In the 70ties I played in several bands. At the start I tried to be a guitarist, but because there was more demand for bass players I changed to this beautiful instrument. So it happened that I played bass in "Squad", "Phineas" en of course the Schoolband with more experienced people like Maurits de Weert (guitar), Jan van Someren (keyboard) and Henk Jonkers (drums). Henk played much later in Fatal Flowers. With Maurits I played at the end of the 70ties in the band 'Burning'.

My first serious band, that had regular gigs, decent equipment etc was "Fiets". Instrumental music in the tradition of Camel, Gong, Passport and Solution. Surprisingly (to us) a big national music magazine spent some words on us. We were getting famous...:-)

After Fiets the real work started. "Burning" was launched. A funky power band with ambition. A lot of gigs, and even some irregular airplay. In 1980 we recorded a LP (night) and our first single was released a few months later. In the early 80ties I left this band to play with "Rotor"

In the 80ties we also got heavily involved in Jazz music: the Rob Lokhorst quartet formed the basis for countless other formations (with a lot of guest musicians like Hans Dulfer, Bertus Borgers, Eef Albers) with which we played blues and jazz, but also 'jazzy covers' in restaurants, at weddings and other happy and unhappy occasions. Beside this I also played a few years in the Pierre van der Linden quartet. A "loose" group that played a heavy kind of Jazz.

Rob Lokhorst

Back to Rock. After 'Burning' came ''Rotor'. After Rotor came Turbo when Jos Jaspers joined. And yeah... when he left after a few months it was Rotor again...

After this heavy period I joined the 'Rauchende colts'. A band that was started by ex-"toontje lager" musicians and the Belgium duo Pol & Misch. Although the future looked bright the "Rauchende Colts" didn't last very long. The band exploded because of a difference in musical opinions (as usual...).

Tired of Pop music we (Gerard de Braconier, Joost Witte, Hans Soeteman) decided to start a Zydeco/Cajun band together with Mark Söhngen: 'Captain Gumbo'. Just before the first successful cd was released I left this band in 1990.

After a long time of not making music I started experimenting with homerecording software and everything that goes with it (around 1996). Finally in 2005 I started DASINU. Since 2007 DASINU has a more or less permanent guest: USA bass virtuoso Jim Casey. Besides that there is are guest perfomances of Philip Platt and Rob Lokhorst.

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