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Iam from the Netherlands,Iam 65 years old and they were my favoriet at that time,allso the band Golden earing was a great band that time.The gituarplayer is Jan Akkerman and was the best player of the World.
Brian May from Queen had Jan Akkerman as master that time
Hey Sjoerd awesome info thanks for sharing!! Much love!!😊❤️
@@OffTapLife Jan Akkerman is still playing,lissen to the song “Streetwalker”,from the Jan Akkerman band
Only Full Standing Ovation in the history of The Midnight Special.
This was on the Midnight Special, and was originally too long for the time slot, so the band had to really speed it up, hence the frantic nature. The audience knew the song and appreciated how the band executed the sped-up song, and they gave it a standing ovation.
Best and most honest reaction to Hocus Pocus (and I watched them all on YT), thnx 🙂
Yes, it's a flute
Mr Thijs van Leer graduated in piano & flute, vocals are a bonus
In 1973 I was 13 years old when I heard this for the first time (studio version) and since then Focus has been one of my favorite bands.
greetings from Croatia 🙂
Thijs van Leer is really genius, well the whole band was the reason i start loving prog. music
Of many reactions you are the first to really understand how good and tallented the guys are.
amen
Watched this in 73 while in high school. We never missed the midnight special, but this performance was talked about at school for awhile lol. Loved your reaction! Peace from Michigan!
Yes, this is my youth! Loved it! Saw them live! So incredible good. I’m Dutch!
When did you see them live? I saw them twice, in 2014 & 2018.
Elias Veine Wiig , it must be early seventies.....
the look on your face is priceless
Yes, he is yodeling. And yes, he is playing the flute.
I saw this when it 1st aired in 73', I was 16. Super talented group & totally unforgettable.
Great Reaction.
Sylvia was another hit and "Love Remembered" takes you into the heart of the desert if you listen to it, in isolation, in silence and in the dark:)
I saw this Group Live in this very year of 1973 in South East London with 3,000 others...
Love your reaction! The audience was not allowed to stand, but they did for the first time in Midnight Special.
For those of us lucky enough to live in that era, imaging cruising in your car, having a good FM station and Hocus Pocus came on - It was like the Wayne’s World - Bohemian Rhapsody clip, only 20 years earlier.
Wow Mark that would have been cool!😊❤
Yes have been waiting for this one ! Thank you Gerald and Faith :)
Best reaction to this song, honestly. In awe, amused, to the point. I'm Dutch, just old enough to experienced this in its time. (I was born in 1960).
I had to laugh out loud when you suggested that Gladys maybe did the Hocus Pocus with one of the band members😄
You've earned yourself a new subscriber.😘
I was 4 in 73, parents did play this. Love this faster version, grew up with punk 😜
Great reaction, sub and like from me, love from the low lands
Big fan of Focus
It's sad that the video had to reach 10,000,000 views for everyone to start commenting and this is just a "joke" by Focus, Anonymous 2 is serious business
greetings from Croatia
Hahahaha...yup, this was our childhood.
Jan Akkerman the lead guitarist of Focus. Is called the first technical rock guitar player in the universe..
By Brian May of Queen..
This was a show called The Midnight Special. Focus chose this song because it was their 1st time performing in front of an American audience and they didn't have any English songs. The studio version is considerably longer but they were given a time schedule to fit. No problem, they played the whole song, they just played it faster to fit the time constraint.
If you liked this, try the live version of “Frankenstein” by the Edgar Winter Group!
Huge fan of Prog Rock. This performance was a classic. Given a 4 min time slot they refused to cut the track short. Originally a 7 min track. By speeding up the track proves what amazing musicians they are
I've seen Focus many times live! Thijs van Leer on organ and flute, Jan Akkerman on guitar (He was chosen as best guitarist in 1973), Pierre van der Linden on drums, Bert Ruiter on bass guitar). Other numbers: House of the King; Sylvia.
I am blessed, I grew up with this. 😎
I guess all Dutch people over 50 know Focus.
Thijs van leer (pronounced thais fan laer) is a classical trained musician specializing on the flute.
His father was a flute player as well.
A couple of the best musicians form a group and you get this.
To hear more flute, listen to house of the king
Mind Blown. Success.
Van Leer explained that modern music was something of a distraction and he wanted his music to be an antidote to that by helping people to 'focus' on their issues
No words for this
Well 4
From 1983 to 1994 I was DJ in a rock/hardrock bar. I had to play this song at least once a night (the slower album version, though).
