Jan Akkerman and Paco de Lucia 

Akkerman is humble enough, De Lucia graceful enough, so something special happens. Instrumental poetry, musical storytelling, an unstoppable flow of inspired ideas.

Met alle respect voor Paco's spel❤, Maar Akkerman is werkelijk de meester. Bescheiden als hij speelt, maar de zuiverheid ❤❤❤❤❤🎉😊.

Dont forget, this song is bread and butter to Paco. It is in his comfort zone. I think Jan does really well. Put the show on the other foot and ask Paco to improv his flamenco style over Hocus Pocus and he would be equally (if not more) uneasy.

@ 2:12 Both one of the best guitars players ever giving their compliments to each other. I love this moment. Epic.

Making music together is never a competition you know. ❤

This is awesome! Definately Jan taking all the risks here. He really did good too, didn't do anything that wouldn't work. Thanks for sharing.

Yes there was certainly a flash of admiration on Paco's face. Agreed.

Paco is miles ahead of almost anybody you can name. To appear onstage next to him is a high honor, and one of which Jan Akkerman is justly deserving.

Paco de Lucia is the most gifted guitarplayer to walk this earth. No one comes close. technique,feeling the rhythm....unsurpassed.

His playing on the rest of Moving Waves, the album 'Hocus Pocus' is from, is superb as well. I highly recommend listening to the song 'Eruption' off that album, it is some of the best 23 minutes you will ever spend musically.

That...was...an impro... *mindblown*

...and this is one more reason I love Paco. He bridges worlds by jamming with people who play very different styles, while keeping pure to his own. He's not stuck-up about his art. Jans' axe is a little sea-weedy, yeah, but it was also the sound of the time. It reflects the electronic history, as well as the musical.

I can't imagine sitting in Jan's place. After that intro, I would be so awestruck that I wouldn't be able to play. This is incredible. Awesome performance by both of them.

Just that approving nod of Paco de Lucia is amazing

Wow, Jan was pretty courageous to use the electric with some phasing. Right when it started and showed the close up on Paco, I instantly thought "PLEASE let Jan be using his LP, please don't be playing acoustically just because of Paco", and BOOM. This video is a dream come true. It's so authentic, it's like they both were in studios that day with their own respectful acts and then the phone rang to meet at such and such for a jam (of course it was planned) - but still, so unexpected. Amazing.

Two genius, I love when Paco in the 2:41 look Jan and it seems that it thinks "mmm nice phrase". Eres el mejor Paco!!!

Also I love the way Paco looks over in a concerned way when Akkerman seems to take more of a lead......bloody fantastic!

Very different playing but well suited because of the great technique of both players. Thanks for posting.

These two are (with Jeff beck) among the greatest living guitarists. I have seen all three live, and they are in a class by themselves. Although this is no polished studio set, it is perfect for that reason as well as the imagination and virtuosity on display. I love it!

Lejos uno de los mejores duos posibles, un choque de dos mundos. Paco siendo de Lucía y Jan habiendo tocado Focus y el luto, entre las muchisimas palabras que pudieran decírseles. Me da vida, lo uno que me hubiera gustado es que Jan no tuviera tanto reverb, porque a veces se perdía el sonido en los piques, por lo demás Uma Delicia

There appear to be a lot of negative comments here and I cannot for the life of me understand why. As a working musician myself, what I see here are two excellent guitarists, albeit of differing styles (yes, I remember Focus in the early Seventies) getting together and playing for the sheer Hell of playing. The end result is amazing. It is not a boys pissing up the wall contest, it is two genuinely talented men having fun onstage. Take it as that and be happy it happened.

Could'nt agree more. I love this clip for what it is, two different styles, two dirrerent types of equipement and two great guitarists merging as one and they both seem to enjoy the moment. Who cares who thinks who is better. Turn up the volume and enjoy.

Two of the most sickeningly underrated artists in music, together. This video makes me happy to be alive.

