Procol Harum - Grand Finale - Live in Stockholm 1971 video free download

Chazthefurr

Nice to hear the final verse with the guitar well back and the organ to the fore in the mix

Jack Ponissi

@chriskar5 Now I see what you mean about the "covering"…Well, it's what I was saying about copping's playing in general, especially live: he used to do things like this a lot, playing very fast, often baroque, things, usually trying to stay low in the mix, when fisher used to do mainly chords. This is an example, others are repent walpurgis and homburg. Yes, the piano is too low in the mix.

Chris Kar

We do think alike. I agree with everything , although all "beautifying" on Hammond did work awesome on many albums (i.e. Home).About "covering" Rolland with Hammond percussion grind with a left hand while playing "usual" solo parts with right. I am not a big fan or Rolland pianos.I had two of them and it was a celebration when I got rid of them and got baby Yamaha and Clavinova.This song should have a very profound piano and it is not a case in this recording.

Jack Ponissi

@chriskar5 Of course he has class! But he was very different from fisher and, in my opinion (that is, just my opinion), he often played too much when he could have achieved a more stately result by playing slightly less, weighting each note more. Just listen to his studio work, for example: he's always exciting, often fun, but still not as catchy, "perfect", as Fisher's one. I'm not sure I understood what you're saying about this take? CC playing the piano parts? I'm quite sure it's him on the H

Chris Kar

@JeckOverfull I think that Copping is a class of his own , just like Fisher. Copping palyed a lot with electronics and has an awesome home with fullblowwn studio in it. He still writes and playes a lot of music mostly for movies.Grinding sound on Hammond is his creation and I spent hours and hours trying to copy it and all I came up with was a ring modulator with a sharp octave filter OUTSIDE Hammond electronics.I think that in this Chris was covering of Roland piano and played Brooker parts.

Jack Ponissi

He also doesn't seem to know how to use some of the peculiarities of the hammond, like the percussion (he uses it a lot, but in a way quite unusual). On the other hand he's the only organist that got a distortion that i liked and his bass playing on Home (and, I guess, on Broken Baricades and Something Magic) is top class.

Jack Ponissi

@chriskar5 I don't know…I love to listen to Copping's organ, but I got the idea that he improvised a bit too much, playing very fast things when there was really no need. Of course, technically he could do it, still sometimes I think that a more effective result could have been achieved playing slightly less. Listen, for example, to his repent walpurgis here on youtube: his "approach to chording" is really the best thing to do? The effect is far from Fisher's one and it is quite distracting.

Chris Kar

By the way......Roland piano just does not cut it on a tune like that.You really need a full size grand piano, like original recording used.Classic is a classic!

Chris Kar

Copping has always been a virtuoso and really the only one that could stand to Fisher's class , although they are a bit different school of playing.Copping also plays a mean bass guitar on "Home". He is a genius and knows , how to keep Procol's sound.He did improvide here a bit and overwhelmed piano almost completely with organ(which is fine with me, LOL).As for guitar solo - no comment.Very interesting version of this tune.Carthwright absolutely perfect on bass.

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