Gotta give anyone who can still yodel after 50 years props for taking care of their voice.

@rosscraig6859

2 жыл бұрын

He's miming!! Guitar's excruciating in places. Sometimes you should just.......retire!!

@iTRonTHS

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosscraig6859 He was actually yodeling, moron. Yes the guitarist did do lead in places, but that doesn't mean the lead vocalist was miming. Why don't you make a KZread video to show us how to do it if you think it's so easy?

@mattgarratt5014

2 жыл бұрын

@@iTRonTHS I saw him in 2018 on CTTE, MF can yodel like no one else! Great personality, hung out with us lowly passengers. Definitely a highlight.

@Headwind-1

2 жыл бұрын

@@iTRonTHS of course hi da man . . .

@studa68

2 жыл бұрын

That’s the exact reason I checked out the vid! Lol! Wanted to know if he still had it!

What a tragedy ... that the entertainment industry no longer has the guts to release music like this. Long live Focus!

@biggusdickus1689

13 күн бұрын

Good thing musicians and audiences no longer need the industry to release and listen to great music anymore.

No guitarist will ever take original FOCUS guitarist Jan Akkerman's place but of all the guitar players that have filled the guitar spot in FOCUS since his departure Menno Gootjes gets my thumbs up as the best. He is NOT trying to be Jan Akkerman, he is his own guitarist and brings his own style while keeping the essence of the original Focus songs alive. I think he is a amazing guitar player in every aspect.

@russellzauner

2 жыл бұрын

i bet this guy can't even tune a lute lol

@Rumtoad1

2 жыл бұрын

@@russellzauner lol, how important lol

@szrnkabela

2 жыл бұрын

That's a very stripped down guitar part which doesnt make me happy at all.

@aghist2154

6 ай бұрын

I think that the guitar player is the wick part in this live. Many many mistakes.

@SocialSpit

6 ай бұрын

That not Jan Akkerman? Some of his leads sound like Jan and the tone of his guitar is the right tone... I heard the guitar fukkups, but honestly Jan was kind of loose when I saw them 40 or so years ago

That drummer will always be incredible. Still amazing 50 years on, like everyone in the banc

@melancholiac

6 ай бұрын

From memory ....Thijs Van Leer?

@julianvera9063

6 ай бұрын

@@melancholiac that's the singer ;)

@melancholiac

6 ай бұрын

@@julianvera9063 Duh! Brain ain't what it used to be. 😢😢

@thatfeeble-mindedboy

6 ай бұрын

I used to run my turntable down to 16 RPM and listen to those breaks at half speed, thinking I might be able to learn how to do what he’s doing… It just made it worse… The closer I looked, the more impossible it became … same thing happened when I was trying to figure out what Carl Palmer was doing on Karn Evil 9… it’s like fractals, or computer code for a recursive function…

@melancholiac

6 ай бұрын

Fractal? Recursive? What a brilliant analogy! Not heard music described like that but it's spot on.

One of the craziest songs ever, that stood the test of time…. love it !

Pierre Van Der Linden!!! My freaking god!! He is like fine wine! Gets more awesome and awesome with age. He is a killer drummer!

@rikuberndtson9246

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, love his agressive but jazzy Playing!!🥰🥰🥰

@chiguaguaverde

2 жыл бұрын

Y fíjate en el detalle de la manera en que toma la baqueta en su mano izquierda.... es la toma tradicional, que también usó C Wats... Ya se ve poco esto en el rock!!!! Tuve el vinilo en LP, y hacia mas de 30 años que no escuchaba esto.

@flstffatboy3910

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah perfect flawless job

@aloysiussnailchaser272

9 ай бұрын

@@chiguaguaverdeDoes it really matter how he holds the left hand drumstick? As far as I know it’s pure tradition from the days when drummers played on horseback. There’s no reason why it would make his playing any better or worse.

@aschule5684

7 ай бұрын

Great to see him still with Thijs, He's a great drummer! Jan Akkerman is still active also I wonder why he's not with these guys??? I really hope it's not for a bad reason like "bad blood" with someone 😔

I didn't even know the band still existed. Great to hear that classic played live.

@Latexhandske

2 жыл бұрын

They will always exist! Take Mr.van Gogh - he´s still around!

@yunarukami14

2 жыл бұрын

@@Latexhandske This killed me.

