May 21, 2006
Alice's restaurant's top choice
The replacemant kitchen soon to be closed for this time - let me just send you over to Alice's restaurant. See which band our maitre d'hotel puts on top of his menu:"I would turn on the radio and I just kept hearing the same songs over and over. Having lived in the era, I knew how many really great songs there were from back in the '60s and '70s that just weren't being played anymore anywhere. So I said, 'Somebody give me a radio show and let me play what I want to play and let me use my Rolodex to bring some of these great artists on the radio!'
The folks at the New York-based United Stations Radio Network heard his plea. Through them, Alice now shares his bizarre sense humor and favorite classic rock songs with listeners on over 100 radio station affiliates, including X-Rock 103.9.
'I love being able to play Procol Harum, The Yardbirds, Them, Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention and all those artists who are the not 'normal fare,' but who are still great classic rock,' he said."
Northwest Indiana News: Go ask Alice (May 21, 2006)
Band du Lac: the setlist
Update:
Show Begins 8:30
Tequila
Gimme Some Lovin' - Nikki Lamborn
Low Flying Birds - Gary Brooker
How Long? - Paul Carrack
Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Andy Fairweather Low
Wide-Eyed and Legless - AFL
I Just Wanna Make Love To You - Tara McDonald
Green Onions - Georgie Fame
Yeh Yeh - GF
(A song about life on the farm by Lyle and Gallagher) - GF
The Living Years - Paul Carrack
Hoots Mon, there' a moose loose in the hoose - All
Knock On Wood - Eric Clapton
Reconsider Baby - EC
Stormy Monday - EC
Wonderful Tonight - EC
Wish You Were Here - Roger Waters and Nick Mason
Confortably Numb - RW & NM
A W S O P - GB
Cocaine - EC
Stand Up For Your Rights - All
Rainy Day Women Nos 12 & 35
Show ends at 10:50 PM
Saturday night, Gary Brooker's Band du Lac supergroup played at Highclere Castle in the UK. No setlist or full report yet; in the meantime, have a look at last year's all-star lineup and a setlist and report from their last performance
(thanks, Robert)
"this almost Procol Harum-like effect"
"At times, Built to spill gets downright eerie - painting its songs with haunting dramatic melodies, swirling organs and moody guitars. Both Traces and Gone are prime examples of this almost Procol Harum-like effect."
Electric City - Sights & Sounds, May 11 2006
Anybody heard Built to spill? No soundclips on their own site, unfortunately; but the songs mentioned above (from the album You in reverse) can be bought from iTunes, of course. Why not give it a try, and come back and write a comment?
Even if you don't agree with this suggested Harumesque almostness, I nevertheless think it's nice that Procol still serves as a kind of yardstick - it means they still define a trace of a feeling in the mind of this writer (and perhaps his readers).
Built to spill will tour the US from June until October this year, btw.
Matthew's lost organ
Matthew's (in)famous lost organ - did it end up in New Jersey? But Otto, if you knew, why didn't you give it back?
A whiter shade of bikes
" ... Among other pursuits, he co-promoted the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road and, in just eight months, had put on Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Eric Burdon, the Pretty Things, the Move, Ten Years After, Jeff Beck, Family, the Fairports, Procol Harum and the Incredible String Band."Who's that? His memoir is called White Bicycles and could be yours for just £11.99, incidentally ... Check out the Observer review Bob, the Floyd, Syd and me (May 14 2006)
May 20, 2006
New song with Phillips history
Interesting fact about the new song played last night in Chelmsford, apparently said to have been written in 1993 in Dresden, Germany.
Procol did tour Germany in June 1993, supporting Jethro Tull at three gigs. And as you can see from the Procol Family Tree, playing the organ during that little tour was - Josh Phillips, Procol's current organist! In fact, the gigs in Germany was Phillips debut with the band.
So perhaps Josh's re-entry in the band has triggerd the Commander to revive a piece from just that tour?
Unheard song gets debut in Chelmsford
As you probably know, Gary Brooker and friends have been playing the Chelmsford Cathedral tonight. A first setlist has already found it's way over here to the replacement kitchen (thank you, One-Eye and Roland!).
Exciting news: it seems a hitherto unheard song was heard for the first time tonight!
Here's the setlist:
Pastime
Homburg
My lord what a morning
Fires which
Nothing but the truth
Albinoni
Psalm for St. Mary
Within our house
Set 2
Holding on
Steal away
Peace in the valley
The long goodbye
2006 (Hitherto unheard - includes some Mozart's Coronation Mass - written Dresden 1993)
A salty dog (with amazing drumming)
Jesus on the mainline
Awsop (two verses)
Encore:
Grand finale
The return of King Curtis
This just in:Recordings of Aretha Franklin and King Curtis live from Fillmore West in 1971 have been remastered and expanded for reissue. (...)Three extra tracks on the new Curtis release, of wich one is of some Procol interest: a version of George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord." Due July 11 from Rhino Records.
The Curtis set, which was originally released shortly before the saxophonist's murder in August 1971, (...) includes covers of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love," Procol Harum's classic 1967 hit "A Whiter Shade Of Pale".
Aretha, King Curtis Fillmore Sets Remastered, Billboard (May 18, 2006)
A whiter shade of squirrel
Don't you think this squirrel in Westr Sussex really was heading for Lime Street?
May 19, 2006
Hello everybody!
Welcome back, everybody!
Once again, the weekend back-up Swedish Beyond the Pale kitchen is online; right now we're busy stoking the oven, preparing the coming midnight snack. Check back for more!