Focus Hocus Pocus First Reaction
Вставка
- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- First time hearing Focus - Hocus Pocus reaction video
Thank You for watching!
Here is the link to Bisscute's channel go check her out @BisscuteReacts / bisscutereacts
#reaction #reactionvideo #focus #musicreactionchannel #musicreaction #firstreaction #hocuspocus #halloween #reactionchannel
If you would like to check out the original video here is the link • Focus - Hocus Pocus
If you would like to support the channel or request a video here is the link and Thank You!
cash.app/$MontysHour88
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS
drummer is slay'n it.
In his 70s now, but Pierre Van Der Linden can still kick ass with the best of 'em.
Focus was one of the most amazing and creative instrumental Rock band. And the '70 was the era of the best Rock ever
Good rock from my youth. 17 years behind the wheel of my 1969 Mach 1..wow what a great throwback.
It's a group that came from Holland.
Only artist to have had a standing ovation on the Midnight Special show. Every Saturday evening. What a great decade.
I once read an interview with guitarist Jan Akkerman and he said that that this song was born in a jam session and at one point, organist/vocalist Thijs Van Leer started yodelling - something he'd never done before. The rest of the band laughed but thought it sounded good and it fit the song, so they left it in.
First/only time a band got a standing ovation on that tv show. Every reaction to this song gets s like and subscribe from me so there you go.
This band is still touring by the way 😁
How many years was the show on for and when did it appear?
@@toddstevens13 From 1973 to May 1981.19/8/1972 Premiere. On Nbc
One of the many great Dutch bands in the seventies.
netherlands. jan akkerman was widely considered the best guitarist in the world at this time. by the way: it´s the only song were they´re yodeling 😎 it´s good to see somebody appreciate this musician´s masterclass.
No, Thijs yodels on the album "The Hamburger Concerto".
I enjoyed your reaction and your appreciation for talent that is different. It is always fun watching people react to them for the first time. This is actually a 7 or 8 minute song that they had to reduce to 4 and1/2 minutes for this show so they speeded it up rather than cut any out. This was one of the first progressive rock bands to become popular in the early 70's. They are from the Netherlands (same as Golden Earing). Guitarist, Jan Ackerman, was considered to be the greatest guitar player in the world at that time and was a favorite of Eddie Van Halen and Brian May. Vocalist, Thijs Van Leer, came from a family of accomplished classical music composers, piano players and flutists and was schooled and strongly influenced to continue that family tradition.
Akkerman
Earring
Jan Akkerman is stil playing,lissen to the song “Streetwalker”
you have to hear the Studio-Version to Understand how genius this one is......
Focus is still around This song came out of a jam session and the band loved it. Was a pretty big hit in the day great party song. That was a young Gladys Knight introducing them. They had to cut that song by 2 min they played it at double time. Jan Akkerman was a top guitarist in that time.
I love how every verse is just slightly faster than the previous...
Thanks for the reaction - it was refreshing.
Hell yeah. Slainte from tha Low Countries ! (The Netherlands) Jan Akkerman (the guy on the guitar) is probably our best guitarest ever.
My guess is Eddie Van Halen is on a lot of peoples lists for best guitarist from the Netherlands too.
That was the best band in the Netherlands that time,Jan Akkerman and Thijs van Leer.
The band Callt FOCUS
Thijs van Leer (keyboards, flute, vocals) and Jan Akkerman (lead guitar) both did solo classical albums. If you happen to like unusual songs like this, you might want to give a listen to Mammoth by another Dutch band called Kayak. It uses an instrument that was never used in another rock song.
Thijs is still touring. 74 years now.
Still got Pierre van der Linden on drums too ;-)
I remember reading the reason this is faster than the studio version is they were told they only had a short amount of time and would edit the song down. So they just played it in its entirety but faster!
Brian May of Queen said about Jan Akkerman the guitarist that he is one of the greats.
This is indeed the song as is....except for the fact they dramatically speed it up due to the limited time they were given on the USA TV channel.
Hello Monty
Your very welcome. I hope you have an amazing day too cutie.
We used to headbang to this in the rock clubs. You had to know the track well with all the stops and starts. Still love this track and this fast live version is excellent.
The album version is almost 7 minutes long but for this show they only had a certain amount of time to play so they sped up the pace to fit as much as they could.
They really didn't speed it up. They just shortened it. Most of the live versions, especially back then were amped up. Like most live versions of a lot of songs
@@Kgio-2112 Are you sure about that, because I read in an interview once that they did speed it up
@@Kgio-2112 They did go listen to the original its much slower. It's like 1.5 times the original tempo
@@Kgio-2112 They did. And a LOT.
