Gary Brooker died at the age of 76. (R.I.P.) 02.19.2022. Cancer. A remarkable and unforgettable voice. I Love You, Gary. I Love Procol Harum. Forever. 😭😭😭😭😭
I sawProcul Harum at the Fillmore Easti in the summer of 1969,I don’t remember the date.I was 16 years old. They were great,I think the Birds opened for them.I loved their music and lyrics and BJ Wilson on drums. I remember at the end of their performance when they turned on the lights in the Fillmore I went up to the edge of the stage to look at the drums and the rest of the equipment.
Oh, how I wish there was video of this version with these members - Brooker, Fisher, Trower, Knights and BJ was by far the best lineup. Ever. Nobody could combine beauty and power like PH. At least, not according to my befuddled brain...
Sadly it appears that the original lineup just had too much talent to stay together. Imagine what they would have created if they had all continued on longer than just 3 albums.
y’ain’t befuddled- they was great. btw bach’s brandenburg concerti weren’t played in his lifetime so these and others got off easy, musician-wise; even BJ, who never got what he was due.
Seen Procol Harum at the Eastown Theatre in Detroit. The Eastown was kinda like the Fillmore East minus the Joshua Light Show, which by the way is a BIG MINUS!!! hahaha All the bands that played the Fillmore East ended up one way or another at the Eastown Theatre. Procol Harum had the unfortunate luck to headline with J.Geils backing them up. Procol did proceed to play one of the best concerts that night!!! Robin Trower was so frickin' young, that SG was almost bigger than he was--haha But he played the Shit outta it!!! A Great Band!!!
I was there, Pacific Gas and Electric we're on the bill too. I have all my Fillmore programs inc. Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies both nights Dec. 31-Jan. -1 New Years.. 69-70.
Never had the chance to see them live. But heard this tune (album version) every weekday when I grew up in Cincinnati from the mid-1960s to 1970's because when Prog Rock wasn't even a thing WEBN played album oriented music from 4:00 to 10:00 (jazz the rest of the time) circa 1966-1968 when it went full time rock all day and jazz all night. In the early days 4:00 to 10:00 was the Jelly Pudding show and the first tune every day was . . . Repent Walpurgis. Thank you for the memories.
once upon a time 1967 to be exact, I recorded harum at the grande ballroom in detroit......alas the tapes have dissappeared.....vey nice to hear this version......thanx from craig and rose.......robin made his axe sing
Jeck, WSOP, Shine on Brightly, and A Salty Dog were great!!! Things I think I remember from the Fillmore East April?1970 concert.... Despite the crowd calling out for Whiter SOP they wouldn't play it...Someone shouted "where is Mathew?" and Gary Brooker said " At home, in bed". I'm pretty sure I never heard BJ Wilson, or Mathew Fisher live...but it was 40 years ago...and It wasn't like you knew before going to a concert what band members looked like, back in the time of dinosaurs.
I saw PH six times in the early to mid seventies and BJ played drums in all of them. Trower only appeared in the first one when Dave Ball replaced him on guitar who subsequently got replaced by Mick Grabham.
Without a doubt, a mesmerizing performance. Matthew Fisher and Robin Trower never played Repent exactly the same way. Their individual interpretations added to the richly rewarding live experience. I was so sad when Matthew left, followed thereafter by Robin. Oh, btw, if anyone can justify why Procol Harum aren't in the Rock n Roll HOF, I'd love to hear from ya!
I'm pretty sure I was at that Fillmore concert, they were great, I remember someone in the band saying they were recording for an album so please "be nice" The Fillmore audience jokingly responded "SHIT,FUCK,SCREW, etc then they were respectively quiet as mice, I guess they had to get there ya ya,s out, it was an extremely professional great concert, i had seen a bunch of groups there and they stood out in my mind.
Only 763 views? 4 likes? I've often told my daughter that today's musicians are,as a rule, much more technically proficient than those of my generation(I'm 63-she's almost 21) and the instruments and equipment are so far superior that there is virtually no point in making comparisons. However, none of that necessarily equates to being better and this piece and performance is almost a perfect example.
@TheGB1950 You may be right, my fossilized brain is begining to give out. Perhaps it was in 1971 or '72 , when (Alan Carwtright?) somewhat murdered Robins's parts, At one of these concerts Brooker and Chris Copping, covered all the keyboard parts. Was David Knights was in the band ? I think my pal, John Leimseider (an amazing keyboardist ) remarked that I had missed the greatest drummer of all time, (B. J. Wilson) "who could do drum rolls with one hand", describing his wrist action?
