@bvelliot You're so right. Post Wilson incarnations of Procol Harum are a lot less rich. And they were a band that managed to successfully replace Robin Trower!
This is one of the finest pieces of original music I have ever heard.It has classical, folk, and elements of heritage in it. all of their music was so fine. A tribute to the great musicians of the band and their truly original music. Fantastic live performance.
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I liked it on the radio. This guy (Brooker) is a phoney-baloney rich kid. I went to school with clever lads whose mums all gave them their very own room, piano, car, guitar and wiped their precious asses.
Look ... forget all that nonsense and just watch, just listen to the most musical, the ultimate, the most brilliant drummer rock ever offered us. Barrie makes this track, much like he made all Procol tracks from the very beginning to the very end of this band. Screw Brooker .... Wilson is the guy who made Procol the wonderful band that they were.
@maximumsatann - I don't think I could pick out one single "best" pop song, but this is surely near the top. And I think Booker's vocals on the original recording is one of the best vocals I've ever heard!
WTF is Trower? If this doofus cameraman could film band mates other than Brooker, we'd know. Procol went right down the shitter with Brooker after Trower said PISS OFF !... and rightly so..pompous goons!
Missed the Hollywood Bowl concert but they added a show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, sadly, without the orchestra accompaniment. But an unknown group opened for them at the Civic. It was their concert debut--a group called The Eagles! And the tickets were only $3.00.
Today would have been our Salty Dog's birthday :( As my cousin pointed out, it would have been his 4 millionth bday in dog years :)) He had the best name directly chosen from the best album of its time :) and still so today!
@Joemckna When Gabriel toured back in '78, his set list included a punky version of "A Whiter Shade of Pale," which was immediately followed by "Here Comes the Flood." So yeah, I'd say Gabriel has so much as conceded an influence there.
This is after Robin Trower and Matthew Fisher left, so I'm pretty sure that's Dave Ball on guitar and Chris Copping on organ. Dave would wind up teaming with Cozy Powell in the short lived Bedlam a little after this. Pretty sure Dave's brother Dennis played bass with Bedlam also.
The most beautiful song from a rock band even without the amazing orchestral arrangements on the record. To me it´s far better than A whiter although less commercial. The newer song The emperor's new clothes on The well's on fire album is in the same vein and beautiful as well.
simply astonishing... it's always a thrill to see & hear PH live. Btw, I can remember an amazing live performance @ German TV of "Pilgrim's Progress", but I can't find it anymore, they fucking cancelled it, what a shame. Does anybody has still got it? bye
@luteplayer80 - if you're still looking for a live version of "Pilgrim's Progress," one has been reposted by rofimaloc. Not sure if this is the one you remember, but it's great. Has Gary Brooker singing lead, and Chris Copping on organ. I love the studio version with Matthew Fisher, but I think Brooker et al do a beautiful live version.
@vulpecula999 they turned out a good reunion album in early nineties called Prodigal Stranger, with Robin Trower rejoining the group but did not tour with them
check out the songs, "All Our Dreams are Sold" and "King of Hearts", bith great tunes and Booker's vocals are as strong as ever
A stunningly wonderful bandrecorded and or live even better. fabulous songs w/deep lyrics and astounding musicianship and arrangement. A symphonic rock prog band extraordinaire w/one if not the most underated and unacknowledged genius of a drummer I have ever had the pleasure to experience live. RIP Barrie J. Wilson. Your spirit is alive in me . Thank you oh somuch Procol Harum for everythingmusicalyou helped melearn.
I was fortunate enough to see these guys live in Vancouver (Canada) in the early 70's. They were absolutely flawless. Just killer killer melodies and super performers. Gary Brooker has one of the all time monster pop music voices. 5 stars of course! ~KW
In principle i agree with you, but there are some exceptions, like Ozric Tentacles, check them out ( it´s quite diferent from PH, it´s more space/rock, and excelent music)
The formal manner in which "Mr. Wilson" is beseeched is mindful of a captain addressing another naval officer. This is sheer poetic genius set to music. It has all of the pictorial elements found in Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and conjures images of ghost ships, treacherous seas, a fevered, hell-bent captain--even a whiff of the Bounty mutiny itself-- and the promised paradise of an island home after a burning of the ship. A motion picture of both word and music. Classic!
This is one of my favorite songs.... period. I'm an old ex sailor so I guess it goes without saying it would be. It is just so freakin beautiful........ I wish I could hug the lyricist lol...................