"I think that's called yodelling.. are these guys from Australia?" 😂
Yodelling kangaroos with didgeridoos.
I wish you could hear the studio version, Besides the Awesome vocals the guitar solo is second to none.😊
WELCOME TO THE 70s!!! Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing that insanity in real time???
One of the best band in the Netherlands ever. But don't forget Brainbox! Also with Jan Akkerman.
It's bonkers , it brilliant one of the best guitar players in the world and makes everyone smile :-)
What you earing at 7:10 is not a saxophone but a guitar sound trick belong to a master of guitar Ian Akkerman
Dutch progressive rock with the at the time best guitar player worldwide Jan Akkerman.
They were told to cut it short, to fit into the final 5min slot, so they refused but said theyd play it faster, but then, not only did they play it WAY faster, they get faster each time around and ad lib and do extra stuff. They still did a 6:08 version, and the album version from 1971 was 6:45, but much slower. This is the shortened, edited version. The 6:08 version is out there, and many reactors have covered it, including vocal coaches such as TheCharismaticVoice and FairyVoiceMother, all of whom have an absolute field day with this.
I’ve never seen your channel but loved seeing your reaction to this! My dad loved this band when I was a toddler and used to play this song a lot, as a 2 year old I called it ‘chookies’ cos I must have thought the yodeling sounded like chickens😂😂😂 I visited my folks on the weekend and we cranked it up loud-both my daughters loved it! What’s not to love? Brilliant musicians, such great riffs and awesome drum solos😍 yes, I’m definitely a 70’s child☺️ greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
Give the studio version a shot. It's got the same wild ass vocals but a more focused guitar line.
They produced many great Prog instrumental albums. Check out some Renaissance.
Very popular song back in my youth !!
My understanding is that when Focus was to appear on Midnight special, they asked the band to cut their +7 minute song down to 4 minutes. not wanting to cut the song they just played it twice as fast as it's original album cut, After that they just played it at that speed all the time. They're Dutch BTW
You should listen to the studio version. They sped it up for this performance because they were allotted a shorter amount of time for the show than the length of the song, so instead of cutting it they played faster 😂
ROTFLMAO on your reaction to the reaction of this song! It's a classic and I love it...
Australia is Down under, Austria is jodeling country in the midle of Europa but the band is from Nederlands.
I heard for first time pretty much around 1974, when I was teenager; since I have on my mind that master piece, I had/have it on: L.P., cassette, C.D., (downloaded from Naspter, soory!!), bought on Apple iTunes, and now on my eternal play list (cloud, smartphone, my veins!!)
Napster
Yes they weren't back in the day! Had to dance too!
Great band.. Eruption from the same album Moving Waves is amazing
Music in the 70s was VERY experimental. Nothing boring need apply. You had everything from the Carpenters to Sabbath. There’s a Uriah Heep song from back then (The Magician’s Birthday) that has a kazoo in it. Nothing was off limits sonically.
good morning …Happy Easter Sir Montys❤️
The high screaming reminds me of home alone
Lead singer reminds me of Mel Gibson!!
Saw them last weekend still brilliant
His lungs were jumping around when he was doing that flute
They are Dutch. I was 13 when this went on midnight special. Don kirshners rock concert and in concert were great rock programs also on tv. I have a couple of focus album's. They called the vocals voices. One of the anthems of the 70s. You may want to do hibernation by Ted Nugent or journey to the Center of the mind by Amboy dukes with Ted on guitar.
Thanks Monty! Biscute listens to good music like Band-Maid a kickass all female rock band from Japan. "Domination" Live.
Focus is awesome!Genius!
Jodeling, right. From Netherlands/Holland
The band is indeed from the Netherlands, which is the exact opposite of an Alpine country in terms of terrain so not hitherto noted for yodelling.
I think you mean Austria with the Yodeling, not Australia. But they are Dutch. This is basicly how the song is but the album version was much longer and a bit slower, but the TV show wanted them to shorten it so it fit into the limited timeslot, so they just sped it up.
Great that you gave a shout out to an other reactor.
Definitely a live performance fit for reaction channels 🙂 it's a pretty out there song already in this arrangement but to play it this fast... amazing musicianship. Who needs regular vocals anyway ?
It's kind of like a Jinjer Pisces or Babymetal reaction. Except for Focus has a smaller and less active UA-cam fanbase. Bloodywood would be a good choice too.
Listened them
This is called progressive rock ( prog rock). An allmost lost art. However, there still is Ayreon, or Star One, both projects from the dutch composer/ multi instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen. If you like to look outside mainstream music, that would be a good place to look. Thanks for the react !!
My guess is most newer musicians choose prog. metal instead.
It's like that on the record.
