Philip Catherine...what a legend...acoustic duo with Larry Cornell...and others..J.Mac.Sublime guitar with Chet Baker,ie...Estate...a beautiful elegant magic Jazz Guitarist. (Larry CORYELL).Thank You for posting.
This band was out way before their time. Thank you focus for showing us what music is supposed to be. I sure wish that there was a band so talented today.
Saw Focus with Philip Catherine at this time and this was an outstanding piece. Philip Catherine was a great guitarist and it us a shame that he didn't stay longer.
focus lo mas grande la rompen en el escenario yo los escuchaba a los 20 años y hoy a mis 66 los sigo escuchando como si fuera ayer por siempre focus pocus✌🖒😆😆
Graham Bylmakers Ha! Can I give that comment another 100 likes? GREAT song!!! (My other PC favs from that period we’re ‘Homecomings’ and ‘Nardis’. Heck, if at all possible, try to find those two albums, Guitars and September Man.)
BTW, here's Catherine doing this song, but with Passport in 1975; this track was my own introduction to the tune waaay back then. SO happy it's here on YT... ruclips.net/video/PFfH2RRS4jY/видео.html
Influenced, from what I can hear, by the 'Birds Of fire'-era Mahavishnu Orchestra, this instrumental showcases the talent of Philip Catherine. His guitar tone sounds like a violin - I'm not sure how he achieved it - and proves what an underrated guitarist he is.
Or maybe more likely, IMO, IME, it might be a flanger of some sort. Maybe also a touch of compression and and an envelope filter of some sort, both set to pretty low. His entire specific tone on this song has mesmerized me since the day I heard it back in the late ‘70s. Def a fac PC recording from an equally great album.
@@larryh.3173 I asked Philip about this era of his tone and he recalls it was "a large pedal made by a German company with many knobs which gave that organ sound." I followed up by asking if it was a Schaller Phaser and he said it was not Schaller. All he remembers of it was that it was made by a German company which also made amps. He starts using this tone around '74-75 for the September Man & Guitars albums. The earliest cut I can find which has this phaser sound is T.T. from the album Toots Thieleman Philip Catherine and Friends from 1974 : ruclips.net/video/oG_zEVfwFVo/видео.html
I happened by Round Records, a small funky record store in Toronto, a couple of years after this performance, and Phillipe Catherine and Larry Coryell were there. They had just released an album with Alphonse Mouzon. They had their acoustic guitars with them, and we were treated to a very intimate performance by the two of them. They played for about an hour, an unforgettable afternoon for me, a budding 18 year old guitarist.
I saw Focus in late 1976 in Wolverhampton, with Philip Catherine on guitar. Jan Akkerman had just left and Philip was reading the chords off a sheet of paper on a chair at his side. He took no solos, just played rhythm. So it was rather a damp squib for me, being so into guitar-players. I wish they had played this!
Слава Богу! Thijs Van Leer гениальный композитор со своим лицом, никогда бы не додумался опуститься до воровства чужих идей - у него своих неповторимых мелодий хватает по сей день😅 А в данной композиции из всех щелей и швов слышится Mahavishnu Orchestra эпохи не менее гениального композитора Jan Hammer. Сравните с Inner Mounting -71 и Birds of Fire -72. А потом послушайте Babel -80, где работает уникальный состав композиторов под именем этого посредственного гитариста😅 Привет из России/Советского Союза
Ah! I think I watched this! And I saw Focus at the Victoria Palace Theatre at around this broadcast (1975/6?) At the time I was disappointed because Ackerman had been replaced by (superb) Philip Catherine and drummer David Kemp (also brilliant!). It was a very short gig lasting only 45 mins - so I felt a little cheated. Of course; time and reading around the band; I understand now the tensions and difficulties of at that time. And watching this again; it makes me realize that despite the changes; Thijs van Leer, Burt Ruiter (RIP dear man), Philip Catherine and David Kemp were so professional and whilst different a fantastic quartet.Thank you for sharing this !
I caught the 1976 Focus tour at the Leeds University gig, the very night after this Whistle Test appearance, when Philp Catherine made his only tour debut with the band. It was a superb gig and it's a bit of a shame it didn't seem to lead to a further period of collaboration. Never heard or saw anything of the drummer in this line-up either. I wonder what became of him?
Oh, so that's Philip Catherine. I've heard of him, but never knew he was in Focus. Very excellent replacement for Jan Akkerman. It was weird watching the video. I didn't think that was Jan, or was thinking, "Wow, Jan looks very different without a mustache." The comments straightened me out, though. The song had a definite Mahavishnu Orchestra vibe, as others have commented below. But I think that Catherine was a more fluid player than John McLaughlin.
