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Posted: 11 August 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged Quote Seagull
Kevyn wrote:

The forum has gone very quiet lately.

I can only assume everyone is too preoccupied listening to
One Rule.


It's a summer phenomenon, Kevyn. It's the migrating season, don't you know? I've just landed, back from a spell in old Blighty. How are you all doing?

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Posted: 11 August 2011 at 7:31pm | IP Logged Quote Kevyn
Seagull wrote:
maggiem wrote:
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I remember back in the 70's, in a Dutch band called Focus
(Sylvia, Hocus Pocus etc) had a keyboard player called
Thijs Van Leer who changed his first name to Thys,
because the Americans couldn't cope with some one with ij
in their name.


   

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Posted: 11 August 2011 at 10:39pm | IP Logged Quote maggiem

I remember Focus!! (Didn't realise they were Dutch though.)

Trust you to know that, Kevyn!!

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Posted: 13 August 2011 at 12:29am | IP Logged Quote Seagull

Oh, yes! Get a load of this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFDW9b_ejfI

And of course, he's also a flautist!



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Posted: 13 August 2011 at 10:23am | IP Logged Quote Kevyn

Unlike someone we know - he still plays a Hammond.






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Posted: 13 August 2011 at 9:33pm | IP Logged Quote Seagull

Well it WAS 1973...

Anyway, see what "someone's" up to on the newest forum topic :-)



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Thanks for that link, Seagull, it brings back happy memories of seeing Focus at the Cambridge Rock Festival last year (or was it the year before?!)  I'm not sure how many of the originals there were, most of them seemed young, but it was the same keyboard player and he still does a mean yodel, even if he is nearly forty years older!  We don't remember that he did the whistling though, perhaps he's lost the capacity! ;-)

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Posted: 16 August 2011 at 7:31am | IP Logged Quote Kevyn

The drummer from their most famous period - Pierre van der
Linden would have been playing.

Sadly, bassist Bert Reuter or the legendary guitarist Jan
Akkerman are no longer with them, although Jan still does
brilliant solo tours, occasionally coming to the UK.

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Posted: 18 August 2011 at 11:17pm | IP Logged Quote Sharpies
Thanks, Kevyn, interesting...

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Focus are still around and touring.My son loves hocus pocus.

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