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March 20:
Added Procol tickets here and
here, and a setlist-scan
here (thaks,
OE; thanks, Todd)
NB ... two blank pages here and
here ... would fans like to
send in scans of tickets for gigs from these years?
March 19: Procol
Harum play Toronto in thirteen weeks, and Wantagh in
twelve
March 18:
Birth of BJ Wilson, 1947
Procol
Harum play Äänekoski
in
eighteen weeks,
Canadaiga
in thirteen, and
Tarrytown in twelve
Added a third page of photographs showing
pre-show preparations for
Procol Harum in Moscow, 2009 (thanks, One-Eye)
March 17:
Procol
Harum play
Longwood
Gardens
in thirteen weeks
Added
another Procol Harum
picture single sleeve (thanks,
Lars)
Added, here, a clip from "a popular American TV
series called House. The star is playing
AWSoP then it segues into the original PH version, which is proudly
played on the show's soundtrack all the time." See also here
and
here (thanks, Gary, thanks Robert)
Added
a link to a brief note about Procol Harum and the Danish Radio
Concert Orchestra (thanks, Henrik)
March 16:
Procol
Harum play Boston
in thirteen weeks, and
Wolf Trap in
twelve
Added the fourth
page of a series of photographs of Procol Harum in Drammen, Norway,
last October
(thanks, One-Eye)
March 15:
Added the words of
Blue Shadow (translated into English)
(thanks, Beanstalkers)
Added it to the
cover-versions page here
March 14: Procol Harum play
Slupska
in twenty-two weeks,
Holmdel in thirteen, and
Chicago
in fourteen
Added a second page of photographs showing
pre-show preparations for Procol
Harum in Moscow, 2009 (thanks, One-Eye)
March 13:
Added another Procol Harum
45 rpm picture sleeve (thanks,
Lars)Booking is now open for
Procol
Harum's solo US showcase: click
here
Danish Radio has just released a series of programmes by DJ (and Procol
Harum fanatic) Erik Kramshøj ... click
here. 'More than six hours of constant joy and unlimited love of
PH,' writes Henrik Gøttrup, who adds, 'By the way: this year’s Ledreborg
Concerts headline Ray Davies (ex-Kinks): should be more than enjoyable.'
(thanks, Henrik)
March 12: Procol Harum play
Toronto in
fourteen weeks, and
Wantagh in thirteen
Added the third
page of a series of photographs of Procol Harum in Drammen, Norway,
last October
(thanks, One-Eye)
March 11:
Procol
Harum play Äänekoski
in
nineteen weeks,
Canadaiga
in fourteen, and
Tarrytown in thirteen
March 10:
Procol
Harum play Longwood
Gardens
in fourteen weeks
March 9:
Procol
Harum play Boston
in fourteen weeks, and
Wolf Trap in
thirteen
Happy Birthday
Robin Trower (1945)
Added a page of photographs showing
pre-show preparations for Procol
Harum in Moscow, 2009 (thanks, One-Eye)
March 8:
' ... those unforgettable songs will still be played on
the airwaves after Heavy Metal and Rap has been long dead and buried ...'
Added a contemporary review of Edmonton II –
sloppily subbed, erroneously illustrated, but certainly not without interest
(thanks, Tim)
March 7: Procol Harum play
Slupska
in twenty-three weeks,
Holmdel in fourteen, and
Chicago
in fifteen
Happy Birthday Matthew Fisher
March 6:
Added a final few miscellaneous
photos taken when Procol
Harum played in Norway in July 2009
March 5:
March 4:
Added again to
the Procol Harum
concert page for 2010 (thanks, Chris)
March 3:
Added some photographs of
Procol Harum on stage in Turin during 2007
(thanks, Bruno)
Fans of Southend music will know the names of Bobin, Brownlee, Collins,
Masterton, Sumner and Turner ... enjoy
an illustrated clip ... and
another ... of the forthcoming album from Hunt, Runt, Shunt and Cunningham
(thanks, John)
March 2:
Added again to
the Procol Harum
concert page for 2010 – Renaissance to support (thanks, Chris)
In which connection, you might like to re-read
this and this
March 1:
Added the first page of a
series of photographs of Procol Harum in Drammen, Norway, last October
(thanks, One-Eye)
February 28:
The dialogue continues: a little more, regarding the Scottish question
here
(thanks,
Andrew)
Added
a London Procol Harum gig,
with Argent, Supertramp and Hard Meat
(thanks, TJ
Tjernlund)
Updated this useful page
February 27:
February 26: Happy Birthday Geoff Dunn
(1961)
' ... the Government was afraid of riots outside the
venue, which, of course, happened when Procol Harum and previously when
Chicago played ...'Added some Mexican detail
here
(thanks, Guillermo)
Also added some Atlanta detail
here
(thanks, John)
February 25:
February 24:
Added interestingly to the Procol Harum
concert page for 2010 (thanks, Chris)
February 23:
To celebrate the fact that a Blu-ray disk (and DVD) is now available from a brilliant Brooker-led concert,
please re-visit these pages, starting here (we have also repaired some
missing links on these pages, so you can now see them all). The pages
contain ordering instructions for the concert recording
February 22:
February 21:
February 20:
February 19:
'... one of the great unsung drummers ...' ... '...a
virtuoso keyboard workout ...'
