DISQUS

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Music has gone so far downhill in the past 30 years

  • St Mix · 1 year ago
    Focus was one of the best bands of it's era. I recommend the album Focus III. Their music still holds up today. And the yodeling? It's called "humor", people. It used to exist in music. It coexisted with another element called "fun".
    Focus toured the states in 2003, with Van Leer the only remaining original member. He is incredibly talented on both flute and Keys. You can find several DVD's of them at Netflix.
  • An_Optimist · 1 year ago
    The only things missing are a Stonehenge monument and a dwarf.
  • knut · 1 year ago
    Sometimes my knees bend back
  • SDC · 1 year ago
    Crowds in the 60s cheered when Ravi Shankar tuned up. But that video was awesome, man.

    The nutsack chin/Family Guy thing was spot on, though, Mr. Pslatt.
  • sushma2363 · 1 year ago
    Talking about music and Bands, there is one which just takes you on to a journey unexpected that is "Scheherazade"...such a range and Rimsky had just touched all the chords of the soul. Soulful Music.
  • Wink Martindale · 1 year ago
    I actually have this album. Oh Lord, I just admitted that in public. The shame....
  • yahoo_collapse · 1 year ago
    Hey Steve-o, go dig up Fever Tree for 'em. Much better and more suitable to your neck of the woods. "San Francisco Girls"
  • yahoo_collapse · 1 year ago
    Actually San Francisco Girls is a great theme song for Yahoo and their support group in the valley these days. The lyrics are exactly what Yahoo is saying rightaboutnow.
  • Dr. Drang · 1 year ago
    Dude, quit cribbing my discoveries!

    http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2007/12/hocus-...
  • satellite view of my house · 1 year ago
    That music is amazing, i like the drummer ,he beats really hard
  • Chaz · 1 year ago
    Hot crap that's good. Tight as a drum and searing guitar, plus a rock-flute section!

    I seem to remember a cover of this sometime in the eighties - anyone able to give my memory a nudge? Same band that covered inna gadda da vida, irrc
  • Chaz · 1 year ago
    ...or I could look it up on the internet myself. The Vandals, described by Wikipedia as "Party Punk", and no version of In a gadda da vida in their back catalogue.

    Party Punk. Don't here much of that these days.
  • Jesse · 1 year ago
    Steve, your frackin amazing and you have great taste..

    Thanks for the support!

    A Dutchie
  • TC · 1 year ago
    Looks like they're introduced by Young Oprah.
  • Zeeman · 1 year ago
    "Oh my my. Oh my yes. Honey, put on that party dress!"
  • woz · 1 year ago
    In case anybody asks, no, I didn't sit in on drums that day.
  • Nir · 1 year ago
    29 comments and no one mentioned this is the theme song for "Saxondale"?? Do yourselves a favor and check it out - Steve Coogan is a genius.
  • acap. · 1 year ago
    the real genius musician is Steve Winwood !!!
  • Jesse · 1 year ago
    Whistle solo. Who the hell can get away with a whistle solo, besides Paul Simon?
  • Tardis · 1 year ago
    Anyone notice that the clip was copied from Japanese TV, who copied it (I guess) from a US TV show?

    The introduction is captioned as by Gladys Knight.

    And unfortunately Steve is right, the organ and flute-playing, yodeling and whistling Dutchman with wild facial expressions has grown older, white-haired and noticeably fatter. Something to do with the pot?
  • faddah · 1 year ago
    uh.... i'd say something far more insidious. age.
  • cjschuette · 1 year ago
    Geez, Van Morrison really let himself go.

    (BTW, I seriously just downloaded that song from iTunes like 2 days ago. What the hell prompted THAT??)
  • JOSE GILBERTO · 1 year ago
    ´Thank you this video is fantastic the group progressive rock "FOCUS" was magnific "HOCUS POCUS" one hit one must inacreditable this video i hadnt watched moment fantastic unforgetable..thaks...
  • PLJNS · 1 year ago
    I'm half Dutch and i now finally know where the Dutch music started to cave in. Damn...
  • Nicholas · 1 year ago
    Do you know how hard it was to friggin' find Hocus Pocus on vinyl back in the day? Thank goodness for the internets and your invention of iTunes!

