Procol Harum - Repent Walpurgis (1967, alternate take, long version, stereo)

This is available on the Pandora's Box compilation, but it belongs on the debut as a bonus track.

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Music

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• Procol Harum
• Repent Walpurgis
• 1967

[epicblogofdoom]

was this before the shivers version,?0also, does anyone know what happend to the shiver, why was ther only one album? whats up with that? is there more?

[potupchik]

@epicblogofdoom This was recorded a couple years before Shiver and even written by the band; Shiver was merely covering this song. I'm not sure of the circumstances of Shiver's career, but they were one of countless other bands who record only one album and fade back into obscurity. Usually, only the albums that generate enough money guarantee more record deals for the bands, and with such a large amount of bands it's inevitable that a significant proportion will not get an adequate audience.

[agos1946z]

è da tanto che cercavo questo brano. grazie

[technocrash09]

@spacepatrolman Sounds like most R&R bands that I'VE known from that era. Granted, some of their stuff had meaningless words. A lot of bands did that then, even Clapton (with Cream) and the Beatles ("I'm fixing a hole in the ocean"-??). Unorthodox meant attention in the media. I would be willing to bet that manager you were speaking to didn't last with them long. And history proved they could hang.

Good dialouge, tho! I appreciate your insight :)

[spacepatrolman]

@technocrash09 I met procol harum in the ellenville diner when they were living in new york state their manager said they were good musicians but they were idiots because they didnt pay their hotel bills and got sued if you anylise what they were doing musicaly they were unorthodox they had R&B melodys on a classical music structure with words that didnt make sense and loud guitar solos in slow songs

[technocrash09]

@spacepatrolman Luckily? Artists like Brooker, Reid, Trower, Fisher, Whitehorn, etc, etc, etc FIND ways to avoid obscurity! It is not luck, my friend------It is talent and dertermination and W-O-R-K!

Your comment suggests these musicians are/were mediocre and would have vanished if not for AWSOP. I call foul in a big way! Success is a process. Luck has some, but very little, to do with it. *For the record, I am a fan from the 60s, not some GEN-Xer*

[japonaliya]

@alcalaed BTW I WILL agree that the album vs. is a much thought out solo, that's why  this vs. wasn't chosen.

[japonaliya]

@alcalaed

Are you friggin kidding?

Robin Trower was the most fantastic guitarist of his day (before becoming a Jimi clone...)

His lyrical style was simple, BUT THE sound OF HIS GUITAR was AWESOME.

His guitar actually sounded like it was in pain following an orgasmic release.

Sometimes simple IS better...Peter Green, Leslie West, Billy Gibbons...and Trower, 1967.

[d1sailer]

This is the original and nobody else could make a hammond do this........

[spacepatrolman]

@potupchik luckily for procol harum a whiter shade of pale was a number 1 hit or they would have faded into obscurity as you said

[alcalaed]

nice version but trower's solo doesn't say a thing. DAve ball is much better and geoff whitehorn is surreal...