@Geopholus Yes, it must have been a great concert. Did they do concerts without Wilson and Trower in 1970? It doesn't seem likely…Altough I seem to remember a couple of dates without BJ (don't know who played drums).
They always did AWSoP in the '60s (and from the '90s onward), often avoided it in the early '70s, after MaF had left the group. I don't think any official source about why Knights was replaced is available, but everything points in that direction. As Brooker once said, I think he "was a good man", he provided a solid bassline and that was OK, as my former bass player said "he never had any fun", seldomly improvising at all.
Here’s Matthew Fisher in a reunion with Gary Brooker & the band. This was finally accomplished after their decades long legal entanglements pursuant to songwriting credits for AWSOP. That’s a long story for another time. The point here is that the mended fences & performed together on several occasions as the band reformed, returning from its long absence. This version is spectacular! ua-cam.com/video/ax-JduWNV48/v-deo.htmlsi=ug8rSVMaiT3_QqoZ
If there were a mediocre member of the original band it was, sorry, David Knights. He simply didn’t add much, filling the bass lines more or competently, but offer little more than that.
Analogy works, but only to a point.Since Zeppelin was so much more popular than Procol Harum, simple thinking is that BJ Wilson made a mistake. But PH quality of playing, at the time, was much better, tighter than Zep, and they certainly allowed more space for the drummer to be creative and symphonic, and he certainly was. Perhaps by 1972 he might have been kicking himself because Zep got better by then/But even then, it would have been for money reasons. With Procol Harum he had room to be a lead instrument, not just keeping time.
Led gets a little sloppy live I was sitting next to them at Newport 69 when Johhny Winter was on stage with BB King Jimmy couldn't cover all those double tracked guitar parts same thing at the Fillmore
Robin Trower's guitarwork just doesn't cut it for me, I feel he was mediocre to an extent, perhaps it's just me but...IMHO the most wondeful solo to this masterpiece was performed by Geoff Whitehorn (Sadly BJ wasn't there), followed by David Ball's 1971...
What an amazing concert!!!!! I caught them at Philmore East the next year 1970 already with several changes in the line-up, without BJ Wilson!!! Robin Trower!!!!or Mathew Fisher!!!!!!. It seems the 1969 concert was just amazing especially, with the quintessential Cast playing their collective Hearts Out!!!
Procal Harum was a better band, in 1969, than Zeppelin, certainly better live. And of course a lot more sophisticated musically a t the time. Zeppelin got better later, but BJ made the right decision.
Gary Brooker died at the age of 76. (R.I.P.) 02.19.2022. Cancer. A remarkable and unforgettable voice. I Love You, Gary. I Love Procol Harum. Forever. 😭😭😭😭😭
I never tire of this!
Thank you, boys !
引き込まれます😮楽器のプロ達‼️途中で変わるメロディはグノーのアヴェ・マリアのコードですかね。美しい✴️ゲイリー・ブルッカーさんはピアニストとしても一流です。個人的に一番好きなのはBJウィルソン❤若くして亡くなられたのが惜しまれます。
Unbelievable! Trower at his absolute finest. Fisher too..... Great performance.
I was there. Whenever they played Fillmore. The best band!
BTW - do you have my pipe that disappeared at that concert? LOL
I saw them in the early 70's Fillmore East with pig light show .. RT was awesome !
yes they did an encore with 2 guitars WHY DO YOU LOVE ME WHEN IM TYING TO SHAKE that may have morphed into that ELO song DONT BRING ME DOWN
Yup - unforgettable night!!
Brutally Beautiful
I sawProcul Harum at the Fillmore Easti in the summer of 1969,I don’t remember the date.I was 16 years old. They were great,I think the Birds opened for them.I loved their music and lyrics and BJ Wilson on drums. I remember at the end of their performance when they turned on the lights in the Fillmore I went up to the edge of the stage to look at the drums and the rest of the equipment.
Best classic rock band ever
Spectacular progressive rock. One of the best from Procol.
R.I.P. GARY BROOKER & BJ WILSON
Oh, how I wish there was video of this version with these members - Brooker, Fisher, Trower, Knights and BJ was by far the best lineup. Ever. Nobody could combine beauty and power like PH. At least, not according to my befuddled brain...
you're right - they were amazing back in '69
the rhythm section were masters of time. each passage slightly different than the previous. bj and knights deserve more props for the PH sound.
Sadly it appears that the original lineup just had too much talent to stay together. Imagine what they would have created if they had all continued on longer than just 3 albums.
y’ain’t befuddled- they was great. btw bach’s brandenburg concerti weren’t played in his lifetime so these and others got off easy, musician-wise; even BJ, who never got what he was due.
