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The ghostlike desolation of the rehearsal complex where the Procols prepared
the Dominion show is mitigated by this fabulous sky
It's the morning of Thursday 20 November.
Wednesday was theoretically a day off for Procol, but – Geoff Whitehorn having
been hospitalised – a lot of it must have been spent recruiting and
preparing his stand-in, Dave Colquhoun (that's his head above the cymbal). Matt
Pegg, with his bass, has been schooling Dave through Homburg and
Simple Sister. The BtP ambassador has just
delivered to Gary Brooker the large champagne bottle he was given in Freising on
his 69th birthday, and which has now been converted, by West-Country artisans,
into a table lamp. The neat wooden
box in which it travelled safely back from Germany may be seen in the bottom
left of this picture, in front of the Commander's piano's flight-case
Gary Brooker at his keyboard, and Dave
Colquhoun's keyboard allows him to make notes on the songs as the band works
through them. On the wall behind
GB's head, the set list he has inherited from Geoff Whitehorn and which (as the
detail below shows) he learnt – and performed – with no changes
One can just about recognise the song titles written on the
board, and correlate them
with the running-order from The Dominion, shewn to the left of this enlargement
A similar shot, but with more colour and more
Les Paul in it. You can see the characteristic wing-shape
of the faux grand, propped up in the background in some of these shots
A somewhat worried-looking organist. 'It's the
luck of the Procols,' said Josh about Maestro Whitehorn's incapacity, 'But you
know us, Roland, we're never been beaten yet!'
And they weren't. In fact, the emergency line-up worked two days here, then had
their scheduled day-off on Saturday, before resuming work, with orchestra and
choir, on Sunday
Procol dates in 2014 | Procol Harum dates with orchestra | More pictures: what happened next
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