Oops, forgot to post this one. Place it before Focus Con Proby chronogically.

(Review from amazon)

This concert was recorded in London on 21st March 1976 by the BBC just days after the departure of Jan Akkerman.

Focus was just a slight sidestep in Philip Catherine’s illustrious career as a jazz guitarist but it was a mild trauma for those of us who turned up for the ’76 tour avid to see Jan Akkerman tearing up six strings like lightening on water and finding instead that he’d jumped ship at the last moment and this “chubby Andre Previn look-alike” was his frantically hauled-in replacement.

The evening could never really recover from that first plummeting disappointment, especially when the band proceeded to jettison their rich heritage of compositions for some new pieces that sounded little more than uninspired watery funk. Ironically as it turns out, hearing the songs all these years later, it’s the Catherine material that comes up best…

Sneezing Bull, a perfect dynamic showcase for Thijs and his flute, and Angel Wings with its dramatically contorting guitar figure, are the finest things on it (and would be worth dusting off for van Leer’s new Focus venture)… House of the King gallops along well too and Hocus Pocus is fun as usual, though it’s a one man show for van Leer and Catherine risks no adventures into wild Akkerman territory. A shame, because when he wants to, he can rip the place up fairly well himself.

Then there’s the other stuff, occasionally pleasant at best, but, really, even now, you’re hoping it’s going to suddenly lead into Birth or Hamburger Concerto or Focus 3.

Line-up:
- Thijs Van Leer / vocals, organ & flute
- Bert Ruiter / bass, vocals
- Philip Catherine / guitar
- David Kemper / drums

Track List:
01. Virtuous Woman (10:58)
02. Blues in D (3:46)
03. Maximum (14:01)
04. Sneezing Bull (7:46)
05. Sonata for Flute (2:48)
06. House of the King (3:15)
07. Angel Wings (5:39)
08. Little Sister/What You See (8:18)
09. Hocus Pocus (5:49)

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