Procol Harum "Still There'll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017" 5CD/3DVD Box 3/23/2018

[Yellow Jester]

Procol Harum "Still There'll Be More: An Anthology 1967-2017" 5CD/3DVD box set (Esoteric UK)



Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of an official limited edition super deluxe boxed set celebrating fifty years of the legendary Procol Harum; Still There’ll Be More. This eight disc set comprises five CDs and three DVDs, of which the first three discs draw upon the key tracks from Procol Harum’s illustrious career. Disc four features the band’s legendary concert at the Hollywood Bowl on 21 September 1973 (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Roger Wagner Chorale), whilst disc five features a previously unreleased concert at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens on 17 March 1976.

Of the DVD content, (NTSC – Region Free) which features over three and a half hours of footage, mostly previously unreleased, disc six begins with a performance of A Whiter Shade of Pale on the BBC TV show Top of the Pops from December 1967 before moving to the archives of the German Beat Club series. All of the band’s surviving performances for the show are here, including the entire un-broadcast raw video footage of the band’s Beat Club Workshop studio concert from 1971, shorn of the visual gimmickry of the actual broadcast, revealing the pure performance on DVD for the first time. Disc seven features the entire sixty-five minute recording session of a performance for the German Musikladen series in October 1973, most of which was never shown on television. Disc eight features more BBC TV performances, including a rendition of Pandora’s Box from Top of the Pops in September 1975 and the band’s set for the Sight and Sound In Concert series in March 1977.

This lavish re-mastered set also features a sixty-eight page hard backed book with an essay by Patrick Humphries and a lengthy in depth commentary on the performances featured by respected Procol Harum authority Roland Clare. The book also includes many previously unseen photographs and memorabilia from Gary Brooker’s private collection. Still There’ll Be More also includes a 60cm x 40 cm reproduction poster from a Procol Harum concert (featuring support from Vivian Stanshall) in 1976.

Still There’ll Be More is the most elaborate celebration of Procol Harum’s music released to date and this deluxe boxed set is a fine tribute to fifty years of one of Britain’s greatest bands.

Tracklist:
DISC ONE
1. A Whiter Shade of Pale
A-side of single – Released in May 1967

2. Homburg
A-side of single – Released in September 1967

3. Cerdes (Outside the Gates of)
4. Salad Days (Are Here Again)
5. Kaleidoscope
6. Repent Walpurgis
Taken from the album “Procol Harum”
Released in September 1967

7. Understandably Blue
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London in July 1967

8. Shine on Brightly
9. Quite Rightly So
10. Skip Softly My Moonbeams
Taken from the album “Shine On Brightly”
Released in September 1968

11. A Salty Dog
12. The Devil Came from Kansas
13. Pilgrim’s Progress
14. The Milk of Human Kindness
Taken from the album “A Salty Dog”
Released in June 1969
15. Long Gone Geek
B-side of single – Released in May 1969

16. Whisky Train
17. Barnyard Story
18. Still There’ll Be More
19. Whaling Stories
Taken from the album “Home”
Released in June 1970

DISC TWO
1. Simple Sister
2. Broken Barricades
3. Luskus Delph
4. Memorial Drive
Taken from the album “Broken Barricades”
Released in July 1971

5. Conquistador
6. In Held ‘Twas in I
comprising:
Glimpses of Nirvana
‘Twas Tea Time at the Circus
In the Autumn of My Madness
Look to Your Soul / Grand Finale
Taken from the album “Live In Concert with the
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra”
Released in April 1972

7. Grand Hotel
8. Robert’s Box
9. For Liquorice John
10. Souvenir of London
11. Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)
Taken from the album “Grand Hotel” – Released in March 1973

12. Nothing But the Truth
13. The Idol
14. The Thin End of the Wedge
Taken from the album “Exotic Birds and Fruit” Released in April 1974

DISC THREE
1. Beyond the Pale
2. As Strong as Samson
Taken from the album “Exotic Birds and Fruit” – Released in April 1974

3. Pandora’s Box
4. The Unquiet Zone
5. Fool’s Gold
6. Typewriter Torment
Taken from the album “Procol’s Ninth” – Released in September 1975

7. Something Magic
8. Skating on Thin Ice
9. Strangers in Space
Taken from the album “Something Magic” – Released in March 1977

10. Perpetual Motion
11. Holding On
Taken from the album “The Prodigal Stranger” Released in August 1991

12. An Old English Dream
13. This World is Rich (For Stephen Maboe)
14. The Emperor’s New Clothes
Taken from the album “The Well’s on Fire” – Released in March 2003

15. Can’t Say That
16. The Only One
Taken from the album “Novum”
Released in April 2017

DISC FOUR
Live at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra & the Roger Wagner Chorale
Recorded 21st September 1973

1. Sanctus
2. Broken Barricades
3. Simple Sister
4. A Christmas Camel
5. Toujours L’Amour
6. Grand Hotel
7. Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)
8. A Salty Dog
9. Conquistador
10. Grand Finale
11. TV Ceasar / Rule Britannia

