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@@nazarioturetto5019 Neither were the Guess Who, BTO, Neal Young, or Abba. They all did ok. I think in their case, what made them great, took a more sophisticated ear. Like Frank Zappa. That's not always as marketable.
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I bought my Premier 2000 snare back around 1970 at a little music shop in Wales along with a Lokfast stand. Still have them today, and the chrome on both is almost perfect.
@@rman52 @rman52 hi  it all depends on what you mean by progressive rock. I really appreciate ELP but what we clearly notice unless we have cotton in our ears is that these guys I'm talking about from the focus group are much more complete technically and in the field of eclecticism and musicality than ELP. I speak as an instrumentalist when you add up the talents we are not in the same sphere. Besides they don't need to sing their instrument enough it's mainly instrumental music it only took them a few days to record the Focus 3 album there or other English bands in the same category as ELP took several weeks.
@@Klfmjgfg45 I love focus as musicians. But do you really think that any of them are better instrumentalists than Keith Emerson? Or in percussion than Carl Palmer? Really?
@rman52 I didn't use the term best it means everything and means nothing. I think that Pierre Van der linden who was inspired and studied by a drummer like budy rich and other great jazz drummers is indeed a unique drummer, he does not sound like any other. To come back to the term best, the best is not the one who is faster or more this or more that, it is the one who is good in each criterion and who has the best final mark, so that is why I have used the term complete in the focus group the guitarist and the keyboardist and flautist have classical training which is very important and the rest you can find out by listening to them as I said earlier I'm talking about complete I'm talking about eclecticism and musicality it's just an observation it's not that I think this or that and I loved pieces of ELP but I just noticed that that's all so I answer yes to your question about the drummer and of course the guitarist the keyboardist has a lot of talent I'm talking about that of ELP that of focus also in another genre let's say more harmonious and melodious and less demonstrative and the bass player of focus you can listen to him on a solo by Anonymous 2 studio I invite you to listen to his solos for example in Anonymous 2 studio version. They call it a studio album but you can see that it's pure delirium, a kind of improvisational jam more or less recorded in a very short time. I just wanted to tell you about this track and you can check now there are other examples of other totally different albums like hamburger concerto where the album focus 2. I repeat myself but in summary I think ELP is very good in what they do but they have fewer strings to their bow quite simply you have to listen to different albums for that to realize as I did. From what I've read and heard focus is the only band or one of the very few bands to have a standing ovation at the end of the song so the audience took notice of the live performance . @@rman52
@@Klfmjgfg45 I agree that Van der Linden is an amazing drummer. He reminds of Seraphine from Chicago. What always shocks me with him is he could be in the middle of some complex riff, and nonchalantly is directing things with the other guys as if he is not even playing. He is one incredible musician. They all are in focus. I have always appreciated how great they are. I wore out moving waves when I picked it up as a kid. I'll drop the ELP comparisons. No point. It's like comparing a Monet to a Renoir. Both great. Peace.
Jethro Tull's flautist/frontman is self thaught , Thijs is trained and the band has more classical influences ( Jan Akkerman went on to do a Lute album )
Pierre's Premier drumset has the UNUSUAL 9" x 14" Rack Tom! I had a Premier set of the Birch with Beechwood glue rings, and the 9x14 Tom had such a unique sound. Normally the 9" width was strictly for the 13 inch tom of all drum makers! And a 14 inch Tom would be 10 inch width!
@@gregoryduncan3067 Or Alice Cooper, Todd Rungren, Peter Gabriel, Elton John. He should still try at least SOMETHING different. He has one move that's it. And he wore costumes too, unless he was really and time traveler from the middle ages.
...and at least he doesn't do that stupid annoying "woooo!" thing with his voice while playing the flute. So cheezy...a lil girl scream while blowing into a flute. Lame as hell.