I saw the first uk gig at Cardiff on the 76 tour. There was a sign on the door saying ‘Jan Akkerman is replaced by Philip Catherine’. I was 17 and I was devastated. Akkerman was (and is) my hero. The gig was basically an extended jam. No Hocus Pocus, no Sylvia and none of the old stuff like Eruption or anything from Hamburger. I think the only old song was House of the King. I saw them again later in the same tour at Bristol and Hocus Pocus had been added and they’d rehearsed a bit more. But it wasn’t the Focus that everyone in the audience wanted to see. Catherine is an incredible player but wasn’t right for the band. I can look back and enjoy this music now but it still makes me remember the incredible disappointment of that handwritten sign.
For me this is one of the most dark and intense prog-rock songs i've heard in my time. Absolutely mind blowing in is overt technicality, but even more powerful in it's subtlety. The tragedy is that it was never recorded and released!!
BLACKMYRE Good news! It isn’t a Focus album, but Philip Catherine DID do this song live on the 1975 album ‘Doldinger Jubilee 75’, officially a live album by Passport’s Krause Doldinger with guests. Hard to find, though. And ‘Angel Wings’ is simply breathtaking there! (IMO, even better than here.) The rest of that album isn’t nearly as good (again my opinion) since it’s overall rather jam like. But that one song... priceless!
even better news, it was recorded in 1974 on the album Jasper van’t Hof’s Pork Pie - Transitory, which is here on YT: ruclips.net/video/wfEh8rKfAOw/видео.html
Пути господни неисповедимы, однозначно. В самой идее, в 1976 криком и воплем напрашивался творческий союз двух гениев Thijs Van Leer+Allan Holdsworth! Но не случилось, увы. А ведь Soft Machine Bundles-75 душой и телом похожа на ранние Focus в ещё большей степени, чем данный опус на Birds of Fire Mahavishnu-72. Послушайте внимательно упоминаемый материал и поймёте, что Focus как группа умерла до воскрешения в лице Pedal Point. Сегодня Focus так же великолепен, как Moving Waves и Hamburger Concerto. Не морщитесь, не капризничайте и не жалуйтесь😅 Привет из России/Советского Союза
@@napomania ma levati dalle palle. It is an easy progression to decipher. But I would say that for a beautiful melody that goes straight like an arrow to the heart, Pino Daniele is much better than this....
Philip Catherine rather than Jan Akkerman playing. I would have liked to hear more of this particular incarnation. I don't think Catherine actually recorded with the band. I know he joined at short notice though after Akkerman quit, frustrated I think, by the band's compositional structures. He wanted more space just to improvise. What a legacy he left behind. The band were never quite the same without his particular tone and guitar solos. Catherine was a good choice of replacement though.
There is a critical point between being commercial and pleasing everyone and going prog-rock and satisfying a minority. I’m not sure which of the two has more integrity…
While we both love Focus, you need to watch your words. To say "You WILL NEVER find this calibre of musicianship in today's music..." is complete and total crap. And then to say "just an opinion" is a total contradiction of your previous absolutist claim. It's as STUPID as those who say "XXXXX is the greatest guitarist ever". Ffs, grow up.
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Focus the Best Progressive Rock Band of years 70... With Philipe Catherine Guitarrist !! Wonderful Sound and Song !! I Love !!
It's taken 50 years of listening to music to come to appreciate this.
Philip Catherine...what a legend...acoustic duo with Larry Cornell...and others..J.Mac.Sublime guitar with Chet Baker,ie...Estate...a beautiful elegant magic Jazz Guitarist. (Larry CORYELL).Thank You for posting.
This band was out way before their time. Thank you focus for showing us what music is supposed to be. I sure wish that there was a band so talented today.
Sadly I feel that this genius music wouldn't be appreciated these days !
you will never find this caliber of musicianship in today's music.. this is not a put down..Just my opinion..
+Michael Soto It's there, you just have to physically go out and find it. I see the point you are making though.
Totally agree Michael
Rubbish. Musicians just as good as this are out there. Why would musicianship randomly peak in the '70s?
porcupine tree,........Uzeb,......Shawn Lane...
@@Aussie6490_gaming Ohysically? Like with a butterfly net or something?
TRULY A FANTASTIC BRILLIANT EXPERIENCE FOCUS ON A ROLL. JUST BREATHTAKING 😊
Focus is one of the best.
Saw Focus with Philip Catherine at this time and this was an outstanding piece. Philip Catherine was a great guitarist and it us a shame that he didn't stay longer.
