Golden Earring - No For An Answer (studio version + live in Toronto, 1983) [View all]

[highplainsdem]

This 1980 song was a hit in the Netherlands for Golden Earring, one of a number of hits they had there between their international mega-hits "Radar Love" in 1973 and "Twilight Zone" in 1982.

I posted the concert video below in Music Appreciation last night -- https://www.democraticunderground.com/103477455 (you can find a link to the setlist there) -- in part because their set started with this song, which hadn't been in other videos I'd posted. Then I added the studio version, a performance for a Dutch TV show where they were lip-syncing.

The concert video was missing the first 15 seconds and the first line of the song, but it was still better than the studio version.

I wanted to share both here because so many Americans are familiar with just those two mega-hits from this great band.

I love the energy of this song, especially live. We can all use more energy now.

And I love the '50s-rock sound, too. Lead guitarist George Kooymans, who wrote almost all their songs (some by himself, many with Barry Hay writing the lyrics, after Barry joined the band), had fallen in love with rock music and learned to play guitar at the age of 8, in 1956. (See this -- https://www.facebook.com/georgekooymansboek/photos/a.309608799196864/575760755914999 -- for a picture of George with a guitar bigger than he was.) He didn't form the first version of the Earring till he reached the ripe old age of 13, when he was also giving guitar lessons, but you can still hear that '50s influence in some of their music, though they had a lot more influences later, including psychedelic/prog rock.

The 3-1/2 minute studio version, and the live version in the first 4-1/2 minutes of the concert.