Archive number: 90 [DVD only]
Title: Brother (Live)
Main Album: Focus Live In America DVD
Track number: 6 (DVD) not on CD
Genre: Jazz Rock Vocal
Venue: Patriots Theater, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
Length: 12' 57”
Composer: Thijs van Leer
Musicians: Thijs van Leer – Hammond organ, Vocal; Jan Dumee – Gibson Marauder Guitar; Bobby Jacobs - Bass; Bert Smaak - Drums
Producer: Gavin Bott/Bob Carruthers
Engineer: Mike Potter (Orion Sound) Mix (Total audio)
Label: Classical Rock Legends Limited
Date of recording/release: October 2002 (part of a two day Uriah Heep led classic rock legend festival that also featured Nektar, Mostly Autumn and Asia). Released on DVD and CD (edited) in 2003.
Alternative version: Instrumental versions can be found on van Leer's solo album Introspection 3 and later on Focus 8. P J Proby sings it on Focus Con Proby.
Notes: Perhaps van Leer was keen to include this when performing in America as it is essentially an American song. It includes a nice introduction on organ (as written for the Con Proby album), rather poor vocal work from van Leer and, most interestingly, a guitar coda quoting Eruption. It was rightly left off the CD.
No comments:
Post a Comment