Jethro Tull’s 1969 album Stand Up was the follow up to the inconsistent debut, This Was, and the first to feature Birmingham-born mainstay Martin Lancelot Barre on guitar.It was also the album that signposted the path down which Jethro Tull (or the mighty Tull, dependant on personal opinion) were headed, largely doing away with the [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowJethro Tull – Stand UpRelated
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In the world of cinema, remakes are usually dismissed as a sign of the lack of creativity within the film industry moneymaking machine. The same can’t be said for music. If an artist covers another’s tune it’s called a tribute, and, dependant upon the song and diversity of the arrangement or “reinterpretation”, sometimes hailed as [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowFruits de Mer RecordsRel
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There’s a glittering pond, somewhere beyond the grim onset of the 1980s, where floats many a progressive rock act of the 70s that have either gone on to be forgotten or never attained the recognition they might’ve hoped for in their time. Drifting on this shimmering pool of dancing light, if you look hard [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowKhan – Space ShantyRelated posts:Gong UK Tour Dates a
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Inspired Dutch lunacy from Thijs van Leer. Jan Akkerman and the rest of Focus, with a 1973 live version of their barmier than a badger’s stag-do track, ‘Hocus Pocus’.Taken from the 1971 album Moving Waves, this version of the prog rockers’ classic is inexplicably speeded up in places, but it doesn’t lose any of its [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowFocus – Hocus PocusNo related posts.
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The oddball and essentially lighthearted Supersister saw a change in the ranks for 1973’s Iskander, their fourth studio album, with 50% of the four man line-up departing due to creative differences. With a new drummer in the shape of Herman van Boeyen and a saxophonist and flautist named Charlie Mariano drafted in, Supersister went all [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowSupersister – IskanderRel
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Progressive rock in the ’70s was traditionally recognised as being the realm of white (often middle-class, art-school educated), occasionally nerdy, hippy-types. However, challenging such notions was the all black Demon Fuzz, who signed to Pye’s prog label, Dawn, in 1970.Afreaka!, released in the same year was there one and only album.Five tracks (the Esoteric Recordings [...]Post from: Head F
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Esoteric Recordings continue their sterling crusade of reissuing remastered psychedelic and progressive rock albums of the 60s and 70s.So as the leaves brown, the air gets colder and the door slowly creaks shut on 2009, what’s crackling away in the Esoteric fireplace, lined up for a November release?Pete Sinfield – Still (1973) A 2CD [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowEsoteric Recordings Nove
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Man, the rock group that spilled forth from South Wales in the late sixties and released a raft of albums throughout the seventies, were never ones to accept the pigeonhole gracefully. After all, what were they? Could Man be called psychedelic rock, progressive rock, country-rock or good old-fashioned pub rock?Well they took elements of all [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowMan – MAN (1971) albu.
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‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ this Christmas is going to be one made in heaven for the weathered Beatles fan, ‘Yes it Is’. Following on from a veritable ‘Helter Skelter’ of Beatles business to coincide with the 40th anniversary of their split – including the complete digital remastering of the Fab Four’s backcatalog, as well as [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Beatles ‘Box of Vision
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To bring Head Full of Snow’s Procol Harum Week to a close, we list our five favourite tunes from the erudite songsmiths of psychedelic and progressive rock grandiose.Actually, following a ruddy great trawl through what’s on offer, this may be retitled our “five favourite Procol Harum tunes available on YouTube.” They’re all absolute [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowHFoS Top Five Procol
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With packaging as lush as and three times more lickable than a Gary Brooker orchestral arrangement, Salvo release the Creme de Menthe of their Procol Harum 40th Anniversary reissues, the four disc compendium, All This and More.All this and more, indeed. What we have here is three CDs spanning the lengthy career of Southend-on-Sea’s finest, [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowAll This and More: A 4.
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Procol Harum were already into their fifth line-up when, in 1973, they released their sixth studio album, Grand Hotel.With guitarist Robin Trower and his replacement for Live in Concert with the Edmonton Orchestra, Dave Ball, both gone, Mick Grabham, ex of Ladbroke Grove country rockers Cochise, joined the fold and along with Alan Cartwright on [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowGrand Hotel album...
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The opener to the album Grand Hotel, and one of Procol harum’s finest.Released in 1973, ‘Grand Hotel’ cements Procol Harum’s place as one the finest progressive/symphonic rock bands the genre had to offer. I don’t think anything else needs saying.You can read a review of Grand Hotel here.Don’t just read and applaud. Subscribe to the [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowGrand Hotel (song an
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For their sixth album, Procol Harum departed the studio and took to the stage of the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Canada, with a full symphony orchestra as their backing band and a 24-voice choir providing vocal support.Released in 1972, Procol Harum Live in Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (to give it its [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowLive in Concert with the...
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As reviewed yesterday as part of Procol Harum Week, here’s the barnstorming opener from 1971’s Broken Barricades album, entitled ‘Simple Sister’.Well most of it anyway, as this video seems to be a sawn-off version, running at two minutes shy of the album original. Nevertheless, it gives a good feel for the harder rock edge that [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowSimple Sister video: Procol H
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‘A Salty Dog’ is widely regarded as one of Procol Harum’s finest songs, and you wouldn’t get any arguments from Head Full of Snow on that count.Taken from the 1969 album of the same name, it marked vocalist and songwriter Gary Brooker’s first attempt at an orchestral score, and the lavish result places ‘A Salty [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowA Salty Dog video: Procol Harum WeekRelate
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In 1971, when Procol Harum’s Broken Barricades was first released, the band that has been through a massive 23 different line-ups was only on their third, the same quartet responsible for the previous album Home.There was Chris Copping doubling up on bass and organ, alongside BJ Wilson and Robin Trower from the classic era, on [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowBroken Barricades: Procol Harum Wee.
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Head Full of Snow’s 100th post coincides with the launch of Procol Harum Week. It’s almost as though I planned it that way. And where else would one kick off a Procol Harum Week than at the moment in time where it all began? The debut single that has gone on to be named the [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum Week: A Whiter Shade of PaleRelated posts:Procol Harum Week at Head Full of
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Just a quick announcement from the editorial staff here at HFoS towers that next week is officially declared Procol Harum Week.Kicking off tomorrow, Head Full of Snow is dedicating itself to the innovative progressive rock act that will, unfairly or otherwise, forever be associated with one song, ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’.Between 1967 and 1977 [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum Week
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I seem to have jumped the gun when I made the rather bold statement that The Duckworth Lewis Method had released the best new album you would hear this year – back in August. Since then I have gone on to discover the sublime Circulus, who released their third album in June (reviews soon, promise) [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowThe Witch and the Robot – On SafariNo related posts.Related posts
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