"It's sort of a film, really, trying to conjure up mood and tell a story. It's about a relationship. There's characters and there's a location, and there's a journey. You get the sound of the room and the feel of the room and the smell of the room. But certainly there's a journey going on, it's not a collection of lines just stuck together. It's got a thread running through it." Reid got the idea for the title at a party, which gave him a starting point. "I feel with songs that you're given a piece of the puzzle, the inspiration or whatever. In this case, I had that title, 'Whiter Shade of Pale,' and I thought, There's a song here. And it's making up the puzzle that fits the piece you've got. You fill out the picture, you find the rest of the picture that that piece fits into." ~Keith Reid. Procol Harum's lyricist talks about 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'
BB_snickers: If only I wasn't so impatient. I did realize there was an 'on you tube' link after I whined.
Tanx guys!
What? Who'ld've thought, You, When?
Sayin' and readin'
“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.” --Ludwig Wittgenstein
"But, I realize you know, the sooner I get started. the sooner I'll be able to get out and start playing again." ~Billy McLaughlin. Moving from Right to Left Finger-style
"It's sort of a film, really, trying to conjure up mood and tell a story. It's about a relationship. There's characters and there's a location, and there's a journey. You get the sound of the room and the feel of the room and the smell of the room. But certainly there's a journey going on, it's not a collection of lines just stuck together. It's got a thread running through it." Reid got the idea for the title at a party, which gave him a starting point. "I feel with songs that you're given a piece of the puzzle, the inspiration or whatever. In this case, I had that title, 'Whiter Shade of Pale,' and I thought, There's a song here. And it's making up the puzzle that fits the piece you've got. You fill out the picture, you find the rest of the picture that that piece fits into." ~Keith Reid. Procol Harum's lyricist talks about 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' What? Who'ld've thought, You, When?
Sayin' and readin'
“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.” --Ludwig Wittgenstein
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