6 Procol Harum - Conquistador - Procol Harum, Live 1972
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2020
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From the list: 10Gems of Progressive/Experimental Rock Vol.1 • 10 Gems of Progressive...
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Lyrics
Conquistador your stallion stands in need of company
And like some angel's haloed brow
You reek of purity
I see your armour-plated breast has long since lost its sheen
And in your death mask face
There are no signs which can be seen
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
Conquistador a vulture sits upon your silver shield
And in your rusty scabbard now
The sand has taken seed
And though your jewel-encrusted blade has not been plundered still
The sea has washed across your face
And taken of its fill
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
Conquistador there is no time
I must pay my respect
And though I came to jeer at you
I leave now with regret
And as the gloom begins to fall
I see there is no aureole
And though you came with sword held high
You did not conquer, only die
And though I hoped for something to find
I could see no maze to unwind
I sang this song 50 yrs ago at our High School asembly . I was 16 yrs old & I got a standing ovation from the crowd. A great memory.
To sing this powerful song in front of your entire High School assembly absolutely deserves a ten minute standing O!!!!
That takes MAJOR GUTS!!!
1.) 16 years old
2.) Performing for your peers -- and
3.) Belting out CONQUISTADOR ??.
BRAVO!!! 👏 👏 👏
Brava!
You are an animal my friend!
✌💀👍
Wish I could have been there, Manuel. That must have been pretty incredible.
Most underrated song ever? Sheer brilliance!
I agree - the best ever.
these guys are mensa
It’s possible, but still, mazes are difficult to unwind even under good circumstances.
A masterpiece, no doubt.
Yes, awesome song in every way possible!! Not that under rated though, was a HUGE hit on the radio when it came out, was played nonstop for months and months...years actually, you had to be there to know I guess.❤❤❤
What a song, and what a voice. This song takes my breath away. Just magnificent.
Yes!....Magnificent.
Unlike any other band .the lyrics are profound
In so many ways, Gary Brooker was a musical genius. And that voice!!! Rest in peace, dear man.
For real one of the best vocals and voice I ever listened to still brings back memories of the seventies love this band
This song reminds me of what I read about the Aztec, they were truly kicka__ . If it weren't for the other tribes that helped Cortez we would have been speaking their language .
A true masterpiece start to finish. The lyrics, the orchestration, the guitar solo, the drums, the HAMMOND ORGAN for gosh sakes! Evocative and haunting, it's not a song you can ever forgot.
As close as "rock" can come to musical perfection.... my absolute no 1 song - the words describes an entire life from start to end....
I bought that LP in 1972. Recorded with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Now 2024 and I still have it… and play it.
I personally think think this is their best song, musically and lyrically
one of my favorite prog rock classics...
I personally concur
Nope. A "Whiter Shade of Pale."
@@locadisa it's whiter shade of pale,at least get the spelling correct,and opinions are like assholes everybody has one,and an unlucky few have two
This version with the ESO in particular, is just so beautifully mixed, not a single instrument gets lost; impressive considering the sheer amount of them
IMHO "Conquistador" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale" are the 2 greatest songs of Procol Harum! Since the late 60's, "Conquistador" has been one of my fave songs to play on the piano!!! 🎹🎵💖
I am so happy for you that you can play this on piano. I'm just learning piano-keyboards at 72 (Casio CTK6250 and CTX5000) and I have enough music background from band during grades 7-12 to still read music, slowly. I'll be looking for the beginner or intermediate sheet music of this. I have been picking out Whiter Shade of Pale, trying to find which tone, or split tones, sound best to me.
I would really love to hear that on the piano.
Haunting and perfect. One of the greatest rock songs ever recorded.
A true Classic that will be remembered throughout History!
The most underrated band ever.
Who underrated them? Only you.😅
@@PompetusDad Underrated is good, Overrated is not what I said. Love PH. Don't be a dick.
GOD.... This song still brings chills to me. One of the best songs ever they did
Great song. 1967? First time time I heard it was 1972
Sorry right!
@@cynthianolder4579 The studio version 1967 had Robin Trower
This version had Dave Ball on guitar 1972
Gary Brooker sees a dead conquistador on the beach.
@@cynthianolder4579 I was born 1965 and remember growing up with this song. Wish you all well!😀🥰
Even today it's still an very impressive song.
This song reminds me of that Moody Blues Night in White Satin Great songs hands down
Great observation! Both bands shook up our rock world with those far reaching musical blendings when they dropped on our vinyl.
So glad to have grown up listening to these magically brilliant tunes.
Not only a great song, but such amazing lyrics, painting a complete picture, and telling such a great story. Ego, pride, the urge to engage in schadenfreude and finding not that, but tragedy for everyone involved. Moving and great.
