Last week the Blue Man Group celebrated its 20th anniversary with a special benefit show for their Blue School , featuring a performance from the group's original lineup, and a special solo acoustic set from Dave Matthews . For his eight-song set , which leaned heavily on material from his solo album Some Devil , Matthews debuted this absolutely fantastic and delicate cover of Procol Harum's signature tune A White Shade Of Pale... Click here to view the embedded video. [...]

I am incorrigibly a '70s guy at heart. The music I return to over and over is the same stuff I played on my 8-track, in my Dodge Challenger with the two door speakers and the two huge rear speakers that used the trunk for reverb. It was like driving inside the speakers. Cruising at night or parking for a smoke at Buzz's corner, it was usually Jethro Tull, Genesis or Robin Trower. Trower was the lead guitarist for Procol Harum. But he liked to channel Jimi Hendrix too much and left the group to [...]
Also known as Something Tragic.
Dvorak, Schubert, and Beethoven all peaked with their ninth major works. Did Procol Harum?

Procol Harum - Grand Hotel

Here's a grab bag of stuff for serious music geeks (and geekettes). Procol Harum : Grand Hotel/Exotic Birds And Fruit/Procol's Ninth/Something Magic Quick. What is the UK's most-played song of all time according to Phonographic Performance Ltd ? Satisfaction ? Hey Jude ? Wannabe ? Wonderwall ? Not even close. No, it seems Procol Harum's 1967 hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale holds that honor. Of course, that ditty (with its countermelody based [...]

Going through my sister's record collection yesterday, I realized that my sister seems to be a step or two behind the so-called "hip" crowd. Remember when we reviewed the British Invasion bands who got psychedelic in the late 1960s? It's like she wasn't hip enough to latch on to these acts when they were emerging or cutting-edge, she caught 'em on their downslide ... know what I mean? Well, I think that's pretty cool - we've all heard their hits anyway. So in that spirit, today we will spin Revelation , [...]
The beautifully remastered 8th album from Procol Harum now digitally available from Union Square Music.
Procol Harum's Grand Hotel is a classic album that is frequently overlooked.

When I was a kid, singles were the best way to get into music - that is, music that wasn't interrupted on the radio by some golden throat in love with his own voice. I kind of remember having some singles with the price tag still attached to the paper sleeve; those were 50 cents but I more clearly remember paying about 68 cents for a single in the late 1960s-early 1970s. And the first single I ever bought with my own money? "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, in 1966. OK, here's an old one: Procol [...]
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Download 1. Steve Tilston - The Spoils Of War 2. Rasputina - My Night Sky (06:44) 3. The Native Hipsters - Tenderly Hurt Me (11:00) 4. Procol Harum - Nothing But The Truth (13:46) 5. Dara Ruspita - Believe Me (16:49) 6. The 4 Instants - Mashed Potatos(18:59) 7. The Time And Space Machine - Midsummer Night (20:56) 8. Mugstar - She Ran Away With My Medicine (24:56) 9. Beyond The Wizzard Sleeve - Sunday Morning Sun-G(27:54) 10.Black Sabbath - Fluff (31:42) 11. On!Air!Library [...]

I know a concert review from two bands from the 60's isn't going to score big with today's Indie crowd, but not many of posts do so why stop now? Jethro Tull is a very polarizing band kind of like Rush or even The Grateful Dead; you either love them or you hate them. Well, I'm fans of all three bands and I make no apologies. I've been listening to Jethro Tull since I was about 13 years old. I own everything in their catalogue. I don't know too many Jethro Tull fans to be honest, but I met about [...]
Ruckus Roboticus - "Chicks Original" MP3/download Chrome - "Third from the Sun" MP3/download SKULLFLOWER - s/t MP3/download Wicked King Wicker Had to share some more links with you. These up above are unfortunately just iTunes links, but I also threw a video on here for ya. It's a Procol Harum video; make no [...]
Robin Trower's great debut has been reissued on CD complete with rare bonus track.

Agruably Procol Harum's finest hour, A Salty Dog (A&M, 1969) was the last album with keyboard/organ player Matthew Fisher. Fisher's keyboards dominate typical Procol Harum numbers like "Pilgrim's Progress," "All This and More," and the excellent progressive rocker "Wreck of the Hesperus." These songs (all very good) are what you'd expect to find on a late 60s Procol Harum record, a slow paced, keyboard driven sound. It's the remaining tracks that push the group's resources to the limit and see them branching out into new territory that is often exciting and original. The album opened with the title track, "A Salty Dog." One [...]

Ya gotta love the hooded organ player. And the romantic slowdance during the solo. Posted in Leftovers Tagged: Music, Procol Harum, video
His UK fan site is here . He is famous for his Fender Stratocaster Well I go back to Procol Harum - I had A Salty Dog 1969 on vinyl I remember Bridge of Sighs 1974 He is mates with Jack Bruce ( BLT 1981 ) and Brian Ferry ( Dylanesque 2007) Amazon UK Bridge Of Sighs Dylanesque [...]

Words: Will Slater Recently, my dear old dad got out his box of old vinyl 45s to convert into audio files. These are mainly factory samples from when he worked as a sleeve designer for Decca back in the day. Being a man of retro as well as modern tastes, I selected a few of my favourites from this archive so that you lovely people could enjoy the genuine sound of a vinyl single in digital format. Enjoy! Couldn't Get It Right by [...]
Switching back to the classic rock versions for today, December 17th's edition of the Raised on Indie Christmas Song Extravaganza (sure I just made that name up now). You can't get much more classic in the rock world, today's artists touch more on the progressive and psychedelic scene, respectively. The first track comes from the English symphonic progressive rock band Procol Harum. The band is best known for their track A Whiter Shade of Pale. The featured track for today from the band is titled A Christmas Camel, and it is on the band's self titled vinyl record [...]