Focus - Live At National Stadium, Dublin 1973 (FULL SHOW, with time stamps)

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    00:00 Introduction
    00:30 Anonymous Two (Part 1)
    07:13 Anonymous Two (Part 2)
    12:25 Anonymous Two (Part 3)
    16:27 Anonymous Two (Part 4)
    21:35 Anonymous Two (Finale)
    24:03 Eruption: main theme
    28:15 Eruption: Tommy
    32:05 Hocus Pocus
    40:07 Sylvia (fail / broken string)
    42:28 Sylvia (Take 2)
    44:47 Hocus Pocus (Reprise)
    Thijs van Leer - Hammond L100 organ, flute, Fender Rhodes electric piano, vocals
    Jan Akkerman - guitar
    Pierre van der Linden - drums
    Bert Ruiter - bass, vocals
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  • @FocusVideoArchive
    @FocusVideoArchive  3 года назад +19

    00:00​ Introduction
    00:30​ Anonymous Two (Part 1)
    07:13​ Anonymous Two (Part 2)
    12:25​ Anonymous Two (Part 3)
    16:27​ Anonymous Two (Part 4)
    21:35​ Anonymous Two (Finale)
    24:03​ Eruption: main theme
    28:15​ Eruption: Tommy
    32:05​ Hocus Pocus
    40:07​ Sylvia (fail / broken string)
    42:28​ Sylvia (Take 2)
    44:47​ Hocus Pocus (Reprise)

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 9 месяцев назад +1

      Focus - Live At National Stadium, Dublin 1973 (FULL SHOW, with time stamps) 1945pm 26.9.23 it's a blackpool thingy... a pool port thing... a wowowowowow howl a bit kindda love-in. anyhow; job search, listen to this... get some stares... carry on. stuff their protests. live it. eat it. fuck it!!!!

  • @olivierodaltoso1456
    @olivierodaltoso1456 11 месяцев назад +22

    This video shows that when you are a genious in music and you master your instrument and/or voice... you do not need colorful lights, smoke and all that choreography other bands use on the stage! Their music and songs are simply fantastic.

  • @petritanskanen8465
    @petritanskanen8465 18 часов назад

    There is a reason for it why Pierre van der Linden is one of my favourite drummers... Love Focus!

  • @Dwoed
    @Dwoed Год назад +10

    No second guitar, no guitar tech Just the real deal, awesome!

  • @pearsehall1049
    @pearsehall1049 Год назад +9

    I am happy to say I was at this and very happy to say I am still here to see it again 😊

  • @Fresh-tw7ev
    @Fresh-tw7ev 2 года назад +41

    Salute to these Dutch masters of PROG ROCK. 🇳🇱 🎸 🥁

    • @renatoporcu3097
      @renatoporcu3097 Год назад +3

      Abbraccio da Roma 👑 tutti squisiti dalla musica 🎸....
      dalla nostra generazione ❤️

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 9 месяцев назад

      Focus - Live At National Stadium, Dublin 1973 (FULL SHOW, with time stamps) 2004pm 26.9.23 some family.... some butthole surfers fan or faux space rocker brought me here. decided i needed to enjoy the upstanding tunes of this dutch troupe, focus. seems such whimsy as this would have worked in any smoky pub or clubland circuit dive... this lends more to the bitter beer and real ale brigade than it does to tripped out kids with tinsel waving about shouting... as some dude in mock interested tones intones: what a good idea. as the silver tinsel wafts lovingly in the on-lookers face.... hawkwind gigs died after after that incident. sadly i wasn't at that hawkwind gig or was it Ozric tentacles... so effed up was i back at home soaking in a bathtub thinking: this is a fine way to get cramp... i wasn't at this focus concert, either. which is easily explainable as i was only 1 year and a bit old. johnny cum lately indeed.... adios old hams.

  • @eugeneburns6124
    @eugeneburns6124 2 года назад +54

    Wow, didn't know this existed. They did 2 concerts in a row in the Stadium that time. I was at both. To this day 2 of the best gigs I was ever at. A couple of us bragged our way in to the first one with 10 Major cigarettes to the guy on the door (that was a regular thing for us back then as we were only kids and had little money). Was so good I paid in the next night as there were some seats still left. Still regularly listen to Focus. Great days. The Stadium had such great gigs back then, including Rory of course.

    • @philipcramer940
      @philipcramer940 2 года назад +4

      That is so cool. Love to my Irish cousins and friends, from nyc....

