Wow! Silveroller jamming with DeWolff, covering Free's Walk In My Shadow. Live in London, a few hours ago.

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6. Glad you enjoyed that! They're both very talented bands.

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Pablo van de Poel and Aaron Keylock were both very young when they started playing guitar. I posted a video here of Aaron Keylock when he was 12 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034108810 . He's 25 or 26 now, was born in 1998.

Pablo was born in 1991. He formed DeWolff with his brother Luka (the drummer) and Robin Piso in 2007. Pablo and Luka (whose dad had been in a band that did covers of '60s rock) turned 16 and 14 that year. But Pablo had formed a blues rock band earlier, INFA - Inharmonic Noises From Above - in 2004, the year he turned 13, and in 2005 and 2006 INFA did well in regional rounds of a national talent competition for teenagers in the Netherlands. DeWolff won the national competition in 2008 and got a recording contract.

DeWolff in 2008, when Pablo was 16 or 17:

And in 2020, a full 1-1/4 hour concert for Rockpalast:

I haven't been able to find out exactly when Jonnie became a professional singer. From what he's posted on social media, I know he's 32 now, and I think his birthday's in June. When I saw the first Silveroller single I thought he was very close to Aaron's age rather than several years older. I know he fronted a rock group called Black Cat Bones for a few years starting in 2014, and they released an EP. I've posted some of their music. Before he left Black Cat Bones he was also in a blues band, the Head Hunters Blues Band, and I think he's been doing shows with them at times until fairly recently. He started working with Aaron Keylock in 2018, and Keylock, the name they used for the first lineup of the band, released a couple of fine singles...and then Covid.shut everything down.

I love YouTube. Just found a 30-second clip of INFA, Pablo's first band, in 2006, so he was 14 or 15 here:

Just found another video of INFA, this one uploaded in early 2009, so probably the July 2008 show at a music festival that Pablo's Wikipedia page mentions. I think this was after he won that national talent competition with DeWolff. It's cool that he had female musicians in this first band.