Focus - Live At National Stadium, Dublin 1973 (FULL SHOW, with time stamps)

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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)
Thijs van Leer - Hammond L100 organ, flute, Fender Rhodes electric piano, vocals
Jan Akkerman - guitar
Pierre van der Linden - drums
Bert Ruiter - bass, vocals
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@FocusVideoArchive 3 жыл бұрын

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)

@JJONNYREPP 8 ай бұрын

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!!!!

@olivierodaltoso1456 10 ай бұрын

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.

@petset77 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Hawkrvo 8 ай бұрын

I seen them in Rock Island , Illinois 1974 .Full house and super.

@pearsehall1049 Жыл бұрын

I am happy to say I was at this and very happy to say I am still here to see it again 😊

@eugeneburns6124 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@philipcramer940 2 жыл бұрын

That is so cool. Love to my Irish cousins and friends, from nyc....

@adeh503 2 жыл бұрын

Gigs for cigs 😀

@pjlogan386 3 ай бұрын

Yea ,I missed this,saw Rory and canned heat

@stephengriffin9992 Жыл бұрын

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.

@tnecniv1952 4 ай бұрын

Me too

@garyrowe58 3 ай бұрын

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!

@Dwoed Жыл бұрын

No second guitar, no guitar tech Just the real deal, awesome!

@Fresh-tw7ev 2 жыл бұрын

Salute to these Dutch masters of PROG ROCK. 🇳🇱 🎸 🥁

@renatoporcu3097 Жыл бұрын

Abbraccio da Roma 👑 tutti squisiti dalla musica 🎸.... dalla nostra generazione ❤️

@JJONNYREPP 8 ай бұрын

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.

@ianrogers1287 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@CanuckFluter 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@George.Andrews. 2 жыл бұрын

No stretch atall

@phillippitts6294 Жыл бұрын

50 years later, this song still rocks!

@maxinemckenzie6076 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@rollinstone5217 2 жыл бұрын

And no annoying and distracting cellphones. Just listening to, enjoying and experiencing music as one should do. Edited to add: great audience 👍!

@ionglontaru3082 Жыл бұрын

@@rollinstone5217 Ai perfecta dreptate! Suntem fericiți ca am trăit acele vremuri!

@gregdolecki8530 Жыл бұрын

Simply amazing how good this band was (in this config).

@patriciomaia3200 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic !! Dutch Progressive Rock Band !!! FOCUS I' M fan very and very much...

@Hawkrvo 9 ай бұрын

Thiis expressions at the beginning are pure enjoyment. He’s the best !

@ozzie-sk9dh Ай бұрын

Jan's solo on Eruption is truly majestic.

@a.i.liebson3287 9 күн бұрын

Saw them twice. Written in stone as my second-favorite band ever.

@valeriyblinov1573 Ай бұрын

SUPER GREAT!! LOVE!! Thank You!! Share

@MrSyjdub Ай бұрын

Amazing! My favorite Group. Thank you for posting from Brooklyn, NY

@larryzamba1689 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@julianmeek2156 8 ай бұрын

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...

@maxinemckenzie6076 2 жыл бұрын

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. 🎶🕉✨🎶👂👌.

@maxinemckenzie6076 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I should say that Van der Linden still is Great..he was when I last saw them 2 years ago. 🥁🎶👌.

@rickblackers88 2 жыл бұрын

@@maxinemckenzie6076 Yeah Pierre is still in great shape

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

While not super fast like say Carl Palmer Pierre still has that jazz thing going. Excellent drummer😊

@dennisdinorcia7407 2 жыл бұрын

Very underated group. Jan Akkerman is on top with the best guitarists.

@SAMMYKO1 9 ай бұрын

They are recognised as one of the greatest groups ever.

@sommelierramon 7 ай бұрын

Underrated by whom ?

@sommelierramon 7 ай бұрын

Jan might as wel be the absolute top in the world, he is. Amongst very few, to nearly none others. Youre right.

@OlafProt 6 ай бұрын

Underrated by who? Jeez I see this comment everywhere by so many people. I assume it’s trolls Or spam to get negative comments .

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

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

@julianevans9853 Ай бұрын

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.

@SPassion2010 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Just amazing.

