Golden Earring Guitarist George Kooymans Dies

Thursday, July 24, 2025

George Kooymans, guitarist and co-founder of the legendary Dutch rock band Golden Earring, has died at the age of 77.

Posted by lfthndthrds at 12:30 PM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

The group's cofounding guitarist and colead singer has died four years after being diagnosed with ALS: ultimateclassicrock.com/george-kooym ...

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-- Ultimate Classic Rock (@ultclassicrock.bsky.social) Jul 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM

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Crap ass band. I saw them in the 70's at the Santa Monica Civic. Be Bop Deluxe opened, as that was the band I actually wanted to see. After they went on, half the crowd left and I saw "Radar Love" on the floor row 15. Bwahaha.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-23 10:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The full-length album version of their tune ...
(that seems to be quite apropos of late ...)

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (1982)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Chorus]
Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?

Help, I'm steppin' into the Twilight Zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?
...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-23 11:01 PM | Reply

I DGAF what your tuna-can smellin', tourette's syndrome riddled ass thinks. I was posting an obituary.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-23 11:03 PM | Reply

@#3 ... I DGAF what your tuna-can smellin', tourette's syndrome riddled ass thinks. ...

You did not let me finish my postings.

I had tried to post the following comment, but this site seemed to have an issue. So I'll try again ...

...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-23 11:06 PM | Reply

Thank-you for the music.

R.I.P. George Jan Kooymans

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-23 11:07 PM | Reply

Also ...

George Kooymans
en.wikipedia.org

... George Jan Kooymans (11 March 1948 -- 22 July 2025) was a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He was best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring.[1] Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone", the group's only top 10 entry on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album Tracks chart.[2]

In 2021, Kooymans retired from the music business after he was diagnosed with ALS. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-23 11:18 PM | Reply

@#1 ... I saw them in the 70's at the Santa Monica Civic. Be Bop Deluxe opened, as that was the band I actually wanted to see. After they went on, half the crowd left and I saw "Radar Love" on the floor row 15. ...

Yeah.

I have also gone to concerts where the "main" group was blown out of the water by the "warm-up" group.

Back in the late 70's John Cougar (Mellencamp) was the warm-up act for a Heart concert in the now razed New Haven Colosseum.

When Heart came on stage, it was quite apparent that they knew they seemed to have been upstaged.

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-24 01:30 AM | Reply

#3 was response to #1

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-07-24 02:51 AM | Reply

It is reported that Mick Jagger has said that his insistence of going on the TAMI show AFTER James Brown was the biggest mistake of his career. One look at that film of the concert and there is no disagreement. The performance by the GFOS is widely available on YouTube--stunning...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-24 12:42 PM | Reply

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Go jump off a tall building, dumbass.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-24 02:23 PM | Reply

Weirdest lineup I ever saw was

Opener - Ted Nugent (right before his first solo album dropped)
2nd - Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express
Headliner - Elvin Bishop (Fooled Around and Fell in Love was the big hit)

Nugent jumped off the Marshall stacks and rocked it for 45 minutes.
Auger was just a snooze-fest.
Bishop was loaded out of his mind, drinking Jack Daniels passed up by a fan

Good times.

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-24 02:27 PM | Reply