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Procol Harum - Live In Concert With The Edmonton Philharmonic Orchestra
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This whole album was an afterthought -- Procol Harum had been
invited to play a concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
and the Da Camera Singers in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in
August of 1971, at the tail-end of their last tour with Robin
Trower in the lineup. Amid all of the preparation -- including
the writing of new orchestral arrangements by Gary Brooker
and with a new lead guitarist, Dave Ball, just joining the lineup
Brooker decided that it might be a good idea to preserve a
professionally made tape of the show and suggested that
A&M Records, to which they were signed, might want to record
the performance; the label agreed with just a week to go until
the concert. Even "Conquistador," the song on which the resulting
album's commercial success was built, was added at the last
minute, with no time for the orchestra to rehearse the
arrangement that Brooker wrote on the flight from England.
They did it cold, opening the concert, and the eventual album
featured a performance -- highlighted by the orchestra's brass
in a Spanish mode, running scales on the strings, and B.J. Wilson's
powerful drumming -- helped loft the single to number 16 in America.
The group's second-biggest hit record (after "A Whiter Shade of Pale"),
in turn, helped lift the album into the American Top Five. Ironically, the
success of the LP also left Procol Harum's image slightly askew, with the
presence of the orchestra and choir and the selection of songs, from the
most ambitious part of the band's repertory, all combining to present the
group as more of a progressive rock act than they actually were.
"Conquistador" was the most accessible song on the album, and nothing
else here matches it for sheer, bracing excitement, but the rest
especially "Whaling Stories" and "A Salty Dog" and the multi-part
"In Held 'Twas I" -- were all opened up by the vast canvas provided
by the orchestra, and the group didn't wimp out in their own performance;
Wilson, Ball, Brooker, and company all played hard and heavy where the
songs required it.
Procol Harum - Live In Concert with the Edmonton Philharmonic Orchestra
(In Which B.J gives it some welly on drums)
01 - Procol Harum - Conquistador.mp3
02 - Procol Harum - Whaling Stories.mp3
03 - Procol Harum - A Salty Dog.mp3
04 - Procol Harum - All this and More.mp3
05 - Procol Harum - In Held 'twas in I.mp3
06 - Procol Harum - Luskus Delph (B-Side).mp3
07 - Procol Harum - Simple Sister (from the Rehearsal).mp3
08 - Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly (from the Rehearsal).mp3
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FILE LIST
Filename
Size
01 - Procol Harum - Conquistador.mp3
7.9 MB
02 - Procol Harum - Whaling Stories.mp3
12.1 MB
03 - Procol Harum - A Salty Dog.mp3
8.5 MB
04 - Procol Harum - All this and More.mp3
7.1 MB
05 - Procol Harum - In Held 'twas in I.mp3
29.3 MB
06 - Procol Harum - Luskus Delph (B-Side).mp3
5.1 MB
07 - Procol Harum - Simple Sister (from the Rehearsal).mp3
4.8 MB
08 - Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly (from the Rehearsal).mp3