I'm with you here UncleAndy.. I too am an old sailor.. this just sings... there are other versions with some 'sea' scape intonements.. seagulls and waves.. they are also nice..
album I showed all my friends because I believed it was amazing. I showed them, and none of them were astonished like I was. They even said it sucked. This was about end of 08
Brooker is a Legendary artist (with a capital "L") and performer. Saw Procol Harum in 1974 and "Lighter Shade of Pale" is still my favorite song of all time.
ok, an error - but most of the big artists/bands don't do live....brilliant song. Also i think voice/piano synchronization errors around 3:50 to 4:10 - not done for a jazz effect. Who cares. Brilliant, underrated band
i noticed that too, but simply assumed he had changed the harmony a bit. It kind of worked. More likely a mistake indeed. even At the time they never improvised over Salty Dog.
This is the greatest examples of Art-Rock ever written!!! Please someone challenge my opinion.
padleynj 2 months ago
@padleynj: I challenge your opinion with the simple thesis that "Art-Rock" and "greatest" cannot logically coexist in the same sentence.
bengreens 2 months ago
Great
beagleman123456789 2 months ago
Einfach Klasse der Song !!! Ohrwurmfaktor 10 !!!
könnte den Stundenlang hören !!!
Danke Gary Brooker!!!
zoppi110 3 months ago
What a great story let alone a great peice of music
jjhtr 3 months ago
BIG PROCOL HARUM!
TheMarcio2014 7 months ago
Fucking gorgeous. Going to learn it right now.
mcadarette 9 months ago
One person went down with the ship
emgeorge105 9 months ago
Mr. Wilson, we miss you.
bvelliot 10 months ago 2
@bvelliot You're so right. Post Wilson incarnations of Procol Harum are a lot less rich. And they were a band that managed to successfully replace Robin Trower!
rondolce 7 months ago
This is one of the finest pieces of original music I have ever heard.It has classical, folk, and elements of heritage in it. all of their music was so fine. A tribute to the great musicians of the band and their truly original music. Fantastic live performance.
bassbob42 10 months ago 4
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Go to Wikapedia, this is the most played song ever from across the pond
TheFishMiester 10 months ago
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TheFishMiester 10 months ago
Well, I am pleased to announce that Cliff Osbourne (Radio Caroline) played this as part of my 'Top 15' on 1st March!
Glamagal20091 11 months ago
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I liked it on the radio. This guy (Brooker) is a phoney-baloney rich kid. I went to school with clever lads whose mums all gave them their very own room, piano, car, guitar and wiped their precious asses.
bamboosa 11 months ago
@bamboosa What a dumb remark........you know nothing about Gary Brooker.
Muppet1950 11 months ago 13
Look ... forget all that nonsense and just watch, just listen to the most musical, the ultimate, the most brilliant drummer rock ever offered us. Barrie makes this track, much like he made all Procol tracks from the very beginning to the very end of this band. Screw Brooker .... Wilson is the guy who made Procol the wonderful band that they were.
rotterdarned 11 months ago
@bamboosa you wanker
mcleanartists 11 months ago
@bamboosa yes and we are forever thankful to you, the working inferior class, for keeping us where we desrve
joaomedina1 7 months ago
@bamboosa duck you man. duck you.
mrnose55q 4 months ago
It is my view that this is the best Pop song ever written. Truly spectacular.
maximumsatann 11 months ago 3
@maximumsatann Errrrr.........'Pop' song????
Muppet1950 11 months ago
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maximumsatann 11 months ago
@maximumsatann ..........Maybe just song!
Muppet1950 11 months ago
@Muppet1950 Maybe just vibrations in the air. What is your point?
maximumsatann 11 months ago
@Muppet1950 POP SONG ? don't they remember pop in the 60s & 70s? Not pop, and fantastic live video.
TheGB1950 9 months ago
@maximumsatann Never mind about knowing about Gary Brooker-YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MUSIC-PERIOD!!!
Mozkozo 10 months ago
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@maximumsatann Never mind about knowing about Gary Brooker. You know nothing about music PERIOD!!
Mozkozo 10 months ago
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@maximumsatann Never mind about knowing about Gary Brooker. You know nothing about music PERIOD!!
Mozkozo 10 months ago
@maximumsatann PLEASE! Not only don't you know any thing about Gary Brooker, it seems that you know nothing about music-PERIOD!!
Mozkozo 10 months ago
@Mozkozo What are you getting your knickers in a twist about? I'd venture that I know more about music than a vulgarian such as yourself.
maximumsatann 10 months ago
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@maximumsatann PLEASE! Not only don't you know any thing about Gary Brooker, it seems that you know nothing about music-PERIOD!!
