| Once you realise that Harrie Verduin is mad about music, you understand what inspired him to name his 'Music' series of Astilbes.
His taste in Astilbes sits neatly beside his taste in bands, who typically include artists such as Garbage, The Foo Fighters, Supergrass and Sugar. He's got reverend respect for the 'old masters' such as AC/DC and John Cougar Mellencamp, but keeps right up with the new talent. Right now one of his favourites is a Dutch band called 'Solo'.
At the age of 18 he ran his own his own Heavy Metal magazine, and today still enjoys going to live shows.
He is the proud owner of a huge CD collection, which he still takes great pleasure in scouring record fairs to find.
Why go to all this trouble when it's so much easier to download music from the internet? In a word, quality. Harrie loves his music enough to have invested in a high-end hi-fi system, and he finds the quality of downloaded music to be noticable inferior to factory-pressed CDs.
Harrie loves his plants, but he still proclaims, as in the words of John Miles - "Music was my first love, and it will be my last". |
