I only just got introduced to this tune. First time I heard it I thought it was nuts... but damn... it's amazing... how many tunes can you say have the balls to be as experimental and creative as this?
How come this is the first time I listen to Focus.. WHERE THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN? Wandering on the internet 24 hs and NEVER listened to them. Luckily I'm young (16) and can listen to them for the rest of my life. Simply amazing. Made me smile like A BIEG SMILE. Thanks for putting this video.
this drummer has always been absolutelt incredible to me, he literally mastered that 70's tatata groove. its just insane, he just keeps going and going like it was nothing
All members of Focus where/are extremely talented in their way. Would they have been from Uk or USA they would have been eternally popstars. Glad we can still enjoy them after so many years
I've been a musician my entire life, love the Beatles, Stones, Miles Davis, Return To Forever, but these guys are probably the best thing Europe ever sent us!!! Talk about balls out "fuck everything" rock, doing it marvelously, and with such detail!!! Just this one hit should land them in the R&R Hall of Fame!!!
@@bobnee4794 It almost makes up for the centuries of dour, unsmiling staidness and stolid-ness that the Dutch shared with the rest of the world. Okay - throwing in your cocoa, tulips and Rembrandt along with Focus, I guess the world owes you some thanks.
Europe did not send it to you! Europe just did it BUT you consider yourself the center of the world 😂 ... Influenced by the Beatles and the Stones - wooohoooo
I have listened to dozens of videos of this song and have yet to hear them play it the same way twice. That is definitely what keeps me from getting bored with watching them play this song repetitively. It also makes me want to yodel (to Muleskinner Blues).
LOL! The lead guitarist stopped to take a hit off a fucking joint! Fucking hilarious! Also, that was the weed smokin-est f70's style flute solo at the beginning I've ever heard!!!
I've watched interviews of Focus talking about how this song is just a joke to everyone who was there when they jammed and made it. It was all for fun and you can see that by the way they are laughing at each other. Music should always be just for fun, even if you are making mufti-millions of dollars. The moment you stop having fun it shows.
Incredible virtuous band! I knew from 1985 when I was a child and now I discover that Van Leer played with Miguel Rios at the Rock´n´Rios tour 1982,the best live concert ever seen in España!.Great,I love it.
The first time I heard this song, I was a junior at college and went to see my cousin in San Diego. We smoked a joint and turned up the loud speakers incredibly loud. From the first notes, I blasted off and imagined I was traveling in space...when the ride was over, we looked at each other and cracked up. What a song! What a journey. And, although I haven't smoked the evil weed in 30-plus years, the song still holds up. Way to go, Focus!
Magnificent group. Saw them for the first time on "In Concert" on ABC in 1973(?) and immediately went out and bought their album, "Moving Waves" the next day.
This was a great group. You can't come up with something like this if you have no talent. Very simplistic yet so powerful. I feel that growing up in the 60's and 70's is such a treasure for me. I feel very fortunate to have been able to watch rock & roll grow from a tiny seed back in the 50's to a beautiful rose in the 70's. Unfortunately just like the rose it withers and dies. Maybe someday a seed will again be planted and another beautiful flower will come of it. If it is going to happen, it better be soon or else I'm gonna miss it!!!
That...was amazing.. I've never heard anything like it before! It truly inspires me and makes me comfortable with being unique with my music! I hope I can sound half as good as this one day
Just heard this on the radio while driving home from school, and I fell in love with it immediately. The moment I got home, I looked up the name of it, and now I'm here.
Was that album Moving Waves/Focus II by Focus? That album has the fantastic, twenty-three minute long b-side, "Eruption" which is one of the greatest pieces of prog rock ever put to wax.
If there is anybody who would claim to be or to have seen the best Dutch band ever, let them watch this Video. They would all have to agree this was the best Dutch band ever.
@@MrTrotty57 yes !!! I bought this single when I was a teen but I bought many , many singles of the Golden Earring. Loved all their songs .. they are great group . And being Belgian I also loved the Pebbles ( but loved Golden Earring more )
On this date in 1973 {Mar. 3rd} "Hocus Pocus" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; eventually it would peaked at #9 & spent 19 weeks in the Top 100... Ranked 69th on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1973 chart... Reached #18 on the Canadian Singles chart and #20 in the U.K. Was featured in the 1994 movie "Stone Age"...