I was lucky and was there!! I think i have seen them at least 30 times
Magnificent-this is Procol!!!! Wish there were more from this era Procol. THANKS>>>
Seen Procol Harum at the Eastown Theatre in Detroit. The Eastown was kinda like the Fillmore East minus the Joshua Light Show, which by the way is a BIG MINUS!!! hahaha All the bands that played the Fillmore East ended up one way or another at the Eastown Theatre. Procol Harum had the unfortunate luck to headline with J.Geils backing them up. Procol did proceed to play one of the best concerts that night!!! Robin Trower was so frickin' young, that SG was almost bigger than he was--haha But he played the Shit outta it!!! A Great Band!!!
This is my preferred version of Repent Walpurgis. The lead guitarist Robin Trower pours himself totally out.
Robin Trower certanly is great here!! Simply the best!!
He is even better today. The greatest blues rock guitarist ever.
Absolutely ! GREAT !
I didn't hear much of a Trower solo here. It seemed to be muted. K
I was there, Pacific Gas and Electric we're on the bill too.
I have all my Fillmore programs inc. Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies both nights Dec. 31-Jan. -1 New Years.. 69-70.
Pacific Gas and Electric, Are You Ready? another great extended tune complete with a gospel choir.
THAT night changed my life... I was there too with my boyfriend later first husband. devoted Procol Harum fan ever since
Never had the chance to see them live. But heard this tune (album version) every weekday when I grew up in Cincinnati from the mid-1960s to 1970's because when Prog Rock wasn't even a thing WEBN played album oriented music from 4:00 to 10:00 (jazz the rest of the time) circa 1966-1968 when it went full time rock all day and jazz all night. In the early days 4:00 to 10:00 was the Jelly Pudding show and the first tune every day was . . . Repent Walpurgis. Thank you for the memories.
Saw the origional lineup, when "A salty dog was already, or about to be released..Storrowtown Musicial Theatre, W Springfield Mass!!!
I'm pretty sure this is the night I was there. I'll never forget it.
once upon a time 1967 to be exact, I recorded harum at the grande ballroom in detroit......alas the tapes have dissappeared.....vey nice to hear this version......thanx from craig and rose.......robin made his axe sing
Still listening... on repeat..
not a forgotten band but very underated
They had no equal, just astounding.
Interesting take on RW. Everything Procol does to me is brilliant, Thanks for posting.
Jeck, WSOP, Shine on Brightly, and A Salty Dog were great!!! Things I think I remember from the Fillmore East April?1970 concert.... Despite the crowd calling out for Whiter SOP they wouldn't play it...Someone shouted "where is Mathew?" and Gary Brooker said " At home, in bed". I'm pretty sure I never heard BJ Wilson, or Mathew Fisher live...but it was 40 years ago...and It wasn't like you knew before going to a concert what band members looked like, back in the time of dinosaurs.
I saw PH six times in the early to mid seventies and BJ played drums in all of them. Trower only appeared in the first one when Dave Ball replaced him on guitar who subsequently got replaced by Mick Grabham.
My favorite band ...
Time Has Come Today
Quality post...
Thanks
What do I miss PH.
Me too
Without a doubt, a mesmerizing performance. Matthew Fisher and Robin Trower never played Repent exactly the same way. Their individual interpretations added to the richly rewarding live experience. I was so sad when Matthew left, followed thereafter by Robin. Oh, btw, if anyone can justify why Procol Harum aren't in the Rock n Roll HOF, I'd love to hear from ya!
Yes, this song is supposed to be different every time. Fantastic to play this with Geoff Whitehorn in 2013, he did a wonderful solo then
@@JackPonissi Whitehorn was a great addition to the band, very under appreciated imo
@@jayberman9221 he was the best!
@@JackPonissi A lot of his performances reminded me of Robin Trower - both great artists!
I'm pretty sure I was at that Fillmore concert, they were great, I remember someone in the band saying they were recording for an album so please "be nice" The Fillmore audience jokingly responded "SHIT,FUCK,SCREW, etc then they were respectively quiet as mice, I guess they had to get there ya ya,s out, it was an extremely professional great concert, i had seen a bunch of groups there and they stood out in my mind.
Only 763 views? 4 likes? I've often told my daughter that today's musicians are,as a rule, much more technically proficient than those of my generation(I'm 63-she's almost 21) and the instruments and equipment are so far superior that there is virtually no point in making comparisons. However, none of that necessarily equates to being better and this piece and performance is almost a perfect example.
Well said..
Wow !! this version !!
