House of the King - Focus | The Midnight Special
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Focus performed on The Midnight Special October 5th 1973
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Criminally underrated musical geniuses
Great rock band. Not geniuses though.
@@rman52look at akkerman's and van leer's later work, hell, even earlier work and you'll understand why they are geniuses
Their 'crime' are not being americans or britains.
@@nazarioturetto5019 Neither were the Guess Who, BTO, Neal Young, or Abba. They all did ok. I think in their case, what made them great, took a more sophisticated ear. Like Frank Zappa. That's not always as marketable.
@@rman52did you watch the hocus pocus live madness?? They did more than ok
And their albums have insane cuts on them
Fantastic, one of my favourite Focus songs !
He's amazing on that flute!
Reminds of a hummingbird fliluttering its wings.!
Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖
Man!! I haven't heard them in quite some time. Like decades. Heavy stuff in 8th grade. LOL! Ahead of my time in Tennessee
My fave Focus track.
Cool song! A flute in a rock band. Wow! I love those Premier Drums too. I've been playing mine over 30 years.
I bought my Premier 2000 snare back around 1970 at a little music shop in Wales along with a Lokfast stand. Still have them today, and the chrome on both is almost perfect.
@@163andyc Cool story!
You just can't beat the sound of those old drums , premier and ludwig , my top favorites!
I play Premier Genistas on my RUclips along with a Ludwig Supraphonic and Acrolite snare at times. @@bartrobinson2103
The flute was in those days a populair instrument in rockbands: Jethro Tull, Golden Earring, Genesis are some examples.
Awesome! Love FOCUS. Great band.
Rock on!
They're so cool they could get those star highlight flares without a filter on the lens 😊
I love that song!!
Wonderfull
So awesome to see this. Thank you for posting a nice variety of mainstream and non-mainstream artists!
Amazing......Thank you !
Our pleasure!
@@themidnightspecialtvshow Mine too ❤
... The Midnight Special... Que sonoridade instrumental estupenda pra época em que foi realizada... 🌠... Quanta magia, em um só palco... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎩... SHOW..!!
Uma das bandas Made In Netherlands mais icônicas do rock progressivo!
@@IgorCanavarro... Felizmente nesta época, brotava tesouro no mundo todo, inclusive na Holanda... 💎... Que demais..!!
More Focus please!
I would love to have the flutists shirt, what a beauty!
Outstanding performance. Underrated Focus
Fantastic!
Glad you like it!
Never knew they performed this song as well in addition to the famous Hocus Pocus performance! Thank you so much!
Fantastic band!
Jan Akkerman should be in the discussion of all time greats.
The best Dutch gitar player ever!
What a guitar solo!!!
Awesome!!!
They're like Jethro Tull but heavier.
Man, these guys are airtight.
Music genius s awesome band
The best prog rock ever.
Keith Emerson would have ran rings around all of these guys. Palmer too. Putting that aside. These guys are fantastic. Right behind ELP.
@@rman52 @rman52 hi  it all depends on what you mean by progressive rock. I really appreciate ELP but what we clearly notice unless we have cotton in our ears is that these guys I'm talking about from the focus group are much more complete technically and in the field of eclecticism and musicality than ELP. I speak as an instrumentalist when you add up the talents we are not in the same sphere. Besides they don't need to sing their instrument enough it's mainly instrumental music it only took them a few days to record the Focus 3 album there or other English bands in the same category as ELP took several weeks.
@@Klfmjgfg45 I love focus as musicians. But do you really think that any of them are better instrumentalists than Keith Emerson? Or in percussion than Carl Palmer? Really?
@rman52 I didn't use the term best it means everything and means nothing. I think that Pierre Van der linden who was inspired and studied by a drummer like budy rich and other great jazz drummers is indeed a unique drummer, he does not sound like any other. To come back to the term best, the best is not the one who is faster or more this or more that, it is the one who is good in each criterion and who has the best final mark, so that is why I have used the term complete in the focus group the guitarist and the keyboardist and flautist have classical training which is very important and the rest you can find out by listening to them as I said earlier I'm talking about complete I'm talking about eclecticism and musicality it's just an observation it's not that I think this or that and I loved pieces of ELP but I just noticed that that's all so I answer yes to your question about the drummer and of course the guitarist the keyboardist has a lot of talent I'm talking about that of ELP that of focus also in another genre let's say more harmonious and melodious and less demonstrative and the bass player of focus you can listen to him on a solo by Anonymous 2 studio I invite you to listen to his solos for example in Anonymous 2 studio version. They call it a studio album but you can see that it's pure delirium, a kind of improvisational jam more or less recorded in a very short time. I just wanted to tell you about this track and you can check now there are other examples of other totally different albums like hamburger concerto where the album focus 2. I repeat myself but in summary I think ELP is very good in what they do but they have fewer strings to their bow quite simply you have to listen to different albums for that to realize as I did. From what I've read and heard focus is the only band or one of the very few bands to have a standing ovation at the end of the song so the audience took notice of the live performance . @@rman52
@@Klfmjgfg45 I agree that Van der Linden is an amazing drummer. He reminds of Seraphine from Chicago. What always shocks me with him is he could be in the middle of some complex riff, and nonchalantly is directing things with the other guys as if he is not even playing. He is one incredible musician. They all are in focus. I have always appreciated how great they are. I wore out moving waves when I picked it up as a kid. I'll drop the ELP comparisons. No point. It's like comparing a Monet to a Renoir. Both great. Peace.
more than cool!😄
Could we have some Tubes next 🙏 please?
Why they didn't show Jan during the guitar solo baffles me.
The only thing I can think of is that they didn't want people to copy his guitar technique?
Back then the cameramen were always clueless about who was playing what and when...
I think the cameraman preferred to film a show of hands... 😂
His name is Thijs Van Leer.
Focus were clearly taking inspiration from Jethro Tull ...
It definitely had the "Tull vibe" in those flute portions...
Jethro Tull's flautist/frontman is self thaught , Thijs is trained and the band has more classical influences ( Jan Akkerman went on to do a Lute album )
Chester Live Rooms - right by the train station!
Date Saturday, 4th May, 2024
Doors 19:00
Saxondale .
Hey midnight special can you guys please upload the last johnny winter clip johnny b goode ❤
I hope we get “Anonymous’ performance
Very good rough protopunk version.
Slow down! 😜
Please upload Tubes "Tv is King" if you can, another underrated band
Jan Ackerman trying to piss the flautist off?
Is that Jethro Tull?
No, a band called Focus.
Sounds like Ian Anderson to me....
Pierre's Premier drumset has the UNUSUAL 9" x 14" Rack Tom! I had a Premier set of the Birch with Beechwood glue rings, and the 9x14 Tom had such a unique sound. Normally the 9" width was strictly for the 13 inch tom of all drum makers! And a 14 inch Tom would be 10 inch width!
At least the flutist didn't do that stupid looking Ian Anderson stance when playing. What's up with that anyway?
Maybe it's his way of trying to put on a show. He doesn't wear make up and costumes like Kiss does.
@@gregoryduncan3067 Or Alice Cooper, Todd Rungren, Peter Gabriel, Elton John. He should still try at least SOMETHING different. He has one move that's it. And he wore costumes too, unless he was really and time traveler from the middle ages.
...and at least he doesn't do that stupid annoying "woooo!" thing with his voice while playing the flute. So cheezy...a lil girl scream while blowing into a flute. Lame as hell.
@@65dougkand that move is legendary... And not his only thing... God save me from the musically clueless...🤦♂️
@@timhoovermusicman Your fictitious god isn't going to save you from anything.