@Latexhandske

2 жыл бұрын

@@yunarukami14 I hope in a pleasent way.

@yunarukami14

2 жыл бұрын

@@Latexhandske Gave me pleasure

@Polyphemus47

2 жыл бұрын

@@yunarukami14 I'm dead now, too.

How can you not love this song? It rocks has yodeling, a little Popeye scat, and is just a Classic!

@gss2855

2 жыл бұрын

Love this song. . ...

@jimbosteen2935

2 жыл бұрын

I fn do!!!!!!,probably the senseless song ever, I'd rather hear zappa i think, thats brilliantly annoying

@paulhayward62

2 жыл бұрын

Pre-Speed Metal with yodeling !

@kooringagnd

6 ай бұрын

After all these years the band still smile when he yodels and sings scat.😄😄😄

@michaelbolton2741

Ай бұрын

"Popeye scat!" Love this! 😆

This song was killer in the early 70’s and it still is….👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❄️🌞🌜 All hope is not lost in this world if Focus is still playing. Made my day!

One of the most significant pieces of "Rock Art Songs" of all time, thank you brothers so very much, God Bless !!!

When I was a young kid growing up in the '70s and this or Golden Earring's 'Radar Love' came on, I would get so excited. The Dutch know how to rock AND Prog! Thanks for posting!

This song was important in the 70's. It's brings memories.

One of the best and most beautiful drum solos ever recorded is on the focus album moving waves. Pierre Van der linden executes the solo with such warmth and soul and sheer musical talent that it simply inspires.

Pierre Van Der Linden, what an awesome drummer, still got the chops. That song never gets old.

@al81yoo

Жыл бұрын

Incredible

@derhkist

Ай бұрын

At that point in time he was 75-76 years old according to wikipedia. Simply incredible.

A half a century later and still AMAZING. I was around 10 or 11 when this song got released in the U.S. It was one of those tunes that got a lot of airplay on top 40 and deservedly so. You just couldn't wait until your favorite radio station played it again even though they played it over and over. This song is one of many examples why the early 70's were the BEST era of top 40.

So glad these guys are back touring again, they're still on my bucket list.

This song was a staple on Rock and Roll radio in the 70's.Back then Bands were Bands!

@nocash669

2 жыл бұрын

oh did bands suddenly disappear when boomers lost their souls or what?

@Meansnare

2 жыл бұрын

Bands are still bands, in-fact seeing as this generation has stood on the shoulders of giants and learned the masterpieces of your generation as their beginner practice songs, as well as being in my mid 30s and having first hand experience of performing in bands for over half my life, playing at professional levels that would dwarf most musicians from your generation back in the day. I can safely say that you have no idea what you are taking about.

I’ve always loved this song. I was not expecting this - they are freakin amazing still

Boy this tune ..I recall hearing back in the 70's it was magical and still is!

@TheSamsdad25

2 жыл бұрын

I just don't get it

@dennisyoung4631

2 жыл бұрын

KMET, high school, kitchen table, PCB art work. 1977 - I think. (I was handicapped, so no drugs. Too dangerous for someone like me. I needed to have what little (social) smarts I had.)

@keithschneidly3922

2 жыл бұрын

From the album Hocus Pocus by Focus.

@keithschneidly3922

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSamsdad25 It was European hard rock when the only thing hard out of Europe was Krafftwerk. ( I liked Krafftwerk but it wasn't really hard rock)

@danielpassigmailcom

7 ай бұрын

@@TheSamsdad25 Their live versions of this in the 70's were phenomenal

One of the first songs to draw me into the incredible world of progressive rock. Loved seeing Focus on the Cruise to the Edge cruises!

Good to hear and see them again, especially the original twosome, Thijs van Leer and Pierre van der Linden ( he still gets some chops)

Saw them a few times back in the 70s and they always were one of my favourite bands. Pierre always was a top drummer and he still is!

Who the hell would dislike this?

The guitar and drum chops make this song incredible but when you throw in the yodeling, keyboards and cool ass flute part. Wow, still amazing after all these years.

@josepaltarriba5436

2 жыл бұрын

Un temazo. Todos los instrumentos y la voz están geniales 👍🎶🎤🎸🎧

@glenchapman3899

2 жыл бұрын

An interview I saw, all the band knew they had something special the first time the guitarist ran through that signature riff.