Added a couple of
tiny reviews – here and
here – of a well-liked Procol Harum
album (thanks, Bradshaw)
February 18:
' ... he drank McEwans Export and Glenfiddich and was brilliant company
– I think he was genuinely gobsmacked to be recognised ...'
The dialogue continues: a little more, regarding the Scottish question
here
(thanks,
Gordon)
Added a picture of
Yes performing Yours is No Disgrace in 1971. 'Note Bruford's
shirt,' writes Marvin Chassman. 'Ya think ... maybe ... possibly? Nah ...'
To clarify the above, read Gary Brooker's
comments about Procol Harum's accelerating drummer on the early A
Whiter Shade of Pale.
February 17:
February 16:
The dialogue continues: a little more, regarding the Scottish question
here:
how about local journalistic archives? (thanks,
Charlie)
Added a third and final page – showing some 'usual
suspects' of
Procol Harum soundcheck pictures from Hagen, 2009
February 15:
February 14:
The dialogue continues: a little more, regarding the Scottish question
here: was The Worm and the
Tree booed or not? (thanks,
Gordon)
You might like to re-read
a contemporary
review of the gig that is stirring all these Caledonian memoirs ... see what
it says about TWatT ...
February 13:
The dialogue continues, now on a page of its own: a little more, regarding the Scottish question
here (thanks,
Andrew)
Added a clarification to
the recently-published 1992 setlist
(thanks, Niels-Erik)
February 12:
February 10:
The dialogue continues: a little more, regarding t
he Scottish question
here (thanks, Henry)Further amended this
concert-research page (thanks, Nancy)
BtP welcomes this kind of research so do please continue to send
us your concert reminiscences and queries:
webmaster@procolharum.com
February 9:
February 8:
February 7: RIP
Sir Johnny Dankworth,
CBE
Added the
setlist from the eighteenth show on Procol Harum's 1992 tour, just five days
before the fine live album
One More Time was recorded (which you can
download here) (thanks, Evan)
Just supplied the last-ever Salty Dog full-colour tee-shirt order
(thanks, Gail). Tee-shirts still in stock
at the BtP Store:
‘Procol Rarum’ Brooker / Reid
/ Palers' Project
/ Procol Harum
'crew' /
The Well's on Fire
February 5:
Added a Procol Harum ticket
here and
here (thanks,
Klaus)Added a Scottish question
here
(search for 'Edinburgh') (thanks, Alick)
Substantially improved three crucial pages
here,
here and
here
February 4:
February 3:
Added some Dublin information
here
(thanks, John)Added some more, first-hand July information to
the Dave Ball tour-sheet, requiring a
re-evaluation of some other evidence recently posted there
(thanks, Dave)
February 2:
February 1:
Added a picture to the very foot of
this
page, adjoining a link you can click to read about an abstruse
Cerdes
tangent
January 31:
Added a small Keith Reid interview to this page
(thanks, Wabb)
Further amended this
concert-research page (thanks, Nancy)
Updated
this log with
this page
... and while you're at it, check the nationality-counter bulletin from exactly
a year ago ...
here
January 30:
January 29:
January 28:
Added a page depicting the
2009
Procol European Autumn tour tee-shirt ... more Procol Harum
tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course:
click here
January 27:
Added a footnote to this page, and
a 'Musical Fish' teeshirt here
(thanks, Maurice)
January 26:
'Beyond the Pale' relies greatly – indeed is largely based on – feedback and
facts from Procol-minded people who write in. Four points arising in the course
of the last 24 hours, therefore!
