Focus - In and Out of Focus gatefold sleeve 180 gram vinyl lp (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)

Unbelievably high quality, vinyl-only reissue of this album; note that the Focus catalog is currently only in print as they were originally 40 years ago: on vinyl!

Co-led by the great guitarist Jan Akkerman and keyboardist Thijs Van Leer, Focus are the best known Dutch progressive rock band, thanks to their 'novelty hit' Hocus Pocus. Novelty or not, it was a great song with unbelievable hot solos, and was one of the first progressive rock tunes to be a hit in the USA (and certainly was the first basically instrumental progressive rock hit). This is their first album, from 1970, & while the basic elements are here, this is more of a 'proto-progressive work' than the others.

"'In & Out Of Focus' is Focus' debut studio album, released in 1970. It was the first and only album by the band to feature the original line-up of Thijs van Leer (organ, flute, vocals), Jan Akkerman (guitar), Martin Dresden (bass) and Hans Cleuver (drums)."