Akkerman preformed great in this situation.This song is Paco's song, Paco's world. Jan not only fit in, he made the song more interesting, In my opinion.

clapton hendrix page and all the other "legends" do not even come close to these guys

Jan Akkerman is one of the most underrated musicians in rock history, and Paco de Lucia is rightly acknowledged as a supreme master. Paco has taken a lot of flack for breaking out of purely traditional forms of Spanish guitar, though it's mostly from traditionalists who couldn't begin to compete with him in any style. It is so cool to see two of my favorite players from quite different backgrounds burning it up together.

Qué bonitohhh.. Ole Paco y Akkerman. Paco de Lucía era maestro de maestros. El Señor lo tenga en la gloria!!

Kudos for posting this amazing clip. Most of today's musicians don't compare, they wouldn't have the guts to get together in this manner & jam. Today it's all about looks & image. As to who blew who away, it's irrelevant. Once you get beyond a certain ability, it's just a matter of personal style. Both of them are amazing guitarists. The fact that this video was posted 4 years ago & it is still generating comments says it all. Image is nothing, substance is everything.

De Lucía /Akkerman, dos idiomas, Unidos por la música... excelso, grandioso!!!!

No matter how many times I watch this, I keep coming back to it. It's amazing.

I understand what you say. Jan improvises pretty much every song every time he plays. Sure, it is always within the theme of the song, and he makes heavy use of a lot of stock licks, especially to get himself out of trouble. Sometimes though, you just want to hear the 'classic' version of a song. Having said that, its often really funny when something goes wrong and Jan and/or the band have to play round it. Never a dull moment !!

Jan is as great in his style as Paco is in his, together is even more great.

This is one of the reasons I love Jan Akkerman's music so much

Weird that the one who looks like every member of Holland's 1970's Total Football generation isn't the Dutch guy

man i love the way Paco looks at Jan at 2:42 when he does that shred, kinda like "man i wish i could do that", two very good guitar players imo

Is crazy how so many rock guitarists look up to Jan Akkerman, who was absolutely amazing, but then you see see who HE looked up to and you notice the clear difference in worlds between Spanish guitar and the rest.

Siempre he sido fanatico de la musica de Focus, desde sus inicios y de Paco de Lucia que mas decir, este dueto es de una riqueza y sensibilidad tremenda, bien por nuestro amigo que subio este clip, felicidades !!!

The two artists complemented themselves beautifully ! very much to my surprise!!!!

OMG this is very brave into Paco,s world, bravo Jan.

The intro is " Fuente Y Caudal" and the theme is "Chanela" Paco is the greatest ever lived. Jan akkerman respect for your solo!

A Spanish and a Dutch Guitargod, playing a small concerto together. Enjoy, Roy

the beginning is beautiful!

Ahhhhhhh the beauty of Paco

This is so awesome. Paco de Lucia is truly a virtuoso.

2:16 Con esa sonrisa... el gran Paco lo dice todo.

What I love about Paco is that he is soo diverse, he crosses over soo seamlessly, classical,flamenco, jazz, rock. It is the way we should all be thinking about music and the guitar.

Schön, diese jungen Bengels noch zu sehen!

2 grandiosos genios de 2 generos diferentes, y tocando juntos, esto es una pasada, increible.... no lo habia visto antes,pero ya lo tengo en favoritos. gracias Dios mio.

no se puede estropear mas un bonito sonido....

This is too awesome for words.

