The insanity, the wonder, the insanity that was FOCUS (Hocus Pocus)

YouTube ^ | 6/1/1973 | Focus

[freedumb2003]

This was so wonderful, so insane, so... insane

You boomers will remember it -- you youngsters will probably dig it!

Here is it again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

[freedumb2003]

I have no idea what made me think of it, but watch this guy -- he has 4 (5?) octave range and bangs a hard flute!

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Clickable link: Here is it again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

[B-Chan]

< massive bong hit >

[60Gunner]

I LOVE Focus!

Thank you so much for this post!

[freedumb2003]

LOL — I play jazz flute but this dude smokes me (nor in the bnog way...) :)

[freedumb2003]

Your tag now is having me search YT for “There is a rose in Spanish harbor”... Oh wait — “There is a rose is Spanish HARLEM.” *doh*

Nonetheless, back to YT I go... :)

[thecodont]

Thanks for posting this!

Studio version has better whistling solo at the end, IMHO.

But yeah, GREAT tune.

[60Gunner]

Search no more. Think Jimmy Buffett. The song is about Viatape, the main town of Bora Bora. Yeah, I am a total Parrothead, too.

[JaguarXKE]

Somehow I managed to make it 55 years without hearing that! Lucky I guess.

[radu]

Insane was what I thought of it way back when, and that's what I still think of it. And I still love it! LOL! Thanks for the Memory Lane trip!

Now I'm gonna have that durned song going through my head for DAYS! hee!

[brooklin]

I wrote the lyrics of that.

[corkoman]

Fantastic!!

I saw them in Long Beach in 73 - they fronted for Jethro Tull. The yodelling dude can do this wierd dance with a 8 foot piece of lumber - riverdance meets Sound of Music. Awesome.

[Fry_Daddy]

Wanted very badly to see them in concert. Remember in ‘73 driving up to Fresno Convention Center (25 mi. from lovely home in Central Valley vineyard country) to get tickets, only to be told they had canceled.

[Verbosus]

Ping for off-work viewing

[thecodont]

Studio version. Weird whistling comes in at 5:00 of the 6:42 play length.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaVUApDVuY