Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

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Procol Harum at New York, NY

Setlist • 11 July 2014


Brooker, Dunn, Pegg, Phillips, Whitehorn

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Line-check intro
Kaleidoscope
Shine on Brightly
An Old English Dream
Homburg (with an unusual opening)
The VIP Room
Whaling Stories
(band intros, including 'Gary Brooker, too absorbed to sing', in recognition of a dropped line in the previous song)
Missing Person
A Salty Dog (a magnificent vocal performance with a consummate final few lines)
Whisky Train (long, unexpected blues introduction, and a spectacular drum solo)
Nothing But the Truth
A Whiter Shade of Pale (two verses, no guitar solo)

Encores

Simple Sister
Conquistador
 

 

13 songs altogether: 2 From Procol Harum 1 from Shine on Brightly
1 From A Salty Dog 2 From Home 1 from Broken Barricades
  From Grand Hotel 1 From Exotic Birds and Fruit   from Procol's Ninth
  From Something Magic   From The Prodigal Stranger 2 from The Well's on Fire
2 non-album tracks 1 Brooker solo item

The setlist specified New Lamps for Old after Whisky Train; Nothing But the Truth was scheduled after AWSoP, and Simple Sister didn't feature

Very good crowd in a nice venue: very appreciative and supportive. First band was Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy band ... loud, prodigiously accomplished, personable ... and gruellingly monotonous.

All Procols in good form, GB especially so: some terrific singing, and a baffling exposition of the position of sunset on 34th Street in Manhattanhenge, and how Stonehenge, in England, was built by Queen Elizabeth.

 


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