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  • What DVD is this from??

  • where is jan i agree hankster777

  • I must say I'm impressed by the guitar work! This guy is amazing!

  • I totally love this live version of Eruption. I wish they play in Spain someday.

  • Fucking amazing!

  • focus siempre me trslado a un maravilloso mundo de sueños de los que no me gusta nada salir

  • Oh my God , Fuck Metallica ,Slipknot , all bands , this are musician

  • @ccrstucook Yes. Thank you. I concur. All music is subjective, yes but this is great stuff no doubt. Few have moved the fence further than Focus. Check out Giro di valzer per domani by Arti & Mestieri, an Italian group from the same time period.

  • pienso k si la gente skuchara a bandas legendarias como focus, floyd. crimson. etc talves tendriamos un mejor planeta sin tanta mierda egoismo guerras pero la gente prefiere lo facil lo superficial como bieber y mierdas de ese tipo ojala todos pudieran apreciar la vida de la manera en la k nosotros la apreciamos malditas modas!!!! btw exelente de verdad exelente video saludos dsd mexico

  • This is so Fu.ck.ing Awesome!!! 08:50

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  • Absolutely amazing! The sound of this video is like I was in the room that night,The dynamics are awsome. like one guy said, here goes 17 min and it was a joy. I just came across this vid last night I only ever new one song Hocus pocus. check the one he does live really funny as well. This is a great find I will dig deeper into this band for sure.

  • Geniaal ik hoop dat jullie snel weer in Nederland gaan optreden zou jullie graag live willen zien.

  • What a great music, it was old when i heard this for the first time in the 90`s. But became one of my favorite musics, for many reasons. I don`t knowe where all the good musicians gone...

  • Thijs Van Leer and the absent Jan Akkerman have made an important mark on contemporary music. I would say this group is of a handful that qualify as the actual best. In their early days they stood alone as Europe's (NL) answer to Rock while ABBA dominated Pop.

  • where can i buy a pal version of this dvd?

  • KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

  • 17 minutes just passed away. This is good music!

  • well...it is slower than old skin, I predict is too organized but the time, life passing through, the sound but more discipline through older and newer. This Focus is that, we give their sounds a proper meaning, do not be too much rudes. just go deep there. -not surprising at all, nice moment-

  • when is the next tour? And when holy shit you come to germoney???? Send message please ^^

  • I didn't know Don Vito was such a badass musician...

  • That guitarist has a sound to die for!

  • Acabo de tener una erección de 17:11 minutos

  • Sobran las palabras...

  • Ging even iets fout! Jan Akkerman speelt het naar mijn mening relaxter, nu klinkt het te gehaast!! Goede gitarist overigens echter Jan is niet voor niets ooit uitgeroepen tot beste van de wereld!

  • Focus is echt te gek, echter vind ik dat het lijkt alsof het tempo hoger ligt dan het origineel! Misschien dat dat komt omdat naar mijn mening Jan -

  • bajo.bateria guitarra ..todo esta perfectamentamente sincronizado...es un 10 para todo el grupo..

  • POR QUE TIENE UN ROLLO DE CINTA ADESIVA AL LADO DE LA FLAUTA??-----

    

  • @purrusco Para mantener unas notas del hammond sonando mientras toca algo más... creo

  • EXELENTE MUSICA DE FOCUS-Y CAUSARON DIVERSAS-INQUITUDES-A TODOS LOS DE ESA EPOCA-MUSICAL.-SALUDOS.-BY.

  • OK, where the fawk is Jan Akkerman?

  • @Alejoint73 Jan is somewhere else. This guy kicks ass, though!

  • @Alejoint73 Who cares? This kid smokes!!

  • Amaaaaaazzzzing !!!! Saw this live. It was awesome. 4 rows from the front.

  • With a lot of older groups I prefer to listen to older material and older live footage, but Focus are the exception. I find myself coming back to these newer concerts. They are very good. Somehow, Pierre has gotten even better.

  • Saw these guys a few years back at Progday...actually got to shake Thijs's hand. Hard to believe it's the same guy looking at his face from the old pix...

  • visit our channel: progressive rock: grantorinoProg!

  • Original Dream Theater!

  • Het is niet nodig om deze gitarist met Jan Akkerman te vergelijken ! Jan Akkerman is een van de beste !!! Deze gitarist is ook SÚPER ! Trouwens als hij niet super was, dan zou hij niet met Thijs spelen ! Thijs gewéldig om je hier zo bezig te zien ! Mooi hoor !!!!!!!! Voor mij is het als de dag van gister dat je zomaar spontaan tussen de gipys insprong op een zigeuner bruiloft in Ibiza ! Jezus wat een happening was dat ! Greetje

  • Hey, there is a melody from Béla Bartók's Concerto!!! :D The "Choral"-meloday...!!!

