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Supersister, nu al geruime tijd in de ‘supertrio bezetting’ met Rinus Gerritsen, Leon Klaasse en Robert Jan Stips, heeft niet stilgezeten. Ze hebben gewerkt aan nieuw materiaal en na een succesvolle clubtour kon een vervolg niet uitblijven. Dit keer is MEZZ aan de beurt! Van Haagse schooljongens tot psychedelische rocksterren. De Haagse band Supersister schreef al vanaf 1968 muziekgeschiedenis. Denk aan progressieve pop, jazzinvloeden, swingende loopjes en zo nu en dan een grappige Zappa-twist. Supersister is nauw verbonden met Den Haag als muziekstad, waar ze vijftig jaar geleden begonnen als een groep leerlingen van het Grotius Lyceum. De band speelde als één van de eerste in het 1972 opgerichte Paar van Troje en later werkte Robert Jan Stips samen met andere bekende artiesten, zoals Golden Earring, Sweet d’Buster, Gruppo Sportivo, Freek de Jonge en NITS.
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MEZZ is het podium voor live popmuziek en dance in Breda. MEZZ is open, betrokken, nieuwsgierig en onderzoekend. Let's MEZZ things up!
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Supersister Biography
There are 2 groups with the name Supersister:
1> Supersister was a band from The Hague (the Netherlands), playing progressive rock ranging from jazz to pop. The most predominant band members were Robert Jan Stips (keyboards, vocals), Sacha van Geest (flute), Marco Vrolijk (drums) and Ron van Eck (bass).
The band started as Sweet OK Sister in 1968 as a school band with singer and songwriter Rob Douw, who soon thereafter left. The remaining members continued as a more serious musical quartet under the name Supersister. Their style was progressive rock (in Canterbury Scene style) in which Stip's keyboard play played a dominant role.
Their debut was in 1970 with the album "Present from Nancy", and they hit the charts with numbers like "She was naked", "A girl named you", and "Radio". After three albums (Present from Nancy - 1970, To the highest bidder - 1971, and Pudding en gisteren - 1972) van Geest and Vrolijk quit. The remaining crew, together with new members Charly Mariano (wind instruments) and Herman van Boeyen (drums) release the album "Iskander", which is an even more jazz-rock oriented concept album based upon the life of Alexander the Great in 1973. In 1974 Stips and van Geest release a final album "Spiral Staircase" as "Sweet Okay Supersister". This album marks the end of the band.
The band reunited in 2000 after a request by the Progfest festival for a performance in Los Angeles. The four 1970-1973 period band members decided to accept and the result was the requested performance, as well as a short tour through the Netherlands in late 2000 and early 2001. To mark the occasion a rarities album was released, called "M.A.N." featuring live and studio recordings from 1969-1973. The reunion abruptly came to an end when Sacha van Geest unexpectedly died in the summer of 2001. The reunion concert at the Paradiso in Amsterdam was recorded and later released on CD ("Supersisterious", 2001) and DVD ("Sweet OK Supersister", 2006), which also features several old and new documentaries, photographs and unreleased audio tracks.
2> A 3 piece girl group from the UK who had hits in 1999 and 2000 such as 'Coffee' and 'Summer Gonna Come Again' (since covered by the band Nylon).
Read More1> Supersister was a band from The Hague (the Netherlands), playing progressive rock ranging from jazz to pop. The most predominant band members were Robert Jan Stips (keyboards, vocals), Sacha van Geest (flute), Marco Vrolijk (drums) and Ron van Eck (bass).
The band started as Sweet OK Sister in 1968 as a school band with singer and songwriter Rob Douw, who soon thereafter left. The remaining members continued as a more serious musical quartet under the name Supersister. Their style was progressive rock (in Canterbury Scene style) in which Stip's keyboard play played a dominant role.
Their debut was in 1970 with the album "Present from Nancy", and they hit the charts with numbers like "She was naked", "A girl named you", and "Radio". After three albums (Present from Nancy - 1970, To the highest bidder - 1971, and Pudding en gisteren - 1972) van Geest and Vrolijk quit. The remaining crew, together with new members Charly Mariano (wind instruments) and Herman van Boeyen (drums) release the album "Iskander", which is an even more jazz-rock oriented concept album based upon the life of Alexander the Great in 1973. In 1974 Stips and van Geest release a final album "Spiral Staircase" as "Sweet Okay Supersister". This album marks the end of the band.
The band reunited in 2000 after a request by the Progfest festival for a performance in Los Angeles. The four 1970-1973 period band members decided to accept and the result was the requested performance, as well as a short tour through the Netherlands in late 2000 and early 2001. To mark the occasion a rarities album was released, called "M.A.N." featuring live and studio recordings from 1969-1973. The reunion abruptly came to an end when Sacha van Geest unexpectedly died in the summer of 2001. The reunion concert at the Paradiso in Amsterdam was recorded and later released on CD ("Supersisterious", 2001) and DVD ("Sweet OK Supersister", 2006), which also features several old and new documentaries, photographs and unreleased audio tracks.
2> A 3 piece girl group from the UK who had hits in 1999 and 2000 such as 'Coffee' and 'Summer Gonna Come Again' (since covered by the band Nylon).
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