    • @adeh503
      @adeh503 2 года назад +4

      Gigs for cigs 😀

    • @pjlogan386
      @pjlogan386 4 месяца назад +2

      Yea ,I missed this,saw Rory and canned heat

  • @phillippitts6294
    @phillippitts6294 Год назад +15

    50 years later, this song still rocks!

  • @stephengriffin9992
    @stephengriffin9992 Год назад +11

    This was my first rock concert as a callow youth just turned 20. (30th April 1973) Long hair but no gange and digging the tunes. Became a life-long Focus fan to this day. Happy times.

    • @tnecniv1952
      @tnecniv1952 5 месяцев назад

      Me too

    • @garyrowe58
      @garyrowe58 4 месяца назад +2

      I was only just finding out about Focus then, at 15 ... and then couldn't believe they'd played Dublin !!! Seeing the stage brings back so many memories of the Stadium - Rory, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Quo etc. ... happy days indeed!

  • @gregdolecki8530
    @gregdolecki8530 Год назад +13

    Simply amazing how good this band was (in this config).

  • @petset77
    @petset77 9 месяцев назад +10

    Bass solo is truly solo, involving the audience in time without percussion. It seems so easy in 2023 on youtube vids from a living room, but this was LIVE, in front of tens of thousands, 50 years ago. FIFTY years ago, live. Everyone marvels at the amazing guitar, keyboard, and drumming (rightly so), but EVERY player was superior. I was lucky enough to witness this amazing band. It was called PROGRESSIVE rock for a reason. Following up with lick based "Eruption" spells it out, before of course... Imagine playing a Les Paul through an "Acoustic" rig with 15" speakers and hoping for some tone? ....all that, and it's not even a full house...and breaking a string without another guitar waiting, in tune, during an encore? WOW!! Just bringing it to the fans. Kudos.

    • @Hawkrvo
      @Hawkrvo 9 месяцев назад +1

      I seen them in Rock Island , Illinois 1974 .Full house and super.

  • @patriciomaia3200
    @patriciomaia3200 Год назад +6

    Fantastic !! Dutch Progressive Rock Band !!! FOCUS I' M fan very and very much...

  • @CanuckFluter
    @CanuckFluter 2 года назад +29

    I don't think it is a stretch to say Focus was one of the greatest rock bands ever. Where they would fall on a list is hard to say.

  • @ozzie-sk9dh
    @ozzie-sk9dh Месяц назад

    Jan's solo on Eruption is truly majestic.

  • @Hawkrvo
    @Hawkrvo 10 месяцев назад +4

    Thiis expressions at the beginning are pure enjoyment. He’s the best !

  • @jbpverdan
    @jbpverdan 2 года назад +7

    Bert Ruiter RIP ... .

  • @ianrogers1287
    @ianrogers1287 2 года назад +15

    Wow, what a great piece footage, - Focus warts'n all. A good example of a rock gig early/mid 70's, including the 10-15 mins of individual solo's where everyone used to go to the bar. R.I.P. Bert Reuter.

  • @a.i.liebson3287
    @a.i.liebson3287 Месяц назад

    Saw them twice. Written in stone as my second-favorite band ever.

  • @dennisdinorcia7407
    @dennisdinorcia7407 2 года назад +28

    Very underated group. Jan Akkerman is on top with the best guitarists.

    • @SAMMYKO1
      @SAMMYKO1 9 месяцев назад +4

      They are recognised as one of the greatest groups ever.

    • @sommelierramon
      @sommelierramon 8 месяцев назад +2

      Underrated by whom ?

    • @sommelierramon
      @sommelierramon 8 месяцев назад +2

      Jan might as wel be the absolute top in the world, he is. Amongst very few, to nearly none others. Youre right.

    • @OlafProt
      @OlafProt 7 месяцев назад

      Underrated by who? Jeez I see this comment everywhere by so many people. I assume it’s trolls
      Or spam to get negative comments .

    • @edljnehan2811
      @edljnehan2811 3 месяца назад

      Underrated simply means that they don't get the recognition that they deserve . There's no negative condemnation about the group as a whole just that they get very little recognition compared to the other progressive rock bands like yes ELP King Crimson and Genesis for example . These are trolls because I've said it myself many times with Focus level of talent they just never get the mention these other bands do ​@@OlafProt

  • @maxinemckenzie6076
    @maxinemckenzie6076 2 года назад +21

    A lot of teens there digging it. Better quality Live music, and more enthusiastic audiences back then.A Great capture this. Almost 50 years ago!

