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    The other sides of Jan Akkerman

    There's much more to this artist than many realise, witness these tracks

    Baroque leanings on a lute

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQs2ensxUzk

    "Spanish Jam session" with Paco de Lucia

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vakx5...eature=related

    Solo acoustic

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfHhz2_hGag

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWHPrB5Lqr4

    Shades of the "Hot Club de France" ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZF1U...1&feature=fvwp
    Cheers MIKE.

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    A few more tracks from Jan

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIPcX...eature=related

    From his days with Focus, one of the first Focus albums I bought way back when

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lQThLTZLEE&NR=1

    Acoustic? with orchestra

    http://www.magle.dk/music-forums/123...-akkerman.html

    Recent concert, (January this year)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvumJ...eature=related

    (9 other tracks from same concert listed on Youtube)
    Cheers MIKE.

    How many roads must a man walk down ... ... before he admits he's lost?

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    Wow. That really opened my eyes! I only really knew Jan from the Moving waves era with focus.

    I have very catholic eclectic music tastes that range from Rammstein to this- http://www.muzu.tv/wizkhalifakvetqpw...c-video/809945

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    Thanks Mike. Yes,a real eye opener. I will hunt out more of his music.

    teddy

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