Focus on Focus: 2015

20151223

Moving Waves Played by Alternative Artists

20151221

Golden Years of Dutch Pop Music

This 2 CD compilation album issued in October contains

CD 1

1: The shrine of god

2: Watch the ugly people

3: Why dream

4: Happy nightmare (mescaline)

5: House of the king

6: Focus

7: Hocus pocus

8: Janis

9: Sylvia

10: Love remembered

11: Tommy

12: Focus ii

13: Harem scarem

14: Early birth

15: P's march

16: Focus v

17: Eddy

18: Sneezing bull

19: Anonymous

20: Black beauty

21: Le clochard

CD 2

1: Eruption

2: Focus iii

3: Answers? questions! questions? answers!

4: Hamburger concerto

5: Focus iv

6: Mother focus

7: Glider

8: Crackers

9: Hocus pocus

20151201

Miming to House of the King 1971

O Avondrood Video

Just now and again you come across something you've never seen on YouTube. This is a video with the Focus track Avondrood (Red evening). I'm not sure what the live at Top of the Pops tag means. I don't think this was ever on any British top of the pops.

20151106

SIr Thijs van Leer Solo Album

Focus fans will be interested to know of a limited edition Thijs Van Leer solo album recently released. The three CD offering is a recording of a live gig at Trading Boundaries. The second and third discs give the concert itself with the fascinating biographical ramblings by Thijs that interweave the songs. The first CD selects songs from the concert and presents them as amore straightforward album. The three CDs come in a very attractive book-like album with lots of photographs and info and original art work by Roger Dean. A lovely presentation full of old favourites and one or two more obscure ones, all in acoustic fashion.

20151026

New edtion of Focus book

A new (third) edition of the book on Focus by Australian Peet Johnson arrived through my door the other day - Hocus Pocus: the strife and times of rock's Dutch masters. (See details here) Peet must know more about Focus than any man on earth and this new edition brings you right up to date with facts such as the version of Focus 3 done by Outkast and that by Guo Yue of House of the King (both in 1996). It's a bit expensive but hardcore Focus fans will go for it.