Bisscute makes a lot of very perceptive comments and observations 👍👍👍👍👍
For some reason this clip itself has two versions; this is the shorter one. Only this year I found the other one (The fairy voice mother's YT-channel), with parts I had never heard.
Nice! Great reaction dude. Another multi-instrumentalist that can also sing his ass off (that white boy got THE BLUES) is Edgar Winter. Check out “Frankenstein” live instrumental and then check out live “Tobacco Road” with his brother Johnny on guitar. 🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼
Literally the comment I was about to make lol. Good call!
Interesting to know what Gladys said after
Yodeling was the results of the indigenous "Australians" getting hit in the back of the head by their own boomerang
That was the guitar during the flute solo, not the saxaphone. Focus didn’t have a saxophonist.
So it's like this. Have the 45, the studio Lp, and the live lp. They were really different and amazing. And it was a hit on the radio, too. Kind of as different as ELP.
They are from Holland!!!!
the funny thing about this is: this band is from Holland / Netherlands and this country has not one fuckin single mountain !
Most parts of the country a below sea level and yodeling belongs more to Bavaria.
The Netherlands are flat as a freakin salt lake.
So they better should go drag racing than yodeling :-)
Blimey mate, more pause than an 8 legged dog. 😂
You can still find this on some duke boxes here in the UK.
This was a single but their albums were incredible and a lot more sensible.
An amazing band. ✌️❤️🇬🇧
2014 van leer still has it
One of the all-time great songs, great reaction, I'd love to see you react to some Frank Zappa. A Reggae Improvisation In A Major, 1991 would be a good place as any to start.
Hey monty, if you enjoy early seventies bands try Emerson, lake and Palmer, fanfare for the common man live at Wembley stadium, there's no audience there which makes it surreal, and it's on a very cold morning! This was my first record to teach myself drums
My #1 band since I followed Greg when he left King Crimson and formed ELP. It as a good year. 😁
This is progresive rock....revolusan of mine 😈🤘🎸
Great reaction! Definitely talented musicians. If you could react to Brother Cane...."Got No Shame" it would be appreciated. Great band.
I believe that the singer's name Thiuse VanLear?
His name is Thijs van Leer…
This was when speed metal was invented,,, 8 min song played in 4
psycadelick time my friend good reaction
The band focus still performs , the vocalist , key board playing flutist madman Thijs van Leer is still with them .
They actualy started this song as a jam session . a bit of fun and the song lived its own life , it was even used during the 2010 worldcup comercials , and the movie Baby driver.
The Guitarist is Jan Akkerman at the time the first technical guitar player even brian may of queen was a big fan of him and tried to play the part in his early days and admited he failed on more than one occasion .
Thijs van leer him self even performed in the live version of Ayreon in to the electric castle as flute player.
A great band with just good music and no bad lyrics.
The band still has Pierre van der Linden on drums too.
I consider the 1970s the climax of musical evolution... nothing after reached the creativity of that time ever again, in the best case some tried to recreate it, more or less successfully.
This was a big hit single, not a one-off concert piece.
The guys are from the netherlands: The studio version is somewhat slower - there is a story to this version: The band was told in the TV studio that the song was too long and they ´d had to shorten it .... Jan Akkerman said: hold my beer .....😂they made the song fit into the given timeframe .......
Australia??? LMAO....yodeling originated with the peoples of the Swiss Alps and Austrian Tyrol. And WAY before any Europeans made it to Australia.😏
Think it's the keep the car running late night TV ..Be on the way out soon mix.. .
Progressive rock
they had a fixed time slot and does not want to shorten it, so the high speed :)
Check out Frankenstein by Edgar winter group
You just don't hear this one enough, any more
Gladys Knight hosting
9:23 Japanese subtitled. What was she saying?
'Are these guys from Australia'? lol Might you mean 'Austria' ? No, they're Dutch.
@ 3:30 though, first time I chuckled today.
Though I do enjoy this recording, I would recommend also looking into the original version. The pacing is so fast on this one that they lose some of the flow of the music at the beginning.
It was so fast because the time slot allocated as 90 seconds shorter then the record so they went fuck it lets do it fast
They were quite stoned...........
Play led zeppelin
Whole Lotta love
If you haven't done Frankenstein by Edgar Winter group it's Gotta Be next!!!!!
Dutch
I know that I totally butchered the spelling of the singer's name!!!!
They are Dutch.
01:47 I born 1970.
Australia? You mean Austria? They are Dutch.
What song is basically an instrumental
Holland
It was odd back then but it rocked so meh.
You look like him
1970 Sweet Child in Time band Deep purple. A more serious song but I guarantee a strong reaction. Its a musical masterpiece. ua-cam.com/video/OorZcOzNcgE/v-deo.html