@icemike874

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the bass , he's a Beast

What about that! Brings back some great memories. Glad they are still performing and still sound great.

Saw thrm in '74. Outstanding concert. Opened for Santana. An hour into Santana's show, people were sleeping. Thys van Leer has written some of the most beautiful music I've heard

Holy moly! Had no idea these guys are still kicking it! Great to hear!

Ouvi essa banda, pela primeira vez, na década de 70. É emocionante reencontrá-la após longos anos. Eles continuam ótimos. Saudações do Brasil.

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club in Canada and in 1973 they sent me Moving Waves,which was their first album.I used to crank this song at some of my parties along with Slade Alive.

@FocusVideoArchive

2 жыл бұрын

Moving Waves was their second album!

@lawrencejohanson5178

2 жыл бұрын

@@FocusVideoArchive Not according to Billboard.Moving Waves came out on Jan 1st of 1973.It peaked at No 8 on the Billboard charts.There is no record of any albums before January of 1973 unless they had an uncharted album.

@Vinterfrid

2 жыл бұрын

@@lawrencejohanson5178 What do you mean by "uncharted album"? An album is an album, whether it's on the charts or not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_discography

As much as I liked hearing it on the radio in the 70's, it's even better to see it. There's a clip on KZread (Midnight Special I think) with a lot of close-ups of Thijs. To see his wild expressions it shows how much fun he was having. Not to mention watching Jan Ackerman shred. I do agree with many posters that it's a shame most only know this song. Personally, Sylvia has always been my favorite. It was true with many prog bands: the casual fan knows only a song or two, but the true fan knows the whole breadth of the band. Look at Yes-many fans think they started with Going For The One (although they'd probably recognize Roundabout) And I shed a tear for Genesis fans that only know the pop Invisible Touch era, and have never heard Supper's Ready or Carpet Crawlers.

Love the Hammond organ lead in. He is a legend!

@marionodom9585

7 ай бұрын

Love a Hammond organ PERIOD!

I listened to this on 8 track when I was a kid. Found it to be one of the most mind blowing experiences of my youth!! Still do actually!!

Oh wow, I'm so grateful this showed up on my KZread feed! I'm old enough to remember when this song came out, and it remains one of my all-time favorite songs. It's just too much fun! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

An absolute classic.

I love this song since the first time I heard it back in the early 70's ! I still crank it up when ever it comes on the radio IMO it was one of the first Heavy Metal guitar shredding leads, I ever heard. and it still stands up to this day. A testament to this awesome bands incredible musicality. I 'm so happy this video showed up on my youtube

There are only a few songs I can remember hearing for the first time 50 years ago. This is one of them.

Awesome drumming yodeling and playing♥️🎶🥁 These guys have been around for so many years and Never forgotten. A+ RESPECT ♥️🎶🥁🎙🎶🎵🎼💞

Privileged to have seen Focus twice, in smallish venues, fantastic. I never thought I would ever get to see them live. So grateful they graced my part of the world with their magic. Keep rocking.

@michaelrobshaw4345

2 жыл бұрын

saw them in Coventry when I was a student in the early 70's-great band/musicians

This is soo very good! Love to see this Band still going strong and playing a great show!

Classic and influential! Growing up in NY and NJ, this song was a staple on NYC rock stations! Jan Akkerman was considered a 'guitar god' back in the day!

@alexroberts9349

2 жыл бұрын

It was a staple on Los Angeles FM ROCK stations as well.

@ogrebattle22763

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed in fact I was so into him I bought his solo album "Profile" & played it into the ground.... I was so lucky to find another copy in mint condition at some vinyl records store down at Bleecker street in NYC.... a few years back...

@johnlattimer350

2 жыл бұрын

Jan still is to us who are still playing. ;) I know of a bar in a small town in between Cleveland and Youngstown that still has the 45 on the juke box and it gets played a lot! ;D Best tour de force of yodeling prog I've ever heard!!!

@AudiophileTubes

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnlattimer350 Nice! I'm now living near Westlake. Where is this bar?

@alexroberts9349

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnlattimer350 I live in the SAN FERNANDO VALLEY suburb of LA and there is a bar where the Hells Angels hang out and the juke box contains the 45. It has been on the bars juke box rinse at least 1987.

