Willem Dyck - Guitars and vocals Marco Oonincx - Bass Ronald Oor - Drums To give an accurate description of blues rock guitarist Willem Van Dyck, it is not the easiest job you can get. Born on Nov 1, 1959 and raised in the Netherlands, Willem Dyck began playing guitar as a teenager, inspired by a friend who gave him an album of Elmore James. Later he got his hands on a tape with the music of Freddy King (Texas Cannonball) and around the same time he bought himself a record of Buddy Guy (DJ Play My Blues). This became the start of buying every blues record Willem could find and afford. Though blues records were hard to find in the mid and late seventies, Willem found a post order store in Amsterdam that had all the blues records he was looking for. Now he could listen to all the great blues artists (and play along with the records) who inspired him to play blues guitar 'til this day: Lightnin’ Hopkins, Albert King, Freddy King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, T- bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and many others. By the time he was 19, he had dropped out of school to concentrate on playing guitar. He began playing in a number of bands, most times as a leader and always playing the blues. And then there was the blues revival of the 80’ ignited by Stevie Ray Vaughan. This approach of mixing all the classic blues in a postmodern blues style, such as artists like Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Winter did before, was/is an approach that Willem not only loved but; "for me it’s a natural thing". Willem started playing professional in the mid 80’ and developing a uniquely electric fiery style of playing with a lot of passion and love for the blues. Both his "normal" guitar playing as his slide playing bridged the gap between blues and rock on his own unique way. As they say ... the rest is history. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Willem+Dyck+Band">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.