Talk:Pierre van der Linden

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Pierre van der Linden is a great drummer, but this article is loaded with errors. He played drums with guitarist Jan Akkerman from 1960 to 1969 in the Friendship Sextette, Johnny and his Cellar Rockers (not "rockets"), the Hunters (which had a 1966 hit single in the Netherlands with "The Russian Spy and I"), and Brainbox. Cyril Havermans never played bass for Brainbox until many years later. Andre Reijnan was the bassist.

Pierre did play with ZZ and the Maskers for a short time, as well as with After Tea and Tea Set (which had a Dutch singles hit with "Ma Belle Amie").

Pierre joined Focus in late 1970 and remained with the group until October 1973, then recorded the first Trace album in 1974 and toured with that group until he briefly rejoined Focus in 1975. Ian Mosely played drums on Trace's second album "Birds" in 1975 and Peter de Leuwe played drums on Trace's third album "The White Ladies" in 1976.

Pierre also played on Sweet'd Buster's "Out of the Blue" album in 1980.

All of these facts can be verified on progarchives.com and janakkerman.nl if you wish to correct and footnote this information. 2600:1001:B04A:3009:0:1C:ECAE:2301 (talk) 16:51, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]