Carlo 'Jack' Ponissi from the Italian band 'Sormorock' sends the following
setlist to BtP
Pandora's Box
Shine on Brightly
She Wandered through the Garden Fence
Outside the Gates of Cerdes (standard lenght, with organ
solos)
Wizard Man (four verses, shorter ending than the last
couple of times)
Bringing Home the Bacon (with drum solo and trades)
Weisselklenzenacht (The Signature)
A Salty Dog
M Back
Homburg
On The Sand
Repent Walpurgis (Shorter than usual, but with an
additional Hammond solo and extended piano one)
In The Corner of My Mind
Green Onions (unrehearsed)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (with mermaid verse)
Conquistador (with keyboards interplay similar to
the one played at the San Mauro 2011 gig)
Encores:
Wizard Man/A Whiter Shade of Pale/Senza Luce/Weisselklenzenacht medley
(with Pasquale, owner of the pub and in the '60s a member of The
Albatross, providing some Italian vocals)
Lineup:
Alberto Bodini – vocals
Carlo "Jack" Ponissi – Hammond organ
Cristina Ramat – piano and backing vocals
Mauro Roasio – bass guitar
Lorenzo Brunetti – drums
The venue was the Corner House Rock Pub, a club located in the southern
part of the city that has the peculiarity of hosting only tribute bands
to significative rock acts so, for the first time since 2011, SormoRock was
marketed prominently as a "Procol Harum tribute". During the concert
videos of Procol Harum and Gary Brooker were projected on a big screen
behind the stage.
The band played to a full house and the gig went well notwithstanding
the sudden change of line-up and Alberto being still recovering from
very bad laryngitis. The new bass player, Mauro Roasio (whom our
followers may remember seeing on lead guitar during the October 2012
Jazz Club set), who had joined the band three weeks before the gig,
performed admirably. The abrupt change of lineup and very limited
rehearsal time involved meant that the band didn't have enough numbers
left to fulfil the encore requests so A Salty Dog was played for
a second time and a medley of other numbers was hastily arranged on the
spot.
The whole gig was filmed by the venue and a DVD was given to the band as
a surprise gift so something is bound to end up on the web eventually.