@judoshawa I am Dutch. I was in Mexico once and I became friends with an older guy running a bookstore in Celaya. He invited me for a pick nick with his family. On the way back he said he had a Dutch surprise for me: he played this song on an old cassette tape and we sang along with it on the way back. Good times!
I first saw this band live at The Oval Cricket Ground in 1974, they really stole the whole show, ELP and many other bands were also appearing, pure artistry, and energy.
Maybe I'm biased being Dutch myself, but to me me, this song is in a class all it's own. I listen to the extended version while cruising down the road. I have to use "cruise" or I'll end up going 100 mph. I challenge anyone to duplicate those vocals or guitar riffs.
Yodelling, flute and organ - that guy is a genius!
Organ icon in flute ncion of yoga doodle.
Drunk to much😢
Back when people could REALLY play music. I wish people would watch this. We would have even more of this kind of stuff.
It's Jan Akkerman. One of the best guitar players ever. Santana's great master!
legendary man, never in the spotlights.
Bought my Les Paul because of him!
Every time I get to this song in a new location it’s a totally different version! Amazing
I love how from the jazzy beggining they change to a much rocker style. Cool
I only just got introduced to this tune. First time I heard it I thought it was nuts... but damn... it's amazing... how many tunes can you say have the balls to be as experimental and creative as this?
How come this is the first time I listen to Focus.. WHERE THE FUCK HAVE I BEEN? Wandering on the internet 24 hs and NEVER listened to them. Luckily I'm young (16) and can listen to them for the rest of my life. Simply amazing. Made me smile like A BIEG SMILE. Thanks for putting this video.
you are now 27
In communist hungary was popular in 70s among deep drug adficts. They showbit me
28 now
@@gramarthur didnt enter club 27. Its important
You are young and nobody showed you good music. Thats why.
this drummer has always been absolutelt incredible to me, he literally mastered that 70's tatata groove. its just insane, he just keeps going and going like it was nothing
Dunno what a tatata groove is but what Pierre is doing is just amazing. Classic jazz drumming to a rock beat.
Yo, bro. What’s a 70s tatata groove? Care to show a 70s song that demonstrates?
All members of Focus where/are extremely talented in their way. Would they have been from Uk or USA they would have been eternally popstars. Glad we can still enjoy them after so many years
This song has to be a world record for something, just haven't figured out what category. Wow!
Yodelling
Most instruments played at once with a single hand?
All of them?
PROG (Progressive Rock).
Most drugs taken during the composition of a song.
Opening flute and organ solo is the best thing I've seen all day. This video appeared after I saw another live video of them playing hocus pocus. Wow!
I've been a musician my entire life, love the Beatles, Stones, Miles Davis, Return To Forever, but these guys are probably the best thing Europe ever sent us!!! Talk about balls out "fuck everything" rock, doing it marvelously, and with such detail!!! Just this one hit should land them in the R&R Hall of Fame!!!
*the best thing THE NETHERLANDS ever send you. We take full responsibility
@@bobnee4794 It almost makes up for the centuries of dour, unsmiling staidness and stolid-ness that the Dutch shared with the rest of the world.
Okay - throwing in your cocoa, tulips and Rembrandt along with Focus, I guess the world owes you some thanks.
Europe did not send it to you! Europe just did it BUT you consider yourself the center of the world 😂 ... Influenced by the Beatles and the Stones - wooohoooo
Verdaderos genios de la música , magistrales , maravillosos .
Hear King crimson before you die
Melodic and rythmical perfection created by the musical gods of this earth. Focus will live forever.
Amazing vocal ability!! I love how you can just tell these guys are havin a good time.
love the guitarist laughing in the background when he first yodels :P
Laughing while finishing his joint then put in the ashtray and continue the song...
The yodeling started as a joke thats why hes laughing
Focus: another MASTERPIECE !!! ❤
I have listened to dozens of videos of this song and have yet to hear them play it the same way twice.
That is definitely what keeps me from getting bored with watching them play this song repetitively.
It also makes me want to yodel (to Muleskinner Blues).
LOL! The lead guitarist stopped to take a hit off a fucking joint! Fucking hilarious! Also, that was the weed smokin-est f70's style flute solo at the beginning I've ever heard!!!
Proper musicians playing tight! You don't get many of them these days and they look like they're enjoying playing.
