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Menno Gootjes (a contributor since the 90s) and bassist Udo Pannekeet (a mere eight years in the saddle).

Menno's guitar-playing was stunning, and a real highlight for me, beating the bass and drum solos by a long way.

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&#;this is the best band in the world &#; especially for a guitar player like me. You’re like the lead vocalist. Thijs is important but this is really like a guitar band, so you’re like the front man in a sense, as a guitar player, y’know, which is kind of unique &#; so for me this is like the best band a guitar player could find himself in.

Definitely.&#; Menno Gootjes

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To prog fans worldwide, Focus need no introduction.

Featuring Thijs Van Leer, Pierre Van Der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet.

Coming onto the scene and making their name in the early seventies with their second album, Moving Waves, which brought them international recognition, Focus have carved out a more than respectable niche for themselves in prog with their epic compositions and, in particular, with their virtuoso musicianship.

Still led by Thijs van Leer, Focus are a four-piece instrumental band, a collision of hard rock, classical music and jazz, with music which is often long on ideas but short on words. Similar to John Mayall&#