    • @rollinstone5217
      @rollinstone5217 2 года назад +11

      And no annoying and distracting cellphones. Just listening to, enjoying and experiencing music as one should do.
      Edited to add: great audience 👍!

    • @ionglontaru3082
      @ionglontaru3082 Год назад +4

      @@rollinstone5217 Ai perfecta dreptate! Suntem fericiți ca am trăit acele vremuri!

  • @SPassion2010
    @SPassion2010 2 года назад +6

    Amazing! Just amazing.

  • @AdamDekin
    @AdamDekin 2 года назад +4

    My dude was ready to do his whistle part.
    Guitarist went into his own thing.
    Crowd standing ovation.
    Fuck, I guess no whistle part then.

  • @maxinemckenzie6076
    @maxinemckenzie6076 2 года назад +9

    Loving the Audience shots. 📽🎸🎶🥁🎶🙋‍♀️👌💜

  • @larryzamba1689
    @larryzamba1689 2 года назад +8

    The director of the video kind of fell in love with a cheesy wipe effect to the point where it would give someone an epileptic seizure.

  • @KayDee73
    @KayDee73 2 года назад +6

    Majestic!!!

  • @MrSyjdub
    @MrSyjdub 2 месяца назад

    Amazing! My favorite Group. Thank you for posting from Brooklyn, NY

  • @wmialil
    @wmialil 2 года назад +5

    42:12 broken string - good old days, Jan Akkerman changes his own string, no roadie involved

  • @maxinemckenzie6076
    @maxinemckenzie6076 2 года назад +20

    Looking at some of the Patrons, there must've been some Acid around. Van der Linden's drum solo was excellent as always. A truly Legendary Band. 🎶🕉✨🎶👂👌.

    • @maxinemckenzie6076
      @maxinemckenzie6076 2 года назад +7

      Sorry, I should say that Van der Linden still is Great..he was when I last saw them 2 years ago. 🥁🎶👌.

    • @rickblackers88
      @rickblackers88 2 года назад +5

      @@maxinemckenzie6076 Yeah Pierre is still in great shape

    • @edljnehan2811
      @edljnehan2811 3 месяца назад

      While not super fast like say Carl Palmer Pierre still has that jazz thing going. Excellent drummer😊

  • @adeh503
    @adeh503 2 года назад +6

    Changes his own string fkn legend

    • @MobiusBandwidth
      @MobiusBandwidth Год назад +2

      can't believe he didn't have a spare axe nearby. XD ah well.

  • @petergabriel99
    @petergabriel99 Год назад +7

    Simplemente espectacular!! Qué buenos eran....!! Wow

  • @julianmeek2156
    @julianmeek2156 9 месяцев назад +2

    I was born in the first weeks of 1973 so missed this gig... Until now. Great stuff, and good to read accounts by people who were actually there at the time...

  • @leonleon3773
    @leonleon3773 3 года назад +13

    brilliant never seen this concert before many thanks for posting

  • @pauldavis6356
    @pauldavis6356 Месяц назад

    Accoustic 371 with 2 eighteen inch cabs for the bass. NICE!

  • @Driver2616
    @Driver2616 3 месяца назад

    The National Stadium in Dublin was always a great venue back in the 1970s. I saw Rory Gallagher there, Thin Lizzy, Horslips, Harry Chapin, Budgie, Gong, Wishbone Ash, Eric Clapton, EmmyLou Harris….. Unfortunately I missed many concerts - this one here with Focus, Status Quo and also the famous Genesis concert when Peter Gabriel decided to appear, for the first time, in a costume, his wife’s red dress!
    Thankfully, I’m still going to concerts, my most recent one being the aforementioned Peter Gabriel in the 3 Arena…..

  • @rickblackers88
    @rickblackers88 2 года назад +7

    Man,what a treat!!!This is great,never seen before!!!!Thanx!!Many thanx!!

  • @julianevans9853
    @julianevans9853 2 месяца назад +2

    Wonderful. Focus were just something else. Amazing. However, it would be great to track down the producer of this TV footage, who presumably decided that the video ‘effects’ were ‘cool’ and slap them soundly across the face.