1. Regarding
yesterday's item, about the statistics relating to countries from which BtP
is visited: yes, the counter is still on the 'What's New' page ... scroll down
and have a look at it! (If the numbers look different, that's because it's 24
hours since we made the table). You can read a previous announcement,
heralding this counter exactly one year ago,
2. Good point: we've added a table to
that page showing the 'rank order' of countries according to their absolute
scores (obviously, this gives a very different order from the original table
showing the scores relative to the countries' populations).
3. To our Canadian friends ... sorry, we referred to the
upcoming Procol Harum dates as being 'in the USA' though we do know very
well that Toronto is not in America. A question of judgment decided in haste ...
the dates had just been confirmed and we were rushing to get the news out
(thank you, Martin)
4 Added
about 20 American (and Canadian!) Procol Harum dates ... feedback welcome!
(thanks, Dave)
January 24:
Denmark, Norway, Jersey, UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands, Oman,
Ireland, Austria, Cook Islands, Germany, America ...
Why are these territories ranked in this order, and why are we publishing such a
list today?
Added an explanation here
January 23:
Added six concert dates –
here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here – for Procol Harum in the summer
(thanks, Chris)
We understand that the confirmation of
these dates means that Procol's planned recording has been moved to later in the
year
January 21:
RIP
Ed Thigpen
Added another in BtP's 'Also' series in
which Procol fans recommend other music they enjoy, revealing sometimes
surprising links to the Harum world
(thanks, Fred)
Updated Jupp links here (thanks,
Lars)
January 20:
Added a page depicting the
2007 Brooker and Reid: Procol Rarum tee-shirt ... more Procol Harum
tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course:
click here
January 19:
RIP Kate McGarrigle
January 18:
Added the words of a hitherto-missing
Brooker/Reid song
January 17:
'Two great albums then, which should be hastily added to any
self-respecting fan of the era’s collection.'
Added
a review of the second pair of Salvo Procol re-issues
January 16:
'Mabel and ’Twas Teatime
... seemed very out of place in the order of the album
... they did disappoint me and a lot of Procol fans ...'
Added a personal
review of Something Magic in the Salvo
reissue series (thanks, Fred)
January 15:
Added a personal
review of Something Magic – to a 1977
concert-review by the same author (thanks,
Alfred)
January 14:
RIP Teddy Pendergrass
'Brooker, as a tunesmith, brilliantly
realised the often difficult task of setting Keith
Reid’s idiosyncratic lyrical barbs to memorable music'
Added a
review of the first couple of Salvo Procol re-issues
January 13:
January 11:
RIP Mick Green (BtP
picture)
Can I go back to the past a little bit?
Sure.
Is it okay with you?
Yeah, of course.
You had a long relationship with Gary Brooker ...
Added a good-length Robin
Trower interview (thanks, Bradshaw)
January 10:
RIP Tony Clarke
January 9:
January 8:
Added a page depicting the
tee-shirt from the 2006 Ledreborg shows ... more Procol Harum tee-shirt
snaps are welcome, of course: click here
January 7:
January 5:
Added
the twelfth and final instalment
in this Winterval's Procol puzzles – and a thirteenth instruction that
tells you what you have to do to win your choice of prizes.
January 4:
January 3:
Added the tenth and antepenultimate
instalment in this Winterval's Procol puzzles.
January 2:
Added
the ninth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Remember to consider the tracks that feature on the two Salvo
compilations, as well as having been reissued on their parent albums
New Year's Day:
Happy New Decade!
Added the eighth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles, and watch out for bonus tracks!
December 31:
Added the seventh instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Check the updated list of prizes ... which one do you most desire?
December 30:
Prize update! We've added two new and excellent
items to the list of this season's
puzzle-prizes, thanks to the generosity of Procol Harum
(thanks, Gary, Geoff, Geoff, Josh and Matt)
Added the sixth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Remember that the selections make use of Salvo bonus-tracks as well as
the original tracks you had on vinyl!
December 29:
Added
the fifth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles
Amazing BJ in the third clip, n'est-ce pas?
December 28:
Added
the fourth instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Remember that only audio CDs (not the box set's DVD) feature in the
daily soundclips
A very interesting trailer
for a Procol Harum film can be seen here
December 27:
RIP Vic
Chestnutt
Added
the third instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Remember to consider the tracks that feature on the two Salvo
compilations, as well as having been reissued on their parent albums
Recommended pastime for the holidays: why not visit
Henry Scott-Irvine's website and listen to some of his radio shows? (thanks,
Henry)
Boxing Day:
Added
the second instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
Remember that each day there are just three clips, familiar or not.
Index-page for rare Procol Harum words is
here, and may be helpful.
