Rubberen Robbie
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Rubberen Robbie is a Dutch
band from Leiden that came together after one of the most successful Dutch rock combos, Catapult (featuring all five men listed below) lost the way and collapsed at the beginning of the 1980s. The band sings in Straight Leiden Dialect. One of the band's most popular songs, "De Nederlandse Sterre Die Strale Overal" (Dutch Stars Shine Everywhere), earned the band number one status on the Dutch charts.
Netherlands
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band from Leiden that came together after one of the most successful Dutch rock combos, Catapult (featuring all five men listed below) lost the way and collapsed at the beginning of the 1980s. The band sings in Straight Leiden Dialect. One of the band's most popular songs, "De Nederlandse Sterre Die Strale Overal" (Dutch Stars Shine Everywhere), earned the band number one status on the Dutch charts.
Members
- Aart Mol (bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, voice) - Cees Bergman (voice)
- Elmer Veerhoff (keyboard)
- Erwin van Prehn (guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) - Geertjan Hessing (drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
) - Dries van der Laan (LyricsLyricsLyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
)