@@michaelmakes1225 That reads like a line that could have been in a Procol Harum song! Just change ever to never "replacements never mattered much, although they tried and tried."👍
ahh, great gig! Just after I got fired as roadie (I wasn't the world's best guy for that job)--Mick took over, and did a fine job. BJ was very kind to me at the time, took an interest in a lowly roadie's musical aspirations, was the only one to give me his blessing when I started off in my own band. Love this incarnation of he band, a great period of creativity. Standard fare, by the way, for warmups before the actual gig, was old 50's rock and roll. Gary could really tear it up!
I'm impressed that you got to work for the finest band ever in my opinion. The first time I've seen B.J. with a beard.Hope you enjoyed your musical adventure.
Regardless of his off-hour tendencies, B.J. Wilson is, by many standards, easy top 5 drummers. R.I.P. I saw this band in the Capital Theatre in Westchester NY 1970 summer, they blew the roof off the place.
@@drummersinger5324 B.J.s drum sound was fantastic. I read in an interview with him that for recording he used calf skin heads on his toms. B.J, Wilson became my all time favorite drummer after the first time that I saw him play live. I saw him play live three times. I feel very fortunate to have witnessed his greatness in person.
I sat close enough to him in 1975 at a nite club in Anaheim, CA to see that his toms were calfskin. Never saw a more musical drummer nor a drummer with such a command on a relaxed trad left hand grip.
They rocked so much harder live. Seeing BJ Wilson here is a revelation, giving Keith Moon some competition. Will forever regret not seeing them live, the original band with Trower that is, but this helps.
...BJ has always been a favourite drummer. Sat directly in front of him at an Auckland concert years ago, simply phenomenal! Robin had left by then, but PH continues to astound, and rightly so.
Hello and nice to make your acquaintance. I am author of Procol Harum - The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade of Pale - The Procol Harum Biography out on Omnibus Press 2012. Only a few copies remain as its now out of print at Amazon or Abe.com In 1995 I reached out to Murray Lerner director of Message to Love the IOW film. He sent me a VHS of 4 songs one of which is a medley into R n R covers. The Procol songs cut from three camera angles were Your Own Choice (off Home) Juicy John Pink (A Salty Dog) A Salty Dog and Homburg. The first two faired well but the latter two lacked sparkle. Procol's lyric writer Keith Reid agreed and when approached by Lerner in 1997 opted to decline their usage in Message to Love. This is a shame as clearly the rhythm section in a Procol back-to-a-four piece in 1970 were on fire . Meanwhile, it looks like Historic Films Inc NYC USA (aka Joe Lauro) are repp'ing the late Murray Lerner's rushes via his estate. Clearly this is only one of the three cameras on stage that day.
I was there!!!!!! Remember seeing joni mitchell acting rather 'strange', family arrrg, miles davis, bitches brew, emerson, lake and palmer, over the top, but impressive bombastic egotripping, PROCOL HARUM, starting with Paramounts tracks, nobody knew about the Paramounts in those days, fantastic set with b. j. Wilson in great shape, after which the Who had to revive everybody with their searchlights and Pete Townsend shouting 'WAKE UP'. The next morning, after seeing more and more hippies with the Saviour (aka jimi hendrix) in their eyes, I left, not knowing that my favorite rock genius(aka terry reid) would also play, a lifetime regret.
I was there, with Blood Sweat & Tears, right? If my memory serves me well, they opened for BS&T, and dressed in tuxedos and top hats, however I might have been really high. My first rock show.
BJ Wilson was much LOVED by Procol followers/fans… Seemed to be a great but genuinely friendly person and a fabulous drummer/percussionist. I miss him so much, Gary and Keith too.
