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the Pale

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Procol Harum in Erfurt, Germany

22 November 2003

Brooker, Brzezicki, Fisher, Pegg, Whitehorn

Underture
Shine on Brightly
Pandora's Box
Bringing Home the Bacon
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(Gary says 'It's a good day for an English band': England had won a Rugby trophy)
Grand Hotel
She Wandered through the Garden Fence
Shadow Boxed
Simple Sister
Weisselklenzenacht (Gary says 'Unterschrift')
Quite Rightly So
Homburg
Holding On
VIP Room
A Salty Dog (great 'guitar-birds')
Conquistador
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Repent Walpurgis

Soundcheck, bits and pieces of:
Blue Danube
Peace in the Valley
A Robe of Silk
Bringing home the Bacon
Land of Hope and Glory
VIP Room
A Salty Dog
(thanks Jutta)

 

Martin Clare adds:
Re the inclusion of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot in this set-list, it might be worth explaining to non-Rugby-fans (and I suspect there are a few such who visit BtP!) that the song has over the last few years become an unofficial England Rugby Union anthem, and is hollered out in Rugby clubs and [other] places where they sing whenever England take the field.

And to say that England had just won 'a Rugby trophy' is a bit like saying that in 1967 Procol Harum released 'a not unsuccessful single' - it was only the quadrennial world cup, after all - but maybe I'll let that pass ...

 

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 18

songs altogether:

3

From Procol Harum

2

from Shine on Brightly

1

From  A Salty Dog

 

From  Home

1

from  Broken Barricades

2

From  Grand Hotel

 

From Exotic Birds and Fruit

1

from Procol's Ninth

 

From Something Magic

1

From The Prodigal Stranger

3

from The Well's on Fire

2

non-album tracks

2

Non-originals, or in fact the same one twice.

A great concert in the old "Gewerkschaftshaus". The house was full with people and it was great fun for the audience and also the band. During a little "Autogramm" hour after the concert all the members sang with the fans an a capella Swing Low. During the concert Gary alluded to the death of John F Kennedy, 40 years ago. Thanks to Procol Harum to this great concert and please come back ! (thanks, Mario)

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