Electric Guitarist » Philip Catherine Youtube http://electricguitarist.net Raising the Standard Globally Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:04:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Focus with Philip Catherine Youtube http://electricguitarist.net/2009/01/14/focus-with-philip-catherine-youtube/ http://electricguitarist.net/2009/01/14/focus-with-philip-catherine-youtube/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:07:26 +0000 Tony Hogan http://electricguitarist.net/?p=142 Anyone that was alive and listening in the early seventies would have been aware of the Dutch band Focus, and many would also realise that their music extended way past the hit single Hocus Pocus, complete with yoddeling.  I have posted about the following electric guitar video because it is of historical value.  The original guitar player with Focus was the unbelievable player Jan Akkerman, second to none in his day.  After he left, another player called Philip Catherine joined the band.  Philip Catherine is an incrdible jazz guitar player, I have heard him working with Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, the virtuoso Danish jazz bass player and also the legendary Stepane Grapelli, and Larry Coryell.  In Europe, Philip Catherine was really pushing ahead in the areas of jazz rock.  Philip Catherine and Coryell, recorded a couple of the worlds best acoustic guitar duets ever, fast,  sensitive and very scary. In fact, I think Coryell sounded his best when he played with Catherine.

So here is Philip Catherine with Focus, yes a little dated but well worth seeing him in action, remember it is 32 years ago.

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