Rarity indeed!! An excellent performance by an amazing musician composer Gary Brooker and his band!! I love his strong piano and singing on this interesting song. Mathew Fisher in particular looks quite animated on this video. Thank you so much for posting this!
"Still sees truth quite easily, but shrouds all else in mystery" An absurdist, plaintive, poetic, surrealistic masterpiece. I wish you all a hot dog stand and merry gnu ear. (It was six inch nails in the sixties and nine inch nails in the nineties)
This brings to me very many good memories...we also played some of Procol's tunes already in 1967 with my friends when we were going round a month in Finland's Lapland...It was a very fine time...those we the days...
Poetry is understood through the heart and life's experiences. Not everyone will experience the same thing. Not everything is up to some its down. We know one thing it's a trip. I love this generations energy and courage to be true to themselves. RIP 🕊⚘️💔
We were not allowed to watch when these bands came on tv nor were we allowed to go to concerts and such.. some of these YT videos are the first time I am seeing the bands from my teen years
It brings the past to life again until the greedy record corporations pull the videos down or mute the soundtrack. It's not like there are official dvd's of these clips out there, it's the record companies loss for not putting this stuff out there for sale. How sad that all this stuff is rotting away in the vaults because they think there's no market for it (but they don't want you to upload it!).
Its a travesty that the RRHoF has not recognized this great band, the Beatles even aspired to their level of greatness and very much admired them!!! What a sham!
The guitar solo is clipped and emphatic. The reason it drifts is, if you check out the people behind Trower, a fight breaks out! He's playing and getting out of the way. Classic Germania.
Isn't this era (60's) like a dream and suddenly we feel like waking up to reality in 21st century? It's so oniric because things have changed so much and don't seem as wonderous anymore :(
That guitarist taking the solo isa young Robin Trower (Bridge Of Sighs). This is just a year or so before he left the group to concentrate on his blues playing - like a self-imposed exile I think. I always thought the guitarist on the tune Conquistador from their Albert Hall Live album was Trower but he had left before '69. Rare video of him palying a Gibson Les Paul.
At about 2:45 there is a fistfight on the top left that starts and continues through a lot of this video. But the best thing is the drummer B.J. Wilson. Fer instance: ua-cam.com/video/htyVq1yCgyE/v-deo.html
The reason it showed him playing a solo is because in videos when they edit they may show other members of the band playing at any point in the song, all videos do this, most of the time it lines up, here it does not.
HELLO HELLO... FLESH GORDON. DO YOU READ ME? HELLO HELLO... COME IN SONNY BONO. DO YOU READ ME? hahaha THIS WAS A FANTASTIC GROUP OF MUSICIANS!!!!!!!!! P.s. Sure glad they dropped that 1967 summer of LUV Look!!!
@MisssSmartini O, My God.....Of course it's "Christmas Camel" and NOT "Christmas Carol". Anyway, what a great group it was! Still have their first three albums. Listen to their drummer, BJ Wilson!
@kenfig Ah, I see. Well, there's always a cross-pollination. I'm guessing the liner notes were by some reviewer or the record co., not the band. I first bought "Home," and then became an overall fan since then, and probably have heard all of their work. They definitely have their own sound, but I guess no one can avoid their influences. And it was such a seminal time. Harum had elegance, very British all the time. Clapton's book mentions them and his contact with Brooker...some problems between
Great song although Robin Trower lays down a terrible solo in the middle. Completely out of tune. But BJ Wilson is fantastic on drums and so is Matthew Fisher on organ. The bass player is okay too and it wouldn't have been such a mess if Trower didn't play so bad. Christmas Carol is a melancholic number but so beautiful. Gary's voice sounds weak but at least it's in tune. Thanks for putting this on You Tube! Never saw Procol alive....
wow.. what a wild piece of film.. they sound just on the verge of falling apart here.. Trower in partic. sounds pretty rough...and did you notice at one point during his first solo, they put the camera on him, and he is playing a Barre chord!!Odd! And WHAT is up with those wacky duds!! Too much.
To HombreHambre: then why to listen to Bach,Mozart etc? I dig good music tha's all made now or 100 years ago. Music is food for the spirit.... Procol Harum melodies are amazing and before many rappers used classical samplers in their songs to look progresive people like The Moody Blues, EL&P,and so on , experimented with music but with a great difference; 60's bands were more creative in their compositions and not so repetive and minimalist as many many many rap bands.
Love the bully in the background punching out a photgrapher. Gary doesn't even know and keeps on singing. You know it's live because the piano is grossly out of tune. In spite of these small hassels one of the most original bands of all time ,"SHINES ON BRIGHTLY" Has anybody been this unique ever since?
Sorry I hit the down thumb instead of the up thumb, dumb shit. I agree, sooo beautiful, it's too bad Trowers solo wasn't caught, typical editing, show everyone else while the guitar solo is playing. It looks like he's playing a Gretch.
