Focus - Hocus Pocus

[Chewy]

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I was going to post this in the "Rate a song" thread, but felt it was worthy of it's own thread.

This is classic. Must've been good times in the 70's.

Feel free to pass "WTF" comments or post other lunatic performances

 

[Mr Lizard]

It's Jack Black's old man!

 

[OldLion]

Saw them when they toured here in the 70's - part of the old prog. rock brigade, with one amazing guitarist Jan Akkerman. Went on a bit but hey they're Dutch.

 

[Chewy]

Yeah, he's like the Dutch version of Jimmy Page

My favourite part of the clip is Thils van Leer trying to hit the high note at 3:54

It's possibly the only song with yodelling that I've ever liked.

 

[skilts]

Completely off-the-wall virtuosity, though they did tend to bang on a bit. Still have my vinyl copy of the album. This was back in the days when to be unique was not seen as a disadvantage. Genre schmenre.

 

[JimDocker]

My parents used to buy the Arcade albums that were a best of, of any given year back in England. This song was on there and I always loved it. Never seen them before and it was fantastic. (Actually, they were great albums.)

Great work Chewy.

 

[smasha]

Moving Waves and Hamburger Concerto 2 great albums by Focus.

 

[Leaping Lindner]

Prog rock AND yodelling.......there is no God.

 

[evo]

Prog rock AND yodelling.......there is no God.

The likes of The Ramones, The Clash etc were just the obvious response.

 

[Madtiger2006]

A bit of a straight song. I prefer their prog tunes