What I would give to be alive during the golden age of rock.. to see bands like this
I love Focus! Thijs van Leer was quite the showman.
I've watched interviews of Focus talking about how this song is just a joke to everyone who was there when they jammed and made it. It was all for fun and you can see that by the way they are laughing at each other. Music should always be just for fun, even if you are making mufti-millions of dollars. The moment you stop having fun it shows.
my old math teacher would turn this on and dance to it wile we did our test. hehe hahaha! he was the best teacher ever. lolol
Incredible virtuous band! I knew from 1985 when I was a child and now I discover that Van Leer played with Miguel Rios at the Rock´n´Rios tour 1982,the best live concert ever seen in España!.Great,I love it.
No no, "Rock and Rios" is the best "Rock en español" album ever..
a great video for one of the greatest rock song of all times Holland really been touched
The first time I heard this song, I was a junior at college and went to see my cousin in San Diego. We smoked a joint and turned up the loud speakers incredibly loud. From the first notes, I blasted off and imagined I was traveling in space...when the ride was over, we looked at each other and cracked up. What a song! What a journey. And, although I haven't smoked the evil weed in 30-plus years, the song still holds up. Way to go, Focus!
Master of the Yazz flute!
I'm learning how to yodel and play the organ and flute just to be able to play this song
Don't yodel...please
Sorry about the guitar :P
GO FOR IT ! It’s called joy of expression and talent ! it must be passed to future generations right !
@@el_aleman well stated and direly true.
3 years later. How's the yodelling going?
Magnificent group. Saw them for the first time on "In Concert" on ABC in 1973(?) and immediately went out and bought their album, "Moving Waves" the next day.
The guitar player laughing is ass off the whole song!
This was a great group. You can't come up with something like this if you have no talent. Very simplistic yet so powerful. I feel that growing up in the 60's and 70's is such a treasure for me. I feel very fortunate to have been able to watch rock & roll grow from a tiny seed back in the 50's to a beautiful rose in the 70's. Unfortunately just like the rose it withers and dies. Maybe someday a seed will again be planted and another beautiful flower will come of it. If it is going to happen, it better be soon or else I'm gonna miss it!!!
and jan looks and play the guitar like a charm....one of the best players ever
Ferociously scontingly great!, total scrumpness on the level of gohalley!, best tune!
That...was amazing.. I've never heard anything like it before! It truly inspires me and makes me comfortable with being unique with my music! I hope I can sound half as good as this one day
focus, UK, and jethro tull should tour for life
Again, so sorry Focus, listening, over the years, brilliant, never recognised, how good you were or still are.
Love youxxx
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First heard this song on BBC6Music. Got three different versions of it on vinyl now. Brilliant live performance.
I totally agree. Underrated Focus
Surely the greatest jazz flutist there's ever been, better even than Ron Burgundy!
Sounds great, but Hubert Lass is THE CAT for Jazz flute. Check out McCoy Tyner's "Fly With the Wind" (original). Hubert kills it...
jason backes A little ham and eggs comin atcha!
Alex you are one of the few to get my original joke!
That's baby making music, that is.
Will Ferrel is even better than Ron Burgundy!!
3:20 - when the guitarist realises how incredible the vocals truly are
Simply, one of the best things I've ever heard!
That was the weirdest, fantastic version of this song that I have ever heard!!!
Just heard this on the radio while driving home from school, and I fell in love with it immediately. The moment I got home, I looked up the name of it, and now I'm here.
I stare in amazement, like I was looking at the Grand Canyon. Iconic and Legendary, Focus proves themselves to be musicians way before their time.
Absolutely fantastic! I saw them in about 1974 in Sydney. Ridiculous playing!!!
Great song! Jethro Tull has always been one of my favorite bands of all times.
What magical memories this song brings to me!
I love it when Jan starts playing the pre-hocuspocus accords at 2.34
Woww.. I know Thijs van leer as a classical flute musician on 1988.
MARAVILHA, AOS 65 ANOS CONTINUO AMANDO
Brabo🔥🇧🇷
My friend who's moving house found a stack of vinyls - this little gem was on an album! Absolutely love it!
Was that album Moving Waves/Focus II by Focus? That album has the fantastic, twenty-three minute long b-side, "Eruption" which is one of the greatest pieces of prog rock ever put to wax.
When I first heard this song I couldn't stand it, but it has really grown on me.