I agree an unparalleled song
I was sitting 6th row, center stage at this concert at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton when I was a lot younger. Great concert.
that’s epic.
Great song, great voice of Gary Brooker. The DRUMS are fantastic. The orchestra complimented the song as well. RIP Gary Brooker.🙏🙏🙏🙏
I love this song as well as Whiter Shade of Pale
Robin Trower on guitar
Robin trower on guitar
Sorry it was David ball on guitar, trower departed before this tour
To me this song its words its melody has so much historical signifance for both Spain and the America's!
I love the songs with historical significance, this one is fantastic in its story, and its composition.
Rest in Peace Gary Brooker. Stupendous talent!
This song never gets old ❤
Awfully appropriate today
Respectfully too bad really, I thought we had learned this lesson, sadly no.
lessons will be repeated as necessary.
@@peterweller8583 what are you really trying to say there dude ???
@@joescap9605 I am sorry DUDE I thought it was OBVIOUS dude?
@@peterweller8583 are you trying to say that people fighting over riches is obsolete? Not gonna happen...
Loved this whole album I’m 73 little ok’d hippie from Kansas City
Aussie chick ❤❤❤
This song is incredible. The orchestra, every instrument is perfection. One of my top 5 songs of all time.
I have been listening to this song for many years; still love it! 😊
Peak transistor radio for me. 1972-1973. One monster hit after another. Songs like Conquistador, Frankenstein, Smoke On The Water - all meant to be cranked by 12 year olds getting dressed for school.
Edgar Winter was my first live concert, 14 at the time I think, overwhelmed
I agree with everybody this song amazing
One of the best live recordings ever made during this time period. No clue it is live until the ending applause ......
Todays "artists" will never get close to this brilliant song.
Truth!!!!!!!
Lets put that challenge out there .... takers will be exactly zero
whiter shade of Pale and this whole album was John Lennon's favorite
this was the technical;ity John lacked
and he knew it
If you only listen to the music on the radio, you're probably right. The popular music these days doesn't tend to be as strong as this. That said, if you step off the beaten path, there's plenty of artists doing more interesting, experimental work, lyricists who are just as skillful.
Are you really so resistant to the opportunity to find something as awesome out there as this?
RIP Gary Brooker. The world will miss your brilliance.
❤great song then AND NOW 😊
What an amazing musical arrangement with a phenomenal voice at it's helm.
The louder the better. Turn it up!!!!
One of best songs ever " ! Those lyrics .. Amazing 100%
A masterpiece!
THE best recording of anything ever - in my modest opinion. I listen to it on loop for an hour every evening....
A real masterpiece !
MANKIND!!
Great music, still don’t know they would write a song about a conquistador bastard
Used to have it on on a 45. Listened to it over and over again
It is a great musical composition and the words are just fantastic.
Unquestionably their best song!! Cmon. Underrated????? No doubt
To those that had ANYTHING to do with this timeless classic I can only say 'a job done exceptionally well'. This music has stood the test of time. May it always remain. Still in awe after all these years.
Goose Bumps...Brilliant 👏
Personally, this is the best recording of any musical piece ever. I can listen to it on repeat for hours. The nuances of the orchestra intertwining with the drums and guitars is absolutely breathtaking - and as to the words - I can only wish to write anything 1/1000th of this before I die.
Well I was lucky enough to be in the audience in Edmonton. Maybe my claps were heard. Closest I have gotten to being involved!
me too
Reminds me so much of Moody Blues.
Should've gone to Spec Savers.
Both prog rock .
Wow this song makes my hair stand on end this superb master piece blows my mind wow procol harum i salute you one of the best prog rock bands ever genius r.i.p Gary brooker
One of the best songs I've ever heard; words and music!
I have loved the brilliance and beauty of this song for 57 years and can assure you it will live as one of my favorites unto death.
I was 10 when it came out. Loved it
One of the best bands so much great music they made .
Rest in Peace, Gery Brooker. Your voice will live on.
😮 what gifted musicians fantastic awesome genius springs to Mind what' wonderful memories this band evokes it still sounds as good today as it did back in those brilliant 1970s the best decade ever for music so so good wow r.i.p Gary broker sadly missed
A classic song of immense greatness !!
Wow! This song is Soo fabulous. Breathtaking memories and smiles for miles! ❤
Only Procol Harum could come up with this song. FANTASTIC.
Wow ! You'd swear it was the album playing ! Geniuses !
Recently found this cut ,from the 70s...great cut ..the whole album..
Appreciate that .
One of the greatest bands of the day
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra = Edmonton is my home town!! I'm proud!!
The Conquistador reminds me of my Dad!
The music from the 60's was so great. The creativity of the music by so many different groups is something the world has not experienced again.
