Procol Harum ... the bonus-track bootleg? 

While BtP does not promote bootlegs or any other activity that denies Procol Harum their legitimate music income, we think it fair to alert fans to this foolish scam: an album on vinyl entitled A Robe Of Silk, Rare Tracks From Early Days (March 1967 – April 1969). It seems almost certain that most of the tracks have been lifted from the legitimate bonus tracks in the Westside and Salvo series of CDs; audiophiles will not, of course, be fooled by the 'cachet' of a vinyl version, since cloning to that medium cannot mitigate the supposed imperfections of CD mastering 

Side 1:
1. A Whiter Shade Of Pale (6:02) (Alternate, Extended Stereo Version, 19th April 1967)
2. Alpha (3:48) (Outtake, 29th March 1967)
3. Salad Days (4:24) (Take 5, Alternate Early Version, June 1967)
4. Understandably Blue (3:30) (Stereo Outtake, 19th April 1967)
5. Homburg (5:30) (Alternate, Extended Stereo Version, August 1967)
6. A Robe Of Silk (1:55) (Unreleased Stereo Backing Track, 12th January 1968)
7. In The Wee Small Hours Of Sixpence (3:03) (Alternate Version, 6th December 1967)

Side 2:
1. Pandora's Box (3:24) (Take 1, (Unreleased Stereo Backing Track, 24th July 1967)
2. McGreggor (Stereo Outtake, 10th March 1968)
3. Repent Walpurgis (7:24) (Alternate, Extended Stereo Version, 25th July 1967)
4. Goin' Down Slow (7:46) (Live, Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca, USA, April 1969)
5. Also Sprach Zarathustra (1:45) (Live, Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca, USA, April 1969)
6. Stoke Poges (5:39) (Live, Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca, USA, April 1969)

Obviously whoever is behind this fake has gone to some lengths to make it look like an echt 1960s' album release, with a version of the classic red stereo Regal Zonophone record label that stops short of outright impersonation.


 

If you want these bonus tracks legimately, a good place to start would be here. You'd also get nice booklets and pictures, and the right people would get a royalty.

 As the poet saith, 'Draw your own conclusions'.