20090525

Focus Live 02

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The next group of Focus extant recordings are from 1971, the year that the second album was released. Again they are from Holland. There are...

Focus Live 01

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Focus must have played many hundreds of concerts as Focus over the years. In most cases, certainly in the early years, recordings of these p...
20090407

Track by track 96 Hocus Pocus (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 96 Title: Hocus Pocus (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 9 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Ven...

Track by track 95 Focus 7 (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 95 Title: Focus 7 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 8 Genre: Live Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: ...

Track by track 94 [DVD] Harem Scarem (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 94 [DVD only] Title: Harem Scarem (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 10 (DVD). Not on CD. Genre: Progres...

Track by track 93 Cathedrale de Stasburg (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 93 Title: Cathedrale de Strasbourg (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America  Track number: 7 Genre: Progressive Rock Vocal V...

Track by track 92 Focus 5 (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 92 Title: Focus 5 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America  Track number: 6 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patr...
20090406

Track by track 91 Sylvia (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 91 Title: Sylvia (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 5 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patrio...

Track by track 90 [DVD] Brother (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 90 [DVD only] Title: Brother (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America DVD Track number: 6 (DVD) not on CD Genr e: Jazz Rock ...

Track by track 89 Focus 3 (Live FLIA)

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Notes: Archive number: 89 Title: Focus 3 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 10 of 10 (CD) 5 (DVD) Genre: Progressive Roc...

Track by track 88 Eruption (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 88 Title: Eruption (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 4 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patr...

Track by track 87 Focus 2 Live (FLIA)

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Archive number: 87 Title: Focus 2 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 3 Genre: Jazz Rock Instrumental Venue: Patriots The...

Track by track 86 House of the King Live (FLIA)

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Archive number: 86 Title: House of the King (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 2 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Ve...

Track by track 85 Focus 1 (Live FLIA)

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Archive number: 85 Title: Focus 1 (Live) Main Album: Focus Live In America Track number: 1 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Venue: Patri...
20090327

Focus not Focus

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There are a small number of almost forgotten tracks that are not exactly by Focus but that technically do feature the band. The oldest ...
20090303

Progressive Rock?

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Today's official website boasts of Focus as De ultieme progressieve rockgroep . But are they really a prog rock band? Being interviewed ...
20090224

Akkerman: the humorous element

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Most British audiences sat listening to Focus very soberly and the humour was perhaps overlooked. My tendency was certainly to be a little o...

Van Leer: the humorous element

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One thing that attracted me to Focus’s music as a teenager in the 1970s was its seriousness. Raised on pop music I was tiring of its superfi...
20090223

Thijs van Leer: the Latin element

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Having observed the eastern element in the music of Jan Akkerman one looks for something similar in Thijs van Leer's music. It is not r...
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20090219

Jan Akkerman: the eastern element

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In an interview in Odessa, Ukraine, in 2005 Jan Akkerman said “I think I have Russian roots. My aunt told me that one of my great-grandmothe...
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Akkerman Solo

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Before joining Focus Jan Akkerman had produced a solo album - the 1969 instrumental album Guitar for sale. While still with Focus he produc...

Van Leer Solo

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While still with the original Focus, Thijs van Leer produced one solo album - the very successful light classical orchestral album Introspe...
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Focus fades

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The fade is used by Focus quite sparingly, except on Mother Focus , where nearly half the tracks fade. It is usually adopted where a live pi...

Answers? Questions!

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??? Besides the Answer element in the long track Eruption (Moving Waves) and Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers! (Focus 3) Focus have at...

Track by track 84 Who's calling?

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Archive number: 84 Title: Who's calling? Main Album: Focus (1985). Also a single b/w Beethoven's Revenge. Track number: 7 Genre: Pro...
20090218

Track by track 83 Ole Judy

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Archive number: 83 Title: Ole Judy Main Album: Focus (1985) Track number: 6 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Studio Spitsbergen,...

Track by track 82 Beethoven's Revenge

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Archive number: 82 Title: Beethoven's Revenge (Bach-One-Turbo-Overdrive) Main Album: Focus (1985). Also a single b/w Who's Calling? ...
20090126

Track by track 81 Indian Summer

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Archive number: 81 Title: Indian Summer Main Album: Focus (1985) Track number: 4 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Studio Spitsbe...
20090123

Track by track 80 Le Tango

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Archive number: 80 Title: Le Tango Main Album: Focus (1985) Track number: 3 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Studio Spitsber...
20090119

Track by track 79 King Kong

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Archive number: 79 Title: King Kong Main Album: Focus (1985) Track number: 2 Genre: Progressive Rock Instrumental Studio: Studio Spitsbergen...