HERMAN BROOD :: BLUE ICE MOON / KICK THE BUCKET::VINYYLI 7"

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                    HERMAN BROOD & HIS WILD ROMACE –  Blue Ice Moon

Label  ..  CBS  – 656382 7

Format  ..  VINYYLI  ..   7" 

Country  ..  ORIGINAL  ..  NETHERLANDS

Released  ..  1990

Genre  ..  ROCK

     Tracklist :

                  A   ...   Blue Ice Moon    
      B   ...   Kick The Bucket ( Kick Ass )    

               
Herman Brood in 1979

Birth name  ..  Hermanus Brood
Also known as Rock 'n' roll junkie
 

Born  ..  November 5, 1946  Zwolle, Netherlands
 

Died  ..  July 11, 2001 (aged 54)  Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

Genres  ..  Rock and roll, Rock, Jazz, Blues
 

Occupations  ..  Musician, Painter, Actor, Poet
 

Instruments  ..  Vocals, Guitar, Piano
 

Years active  ..  1964–2001

Blue Ice Moon - Herman Brood - YouTube

Associated acts
Wild Romance, The Moans, Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers,Cuby and the Blizzards, Stud,Jan Akkerman, Vitesse, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich  

Hermanus "Herman" Brood was a Dutch musician, painter,actor, poet and media personality. Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called "the Netherlands' greatest and only rock 'n' roll star,"  later in life he became a well-known painter.

Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll," Brood was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure whose suicide, apparently caused by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, only strengthened his controversial status. His suicide, according to a poll organized to celebrate fifty years of Dutch popular music, was the most significant event in its history.

Herman Brood was born in Zwolle, and started playing the piano at age 12. He founded beat band The Moans in 1964, which would later become Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers. Brood was asked to play with Cuby and the Blizzards, but was removed by management when the record company discovered he used drugs. For a number of years Brood was in jail (for dealing LSD), or abroad, and had a number of short-term engagements (with The Studs, the Flash & Dance Band, Vitesse).

Musical career

In 1976, Brood started his own group, Herman Brood & his Wild Romance, (and started work with photographer Anton Corbijn) initially with Ferdi Karmelk (guitar), Gerrit Veen (bass), Peter Walrecht (drums), and Ellen Piebes and Ria Ruiters (vocals). 

Herman Brood in 1997

Graffiti in Delft in Brood's honor, done in his own style

Murals by Brood on a parking garage in Leidschendam.

Herman Brood in 2000

Brood's grave at Zorgvlied

 

Brood's outspoken statements in the press about sex and drug use brought him into the Dutch public arena even more than his music. He was romantically involved with the German singer Nina Hagen, with whom he appeared in the 1979 film Cha-Cha. He is reputed to be the subject of her song "Herrmann Hiess Er" (English title "Herrmann Was His Name") from the 1979 Unbehagen album, a song about a drug addict. Brood relished the media attention and became the most famous hard drug user in the Netherlands. "It is quite common for an artist to use drugs, but not for him to tell everybody. I admit that it scared me that my popularity could make people start using drugs", he once said in an interview.

In the summer of 1979, Brood tried to enter the American market, where he toured as a support-act for The Kinks, The Cars, and Foreigner. A re-recorded version of Saturday Night peaked at number 35 in the Billboard Hot 100 .
 

     Suicide and legacy

Toward the end of his life, Brood vowed to abstain from most drugs, reducing his drug use to alcohol and a daily shot of speed ("2 grams per day".
 In 2001, depressed by the failure of his drug rehabilitation program and facing serious medical problems because of his prolonged drug use, he committed suicide on 11 July by jumping from the roof of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel at the age of 54.
Extensively covered by the national media, his cremation took place five days later. Before the cremation, Brood's casket was driven from the Hilton hotel to Paradiso, Amsterdam, the streets lined with thousands of spectators. A leading Dutch music magazine Muziekkrant OOR devoted an entire issue to him.
 His ashes were placed at Zorgvlied cemetery.

Soon after his suicide, Brood's version of "My Way" spent three weeks as number one in the Dutch singles charts; the market value of his art work also increased greatly.
A characteristic note is that Brood's paintings were already targeted often by vandals during his life, while after his death they were stolen for their value.
 His popularity (or notoriety) was verified by the fact that his name turned out to be the strongest brand of the year.

When U2 performed in the Netherlands three weeks after Brood's suicide, they paid tribute to him at each of the three shows. They dedicated an acoustic version of Duke Ellington's "Jump for Joy" to him, a song they never performed at any other time of their career. At the third show in Arnhem they also dedicated their own "Gone" to him and had his version of "My Way" played over the PA as outro music. In the middle of the show Bono delivered an emotional eulogy to Brood before the band performed "In a Little While".

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