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Brooker, Dunn, Pegg, Phillips, Whitehorn
If you were able to get to this gig, please send
us all your pictures, memorabilia, interviews and so forth!
The VIP Room
Homburg
Typewriter Torment
A Rum Tale
Grand Hotel
(German waltz Drink Drink – 'these German
girls they like to fight')
Simple Sister
The Milk of Human Kindness
Something Following Me
('The first song I ever wrote with Keith Reid for
PH, our attempt at the blues' Josh, killer solo: big crowd response. Song has
slowed down but what is really impressing so far are the great dynamics every
song has taken so far. (And a killer solo from Geoff W). The new B3 Digital is
so clear and strong! And the clarity of sound in this tent may be the best
overall sound I have ever heard)
Pandora's Box
(ending jam with a little Latin flavour)
For Liquorice John
(Dave
Ball standing with me says 'Just like BJ'!
Amazing new bass runs from Matt in second midsection after the heavy Hammond
portion)
Seem To Have the Blues (Most All of the Time)
This World is Rich ('I think they are
doing earth day, Live Earth, today in Wembley Stadium, Hamburg, Turkey ... and Al Gore
didn't invite us. But we're here in Effenberg – uh where are we – Gaffenberg the
oldest festival. Here's a big message that some people have too much money and
they really don't spread it around: words by Stephen Maboe!' Gary adds
Zika nor Nama / Hesah.
Song is slow, bluesy)
Whisky Train
(after an another amazing drum solo, Ball turns to me and says 'Class
act!')
A Salty Dog
('those who love(d) BJ, it's a split second off
the beat but on the beat – I think you know what I'm trying to convey!'
Absolutely massive and extended ovation)
Encore
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Air
opening and so on as I've indicated
on prior evenings. Gary asks the audience to
sing along and carries the melody last time around. And yet another new
free-flowing ending with a nice bass run.)
| 15 | songs altogether: | 1 | From Procol Harum | 0 | from Shine on Brightly |
| 2 | From A Salty Dog | 1 | From Home | 1 | from Broken Barricades |
| 3 | From Grand Hotel | 0 | From Exotic Birds and Fruit | 2 | from Procol's Ninth |
| 0 | From Something Magic | 0 | From The Prodigal Stranger | 2 | from The Well's on Fire |
| 3 | non-album tracks | 'The second set last night and tonight has left me with a belief that a new life has spread throughout Procol Harum' | |||
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OE's last comments before London: I really believe we are in for a spectacular weekend with the way the band is performing. They are communicating and painting a canvas that is building a picture of what one would expect of the old band – but in 2007. I hope you will be in London or elsewhere soon enough to decide whether you are hearing what I am. Other Palers in attendance seem to agree. (Thanks, One-Eye; picture of Dave and One-Eye thanks to Hans Volkhardt) |
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Last Dave Ball comment: 'This is the perfect line-up of players for
Procol Harum' – and a final anecdote from Dave: "We were playing the
Santa Monica Civic in '71 or '72. BJ had just shaved off his beard. Some
bloke from the crowd yells out, 'Hey, Robin, who's the new drummer?' "