MARILLION - Hocus Pocus (Focus Cover)

[MrAnidealhusband]

2 FHenker1 i agrre and disagree with u at the same time. fun, but cheap. bt i will hunt down an kill any1** wot tries 2 do "Sylvia" IMHO, the foundation of all of modern music

**apart from me on the Stylophone tee hee. Respect, FHenker1 pls

[FHenker1]

The guy would better shut up instead of destroying the music, the legacy of Focus AND his vocal chords at the same time lool

[twseel]

Great cover, but that man can't yodel!

[s4t666]

I LOVE THE BASS :)

[Pinkpawsx]

Impresive version! I love Marillion but nobody can do this better than Focus!

[torchson1]

Amazing, Hoggart, even when I love Fish I got to say that you have one of the best voices in rock History and Steve you are fantastic as always

[JRBL1A1]

Wow. Impressive! Marillion did an awesome job!!!! 

[Eric22]

A very nice effort, at least they got the chords right which is as important as the solos. Also the base part sounds good. It's kinda heavy. I hate to say it but the Focus live versions of this song were actually worse.

[grint34]

@Eric22 I dont think so, all the live versions of Focus on youtube are better then this average stuff.

[heranth2345]

I'm sorry he missed his vocal solo because of the keyboarder... that damn bastard ruined this all !! :D

[2spaceace]

focus version the best,but this has to be the best cover.

[blackbirdtwigg]

Not really a Marillion fan ,but my Bro is and he was there and told me about this ! Brilliant cover !!!!

[flavy1000]

Great bassline for the flute part..=)

[rocketpost1]

I thought this was pretty good as was the yodelling but no-one will ever come near to Jan Akkerman's astonishing technique.

[chorknator]

I'm usually not a fan of post fish marillion. I like though that they took the time and entertained the crowd with this aged song. Mot many even know focus and the song at all. So I enjoyed this and thank marillion for performing this live in 2007.

What' don't like is this "You can't beat the original" talking. If there even was an "original" - there have been maybe hundreds of performances by focus that came out different. I think we should separate more between composition and rendition.

[angus0meatwhistle]

Of all the covers of "Hocus Pocus", this band is the only one that had the balls to actually do the yodeling part. Kudos to you Marillion you did Focus proud.

[ssn0651]

Good job on vocals . I wondered how he would handle the whistling , Awesome Bass Playing . Still only one version of this song .

[Lebob93]

No one can play it as fast as focus though.

[magriice]

a very good try hehe

[blacktooth1100]

Haha! Cracking cover; the balls up makes it....

[riakla]

What a cool cover version. Kudos to Steve for singing this at the end of a concert and hitting the high notes!!

Nice rocker!!

[TheBobinatorXL]

no one accept for focus can do the quaqmire part XD

[gordon7443]

thumbs up for a good try ......but focus are the original and the best

[rodcrippler]

He should have made a better cover, I live in Peru, we know nothing about yodelling yet I've seen a couple of guys pulling it out better. Of course it's a great cover nontheless. btw, Stephen Rea on bass at 4:29

[49SDL]

One of the better covers of this song..singer stays true to the original with some excellent yodeling..guitarists shreds well..not bad!!

[MrMichaelpsmith]

have you listened to Yellow Brick Road play this song? Hands down the best cover band, hopefully still in existence. They beat these guy all over the map.

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[hollundar]

cover bleibt nur cover!!!!!! Thijs van Leer ist, war und bleibt einzig artig!!!!!!!

[jeffgerbenkok]

no way this beats the original.

[RobbieJess2579]

Awesome cover!

[alianuk50]

Am I the only one who thinks Fish is a fat fucker!!?? He used to be thin and fit

[RussKKKK]

@alianuk50 That's not Fish, it's Steph Hogarth

[MrRobbero]

@yvfui

You're straight at least? All the girls in the world aren't happy about this, but all the boys in the world are feeling save.

And now the serious part. This was the last song of a marvelous show fulfilled with covers and rareties. I am convinced no other band in the world can play about 50 different songs in 3 nights with such high level of quality.

[telanis9]

@EliasVideoProduction keyboardist fucked it up, and singer is too shitfaced to compensate

[blackbirdtwigg]

Excellent Cover !!!!

[ccrstucook]

The best cover in world , obviusly never better than the original

[markfoot]

good cover. Finally someone who serieously do Thijs van Leer's vocals

[Vomtu100]

this cover isn't made to be taken seriosly so chill people

[surakingwp]

robi robotę

[harpiyon]

i´ve watched the original version (by Focus) and different cover versions, e.g. by Halloween, Iron Maiden & this one. they are all good, the´re nice variations but they are so similar to each other that i came the conclusion, you can´t improve the original version: it is simply perfect.

[flavy1000]

@harpiyon I totally agree...I really like Maiden`s one..but they `re very similar ..

Focus is Focus..and they are not the same as then, too!

(Another time, other musical & sound recording innovations..etc..)

[metallurgiko]

@harpiyon this version "Focus - Hocus Pocus Live '73" is the best

[Potmendsthesoul]

That singer is clearly fucked up. lmao

[mariquelme01]

I like this version even more than the original with Focus.

[telanis9]

@mariquelme01 that's because you have cocks in your mouth

[MrRobbero]

@telanis9 And you have cocks in your ears

[ladyleecher]

Awesome cover!

[yvfui]

@mostlyanthony I'm an idiot, like everyone else. BUT I'm straight at least

[yvfui]

Is the vocalist gay, or is he just fucked?

[mrmattc1978]

Great cover great band , I dig XD

[tjouwie]

nice

[johnnerjohnson]

Get it right boys!!!

[vangestelwijnen]

FOCUS made history! Hocus Pocus worldwide...

[drebatista]

Such a great band!!