Artist: Focus
Date: April 20, 2023
Venue: Bush Hall, London (UK)
Country: England
Type: Audience

Band Line-Up:

Thijs van Leer - Flute, Hammond Organ and Voice
Pierre van der Linden - Drums
Menno Gootjes - Guitar
Udo Pannekeet - Bass

Set List:

01 Intro - Focus I - Anonymous
02 House of the King
03 Eruption
04 Focus VII
05 Sylvia
06 For Bert
07 All Hens on Deck
08 La Cathedrale de Strasbourg
09 Harem Scarem - Including Guitar and Bass Solo
10 Hocus Pocus - Including Flute and Drums Solo
11 Focus III - Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!

Total Running Time: 2h10m26s

Lineage: Church Audio 14 Mic Stereo - Church Audio 9200 Pre Amp - Zoom H4N Recorder in Wave Stereo 44.100 Hz/16 Bit - Edited and Converted to Flac Level 8, 44.000 Hz/16 Bit with Sound Forge Audio Studio 14 - Metadata Edition with Winamp

Comentes:

This show represented a historic and very special occasion for me, as it was my first international recording, as my four-day stay in London luckily coincided with this show. This must have been the fifth or sixth time I've watched Focus which is always a pleasure. It is always important to observe the systematic repetition of the setlist, which is a problem for any band in the 50s, but, in my opinion, with a little good will, beautiful songs like Janis, Love Remembering or even Focus II, among others, could be on the set, even replacing some excessively long solos, but this is my opinion, which nobody asked for. I even believe that this justifies a low attendance of the public, which in the case of this show, was unable to fill up even Bush Hall, a beautiful old event venue with capacity for just a few hundred people. Even so, the band was fantastic. Van Leer's voice is very good - of course not in the seventies standard - but much better than the last few times I've seen him. And Van Der Linden, on his way to turning 80, remains formidable on sticks. Some photographs are included in the torrent. A simple tribute to the late bassist Bert Ruiter was provided by the band in the song "For Bert". The acoustic of the house is excellent, and the audience is very well behaved, with absolute silence in the low parts of the show, which is the detail that most reminded me that I was watching a show outside my country. I hope it pleases the fans of the band.

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