Focus - Alte Seilerei, Mannheim, Germany (wannerl)
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 16-10-2014
     
Length  : 124:40
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Audience 00:32
02 Focus I 08:55
03 House of the King 03:03
04 Hurkey Turkey 2 05:28
05 Aya-Yuppie-Hippie-Yee 08:52
06 Eruption 20:42
07 Sylvia 06:37
08 All Hens on Deck 06:29
09 Le Tango 06:59
10 La Cathedrale de Strasbourg 08:19
11 Harem Scarem 16:08
12 Hocus Pocus 20:28
13 Focus III 12:08

Notes
Recorded at the Alte Seilerei, Mannheim, Germany. Great audience recording.


From the info file:

Yeah.

I found myself writing too much, so I deleted everything and try to focus on the facts:
A not very large audience - 'Nektar' played in Mannheim the same evening.
Thijs van Leer: charming, crazy, brilliant
Pierre van der Linden: very very great drummer - no need for him to play a solo (he actually had two), I was listening him most of the time anyway.
Bobby Jacobs & Menno Gootjes: lacked the aura of being classic lineup members but great players too.

You might like Focus on record but you have to see them live to truly love them: from the softest flute note to the heaviest inferno - you get it all with a big plus of intensity. 'Eruption' alone was worth visiting the concert.


Thijs van Leer - Hammond-organ, flute and vocals
Pierre van der Linden - drums
Bobby Jacobs - bass
Menno Gootjes- guitar

00 [audience] 0:31
01 Focus I (with excerpt from Anonymous) 8:54
02 House of the King 3:02
03 Hurkey Turkey 2 5:28
04 Aya-Yuppie-Hippie-Yee 8:51
05 Eruption 20:41
06 Sylvia 6:37
07 All Hens on Deck 6:29
08 Le Tango 6:58
09 La Cathedrale de Strasbourg 8:18
10 Harem Scarem [with guitar & bass solo] 16:08
11 Hocus Pocus [with drum solo] 20:28
Encore:
12 Focus III (with excerpt from Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!) 12:07

total 2:04:38


recording position: my hot spot - ~2m from stage center behind the post (if you don't know it yet see the photos - good acoustics, bad vision, not too many people).

lineage:
zoom h1 -> wav 48/24 -> micro sd card -> PC -> master (wavelab) -> wav 44/16 - > flac
mastering: treble, volume boost for the announcements

recorded by the fearless endoplasmatic wannerl