Fun to see/hear Trower playing a Les Paul- as opposed to the Strat of his soon-to-be solo career. Love the high energy drumming of BJ, too. One of my Procol faves. Hopefully, still there’ll be more…
The 'jazz grip' is actually from him playing marching snare in the Boys Brigade (the grip comes from centuries back, long before the arrival of the drum kit as we know it). I don't know if he ever played actual jazz, though many British drummers of that era played (old time) dance music, which is likely how he got so conversant with playing 3/4, 6/8 and 12/8 time signatures. Indeed, BJ and Jimmy Page were enlisted to record Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help From My Friends' after Stevie Winwood and Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi failed to nail the feel after 32 takes.That tune is in 12/8, which is the sort of think Procol played often.
What a wonderful band procol harum were there wonderful Melodies reminded of me of the Sunday afternoons in the sixties so special I was a little lad then but have great memories of this wonderful band
This is really a marvelous treat..!! The energies are flowing freely here - Gary and the boys at the top of their game - and rare footage of Maestro Trower with a Gibson Les Paul..!
I remember being really surprised by the energy of Procol Harum's set. I leapt about so much I managed to get a Party Seven beer can wrapped around my foot.
Procol Harum played on 28 August 1970 with Fairfield Parlor, Arrival, Lighthouse, Taste, Tony Joe White, Chicago, Family, Voices of East Harlem and Cactus.
I got to see them twice a VERY long time ago-- and yeah Always loved BJ’s playing BUT I was surprised when I discovered he was NoT the drummer on the session that produced Whiter Shade of Pale---
Correct, Bill Eyden plays drums on Whiter Shade of Pale and Homburg. Except BJ overdubbed drums on Homburg too. Both very good drummer yet completely different too.
Amazing how initiation of the guitar solo always seems to be an unwritten but universal production cue for the camera operator to focus solely on the drummer ... just amazing ...
Robbie playing a Gibson, just like he should always have done!!!!!! He sounded so much more raw with a Gibbo as his axe of choice! BJ is just.......BJ!!!!!!!!
Robin was a Les Paul player until he saw Martin Barre's Strat when Procol Harum toured with Jethro Tull (Barre used his Strat for slide work). The rest is history.
Great to finally see footage of Procol Harum at the Isle of Wight. It's also interesting seeing Trower playing a Gibson Les Paul. Of course, he would switch to Fenders after his departure from the band.
I hope there’ll still be more of this footage released in the near future. I saw them in August ‘ 71 in Central Park at the Shaffer Music Festival. right after Trower left.
.. we were listening to this song one night while out cruising with a six pack or two in a VW bug and my friend said he had to relive himself. Next, he asked to be taken to his math teachers house so he could piss on his door. We did, he did and still that night there was even more....
PH will always be synonymous with AWSOP however that barely scratches the surface , as demonstrated here they rendered art rock tinged with blues sensibilities to a whole new level ,possibly only FREE did it marginally better . We were so blessed to be alive during this golden age of music , which often at the time passed by for mediocrity . Over 50 years later the magnitude of magnificence can at last be fully appreciated .
Um dos melhores Bateras do Rock dos anos 60/70, grande B.J.Wilson, e vejo nesse video na Ilha de Wight, que a Guitar está com Robin Trower, outro que nunca deveria ter saído do Procol
Of course. They tried to pretend the Doors footage didn't exist for 40 years and out comes the whole set. Everyone was filmed. I giant chunk of this festival has been released.
The whole Festival was filmed - all five days by six different cameramen on Murray Lerner's team at any one time, all filmed on one inch analogue tape. Pure gold, the vast majority is still unreleased but all of it still exists. Murray confirmed this with me before he died a few years ago.
@@rogersimmonds2003 Why does such important historic footage continue to be "sat on" for 50+ years? The same situation exists with Woodstock "69. With that event, for the 50th anniversary in 2019, Warner Brothers refused to release even another single frame.