I was there... I was 17 old ... Not famous ... The worst guitar solo that night .... But I think they were all drunked ... (So was I) Better listen to their records .....
incredible historic R&R footage.
My god, Garry was once so young :D The performance is already great in that era, better than I thought.
Rarity indeed!! An excellent performance by an amazing musician composer Gary Brooker and his band!! I love his strong piano and singing on this interesting song. Mathew Fisher in particular looks quite animated on this video. Thank you so much for posting this!
Possibly my very favourite Procol track. Love the chaos of this performance!
+Don't knock the rock --- BJ Wilson was leading the chaos
My first Festival !
"Still sees truth quite easily, but shrouds all else in mystery" An absurdist, plaintive, poetic, surrealistic masterpiece. I wish you all a hot dog stand and merry gnu ear. (It was six inch nails in the sixties and nine inch nails in the nineties)
excellent lovely to see Robin Trower solo - great piece from '67 many thanks
This brings to me very many good memories...we also played some of Procol's tunes already in 1967 with my friends when we were going round a month in Finland's Lapland...It was a very fine time...those we the days...
Poetry is understood through the heart and life's experiences. Not everyone will experience the same thing. Not everything is up to some its down. We know one thing it's a trip. I love this generations energy and courage to be true to themselves. RIP 🕊⚘️💔
Quite special. Thanks very much.
He had a Les Paul ,You can hear the Whiskey Train rif in this song.lol Thanks great post : o )
The adjustable Bridge is the Clue ,,The same as My old Gretch Hollow Body Bass .. Saw one for sale in the upper 1000's .Good one Thanks :o )
Great music!!
We were not allowed to watch when these
bands came on tv nor were we allowed to go to concerts and such..
some of these YT videos are the first time I am seeing the bands from my teen years
It's so cool to listen to these lyrics!
It brings the past to life again until the greedy record corporations pull the videos down or mute the soundtrack. It's not like there are official dvd's of these clips out there, it's the record companies loss for not putting this stuff out there for sale. How sad that all this stuff is rotting away in the vaults because they think there's no market for it (but they don't want you to upload it!).
I can only hope. Music today has NO feeling, at least what we hear on radio. They wouldn't touch this. Music like this is underground, unsigned.
excelente actuacion de esta legendaria banda
Its a travesty that the RRHoF has not recognized this great band, the Beatles even aspired to their level of greatness and very much admired them!!! What a sham!
primi amori,primi turbamenti,felici riflessioni.
The guitar solo is clipped and emphatic. The reason it drifts is, if you check out the people behind Trower, a fight breaks out! He's playing and getting out of the way. Classic Germania.
Ha ha - see the fight break out behind the amps at 2.51 !!
I love this track ! - one of my faves from the first albm
Wow. DAVE KNIGHTS was knight of bass guitar.
Wow! Please folks post more w/ any Trower early stuff! We want live vid of WHISKEY TRAIN!!! This was so cool- thanks
look at those beautiful '67 plexi Marshalls with the tall bottoms...what I wouldn't give...
Isn't this era (60's) like a dream and suddenly we feel like waking up to reality in 21st century? It's so oniric because things have changed so much and don't seem as wonderous anymore :(
Reg performed on (In the Skys )with Peter Green in 79 .Jimmy Dewar passed in 82 from a long illness .I hate it when My Heroes go. A
That guitarist taking the solo isa young Robin Trower (Bridge Of Sighs). This is just a year or so before he left the group to concentrate on his blues playing - like a self-imposed exile I think. I always thought the guitarist on the tune Conquistador from their Albert Hall Live album was Trower but he had left before '69. Rare video of him palying a Gibson Les Paul.
I think Trower last appeared on the "Broken Barricades" album of 1971.
Robin Trower's playing a Gretsch solidbody. I didn't know he ever played one of those.
Immortals!!
This was Bilzen, Belgium.
Gran video! Pobre fotógrafo , al fondo del del estrado en 2:47. :-(
At about 2:45 there is a fistfight on the top left that starts and continues through a lot of this video. But the best thing is the drummer B.J. Wilson. Fer instance: ua-cam.com/video/htyVq1yCgyE/v-deo.html
The reason it showed him playing a solo is because in videos when they edit they may show other members of the band playing at any point in the song, all videos do this, most of the time it lines up, here it does not.
Did anyone notice the photographer being roughed up at 2:50?
i was not born in the 60s, but want to go badly, who will take me.....
Great song! Great singing! Great musicians, too! I realize it was 1967, but who dressed these guys? and what's up with Gary's hat?
Robin Trower is definitely playing a Gretsch here
And why does he start his solo too early? But I love Procol and this song.
HELLO HELLO... FLESH GORDON. DO YOU READ ME? HELLO HELLO... COME IN SONNY BONO. DO YOU READ ME? hahaha THIS WAS A FANTASTIC GROUP OF MUSICIANS!!!!!!!!! P.s. Sure glad they dropped that 1967 summer of LUV Look!!!