@maxinemckenzie6076 2 жыл бұрын

Loving the Audience shots. 📽🎸🎶🥁🎶🙋‍♀️👌💜

@danquinnell3502 2 жыл бұрын

Was totally unaware of the band’s musical picture beyond hocus pocus. Thanks so much for sharing. Very talented and entertaining.

@ianpaice3041 2 жыл бұрын

Bert Ruiter RIP ... .

@nigel8247 2 ай бұрын

Saw them on this tour at Clacton on sea teacher training college never really heard of them .. They were awesome….

@KayDee73 2 жыл бұрын

Majestic!!!

@leonleon3773 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant never seen this concert before many thanks for posting

@AdamDekin 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@emiliacob2639 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, awesome, awesome !!! I never heard that live version of Anonymous.

@knutabrandal7439 Жыл бұрын

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! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdafoZOdqpnQfIU.html And Jan? WOW!! Listen to this!! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i6h3q7yXtp2rqWQ.html&start_radio=1

@rickblackers88 2 жыл бұрын

Man,what a treat!!!This is great,never seen before!!!!Thanx!!Many thanx!!

@pauldavis6356 7 күн бұрын

Accoustic 371 with 2 eighteen inch cabs for the bass. NICE!

@petergabriel99 Жыл бұрын

Simplemente espectacular!! Qué buenos eran....!! Wow

@Happysongkla Жыл бұрын

Thanks from Tokyo. Ariatou

@vincepie 2 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq.

@VASHTUZ8 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic ✨

@adeh503 2 жыл бұрын

Changes his own string fkn legend

@MobiusBandwidth Жыл бұрын

can't believe he didn't have a spare axe nearby. XD ah well.

@joeryan6271 Ай бұрын

Straight to the soul.

@wmialil 2 жыл бұрын

42:12 broken string - good old days, Jan Akkerman changes his own string, no roadie involved

@buttership 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for that, I was at stage left at that incredible gig

@seanmeaney253 3 жыл бұрын

Who supported them buttership? Was it Rob Strong?

@buttership 3 жыл бұрын

@@seanmeaney253 Sorry, can't remember, might well have been

@irishjohn32 2 жыл бұрын

@@buttership Reform supported them that night.

@MrMjp58 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@vano758 Жыл бұрын

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

@Kohntarkosz 5 ай бұрын

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.

@alanthorne3921 2 жыл бұрын

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)

@zsoltbarkaszi9387 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@Driver2616 2 ай бұрын

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…..

@desmo750f1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I haven't seen this one before.

@pjlogan386 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for upload,did not think it was filmed.amazing!

@vinto34 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant band...they never played their songs the same in each concert they did to keep it interesting.

@Gui142857 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!!!!

@gonzaloreyes8782 2 жыл бұрын

32:07 the best version so far. People on fire

@seesaw1969 3 жыл бұрын

wow....now i see what i have never seem before!! thank you fellow!!

@ranabirgahir462 2 ай бұрын

TIMELESS music 🎵

@billbrillford7883 3 жыл бұрын

blistering version of Hocus Pocus

@sofanr3 3 жыл бұрын

great music but those visual effects are driving me mad

@lindagreaney5136 3 жыл бұрын

Strobe light

@richardgulley4860 4 ай бұрын

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 👍👍👍👍

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

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.

@joeryan6271 Ай бұрын

Right on bro. Also a deadhead😎👍👍 21:03 21:29

@sven8393 3 жыл бұрын

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

@JJONNYREPP 8 ай бұрын

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!!!

@agegroot5666 3 жыл бұрын

Great performance by my countrymen. Picture resolution could be higher.

@wouterbessels8605 3 жыл бұрын

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».

@padraigcarroll5232 3 жыл бұрын

I was at this gig ! Remember the string breaking, and I thought " Rory Gallagher would have kept going "! Great band, though !

@Elfutre1957 2 жыл бұрын

Where you the one dancing in the back?

@Kohntarkosz 5 ай бұрын

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.

@kevinlemming6268 11 ай бұрын

Amazing to watch Akkerman replace his E string live on stage! Nowadays someone would rush on with one of a thousand spare replacements.

@sergiozuccala7630 2 жыл бұрын

Van Leer un genio que esta totalmente loco

@user-ng8kr6ys5d 2 ай бұрын

The one and only

@coloaten6682 Ай бұрын

Proper band.

