Well I don�t know what your intensions are on releasing bootleg infomation on the FOCUS site, but as a owner of the "Focal Distance" 2CD bootleg I can here give you the info on this release:

FOCUS: Focal distance, Live At Kouseinenkin Hall, Osaka, Japan June 2, 1974

Tracks Disc 1:

1. Focus III
2. Answers?Questions!Questions?Answers!
3. Focus II
4. Sylvia
5. Harem Scarem
6. Love Remembered
7. Tommy (Eruption)
8. House Of The King

Tracks Disc 2:

1. Birth
2. Hamburger Concerto
3. Hocus Pocus
4. Drum/Bass-solo-Band Jam - Hamburger Reprise (15. min.)
5. No Hang Ups (early version)
6. Hocus Pocus - Reprise

Players: T. Van Leer, Akkerman, Ruiter, Colin Allen

And it�s right the audio quality is really awful - but not for a collections item. It�s though really a pity, because they play really energetic. It would have been great having a top-class quality release of that concert.

Many years ago I got a taperecording of the FOCUS concert: "BBC London 1976". The quality is actually really good I think. I also think the tracks that hasn�t been released are really good - really in Focus style. The Tracks are:

1. Vigorous Woman
2. Loosing D
3. Maximum
4. Sneezing Bull
5. Bach Solo Sonate for Flute (part)
6. House Of The King
7. Little Sister / What You See
8. Hocus Pocus

Players: Thijs V. Leer, Ph. Catherine, D. Kemper, B. Ruiter

Steffen Staugaard

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