which was much longer than just that song. There's narration, just a few minutes, at the start of the video, and unfortunately it's in Dutch without captions, but the fan's description will help.
And the entire video is fascinating to watch.
https://casperroos.nl/story90.html
At last drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk made a dream come true in September 1992 by conducting an orchestra of 1000 drummers playing a piece called "1000 drummers op de Maas" in the Rotterdam harbour on river De nieuwe Maas. All drummers were placed on five floating pontoons in the river. The event started with an intro by drummer Jim Killpatrick, followed by a video intro from Dave Weckl, recorded on the Rotterdam music fair the same day. Then Cesar used his wellknown "drum jacket" with the "1000 drummers" event as well. He was lifted and hanging above the audience by a huge harbour crane while he did a drumsolo on his "jacket" but this time it was a diver wetsuit. Cesar conducted all drummers while playing. The drummers themselves were divided in four sections and each section wore their own colour t-shirt (green, blue, red and white i believe). Another fine piece of work was the use of a huge inflatable drumkit which was played by Cesar. One of the men who gave a drumsolo was Fred van Vloten. One of the best drummer of the Netherlands. Sadly he died on January 20, 2007. At the end of the show the immense group of drummers were joined by the members of Golden Earring and during a short performance they performed Radar Love all together. Of course there were also fireworks in the sky.
The event was captured on film by seventeen camera's and directed by Egbert van Hees. Over 11 kilometers of cables were used and 300 microphones and Europes largest soundmixer. 1,4 million of watts were used for the lighting of the event so even lights from France had to be flown in and 2 video walls were placed. The week before the event was hindered by bad weather conditions. Heavy rainfall were there for days. The drummers could set up their drumkits on the day before the concert. The event was the closing to a festive week. The cause for the 1000 drummers op de Maas event was the celebration of the 60th year of excistance of the Rotterdam harbour company (Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Rotterdam), the 90 year excistance of the VVV Rotterdam and 30 years of Rotterdam being the worlds largest harbour. The 1000 drummers event took 2 years of intensive preparation!
Starting about 3:20 in the video below, you'll see Golden Earring drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk suspended from a crane, as described above, then the intro from legendary American drummer Dave Weckl.
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