![]() One of these is the dutch band Gruppo Sportivo, a band led by the pleasantly deranged Hans Vandenburg that really rocked the dutch music scene in the late seventies. Album Review: Grupo Sportivo is somewhat of a silly inspired new wave act from the Netherlands.Hello, Eight-X lines up three new names today, two of them still performing regularly. But the whole packaging, the minimal template front and back image & text was appealing. With their potentially foreign background, I was really not too sure what I was going to be listening to. But the date on the record is 1979, so that was what really stood out. From the cover and nice condition of the record, I though the band was going to be a wacky 80’s college radio band with their goggle-eyed picture on the front. Members & Other Bands:Hans Vandenburg - Vox, Guitar, ProducerPeter Calicher - KeysEric Wehrmeyer - BassMax 'Climax' Mollinger - DrumsJosse Van Iersel - Grupettes, Backing VoxMeike Touw - Gruppettes, Backing VoxRobert Jan Stips - Producer (the Nits)Aad Link - EngineerJan Schuurman - EngineerRobin Freeman - EngineerYoung & Ugly - Art DirectionDorien Van Der Valk - Design & PhotographyAnton Corbijn - Design & PhotographyVan DeFruits - WritingJohn Van Vueren - ManagementUnknown-ness: I’ve never heard of these guys before. A steady stream of albums like Sucker of the Century, Young and Out (1992), Commercial Break (1994), the live Sing Sing (1995, released two years later in America as Second Life), and Shake Hands With Vandenburg (1996) followed, mostly recorded for Dutch labels, where Gruppo Sportivo's main audience now resides. However, it would be the last Gruppo Sportivo album widely available overseas subsequent releases found the nucleus of the band gradually dwindling down to Vandenburg plus an aggregation of studio musicians and whatever past members were available to record. Another bassist, Michiel Eilbracht, was employed for 1984's Sombrero Times, and the original Grupettes duo had been restored. Goes the Brain found Vandenburg adopting an English accent in place of the familiar Dutch by 1982's Design Moderne, Dick Schulte Nordholt had taken over the bass spot, and the Grupettes had become more of a free-floating addition, with Van Iersel joined by Lies Schilp on this particular outing. ![]()
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