Christmas Day:
Happy Christmas!
Added the first instalment in this
Winterval's Procol puzzles.
You can all have a go at the puzzles this year as they're a lot of fun, pretty
easy, and the prizes are well worth having
December 24:
December 23:
December 21:
Added a
page depicting the tee-shirt from the Palers' Project ... more Procol Harum-related tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course:
click here
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The Procol Harum Box Set All This and
More (3 CDs + DVD) is now shipping from the BtP
Store:
order here
We're still getting overseas enquiries like
Is the BtP Store price
REALLY $28.00 USD and not $63.00 like
Amazon USA?
to which the answer is 'yes' ...
... and questions like
'How much extra for postage/handling?'
to which the answer is
'Like any online shop
The BtP Store calculates all
that for you, depending where
in the world you live, and gives you a price including postage and packing'
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December 20:
December 19:
Happy birthday
Josh Phillips
December 18:
December 17:
December 16:
December 15:
Added a page depicting the tee-shirt from the
2003 US East-coast tour ('Sold out'!)
... more Procol Harum tee-shirt snaps are welcome, of course:
click here
December 14:
Added a third page of photographs
taken when Procol Harum played in Hagen lately
(thanks, Big Mike)
December 13:
Added some photographs relating to Procol
Harum's 2009 Petersburg concert
Added brief news of
a novel featuring A Whiter Shade of Pale
(thanks, Esther)
December 12:
Added another Procol engagement from 2009 to this
index, and a picture page
(including
good video link that may not last for long) (thanks, Charlie)
December 11:
'... Home runs A Salty Dog close for best Procol Harum album
... undoubted, and dark, magnitude ...'Added a review of
Procol Harum's fine fourth album, in its
Salvo re-mastered version (thanks, all)
December 10:
' ... as great a launch-pad into the world of Procol Harum as a
perspective-shifting device for the well-versed ...'
Added another excellent review
of the Procol box-set ... still the
best Christmas present you can think of (thanks,
Dmitry)
December 9:
'Actually both the record and the tape originate from Belgium ...'
Added an interesting codicil to the Whoosh page
(thanks, Fred)
Added a note (above) about a long-lost Procol Harum clip being shewn at the
National Film Theatre in London in the next decade.
Booking opens 15 December,
members 8 December. Box Office: 0207 928 3232 (1130 to 2030 hrs)
(thanks, Peter)
December 8:
Added a second page of photographs
taken when Procol Harum played in Hagen lately
(thanks, Big Mike)
December 7:
Added two more scans to the Whoosh page
(thanks, Marc)
Added brief news of Procol Harum's recent live
television appearance in France (thanks,
Chris)
December 6:
'... the band that could never be surpassed when it came to this sort
of thing. Not by Queen, ELO or anybody. ...'Added a review of
Procol Harum's seventh album, in its
Salvo re-mastered version (thanks, Abi and
others)
December 5:
'... A Salty Dog takes what had gone before, scrubs down its deck,
hoists its mainsail and splices the mainbrace in celebration ...'
Added a review of
Procol Harum's third album, in its
Salvo re-mastered version (thanks, Elwood)
December 4:
For a long while the BtP
Store has been selling the remaining stock of full-colour 'Salty Dog' tee-shirts made by John
Grayson of Shine On. The large sizes sold out last year, and now there
are just two or three shirts left, in Medium, with no plans to make any
more. 'Yours
if you want them'.
For the larger fan of Procol music, there are XL and/or XXL tee-shirts
here
and
here
Added some action shots of Robin Trower in
California (thanks, One-Eye)
December 3:
Added an annotated setlist and
some 24th-row photos about Procol Harum in St Petersburg
(thanks, Alexander)
December 2:
Added a second page of German sound-check
photographs
December 1:
'... the magnificence of their sound coupled with the sheer power of
Gary Brooker’s blue-eyed-soul ... a stunning showcase ... a band always ahead of
their game ...'
Added a review of
Procol Harum's sixth album, in its
Salvo re-mastered version (thanks, Abi)
The UK's favourite Radio 4
comedy show (series 52 episode 3) made striking use of A Whiter Shade of
Pale yesterday evening. Click
here and (if you haven't time to listen to the whole episode) advance
the slider to 8.22, which will bring you in the middle of the game 'One Song to
the Tune of Another' ...
David Mitchell
(not the novelist)
entertains. The link should be active for about a week.
What was new on this website in past months
With
great regret we announce the passing, on 24 January 2010 at the University Hospital, Regensburg, of