Paco ... gracias ... donde sea que estés ... en el cielo seguro .. tocándole feliz a dios tu guitarra seguro ... tu vida es un honor para el arte, El sonido, los conciertos y las grabaciones de Paco rinden homenaje a su padre, un hombre excepcionalmente visionario y verdaderamente revolucionario, que con tanto amor hizo de Paco un artista único y genial, similar a otros padres como Mozart, Beethoven ... La magia y el duende de paco provino de estudios autodidactas intensivos... su padre obligándole a ejecutar escalas y escalas... y tocar para comer... todo es gestar y luego parir dice Rilke,,, esos años de estudio durísimo le hicieron quien es... y su padre fue crucial... fue su voluntad... vivan los padres de los genios...la mitad del mérito es de ellos. Tiene la mezcla más difícil de todas, virtud y virtuosismo, es un poeta del instrumento. Paco no es solo un artista del más alto calibre, disciplina y musicalidad, sino el arquetipo del artista moderno, el maestro aislado y valiente, que encuentra su propio camino hacia nuevas alturas de expresión, sin importar los prejuicios o las barreras de incomprensión levantadas en su contra. Se encuentra solo al comienzo de una nueva época como un profeta, trazando los caminos que tomara el arte. El sonido catártico y místico de Paco, se ocupa por los últimos misterios que trascienden en este mundo. Su arte grandioso, colosal y majestuoso, simboliza la lucha del alma humana por encontrar la liberación de las ataduras de su cuerpo material. Su música exquisita y abrumadora continúa resonando durante toda el recital y más allá, por lo que la acción es a la vez momentánea, eterna y completa. Las interpretaciones de Paco son indescriptiblemente bellas e irresistibles. Su sonido es pura poesía y extremadamente emocional, pero sin sentimentalismos. Nos hipnotiza su nueva y radical naturalidad, su nobleza, dignidad, severidad y sobriedad; transportándonos a estados de asombro, éxtasis, meditación, amor y compasión. - Sonido y Silencio, Vida y Muerte, Tiempo y Espacio; colapsan en el momento Eterno del Infinitud. - Está al nivel de los mejores músicos interpretes de la historia como Maria Callas, Vladimir Horowitz, Ivo Pogorelich ... Paco podría haber haber coincidido con estos consejos del gran pianista Ivo Pogorelich... "Lucha y encuentra la sustancia, luego ve a las esferas superiores. La música te lleva a otro universo de eternidad que permanece contigo una vez finalizado el concierto. Lucha por conseguir calidad, profundiza ... encuentra el origen del sonido. La técnica no es solo ir rápida y lento ... es el sonido, el sonido largo, la paleta de colores, es entrar en un espacio de mundos diferentes, alcanzando la diversidad de los sonidos. Rachmaninov tenía artritis al final de su vida, estaba tan débil que su sonido era muy corto, por eso tocaba rápido, para llenar el vacío. Si tienes un sonido largo estás al mando y puedes lograr la claridad y el sonido hipnótico entre las notas. El problema siempre fue el conflicto y la diferencia entre la calidad absoluta y la relativa. La belleza en la música es como en los diamantes, el diamante más puro del mundo es el Koh-i-Noor, es la belleza absoluta con la que se comparan otros con relativa belleza. La mayoría de la música que pude escuchar fue solo un acto circense, ostentoso... de piezas virtuosas para pianistas jóvenes e inmaduros, fueron solo pruebas de destreza mecánica manual, no arte. Hay que adentrarse en el estado de ánimo psicológico en el que los compositores escribieron sus obras para descubrir sus secretos. Trabaja tan duro como un esclavo de galeras. No practico ejercicios. Cuando practico una pieza, hago algunas variaciones de ella, inventando mis propios ejercicios para ayudar en ese lugar particular preciso que necesito mejorar. La técnica es el arte de la variedad, el arte de saber cómo ajustar la mano a un grupo particular de notas para producir un sonido particular que se ajuste a las expectativas particulares del oído. El sonido se vuelve metafísico solo cuando se ha explorado completamente todas las posibilidades físicas. Deberías explorar hasta llegar al absurdo. Siempre se debe intentar en la medida de lo posible redescubrir la música como si la estuvieras escuchando por primera vez, buscando por todas partes nuevos significados y nuevas profundidades. La función más alta del artista es liberar la espiritualidad y la inmediatez emocional que se encuentran dentro de la partitura. Estar constantemente involucrado en la investigación, no solo miro las cosas como aparecen, sino que también trato de encontrar los laberintos, los secretos de la música. Una composición solo se puede interpretar bien si es completamente tuya, no solo cada nota de la memoria, sino que las notas se han convertido en ti y tu te has convertido en las notas. Nada pasa por casualidad. Llámalo una fuerza que algunas personas piensan que controla lo que sucede en el futuro, y está fuera del control humano, llámalo preordenación, pero a veces sucede. Después de todo, el elemento humano trae la felicidad total ". Ivo Pogorelich.

Delightful, thank you. Speaks volumes about their appreciation of each other. 🎸🍾❤️

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Rare meeting of two top guitar players, with completely different backgrounds, playing together It gets better every time you hear it again...

