This is a thing I’ve never known before, 
it’s called easy livin'
This is a place I've never seen before,
and I've been forgiven
Easy livin’
and I've been forgiven
Since you've taken your place in my heart "

( Uriah Heep )

6 - 11 - 1958 /  9 - 10 - 2003

Our Joost is no longer with us…

  Everyone is heart-broken.

Rian, his family and friends are announcing that 

Joost Dingenouts

husband of Rian Dingenouts-Weijers, has suddenly passed away.

 

Dear heepsters,

On October 9 Joost,  unexpectedly and much too early, suddenly passed away. Joost was a music lover and Heep fan to the core. In consultation with one of his friends, it was decided to make this tribute page for him.

Also a register of mourners has been opened.

Below one of his best friends and Uriah Heep fan Rens Nagtzaam describes what the impressive and not ordinary funeral mass was like.

 

The pictures were taken during the Arrow Classic Rock festival in Lichtenvoorde on June 27 2003 where Joost intensely enjoyed Heep, the atmosphere and the other bands. Joost was a hedonist, one with many friends.

We wish his wife, family and friends lots of strength to carry this great loss.

Louis Rentrop webmaster

 

Joost was all music, music is emotion!

Joost a friend and a Uriah Heep fan is no longer with us. During the vigil we played
”The Park”, it reverberated in church, pure emotion, what a beautiful song! The alternation between Queen, George Michael and Uriah Heep led us into a serene atmosphere which we needed. Prior to the parting ceremony six Uriah Heep ballads were played. At the moment Joost’s coffin entered church, “Easy Livin’” echoed in church. We walked forwards singing and this all gave us power to carry on.

During the communion “The Easy Road’ echoed in church. Joost brought Heep to the attention of many people, the church was full, I estimate some 700 people were present. The average person only knows a single well-known song. People were impressed!

 

Joost would have loved that.

 

A couple of months ago we attended the first Dutch championships ‘air-guitar’ in Paradiso, Amsterdam. “I can do that”, Joost said and he would have loved to have competed in the following year and we would have done management matters in this heavy yet ‘airy’ competition.

It wasn’t meant to be!

 

Joost, citizen of Standdaarbuiten and go-getter

 

Next to all I’ve described, Joost was also a very active citizen of Standdaarbuiten, someone who was important to associations, activities and festivities. Standdaarbuiten will miss him.

I looked up some photos of Heep’s latest show which we attended with some friends who are united in “ZPBV- De Koffieklets’. Pictures with Joost in the centre, he was a Heep fan to the core. 

Joost and I shared this Heep passion, which started at the age of fourteen. Joost’s father took us in his red Beetle to ‘Het Turfschip” in Breda where we first saw Uriah Heep in concert, promoting the Firefly album. Heep have had many different line-ups, David Byron was the Heep sound, but Bernie, and Joost agreed, did an excellent job.

 Rens Nagtzaam

Joost you’re simply the best! 

 

This english translation by Monique Spruit