Wow! Silveroller jamming with DeWolff, covering Free's Walk In My Shadow. Live in London, a few hours ago.

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This was the end of Silveroller's set, the last night of the tour, with the three members of DeWolff joining the five members of Silveroller on stage. Incredible guitar from Silveroller's Aaron Keylock and DeWolff's Pablo van de Poel.

Editing to link to more threads about their tour, with more videos and links to lots of rave reviews:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034116660

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034117376

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1. Silveroller loved that YouTube video, too, and posted it on their Facebook page this

morning:

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid05JKw5J9e3Ror4MaSHW5AxT2TFZohUXeitESKM2cjyrSX41e47UHQGudtDj2zQJPWl&id=100039827445866


Some of the replies there mentioned how great the venue was. This page shows it - the Omeara Live:
https://omearalondon.com/spaces/

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2. Frontman skills blooming as we speak.

IMO

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3. My opinion, too. He has mad skills as a frontman. Aaron Keylock used to be a frontman, but he

wanted to step back and focus on guitar, so this partnership with Jonnie is perfect for them.

And I don't think Aaron could have found a better lead singer his age than Jonnie. Very few rock singers ever as good as Jonnie, IMO.

Btw, Jonnie's blues band will be re-releasing a 2018 album:

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Beaw5CAwuQY2Faj1BUAynEKqSTNKqSWHhPu7UjpcabninvQRzVH5wqNFSqZxamb7l&id=100063848824594

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4. Silveroller posted a second video of this jam today on their Facebook page and YouTube channel. They've

left the one I posted above on their Facebook page, too, but they're calling this one the "Official Bootleg" on FB.

This one's a bit longer, starting more than a minute earlier that evening, and it's a bit farther from the stage. There's a quick scan of the crowd at the end.

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5. I Enjoyed The Shared Organ Solo

That was fun stuff, and they both can play.
I like the guitar player playing the Firebird better. He's smoother & I like the tone better. Both pretty pentatonic, though.
I like the singing a lot. Big & throaty.

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6. Glad you enjoyed that! They're both very talented bands.

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Pablo van de Poel and Aaron Keylock were both very young when they started playing guitar. I posted a video here of Aaron Keylock when he was 12 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034108810 . He's 25 or 26 now, was born in 1998.

Pablo was born in 1991. He formed DeWolff with his brother Luka (the drummer) and Robin Piso in 2007. Pablo and Luka (whose dad had been in a band that did covers of '60s rock) turned 16 and 14 that year. But Pablo had formed a blues rock band earlier, INFA - Inharmonic Noises From Above - in 2004, the year he turned 13, and in 2005 and 2006 INFA did well in regional rounds of a national talent competition for teenagers in the Netherlands. DeWolff won the national competition in 2008 and got a recording contract.

DeWolff in 2008, when Pablo was 16 or 17:

And in 2020, a full 1-1/4 hour concert for Rockpalast:

I haven't been able to find out exactly when Jonnie became a professional singer. From what he's posted on social media, I know he's 32 now, and I think his birthday's in June. When I saw the first Silveroller single I thought he was very close to Aaron's age rather than several years older. I know he fronted a rock group called Black Cat Bones for a few years starting in 2014, and they released an EP. I've posted some of their music. Before he left Black Cat Bones he was also in a blues band, the Head Hunters Blues Band, and I think he's been doing shows with them at times until fairly recently. He started working with Aaron Keylock in 2018, and Keylock, the name they used for the first lineup of the band, released a couple of fine singles...and then Covid.shut everything down.

I love YouTube. Just found a 30-second clip of INFA, Pablo's first band, in 2006, so he was 14 or 15 here:

Just found another video of INFA, this one uploaded in early 2009, so probably the July 2008 show at a music festival that Pablo's Wikipedia page mentions. I think this was after he won that national talent competition with DeWolff. It's cool that he had female musicians in this first band.

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7. You might love this - Guitarist mag video: How to get huge vintage fuzz tones (and great cleans) - Pablo from DeWolff

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8. I ran across a February interview with Pablo where he talked about Redbone's album Potlatch being a major influence

on the album they're now writing songs for. The interviewer, a Brit, had never heard of Redbone. But Redbone were much more popular in the Netherlands than here in the States. Their song We Were All Wounded At Wounded Knee was controversial enough here that most radio stations refused to play it, but it was #1 in the Netherlands for several weeks and on the singles charts there for a few months.

Redbone on the Dutch show TopPop in 1973.