Keith and Barrie mp3's for this Saturday...

[FuseU1]

“Hocus Pocus” of Focus (crazy Dutch band; Pierre VanDer Linden just smoked on drums)
A band you don't usually read about!

Glad you've heard of them!
Guitar virtuoso Gary Hoey did an instrumental version of Hocus Pocus in the early 90's which had some success. But the original version is 1000X much better. With all those cool drum breaks followed by helvetian voicings... CRAZY!!

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Killer that you guys liked that one, too. I dug it immed aft hearing it played on AOR radio when it came out, BION ...I have the orig Focus VINYL album it came from, "Moving Waves," & also the Hoey version omn mp3. U R right, the orig is MUCH better [img]wink.gif[/img]

[Vdrummer]

I always think of "Hocus Pocus" by Focus as the Dutch version of Deep Purple's "Burn". PFM was a killer band too.

Brad

[tombo74]

Originally posted by Vdrummer:
I always think of "Hocus Pocus" by Focus as the Dutch version of Deep Purple's "Burn".
Brad

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree that the guitar riff and drumming style are similar but Pocus is just.....funnier. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]