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  • Genre: Blues / Rock / Roots Music

    Location Melbourne, Victoria, Au

    Profile Views: 27593

    Last Login: 8/31/2012

    Member Since 10/11/2006

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmR1dGNodGlsZGVycy5jb20uYXU=

    Record Label Moulin Bleu (New Label)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Born in the Netherlands in 1941, Dutch emigrated to Australia with his parents, four brothers and a sister in 1955... .. At the age of ten, he was a member of a church choir, but by the time he was twelve, his alto voice broke. No more singing for the boy with the baritone voice. When he was thirteen, he joined a boys choir at a secondary school fooling the choir master into believing he was an alto by singing falsetto. He can still produce those high-pitched notes to this day... .. His first year in Australia was spent in the Brooklyn Migrant Hostel where his first experience as a performer was in an amateur Black and White Minstrel Show. His very first paid gig, when just fifteen, was at the Collingwood Town Hall where he played the harmonica. On the same bill were Joff Allen and Johnny O'Keefe. Dutch was paid two pounds seven and sixpence, which at the time he was getting for half a weeks wages at Broons timberyard in Brooklyn. It only cost two pounds and sixpence for the taxi home... .. He bought his first guitar in 1959 and by 1960 he was playing in the trendy coffee lounges of that time. Making up most of the songs as he went along, he found the blues was exactly the music in which to express his feelings. With no one to teach him, he developed his own style that remains unique to himself... .. Dutch made his first record in 1972 and it was released one year later. His collaborators were Brian Cadd, Phil Manning, Barry Sullivan, Barry Harvey, Laurie Prior and Broderick Smith. In 1975 he started recording for an independent label, Eureka and consequently recorded two direct to disc records with greats Jimmy Conway and Kevin Borich... .. During the seventies, Dutch fronted such Blues and Boogie bands as the Elks, the Cyril 'B' Bunter Band and Mickey Finn. In 1980 he formed the 'R&B Six', a band that included Charley Elul (drums), Peter Frazer (sax), Suzanne Petersen (flute and vocals), Mick Eliot (guitar) and Dave Murray (bass and vocals). This band toured Australia extensively... .. In the meantime, Dutch also worked solo and toured with John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry. In 1976, having only heard Dutch, B B King assumed that he was black. Brownie and Dutch became best mates simply because Browney believed that the Dutchman was a genuine bluesman, regardless of his racial origins... .. Since then, Dutch has been honoured with many awards, most notedly for his performances with his band, 'The Blues Club'... .. Nowadays he mainly performs as a solo artist, though he does enjoy getting together with Geoff Achison doing amazing duo chops. Dutch also likes to get together with Greg Dodd, Rob O'Toole and Peter Beulke forming a group called 'His Blusicians'... .. Dutch ranks among his favourite guitarists; Geoff Achison, Kevin Borich and the Emmanuel brothers. He excuses himself by saying he only plays the guitar as he doesn't know what to do with his hands while he sings. He says that the blues is the song and the guitar is just the accompainment, like the banjo used to be and the lyre long ago... .. ..

  • Members

    Today DUTCH TILDERS mostly performs SOLO; although he has combined some amazing duo chops with Chris Finnen, Geoff Achison and Martin Cooper recently. Dutch Tilders blues band is complete with Martin Cooper, Peter Beulke & Winston Galea. Dutch Tilders became a third time winner of the Australian Blues ‘Chain’ Award for Best Album 2006 – “Mine & Some I Adopted” plus Best Male Vocalist 2006. MARTIN Cooper - Electric GUITAR Martin Cooper’s love affair with the Blues started 40 years ago, after hearing the heavily Blues-inflected bands, Cream & the Rolling Stones. Having recently taken up guitar, Cooper fell under the spell of the Delta Blues giant, Robert Johnson and from there he soon discovered the profound works of Skip James, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Son House. Drawn to the electric guitar almost immediately, Cooper states that his life changed after he heard Freddie King and his famous vibrato-laden guitar sound, which emulated King’s voice. Cooper worked with various bands through his teens and twenties, including The Faith Healers, The Harmonic Destroyers and Mountain Ash and was the resident guitarist at the Café Jammin’ for several years. In the mid-eighties, while working with Bob Sedergreen’s Blues on the Boil, Cooper met Australian Blues legend, Dutch Tilders. The pair formed a musical bond and personal friendship that ensues today. Cooper cites the privilege of playing with Tilders’ and his close friend, the great Brownie McGhee, as one of the highlights of his musical career. Cooper was one of the founding members of Dutch Tilders’ band, The Blues Club, which included Tilders, Barry Hills and Winston Galea. The Blues Club has been considered to be the first Blues Band in Australia to temper a hard-driven, electric Blues sound with dynamics; feel-based light and shade. For 4 years, Cooper played and toured with Tilders and the Blues Club extensively, before he moved on to new musical challenges. Cooper and Tilders reunited 2008 and have been working together in a band ensemble and also as a duo. PETER Beulke - BASSIST Peter taught himself to play guitar and bass and has been playing bass since he was 12 years old. He played in bands through his school days and started playing double bass in the 1970's, influenced by Willie Dixon. Peter likes venturing into different styles of music including jazz, folk, rockabilly, blues and even classical, having spent 4 years at the Melba Conservatorium (1974-1978) studying classical guitar and double bass. He's played with international icons such as Jimmy Witherspoon, Taj Mahal, John Mayall, Dr. John and Buddy Guy. He has also played with the Melbourne Honeydrippers with Andy Baylor, rockabilly with the Crackerjacks, ska reggae with the Allniters (5 years living in Sydney), Redgum and has recorded with Russell Crowe. Pete has played with many of Australia's top guitarists including Andy Baylor and The Dancehall Racketeers, Gwyn Ashton (2 years living in and touring England and Europe), Ron Tabuteau's Chickenhead, Ben Peter's Benny and the Fly by niters, Geoff Achison's Soul diggers trio, Dutch Tilders, Co Tipping in The Lowriders and Louis King and the Liars Club, Matt Dwyer and Nick Charles. Pete's even played New Orleans trad jazz touring Europe with The Louisiana Shakers

  • Influences

    Big Bill Broonzy, Brownie McGhee, Foreday Riders, Ray Charles, Higginbotham, Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Sonny Terry & J Turner

  • Sounds Like

    Blues,Folk,Jazz,Rock,bluesman,dutchman,

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    I am sure Dutch would have been happy with friends in blues meeting to share National Blues Day at Semaphore Workers Club SA, Gaslight Tavern/The Blues Lounge SA and MBAS special jam night Wednesday. Sadly Wombat Keep the Faith did not perform at MBAS Jam but Geoff Achison, Jimi Hocking and many others spoilt patrons at the Royal Standard Hotel. Thankyou on behalf of Dutch Tilders for sharing blues music with friends. Love Lynne 'Peanuts' Wright x

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