Amazing!!! I love that kind of pure authentic musical expressions. Peace on eart!!! Nothin' left to say...

Que maravilla de video, es impresionante ver a estos dos grandes guitarristas juntos!!!!

Two of my most favorite and influential guitarists ever to be. But as great as any mortal electric guitarist ever could be. You cant help but fall into a trance watching the one and only flamenco master "Paco" perform at a beyond-mortal pace. May "Saint Paco" bless us guitarist players from the heavens! A great man before a god? What a tussle indeed!

Can’t imagine Clapton May or similar doing this ‘ Jans far ahead , Paco is a legend 🎼

This brought tears to my eyes....the beauty

Wonderful to see those very different virtuosos enjoying a jam together, thanks guys.

What a shame these guys didn't rehearse and work together for a longer while...Tremendous!

this is the totally awesome!! blew me away!!! paco is the matador!!

Bravo Olé! THanks!

yes the right hand of Paco is incredible.

This IS music, bringing together two great musicians to play together in 'harmony' literally and figuratively. You could really see Paco de Lucia having a great time :D.

Wow! What a musical gift to humanity!!!

bendito dueto, qué maravilla

As has been said before, this is a Paco piece, he is in his comfort zone, playing his music and is not improvising. Jan is the one with the difficult job to do and does it brilliantly. Duetting with the mighty Paco is tough enough at the best of times, but imagine if they were to sit down and tell Paco he had 30 mins to learn and play live along to Hocus Pocus !! Now that would be interesting !!!

Great, thnks for posting! Both so good. Very special indeed

this is just incredible, great!

wow!! First time to watch this.. Pure goodness. Thanks for posting this performance.

I soon get bored with pacos twittering about but never get tired of listening to Jan not in the last 50 years at least. Live forever Jan.

Wow Jan, as always!

Fantastic musicians!!!

Paco is one badass player. Great tchnique, greater music!

Spot on. Both seemed to enjoy the moment.

Two of my favorites guitar players. Thanks for posting this.

Paco is at one with his guitar, Jan is graceful.

Mesmerizing!

Paco's facial expression at 2:41-2:43 is one of the funniest things I have seen on youtube...

Wonderful!

Thats why this is so wonderful !!

I personally am a Jan Akkerman fan so may be biased in saying I think Paco enjoyed this more, going by the fly looks towards Jan to see what he was doing. Most importantly I think is that two totally different styles became one.

@mikulasvselicha Well we dont really know that. His technique and skill are without question, but he has never really stepped far from his comfort zone. Search on Jan's history even on YT and you will see classical playing on Acoustic and Lute, straight up blues, supporting Jazz singers, playing Gypsy with the Rosenbergs, ground breaking prog-rock with Focus. He went through a serious Funk phase and pioneered work on the Guitar Synth - his musical versatility is almost unmatched

sounds great!!!

Two of my heroes....talking together! I wish I could have joined, with vocals.....

NO COMMENT!! NO WORDS!! AWESOME

Estás enfermo??!!!.... esto es espectacular y suena increible. Creo que tienes que afinar tus oidos o despejartelos, porque una guitarra española y una eléctrica jamás sonarán igual. ¡AWESOME!

Amazing! Tks!

es increible lo facil que hace parecer tocar la guitarra paco de lucia

got to love it!!!

can u realise how paco feels while playing?he has got something else,that's why we love him so much.greatest technique and the greatest soul.viva maestro

Never seen this before.awesome skills

Love it! Two great big ego's ( and deservedly so ) coming together for whatever reason. I take my hat off to both. Let's not judge either but just be thankful they did this for us all to enjoy. Yes the recording is poor and quite harsh but anyone with any musical ability will appreciate this for what it is and in my opinion one of the best 'JAMS' in history.

There will never be anyone like Paco. Never.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!

sick man.thats amazing.just fantastic

I think this is really great!

Jan Akkerman is the best at playing the Blues, best at Rock & Roll, Jazz and came very close in classical spanish guitarplay. Paco should have been hugely grateful to play with the GOAT

Leyenda del tiempo Tio Paco!

Two giants of gitar! Well, in this style Paco is really unsurpassable!