Got to hand it to the Dutch. When they're not busy fixing dikes or coming up with new ways to mess with how an auction is supposed to work to sell flowers, they've quietly, and sometimes not so quietly exported some pretty awesome music - from Ayreon to Golden Earring and somewhere in the middle was Focus who gained notoriety for their 1972 hit "Hocus Pocus" which is a great piece of music. Jan Akkerman was the fretmeister who gave Focus their bite, and he released this solo effort in 1977. I'm the first to admit I don't know a lot about him, and I can't go that deep into his old band Focus either but I'm aware of him, and I found this album a while back, and passed on it because it looked pretty iffy in terms of being able to clean it up, and the cover had some obvious water damage. I kept seeing it, and each time I looked it over, it seemed like something I should take a chance on ... but I'd defer, and then like one day, like Popeye I'd h...
A place where I just blather on about shit that I either miss, or am excited about. Or I could just be deliberately trying to waste your time. I generally really don't know what I'm talking about. Sometimes I do. Sometimes this is like a stream of consciousness brain dump. I like to think of it as a reaction video, without the video ... mostly though it's just me rambling ... it's meanderambling. #oldenoughtoforget