I had their album, moving waves in 1973 at age 19, still rocks !

@outsider2222

2 жыл бұрын

me too

@dan71559

2 жыл бұрын

Me too I wore this album out. So love this tune.

@michaelwagner8859

6 ай бұрын

Me three...😊 Loved that album.

"The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost" (van Leer yodeling after all this years!!!)

@ronnieshaw7394

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was astonished 😀. Absolutely brilliant.

@trevorpringle1480

2 жыл бұрын

Ótimo

La escuchaba cuando era un joven en un ford facón 1968 nunca creí que la volvería a ver es increíble......

Having fun watching this for the first time and its cool

Such a classic hard rock tune…. Never gets old….

What an awesome band they were and still are. Amazing

First comment in years...music doesn't die.. The world, meanwhile...

I love when they did the midnight special in like 73. Upped the tempo to fit in the time slot. And my man hit some inhumanly high notes. Those people got their faces melted off that night.

I freakin loved that tune when I was a kid!

Love it or hate it ya gotta admit it was 1 of the most original songs ever 2 get on the radio then and now. Even within the realm of prog it was pretty unique.

50 years! Fantastic band. Wow!

Happy birthday Thijs... Many happy returns of the day, born this day 31st March back in 1948...may you have many, many more birthdays...was lucky to see you perform live at our hotel in Dubai late 90's...you wrote me with your own hands your Dutch address which is my prized possession 😉 would love to see you live once again...do come and perform in India... Till then keep yodelling Thijs... God bless you and Focus🎶🎵☮️❤🇮🇳

I remember when this song came out. 187 BPM - whoa!! Im over 60 now and still listen to this song a few times a week with coffee and a spliff before work. This song and John Mayall Room To Move make a great pair! Thanks for posting this 👍

A forgotten early influence and contribution to metal guitar with those memorable solos and chorus.

Wow, I wish I was at this show! Thijs van Leer can still yodel very well 50 years later.

If ur a teen in the 70s. This is legendary. Long live rocknroll

Top 10 All-time Greatest Tracks......🙏

Still kickin ass! Featuring a fantastic Akkerman understudy! Drummer still has the chops and more.

The guitarist they had a few years back was insane. Glad have the DVD of that concert...

Very happy to see them.

J’avais 15 ans quand j’ai écouté Focus la première fois, aujourd’hui 67 ans toujours autant de plaisir à l’écouter… 😊

@Thomas-nz8lr

7 ай бұрын

Me. too

I was lucky enough to be able to attend this concert. They were fantastic!

@fredshepard1550

2 жыл бұрын

Where is this place?

@capebuatid

2 жыл бұрын

was it suddenly rain ? damn feel sorry for that hammond

Great song. The drummer stil plays very well.

Lived in cologne for half a year in 2005, found a guy from Tennessee playing on the street and took lessons from him. Taught me this tune. 👍👍

It's great to see Focus are still performing after all these years!, he never did the whistling bit though!

@mmmuscraft5558

2 жыл бұрын

ha! whistlig has ben so used and misused latterly, it's all f.cking around! may be he should have done it to show how it must be done...

Man , this is going back always!! Haven't heard Focus since the seventies .Hocus Pocus was the first Rock record I ever bought . Yep Jan Akkerman , legendary guitarist for sure.

@gordantomislav8055

2 жыл бұрын

no Akkerman here

@rodgreen6021

2 жыл бұрын

@@gordantomislav8055 Noted

OMG! What an experience that had to be seeing them live now. I'm jealous.

Still amazing after all these years!

I was lucky enough to see these guys in their prime, 1974 up in Michigan...Suzi Quattro was first, then Focus, then the headliner, Aerosmith. What a concert that was! I was 17 at the time. Tickets were about $7.00

@alankalaf2743

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, I was also at that show. What a great band.

@bencurti7693

2 жыл бұрын

@@alankalaf2743 Jan Akkerman - certainly one of the all time underrated guitarists!!

@ Roberto and positive others: I fully agree! Focus had pivotal influence on my and my co-musicians' evolution in the 1970s. In Sweden, we miss Björn J:son Lindh [dead 2013; who's played, for example, with Janne Schaffer and Chess' (Ulvaeus & Andersson) One night in Bangkok]. So happy to see Thijs live and thriving!

