Bringing Home the Bacon (Gary
plays TV Caesar theme during his solo instrument break)
Shine on Brightly (GB sings 'Il Tuo
Diamante' first line of chorus and 'splendera')
The VIP Room (drumming has transformed
the song a bit more towards a Monsieur Armand styling)
Pandora's Box (Latino Brazil 66
ending jam passage: rousing applause)
(You Can't) Turn Back the Page (just
beautiful and very Procolly with updated drumming and fine dynamics)
Homburg (rousing applause at first note
and another after first chorus and instrumental bridge and big one and
extended at ending - sounded as fresh as 1967)
Simple Sister (very nice, dynamic and big
applause)
A Rum Tale ('I'd like to change the
tempo, tempo differente, more expresso'; very nice Josh,
not-completely-Copping solo and great spirit in the song)
Grand Hotel (Viennese almost combo
rumba centre passage; 'Italian girls they like to fight'. Just about as
perfect as it can get live creating the essence of a Grand Hotel)
An Old English Dream (song no longer
sounds to me like Procol 2003 – big applause and so much smoke on stage,
GW goes missing just prior to the irony of the next song) ('Excuse while
I take a Grappa' and GB jokingly thanks sponsor Ricola 'Otherwise you
get a dry throat')
Missing Persons (seems slightly more
up-tempo and big applause after GW's first solo – new uptempo ending
with last lines of verse gone and very powerful ending – imho this may
turn into a real Brooker/Reid PH classic) (Massive applause)
Conquistador (a perfect complement,
coming off the energized Matt Pegg – an exceptional solo from Josh;
prolonged applause)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (from the first
organ note; big applause after the first line and again after first
chorus. Two verses and traditional ending) ('Mille grazie, merci
beaucoup'; musicians' intros). (Band stays on stage, doesn't play
Whisky Train although that's on the setlist)
Encore
A Salty Dog (applause to Geoff
Whitehorn playing the seagull intro – right away people in front of me
applaud Geoff Dunn for getting the drum passage correct; he uses mallets
again, as not previously reported, on the cymbals at the concluding
passage).
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One-Eye's Soundcheck Notes
This a sporting arena and very echoey. Hope the crowd muffles it.
What'd I Say –
a quick go-round
Bringing Home the Bacon –
instrumental
Sound adjustment is better and more palatable thanks to the spry fingers
of Graham Ewins
Missing Persons (working on ending)
Now a break as the stage setup is completed
Wizard Man
Hang on Rose
Missing Persons (a few times and then working out a different
ending)
For Liquorice John (mid-section with ABBA quotation) |
