Kim Weemhoff was born on December 30th, 1959 in Amsterdam. In
his teens he played the guitar and loved heavy bands like Led
Zeppelin and Deep Purple. When he started playing the drums his
examples were Steve Gadd and Billy Cobham. Kim took over Pim
Koopman's drumchair in DIESEL through his stint in Delrose, a band
from The Hague that also included at some point (though not at the
time) Bas Krumperman. Kim was quite young at the time (in his early
twenties as opposed to Rob Vunderink, who was already over 30) and
the experience kind of overwhelmed him. With no professional
experience he went on the North-American tour within a year of his
arrival in the band. Kim then started recording "Unleaded" with the
band and on the second day of these sessions he quit. On the LP Kim
can only be heard on "Samantha" (not the 1988 single, but the Mark
Boon song on "Unleaded"). Apparently he suffered from nervous
exhaustion, though there are different versions of the story going
'round. Dido Smit claims Kim couldn't cope with the pressure of being
in a professional band; Bas Krumperman's opinion is that Kim "should
have known better than to wait until he collapsed"; Kim himself
thinks it was his lack of experience. But this was not to be the end
of Kim Weemhoff as a musician, for he went on to become one of the
most respected jazzrock/fusion drummers of the Netherlands. He made
two CD's with his own band Sinister Project, but really became a
"name" musician by joining Candy Dulfer's Funky Stuff (for those who
don't know, Candy had a number 1 jazz CD in the USA and recorded with
Prince and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics). He also did some work for
Spanish flamenco guitarist Jaco Abel and kept his name in the Premier
League of musicians by joining singer Mathilde Santing's backing band
The Whole Band, which he quit last summer. Last year he did a theatre
tour with Dutch singer Frank Boeyen (83 gigs........). At the moment
he freelances with the Jungle Warriors and is trying to master the
art of playing the tabla (Indian drum).