Absolutely fantastic !! I was hoping to see them live at The Northern Kin Festival this year but as I won't be able to make it this has more than made up for it. My favourite piece of rock music ever written . Loved it on original release in early 1970s and love it still. It's on my motivation playlist and is played every day , sometimes more than once 😀😀. Thanks for sharing this.

Cooles! I'm a huge fan for years!

I was time traveling and jumped to a live performance with this band back in 72, the guitarist was cool, he had licks way ahead of popular music then. Wish i could go back, but i have to use the power for good now. Great to see we both made it from 72, maybe I'll be back again, good luck guys, and it was a great show again, 5 decades, so fresh in my mind, still have a vox vibro pedal from the show, sorry i needed it for something in another time.

These Gentlemen Still know how to Rock 👍... A masterpiece of music history

Dutch guys ,.... I am your fun, since I could hear you for the first time, a very long time ago in Polish Radio III, when I was living in the communist Poland that time !!!! It is nice to see and to hear from you after a while. :o) CONGRATULATION !!!! You are in great music condition in 2021, especially your drummer !!!! This time ... greetings from Canada to Holland !!!!! Stay tuned together forever !!!!!

What a talented group of guys man

What FUN!!! Four very talented musicians! Excellent!!! Thanks!

I never listened to the band live. One acquaintance of mine from Netherlands said they were too weird. I wonder why that feeling still holds me 🤔 I'm 56. Happy birthday. Greetings from Belgrade

@manuman27

2 жыл бұрын

Never weird..just F***king brilliant. Seen Them live in the 70s and again about 2017 have their albums.

Unbeleivable!!Great to see! Please tour in the US!

I saw a show in Limeira, Sao Paulo - Brazil with these guys. So strong, so full of musicality , so energizing that is impossible to forget. Long life to Focus

Thank you for the great personal concert, one of my favorite son eggs from a great band of musicians!

Beautiful, Makes me smile.

When I was a little Kid, I use to go to my friends house & we would attempt to do magic shows, & he would always play this 45 single & his old school record player, while doing the magic... awesome to hear this after all these Years... your never to Old to Rock...

@maxt7564

2 жыл бұрын

That's Rock n Roll. Wish I had thought of that when I was a kid.

@dangerousd9187

2 жыл бұрын

Cool when I was a kid I was skipping school & listening to this in the local pool hall which was a couple of blocks Away from my school

Great Focus music...ever. Thanks so much for share...Great memories...

I saw Focus at Edmonton Sundown in London on Jan 12, 1973. I remember sitting on the floor close to the stage until everybody got up and started dancing. I have lived about 1 km from there since 1998 but what had been a theatre/cinema, the Regal Theatre, since 1934, only lasted lasted about three years as a rock venue (1972-74) and since the '90s it has been split between a UCKG church and a Lidl supermarket.

How does he remember all those lyrics?

You guys still rock!

Wow...Still Awesome yes they are.. after all these years, they're still alive & kicking..More power to u guys, Focus. Keep on Yodeling & Rockin'.. God bless u all..

Wow~ 이게 얼마만에 듣는 호커스 포커스냐~~~ㄱㅅㄱㅅ 잘들었음니다.

IDK but when I first heard this crazy song back in the early 70s, my mind was blown. Yodeling with crushing guitar and sizzling solos? Who'd of thunk those would have meshed together so well? LoL

@timorean320

2 жыл бұрын

Dont forget the "Popeye Scat", so many cool aspects, that's what makes great songs!

Genial, un clásico de mi juventud...que placer...!!!!

What an amazing venue... AND show!!!

Been one of my all time favorite songs ever since I first heard it over 40 years ago. Seeing these musical talents still jamming it out makes this Dutch drummer a happy boy.

Glad for the overhead view of the stage , started thinking this was a film shown at a theater , , This is awesome seeing these guys around after 50+ years , , I do remember when Focus first came out with Hocus Pokus , that was awesome for myself back then , , ,

This is so great,my favorite prog band is back!!!

The band, even with changes, still rocks.

@ianwilkinson4602

2 жыл бұрын

The music helps :-)

Amazing! Brings back memories.

Saw them live in Liverpool in 74 ish ….seriously how can he still be yodelling 👏👏👏👏

They still have fire!! Wonderfull!!!