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127. I mentioned Cesar's 75th birthday last month in the reply above. Omroep West, the Dutch broadcaster

whose site I found that news story on, uploaded video of Cesar's 65th birthday party, a surprise party that was quite an event, to their YouTube channel last week.

And I want to post that 10-year-old video here because the 24-minute clip includes George singing with Boudewijn de Groot and Henny Vrienten, who became his Vreemde Kostgangers bandmates a couple of years later. As explained in reply 95, that performance for Cesar's 65th birthday was the first time all three sang together, though George had been on stage with them separately years earlier.

The video is captioned, but only in Dutch. You can hear some birthday wishes for Cesar in English, though, from fellow drummers Chester Thompson of Frank Zappa's band, Lars Ulrich of Metallica, Simon Phillips of Toto, and Ian Paice of Deep Purple, starting about 13 minutes in. And at 17:40, Brian Bennett of the Shadows - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Bennett - who was 73 then and is still around, is introduced and Cesar gets to play drums with the iconic musician who inspired him to become a drummer. ( (Drummerzone page about that and an album with some of the performances is at https://drummerszone.com/videos/drum-duet-cesar-zuiderwijk-and-brian-bennett-the-shadows/a-6955-5316/channel/ but their video of Cesar with Brian.Bennett is missing.) And Cesar's son is interviewed after that.

From the YouTube description, English translation via Google:

Drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk blew out 75 candles on July 18. Time for a party. Ten years ago, for his 65th birthday, he already received a real birthday concert in Diligentia in The Hague with many famous musicians.

Many well-known people came to the party, including singer and bassist Henny Vrienten, singer Boudewijn de Groot, actor Karel de Rooij and various (ex) members of the Golden Earring . Musician friends also performed during the festive gathering, including Livin' Blues, René and The Alligators and The Clarks. Also special were Henk Savelberg's drumming assistant chefs, Nico Dijkshoorn's Radar Love column and video messages from famous drummers.

But the highlight of the evening was Cesar Zuiderwijk's performance with drummer Brian Bennett of The Shadows. “I am emotional that all those people have done this for me,” said a touched Cesar Zuiderwijk afterwards.