If anyone could ever be worthy of stepping into Jan Akkerman's place in Focus, it would only be Philip Catherine
Chuck Potocki deep respect to Jan Akkerman & Philip Catherine, AND all due respect to Focus’ current guitarist, Menno Gootjes.
yep, Catherine is a bit of a stiffer player than Akkerman. He has the chops but not quite the vibrant feel that Akkerman has. Just my opinion.
@@bluarcher5941 Catherine is a wonderful composer .
I’ve wondered whether Steve Howe might’ve been possible...
@@TheOrganiston9th Wow!!!
I love it that Thjis is so into it, always driving forward. He just seems to be the complete musician. It's not all about him, its the music.
Wow! This is an amazing Gtr playing, outstanding! Bravo.😎 Joe Ruiz Bx NY.
Back in the 70's a primary school child could spell "angel".
I’m addicted to this song right now! It’s so mind blowing... 🤯 another song that I can play on repeat and it never gets old!
focus lo mas grande la rompen en el escenario yo los escuchaba a los 20 años y hoy a mis 66 los sigo escuchando como si fuera ayer por siempre focus pocus✌🖒😆😆
There is obviously a huge influence from the music of The Mahavishnu Orchestra evident here but Philip Catherine ... what a great player and writer !
Jan akkerman wrote this.
@@sixstring4 Philip Catherine wrote this song according to several sources.
@@TheHumbuckerboy the headline of the video says Leer/Akkerman?
@@TheHumbuckerboy just checked, you're right, misprint on the video. Sorry
What a great gtr player Phillip is!
Philip Catherine's unmistakable sound.
Simplesmente lindo. Emocionante!! Philip Catherine é um guitarrista sensacional
No comments on the run at 2.13?? One of the greatest I've ever heard in any solo. This has lived with me for the last 37 years.
Philip is here in his jazz rockperiod (early seventies), but is always was and is of origine jazz guitarist. Unique musician.
Philip Catherine
Album: Guitars
Track: We'll find a way
THE BEST!!!
Jazz school and skill.
Graham Bylmakers Ha! Can I give that comment another 100 likes? GREAT song!!!
(My other PC favs from that period we’re ‘Homecomings’ and ‘Nardis’. Heck, if at all possible, try to find those two albums, Guitars and September Man.)
BTW, here's Catherine doing this song, but with Passport in 1975; this track was my own introduction to the tune waaay back then. SO happy it's here on YT... ruclips.net/video/PFfH2RRS4jY/видео.html
That run never runs out of steam.
i cant believe anybody here speak about the drummer, he is amazing, only about the guitarrist.....
Yes. David Kemper is great. Rest In peace
It does sound like one of the Mahavishnu Orchestra's quieter moments.
おおー！確かに！マハヴィシュヌっぽい(*・∀・*)ノ
Exactly what I was just about to type.
Yup. Same time in history.
now, this is music.
Influenced, from what I can hear, by the 'Birds Of fire'-era Mahavishnu Orchestra, this instrumental showcases the talent of Philip Catherine. His guitar tone sounds like a violin - I'm not sure how he achieved it - and proves what an underrated guitarist he is.
Part of that guitar sound is achieved by running the guitar through a Leslie cabinet. Very organic sound!
Or maybe more likely, IMO, IME, it might be a flanger of some sort. Maybe also a touch of compression and and an envelope filter of some sort, both set to pretty low. His entire specific tone on this song has mesmerized me since the day I heard it back in the late ‘70s. Def a fac PC recording from an equally great album.
@@larryh.3173 I asked Philip about this era of his tone and he recalls it was "a large pedal made by a German company with many knobs which gave that organ sound." I followed up by asking if it was a Schaller Phaser and he said it was not Schaller. All he remembers of it was that it was made by a German company which also made amps. He starts using this tone around '74-75 for the September Man & Guitars albums. The earliest cut I can find which has this phaser sound is T.T. from the album Toots Thieleman Philip Catherine and Friends from 1974 : ruclips.net/video/oG_zEVfwFVo/видео.html
I saw Focus last night in Tunbridge Wells. Great concert. I saw this version of Focus in 1976.
I happened by Round Records, a small funky record store in Toronto, a couple of years after this performance, and Phillipe Catherine and Larry Coryell were there. They had just released an album with Alphonse Mouzon. They had their acoustic guitars with them, and we were treated to a very intimate performance by the two of them. They played for about an hour, an unforgettable afternoon for me, a budding 18 year old guitarist.
The arpeggios and drumming remind me of some early 70s Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Sublime music. 💜
PHILLIPE CATHERINE!!!!
