Focus autumn tour 2014
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Topic: Focus autumn tour 2014
Posted By: aapatsos
Subject: Focus autumn tour 2014
Date Posted: August 04 2014 at 17:32
This keeps getting better - from official website
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 04 2014 at 19:31
Guess they will never come to NYC Can't get these guys out of Europe.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 05 2014 at 08:23
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Hi,
Who the fudge you kidding? We will never see them here in America unless they tour on a bycicle or a trike! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: calm_sea
Date Posted: August 05 2014 at 15:01
| I really wish Jan Akkerman would rejoin Focus. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 05 2014 at 15:48
Me too---but I am an originalist at heart
 Guess the two of them really don't like each other. |
calm_sea wrote:Posted By: calm_sea
Date Posted: August 06 2014 at 11:23
| Jan Akkerman is seriously so friggin' amazing. His playing blows my mind. I saw some more recent videos of him playing (within the last 10 years) and he hasn't lost one bit of his technique. I would rather see him come play the States than Focus, in all honesty. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 07 2014 at 08:40
| agree calm^^^^^Jan is great---saw some of those vids---just never heard the reason why Jan and Focus parted ways so completely--- |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: August 07 2014 at 11:39
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Blimey they're playing in a village just down the road from me! Will have to go to that. It's a shame Jan Akkerman won't return to Focus, he's my favourite guitarist along with Steve Howe. The Focus album van Leer and Akkerman did together in the mid-80s is really good, apart from the horrible electronic percussion. I think Akkerman accused Thijs van Leer of smuggling drugs when they were touring in the 70s, van Leer responded by taking legal action and basically they now can't stand each other and won't consider a reunion. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 07 2014 at 12:19
| ^ Thanks for the info Cactus---didn't know that but sorta figured it had to be something big---think there is also a big reason Vangelis can't stand Jon Anderson and won't work with him---something unforgivable happens. |
Posted By: DHazlehurst
Date Posted: October 23 2014 at 16:26
| Honestly can't believe they are playing Reeth!! I too wish Jan Akkerman would reunite with Focus. Still, I can not wait to see Thijs and Pierre. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 24 2014 at 01:24
They are playing 5 places I've never heard of including Reeth. They used to play Swindon but no longer it would seem ( and that includes a lot of other bands and artists). The nearest venue for me is Devizes but I don't know if I will go.
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