  • They're always been one of my favourite ever, since I heard them first, in 1972!

  • para mi Thijs Van Leer uno de los mas Grandes de la historia !!!!

    FOCUS con KING CRIMSON, YES , PINK FLOYD y los GENESIS, el repoker de los 5 grandes sinfonicos de los 70.

    EL SIGUE

    larga vida a Thijs Van Leer

    sus teclados , su flauta, su voz...

    ETERNAS !!!

  • focus is voor mij een inspiratie om door te gaan met de muziek

    thij iss voor mij zo izo al een kanjer en vooral op de hammond orgel

    de gitarist die hier speelt is super, beter dan Jan akkerman

  • @SachikoST4R beter dan jan akkerman ???? je hebt jan zekker nog nooit in het echt zien speelenXD deze gitarist is niks vergeleeken met jan akkerman

  • This is Sweet Fuckjazz.

  • This is the music of Focus, enjoy it like myself and millions more.

    Ok it is not the Focus of old but the new lineup is amazing and they are a joy to watch and listen to.

    I was in Holland a few weeks ago and it brought it all back, live at the rainbow, what an album. We like focus if you are not a fan please leave at the exit

  • Я люблю это видео!!

  • О.. пиздец!!! моя любимая группа!!!

  • is that jon akkerman ir a replacement?

  • this band is SICK!!!

  • This was-is superb! talented! must go seem them, take me back to my art class days!!

  • best video on youtube!!! since last year when I first saw this, can't stop watching every since!

  • Akkerman is THE best

  • For everyone that it their skin and afraid to come out come out

  • Saw the old maestro Thijs Van Leer and the band last night in Cardiff for the first time since 1974! Excellent -they captured the attention of their audience for a whole 2 hours with their combined musical talent. Great to see Pierre van der Linden make the old Focus sound truly genuine. As for Thijs - what a brilliant eccentric!

  • @TopekaCate

    I never saw them in the 70s but if a band still exists with Van Leer I'd be there. Have you got any idea if they plan UK gigs in 2010/2011. I can search online but you sound like an aficionado. Eruption is playing as I write this! Just how evocative is that piece of brilliance of many 'intimate' nights in the early 70s. Where did those days go....

  • @Waterlow56 I am not aware of any gigs in the immediate future but this band is very much alive and kicking - as in the 70s - but without Akkerman. Keep an eye out they are well worth a visit! In the meantime keep watching this clip - its identical to the live gig I saw

  • increible ,un amigo desde colombia,que gusta de la buena musica,que sonido tan limpio,caracteristico del rockjazzprogrecivo. grasias por el video

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  • Thijs Van Leer is the best

    Long Life for FOCUS

  • Bela Bartok hommage @3:17

  • People that WRITE LOUD AND CLEAR matters that d onot matter!

    should better THINK and really compare Focus to what Focus is worth being compared with!

    Do your mind a favour: grow up!

    And...nothing else matters!

    Bernard

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  • funky as hell

  • Great version. It's a shame the studio version is so complex, they have to skip some of my favourite bits! this rendition is fantastic though! 10/10

  • It's great to hear todays-songs like "NEVER MISS A BEAT" (Kaiser Chiefs)

    What the today-bands (2010, I write) never seem to know is....

    in the 70-ties...

    NOT ONE SINGLE BEAT WAS MISSED,

    but that was considered utter basics,.

    We made no songs about that item, WE LIVED IT TRU AND TRU.

    I STILL DO.

    Bernard

  • I saw FOCUS newskin a couple of years ago.

    And the Jan Akkerman-band last year in 2009 in Holand that is.

    I can't but say...I saw two so perfectly genuine revelations and exceptional musical venues.

    I did.

    Bernard

  • only one focus guy left and they still kick ass.

  • @killercrabman No, two of them. That's Pierre van der Linden on drums. Focus started falling apart in the 70s after he suddenly quit the day after they recorded the monster "Live at the Rainbow". It's great to see him back, as I've never heard another drummer who can play the "Focus" sound right.

  • This is one of my all time favorite musics!

    Thanks so much for uploading!

  • Absolutely brilliant!

