I got to see Focus down at the Jazz Cafe on Monday and it was a pretty good night. The regular guitarist (Neils van der Steenhoven) had to go back to Holland so his former teacher Menno Gootjes (who has played with Focus before) stood in. That inevitably affected the set and there was some slippage back into tribute band mode. Menno's solo was very much a seventies rock thing, not Focussy at all. We had Focus 1, 2, 3 and 7, House of the King, Sylvia (twice) and her stepson, Aya Huppie, La Cathedrale, Harem Scarem, Hocus Pocus, and a particularly good version of Round goes the gossip. Thijs was up to his usual tricks with ocarina, melodica, car horn, voice and grand piano all featuring alongside the organ and flute. Pierre van der Linden's drumming especially his solo, a sheer phenomenon as ever.
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