PROCOL HARUM Pilgrims Progress

A Salty Dog

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Music

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• procol
• harum

[quark51]

It's not just the chord pattern. It's the great handclapping on reverb, the great drum intro, the choral background singing just the right notes, the bell strike at just the right time, the Hammond B-3 percussion setting... the whole package. True, they could have milked it for 10 minutes more and it would still sound good. It's a frickin' masterpiece.......

[Nacho66]

The coda in this is like a universal burst of pure happiness.

I know how that sounds and I don't care - It's true!

[stevo5498]

R they the masters, or fuckin wot. ?

[NisPeter56]

@procol33 Just the way I feel - A masterpiece!

[LaughingWater2]

@italiabklyn83 your right dude but all electronic music needs is treatment like what, King Crimson and Procul Harum did to rock ya know make it more soulful i think that you really dont need talent to be a electronic musician but it does take determanation which is something that rappers dont have i mean how lazy they cant even learn that but yeah as a whole electronic music needs to be Reformed but tbh electronic music is still kinda new so its gonna take a while before it becomes art

[procol33]

Nooone could match Procol's majesty.....Even today they sound as good as ever....

And the ending on Pilgram's Progress is the most incredible feeling of true beauty, it hurts to listen...

Lg

[ffchatter]

a whiter shade of pale sold 8 million,homburg sold i million,their albums sold about 250,000 each,live with the edmonton symphony sold i million.these days to get a number one all you have to do is sell 100,000 copies.

[postdrop]

Anyone else try "Navy Cuts" because of this? Love this song.

[hermitcrabbot]

@DrMarianus

Correct. It was based on a pack of Players 'Navy Cut' cagarettes.

They just changed the sailor's face to that of Keith.

[DrMarianus]

The whole song, especially the vocal harmony and ship's bell always gets to me right in my heart. It has a lot of meaning for me as it came out about a year before I entered the US Navy in 1970 as a Diver. This song, and the whole album, is a tribute to all those, no matter whom, that have sailed the seas over the years and know both its beauty and its awesomeness. If you like poetry, check out Walt Whitman poems on the Sea. I'm sure Procol Harum read them.

[DrMarianus]

@hermitcrabbot

It was actually the cover on a box of English 'Player's' cigarettes back then.

[italiabklyn83]

@NOYOURNOTHARDC0RE You do not need to have a skill in electronic music. To know that if you are a musician at first the electronics come last. A trained musician does not need electornic skills to prove his point in musicianship. Only his talents and his needs. Although, electronic musicianship is a skill aside from being a musician( to me) it is more of an engineering type task. And I guess the best way to explain it a musicianship or audio engineering is to each is own.