Son mis idolos
@TheGB1950 You may be right, my fossilized brain is begining to give out. Perhaps it was in 1971 or '72 , when (Alan Carwtright?) somewhat murdered Robins's parts, At one of these concerts Brooker and Chris Copping, covered all the keyboard parts. Was David Knights was in the band ? I think my pal, John Leimseider (an amazing keyboardist ) remarked that I had missed the greatest drummer of all time, (B. J. Wilson) "who could do drum rolls with one hand", describing his wrist action?
It's unknown version, I guess. Thank you, Jack.
eccezionale 💥💟
1:35 GUITAR SOLO
@papajohnloki You're welcome.
Still there'll be more. ;)
Also,I like the photo montage altho ...poor David Knights
@Geopholus Yes, it must have been a great concert. Did they do concerts without Wilson and Trower in 1970? It doesn't seem likely…Altough I seem to remember a couple of dates without BJ (don't know who played drums).
Gary Brooker 🙋💞
They always did AWSoP in the '60s (and from the '90s onward), often avoided it in the early '70s, after MaF had left the group. I don't think any official source about why Knights was replaced is available, but everything points in that direction. As Brooker once said, I think he "was a good man", he provided a solid bassline and that was OK, as my former bass player said "he never had any fun", seldomly improvising at all.
Here’s Matthew Fisher in a reunion with Gary Brooker & the band. This was finally accomplished after their decades long legal entanglements pursuant to songwriting credits for AWSOP. That’s a long story for another time. The point here is that the mended fences & performed together on several occasions as the band reformed, returning from its long absence.
This version is spectacular!
ua-cam.com/video/ax-JduWNV48/v-deo.htmlsi=ug8rSVMaiT3_QqoZ
If there were a mediocre member of the original band it was, sorry, David Knights. He simply didn’t add much, filling the bass lines more or competently, but offer little more than that.
@papajohnloki "Poor"? What happened to him?
Analogy works, but only to a point.Since Zeppelin was so much more popular than Procol Harum, simple thinking is that BJ Wilson made a mistake. But PH quality of playing, at the time, was much better, tighter than Zep, and they certainly allowed more space for the drummer to be creative and symphonic, and he certainly was. Perhaps by 1972 he might have been kicking himself because Zep got better by then/But even then, it would have been for money reasons. With Procol Harum he had room to be a lead instrument, not just keeping time.
Keith Reid's lyrics were way above Page/Plant.
Led gets a little sloppy live I was sitting next to them at Newport 69 when Johhny Winter was on stage with BB King Jimmy couldn't cover all those double tracked guitar parts same thing at the Fillmore
My apologies at a feeble attempt at humor - I simply meant that the last photo of Dave was not the best compared to the other photos. Sorry.
2:34 BACH PRELUDE #1
5:04 BARRIE
Robin Trower's guitarwork just doesn't cut it for me, I feel he was mediocre to an extent, perhaps it's just me but...IMHO the most wondeful solo to this masterpiece was performed by Geoff Whitehorn (Sadly BJ wasn't there), followed by David Ball's 1971...
you're right,just you. No offense. Different tastes.
1:16 ROBIN
0:53 MATT
Trower left after Broken Barricades actually.
Court ruled right.
2:17 GARY
5:23 STING CHORDS
1:16
@papajohnloki Ah, OK.No problem…Yep, it's quite bad when compared to the others!
5:33 DAVE
slower version,why?
Ernesto Claudo Dip they often liked to play songs a bit slower. Also, the tape slowed down a bit, here.
Jack Ponissi,yes maybe the tape,but I always love Procol Harum anyway
What an amazing concert!!!!! I caught them at Philmore East the next year 1970 already with several changes in the line-up, without BJ Wilson!!! Robin Trower!!!!or Mathew Fisher!!!!!!. It seems the 1969 concert was just amazing especially, with the quintessential Cast playing their collective Hearts Out!!!
BJ wilson was offered the job of led zeppelin's original drummer; but declined it
Procal Harum was a better band, in 1969, than Zeppelin, certainly better live. And of course a lot more sophisticated musically a t the time. Zeppelin got better later, but BJ made the right decision.
i guess it's like mark storache turning down the job of replacing bon scott;because he thought krokus was better than ac dc at the time.
procal harum was a completly different kind of band than zeppelin;and zeppelin kicked ass right out of the gate.
No soul in this version...
The worst Repent ever !!!! Shame on you !!!
+Gurunguru Bananai Shame on me? Lol!
Lots of people seems to love it as I do, though.
Jack Ponissi Hahaha !!!
+Jack Ponissi (jackoverfull) Jack, this is fantastic, thank you!!!