'thought I saw a guy with the Face of Paul McCartney and the Voice of Gary Brooker
those men in the background are fighting at 2 something also 3:00 and 3:18 as well
2:49 that scuffle went on for a while ....
haha poppin them thangs thats fucking awesome! dr. dre is a genius
How was Trower strumming chords while the audio was him playing a solo?
Check out the young Robin Trower DIG IT
procol and chicago had a child and they called him pink floyd. Nice leather hat!
@MisssSmartini
O, My God.....Of course it's "Christmas Camel" and NOT "Christmas Carol".
Anyway, what a great group it was! Still have their first three albums.
Listen to their drummer, BJ Wilson!
Thats how he roll
Wow, he sounds like Winwood...
Please tell Me of any Trower that I should hear after Fury .I never heard anything on the Radio since Sighs or Earth Below . Thanks :o )
@kenfig Ah, I see. Well, there's always a cross-pollination. I'm guessing the liner notes were by some reviewer or the record co., not the band. I first bought "Home," and then became an overall fan since then, and probably have heard all of their work. They definitely have their own sound, but I guess no one can avoid their influences. And it was such a seminal time. Harum had elegance, very British all the time. Clapton's book mentions them and his contact with Brooker...some problems between
is that a torn swimming cap Gazza is wearing?
WIthout a Fender Strat to boot!
agreed
Bilzen ? you mean in Bilzen from Belgium or is there a place in The US wich is called Bilzen?
Good music!
Peace
Hey if anyone would like to hear some more
Procol Harum songs I uploaded some songs from the salty dog/ home album
Brooker was, and still is............ the glue that makes PH stick and click (sorry fore the rhyme but it's so true.
Sounds like a young Steve Winwood
@kenfig Great observation re: Dylan! I never picked up on that. Any numbers you feel reflect The Band specifically?
You will NEVER see people standing on the stage like that these days.......hah!
Was it called Truce because Reg Came back after He left the band before(Long Misty Days)? ( o: PS Great Album even with Bill banging the cynbals.
Christmas Camel
na just checked not g-unit. scott storch did the piano himself for that theres no amples in poppin them thangs!
it does sound very similar tho
Do you....Mr. Jones? (Beginning piano chords)
Great song although Robin Trower lays down a terrible solo in the middle. Completely out of tune. But BJ Wilson is fantastic on drums and so is Matthew Fisher on organ. The bass player is okay too and it wouldn't have been such a mess if Trower didn't play so bad.
Christmas Carol is a melancholic number but so beautiful.
Gary's voice sounds weak but at least it's in tune.
Thanks for putting this on You Tube! Never saw Procol alive....
His voice sounds like Steve Winwood's on this tune.
Is it my immagination, or does the singer sound just like Steve Winwood?
Trower is a god and i didnt really think his solo was bad in this imean theres a couple of mistakes but its not horrible.
did procal ever have any good cowbell songs?
Bringing Home the Bacon, Whisky Train, Power Failure, others
wow.. what a wild piece of film.. they sound just on the verge of falling apart here.. Trower in partic. sounds pretty rough...and did you notice at one point during his first
solo, they put the camera on him, and he is
playing a Barre chord!!Odd! And WHAT is up with those wacky duds!! Too much.
i thought scott storch made that beat and he dont sample. this just sounds like it. but i dunno just a guess
To HombreHambre: then why to listen to Bach,Mozart etc? I dig good music tha's all made now or 100 years ago. Music is food for the spirit.... Procol Harum melodies are amazing and before many rappers used classical samplers in their songs to look progresive people like The Moody Blues, EL&P,and so on , experimented with music but with a great difference; 60's bands were more creative in their compositions and not so repetive and minimalist as many many many rap bands.
Note the guy getting booted off the stage around 2:47 for taking pictures. Haha.
photographist? photographer?
Cowboys don't stay in tune.(Quote;Jimi Hendrix ) :o )
Love the bully in the background punching out a photgrapher. Gary doesn't even know and keeps on singing. You know it's live because the piano is grossly out of tune. In spite of these small hassels one of the most original bands of all time ,"SHINES ON BRIGHTLY" Has anybody been this unique ever since?
@MrPicroute 67? Just as likely trippin' as drunk
AAAAAA PORKE VERGAS SE VE ASI!!!????
@guitrmn10 Robins solo isnt that bad but its not his best either.
Sorry I hit the down thumb instead of the up thumb, dumb shit. I agree, sooo beautiful, it's too bad Trowers solo wasn't caught, typical editing, show everyone else while the guitar solo is playing. It looks like he's playing a Gretch.
You are so right. The RRHoF is joke and a very bad one too.
I was there... I was 17 old ... Not famous ... The worst guitar solo that night .... But I think they were all drunked ... (So was I) Better listen to their records .....
Longtime fan of Procol, they look like some villians on the original batman show in this video!