Rinus Vreugdenhil

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Rinus Vreugdenhil (born 1951) ^[1] is the bass player and longest standing member of the Dutch heavy metal band Picture.

Rinus started out in the band Lemming as the bass player and sound mixer. He started playing bass because he liked the low sound. In 1977, he met up with Laurens Bakker and with various musicians, started Picture. By 1979, Jan Bechtum and Ronald van Prooijen had joined the band for their first stable (and the classic) lineup. Throughout various lineup changes, he carried the torch and kept Picture going until the final breakup. He felt there was still some life left in the band but with so many personnel changes and the changing music scene, he had to let it go.

Rinus' influences included Pink Floyd, Jimmy Hendrix, Deep Purple, and Frank Zappa. He used a Gibson Firebird bass and Sound City, Dynacord and later on, Peavey amps.

Recently (late 2007), Rinus and the original members of Picture, with Ronald van Prooijen, teamed up for a reunion rehearsal. It went so well that they are going to continue rehearsing for some concert dates and will record a new album in early 2008 with Shmoulik Avigal from the Diamond Dreamer lineup as their singer.