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!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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! ua-cam.com/video/opon0lE3lLQ/v-deo.html And Jan? WOW!! Listen to this!! ua-cam.com/video/UBGxYfQ7Gy0/v-deo.html&start_radio=1
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.
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
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.
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. 🎶🕉✨🎶👂👌.
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.
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
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.
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...
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».
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.
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
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!!!
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)
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.
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…..
I love Focus. Their early work is never far from my turntable (or cd player). Apart from the nightmarish wipes, this is a treat. A time capsule item. However. The bass solo was awful. An excuse for the rest of the band to smoke weed. Came back, still crap. Drum solo. Smoke MORE weed. Came back. MUCH better. Van Leer is so brilliant. He has to be. Akkerman wasn't on his game. PVdL was sublime as usual, and Bert was sound. TVL's newer incarnation of Focus is much better than this IMHO. The audience was extremely entertaining. Brought back a lot of memories from my early years as a gig goer. Feel free to argue with me, but keep it friendly. :)
Apart from the newer incarnation of the band, which I haven't heard, I agree 100%, all the way, with your comments. As a whole it was a wreck of a show, and the camera crew don't have a clue re. the guitar god that stands right there for them to shoot - even though, like you say, he was out of it here: he even sabotages Van Leer's whistling solo by ending "Hocus Pocus" precipitously, and - good grief - did he forget to bring along a freaking spare guitar for when a string breaks?... But just thinking about the "Focus III" album gives me goose bumps... Such an awesome band!
A very entertaining comment. I can't and wouldn't argue with you for the sake of it! I've always really liked this band. My views, for what they are worth: This film is almost as good as The Rainbow footage Jan's playing - at its best [admittedly rare] is unmatched by any other player When I saw them live around 15 years ago and a Jan solo gig in 2002, both had very poor sound balance. I'm not a fan of live rock style gigs in general. I still love their early 70's recordings
@@videocraque5384 A few months ago I saw the newest incarnation of Focus in concert in New Brighton, England. Absolutely brilliant. Menno is the best Focus guitarist since The Maestro. He plays the music as it is meant to be played - no dicking about - and puts his own personality into it.
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 👍👍👍👍
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!
That was musicianship today we got crap I always said we were lived in a Renaissance the great music the 50s 2000s but then it goes downhill my opinion
How fools can camera directors and film directors be ? Almost everytime they want to be more interesting than the musicians they have to show...........
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)
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!!!!
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.
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.
Totally! Bro......I saw them Newcastle City Hall at the same Tour .. just excellent.👍
Absolutely ! The video effects here are extremely annoying and distract from the music.
No second guitar, no guitar tech Just the real deal, awesome!
Salute to these Dutch masters of PROG ROCK. 🇳🇱 🎸 🥁
Abbraccio da Roma 👑 tutti squisiti dalla musica 🎸....
dalla nostra generazione ❤️
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.
There is a reason for it why Pierre van der Linden is one of my favourite drummers... Love Focus!
totally agree bro 👍..I Saw them Newcastle City Hall, same Tour 73..I was
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.
I seen them in Rock Island , Illinois 1974 .Full house and super.
I am happy to say I was at this and very happy to say I am still here to see it again 😊
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.
Me too
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!
Bert Ruiter RIP ... .
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!
ua-cam.com/video/opon0lE3lLQ/v-deo.html
And Jan?
WOW!!
Listen to this!!
ua-cam.com/video/UBGxYfQ7Gy0/v-deo.html&start_radio=1
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.
That is so cool. Love to my Irish cousins and friends, from nyc....
Gigs for cigs 😀
Yea ,I missed this,saw Rory and canned heat
Very underated group. Jan Akkerman is on top with the best guitarists.
They are recognised as one of the greatest groups ever.
Underrated by whom ?
Jan might as wel be the absolute top in the world, he is. Amongst very few, to nearly none others. Youre right.
Underrated by who? Jeez I see this comment everywhere by so many people. I assume it’s trolls
Or spam to get negative comments .
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
50 years later, this song still rocks!
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.
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.
No stretch atall
It's not live, IT'S ALIVE! Focus is something special.
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 lot of teens there digging it. Better quality Live music, and more enthusiastic audiences back then.A Great capture this. Almost 50 years ago!
And no annoying and distracting cellphones. Just listening to, enjoying and experiencing music as one should do.
Edited to add: great audience 👍!
@@rollinstone5217 Ai perfecta dreptate! Suntem fericiți ca am trăit acele vremuri!
Simply amazing how good this band was (in this config).
Fantastic !! Dutch Progressive Rock Band !!! FOCUS I' M fan very and very much...
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.
great music but those visual effects are driving me mad
Strobe light
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. 🎶🕉✨🎶👂👌.
Sorry, I should say that Van der Linden still is Great..he was when I last saw them 2 years ago. 🥁🎶👌.
@@maxinemckenzie6076 Yeah Pierre is still in great shape
While not super fast like say Carl Palmer Pierre still has that jazz thing going. Excellent drummer😊
Jan's solo on Eruption is truly majestic.
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.
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
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.
Thiis expressions at the beginning are pure enjoyment. He’s the best !
東京からです。こんな動画が見られる、夢のようです。
42:12 broken string - good old days, Jan Akkerman changes his own string, no roadie involved
exactly 👍
Mr Akkerman. I saw them on the same Tour at Newcastle City Hall.just class 👍
Accoustic 371 with 2 eighteen inch cabs for the bass. NICE!
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...
Loving the Audience shots. 📽🎸🎶🥁🎶🙋♀️👌💜
I was at this gig ! Remember the string breaking, and I thought " Rory Gallagher would have kept going "!
Great band, though !