Mozkozo 10 months ago
@maximumsatann Contradistinguish? That's not verbosity, that's bona fide verbal diarrhoea.
ega95jch 2 months ago
@ega95jch Squelch
maximumsatann 2 months ago
@Muppet1950 sure. pop song. popular music
spoookytooth 4 weeks ago
@maximumsatann - I don't think I could pick out one single "best" pop song, but this is surely near the top. And I think Booker's vocals on the original recording is one of the best vocals I've ever heard!
mudhens4ever 3 months ago
WTF is Trower? If this doofus cameraman could film band mates other than Brooker, we'd know. Procol went right down the shitter with Brooker after Trower said PISS OFF !... and rightly so..pompous goons!
leonakita 1 year ago
@leonakita He aint there.
deadwoodgulch 1 year ago
@leonakita Thank you Mrs. Trower.Now move along please.
kurtizzyflush 1 year ago 2
best version ever, thank you!
ThEsOuNdSoLdIeR 1 year ago
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Yes! Wonderful live version of a superb song. Great Brooker!!!
albertop952 1 year ago
Missed the Hollywood Bowl concert but they added a show at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, sadly, without the orchestra accompaniment. But an unknown group opened for them at the Civic. It was their concert debut--a group called The Eagles! And the tickets were only $3.00.
bushinprison 1 year ago
Greetings from Italy to all our British friends!This music is simply IMMORTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always got thrills listening to it!
Piranha2907 1 year ago 3
Today would have been our Salty Dog's birthday :( As my cousin pointed out, it would have been his 4 millionth bday in dog years :)) He had the best name directly chosen from the best album of its time :) and still so today!
jmoxie1 1 year ago
i saw them open for jethro tull this june and they were just as good now as they were then
2 great bands
arandombuckeye 1 year ago
Live, without strings:more evocative
albertop952 1 year ago
Some of you might disagree with me, but I wonder if Peter Gabriel was listening to this when he wrote "here comes the flood".
Joemckna 1 year ago
@Joemckna When Gabriel toured back in '78, his set list included a punky version of "A Whiter Shade of Pale," which was immediately followed by "Here Comes the Flood." So yeah, I'd say Gabriel has so much as conceded an influence there.
NakedReporta 1 year ago
@Joemckna You might be right.
ladyfuschia 1 year ago
There isn't anyone around in today's music scene capable of such music, and this song especially can't be touched
jduff59 1 year ago
This is after Robin Trower and Matthew Fisher left, so I'm pretty sure that's Dave Ball on guitar and Chris Copping on organ. Dave would wind up teaming with Cozy Powell in the short lived Bedlam a little after this. Pretty sure Dave's brother Dennis played bass with Bedlam also.
Nice post...thanks!
drprogensteinphp 1 year ago
beautiful vocal delivery by GB
leach1527 1 year ago 2
OMG
madmexart 1 year ago
I've been listening to this song for 40 years now, and I still get a tingle in my spine when I hear it. Absolute genius.
23moksha 1 year ago
A very moving performance ! JHP
BeachBoysGuy1 1 year ago
STUNNING
heavenlypeachgarden 1 year ago
And yes, BJ awesome drummer, he stands out
jazo54 1 year ago
The most beautiful song from a rock band even without the amazing orchestral arrangements on the record. To me it´s far better than A whiter although less commercial. The newer song The emperor's new clothes on The well's on fire album is in the same vein and beautiful as well.
jazo54 1 year ago 2
Magnificence seldom visited since.
youamwho 1 year ago 2
Probably the greatest rock ballad ever made. I've ask my brother to play it at my funeral.
robmanic44 1 year ago
Just a killing song. I hear Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata (2nd movement) in this.
dukeofdeco 2 years ago
This song done by this amazing band and awesome singer never fails to bring me to tears. Amazing performance!
hankyhoyo 2 years ago 2
Thx Muppet!Great video of a fantastic song.
franknava65 2 years ago 2
simply astonishing... it's always a thrill to see & hear PH live. Btw, I can remember an amazing live performance @ German TV of "Pilgrim's Progress", but I can't find it anymore, they fucking cancelled it, what a shame. Does anybody has still got it? bye
luteplayer80 2 years ago
@luteplayer80 - if you're still looking for a live version of "Pilgrim's Progress," one has been reposted by rofimaloc. Not sure if this is the one you remember, but it's great. Has Gary Brooker singing lead, and Chris Copping on organ. I love the studio version with Matthew Fisher, but I think Brooker et al do a beautiful live version.
violetjm 1 year ago
BJ was the perfect drummer for this music...DRAMAAAA
nudgler 2 years ago 21
@nudgler
He was an excellent musician.
His session work on Joe Cocker (With A Little Help From My Friends),Lou Reed (Berlin) albums was great too.