FOCUSED!
these are awesome!!! there's so much more to this band than just "Hocus Pocus". Awesome guitar playing and tight band!
I saw Focus in late 1976 in Wolverhampton, with Philip Catherine on guitar. Jan Akkerman had just left and Philip was reading the chords off a sheet of paper on a chair at his side. He took no solos, just played rhythm. So it was rather a damp squib for me, being so into guitar-players. I wish they had played this!
This isn't a Leer/Akkerman composition, it's Philip Catherine's, it's from his solo album.
Thanks,,, See mine comments above!
Anyone remember Happy The Man. I can see them doing well with this tune.
This music was composed by Philip Catherine himself, not by Akkerman, van Leer as wrong indicated at the introduction!
@LucBe gracias por la informacion.
No sabia eso.
Слава Богу! Thijs Van Leer гениальный композитор со своим лицом, никогда бы не додумался опуститься до воровства чужих идей - у него своих неповторимых мелодий хватает по сей день😅 А в данной композиции из всех щелей и швов слышится Mahavishnu Orchestra эпохи не менее гениального композитора Jan Hammer. Сравните с Inner Mounting -71 и Birds of Fire -72. А потом послушайте Babel -80, где работает уникальный состав композиторов под именем этого посредственного гитариста😅 Привет из России/Советского Союза
...Im still in Wonderland ....Holy Christ !
Oh this one is a beauty
Ah! I think I watched this! And I saw Focus at the Victoria Palace Theatre at around this broadcast (1975/6?) At the time I was disappointed because Ackerman had been replaced by (superb) Philip Catherine and drummer David Kemp (also brilliant!). It was a very short gig lasting only 45 mins - so I felt a little cheated. Of course; time and reading around the band; I understand now the tensions and difficulties of at that time. And watching this again; it makes me realize that despite the changes; Thijs van Leer, Burt Ruiter (RIP dear man), Philip Catherine and David Kemp were so professional and whilst different a fantastic quartet.Thank you for sharing this !
this has a very very strong Mahavishnu vibe to it. which is why it's so awesome!
Man it's like the quiet parts in Meshuggah songs but in the 70's. awesome!
for shure, what you believe, you need to hear more the 70...., best music period for electric instruments
The best! Love this song!
este tema matemáticamente es perfecto y tiene un acorde muy mutante
WoooW !!!! Philip Catherine !!!!
Pretty cool stuff!
I caught the 1976 Focus tour at the Leeds University gig, the very night after this Whistle Test appearance, when Philp Catherine made his only tour debut with the band. It was a superb gig and it's a bit of a shame it didn't seem to lead to a further period of collaboration. Never heard or saw anything of the drummer in this line-up either. I wonder what became of him?
Simon Atack This Wikipedia link should enlighten you.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kemper
Master, Phellip Catherine
Inmenso tema. Thijs, un genio. Gran lucimiento de Philipp.
Very cool. I like this guy in place of Akkerman. Not sure of the drummer either, but he's got a jazz-fusion thing going. Great!
David Kemper. He was their drummer on Mother Focus.
Wow
Geweldige combi
Comes from the album of Pork Pie - Transitory (1974)
I like Philipe, an excellent guitarist and composer, but I like Jan more...
Obviously it's Akkerman for me when it comes to Focus, 0:52 but I really rate Phillip Catherine and love this track and his playing on it.
Yeah... Focus + Catherine vus à Popperinge... (j'sais plus quand, mais au moins avant 79)
Oh, so that's Philip Catherine. I've heard of him, but never knew he was in Focus. Very excellent replacement for Jan Akkerman. It was weird watching the video. I didn't think that was Jan, or was thinking, "Wow, Jan looks very different without a mustache." The comments straightened me out, though.
The song had a definite Mahavishnu Orchestra vibe, as others have commented below. But I think that Catherine was a more fluid player than John McLaughlin.
@Andy Harman You're right
I saw the first uk gig at Cardiff on the 76 tour. There was a sign on the door saying ‘Jan Akkerman is replaced by Philip Catherine’. I was 17 and I was devastated. Akkerman was (and is) my hero. The gig was basically an extended jam. No Hocus Pocus, no Sylvia and none of the old stuff like Eruption or anything from Hamburger. I think the only old song was House of the King. I saw them again later in the same tour at Bristol and Hocus Pocus had been added and they’d rehearsed a bit more. But it wasn’t the Focus that everyone in the audience wanted to see. Catherine is an incredible player but wasn’t right for the band. I can look back and enjoy this music now but it still makes me remember the incredible disappointment of that handwritten sign.