Where you the one dancing in the back?
brilliant never seen this concert before many thanks for posting
Amazing! Just amazing.
Simplemente espectacular!! Qué buenos eran....!! Wow
32:07 the best version so far. People on fire
Changes his own string fkn legend
can't believe he didn't have a spare axe nearby. XD ah well.
Awesome, awesome, awesome !!! I never heard that live version of Anonymous.
Was totally unaware of the band’s musical picture beyond hocus pocus. Thanks so much for sharing. Very talented and entertaining.
Man,what a treat!!!This is great,never seen before!!!!Thanx!!Many thanx!!
Brilliant band...they never played their songs the same in each concert they did to keep it interesting.
Majestic!!!
Great performance by my countrymen. Picture resolution could be higher.
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».
blistering version of Hocus Pocus
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 UA-cam.
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.
Right on bro. Also a deadhead😎👍👍 21:03 21:29
Thanks from Tokyo. Ariatou
Wow!!!!!
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
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!!!
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)
Saw them twice. Written in stone as my second-favorite band ever.
SUPER GREAT!! LOVE!! Thank You!! Share
Amazing! My favorite Group. Thank you for posting from Brooklyn, NY
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.
TIMELESS music 🎵
Thanks so much for that, I was at stage left at that incredible gig
Who supported them buttership? Was it Rob Strong?
@@seanmeaney253 Sorry, can't remember, might well have been
@@buttership Reform supported them that night.
que tiempos !! y q músicos!! corto cuerda y no saco otra guitarra, cambio LA CUERDA ahí mismo, Y sin afinador!!! uhhhhhh geniales
Fantastic!
! este video tienen que remazterisarlo !
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…..
Sensacional! Em 21/02/2022!
Thank you, I haven't seen this one before.
Saw them on this tour at Clacton on sea teacher training college never really heard of them .. They were awesome….
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.
You need to mention whose daughter😮
..on organ, Thijs van LeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEE
T h e j i s😊
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.
10 stars. 5 doesn't cut it.
wow....now i see what i have never seem before!! thank you fellow!!
I love Focus. Their early work is never far from my turntable (or cd player). Apart from the nightmarish wipes, this is a treat. A time capsule item. However. The bass solo was awful. An excuse for the rest of the band to smoke weed. Came back, still crap. Drum solo. Smoke MORE weed. Came back. MUCH better. Van Leer is so brilliant. He has to be. Akkerman wasn't on his game. PVdL was sublime as usual, and Bert was sound. TVL's newer incarnation of Focus is much better than this IMHO. The audience was extremely entertaining. Brought back a lot of memories from my early years as a gig goer. Feel free to argue with me, but keep it friendly. :)
Apart from the newer incarnation of the band, which I haven't heard, I agree 100%, all the way, with your comments.
As a whole it was a wreck of a show, and the camera crew don't have a clue re. the guitar god that stands right there for them to shoot - even though, like you say, he was out of it here: he even sabotages Van Leer's whistling solo by ending "Hocus Pocus" precipitously, and - good grief - did he forget to bring along a freaking spare guitar for when a string breaks?...
But just thinking about the "Focus III" album gives me goose bumps... Such an awesome band!
A very entertaining comment. I can't and wouldn't argue with you for the sake of it!
I've always really liked this band. My views, for what they are worth:
This film is almost as good as The Rainbow footage
Jan's playing - at its best [admittedly rare] is unmatched by any other player
When I saw them live around 15 years ago and a Jan solo gig in 2002, both had very poor sound balance. I'm not a fan of live rock style gigs in general.
I still love their early 70's recordings
@@MrMjp58 I haven't played 'Moving Waves' since, I dunno - yesterday. :D
Focus - Live At National Stadium, Dublin 1973 (FULL SHOW, with time stamps) 2030pm 26.9.23 what about mother focus?
@@videocraque5384 A few months ago I saw the newest incarnation of Focus in concert in New Brighton, England. Absolutely brilliant. Menno is the best Focus guitarist since The Maestro. He plays the music as it is meant to be played - no dicking about - and puts his own personality into it.
Focus invented sound
Beats "The Bay City Rollers" any day. 🎸🎶👌🎶🥁.
😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆
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 👍👍👍👍
Thanks for upload,did not think it was filmed.amazing!
Cerati brings me here, had nineteen when discovered this song, i was listenning to pink floyd too, such psychodelic and unreal vibes
wuao la musica que sacudió y sacude al mundo,focus historia de los inicios del rock
FOCUS ive known
since 1971 aged about 11
Amazing to watch Akkerman replace his E string live on stage! Nowadays someone would rush on with one of a thousand spare replacements.
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!
Basically poor directing, tight on Thjis when Jan is doing his masterful breaks. I think he missed every one of them.
Brutal...👍👍👍👍🇸🇻
Straight to the soul.
That was musicianship today we got crap I always said we were lived in a Renaissance the great music the 50s 2000s but then it goes downhill my opinion
Sencillamente genial.
Musik ohne Worte
Fantastic ✨
32:55 king of downstroke
The one and only
Proper band.
6 aprile 2023 Roma 👑
My first prog concert ❤❤❤
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
Funky Focus cool man
How fools can camera directors and film directors be ? Almost everytime they want to be more interesting than the musicians they have to show...........
Focus were the ultomite Jam band still are no other band comes close
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
I was there I smoked a lot of reefer listening to Focus back then great band still give them a listen without the reefer ✌️💚🎶🎸🥃🍷🎶🎶😎🇮🇪
Still the best l!
The headache inducing optical effects need to go,cool back in the day I guess.
Yup. A lot of music shows did it back then! Very irritating I know.
Only 48 mins? What a rip...
Love everything except the 70s screen effects; hated them then, still hate them now! 😝