It's not from the sixties.
@@joegoecke9711 Yes it is. It was originally released on their 1967 album. The live version was released in 1972.
@paleolithictechI guess every decade has some great music. Growing up my parents always had music playing. Standards, pop music and opera. My older brother also loved music, as do I. So I think there are years in each decade where the music produced is exceptional and we are fortunate we can listen to it all.
@@joegoecke9711 Yes it is! 1967 is the 1960's last time I checked.
One of my older brothers constantly played this song, grew up loving it, also know some history about then now
One of my life-defining songs. RIP Gary Brooker.
RIP...Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76.
The singer-songwriter and pianist.
This was absolutely thrilling when I first heard it on the radio -- sent chills down my spine. The late drummer BJ Wilson was magnificent & then the supercharged lead guitar solo by the late Dave Ball -- damn.
The orchestra only having rehearsed this once with the band & seldom did rock music were superb. But then, they're all professionals. And that's what you get when you have that level of talent.
Radio was so great in the early 70s.
BJ Wilson was such an amazing drummer that he was Robert Plant's first choice for Led Zeppelin. How good do you have to be to make someone say "no thanks" to John freakin' Bonham?
This song came to mind last week. I did not know the artist. UA-cam got this one right😊
A favourite song of my late mother.
Rest in Peace, mr Gary Brooker
Absolutely divine love ❤️ 😍 the song!!!!
The best song they ever did IMO A complex piece of music. The guitar solo is outstanding!
. . . by Robin Trower who did outstanding work with James Dewar after leaving the Harum.
The fact that it was a live performance back in the 70's is awesome!
Here's a fine example of Rock music transcending into something amazing.
That's some great writing. Powerful piece of music.
One of the truly great songs of the era. Absolutely fantastic!!!
So fitting for these times but a truly brilliantly written song. “You did not conquer, only die!” Sad!
yess strong and Real. as the Gloom begins too Fall you came with Sword Held High did not Conquer Only....
@@rollingstopp But yet the Spanish conquered most of North and South America...
@@thegreenbird795 i dont see any Espanol flags here ..*****======
******====== u.s.a
@@rollingstopp not at the moment...
When I was a little boy I can remember hearing this song in my brothers tree house and he would swing down on his rope across the whole back yard with his electric guitar 🎸 playing this song! Attached to a rope!! And the whole neighborhood would watch! Summer of 1973! Thanks brother! The wonder years! Thanks poco harum!!!!
Nice Memory, Jimmy Twotimes! Made me Smile!
Please tell me someone was resourceful enough to use a trash can lid as a shield, otherwise you certainly died.
Like the hero you were
Great memory. At the same time I was a 20 year old college student cranking this song in my dorm room.
Yes, The Wonder Years ! That show was so perfect, I was exact same age as Kevin and Winnie same years..so true, life was amazing growing up in the 1960's and early 70's with the greatest music in history being churned out on a daily basis and all the other stuff going on! Fabulous song Conquistador❤
Few things in life are better than this recording. Perfect song, musicianship, and engineering. Just wonderful.
Love the lyrics, the brilliance of such 70's artists x
Just wow i thought i was listening too a History Lesson when i heard this Back in the Day of Rock
@@rollingstopp Take a listen to Cortez the Killer by Neil Young
My First Concert Ever Procol Harum HollyWood Bowl 1973 Best Ever. Conquistador Rocks
Brilliant
Incredible music, and done live. This is great. One of my favorite bands. Always unique and impressive.
Two songs really moved me back in the 70's, one was "Sky Pilot" (long version) by "The Animals. The other "Conquistador" by Procol Harum. Both songs are constructed well, with lyrics that bring tears to your eyes. Music is such an amazing thing, isn't it?
Two of my favorite songs as well, though I was not even alive when they were released.
Love Sky Pilot and this Masterpiece too
Agree
Mechanical world by Spirit too
Sky Pilot" is a 1968 song by Eric Burdon & The Animals
Why don't you hear great songs like this on the radio answer I don't know an absolute masterpiece❤
Man, you said all i felt. First rock in world to gig with an organ. Cat plays in Copenhagen outdoor concert fing best. See the concert here. Best all Conquis
I saw them do this live at Fairport's Cropredy Festival some years back, it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck as it echoed over the festival field.........
This is one song I never get tired of,..one of my favorite songs, top of my list!
Another one of those songs that sound better than the “big” hit.
I remember my father working in northern alberta in the oil fields . Used to listen to edmonton radio stations because it was the closest city , 6 cold bloody hours away.
In any case , i clearly remember hearing this song with the edmonton symphony for the first time.... and then found my dad had the album in his vast collection. I remember singing along majestically and imagining myself conquering some foreign land by ship and horseback... stupid kid, but i loved this song
One of my favorites of all time. They won't play it on the radio anymore.
