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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.

[tracklisting]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[/tracklisting]

5CD/3DVD Box Set (shown above)
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2CD Set
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I have almost all of this, including the 1977 BBC show, but I don't have quite all of it on CD or DVD.

Highlights from each album seems pointless, but it seems like a decent box.

The Salvo remasters were enough for me, but there's just enough here to make me want it.

I thought, I really thought I was done with their catalogue and now comes this. Esoteric, you are killing me.

I prefer Esoteric's work over Salvo for Procol Harum so I may have to investigate this if the price is right.
We have been beaten to death with their reissues though (Mofi, Westside, Salvo Esoteric, Japan Mini LP's)

This is what has me really excited.

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

I have the last Procol Harum box set which was brickwalled to the hilt
The DVDs on this new box look good

That's what's selling me!

Curious which box you refer to? I stayed away from the Salvo 4 disc set.

If the dvd was hi-res audio instead of video I'd be in, but this isn't important to me as is.

My favorite album is "Grand Hotel" and to see there is DVD concert of sizeable content from that album that alone will allow me to go for this set.

I have the Hollywood Bowl show from 1973 already.

I was able to get an actual copy of the King Biscuit radio broadcast of that show on CD from a radio station and it's a good one.

Basically, this 3 CDs of a compilation and 2 live CDs and 2 live DVDs, both of which are pretty short (and I have these too).

Nonetheless, it's a decent package if you don't have the live stuff (and I don't have all of it), but the 3 CD comp should've been released separately.

It would be nice if we could finally have the unreleased first album lineup (with Royer & Harrison) recordings.

Most of those tracks are available on previous 2 CD deluxe edition of the debut album
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00W852QNO/?tag=imwan-21

And Pandora’s Box CD of outtakes and alternative takes.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00002R0L2/?tag=imwan-21

Pete, Cherry Red states that there will be a 2 CD set as well. A quick look looks like it is the first two discs on the box. Both the box and the 2 cd set come out in mid-March.

The box is now up for pre-order in the UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0791VZ8WL/?tag=imwan-21

And now the 2CD distillation is up in the UK as well:

[tracklisting][CD1]
1. A Whiter Shade of Pale

A-Side of single – Released May 1967

2. Homburg

A-Side of single – Released September 1967

3. Cerdes (Outside the Gates of)
4. Repent Walpurgis

Taken from the album “Procol Harum”
Released September 1967

5. Shine on Brightly
6. Quite Rightly So

Taken from the album “Shine on Brightly”
Released September 1968

7. A Salty Dog
8. The Devil Came from Kansas

Taken from the album “A Salty Dog”
Released June 1969

9. Whisky Train
10. Whaling Stories

Taken from the album “Home”
Released June 1970

11. Simple Sister
12. Broken Barricades

Taken from the album “Broken Barricades”
Released June 1971

13. Conquistador
(live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra)
14. Look to Your Soul / Grand Finale
(live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra)

Taken from the album “Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra”
Released April 1972

15. Grand Hotel

Taken from the album “Grand Hotel”
Released March 1973

[CD2]
1. For Liquorice John
2. Fires (Which Burnt Brightly)

Taken from the album “Grand Hotel”
Released March 1973

3. Nothing But the Truth
4. Beyond the Pale
5. As Strong as Samson

Taken from the album “Exotic Birds and Fruit”
Released April 1974

6. Pandora’s Box
7. The Unquiet Zone

Taken from the album “Procol’s Ninth”
Released September 1975

8. Something Magic
9. Strangers in Space

Taken from the album “Something Magic”
Released March 1977

10. Perpetual Motion

Taken from the album “The Prodigal Stranger”
Released August 1991

11. An Old English Dream
12. This World is Rich (For Stephen Maboe)

Taken from the album “The Well’s on Fire”
Released March 2003

13. Can’t Say That
14. The Only One

Taken from the album “Novum”
Released April 2017[/tracklisting]
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Just did a comparison of this 2-CD vs the 2007 2-CD comp "Secrets of the Hive" on Salvo.

"Still" 2-CD has 8 cuts not on "Secrets", and uses the studio version of A Salty Dog.

"Secrets" has 14 cuts not on "Still" 2-CD, and uses the Live Edm Sym Orch version of A Salty Dog.

But the 8 disc box is only $83 from Amazon UK including shipping, sounds reasonable...

I pulled the trigger on the UK full box. Being one of my fave bands from this era and especially for the DVD video I'm diving in (again).

My box came in from England yesterday, between this and the Chicago box my listening scheduled is now set for this weekend.

So what are your thoughts ? How is the mastering ?

Playing Disc one, for one very crank-able. Great re-mastering here. Excellent competition out there already but I can state these will become my go to discs for compilation.

And I haven't even got to the DVD's yet which is really why I bought this set. This box is limited so don't wait to long is my suggestion.