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46. George did another radio interview yesterday with classic-rock NPO Radio 5 in the

Netherlands, the same public radio station that had the interview on June 18 that I posted about in the OP.

Unfortunately there wasn't video (of the DJ; these were phone interviews) for this one, as there was for the one on the 18th -- video that was captioned so I could use that as a transcript, even though it was in Dutch and I had to copy most of it to Google Translate. I can't follow rapidly-spoken Dutch well enough to attempt a transcript of yesterday's interview myself, but there were some quotes on the station's page that linked to the audio.

George did sound slightly out of breath at times, as he had for the previous interview. But he was laughing a lot, sounded quite happy. So I'm guessing the good reviews for his new album with Frank Carillo, and the fact the album was at least briefly at or near the top of the Dutch charts, have made him feel better.

Two quotes from the interview, excerpted by the radio station, that I found particularly important:

Playing the guitar is no longer possible, singing still a bit. It's just shit! It's my life, and now I can't do this anymore. They can't predict it, there are people who have it for ten years or more. I'm now in the second year and everything is getting less.

He isn't exaggerating that playing guitar and singing have been his life. I'd posted in another thread here -- https://democraticunderground.com/10181677219 -- that George had been playing guitar by the age of 8 and was hooked on rock music even earlier. See this photo on a web page for a book about him at https://www.facebook.com/georgekooymansboek/photos/a.309608799196864/575760755914999 , where he's holding a guitar about as big as he was then. Playing guitar and singing, creating music, really have been his entire life.

But music is still helping him. Another quote from yesterday's interview:

Music is therapy and is always good!

This is something I agree with completely. As I've said in any number of posts here, in various forums.

And it was good to hear him laughing and sounding pretty happy for much of the interview.