I used to hear this on a classic rock station out of Dallas. Thirty years ago it was in regular rotation. Then, no more.
Procol Harum...lo mejor
WOW! The organ solo near the end!
I can’t begin to describe how fucking good this bloody song is! It feels like powerful drugs! ❤️🔥🌕🔥😇🎙️ The violins sound divine! This is like the best if progressive rock AND classical music! I LOVE PROCOL HARUM!! ❤️😘😍🥰💕♥️💙💜💗🖤💛💖💞💚❣️💓😻 Awesome freakin’ lyrics!!
This song reminds me of Orellana. He founded the city I was born, Guayaquil con the Pacific Coast, climbed up the Andes to the high lands of Quito and went on on the Southamerican jungle, discovered the Amazon river, went all the way to the Atlantic, crossed it all the way to Spain. Returned to America and found death on the Brazilian amazon jungle. He did no conquer, only died. What a man!
Conquistador is about you, Francisco de Orellana.
“…and though you came with sword held high, you did not conquer only die.” ~ (3:01)
He did not discover the Amazon. All the natives already knew about it.
One conquistador who met a violent end was Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru. However, in a way the conquistadors "won" because they radically transformed Latin America culturally (which did not happen, for instance, when the Spaniards conquered the Philippines).
Guayaquil is in Ecuador, right?
Imagine living in their era with limited knowledge of the world and finding great civilizations but so different from their own. PH did an excellent visual story. Imagine the culture shock on both sides. Imagine the curiosity and heroism . Wish there were more lyrics, but it's perfect, meaningful and underrated.
Absolutely Masterful!
Best song I ever heard!!!!
It’s a blast!
Epic writing you can see the magnifisance of The Conquistadors riding across California ~ Wild Horses~ Beautiful Ladies ~ A land in shadowy night candles wild gatherings ~ coaches blundering through mud dust Spanish Lace ~ This song needs a great movie with savoured actors ~ Black Haired Brad Pitt ~ a luscious young actress to play the lead & all the old beauty of Spanish Days in Southern Alta California ~ Jumping out Mission Windows onto a horse & galloping up a hill & off into a hidden wooden area ~
Once upon a time 🐎🌹👠🍷
Probably my favourite Procol Harum song. RIP Gary 💔
An absolute masterpiece!
I just love going down memory lane of my childhood,the music back then always had a message,you just needed to decipher it by yourself.
I got to see this live on the Johnny Carson show on Friday the 13th.
My brother and I had driven down to Tijuana Thursday night and went to
every single bar in the city drinking at least one beer in each one.
We raced back up to Thousand Oaks and got home shortly after sunrise.
I went to the studio and got 2 tickets for the show that night before going home and getting a nap.
Leno hosted that night and I was so psyched to see this and whiter shade live!
What an awesome 24 hours!
Excellent story!
Procol harum was way ahead of their time this tells a great story while making you feel part of it the lyrics and the music are perfect
A MAGNIFICENT work of Musical art.
The whole world owes a deep debt of gratitude to the Baby Boomer Generation. You won't find stuff made like this anymore.
To be fair, we are aware of the "deep debt" that Boomers left the rest of us.
I'm a boomer and I agree 😊
Thanks
I Never looked at it that way, Thank You for Pointing 👉 that Out, I'm Grateful to have Lived and Experienced the ⏲️ Time of That ,They were Such Memorable Moments in life at that Time.. Lots going On During that period on So many Levels ❤
More revisionist something. Not sure.boomers just happened to be there.
Epic musical composition!
Well, now that I'm an old guy and an American who's basically half Spaniard and half Mexican/ Indian, it certainly hits home. Visiting Mexico , seeing and actually climbing the pyramids and entering colonial buildings is freaking awesome! You can feel the history. It's truly an experience 😇
Well said from a Taino warrior mixed with Espanol the song beings ride back to it once died
Brings pride back to where it once died
and remember all of the Indian tribes were always warring with each other and Aztecs sacrificed thousands of their captors on the temple; rather bloody events - disgusting. So it goes both ways of the bloody Aztecs and conquering spaniards then.
Even us English, Scottish, Irish American's love this song.
@@pauleypavillion6088 Hey Pauley! How's Rocky? ;-) Go Bruins and Aztecs!
This is a freakin' masterpiece. Love it
Totally awesome
Underrated song even in its heyday
hardly underrated ...
I always rated it great.
@@robertinman2264 rated great ..but never underrated ...
The art work has to be Hernando so Soto vs Chief Tuscaloosa
wasn't underrated just ignored,most musicians didn't have the knowledge to understand it