@@ervbefelnareik7604 Hello and nice to make your acquaintance. I am author of Procol Harum - The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade of Pale - The Procol Harum Biography out on Omnibus Press 2012. Only a few copies remain as its now out of print at Amazon or Abe.com In 1995 I reached out to Murray Lerner director of Message to Love the IOW film. He sent me a VHS of 4 songs one of which is a medley into R n R covers. The Procol songs cut from three camera angles were Your Own Choice (off Home) Juicy John Pink (A Salty Dog) A Salty Dog and Homburg. The first two faired well but the latter two lacked sparkle. Procol's lyric writer Keith Reid agreed and when approached by Lerner in 1997 opted to decline their usage in Message to Love. This is a shame as clearly the rhythm section in a Procol back-to-a-four piece in 1970 were on fire . Meanwhile, it looks like Historic Films Inc NYC USA (aka Joe Lauro) are repp'ing the late Murray Lerner's rushes via his estate. Clearly this is only one of the three cameras on stage that day. I hope this helps. Thank you for posting this. i have never seen this till now. Henry Scott-Irvine
Murray Lerner films acquired all the Cameraman's work. They made IOW Message to Love but Procol's Gary Brooker & Keith Reid vetoed their in inclusion in this 1997 Docu still out on Blu-ray and DVD (I think) . Historic Films are a cool NYC archive who seem to be repping the clip licenses.
I can give you some background information. So Historic Films has all of Murray Lerners Isle Of Wight footage but it's not all available at the moment. I found this bit of Procol Harum at the end of a reel containing video of the band family. I'm also trying to put together a complete video of family doing the weavers answer. www.historicfilms.com/tapes/54127_0_3907.43
This was Cocker" little help" recordings days I thinck(1968) ....Or wasn 't awared, may be Page after John passing, he would àgain wanted it ??tell us please ..
After Stevie Winwood and Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi failed to nail the feel after 32 takes, Page and BJ were enlisted to record Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help From My Friends'. That would have been around the time Page was attempting to assemble his new band. At the time there was him and Yardbirds rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, though Dreja soon bowed out to pursue photography (he shot back cover of Zep's debut album), so Page didn't have much to entice anyone who already had a career on the roll, which is what BJ had.
Did you ever see BJ live? I did? He was best English drummer of all time. And he smoked almost Americans too.He's the only drummer I've ever seen ( and I've seen the best live) thar really could play the traditional left hand grip w/ease and comfort. Absolutely the best trad left grip player of all time. And his brain knew music . Where to paly and where to not. And dynamics? The best as you might know Procol Harum played it all. God I love that band and drummer..
The original lineup is one of the greatest bands in rock history, Robin Trower with the late, great B.J. Wilson smoking hot.
#1 .. period
BJ was perhaps the most underappreciated drummer in rock - so much energy - he plays drums like Stevie Ray played guitar! One of the best ever!
JimI Page thought if it wasn t Bonham , it would be Wilson !!!!!!
@@alaincelos476 Right, but vice versa - he wanted B.J. first
Wow! The great B.J. Wilson.
Trower & Wilson.
That's All I wanted to see.
None of their respective replacements ever mattered much, although they tried
@@michaelmakes1225 That reads like a line that could have been in a Procol Harum song! Just change ever to never "replacements never mattered much, although they tried and tried."👍
ahh, great gig! Just after I got fired as roadie (I wasn't the world's best guy for that job)--Mick took over, and did a fine job. BJ was very kind to me at the time, took an interest in a lowly roadie's musical aspirations, was the only one to give me his blessing when I started off in my own band. Love this incarnation of he band, a great period of creativity. Standard fare, by the way, for warmups before the actual gig, was old 50's rock and roll. Gary could really tear it up!
I'm impressed that you got to work for the finest band ever in my opinion. The first time I've seen B.J. with a beard.Hope you enjoyed your musical adventure.
Regardless of his off-hour tendencies, B.J. Wilson is, by many standards, easy top 5 drummers. R.I.P. I saw this band in the Capital Theatre in Westchester NY 1970 summer, they blew the roof off the place.
yup.
