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Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Posted By: v3122
Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007)
DVD5: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | Dolby AC3, 2 ch
Progressive Rock | SMC2505 | Scans Included | 01:02:57 | ~ 2.58 Gb

DVD material comprises of an In Concert performance of 1974's Hamburger Concerto and a Medley from the band's appearance on UK TV's Old Grey Whistle Test, the performance of course, that helped break Focus in the U.K.

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Best remembered for their bizarre chart smash "Hocus Pocus," Dutch progressive rock band Focus was formed in Amsterdam in 1969 by vocalist/keyboardist/flutist Thijs van Leer, bassist Martin Dresden, and drummer Hans Cleuver. With the subsequent addition of guitarist Jan Akkerman, the group issued its debut LP, In and Out of Focus, in 1970, earning a European cult following thanks to the single "House of the King." Dresden and Cleuver were replaced by bassist Cyril Havermanns and drummer Pierre Van der Linden for the English-language follow-up, Moving Waves; the record generated the hit "Hocus Pocus," a hallucinatory epic distinguished by Akkerman's guitar pyrotechnics and van Leer's demented yodeling. Easily one of the flat-out strangest songs ever to crack the American pop charts, the single peaked at number nine in the spring of 1973, by which time Focus had already exchanged Havermanns for bassist Bert Ruiter and issued their third album, Focus III, which yielded the minor hit "Sylvia." In the wake of 1974's Hamburger Concert, the band streamlined the classical aspirations of earlier efforts to pursue a more pop-oriented approach on records like Ship of Memories and Mother Focus; though roster changes regularly plagued Focus throughout the period, none was more pivotal than the 1976 exit of Akkerman, who was replaced by guitarist Philip Catherine for 1978's Focus con Proby, cut with British pop singer P.J. Proby. Focus then disbanded, with the original lineup reuniting in 1990 for a Dutch television special.

by Jason Ankeny, AMG
Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007):

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Tracklist:

01. Sylvia
02. Hocus Pocus
03. Anonymous II
04. Hamburger Concerto
05. La Cathedrale De Strasbourg
06. Sneezing Bull
07. Angel Wings
08. Focus Medley '73

Title: Focus - 2007 - Rare Broadcasts DVD
Size: 2.43 Gb ( 2 545 614,00 KBytes ) - DVD-5
Enabled regions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

VTS_01 :
Play Length: 01:02:57
Video: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed
Audio:
Not specified (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)


Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

Focus - Rare Broadcasts (2007) Re-up

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