    There is a lot of good music now. But, it is not "packaged" nor always pretty. There certainly did seem to be a lot more top tiered musicians, that were musicians first however… Sad.
  • brad · 1 year ago
    hey fake steve, not sure if you've seen this yet, but I bet you would like this.
  • whaybe · 1 year ago
    very good writing.congrutalitions.
  • faddah · 1 year ago
    yup, that was prog rock, for all it was worth. i had a radio edit shorter recording of this on a ktel vinyl album of this from the am radio mix. makes you realize why people like john "johnny rotten" lydon and sid vicious had to come along.

    i dare you play keith emerson & the nice playing bernstein's "america," man. i darez ya. i double dawg darez ya!
  • Elijah · 1 year ago
    It's clear from that last picture that Randy Newman was only invited to MacWorld because this guy was unavailable.
  • Seth · 1 year ago
    I never knew Liam Neeson played mean guitar back in the 70s. Looks just like the guy in the yellow shirt.
  • SueW · 1 year ago
    Crikey! So that's where Elvis got to! Thank goodness, there was a rumour, clearly spread by malcontents, that he was dead.
  • ekivemark · 1 year ago
    Wow! I actually have the hypnosis inducing vinyl album cover that this hit came from "in and out of..."
  • MAD · 1 year ago
    I hope the music lab guys aren't driving home baked. Does Apple provide car service like Google?
  • Frogman · 1 year ago
    I just saw Focus play this song at the Symforce festival in Holland last September, and they were just as stunning!

    Rock on, Steve.
  • osisbs · 1 year ago
  • Shenyurt · 1 year ago
    Great Music.
  • debra · 1 year ago
    Wish I remembered the name of my favorite "small time" rock band from that era. Had electric violin. Did a song about the Ancient Mariner. But I can't recall.
  • RDL Watch · 1 year ago
    Wow, I never knew Mel Gibson was a keyboardist, flautist and bug-eyed LSD user, in addition to being an anti-semite and stone-age Catholic. Now that's progressive!
  • El Capitano Corelli · 1 year ago
    Is that Richard Stallman yodelling?
  • engrmizan · 1 year ago
    oh oh oh good themes good performance....
  • Ian Simmons · 1 year ago
    I've been into Focus since the '70s and so excited because they are touring the UK this Spring! Recommend 'Hamburger Concerto', but they are all great...
    Glad to see great taste never dies - just reforms!
  • the constant skeptic · 1 year ago
    wow
  • TheTart · 1 year ago
    Trippy & that current pic of him is beyond priceless!

    Musical smooches,
    The Tart
    ; *
  • reno · 1 year ago
    i just loaded the bong and set this video to loop ...
  • playitcool · 1 year ago
    word
  • tellymonster · 1 year ago
    I actually had the pleasure of seeing these guys at a festival in Denmark in '75 while backpacking Europe. Word was they weren't what they used to be by then, but holy jeezus. I mean, the crowd in that video was sitting down watching a freakin' tv show. Imagine what they would be like if they actually came to see wild rock and got the show of a lifetime (and believe me, they did). Good times, I tell ya what.
  • Ming · 1 year ago
    Insanely great.
  • Damned from the Start · 1 year ago
    Beats the hell out of Ken Fisher.

    Thank you, but now I have to go back to India to get a new mantra.

    Focus was too distracting of a word to concentrate on anyway...
  • TooCheapToBuyBooks · 1 year ago
    Beats the hell out of Ken Fisher

    I concur, sir.
  • lastangelman · 1 year ago
    That's almost as scary looking as Peter Frampton in those Geico commercials
  • lastangelman · 1 year ago
    BY scary, I mean the picture of the yodeler now.
  • Mike'o · 1 year ago
    O Lord! The pic of modern day van Leer scared me straight.
  • lastangelman · 1 year ago
    I had no idea you were gay!
    Welcome back to the fold ....!
  • stub · 1 year ago
    It almost made 'nam worth it...
  • mgabrys · 1 year ago
    Says Oct 75 in the video - oh I get it - another "inaccuracy" troll. Whatever.
  • steveballmer · 1 year ago
    That was good, but the yoddeling made it seem stupid! Yoddelers should be banned from rock and jazz, maybe the rappers could try some yoddeling, it requires more talent than what they do now!
    Check out Balm is you are looking for some goodstuff!
    http://virb.com/balm/
  • lastangelman · 1 year ago
    You want some yodeling rapper? You got some yodeling rapper - right here (better make sure you have latest Adobe Flash).
  • inqball · 1 year ago
    rap is a crap, i don't like the most from this modern sampled noise, please beam me back with time machine to the good old times.
  • VVVVV · 1 year ago
    The good old times never existed. A rock band redoing 'Hall of the Mountain King' is just another form of sampling, in a way. :)
  • inqball · 1 year ago
    modern times havn't never been.
  • pslatt · 1 year ago
    Looks like the Family Guy now, complete with nutsack chin.