Haha, being a teenager in the Netherlands in the early 70's was quite the ride. Saw them live a couple of times. They cemented my love for music. Lovely reaction, thanks for the chance to reminisce! Saw the guitarplayer perform as a special guest with a Pink Floyd tribute band on my hometown's marketsquare in the 90's. Just EPIC! Complete with PF's giant inflatable pig which worked perfectly with the weed. LOL!
This is my childhood too i have seen them perform when i was teen. Look at Jan akkerman how he plays his guitar
Thx! Yes, Gladys Knight is top shelf! Up there with Aretha and Dionne and Diana! It can’t get no more up! First time I heard this it was on the radio in the car an after laughing went straight to the record store! -Terry, Canoga Park
This is my childhood yes 👍🤣
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The Midnight Special had Guest Musican's act as MC for the night, and everyone seemed to want to do it. Nothing like doing a 7 Minute song in its entirety in 4 Minutes.
Was lucky enough to see them live TWICE in '73 & '74 ! UNREAL ! You should try reacting to SYLVIA or HOUSE OF THE KING
50 years ago.
Lets rock.
This was the very first 45 record I bought when I was a kid. Yes that's a flute....and Gladys Knight and the Pip were the top, top billing for a few years
I watched that and every Friday Night Special. Except serving overseas. No TV where we slaved. All Smoke was illegal then. lol.
While the presenter was talking about Gladys Knight was anyone else thinking "Wait for it! Just wait for it!"????
I think you are thinking of The Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter. This is not that. But THIS IS PHENOMENAL! Jan Akkerman, lead guitarist of Focus, was voted in joint first place as the greatest guitar player in the world in 1973. He could wipe the floor with every other guitarist of that time, and probably still could today. Brian May adores this guitarist. I do too. He is really special. But let us not detract from all the other band members who are equally superlative. Note how every guy in the group is allowed to shine. I like that. We hear them all.
To understand this song think on this: take four superlative musicians and tell them to have fun. That is what Focus did. This song is normally 7 minutes long, but Focus only had about 4 minutes on The Midnight Special. So, instead of cutting their song short, they played it at nearly double time. GENIUS!
Yes, Thijs van Leer is yodeling. But this is almost operatic yodeling. Ever tried that? It is not easy. Yes that is a flute, but Thijs is not just playing the flute, he is almost yodeling through it. Creative and magical.
This song is on a similar level to Green Onions by Booker T and the MG's. Both songs are not about words.....they are about how the music makes you feel. Hocus Pocus....FUN & ENERGY! Green Onions.....COOL! And so on.
BEST SONG EVER !!!
I am old.Focus was the last.
Brainbox that is the real thing.
I grew up with this fantastic music. I saw them a few times play live! Greetings from Holland! :)
I envy you 🙂
along with ELP, Van der graaf Generator, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, I really loved (and still love) Focus
greetings from Croatia
Yep 70's
the whitney houston "thing" wasn´t gladys knight ... but dionne warwick :-)
Yep. Whitney's aunt.
This came out when I was a freshman in high school.They were Mad genius that did MAD.....together....mad genius TALENT.... gone MAD!
Gladys Knight en her Pips family was mega famous in Netherlands as well
Fukken nobody is ready for the flute solo
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my dad showed me that video and man it made me laugh so much i love it
I am Dutch as well and my whole life a fan of Jan Akkerman, which is the guitarplayer in Focus. Bert Ruiter is on bas, Thijs van Leer vocals/organ/flute and the drummer is Pierre van der Linden. If you think this is mad drumming from him you should listen to Anonymous II, which is on the album Focus III. This song lasts for more than 26 minutes and each member of the band plys a solo in it, at the end Pierre van der Linden does his drumsolo, with a simple drumkit, like you saw in the video here, but it will blow your mind, even professional drummers still try to figure out how the hell he did that drumsolo (btw, the can find it on the internet under Anonymous II by Focus). Thumbs up from the Netherlands!
You can find Anonymous II from Focus on You Tube.
Watch the remake of RoboCop. This is in it, but it is the studio version. That is ace. But this on another level. I'm sure you have heard the story that the producers wanted Focus to chop a couple of minutes off the song so to play out the programme. Focus decided instead to play the song a twice the speed. Legends.
this song always makes me laugh and sing along with it
From my teen years, most of us were captivated by ythe band particularly Jan Aakerman the best prog 16:03 rock guitarist of his era or all time
Amazing Focus! All i can say is....WOW!!!!
This was definitely my childhood
Talent was required back then!!!!!!