@tnecniv1952 4 ай бұрын

My first prog concert ❤❤❤

@pale_saint 2 жыл бұрын

..on organ, Thijs van LeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEE

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

T h e j i s😊

@Edsonboka49 2 жыл бұрын

Sensacional! Em 21/02/2022!

@johndouglas1542 7 ай бұрын

10 stars. 5 doesn't cut it.

@adrianbiondi765 3 жыл бұрын

Sencillamente genial.

@travelpointone991 4 ай бұрын

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.

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

You need to mention whose daughter😮

@stewartquark1661 2 жыл бұрын

Focus invented sound

@ESP95 11 ай бұрын

que tiempos !! y q músicos!! corto cuerda y no saco otra guitarra, cambio LA CUERDA ahí mismo, Y sin afinador!!! uhhhhhh geniales

@robertzalesny 4 ай бұрын

amaizng...

@henrymanzano4600 Жыл бұрын

wuao la musica que sacudió y sacude al mundo,focus historia de los inicios del rock

@francuscosuarez2512 6 ай бұрын

❤

@rickspence979 Жыл бұрын

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.

@olliebeak131 Жыл бұрын

Only 48 mins? What a rip...

@renatoporcu3097 Жыл бұрын

6 aprile 2023 Roma 👑

@user-ng8kr6ys5d 2 ай бұрын

Still the best l!

@eldonad 2 жыл бұрын

Huh, was not expecting to hear the second movement of the Concerto for Orcherstra by Bartòk in Eruption... Is this a popular choral I am not aware of, or a direct inspiration ? (26:43)

@Ian2844 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@jimbabwe1 Жыл бұрын

Basically poor directing, tight on Thjis when Jan is doing his masterful breaks. I think he missed every one of them.

@maxinemckenzie6076 2 жыл бұрын

Beats "The Bay City Rollers" any day. 🎸🎶👌🎶🥁.

@harrolldthebarroll 11 ай бұрын

😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆

@josvansuchtelen9743 Ай бұрын

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

@user-dk8zr6up8d 2 жыл бұрын

32:55 king of downstroke

@alasdairmcgregor4334 3 ай бұрын

In the 70s there was Total Footb

@orazioscardace911 2 ай бұрын

✌️

@manguera9 4 ай бұрын

jon akkerman was playing with no guitar pedals, no volume effect pedal , he had to worked with the timing of doing the volume effect with the guitar knobs and to completed a broken string ,in 1978 was the time most of guitar players brought a guitar tech, 2 electric extra guitars and responsible the guitars not being stolen.

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

That's not the first time he's broken his string on stage during that song and repaired it on the spot. Check out focus live and rare on KZfaq for some videos of them from the early days much better than this one and that they're much clearer.😮

@matycee 2 жыл бұрын

argument for backup, tuned guitar in the wings made!!

@MrOttopants 2 жыл бұрын

I want what she's having at 37:13. That must have been a really nice tab.

@steveberti7060 Жыл бұрын

Focus were the ultomite Jam band still are no other band comes close

@SongSwan 2 жыл бұрын

The headache inducing optical effects need to go,cool back in the day I guess.

@stephenowens3687 Жыл бұрын

Yup. A lot of music shows did it back then! Very irritating I know.

@edljnehan2811 2 ай бұрын

Do you know I've seen this broken string thing a couple times with Jan akkerman where he repairs his guitar on the spot. I'm beginning to wonder if this isn't part of the show kind of like when Keith Emerson wrestles his keyboards and stabs them with the daggers. Maybe it's Jan ackerman's way of showing off a little😮 also those drop-down ads on KZfaq are extremely irritating when you're trying to read the comments😢

@Kohntarkosz 5 ай бұрын

Hey what's going on at 10:36? Looks like someone decided to have a snog during the bass solo.

@philt4346 Жыл бұрын

Great footage and quite the trove, shame the audio lacks a decent mix, or any coherence really. This certainly wasn't the broadcast audio.

@rondegroot1508 2 жыл бұрын

vistalite!

@jabu003 3 жыл бұрын

How fools can camera directors and film directors be ? Almost everytime they want to be more interesting than the musicians they have to show...........