I remember watching him on American TV with Focus back in the 70s. He's only gotten better. One of my biggest guitar heroes ever, up there with Frank Marino, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola. One of the greatest.
Will always be a Jan Akkerman Fan Jan plays with a feeling and how he feels on the night people who say bad things about Jan have no true concept of what a true Artist is if you get my gist.
Jan is an incredible talent and allways was. This might not be his best performance but hey, his feeling for music and his timeless was allways inspirational for me.
Jazz festival in Düsseldorf/Germany in 2006 during his performance his D-string string broke. (!)...........but he continued playing, and suddenly the key-border took over the main part, Jan changed his Les Paul on a Fender Strato, and many in the audience did not noticed.what realy happended.........he is a professional......
I have always heard that Jan was a great guitarist. Admittedly I think Hocus Pocus is one of the worst songs ever recorded. But, about two months ago I looked into Jan beyond that and found that he is truly phenomenal. Fantastic tone.
Over de jaren heeft Jan heel wat geexperimenteerd met amps en effectpedalen. Soms heel goed en soms niet. Die Laneys zijn dus buitengewoon kut! Desalniettemin, ik blijf een fan.
OHA: again a string broke......well that seems a systematically failure with Jan, that is NOT professional, is it? He can do much better, why not a second guitar as a replacement???!! Come on Jan what the hell are you doing, dat kan wel eff beter joh!!! Ik ken je live acts sinds 1968, toen had je nooit deze problemen....
A bad night to be recording Jan. Awful sound and an unreliable guitar that ruined your gig. Burn that guitar it is crap. You are a great guitarist but the Gods were againt you on this show. Bring a spare guitar no excuses mate.
Once the best guitar player. Still nice to see him play but to many mistakes and technical problems. Jan I am a big fan of you but dont you think its time to retire.?
While Jan has life and health never to retire... Jan continues to be one of my favorite guitarists, I think Jan and at this age could play sitting, it made the more complex parts easier, just an opinion ..
penp26 I agree. This is one of the worse performances I've ever heard from Akerman. It's embarrassing. And before all the smart assess pile on. I'm a big fan of this man and have been so since he started playing guitar. This just is a bad performance and that's the truth.
