Wow, everything that is both awesome and vomit-inducing about 70s prog-rock in one package.

That guy did some amazing things with only a 4 piece drumset.

It saddens me that rock and roll isn't this interesting and drug fueled anymore.

\my lawn. get off of it.

You never forget your first Ktel album

What's really odd is that I just discovered these guys this week and was thinking about submitting this very video, but I figured it had already been submitted. Great stuff.

neodio: What's really odd is that I just discovered these guys this week and was thinking about submitting this very video, but I figured it had already been submitted. Great stuff.

I submitted it before. I think it's my first repeat.

Still cool though.

Remember when, in the mid-70s, the goal was to NOT sound like everybody else?

It gets submitted/approved every few months. I once found a live recording of this from 1992 and submitted it as well.

A friend of mine had an old LP of this way back in the day (the day being 1985 or so).

The original version of this song took up one whole side - I believe it was 25 minutes or so.

This performance is doubly funny to me because they're playing at about 3x speed compared to the recorded version - it's like the director of this TV show said, "OK you have four and a half minutes" and they tried to cram the whole 25-minute song into it.

Aww man, I thought this was a Gwen Stefani thread.

CRIPES!!!!!!

That video made me want to STOP smoking weed and get a damn hair cut.

A masterpiece! That Jan Akkerman is still a phenomenal guitar player...check out his solo stuff. He was way ahead of the game back then.

carmody: That Jan Akkerman is still a phenomenal guitar player.

QFT. A truly amazing guitarist in an era where truly amazing guitarists seemed to be lurking around every corner.

For some reason (probably the flute solo) I always thought that this was a Jethro Tull song.

I love this song! And it also answers the musical question, "How can we make it big in the States when none of us speak English?"

Yes, Yodeling!

Drummer kicks ass.

I remember hearing this on the radio and thinking the aliens had landed. This video confirms that. Good times.

/what's more awesome than yodeling?
//rock yodeling. at Mach 10.

dmax: Remember when, in the mid-70s, the goal was to NOT sound like everybody else?

You hit the nail right on the head, and I'm going to have to use this line....

this song is one of the best songs to blast whilst driving. driving fast it good backround and even stuck in traffic it gets some great looks when you roll down your windows.

I especially enjoy the "popeye" solo

socodog: That video made me want to STOP smoking weed and get a damn hair cut.

That wasn't a weed affected performance. It looked to be more of a coke and LSD based one. Especially for the yodeling keyboardist.

SCHMACK: The original version of Hocus Pocus was on the album "Moving Waves" and was recorded i believe in 1971. The Hocus Pocus single charted in the U.S. in 1973. The 22 minute song you are thinking of on that album was an instrumental called "Eruption" which had everything from Hard Rock to what sounded like Monks chanting. I actually bought that album for "Eruption" more so than Hocus Pocus.

That was pure awesome, and should become the new official Fark anthem.

Whatthefark: It looked to be more of a coke and LSD based one.

Maybe

1) Actually, it ISNT being played '3x' faster as someone said; it'
pretty much the right tempo.

2) I know cuz I STILL have the vinyl version
.
3) I saw them perform in '73 at the PAC in Milwaukee; they were so
loud I trace the start of my hearing loss to this concert.

Dude. What kind of space coke were they doing in the Netherlands in the '70s?

Great tune, but I've never actually seen what they look like when playing it live. My goodness.

gbv23: I especially enjoy the "popeye" solo

At least Jan was using a Les Paul in this video. On their first US tour they were playing Mosrite guitars and using Selmer amps. The song they were starting as the video cut off was Eruption.

Mosrites kick ass, Doc! In the heaviest band I was ever in, I played nothing but a Ventures II model through a 200-watt TNT bass combo amp. It totally freakin' rocked.

Now I play pretty, jangly stuff with an LP. Go figure.

Worth a repeat.

Yod-di-lo-oh-ho!

mfaby: I though *I* had the best "I saw them live" stories...

21st Century Thijs van Leer

Oh well, I tried as hard as I could to find a picture of Hocus Pocus from the Rankin/Bass 'Frosty the Snowman' to no avail. Sigh.....GIS has finally failed me.

/Mopes and thinks of the funny that could have been....

chickyraptor:

21st Century Thijs van Leer


Yeah, that seems about right.

Was pleased to discover I still have a live album of theirs bouncing around in my stacks. Great band.

/no idea if I got the Dutch right

dogdaze: You never forget your first Ktel album

Vicki Lawrence? What the hell? Did she sing something from the Carol Burnett Show?

dmax: Remember when, in the mid-70s, the goal was to NOT sound like everybody else?

Wasn't that the decade when John Denver sang a bunch of James Taylor songs of James Taylor singing a bunch of Carol King songs?

That was 90%-98% kickass.

A friend of mine had this on (shudder) 8-track at his family's cottage and anytime I visited, there were multiple playings of this. And they are playing much faster in the video than the original recording, as if the original wasn't challenging enough.

That song was and is the biggest pile of crap ever passed off as music (sold worldwide using the ever-popular "Emperor Has No Clothes" plan).

Vomit for the ears.

Great tune. Check out Helloween's version - very good. Someone made a Dragon Ball Z video and used it for the music.

Link (new window)

AxL sANe: Great tune. Check out Helloween's version - very good. Someone made a Dragon Ball Z video and used it for the music.

Link (new window)

Its too slow. It much more boring than the original. Very surprising considering the number of fast songs Helloween has.

Do you think he actually wrote lyrics? So intrigued by the performance, I found another version done at a regular stage show in a large arena. Same exact caterwolling. What I don't understand is the pairing of that band with Gladys Knight and why were they on Japanese TV?

Cold1s 2008-02-21 11:01:28 PM

mfaby: I though *I* had the best "I saw them live" stories...

Not to beat a dead horse but...
This show, a Marshall Tucker show (same place and recorded for a live disc -'Where we all belong') and a ZAPPA concert are the other two that now make me wonder WTF I was thinking sitting so damned close.

Jan Akkerman was a freakin' genius. I was hoping it was this video. There are some others that are good, but the van Leer's faces in this one are great!

I'll add a concert story. My first was Nugent and Nazareth, 1976. Not in a big shed, or outdoors...in a small university gym. My ears rang for days.

TheHopeDiamond:

That song was and is the biggest pile of crap ever passed off as music (sold worldwide using the ever-popular "Emperor Has No Clothes" plan).

Vomit for the ears.


In your apparently not-so-humble opinion. Which, IMHO, is full of suck. How do I come to this conclusion, you ask? Very simple:

1) I listened.
2) I swabbed my ears.
3) Nope, no vomit.

It has to be good. It keeps showing up on Fark over and over again.

Yeah, I was pretty sure it had been submitted, several times, but I ran across it yesterday and had to do it. My step-brother's dad had this on vinyl and we played it at 75 RPM all the time. The "popeye" solo is close to what we wind players call double-tongue. Just say "digguh" really fast a few times.

/see you in six months

I remember being introduced to this song when I was in high school about 7 years ago, getting stoned in my friends basement. I think his dad played it for us.

I always used to sing along to music, so I ended up being able to sing this as well.... never was able to really do the Yodleing thing.

There's a few different versions they put out and I do believe this has been posted before.

very awesome. golf clap subby, never seen it live