Most fluid and artistic drum parts and fills. Best drum sound by far and left hand.
@@drummersinger5324 B.J.s drum sound was fantastic. I read in an interview with him that for recording he used calf skin heads on his toms. B.J, Wilson became my all time favorite drummer after the first time that I saw him play live. I saw him play live three times. I feel very fortunate to have witnessed his greatness in person.
I sat close enough to him in 1975 at a nite club in Anaheim, CA to see that his toms were calfskin. Never saw a more musical drummer nor a drummer with such a command on a relaxed trad left hand grip.
nice im up here near the Cap only saw the Airplane there back in the day late 1970 but was blessed to see Procol at fillmore East in 1971
B.J. Wilson: A force of nature.
God bless B J Wilson, a humble gentelman and superb drummer, art at his best!
BJ was asked to join Led Zeppelin, he chose to stay with the most versatile/creative band ever.
And the most underrated band ever!
BJ’s sitting at the drum set a lot higher than he would later
They rocked so much harder live. Seeing BJ Wilson here is a revelation, giving Keith Moon some competition. Will forever regret not seeing them live, the original band with Trower that is, but this helps.
...BJ has always been a favourite drummer. Sat directly in front of him at an Auckland concert years ago, simply phenomenal! Robin had left by then, but PH continues to astound, and rightly so.
Hello and nice to make your acquaintance. I am author of Procol Harum - The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade of Pale - The Procol Harum Biography out on Omnibus Press 2012. Only a few copies remain as its now out of print at Amazon or Abe.com In 1995 I reached out to Murray Lerner director of Message to Love the IOW film. He sent me a VHS of 4 songs one of which is a medley into R n R covers. The Procol songs cut from three camera angles were Your Own Choice (off Home) Juicy John Pink (A Salty Dog) A Salty Dog and Homburg. The first two faired well but the latter two lacked sparkle. Procol's lyric writer Keith Reid agreed and when approached by Lerner in 1997 opted to decline their usage in Message to Love. This is a shame as clearly the rhythm section in a Procol back-to-a-four piece in 1970 were on fire . Meanwhile, it looks like Historic Films Inc NYC USA (aka Joe Lauro) are repp'ing the late Murray Lerner's rushes via his estate. Clearly this is only one of the three cameras on stage that day.
Giving Kieth Moon competition? No competition at all. BJ rules and influenced most drummers, acknowledged as truth. Keith Moon had far less effect.
@@SirCamsmorethanalot BJ himself often mentioned Moon as his favourite drummer.
Keith was partially mad, whilst B.J. - fully musical.
I got to see the band in the 70's damn good band
Great piece of music history!
The complete set please!!!!
Awesome..Thanks so much! Not much footage around of Trower with the band...Plus B.J. with facial hair...Ha...love it!
Barrie J. Wilson Drummer extraordinaire (Jimmy Page wanted him for LZ, but he played for PH ten years).
Wise choice picking the better band, LZ got more fortune & fame but weren't nearly as good musically.
@@brötzmannsax Procol Harum was a far subtler and innovative band than bang/crash/blast LZ. Glad BJ stayed with the more interesting and creative PH.
@@SirCamsmorethanalot Good to see someone with some sense and good taste!
They were all underestimated.
I was there!!!!!! Remember seeing joni mitchell acting rather 'strange', family arrrg, miles davis, bitches brew, emerson, lake and palmer, over the top, but impressive bombastic egotripping, PROCOL HARUM, starting with Paramounts tracks, nobody knew about the Paramounts in those days, fantastic set with b. j. Wilson in great shape, after which the Who had to revive everybody with their searchlights and Pete Townsend shouting 'WAKE UP'. The next morning, after seeing more and more hippies with the Saviour (aka jimi hendrix) in their eyes, I left, not knowing that my favorite rock genius(aka terry reid) would also play, a lifetime regret.