  • The vocals gives me chillllzzzz

  • ragazzi ascoltate questo brano e meravigliosooooooooooooo

  • Astonishing. Love the vocals.

  • Great music! Well Done guys. Stage setting/lighting is also excellent!

  • que rola

  • I LOVE this video and I'm 27 years old.

  • @estosjapos ME TOO

  • que banda mas buena!

    clasicos de los 70's!

  • i've been seventies rock mad for years, purple, sabbath, rainbow, genisis, zep etc and i've now found focus, awesome! recognised the tunes just didn't know the band! can anyone tell me who else i'm missing out on?

  • just marvelous 

  • Great stuff! Drummer is brilliant - Pierre an der Linden?

  • @tumshfibrox58 who????????????

  • Dis mio pero que buena musica, Gracias!!!

  • Thijs ROCKS as ever!!!!!!!!

  • FUCKING AWESOME-LOVE IT :-)

  • That's either a big man or a tiny bass.

  • Better than ever!

  • @SabbraCadabra They aren't random.

  • @SabbraCadabra ... and I bet you read the same book every day too. music is the universal language and is all about being different than the next guy. just imagine if there was only 1 band, 1 song, 1 version. what a truly boring world that would be. diverse yourself, you're missing so much in that little box you're in.

  • How can anybody consider watching people dance around and lip-synch to a recording on stage a concert when there are truely talented people like these guys going out on tour and playing REAL instruments!?

  • @SFCBenny57 I agree, prog rock is so much better than dance music!

  • @fertriod3 On the other hand, the sound of a vacuum cleaner is better than dance music.

  • @fertriod3 And I have to disagree with you on that. While progressive rock definitely is much nearer music at it's purist form, there's a time and a place for almost every music. I'd much rather hear dance music on a saturday night in a bar, when I'm showing girls my best moves...

  • @Yaotzin51 Ok, ok. In a bar, with girls and (many)beers, I can consider listen even brazilian samba, haha.

  • @fertriod3 I like both

  • @tehhhhhd There's not bad music. Each human being has different artistic and musical preferences, I know. But I actually prefer progressive rock. Also, I don't know how to dance...

  • @fertriod3 Hahah, me neither, man! I just love it.

  • @fertriod3 thats like comparing lemons and apples... u wouldnt put an apple slice into your gintonic in the same way u wouldnt put a lemon slice in your cornflakes

  • @fertriod3 obviously if you like prog rock more than dance music, if it is your PREFERENCE. however believe it or not some like dance music more than prog rock and you never see them commenting "dance music is much better than prog rock" why do some fools turn in to elitists when they listen to a genre that doesnt sell as well as something popular.

  • @Ozznize

    They don´t say that because they CAN´T say that.

    Or dance music is better than prog rock to you?.

    Am i elitist if i say something to a music that is not played by real instruments?..

    There are lot of people trying to make things better.. thats why musicans of all the world are studying this kind of music.

    complete music..

    As prgressive rock you have so many styles to learn about.. but dance music without real instruments?

    They are elitist putting only all that crap in radio and tv!

  • @KbzAion i can listen to club music and i can listen to music done with "real" a.k.a. traditional instruments: rock, metal, jazz, funk. i am not coming here telling people how awful it is that someone makes music with something else then a guitar or a piano and that everything that is not made by those is automatically shit. thats just dumb. you can like anything you want to, please let others do that too.

  • @KbzAion Great holistic bands are---Melting Euphoria, Ozric Tentacles, Gong, Mother Gong, Acid Mother's Gong, Magma, Aphrodities Child, Jade Warrior, Steve Tibbetts, Patrick Bernard, Lost at Last, Larry Coryell, Shakti, Oregon, Kazumi Watanabe, Toninho Horta, Egberto Gismonti, Eat Static, System 7, Lisa Gerrard, Dead Can Dance, Magma, Sphongle, Bill Laswell, Stomu Yamashta, Here and Now band, Steve Hillage.

  • @SFCBenny57 why do people have to keep comparing artists like this.. in 40 years ppl will be praising the lip syncers and hating on the new artists, jeez it gets so tiring. just enjoy what you enjoy ffs.

  • @SFCBenny57 Fawk yeah!

  • @SFCBenny57 That's what I say everyday... Peace!

  • @SFCBenny57 yup...we live a time of violence, illusion, disillusion, epidemic mediocrity and daily tsunamis of stupidity...hard to admit.

  • @mann8942  - ya got THAT right... ;)

  • Muy Buena musica...

