[Cultural Jihad]

Hmmm. Focus' "Moving Waves" or their "Hamburger Concerto"...

HAMBURGER CONCERTO
(ending)

Note: the conclusion of the song is an excerpt from the 17th century dramatic play "The Gijsbrecht van Aemstel" by the Dutch playwrite Joost van den Vondel:

O, Kerstnacht schoner dan de dagen     		O Christmas Eve, more beautiful than the days
Hoe kan Herodes het licht verdragen		How can Herod bear the light
Dat in Uw duisternisse blinkt			That blinks in your darkness
En wordt gevierd en aangebeden.			and is celebrated and worshipped.

Zijn hoogmoed luistert naar geen reden		His pride listens to know reason
Hoe schel die in zijn oren klinkt		How noisy it sounds to his ears
Hij tracht d' onnozelen te vernielen		He tries to destroy the untaught ones
Door het doden van onnozele zielen		by killing untaught souls

En wekt een stad en landgeschrei		And rises a crying in town and country
In Bethlehem en op den akker			in Bethlehem and in the field
En maakt den geest van Rachel wakker		and awakes the spirit of Rachel
Die waren gaat door beemd en wei		That starts haunting field and meadow

[RightOnline]

Go back and check out "Hocus Pocus" from the same album. Focus' lead guitarist........whose Dutch name escapes me this second, and I'm too damned lazy to walk across the room and read it off the album cover :)..........was smokin'!!!!!! Man was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of his time. IMHO, that's the first true "shred" guitar piece put onto vinyl.