Laurens Bakker is the original drummer for the Dutch heavy metal band

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. Laurens, known as "Bakkie," started playing drums in various bands including Fase 5 and then John Ridge and Coccoon. In 1977, he met up with

Rinus Vreugdenhil Rinus Vreugdenhil (born 1951) http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/heavymetalears/files/ is the bass player and longest standing member of the Dutch heavy metal band Picture. Rinus started out in the band Lemming as the bass player and sound mixe ...

and with various musicians, started

. By 1979,

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and

Ronald van Prooijen Ronald van Prooijen http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/heavymetalears/files/ was the original singer of the Dutch heavy metal band Picture (band), Picture. Ronald started out in the band ''Fragma''. He originally sang and played a little guita ...

had joined the band for their first stable (and the classic) lineup. He remained with the band through their Eternal Dark album, but had to leave for personal reasons, as the gruel of touring, their bad luck with management, and having to support a family took a toll. Laruens' influences included

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, and

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. He used a

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nine piece, double bass set and

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cymbals. In late 2007, Laurens and the original members of

, with

, teamed up for a reunion rehearsal. It went so well that they decided to continue rehearsing for some concert dates, and considered recording a new album in early 2008 with Shmoulik Avigal from the

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lineup as their singer. As of mid-2008, a permanent line-up was established with Laurens,

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, and

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. A limited edition live album was recorded at various venues and was released by the band as ''Live 2008''. Plans were to go into the studio in early 2009 to record a new CD, ''Old Dogs, New Tricks''.

References

External links

Official website - Picture

Picture Yahoo Group
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