If you were to head over to AMG and look up their review of Mark Fry’s Dreaming With Alice, you would find the rather iniquitous quote “… reminiscent of Donovan’s forays into that area, though not as interesting.”How wrong could they be? Dreaming With Alice, released only in Italy in 1972, possesses a certain magic [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowMark Fry – Dreaming With AliceRelated
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Not one for the feint-hearted when it comes to all things jazzy, 1969’s ‘Igginbottom’s Wrench (apostrophe included) was the first recording of progressive-jazz journeyman Allan Holdsworth, and though still within the realms of prog rock, it skirts closer to the borders of jazz-fusion.Well to the ears of this fully paid-up member of the jazz-philistine club [...]Post from: Head Full of Snow
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In 1977, ten years on from ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale‘, Procol Harum delivered what was to be their last album for 14 years. Only lead vocalist, pianist and songwriter Gary Brooker remained from that original ‘AWSoP’ line-up, along with the lyricist Keith Reid (BJ Wilson joining on drums after the hit was recorded).Something Magic [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum – Something Ma
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In 1975, the question among a great many of those circumnavigating the spheres of post-psychedelic, progressive rock fandom, might well have been: “is Procol Harum still relevant?”Unlike other bands that had blossomed out of late-1960s psychedelic Britain, only to fall dramatically by the wayside, Procol Harum had left the paisley shirts behind and continued to [...]Post from: Head Full of Sno
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“Is it on, Tommy?”So begins Procol Harum’s seventh studio album, Exotic Birds and Fruit. Words that give way to the 1974 opener ‘Nothing But the Truth’, a belter of a tune whose intent, and indeed top billing, is to address any concerns that seven years into the band’s lifespan, Procol Harum had become a spent [...]Post from: Head Full of SnowProcol Harum – Exotic Birds and Fruit (20
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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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