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In 1991 the former members of Lady Lake were asked to take part in an art manifestation called "Droomland" (Dreamland) organized by local Deventer artists Johan Koers and Paul Keizer. This actually gave Leendert, Jan and Fred (looking still sort of youngish, but being constantly surrounded by an awkward smell) a reason to play much of the original Lady Lake music again. And what started off as playing a piece of background music, soon became a real reunion, the first performance since 1982. All music had to be rearranged because of the fact that Leendert would be playing the bass-parts on keyboards. A lot of the original pieces were not really suitable to play anymore, but pieces like No More Gentle Treatment, Magic Twanger and Between Bremen and Hamburg were greeted with great enthusiasm. Two years later, thanks to the efforts made by Jannet and Hans van Bockel and Peter Schoemaker, an even bigger reunion, with Henk Haanraads' Dregs-Morse band as guests, took place in Leerdam and so, in its own peculiar way, the story tends to continue. Parts of stories like this, sometimes seem to have to end very abruptly. The band members, and indeed everybody who at one time knew the band, were shocked when, at the beginning of the summer of 1996, they received word that their good old friend & light engineer Peter van de Water had died. |
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| 'No Pictures' - 1977 & 1997 covers |
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How surprised we were when we were approached by Francis Grosse of the French record company MUSEA asking us permission to reissue 'No Pictures' as a compact disc. For some reason we didn't really take his offer seriously at first and the whole thing was delayed for a couple of years after we found out that the original mastertape had disappeared. But thanks to modern techniques one doesn't necessarily have to have the original tapes in order to make a good quality cd. Like most 'Musea' reissues we were asked to provide bonustracks. There's still a lot of officially unpublished Lady Lake music worth listening to, but, here we go again, no properly preserved recordings. Well, this finally gave us a reason to record some of the rest of Lady Lake's repertoire, and so, with the wonderful help of Dutch producer Frans Hagenaars, we did. The bonustracks on this cd were all written during the Lady Lake IV period ('79-'82): the basic theme for 'Reshoot' (originally intended as a vocal piece, featuring singer Gerard Meuleman) being the very last piece recorded by the band in the rehearsal room. The newly recorded versions differ only slightly from the originals which were recorded with either Eddy Bakker on bass guitar or Ton van Erp on bass guitar/double-bass. |
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Inbetween these bass-changes in the line-up, several shows were played as a trio. The Lady Lake-trio's first public performance took place on August 9th, 1980 during the so called Opa Bakema Festival in Wichmond, not far from Deventer. There, the band acted as a substitute for Autumn's Daughter who, due to circumstances nobody really cares to remember, weren't able to play. Under the highly original pseudonym Under Cover, a rather heavy and totally unconventional set was played, containing Lady Lake songs and several pieces by unknown Dutch bands like The Beuk Brothers. Later that year this trio, now named Lady Lake, performed for the second time in Schoonhoven. As both the '91 and '93 reunions were played as a trio, the decision to record the extra tracks as a trio was made easily. |