DISC FIVE
Live at Bournemouth Winter Gardens
17th March 1976

1. The Unquiet Zone
2. Beyond the Pale
3. Whaling Stories
4. All This and More
5. A Salty Dog
6. I Keep Forgetting
7. The Blue Danube
8. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Nothing But the Truth
9. A Whiter Shade of Pale

DISC SIX (DVD)
1. A Whiter Shade of Pale
“Top of the Pops” – BBC TV 26th December 1967

2. Homburg
“Beat Club” – German TV 30th December 1967

3. Quite Rightly So
“Beat Club” – Radio Bremen German TV
22nd June 1968

4. A Salty Dog
“Beat Club” – Radio Bremen German TV
28th June 1969

5. The Devil Came from Kansas
6. Long Gone Geek
“Beat Club” – Radio Bremen German TV
30th August 1969

7. Shine on Brightly
8. In the Wee Small Hours of Sixpence
9. Still There’ll Be More
10. Pilgrim’s Progress
11. Quite Rightly So
12. Magdalene My Regal Zonophone
13. Power Failure
14. A Salty Dog
15. Simple Sister
16. In the Autumn of My Madness
Look to Your Soul
Grand Finale

Complete recording session for “Beat Club Workshop” – Radio Bremen German TV
27th December 1971

DISC SEVEN (DVD)
1. Drunk Again
2. Grand Hotel
3. Conquistador
4. Bringing Home the Bacon
5. Too Much Between Us
6. Toujours L’Amour
7. Whaling Stories
8. Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)
9. Kaleidoscope

Complete recording session for “Musikladen” Radio Bremen German TV – 25th October 1973

DISC EIGHT (DVD)
1. Pandora’s Box
“Top of the Pops” BBC TV –
4th September 1975

2. Something Magic
3. Conquistador
4. Nothing But the Truth
5. Strangers in Space
6. Grand Hotel
7. Pandora’s Box
8. Skating on Thin Ice
9. The Mark of the Claw
10. Wizard Man
11. This Old Dog
12. A Whiter Shade of Pale

“Sight & Sound In Concert” – BBC TV
Recorded at The Hippodrome, Golders Green, London 12th March 1977

No pre-order information as yet.

[rcarlberg]

Much as I love me some Procol Harum, this box sounds like just a bit more than I need.

[arturs]

Auto-buy. I've watched some of those performances on YouTube, and they are great. These should be even better, with remastering, proper production and the removal of a lot of the Beat Club visual gimmicks. This set is worth getting for those alone. So even though this will be the third time I own a lot of the studio recordings, so what... Two new audio concerts as well. Very exciting.

Kudos to the producers for not filling up the DVDs with all the already-released material from the new millennium.

[DocProgger]

Damn. Just as I was telling myself to go easy on the box sets this year.

[Trane]

only disc (the first DVD) might be of some interest to me, but even then, I fear the "Complete recording session for “Beat Club Workshop” – Radio Bremen German TV - 27th December 1971" sounds like it's the PH MkII line-up (post-Trower)

[Mister Triscuits]

only disc (the first DVD) might be of some interest to me, but even then, I fear the "Complete recording session for “Beat Club Workshop” – Radio Bremen German TV - 27th December 1971" sounds like it's the PH MkII line-up (post-Trower)

That's the part of the video content that has been widely available on DVD already (most of it, anyway). Yes, it's the post-Trower lineup with Dave Ball.

[mozo-pg]

This looks very impressive - but for the most hard core fans.

[mandrake root]

I really like the look of this box, which is odd considering, so far, I've only really liked their debut. I've heard bits and pieces from other albums, but nothing's clicked yet. I guess I'm just a sucker for a good box set!

[malgeo]

I really like the look of this box, which is odd considering, so far, I've only really liked their debut. I've heard bits and pieces from other albums, but nothing's clicked yet. I guess I'm just a sucker for a good box set!

I encourage you to explore their catalog some more. I only "discovered" them about six years ago when they opened for Yes. Their second and third albums are (IMHO, of course) par excellence. I've sworn off extravagant music purchases this year, but I might have to make an exception for this box set.

[mandrake root]

I encourage you to explore their catalog some more. I only "discovered" them about six years ago when they opened for Yes. Their second and third albums are (IMHO, of course) par excellence. I've sworn off extravagant music purchases this year, but I might have to make an exception for this box set.

I'll certainly go back to those at some point soon. They can't be any worse than the Van Der Graaf Generator album I experimented with this afternoon!

[Yodelgoat]

Wow, The only issue I have with this is that I appreciate a lot of PH deep tracks and this collection kind of skips over them. ANy idea what the cost will be on this?

[Trane]

I really like the look of this box, which is odd considering, so far, I've only really liked their debut. I've heard bits and pieces from other albums, but nothing's clicked yet. I guess I'm just a sucker for a good box set!

did you get a visual?
Coz from the track listings on the discs; it doesn't look like the original albums will be respected... and I kind of expect that, both on the tracks available and the full artwork.


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However I do encourage you to explore more, at least until Robin Trower left the band (the end of what I call PH Mk1), even if all their albums have hits and misses...
and you can safely go the Edmonton Symphonic orchestra album as well, despite it being +/- the start of their Mk2 era...

After that, I'm not a fan, though I'll be in a minority.

[mandrake root]

I've got 'Shine On Brightly' playing here right now.