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Focus  - At The Rainbow flac album
  • Performer Focus
  • Title At The Rainbow
  • Date of release 1973
  • Country Netherlands
  • Style Prog Rock
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  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1670 mb
  • Size FLAC 1293 mb
  • Rating: 4.1
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Right after the release of Focus III album, the band recorded and released this live album at the Rainbow. The famous track "Focus III" (3:54) kicks off this live set with soft organ work combined with stunning guitar fills. It then flows seamlessly to "Answers?

1973 Polydor Int. Marketed by Polydor Limited. Recorded at The Rainbow Theatre, London, Saturday 5th May 1973. Location Recording: Pye Studios Mobile Unit. Mix Down at Air Studios.

Focus At The Rainbow - EX UK vinyl LP. Product details. The Dutch progressive rock band Focus was at its peak of fame in 1973 when this Rainbow Theatre concert from May of that year (in Finsbury Park, London) was recorded and subsequently released as a 'stopgap' album when recording sessions for new material at Chipping Norton, UK (in the Cotswolds) hadn't gone very well.

At The Rainbow is a jazz related rock music live album recording by FOCUS released in 1973 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette.

Format: 180 gram vinyl LP + insert Cat: MOVLP 324 Released: 01 Jan 90 Genre: Rock. 100% Secure Shopping.

Released one year later than Focus III, At the Rainbow was Focus first live album. The album features the dutch progressive rock band greatest hits to the moment, such as Hocus Pocus and Sylvia. Although it manages to show the members music abilities with their instruments, At the Rainbow tends to get quite boring at few moments.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Focus III
Written-By – Thijs van Leer
A2 Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
Written-By – Bert Ruiter, Jan Akkerman
A3 Focus II
Written-By – Eric Cleuver, Thijs van Leer
Eruption (Excerpt)
Written-By [Basic Musical Idea] – Thijs van Leer
B1.i Orfeus
Written-By – T. van Leer*
B1.ii Answer
Written-By – T. van Leer*
B1.iii Orfeus
Written-By – T. van Leer*
B1.iv Answer
Written-By – T. van Leer*
B1.v Pupilla
Written-By – T. van Leer*
B1.vi Tommy
Written-By – T. Barlage*
B1.vii Pupilla
Written-By – T. van Leer*
B2 Hocus Pocus
Written-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs van Leer
B3 Sylvia
Written-By – Thijs van Leer
B4 Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
Written-By – Jan Akkerman, Thijs van Leer

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – Bovema
  • Produced For – R.T.M.
  • Recorded At – Rainbow Theatre London
  • Recorded At – Pye Mobile Recording Unit
  • Mixed At – Air Studios

Credits

  • Art Direction – Ian Murray
  • Drums – Pierre Van Der Linden
  • Engineer – Phil Dunne
  • Guitar – Jan Akkerman
  • Illustration – Ian Beck
  • Photography By – Mike Putland*
  • Producer, Mixed By [Mix Down] – Mike Vernon
  • Typography [Type & Tints] – R. L. Rockwood*
  • Vocals, Bass Guitar – Bert Ruiter
  • Vocals, Organ, Flute – Thijs van Leer

Notes

First cat.no. on sleeve back, second on spine and label.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Rights Society: SABAM
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A, etched, "??" unintelligible): 5C 054 -24939-A // ?? 20461-2-Y-8
  • Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B, etched): 5C 054 24939 B // HM 20.462-1-Y-8

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
5C 054-24939, 5C 054-24 939 Focus At The Rainbow ‎(LP, Album, Gat) Imperial , Imperial 5C 054-24939, 5C 054-24 939 Netherlands 1973
SAS-7408 Focus Live At The Rainbow ‎(LP, Album, Promo) Sire SAS-7408 US 1973
SAS 7408 Focus Live At The Rainbow ‎(LP, Album) Sire SAS 7408 Canada 1973
SAS-7408 Focus Live At The Rainbow ‎(LP, Album) Sire SAS-7408 US 1973
SHLP-9533 Focus At The Rainbow ‎(LP, Album, RE) Harvest SHLP-9533 Venezuela 1980