this extended tune and great coda should be reviewed too.
Really great reaction vid. I saw them in 2000 and they were awesome. They also thought I was crazy coming all the way from the states to see them.
A really good cruising song is " freeway jam " by the late Jeff Beck but the best song on the album "blow by blow" is " cause we ended as lovers" , you must check them out.