Yes, this was my younger years. This song was about 7 minutes long BUT the TV show only allotted 4 minutes to each act. Rather than cut the song they just played faster. Imagine that!
was 15 then. flute, yodeling. never saw but great listen. Welcome to the 70's when talent was allowed to flow and not repressed.
Fyi, the one that "had something" in connection with Whitney Houston was her aunt, singer Dionne Warwick :-))
I was 17 when this came out and progressive rock was not invented yet...these guys from Amsterdam were amazing (still are)...been around since the 60s...tried to play it for my dad and he asked me to never play it again. I wore the record out in my room!
I found out of them on the radio in 2010. I have seen them live in 2014 and 2018.
I grew up to this TO BE SURE......👍
This was a bit before my time. I was born in 1967. My parents did not shape my musical taste, so I discovered music on my own. Music like this, Queen, Pink Floyd, The Who. Lots of late 60s-70s bands. If I was influenced by my parents, I'd be stuck on Barry Manilow.
Yikes! You kinda had to be dragged kicking & screaming into appreciating something new (instead of dismissing it as something you thought you already knew, I guess), but it was fun to see you get aboard! 🙂
Early seventies, there were two major Dutch bands, sort of being labeled under prog rock, that were very good. One was Focus, with Jan Akkerman at one point in 1973 being voted best guitarplayer of the world by UK music magazine Melody Maker (so take that Eric Clapton!), the other was a band called Ekseption, who did a lot of adaptations of classical music, especially had a brilliant keyboard player with Rick van der Linden. I guess they were more close to prog rock while Focus mixed it up more towards the rock side of things (but had many influences from classical music and jazz even)
They were very big in Holland, but only Focus had a bit of exposure outside the country and had two relative hits with Hocus Pocus and the song called Sylvia, which is much more mellow, but has a beautiful guitar melody line.
Dutch always had some pretty good bands in general and guitar players in particular, like George Kooymans of The Golden Earring, you may know their international hit song Radar Love.
Anyway, some context, glad you enjoyed it, first reactions to this particular song and even more so this particular performance is always a joy to see people jaw dropped responses.
And yeah, that was a flute, more specifically a traverso.
Just joined and had to make a comment...yes I grew up with tnis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Cream, The latters, and more. Welcome to music that can change your life and point of view......
This is what you get when you are given five minutes to do an almost eight minute song.
I have not read all the comments, but I think the some may have been “Zombie” by the cranberries
"Is this your childhood?" Yes, of course. AM radio. :)
I know Gladys Knight
Since you have now seen greatness, you will want more, and there is only one place to go. The LIVE version of Frankenstein by Edgar Winter Group, where Edgar plays every instrument imaginable during the song. It is the Brother from another Mother in to this version of Hocus Pocus.
Haha dutch prog rock ..i grew up with this
Best period and country to live in. Boy, things have changed...
I was almost 12 back then
You drone on and on
5 minute discussion is it this band? No? Or the other? Yodeling. Ha
You made my day. Ty
If. You want a focused audience then look no further than Pink Floyd - ComfortablyNumb from the 1994 PULSE concert... absolutely mind blowing! Much love from the far north of New Zealand h❤️
Movie Baby Driver 2017
Speed rock was born on 1973,,,,,
jon Farnham the voice was the song you were thinking of i think
You should listen to the original song from the album
You should hear hocus pocus video De Mark 1975
I saw that version before but I forgot how great it is.
@@scottgelb2650 Jan Akkerman great technical guitarrist
Gladys was the host.
Its a bit funny but actualy the muppetshow introduced a lot of great artist to children , gladys was also a guest on that show.
Try some King Crimson, 21st Century Schizoid man as sampled by Kanye West
Baby, please look for FRANK ZAPPA!!!!
TIED TO THE WHIPPING POST,
AND THEN HE HAS OVER 1000 OTHER SONGS..... JAZZ, ROCK PROGRESSIVE, EVERYTHING!!!!!!
1973 psycadelik time good reaction
Is this where the muppet show got "animal" from?
Animal was actually modeled after Keith Moon from The Who 😁
Pure fun
how many times will you pause the video that is bearable
She likes to hear herself talk
How many times are you watching a video where people pause and react that is bearable?
You. Should try some gangster grass
You mean the band Gangstagrass? Love them, great mix of genres of blue grass and rap and damn, it works!!! Discovered them from tv show Justified theme song
the reason for all the non word stuff.. they can't speak english.. :P
you talk too much
This is pure madnes....i like that 😈🤘🎸