{"id":5076,"date":"2022-05-18T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:46:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:46:06","slug":"hocus-pocus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/2022\/05\/18\/hocus-pocus\/","title":{"rendered":"Hocus Pocus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"IMG_4708\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/195807038@N08\/52111754021\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52111754021_3526d69030_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4708\" width=\"304\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a> Greetings, Pop Pickers. Music fans of a certain vintage will recall with a wry smile the tune <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q\">Hocus Pocus<\/a><\/em> by the Dutch prog rock\u00a0band <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Focus_(band)\">Focus<\/a>, in which the inspired lunacy of organist, vocalist and flautist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thijs_van_Leer\">Thijs van Leer<\/a> met the guitar virtuosity of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jan_Akkerman\">Jan Akkerman<\/a>. Always willing to try something new, and having no shame whatsoever,\u00a0 my <a href=\"https:\/\/gandtb.blogspot.com\/\">current musical project G&amp;T<\/a> has done a cover version. It&#8217;ll be released for download on Apple Music, iTunes and so on and so forth on 27 May, but those of a less patient nature can <a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/gt20\/hocus-pocus\">pre-save it on Spotify and Apple Music<\/a> now. Adrian Thomas played guitar, more guitar, extra guitar, additional guitar, further guitar, with a side-order of guitar and a guitar <em>jus<\/em>. I did other stuff, and mixed it here at Flabbey Road. If you are impatient to hear more from G&amp;T (and why not?) <a href=\"https:\/\/gandtb.blogspot.com\/p\/our-music.html\">our album <em>Ice &amp; A Slice<\/em> is widely available<\/a>. And we&#8217;re currently recording some new material for release sometime in the future. Watch, as they say, this space. Not &#8216;arf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Pop Pickers. Music fans of a certain vintage will recall with a wry smile the tune Hocus Pocus by the Dutch prog rock\u00a0band Focus, in which the inspired lunacy of organist, vocalist and flautist Thijs van Leer met the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/2022\/05\/18\/hocus-pocus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[1948,1950,1949,1952,152,1951],"class_list":["post-5076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-silliness","tag-focus","tag-gt","tag-hocus-pocus","tag-jan-akkerman","tag-rock","tag-thijs-van-leer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/cromercrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}