  • @knutabrandal7439
    @knutabrandal7439 Год назад +8

    What a band!
    As a very young norwegian (still norwegian, by the way! 😁) I fell in love with this group!
    And I've even performed "Silvia" in my own band.
    (nobody recognized it, thow - they thought it was the finnish national hymn! And what the hell - it COULD have been! 😂)
    Jan Akkerman was (still is!) one of the absolute greatest guitarist ever! Brian May was a great fan.
    And the composer and leader Thijs van Leer - top of the pops!
    He is - by the way - still active!!
    Pierre van der Linden - now words reaches up!
    And Bert Ruiter on bass and backing vocals - no Focus without him!
    ruclips.net/video/opon0lE3lLQ/видео.html
    And Jan?
    WOW!!
    Listen to this!!
    ruclips.net/video/UBGxYfQ7Gy0/видео.html&start_radio=1

  • @gonzaloreyes8782
    @gonzaloreyes8782 2 года назад +5

    32:07 the best version so far. People on fire

  • @emiliacob2639
    @emiliacob2639 3 года назад +10

    Awesome, awesome, awesome !!! I never heard that live version of Anonymous.

  • @ranabirgahir462
    @ranabirgahir462 3 месяца назад

    TIMELESS music 🎵

  • @Gui142857
    @Gui142857 3 года назад +8

    Wow!!!!!

  • @joeryan6271
    @joeryan6271 2 месяца назад

    Straight to the soul.

  • @vinto34
    @vinto34 7 месяцев назад +1

    Brilliant band...they never played their songs the same in each concert they did to keep it interesting.

  • @danquinnell3502
    @danquinnell3502 2 года назад +9

    Was totally unaware of the band’s musical picture beyond hocus pocus. Thanks so much for sharing. Very talented and entertaining.

  • @Happysongkla
    @Happysongkla 2 года назад +2

    Thanks from Tokyo. Ariatou

  • @billbrillford7883
    @billbrillford7883 3 года назад +3

    blistering version of Hocus Pocus

  • @vincepie
    @vincepie 2 года назад +5

    That mad Chevron up and down thing at the start is a head doer like.
    Other than that this is one of the greatest things on RUclips.

  • @valeriyblinov1573
    @valeriyblinov1573 2 месяца назад +1

    SUPER GREAT!! LOVE!! Thank You!! Share

  • @zsoltbarkaszi9387
    @zsoltbarkaszi9387 3 года назад +5

    Fantastic!

  • @VASHTUZ8
    @VASHTUZ8 3 месяца назад

    Fantastic ✨

  • @alanthorne3921
    @alanthorne3921 2 года назад +2

    They travelled light.Flew in with the same clothes and one guitar from the Rainbow gig.A ( late) friend of mine was at this gig and told me about the broken string incident at the start of Sylvia in Dublin and the cameras .Apparently they were recording gigs at this time for a live album which would be the At The Rainbow Lp.He was in the know being a roadie for Edgar Broughton Band and Hawkwind(shared a flat with Simon King)

  • @sergiozuccala7630
    @sergiozuccala7630 2 года назад +3

    Van Leer un genio que esta totalmente loco

  • @pale_saint
    @pale_saint 2 года назад +4

    ..on organ, Thijs van LeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEE

  • @buttership
    @buttership 3 года назад +8

    Thanks so much for that, I was at stage left at that incredible gig

    • @seanmeaney253
      @seanmeaney253 3 года назад

      Who supported them buttership? Was it Rob Strong?

    • @buttership
      @buttership 3 года назад

      @@seanmeaney253 Sorry, can't remember, might well have been

    • @irishjohn32
      @irishjohn32 3 года назад

      @@buttership Reform supported them that night.

  • @user-ng8kr6ys5d
    @user-ng8kr6ys5d 3 месяца назад

    The one and only

  • @coloaten6682
    @coloaten6682 2 месяца назад

    Proper band.

  • @MrMjp58
    @MrMjp58 2 года назад +13

    Where on earth did this come from?? A revelation to Focus fans; it makes me feel I'm there! Jan's almost as good as he was at the Rainbow and that's saying rather a lot.

    • @vano758
      @vano758 Год назад +3

      i was watching this rendition of "Sylvia" here and couldn't stop shedding tears of bliss. especially watching how the audience is responding.... unbelievably great video

    • @Kohntarkosz
      @Kohntarkosz 5 месяцев назад +1

      RTE (Irish Television) vaults, presumably. Unlike the BBC, it would appear RTE hung onto stuff that might have at the time been deemed "moribund" or whatever.

  • @sofanr3
    @sofanr3 3 года назад +22

    great music but those visual effects are driving me mad

  • @padraigcarroll5232
    @padraigcarroll5232 3 года назад +12

    I was at this gig ! Remember the string breaking, and I thought " Rory Gallagher would have kept going "!
    Great band, though !

