IMPERIAL 2xLP = FOCUS "3" DRAMATIC HAMMOND ORGAN/BLITZING GUITAR PROG

$ 39

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May 15, 2022 Sold Date

May 10, 2022 Start Date

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ORIGINAL 1973 FIRST PRESS
TOP FINAL COLLECTION COPY ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
~ FOCUS ~
(III)
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Made In Holland (Dutch) Imperial Records
5C188 24 753/54

FINAL COLLECTION COPY ~~~ clean

This album is a largely forgotten masterpiece when talking early '70s progressive music. Revisiting the LP some 44 years later reflects the Lp fires on all cylinders: the musicianship, variety, composition and the memorable tracks.

The double LP album by Focus titled "FOCUS 3" is progressive hard rock with many flowing dreamy parts. The keyboards are vintage: ambient & rhythmic organ overload, melodic piano and a few harpsichord parts. The organ is sometimes quite dirty and distorted. The usual excellent flutes Thijs Van Leer uses to play are omnipresent: some are delicate and tender like Camel used to play in the 70's, and others sound more nervous and dynamic like the ones on the Jethro Tull's "Thick as a brick" album. The refined drums do a very good job. Jan Akkerman plays TONS of melodic & hard rock electric guitar solos, which can be recognized among 100 other guitarists' solos, especially in his speed runs up & down his fretboard. He uses a smooth pedal volume effect on the "Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!" track. The complex and impressive "Carnival fugue" has complex jazz rock tendencies with difficult time signatures, especially the keyboards. Elsewere, "Anonymous two (Part 1)" are excellent, 6 minutes in everything suddenly stops, there is a lengthy guitar & bass battle, which Akkerman takes over and shreds his guitar for quite some time. Another highlight is the Jethro Tull-esque "House of the King" was the music theme for an underground progressive rock station we well remember in the early 70s.

Thijs van Leer – keyboards, flute, piccolo, recorder, vocals

Jan Akkerman – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lute

Bert Ruiter – bass guitar

Pierre van der Linden – drums

Round Goes The Gossip... 5;14
Love Remembered ...2;49
Sylvia ...3;32
Carnival Fugue ... 6;02
B:
Focus III ...6;07
Answers? Questions! Questions? ...14;03
C:
Anonymous II (Part 1) ...19;28
D:
Anonymus II (Conclusion) ...7;30
Elspeth Of Nottingham ...3;25
House Of The King ... 2;25

CONDITION:
The cover: rated: near M- laminated fragile gatefold has been well preserved over the past 49 years and still has a fresh appearance -- there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing TOP COPY

The vinyl: Rated: near M- DOUBLE LP's - all 4 sides are smooth and clear, playback was mint without any surface problems ... all 4 Dutch Imperial labels are clean

A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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