These guys were Experts Seemingly At Every facet of music.
Ahh, back in the days when music was filled with talented musicians...
I love that the guitarist cracks up at the yodelling,
If there is anybody who would claim to be or to have seen the best Dutch band ever, let them watch this Video. They would all have to agree this was the best Dutch band ever.
Canada loves the Dutch.
@Timothy Dexter Euh...no he's Dutch.
Don't forget Golden Earring.
@@MrTrotty57 yes !!! I bought this single when I was a teen but I bought many , many singles of the Golden Earring. Loved all their songs .. they are great group . And being Belgian I also loved the Pebbles ( but loved Golden Earring more )
That flute solo leaves a good taste in my mouth.
FLUTE SOLO at the begining MASTERFUL wow great song some jammin Scandanavians....
this was live...... what a hell ? ! Awesome !
Good show ol' boy! Haha! Ey the 70's were the life mate... that and the 60's too!
On this date in 1973 {Mar. 3rd} "Hocus Pocus" entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; eventually it would peaked at #9 & spent 19 weeks in the Top 100...
Ranked 69th on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1973 chart...
Reached #18 on the Canadian Singles chart and #20 in the U.K.
Was featured in the 1994 movie "Stone Age"...
I have never heard/seen this before. I have goosebumps -- (sadly, the late) Chris Wood, Ian Anderson and Focus -- Flute Nirvana!
Maestros!
Masters!
Thanks Focus for your music, one of the greatest bands ever!!!
Heard this on ABC Australia last night. Took about 3hrs to remember the name. I have listened to this 4 times already. Amazing.
They don't make them like that anymore...a real classic!
Блин, сколько лет прошло! Бьютифул!
Super GREAT!! Love!! ART!! Thank You!!
@judoshawa I am Dutch. I was in Mexico once and I became friends with an older guy running a bookstore in Celaya. He invited me for a pick nick with his family. On the way back he said he had a Dutch surprise for me: he played this song on an old cassette tape and we sang along with it on the way back. Good times!
They all looked like they were having the time of their lives making such great music!!!
Akkerman's playing here is fucking unreal
The Best at this time...
A lesson in how to be awesome.
3:40 look at how accurate every move on the drum is , kinda interesting to watch the movement itself from the shoulder.
I first saw this band live at The Oval Cricket Ground in 1974, they really stole the whole show, ELP and many other bands were also appearing, pure artistry, and energy.
immense. solid instrument playing throughout
The best performance of the band , EVER!!!
I'm telling you these guys are such hard core musicians.
saw focus yesterday on the legends festival really awesome to see
Back then (about 50 yrs ago) there were many excellent Dutch bands go worldwide.
Saw these guys live ,,Nothing better than that they are ass kickin,,,/////
The guy is GENUIS! Crazy talented GENUIS!!
Do not dismiss the musicianship in this song. This thing is really a keeper.
FOCUS IS CLASSIC HERE IN MEXICO
Great Version..i like drums in the background...thijs is amazing and Jan plays godlike
Maybe I'm biased being Dutch myself, but to me me, this song is in a class all it's own. I listen to the extended version while cruising down the road. I have to use "cruise" or I'll end up going 100 mph. I challenge anyone to duplicate those vocals or guitar riffs.
What an amazingly good band!!
the guy in the tank top is a hell of a musician
Watching this with my 6 and 4 year old. They love it.
this song is sick
boruch haShem.... Focus, de grootste rockband uit Nederland!
Used to love these guys. Have 2 albums (still), but this was my favourite. Damn good stuff!
the one who is underrated is the drummer in this song.
I love this, It brings back my high school days. Wish I hadn't lost the 45 of this song o well, I got Utube to help bring back those memories, Thanks
we used to have this on, during our art lessons
Jethro Tull please take a seat, this guy has you beat!
Who Plays Like THAT Anymore!!!!
THAT WAS SICK!!!!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM AN AGELESS, IMMORTAL BEING WHO TRANSCENDS TIME, AND I'VE COME TO THIS VIDEO TO SAY THAT THIS IS A PRETTY SWEET JAM. PEACE OUT.
Never heard of this song or band until last night on KRock 104.3 mad cool. I thought it was Jethro Tull at first.
focus and jethro tull should tour for life
what a super cool ultimate performance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Focus rocks
Only 1.11 million views...... Such a great video should have way more views.