GalaxyRover1020 2 years ago 3
BJ was really a special drummer at that time. His playing on the tune Broken Barricades and on Typewriter Torment from Procols Ninth stand out to me.
stretch54 1 year ago
Brilliant song from a brilliant band. Such a pity that most people only associate PH with A whiter.....
vulpecula999 2 years ago 26
@vulpecula999 they turned out a good reunion album in early nineties called Prodigal Stranger, with Robin Trower rejoining the group but did not tour with them
check out the songs, "All Our Dreams are Sold" and "King of Hearts", bith great tunes and Booker's vocals are as strong as ever
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 1 year ago
A million thanks for ths stunning clip. I love this song so much and what a treat it is to hear a classic live-in-the-studio performance!
ifutureman 2 years ago 6
A stunningly wonderful bandrecorded and or live even better. fabulous songs w/deep lyrics and astounding musicianship and arrangement. A symphonic rock prog band extraordinaire w/one if not the most underated and unacknowledged genius of a drummer I have ever had the pleasure to experience live. RIP Barrie J. Wilson. Your spirit is alive in me . Thank you oh somuch Procol Harum for everythingmusicalyou helped melearn.
rrdrums110 2 years ago 7
I was fortunate enough to see these guys live in Vancouver (Canada) in the early 70's. They were absolutely flawless. Just killer killer melodies and super performers. Gary Brooker has one of the all time monster pop music voices. 5 stars of course! ~KW
Music4Boomers 2 years ago 2
It's videos like this that remind me why I love Youtube so much-- I had no idea a performance like this even existed. Thanks Muppet.
kidcharlemagne76 2 years ago 3
Greatest lyrics of any rock song ever made. This song will be played at my funeral. Thanks Keith.
robmanic44 2 years ago 2
Sou apaixonado por esta música, até porque foi através dela que descobri que "A Whiter Shade of Pale" é uma música do PH.
Além de adorar "Salty Dog", gosto muito de "Homburg" e "Repent Walpurgis"
caiocsgn 2 years ago
Concordo.
Não te esqueças dos álbuns "Grand Hotel" e "Exotic Birds and Fruit" - também têm excelentes músicas. Um abraço.
Tubba324 2 years ago
Too bad nobody does music this good anymore. All we get these days is garbage.
Buckethead1954 2 years ago 4
In principle i agree with you, but there are some exceptions, like Ozric Tentacles, check them out ( it´s quite diferent from PH, it´s more space/rock, and excelent music)
Semente200 2 years ago
s il y a des documents du légendaire POP 2 ce serait bien de les réediter . la voix de gary brooker est ici très belle . merci
POPAVIDEO 2 years ago
The formal manner in which "Mr. Wilson" is beseeched is mindful of a captain addressing another naval officer. This is sheer poetic genius set to music. It has all of the pictorial elements found in Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and conjures images of ghost ships, treacherous seas, a fevered, hell-bent captain--even a whiff of the Bounty mutiny itself-- and the promised paradise of an island home after a burning of the ship. A motion picture of both word and music. Classic!
ThymeBottle 2 years ago 5
Wonderful!!!
PierGiorgio18091969 2 years ago
I knew that and have made the same mis-nomer for years! even... lol
sambogup 2 years ago
This is one of my favorite songs.... period. I'm an old ex sailor so I guess it goes without saying it would be. It is just so freakin beautiful........ I wish I could hug the lyricist lol...................
UncleAndy13 2 years ago
I'm with you here UncleAndy.. I too am an old sailor.. this just sings... there are other versions with some 'sea' scape intonements.. seagulls and waves.. they are also nice..
onewayOG 2 years ago
You know whats absurd?
The first time I heard the salty dog/home
album I showed all my friends because I believed it was amazing. I showed them, and none of them were astonished like I was. They even said it sucked. This was about end of 08
So basically fuck them.
Btw the error isnt bad at all.
Procol Harum by far is my favorite band of all
allennnnnn91 2 years ago 3
wonderful live version of a superb song.
Brooker is a Legendary artist (with a capital "L") and performer. Saw Procol Harum in 1974 and "Lighter Shade of Pale" is still my favorite song of all time.
sambogup 2 years ago 3
Or even 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'...........
Muppet1950 2 years ago 4
ok, an error - but most of the big artists/bands don't do live....brilliant song. Also i think voice/piano synchronization errors around 3:50 to 4:10 - not done for a jazz effect. Who cares. Brilliant, underrated band
guyosborn 3 years ago
Would have been brilliant but for the (rare) glaring error on the piano by Gary at 3mins 15 secs.
Pity!
tojaks 3 years ago
i noticed that too, but simply assumed he had changed the harmony a bit. It kind of worked. More likely a mistake indeed. even At the time they never improvised over Salty Dog.
ITubeSheTubes 2 years ago