I had to leave Woodstock before The Who and Hendrix played. Thanks for mentioning Terry Reid.
In 1969, I saw these guys perform live at Island Gardens Arena in West Hempstead, Long Island. Now I can die.
And if I am not mistaken, Island Gardens Arena still stands today in 2022, albeit much smaller than what it was. It is a basketball complex now.
I was there, with Blood Sweat & Tears, right? If my memory serves me well, they opened for BS&T, and dressed in tuxedos and top hats, however I might have been really high. My first rock show.
BJ Wilson was much LOVED by Procol followers/fans… Seemed to be a great but genuinely friendly person and a fabulous drummer/percussionist. I miss him so much, Gary and Keith too.
Fun to see/hear Trower playing a Les Paul- as opposed to the Strat of his soon-to-be solo career. Love the high energy drumming of BJ, too. One of my Procol faves. Hopefully, still there’ll be more…
Note the jazz grip.Priceless
The 'jazz grip' is actually from him playing marching snare in the Boys Brigade (the grip comes from centuries back, long before the arrival of the drum kit as we know it). I don't know if he ever played actual jazz, though many British drummers of that era played (old time) dance music, which is likely how he got so conversant with playing 3/4, 6/8 and 12/8 time signatures.
Indeed, BJ and Jimmy Page were enlisted to record Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help From My Friends' after Stevie Winwood and Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi failed to nail the feel after 32 takes.That tune is in 12/8, which is the sort of think Procol played often.
Fantastic; most videos barely show the incredible Barrie!
Thanks for that! Just wonderful. B.J. seems to be sipping in air to keep up the energy.
Wow! Rare footage with Trower...
love this style on barrie 💕
I hear Gary just joined him.
RIP and thank you to both.
A magnificent drummer....
What a wonderful band procol harum were there wonderful Melodies reminded of me of the Sunday afternoons in the sixties so special I was a little lad then but have great memories of this wonderful band
I was there.
This is really a marvelous treat..!! The energies are flowing freely here - Gary and the boys at the top of their game - and rare footage of Maestro Trower with a Gibson Les Paul..!
Fantastic find, I’m all tingly
I remember being really surprised by the energy of Procol Harum's set. I leapt about so much I managed to get a Party Seven beer can wrapped around my foot.
What an energy and musicality. PH was top of the class.
Procol Harum played on 28 August 1970 with Fairfield Parlor, Arrival, Lighthouse, Taste, Tony Joe White, Chicago, Family, Voices of East Harlem and Cactus.
This is awesome... Many years waiting for this!!!
I got to see them twice a VERY long time ago-- and yeah Always loved BJ’s playing BUT I was surprised when I discovered he was NoT the drummer on the session that produced Whiter Shade of Pale---
Correct, Bill Eyden plays drums on Whiter Shade of Pale and Homburg. Except BJ overdubbed drums on Homburg too. Both very good drummer yet completely different too.
Trower was a great guitarist!
Yes, on fire here.
Still is a great guitarist.
best live band EVER
this is the festival where trower had his epiphanic experience of seeing hendrix perform that led to his artistic reincarnation and solo career!!!
Robin Trower!!
I live for Trower's glorious fret runs .. and the power chords on this particular one as well .. thanks!
great to actually see footage of this configuration live. thank you
RARE AND PRECIOUS
truly
Im amazed at seeing any Procol Harum at the Isle of White at all. Thank you!
lolol
Chris Copping always looks like he plays his bass on a trampoline!
Amazing how initiation of the guitar solo always seems to be an unwritten but universal production cue for the camera operator to focus solely on the drummer ... just amazing ...
2:14 Trower bending those strings like no one else can.
Crappy jumpy camera work 'tho - showing his face so much over the fingering. Most camera folk are clueless on recording Rock bands.
Wow. Marvellous. Thank you. Procol are like an out and out rock band here.
Amazing. hope that still there'll be more
Fastest hands in the west. And the east. And in music.
