Take your meds, David. It's an offbeat inspired choice for Yusuf to make from out of left field and they rocked on it. He's over 70, give him and Brooker/Reid some credit, man.
LOL -- boy are you right Joseph. Even the guitar solo is nowhere near the haunting chilling Robin Trower take or the Peter Frampton live version (with Ringo's All-Star Band) decades later with Gary Brooker. Yes, too fast. But in defense of Yusuf(Cat Stevens), who's in good voice here at this concert, I think he just tried to do his own interpretation. His backup musicians don't get it though. And Procol Harum is not an easy band to manipulate into something else. Nice to see the huge Spanish audience get into it though. Cat Stevens in his early days was on the same label as Procol Harum (Deram Records) -- when they had "A Whiter Shade of Pale," he had "Matthew & Son."
Maravilhoso. Wonderful! Fantastic! I Love Procol Harum
I'm glad to hear that Cat is an admirer of Procol Harum, me too, so much !!!!!
Wonderful song and fantastic musical performance!
A wonderful and so underrated song fom PH. Yussufs version sounds a bit fast but it´s not bad. The major tune is like made for him or even from him.
amazing lead guitar - wow...
Like the song
Breathes new life into this Salty Dog standard by Procol from 1969
Cat Stevens plays Procol Harum? Highly unlikely bedfellows, hard to accept after listening to only 1 version for 50 years, he has good taste though.
Procol Harum plays cat stevens
No feeling here - nowbody needs this.
Take your meds, David. It's an offbeat inspired choice for Yusuf to make from out of left field and they rocked on it. He's over 70, give him and Brooker/Reid some credit, man.
Thanks cat for the hommage to PH
How many people are there jesus
procol harAm :)
Drummer is trying . . . but he is just not B J Wilson
OK version, lacks punch and too fast... you would need three drummers to get BJ Wilson' sound!
LOL -- boy are you right Joseph.
Even the guitar solo is nowhere near the haunting chilling Robin Trower take or the Peter Frampton live version (with Ringo's All-Star Band) decades later with Gary Brooker.
Yes, too fast. But in defense of Yusuf(Cat Stevens), who's in good voice here at this concert, I think he just tried to do his own interpretation. His backup musicians don't get it though. And Procol Harum is not an easy band to manipulate into something else.
Nice to see the huge Spanish audience get into it though. Cat Stevens in his early days was on the same label as Procol Harum (Deram Records) -- when they had "A Whiter Shade of Pale," he had "Matthew & Son."