    • @Elfutre1957
      @Elfutre1957 2 года назад +2

      Where you the one dancing in the back?

  • @desmo750f1
    @desmo750f1 Год назад +1

    Thank you, I haven't seen this one before.

  • @sven8393
    @sven8393 3 года назад +6

    My parrents raised me in a progressive way, no mom and dad, just using their first names. It gives a certain equal understanding at a young age. I went to a jazz festifal with them where focus was playing. Loved it! Being progressive I got from my parrents. Now I understand why, they were a fan of focus. Now a days I am a fan of ‘The Cure’. Looking at this recording there are simularities. being a different thinker is OK

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP 9 месяцев назад

      Focus - Live At National Stadium, Dublin 1973 (FULL SHOW, with time stamps) 2018PM 26.9.23 being different is ok. ok. no idea why calling yer mam and dad by their monikers induces progressive thinking, though. still.......................................................... anyhow; i can't think the irish would be passing round the tabs of acid at this gig. do you think so? be pretty effed up situation... loads of UFO's that night, no doubt... allegedly some poor kid trippping his balls off and seeing a floating light above the police station and then seeing a policeman walking down the raod...and desperately wishing to ask the copper if he, too, saw the ufo "over there" but then thinking better of it...... well... erm... enough said. the amusement of that tale probably comes from nearly being grabbed by the dick while under the influence, no doubt? ummmmm...... anyhow, without sounding too bourgeoisie, good luck!!!

  • @nigel8247
    @nigel8247 3 месяца назад

    Saw them on this tour at Clacton on sea teacher training college never really heard of them .. They were awesome….

  • @seesaw1969
    @seesaw1969 3 года назад +2

    wow....now i see what i have never seem before!! thank you fellow!!

  • @edljnehan2811
    @edljnehan2811 3 месяца назад

    Jan akkerman without a doubt one of the greatest guitarists of all time and along with Jeff Beck my favorite. Vanleer is also a top-notch keyboard player.

    • @joeryan6271
      @joeryan6271 2 месяца назад

      Right on bro. Also a deadhead😎👍👍 21:03 21:29

  • @stewartquark1661
    @stewartquark1661 2 года назад +4

    Focus invented sound

  • @Edsonboka49
    @Edsonboka49 2 года назад +2

    Sensacional! Em 21/02/2022!

  • @pjlogan386
    @pjlogan386 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for upload,did not think it was filmed.amazing!

  • @ESP95
    @ESP95 Год назад +1

    que tiempos !! y q músicos!! corto cuerda y no saco otra guitarra, cambio LA CUERDA ahí mismo, Y sin afinador!!! uhhhhhh geniales

  • @adrianbiondi765
    @adrianbiondi765 3 года назад +3

    Sencillamente genial.

  • @kevinlemming6268
    @kevinlemming6268 Год назад

    Amazing to watch Akkerman replace his E string live on stage! Nowadays someone would rush on with one of a thousand spare replacements.

  • @tnecniv1952
    @tnecniv1952 5 месяцев назад

    My first prog concert ❤❤❤

  • @agegroot5666
    @agegroot5666 3 года назад +8

    Great performance by my countrymen. Picture resolution could be higher.

    • @wouterbessels8605
      @wouterbessels8605 3 года назад

      Buy the new Focus 50 years box set, which includes a DVD with this concert in full HD quality! Buy the box set, support the band!
      Search for «Focus 50 years: Anthology 1970-1976».

  • @Kohntarkosz
    @Kohntarkosz 5 месяцев назад +1

    Apart from the of course excellent performance, we should also take note of the great camera work and editing here. They don't make concert videos like this anymore, where the director stays on a given shot for more than one second. There's lots of slow crossfades and things like showing one band member, then panning over to another, or having a shot showing two or more band members, changing focus (pun intended) from one band member to another, without actually moving the camera. Nobody does stuff like that anymore.

  • @henrymanzano4600
    @henrymanzano4600 Год назад +1

    wuao la musica que sacudió y sacude al mundo,focus historia de los inicios del rock

  • @johndouglas1542
    @johndouglas1542 8 месяцев назад +2

    10 stars. 5 doesn't cut it.

  • @robertzalesny
    @robertzalesny 5 месяцев назад

    amaizng...

  • @renatoporcu3097
    @renatoporcu3097 Год назад +1

    6 aprile 2023 Roma 👑

  • @travelpointone991
    @travelpointone991 5 месяцев назад +1

    Being from The Netherlands, you could walk into a local bookshop and witness a mini concert. BTW His daughter is also a talented musician and singer.

