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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">DocMcCoy</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">BobDesperado</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">leon</strong> said:</div><div>Hocus Pocus' Jan Akkerman was considered <strong>the best guitarist of the world</strong> around that time. Discuss.</div></blockquote>
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	Sure, by Mrs. Akkerman.<br />
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	Otherwise, not so much.</div></blockquote>
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	On the contrary, Akkerman was very much the guitarist's guitarist for quite some time after Focus broke through to a wider audience. I seem to remember even Zappa - who famously never got into that slightly juvenile, hierarchical, who's-the-best shit - once saying he'd have given Akkerman a gig in The Mothers Of Invention. Good musicians do tend to draw the attention and praise of other musicians, after all, and peak-era Focus  - Akkerman, van Leer, van der Linden and Ruiter - were outstanding players, even if you didn't particularly care for what they did.</div></blockquote>
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	There might have been a few cultists who thought of Akkerman that way, but I don't think it went beyond that.  Page, Clapton, and many others you'd see that claim made about over and over, but Akkerman?  If the claim was being made it sure wasn't widespread.

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