Focus - Live At The Rainbow (1973) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Focus - Live At The Rainbow
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: Sire / SAS 7408 | Released: 1973 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
Side A
1 Focus III
2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
3 Focus II
Side B
1 Eruption (Excerpt)
2 Hocus Pocus
3 Sylvia
4 Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
Drums – Pierre van der Linden
Engineer – Phil Dunne
Guitar – Jan Akkerman
Producer, Mixed By – Mike Vernon
Vocals, Bass – Bert Ruiter
Vocals, Organ, Flute – Thijs van Leer
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: Sire / SAS 7408 | Released: 1973 | Genre: Progressive-Rock
Side A
1 Focus III
2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
3 Focus II
Side B
1 Eruption (Excerpt)
2 Hocus Pocus
3 Sylvia
4 Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
Drums – Pierre van der Linden
Engineer – Phil Dunne
Guitar – Jan Akkerman
Producer, Mixed By – Mike Vernon
Vocals, Bass – Bert Ruiter
Vocals, Organ, Flute – Thijs van Leer
Focus - Live At The Rainbow (1973) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Focus - Live At The Rainbow (1973) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Focus - Live At The Rainbow (1973) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2013 With milimetrical manual DeClick for 2018
This LP: NM- / From my personal collection
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This is a live album by Focus. It is an excellent live performance of the early Focus. The selected tracks are interesting: there are "Hocus Pocus", "Focus 2" "Sylvia" and a shortened version of the epic "Eruption", among others. The sound is pretty good, and the musicians almost sound like on the studio albums. The polite crowd favorably responds at the end and the beginning of the tracks. On "Focus 2", Jan Akkerman seems not at his best: he often hesitates: I think the track is a bit played too fast. The mellow version of "Eruption" is particularly brilliant. "Hocus Pocus" is almost better than the studio version: they play it much faster. The yodeling is very well succeeded, and there are even a couples of further extravagant vocals parts and whistling: IMPRESSIVE! The other shorter version of "Hocus Pocus" is also fantastic, with again another special & different yodeling.
Rating: 4.5 starsprogarchives.com
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