He's just shredding it!!
Wow, this is great. Robin's guitar is so out of tune in the end, it's pure joy :D
Robbie playing a Gibson, just like he should always have done!!!!!! He sounded so much more raw with a Gibbo as his axe of choice! BJ is just.......BJ!!!!!!!!
Robin was a Les Paul player until he saw Martin Barre's Strat when Procol Harum toured with Jethro Tull (Barre used his Strat for slide work). The rest is history.
He never sounded better than when he used a Gibson. GREAT tone!
Estupendo meu Deus 🎹🎤🥁🎤🎹
Just another pretty little love song.
Great to finally see footage of Procol Harum at the Isle of Wight. It's also interesting seeing Trower playing a Gibson Les Paul. Of course, he would switch to Fenders after his departure from the band.
He switched for Procol's Broken Barricades.
I hope there’ll still be more of this footage released in the near future. I saw them in August ‘ 71 in Central Park at the Shaffer Music Festival. right after Trower left.
That was my first time seeing them. $1.25 as I recall.
I believe I paid $3. to a scalper. But it was a great concert. I was a little disappointed that Trower had left the band shortly before that tour.
.. we were listening to this song one night while out cruising with a six pack or two in a VW bug and my friend said he had to relive himself. Next, he asked to be taken to his math teachers house so he could piss on his door. We did, he did and still that night there was even more....
This is great. Thanks so much!
PH will always be synonymous with AWSOP however that barely scratches the surface , as demonstrated here they rendered art rock tinged with blues sensibilities to a whole new level ,possibly only FREE did it marginally better . We were so blessed to be alive during this golden age of music , which often at the time passed by for mediocrity . Over 50 years later the magnitude of magnificence can at last be fully appreciated .
Robin Trower was on fire there!
Um dos melhores Bateras do Rock dos anos 60/70, grande B.J.Wilson, e vejo nesse video na Ilha de Wight, que a Guitar está com Robin Trower, outro que nunca deveria ter saído do Procol
Wow! Thanks!
HEY MAN , I HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT PH PLAYING AT THIS FESTIVAL... NONE SEE CLIPS FROM ... VERY NICE.
Awesome! There must be more footage from that gig.
Of course. They tried to pretend the Doors footage didn't exist for 40 years and out comes the whole set. Everyone was filmed. I giant chunk of this festival has been released.
The whole Festival was filmed - all five days by six different cameramen on Murray Lerner's team at any one time, all filmed on one inch analogue tape. Pure gold, the vast majority is still unreleased but all of it still exists. Murray confirmed this with me before he died a few years ago.
@@rogersimmonds2003 Why does such important historic footage continue to be "sat on" for 50+ years? The same situation exists with Woodstock "69. With that event, for the 50th anniversary in 2019, Warner Brothers refused to release even another single frame.
epic performance
Thanks to UA-cam l can know this wonderful music wasn't a dream,
Looks like the drummer got ALL the Glory from Cam Man... Wouldn't think Gary Booker was TOO thrilled about that one....
💟💟💟💟💟👍
they were very innarested in rocking out
Robin Trower ~
Wow not a single shot on Gary. Should of called this concert “BJ Wilson”
This is only one of a multi-camera setup. Looks like this was the camera set up on BJ Wilson and Robin Trower.
Thank God we got to see more than a few seconds of Mr.Wilson , Always given little attention in PH filmed performances.
Great footage, but unfortunately only one camera angle of a multi-camera setup.
whew! Fantastic but tune that Les Paul please.
Filmed by Jack Hazan this. Four songs exist from this set
Thank you for this! Do you have any more info?
