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TheTart — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:49:30 -0000

Trippy & that current pic of him is beyond priceless!

Musical smooches,
The Tart
; *

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knut — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:39:33 -0000

Sometimes my knees bend back

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the constant skeptic — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:18:37 -0000

wow

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Ian Simmons — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:14:58 -0000

I've been into Focus since the '70s and so excited because they are touring the UK this Spring! Recommend 'Hamburger Concerto', but they are all great...
Glad to see great taste never dies - just reforms!

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engrmizan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:59:35 -0000

oh oh oh good themes good performance....

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El Capitano Corelli — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:52:26 -0000

Is that Richard Stallman yodelling?

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RDL Watch — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:19:13 -0000

Wow, I never knew Mel Gibson was a keyboardist, flautist and bug-eyed LSD user, in addition to being an anti-semite and stone-age Catholic. Now that's progressive!

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debra — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:13:32 -0000

Wish I remembered the name of my favorite "small time" rock band from that era. Had electric violin. Did a song about the Ancient Mariner. But I can't recall.

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Shenyurt — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:47:07 -0000

Great Music.

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osisbs — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:46:35 -0000

Pink Floyd 1967 Live:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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$9946 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:12:44 -0000

I just saw Focus play this song at the Symforce festival in Holland last September, and they were just as stunning!

Rock on, Steve.

Re: Music has gone so far downhill in the past 30 years

yahoo_collapse — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:44:23 -0000

Actually San Francisco Girls is a great theme song for Yahoo and their support group in the valley these days. The lyrics are exactly what Yahoo is saying rightaboutnow.

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MAD — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:10:09 -0000

I hope the music lab guys aren't driving home baked. Does Apple provide car service like Google?

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ekivemark — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:45:27 -0000

Wow! I actually have the hypnosis inducing vinyl album cover that this hit came from "in and out of..."

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SueW — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:10:48 -0000

Crikey! So that's where Elvis got to! Thank goodness, there was a rumour, clearly spread by malcontents, that he was dead.

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Seth — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:52:36 -0000

I never knew Liam Neeson played mean guitar back in the 70s. Looks just like the guy in the yellow shirt.

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inqball — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:36:20 -0000

modern times havn't never been.

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VVVVV — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:33:39 -0000

The good old times never existed. A rock band redoing 'Hall of the Mountain King' is just another form of sampling, in a way. :)

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faddah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:55:11 -0000

uh.... i'd say something far more insidious. age.

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Elijah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:47:28 -0000

It's clear from that last picture that Randy Newman was only invited to MacWorld because this guy was unavailable.

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faddah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:11:22 -0000

yup, that was prog rock, for all it was worth. i had a radio edit shorter recording of this on a ktel vinyl album of this from the am radio mix. makes you realize why people like john "johnny rotten" lydon and sid vicious had to come along.

i dare you play keith emerson & the nice playing bernstein's "america," man. i darez ya. i double dawg darez ya!

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whaybe — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:47:20 -0000

very good writing.congrutalitions.

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brad — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:35:21 -0000

hey fake steve, not sure if you've seen this yet, but I bet you would like this.

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St Mix — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:00:00 -0000

Focus was one of the best bands of it's era. I recommend the album Focus III. Their music still holds up today. And the yodeling? It's called "humor", people. It used to exist in music. It coexisted with another element called "fun".
Focus toured the states in 2003, with Van Leer the only remaining original member. He is incredibly talented on both flute and Keys. You can find several DVD's of them at Netflix.

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Nicholas — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:19:23 -0000

Do you know how hard it was to friggin' find Hocus Pocus on vinyl back in the day? Thank goodness for the internets and your invention of iTunes!

There is a lot of good music now. But, it is not "packaged" nor always pretty. There certainly did seem to be a lot more top tiered musicians, that were musicians first however… Sad.