    • @edljnehan2811
      @edljnehan2811 3 месяца назад

      You need to mention whose daughter😮

  • @user-ng8kr6ys5d
    @user-ng8kr6ys5d 3 месяца назад

    Still the best l!

  • @user-dk8zr6up8d
    @user-dk8zr6up8d 2 года назад +3

    32:55 king of downstroke

  • @josvansuchtelen9743
    @josvansuchtelen9743 2 месяца назад

    sitting in a car in UK with my UK colleague, he had this music on tape, and he thought it was an English band, I could wake him up........though..haha

  • @richardgulley4860
    @richardgulley4860 5 месяцев назад

    Really enjoyed this! Couldnt wipe the smile off my face😊. Btw Where was the roadie with the backup guitar? Lol … quick string change!! Jan is killer! Along with the rest of the band! No effects on vocals or guitar, just straight up! They’d be just as good in a small bar as a stadium! Real musicians 👍👍👍👍

  • @francuscosuarez2512
    @francuscosuarez2512 6 месяцев назад

  • @rickspence979
    @rickspence979 Год назад +2

    I like the more open jamming here. The bass solo is loosely based on the one on the album. Much prefer these jams to the hits.

  • @maxinemckenzie6076
    @maxinemckenzie6076 2 года назад +4

    Beats "The Bay City Rollers" any day. 🎸🎶👌🎶🥁.

  • @orazioscardace911
    @orazioscardace911 3 месяца назад

    ✌️

  • @alasdairmcgregor4334
    @alasdairmcgregor4334 3 месяца назад

    In the 70s there was Total Footb

  • @Ian2844
    @Ian2844 2 года назад +5

    Good concert. But marred by the unimaginative and lazy camera work. Not enough shots close up of Jan Akkerman. Best shots of him are when he changes his broken string!

    • @jimbabwe1
      @jimbabwe1 Год назад +1

      Basically poor directing, tight on Thjis when Jan is doing his masterful breaks. I think he missed every one of them.

  • @manguera9
    @manguera9 5 месяцев назад

    jon akkerman was playing with no guitar pedals, no volume effect pedal , he had to worked with the timing of doing the volume effect with the guitar knobs and to completed a broken string ,in 1978 was the time most of guitar players brought a guitar tech, 2 electric extra guitars and responsible the guitars not being stolen.

    • @edljnehan2811
      @edljnehan2811 3 месяца назад

      That's not the first time he's broken his string on stage during that song and repaired it on the spot. Check out focus live and rare on RUclips for some videos of them from the early days much better than this one and that they're much clearer.😮

  • @eldonad
    @eldonad 2 года назад +2

    Huh, was not expecting to hear the second movement of the Concerto for Orcherstra by Bartòk in Eruption... Is this a popular choral I am not aware of, or a direct inspiration ? (26:43)

  • @steveberti7060
    @steveberti7060 Год назад +2

    Focus were the ultomite Jam band still are no other band comes close

  • @matycee
    @matycee 2 года назад +1

    argument for backup, tuned guitar in the wings made!!

  • @olliebeak131
    @olliebeak131 Год назад +1

    Only 48 mins? What a rip...

  • @SongSwan
    @SongSwan 2 года назад +5

    The headache inducing optical effects need to go,cool back in the day I guess.

    • @stephenowens3687
      @stephenowens3687 Год назад +2

      Yup. A lot of music shows did it back then! Very irritating I know.

  • @edljnehan2811
    @edljnehan2811 3 месяца назад

    Do you know I've seen this broken string thing a couple times with Jan akkerman where he repairs his guitar on the spot. I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't part of the show kind of like when Keith Emerson wrestles his keyboards and stabs them with the daggers. Maybe it's Jan ackerman's way of showing off a little😮 also those drop-down ads on RUclips are extremely irritating when you're trying to read the comments😢

  • @rondegroot1508
    @rondegroot1508 2 года назад +1

    vistalite!

  • @Kohntarkosz
    @Kohntarkosz 5 месяцев назад

    Hey what's going on at 10:36? Looks like someone decided to have a snog during the bass solo.

  • @dickwad1435
    @dickwad1435 2 года назад +1

    Where is the guitar tech?

  • @MrOttopants
    @MrOttopants 2 года назад +1

    I want what she's having at 37:13. That must have been a really nice tab.

  • @ljmike1204
    @ljmike1204 Год назад +1

    Today a guitar tech wil run on stage to swap guitars around if a string brakes back in the day they fixed the damn thing live on stage