For me this is one of the most dark and intense prog-rock songs i've heard in my time. Absolutely mind blowing in is overt technicality, but even more powerful in it's subtlety. The tragedy is that it was never recorded and released!!
BLACKMYRE Good news! It isn’t a Focus album, but Philip Catherine DID do this song live on the 1975 album ‘Doldinger Jubilee 75’, officially a live album by Passport’s Krause Doldinger with guests. Hard to find, though.
And ‘Angel Wings’ is simply breathtaking there! (IMO, even better than here.) The rest of that album isn’t nearly as good (again my opinion) since it’s overall rather jam like. But that one song... priceless!
even better news, it was recorded in 1974 on the album Jasper van’t Hof’s Pork Pie - Transitory, which is here on YT:
ruclips.net/video/wfEh8rKfAOw/видео.html
It's on an album called 'Focus - live at the BBC, and also on Philip Catherine's 'Moods vol 1' , both available on Mp3Million.com
@@johno4521 Thanks, yeah i managed to acquire it.
2:13 Great phrase
Пути господни неисповедимы, однозначно. В самой идее, в 1976 криком и воплем напрашивался творческий союз двух гениев Thijs Van Leer+Allan Holdsworth! Но не случилось, увы. А ведь Soft Machine Bundles-75 душой и телом похожа на ранние Focus в ещё большей степени, чем данный опус на Birds of Fire Mahavishnu-72. Послушайте внимательно упоминаемый материал и поймёте, что Focus как группа умерла до воскрешения в лице Pedal Point. Сегодня Focus так же великолепен, как Moving Waves и Hamburger Concerto. Не морщитесь, не капризничайте и не жалуйтесь😅 Привет из России/Советского Союза
Angel Wings...
Philip Catherine, great...
compared to Akkerman, he is mediocre. There are many like Catherine. The is only ONE Jan Akkerman.
Someone should correct the video title =)
+nubz0r What's wrong with it?
+OfficialFocusBand You swapped "e" and "l" in "Angel"
Still "Angle Wings" instead of "Angel Wings"...
@@FocusVideoArchive title is : "ANGEL WINGS" (composer: Philip Catherine)
2:13
Sonido 100 % Mahavishnu Orchestra
Without Akermann? Great 🎸Player.
Who are the guitar?
Was Akermann?
Poor man's 'Meeting of the Spirits"
Any tutorials to learn how to play this?
A lot of patience... But it takes too much time without the Scores
@@napomania ma levati dalle palle. It is an easy progression to decipher. But I would say that for a beautiful melody that goes straight like an arrow to the heart, Pino Daniele is much better than this....
Angel Wings I think is the title
Philipp Catherine
This is not Jan Akkerman!
This is not Focus
This is Philip Catherine
@@bernardjharmsen304 He is nobody compared to JAN. He doe not have the uniqueness, not the musicality of Akkerman.
Help help, somebody is playing Akkerman´s guitar!
Philip Catherine rather than Jan Akkerman playing. I would have liked to hear more of this particular incarnation. I don't think Catherine actually recorded with the band. I know he joined at short notice though after Akkerman quit, frustrated I think, by the band's compositional structures. He wanted more space just to improvise. What a legacy he left behind. The band were never quite the same without his particular tone and guitar solos. Catherine was a good choice of replacement though.
Without Jan, this is Focus lite.
Mahavishnu Orchestra Lite…..
@chrispage2782 They were much better earlier, before JA left
Philip Catherine is true genius!
I think the drummer is an American called Richard James who filled in from time to time following the unceremonious sacking of Colin Allen.
Dont think so, it`s David Kemper, session guy and drummer of the Jerry Garcia band.
@@michealfrancis770 yes. Its definitely david kemper
Could have been a Happy the man tune.....
You had to be pretty good to replace Jan Ackerman/looks like he even got his guitar !!!###
There is a critical point between being commercial and pleasing everyone and going prog-rock and satisfying a minority.
I’m not sure which of the two has more integrity…
such a HUGE Mahavishnu Orchestra influence. Almost too much….
Ian Ankerman playing the bass?
Bert Ruiter
The original Angel Wings here 👇
ruclips.net/video/wfEh8rKfAOw/видео.html
This is Mahavishnu, not Focus!
ma vai a cagare...
While we both love Focus, you need to watch your words. To say "You WILL NEVER find this calibre of musicianship in today's music..." is complete and total crap. And then to say "just an opinion" is a total contradiction of your previous absolutist claim. It's as STUPID as those who say "XXXXX is the greatest guitarist ever". Ffs, grow up.
well, this is certain just YOUR opinion.
Awful
This is no good.......
Where is Jan Akkerman?