Focus - Angel Wings (Live)

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Uploaded by on Aug 26, 2011

Focus playing the instrumental "Angel Wings", featuring the guitarist Philip Catherine, at the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1976.

Focus is:
Thijs van Leer - keyboards
Philip Catherine - guitar
Bert Ruiter - bass guitar
David Kemper - drums

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  • @RastaSaiyaman It's actually David Kemper on the video but yeah you're totally right

  • @fabiopl People have placed Pierre Van der Linden at the same level as John Bonham, rightly so I might add.

  • Sorry for my typos; too keen to type my views whilst my brain was semi functioning and too much red wine.

  • This is fucking splendid. The darkness of those minor chord progressions combined with Catherine's spikey runs creates something quite unique. I'm glad he got a standing ovation that night. Akkermann was wonderful, but alomist too obvious. A talne tlike this is too easy to self indulge in. Too easy to show your tricks too early. Self restraint, avoidance of the same riffs and telling a story as the song builds are the markers of a true great. Zappa had it. Catherine had it too.

  • I remember seeing this at the time. I was due to see Focus the next evening at Hull ABC and was gutted to find Akkerman had split from them. The audience were a bit pissed off as well, because Catherine got boo'd when he was introduced.

    At the end of the gig though he got a standing ovation. He was great. The band were awesome and it was one of the very best live gigs I ever saw.

    The drummer had a large gong, and when he hit it (twice) the whole buiding shook, along with my teeth!

  • thanks for the reup, been searching for this version for a while. PC is a phenominal guitar player, those intro chords are wicked!!

  • that drummer is fuckin' GREAT

  • No one better to replace Jan Akkemman than Catherine. This guy has so much feeling play his guitar. His work on "Focus con Proby" is a great exemple. Long life to Focus!

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