Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Hocus Pocus (poco troppo)



This is the sort of thing my older brother listened to. It's like Mozart and Beethoven to him. I don't know anything about it, the group, other songs, their country, nothing at all, still it sounds to me a little bit fast. I wrote my brother to ask him because right now hearing it again it's blowing my mind.

8 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

What a great connection. The flute thing reminded me of another, Jonathan Winters or something. An albino, I think. And played the flute, I think. They sounded kind of alike there for a minute. And the yodeling is familiar. And whistling. And the scat. It's everything all at once and now .25 faster.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

That is impressive. Trump should use it. That scream is wild.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

the bark loop

deborah said...

They remind me of Kansas. The flute part is very Jethro Tull

deborah said...

Meth that documentary on Kaufman is outrageously cool. I don't see why Jim Carrey would have bothered with the movie. Did anyone see it?

The Dude said...

I used to have a cassette tape of Focus. Until today I had forgotten about the group and that tape. The falsetto yodeling took me back to the days of yore.

I used to work at GRT in '73, I think they were located out in Milpitas, and somehow came into the possession of a Focus tape. I think a guy who worked there was stealing them off the assembly line and selling them out of his trunk in the parking lot. Come to think of it, I had a lot of odd music on cassette tapes.

Very unusual to have one's memory jarred like that. I remember other groups from that time, but could not have told you who recorded that tune no matter how much I tried to focus.

Chip Ahoy said...

Oh yeah, Tull, that's the guy.

Tank said...

Focus was one of the progressive rock groups back in the 70s, and this song, I believe, was meant to be a satire on "rock and roll." Listen to it again thinking of it that way. Their other music is not much like this. This is the fastest version I've heard, and not the best. Saw them a few times live and they were very, very good, if you like this sort of thing (which I do). Their guitarist was really quite good, which does not come across well here.