  • old man's crazy as fuck on that Hammond

  • Fuckin Awesome

  • I agree with ironic, Some Frank Zappa stuff there, these guys rock!!

  • Maravillosos!!!

  • Can't get to much of this, great music, thank you so much.

  • why don't more people like progressive rock? to use a overused word awesome

  • My internal organs are almost blowing up from the awesomeness of this song.

  • xigjotjslg 110% sure you started playing with your action man before the song began

  • Does me remind of the good ol' Frank Zappa.

    Great song.

  • I saw these 2008 and I recommend anyone to go and see the new line up ,they are great,great rhythmn,great guitarist,and of course thijs on hammond and flute

  • Legendary!

  • Gave me goosebumps.

  • Maaan it's the first time that I see this band ever... I'm shocked!!! How didn't I know them before??? This is the real music from rock the jazz, classic to bossa nova, blues to progressive... No more words...

  • @kingofskateop Maybe you were too young at that time. I was in senior high school and we all used to be overimpressed by this band in my school (Italy).

  • @ollie3 Actually I was a vitamin at the orange :D I learned all those progressive/jazz rock bands from my father and then by myself... King Crimson, Camel, Yes, Traffic, Mahavishnu Orch... more and more... But I was really surprised after I saw this video accidentally...

  • @kingofskateop I Agree. Please liste to "Black Oak Arkansas" as well. They are good too.

  • WOW...Bravo...I still re herse to this music to this day...No bands hold candles to Prog Rock Bands from the 70's and 80's

  • nice guitar skills

  • WOW !

    I see all this last month in Belo Horizonte - Brazil ! :D

    Miss that show

  • The intro is so hauntingly beautiful! Get all of their albums. One of the greatest bands ever.

  • ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzz

  • desrespeito com o focus, vá domir com axé music!!!!

  • BravIsimo!!!! The drum solo is so tasteful and lyrical...just like the music. I do miss Jan on guitar. But his absence does not diminish the music one bit!!!!

  • they are playing liverpool in Oct! Yey! Gonna book my tickets.

  • Only the master, John Shuttleworth, is a more consummate keyboard artiste - ooof, Ken....

  • @gorkys6 agreed! And he can play on the top of a bus with his portable keyboard, you cant do that with a hammond!

  • Van Leer still showing his mastery of the Hammond B-3!

  • Only real musicians have the ability and talent to play things like this that are on such an incredibly high level. Phonies like Lady GaGa that can only lyp-synch and hop around on a stage like a stripper having a seizure can't touch these guys!

  • Yep! You're right!

    Music to me is art. It is a pity that they do not make as good music as Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin.

  • @MFauske I totally agree with you! Most kids of my age listen to Lady GaGa and stuff, but i miss the passion for the music in their songs, something which is very present in bands like the ones you named.

  • Lady gaga does have passion. For money and fashion!! hehehehe!! Bands lke this one play not for money but for sharing what they feel. That's what artists do!

  • barbaro muy bueno

  • Боже, какой он старый! Самая лучшая музыка! The very,very best!

  • just saw them playing this shit live here in Brazil. damn, that was unbelievable! kinda perfect.

  • Fantastic, long live prog! Unfortunately some people you don't have the taste and an advanced

    mind to listen real music. "deinhaflores" you should stay with the lady gaga's sh*&@. Suit you best.

  • @deinhaflores if it's junk... what is good? :s

  • -.-

  • Great band of all time!!!!!!!

  • I've just had the chance to see them in concert in Verviers (Belgium). I will never forget this moment ! Just amazing. This music talks to your soul.

  • Lucky you!:-)

  • eruption was always one of my top epics right up there with tarkus,suppers ready or gates of delirium! classic.

  • that was very cool thank you

  • true musicians!!!

  • Perfection, What more can i say. Thanks.

  • This is only the second time I have heard this band but I am soooo hooked!

  • love this every time I watch and listen something else stands out Love It Love It

  • wow

  • This is some good shit.

    Ace guitarist man.

  • I wonder besides the Bassplayer is it still the same people?

  • Vocals Drummer and Base original

    Lead guitar is new boy

    Saw them live in Sheffield last year

    Excellent

  • @1234minster last year?? realy?? OMG!

    whos the guitarman?

  • Only Drummer and Keyboardist are originals, the other 2 are newer players.

  • when is this btw?

  • @KristinJ09 the original is about 1974, this one is a new one.

  • Original of Eruption is 1971

  • amazing... :)

  • @KristinJ09 you proved have a very good taste :))

  • amazing!!

  • just enjoy!!!!!!!!