Tuesday, February 16, 2016

procul harum 1967, a very good year/play it loud


ahhhm... yr kidding? could not, imposs, do more than 35 secs i think it might have been. fella was squinting too hard trying to recapture. a dye job mighta helped. here you could not poss get away with retro without a good dye doesn’t matter who you are. neil diamond, tom jones... harry konik?... no, the other one did chrissy & love songs, crooner also not long after bing might have been english. way back he goes, remember the pic in the promos next to the piano like seeing a ghost.... loved returning to his aircon 6 Star sg hotel room that he remembered from 1962...name escapes. liebskind loves returning to sg too, the food, the gardens blah blah. procul haram musta been here, probably settling for the sg symphony with maybe a guest conductor/soloist. stones maybe can get away with grey, nobody else. nowhere in asia maybe, but here in sing' specially. few years ago they were putting on the mousetrap. ag christie. you prob missed it first and second time round as i did. was a bit stumbled finding the fliers under the arches at raffles, soooo many of them it couldn't have been a cheeky joke from the regional chapter of the anarchist club breezed through on a stop-over. oh my, oh my, oh my. only months and months later discovered this was not retro sg particular spectacular. shit no. in fact big big hit in london town shortly before. aggie’s mousetrap. musta had the lot, something for everyone in the family. costumes you can magine, music of course, might have been the anniversary of one of churchill's speeches or thatcher's attack on the falklands. without looking it up i betcha procul harem has entertained here, prob sentosa using that same kinda tent as there in Norway only airconed rather than heated, units buried in the sand, beach-lounges, waiters, pedicures. “conquistador”??? so they didna do whiter shade a pale? i'm confusing them with someone else? did the beatles guy produce them too, georgie martin?


NB. relented: rapido on google seems they haven’t toured, aren’t big enough, lottsa others lining up for this stop-over gig, the long haul down there you can understand.

NB 2. an old musician friend down in Melbourne had been riffling through youtube.


                                                                                                                                    Singapore, Feb. 2016

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