Focus early concerts, Live 1970

This is an early Focus concert in 1970. The musician line-up is the same as the debut album. Thijs, Jan, Hans and Martijn.

Thijs van Leer - piano, flute, organ
Jan Akkerman - guitar
Hans Cleuver - drums
Martijn Dresden - bass

In this recording, Focus is performing «Scarborough Fair» by Simon & Garnfunkel with a lot of improvisations in between, and «Stemin’» and «So What» by Miles Davis with a lot of improvisations in between. And an early version of «Eruption» and «Focus 1» from another concert in the same tour the same year with the same musicians is also added as a bonus. And «House Of The King» from a little later, a year or so later.

00:00 Scarborough Fair
17:18 Stemin’ / So What!
27:41 Eruption
01:04:44 Focus 1
01:06:40 House Of The King


This recording is from before Pierre van der Linden and Bert Ruiter, or even Cyril Havermans joined. This is early stuff!!

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