@@ervbefelnareik7604 Hello and nice to make your acquaintance. I am author of Procol Harum - The Ghosts Of A Whiter Shade of Pale - The Procol Harum Biography out on Omnibus Press 2012. Only a few copies remain as its now out of print at Amazon or Abe.com In 1995 I reached out to Murray Lerner director of Message to Love the IOW film. He sent me a VHS of 4 songs one of which is a medley into R n R covers. The Procol songs cut from three camera angles were Your Own Choice (off Home) Juicy John Pink (A Salty Dog) A Salty Dog and Homburg. The first two faired well but the latter two lacked sparkle. Procol's lyric writer Keith Reid agreed and when approached by Lerner in 1997 opted to decline their usage in Message to Love. This is a shame as clearly the rhythm section in a Procol back-to-a-four piece in 1970 were on fire . Meanwhile, it looks like Historic Films Inc NYC USA (aka Joe Lauro) are repp'ing the late Murray Lerner's rushes via his estate. Clearly this is only one of the three cameras on stage that day. I hope this helps. Thank you for posting this. i have never seen this till now. Henry Scott-Irvine
Furthermore, there was a double vinyl 1970 LP of the IOW featuring the live version of A Salty Dog
Murray Lerner films acquired all the Cameraman's work. They made IOW Message to Love but Procol's Gary Brooker & Keith Reid vetoed their in inclusion in this 1997 Docu still out on Blu-ray and DVD (I think) . Historic Films are a cool NYC archive who seem to be repping the clip licenses.
Ervbefel do you have more footage from Procol Harum concerts? This is great!
This is all that is available to me, there may be more I have no idea.
I'm sure there'll still be more :)
I can give you some background information. So Historic Films has all of Murray Lerners Isle Of Wight footage but it's not all available at the moment. I found this bit of Procol Harum at the end of a reel containing video of the band family. I'm also trying to put together a complete video of family doing the weavers answer.
www.historicfilms.com/tapes/54127_0_3907.43
Thanks for the info.! But you had to pay $100 for the footage? As a "pro" member?
Mary Roussey -DHCD- the reel with family and procol is free for anyone to view with a watermark tho
Best drummer ever in rock was BJ Wilson. Jimmy Page wanted him after Bonham died.
Wrong, Page wanted him when he was forming LZ. BJ opted to stay with PH, then Jimmy got Bonham - not after Bonham died!!! Got proof?
@@SirCamsmorethanalot Oh perhaps I;m wrong the point is BJ was a better drummer IMO. I've seen em both up close.
This was Cocker" little help" recordings days I thinck(1968) ....Or wasn 't awared, may be Page after John passing, he would àgain wanted it ??tell us please ..
After Stevie Winwood and Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi failed to nail the feel after 32 takes, Page and BJ were enlisted to record Joe Cocker's 'With a Little Help From My Friends'. That would have been around the time Page was attempting to assemble his new band. At the time there was him and Yardbirds rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, though Dreja soon bowed out to pursue photography (he shot back cover of Zep's debut album), so Page didn't have much to entice anyone who already had a career on the roll, which is what BJ had.
Did you ever see BJ live? I did? He was best English drummer of all time. And he smoked almost Americans too.He's the only drummer I've ever seen ( and I've seen the best live) thar really could play the traditional left hand grip w/ease and comfort. Absolutely the best trad left grip player of all time. And his brain knew music . Where to paly and where to not. And dynamics? The best as you might know Procol Harum played it all. God I love that band and drummer..
Great, but, where's GARY ?????
Would love to know what year Trower's Les Paul was made.
Likely a '57. There were still a lot of them around then.
Great if someone could find the other camera shots and do an edit.
Cool video wish the photographer had remembered to move a little earlier
Schaefer that is.
Dov'e' Gary Brooker??????
Wonder what the photographer was on?
He was probably just instructed to film shots from this one point on the stage, with other cameras filling in the rest.
Cameraman was definitely high.
Hot Tamales
since when did Procol Harum have two drummers?
One drummer who sounds like two?
Brian’s wife musta been holding The Camera haha
Great band, brilliant musicians, terrible camerawork
Robin Trower!!!