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The Wildflowers

About Me

The Wildflowers is a solo project of dutch singer songwriter and guitar teacher Harald van der Haar. During the last 20 years he wrote a lot of songs. His songs are observations of life. If You like Status Quo, Eagles, Springsteen, Petty, Del Amitri you will probably like The Wildflowers songs.He started out back in 1988 with his first band Playin' it Cool ( miro de ruiter , ja winters , sjoerd terpstra ). A band who did loads of covers and a lot of original songs. After a few demos ( Malibu and Rock n Roll band ) and lots of gigs it was time to change.Freak Out ( a band with Wybrand Langhout and Jacco Roest ) released a couple of demos ( Freak Out and Bumbthwacked ) recorded in studios in Hilversum and Kampen. This rocktrio delivered great rock songs. If you would like to hear Freak Out just mail [email protected] a couple of years in Freak out with Chris Wiegeraad he started the band True Faces. Over the years a lot of people have played in the band. The strength of this band is the good blending voices and the mix of acoustic and electric songs. True Faces with Jeroen van Doorn ( drums ) and Jack Gieles ( bass ) is still going strong in 2008. The new album recorded in the Longwood Studios will be released in 2008.Currently Basil ( a reunion of Freak out with new members René Lorist , Jochem van Leeuwen and Titia Dijkstra ) is still promoting the Haunting Eyes album and is working on new songs.In 2008 the market alley sessions will be released. Songs from eagles, andrew gold, venice, joe walsh, gram parsons, warren zevon, bob seger as well as originals have been recorded in 2007/8. It will be the first album of Walther van der Haar ( formerly known as singer of the Old Rascals back in the sixties / seventies ). More info to come.Beside all of this there was always inspiration to write more and more songs and record a lot of solo demos. For more info please email [email protected] INFO www.truefaces.nl or email [email protected]. www.basil-band.nl or email [email protected] released their debut album on may 7th 2006. ORDER NOW !!!!

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Member Since: 27/03/2006
Band Website: www.truefaces.net; www.basil-band.nl
Band Members: Harald van der Haar : guitar, vox , bass , hammond , harmonica , words , music
Influences: Rock , acoustic , pop it doesn't matter as long as the song is good. Songpower ! Artists like : Status Quo, Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, Nils Lofgren, Del amitri, Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet band paris dandies, crowded house, justin currie, True Faces, Basil, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Paul Weller, Doe Maar, Huey Lewis and the News Beatles, Julian Lennon, Poco and more ..................................... .
Sounds Like: Me Check out ! www.myspace.com/basilband and www.myspace.com/truefaces !!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Order the new True Faces album Crashing Down

Helllllo, It was a greattt release party ! Sunday 30 november the new True Faces album Crashing Down was released. You can order the album now by sending an email to [email protected] . You can listen...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:33:00 GMT

tourdates

Hello all, On the 7th of september 2008 we will launch the new True Faces album.In the meantime here are some more tourdates. ..TR> 31.mei.2008 In session 21.jun.2008 TBC 07.sep.2008 Kampen H...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:38:00 GMT

NEW TRUE FACES ALBUM !!!!!!!!!!

Hellllloooo, Finally the new True Faces album recorded in the Lonwood Studios will be released after the holidays in September 2008. The album "Crashing Down" will contain 11 tracks. For more info ple...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:06:00 GMT

Het onstaan van Rataplan volgens professor L Rietman

ra"ta"plan (dem)  1  massa ongeordende dingen Het fenomeen "Rataplan" kent zijn fonetische oorsprong in een ver, grijs en archeologisch zeer dubieus verleden. Zo toont een oeroude ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:51:00 GMT

Top 10 2007

Hellooo, Every year for my radioshow Rataplan ( every friday 19.00 CET www.omroepijselmond.nl stream ) i play my top ten of the year. For 2007 : 1 Eagles - Long road out of eden 2 Status Quo - in sear...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 04:20:00 GMT

Alright for you track

Helloooo, Hope you are all well. We're in the proces of mixing the new True Faces album. Here a rough mix of one of the songs to be released in 2008 !!. Hope you like it. All the best...... Harald
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:56:00 GMT

RATAPLAN RADIO EVERY FRIDAY 19.00 ( cet )

Helloooo, U can listen to our radioprogramm RATAPLAN every week from 19.00 till 21.00. A great two hour show !  Check out the live stream of www.omroepijsselmond.nl/ . For any questions jus...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:13:00 GMT

Warren Zevon

Hello all, Hope u are all good. Just a musical ( Zevon's cd Preludes ) and book tip here. I just read the Chrystal Zevon biography of singer songwriter and one of my musical heroes Warren Zevon. What ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:50:00 GMT

Turn to Stone Demo

Hi I have put another home demo on the myspace site. It is a song i wrote in 2001 and i am starting to play again cause i like this one. Hope you will like it too. Take care. Harald    ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT

A month of sundays

This time around things are getting better on the live concerts. We seem to do good shows and i'll hope the shows will keep on coming. Check out the new Bob Seger and Tom Petty albums ! When music is ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 10:02:00 GMT