The 33-year-old Cor Schilder in Volendam, known as 'Pan', was sitting with his girlfriend Neeltje Toll in the MH17 when on July 17 last year, was shot in the airspace over Ukraine.
The couple was heading to Bali for a holiday. Besides pain and sorrow in the hearts of those left behind did 'Pan' is also an empty drum stool behind Vast Countenance, especially one in New York and its surroundings famous rock band.
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"I was on my way home and was driving on the highway. 5 o'clock it was, "said John Miller, the lead singer of Vast Countenance, on that fateful Thursday last summer. "There were additional news bulletins on the radio about a Malaysian Airlines plane that had crashed. Soon, my phone was ringing off the hook as friends and acquaintances of mine wanted to know if Cor and Neel were on board. But the only thing I know was that Cor would fly, not how late. I thought, stay calm. Let's first look at what flight he had. Soon after the news came about Facebook Post, when we knew it. "
Painter posted before and Neeltje the MH17 entered a picture of the device on his Facebook page accompanied by the text: "If it disappear, so he sees rd out. A reference to the disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines set a few months earlier. "Such a joke was typical Cor," said Johan, who describes his friend as someone for whom fun in life was very important.
Cry
When it was clear that Cor and Neeltje were dead, gathered friends and acquaintances in the house of Miller. "Screaming, crying. It was an unreal feeling, "he says of that night.
Hectic was. The Facebook Post, Cor Painter was the face of the disaster, there were interview requests from CNN, BBC and dozens of other media inside. Miller: "We had to weigh what we do and what we do. An anniversary show there was scheduled in October, which we have converted into a memorial concert. Not long after we decided the songs that we were already doing, finish and adding two numbers. "
The album is a result With Muffled Drum, named after an excerpt from the poem Funeral Blues by the British American poet WH Auden. It means' with silent drum. The album is a tribute to Cor and Neeltje. The two added songs are about them.
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On Sunday, the group presents their first record in Paradiso. To hear a lot of that is still the drumming and the second voice of "Pan". The highlight in the history of Vast Countenance. "It would have been so nice if Cor had been in here. What would have enjoyed it. "
Behind the drum kit is a Sunday raid force. A drummer has Vast Countenance since the death of "Pan" anymore.
metronieuws.nl/ Mario Wisse/ © Cor Painter from Volendam.
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