Cover of Hamburger Concerto by Focus

WARNING: this is a 14 min long piece of self indulgent prog :rofl:
Having just finished the BLIM course, I feel guilty posting something which is not terribly bluesy!

If all you’re interested in is the main guitar solo, it starts at about 5:40.

Did all the instruments on this one, with varying degrees of success. It’s the first time I’ve played drums by hitting things - always programmed them previously. This time I used a Roland drum pad - it’s harder than it looks isn’t it?

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I have but one word for it: excellent! :+1: I play guitar only, and don’t know much about playing and recording other instruments, but from what I hear, the tracks are very well balanced and the sound is awesome (I love the keyboard part). The guitar solo is great, too (with not so obvious scales and difficult melodic lines in it).
Sincere congratulations!

Well done Phil like it Cheers Hec

Well that took me right back to 74, stunning job Phil. I wonder how our tikclockers are coping with nearly a quarter of your earth hours.

Back in the day, you’d drop a tanner in the Juke box down the Busy Bee and do the double roundabout circuit and get back before record finished. Then along came Focus and Iron Butterfly. Drop a tanner in the juke box and jet off to Torremolinos with the family for a fortnight and get back before the record finished. Woulda thunk.

I’ll say the same now as I did 50 years ago. Disappointed by the lack of yodelling but twas an epic track and the boy done good. Now get back on the album work sunshine !!!
:sunglasses:

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Just briliant Phil! Bravo! You are multi instrument talented. I am trying to understand how much effort is necessary to record this and then edit audio / video.

All he needs now is a pair of shoes !

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Phil

Excellent! The balance in your production is spot on: sounds like a band in harmony. Your rendition of the lead is superb: you sound very reminiscent of Akerman.

Brilliant!!

Brian

You are a one man band. Its wild.

Wow Phil that took me back in time. What terrific musicality, what multi instrument skills, what a production. I’m blown away by this, it must have taken months of work!
Amazing!

Wow Phil ! That’s impressive. I can’t imagine the amount of work that has been put into that project :open_mouth: It’s definitely something to be proud of :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

O my goodness :scream:
boom

I can now write down a lot of superlatives, but I believe this is clear

:clap: :clap: :clap: :man_bowing:

Greetings …oke ,just one other :man_bowing:

Incredible, Phil, in every respect so no picking out highlights. I enjoyed it from the opening which I though sounded quite Jon Lord-esque (without the overdriven breakup). Fabulous guitar tones.

I listened all the way through, though didn’t stay with the video for the entire time.

Bravo!!

I took heed of your warning, waited and watched over breakfast this morning … not consuming a hamburger.

I haven’t listened to Focus for many years: … the first few bars transporting me back to my yout’ … :sunglasses:

What an amazing production, Phil, that was a real treat … :clap::clap::clap:.

Hey, Mr Phil … haven’t you spent the last six months being far-too busy immersed in blues for any of this progressive twiddly nonsense?
Holy cow, you must have abandoned BLIM at some point … you, sir, seem to lack focus!!
:wink:

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That is an impressive piece of work Phil. Excellent job all round. Really enjoyed listening and thanks for sharing. :smiley: :clap: :clap: :clap:

@DeltaTyne @Coda @TheMadman_tobyjenner @Boris1565 @beejay56 @Ontime @sairfingers @math07 @roger_holland @Elixir1253

Thank you all for the listen and the kind comments!

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What are you saying David? That I’m not at least as visually entertaining performer as Prince? :rofl:

@Richard_close2u I know right? It’s about as non-bluesy as it gets. Have no fear though, myself and the #BBP are still working on blues projects!

@Malz Thanks for the listen Mal!

:rofl: what has Prince got to do with this? Tough when competing with other visual sources, even for Prince :joy_cat:

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Wow Phil!

You are so insanely talented. I am speechless!

Wow, what an amazing production and performance. I’m not familiar with the piece, but I really enjoyed it. There were some tricky guitar runs in there, and some nice bass playing too.

Simply superb!

Cheers,

Keith