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Carol Lee van Dyk
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One of the Betties :)
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Tiny painting, on a wall of a restaurant in Amsterdam. It’s smaller than the palm of my hand

#tinypainting #streetart #Amsterdam
Tiny painting, on a wall of a restaurant in Amsterdam. With blue/green, red and yellow paint in a circle. It’s smaller than the palm of my hand
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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a room with a view 🎸

#starcaster #guitar #fenderstarcaster
2 windows looking out on a park with big trees, a brown chair in the front, a wooden floor and in between the windows there’s a Fender Starcaster guitar hanging on the wall
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Peter Visser @phavisser.bsky.social (guitar player Bettie Serveert) 31 October 2010
Black and white photo of a man wearing glasses, staring intense into the camera. He’s standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Today, we vote. In Amsterdam there are 416 locations to choose from, like the beautiful redeveloped Posthoornkerk (church), built around 1860 by the famous architect P.J.H. Cuypers

#vote #Netherlands #Amsterdam #Posthoornkerk #church
the inside of a redeveloped old church, brightly lit with red lamps
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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love is the answer

(Street art by D7606 in Amsterdam Noord)

#Amsterdam #streetart #D7606 #graffiti #poster
Street art poster by an artist called D7606 with a pug holding a red crayon in its mouth and a red heart tag around its neck
October 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Peter Visser @ Erwin Olaf expo at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Great expo, btw.

#Amsterdam #ErwinOlaf #museum #bettieserveert
A photo of Peter - guitar player of the Dutch band Bettie Serveert - standing in front of several colorful photos made by the Dutch artist Erwin Olaf, who passed away 2 years ago.
October 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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hanging out with Stephan & Herman (our drummer and bass player)

#bettieserveert
Black & white photo of 2 men in a studio, Stephan is sitting behind a computer, Herman is playing bass guitar in front of a drumkit
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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on my bike, doing groceries on a sunny afternoon

#Amsterdam
A sunny afternoon in a street in the city center of Amsterdam, with trees and bikes
October 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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new toy 🎸

#guitarpedals #tremolopedal #tremolo
photo of a brown/orange tremolo guitar pedal with 3 knobs on it
September 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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#notmycat #black&whitecats #cathurday #sup #cat
a black & white cat with light green eyes, being completely oblivious of what’s going on in the world, is sitting on the kitchen table and staring into my camera saying “sup”. Peter Visser is sitting in the background. Btw, this is not my cat, it belongs to a friend of mine. It's also not my kitchen.
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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noodling

#bettieserveert #noodling #recording
A woman with long blond hair, wearing glasses and a striped t-shirt, sitting on a bed with a laptop in front of her. There's a mirror in the back and curtains
September 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Dreamaniacs (acoustic), recorded live in 2005 with 2 mics with Peter & me on guitar & our Belgium drummer Gino 'Gigi' Geudens on backing vocals & shaker during an interview at a radio station in Seattle. No click track, no autotune, yes mistakes ;)
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3 members of Bettie Serveert, Peter Visser (wearing a cowboy hat), Gino Geudens and me standing outside in front of a building looking upwards to the sky
August 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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lots of boats on the river of Amsterdam and in the far distance there are some tall ships and buildings
August 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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a woman wearing a white and blue striped t-shirt, sunglasses, blond hair. There's a tall ship behind her called the A.R.A. Libertad from Argentina
August 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Of course Peter and I had to visit Sail today, we went there on our bicycles. Being a tourist in my own city is awesome & I love tall ships. Somewhere, in some alternative reality, I’m probably a sailor ;)

#Sail #Amsterdam #tallships #staycation
photo of a bold man wearing glasses and a blue t-shirt & a woman with long blond hair wearing sunglasses, there's a boat on the river behind them and some tall buildings in the far distance
August 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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My 1st cell phone, a Pocketline Swing 200, from 1999. Loved the colour. You could only save 10 text messages, so it would keep you in a constant pick-and-choose mode
A sea green handheld cell phone from 1999, with a light blue background
August 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Peter Visser on staycation at the Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace) in Amsterdam
Peter Visser at the Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace) in Amsterdam
August 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Visiting the first retrospective of Artus Quellinus (Artus Quellijn de Oude 1609-1668) at the Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace) in Amsterdam. He made beautiful marble statues, this one is called 'Jealousy’. Amazing how he was able to carve such details, like that snake pinching a person’s cheek
A photo of a marble statue made by Artus Quellinus of a person with snakes on their head (NOT Medusa), one snake pinching the right cheek, the person seems to be screaming. I love being a tourist in my own city!
August 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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an hour before the festival gates were openend @ Zomerparkfeest in Venlo on Thursday 7 August, where we played with Bettie Serveert
a colour photo taken from the front of the stage, with floor monitors & light rigs, looking out at a big empty tent and a mixing board in the back with 4 tiny people
August 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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My scrapbook clippings from The New Yorker: on 23 July ’94 Bettie Serveert & Juliana Hatfield played at the Central Park SummerStage @ NYC in front of 2000 people in the pouring rain. To those who were there despite the foul weather, you were awesome!
A cartoon drawing of Bettie Serveert: a woman with long hair and a guitar & 3 men an article in The New Yorker about Bettie Serveert and Juliana Hatfield playing at the Central Park SummerStage in NYC on 23 July 1994
July 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Just heard that the Phoenix hotel in San Fran will be closing. Like many bands, the Betties stayed there as well, having a great time. This is the 1st draft of our song ‘Tell Me, Sad’ that I wrote on their hotel stationery back in October ’93
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#bettieserveert
'Tell Me, Sad' - the first draft from 17 Oct '93 that I wrote on the Phoenix Hotel stationery + the official lyrics
July 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Stephan, Peter & me in front of the Jamstudio’s (rehearsal place) this afternoon. ps. Herman is on vacation ;)

#bettieserveert
2 men and 1 woman sitting on a bench in front of a brownstone building
July 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Peter & I did a small interview with the Dutch music magazine OOR (= ear) about our favorite album artwork of other bands & artists
A photo of an article about favorite artwork and the cover of the Dutch music magazine OOR (= ear) with the famous Banana album of the Velvet Underground A photo of an article about favorite artwork and the cover of the Dutch music magazine OOR (= ear) with the famous Banana album of the Velvet Underground
July 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🎶 Lazin’ on a sunny afternoon, in the summertime 🎶
Bare feet with bright pink toenails in the water
June 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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inside The Nunnery Hostel @ Melbourne, Australia (Oct 2009)

#Melbourne #Australia #hostel
sun shining into the hall of The Nunnery Hostel @ Melbourne, Australia (Oct 2009), wooden floor, old fashion big mirror
June 22, 2025 at 6:49 PM