Focus - Hocus Pocus | REACTION

The band was instructed to shorten the song for the time slot but they just sped up the tempo and fit the entire song in - simply mad genius.

Kid: Grandpa, what were the 70s like? Me: Watch this Kid: was it really like that??? Me: Yeah. But sometimes it got weird too.

The drummer is a beast! I love these guys and I'm glad you saw it. Great fun and excellent musicianship.

This is a really fast version of this song. The guitarist, Jan Ackerman, is incredible. This was 1973, no one had ever heard of shredding on the guitars, and yet...there it is in it's purist form, without all of the distortion and echo effects. He just plugs his Les Paul into an amp and goes crazy. One of the greatest GUITARISTS you never heard of. They were a instrumental group mostly , from Holland. The rest of their music is not like this song, but Hocus Pocus got them noticed. The drummer is great too, an old style jazz drummer playing rock. Very talented band.

Jamel - "I was not expecting this!" Hey, none of us were expecting this when the song came out in the early 70s either!

Once you stop laughing you have to admit it's still a kick ass song.

I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Just seeing Jamel's eyes go super wide during the yodeling. I knew he had to walk off the screen for this one. It is a catchy back tune. Whether someone likes all of it or not, you won't ever, ever forget it — and you will show many others.

You can't imagine how cool this song was in the 70s. Going to High School and hearing this in the halls, on the radio (full version!) It was epic!

As soon as this popped up in my feed, my first thought was "Man, he's gonna have a field day with this one"

Focus: "Our song is 7 minutes long." Midnight Special: "You got 5." Focus: "Hold our cocaine."

This is just the reaction I expected. The look on Jamel's face when the vocals started!

Brilliant musicians, and a wonderful antedote to some of the other bands of the time who took themselves way too seriously.

And Jamal's brain explodes as he walks off the set. 🤪 This song is from back in the 70's when I was in high school. Now you know what's wrong with most of us. 🤪

This is crazy the original studio version is nearly 8 minutes long they were given a 5 minute slot so they just played twice as fast.

Midnight Special: We need you to do an 8 minute song in 4 minutes. Focus: OK.

Mister was not prepared for what just happened. No one warned him he was literally going on a musical roller coaster. I was hanging on for dear life next to him. WeeHaw! That was fun!

I would've paid real money if they'd panned over to Gladys just to see the expression her face. Just for a second.

Focus.. from the Netherlands.. makes me proud to be Dutch.

Any kudos at all to Jan Akkerman? One of the finest guitarists, ever!

Jamel, this has to be my all time favorite reaction from you! I've gone back to this several times and I laugh just as hard each time! These guys were genius! And you, Jamel, are just plain awesome! Love ya, man!