What you've listened to here is the wonderful live version from the album with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, one of the best live albums ever recorded!
Re-visiting your RU-vid Channel for the first time in a long time and amazed to see your Channel is still going! I see so many RU-vid Channels blow up massively and then abruptly disappear as mysteriously as they appeared! So great to see you guys are still doing what you're doing!!!!! I really ought to try get you two to react to one of my favourite songs someday!
The theme of the Spanish conquest of the America's "Gold, Glory & God" . One of my favorite quotes. "Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings" (Samuel Adams)
Agree, the live album 1972 with the orchestra is epic. Sounds amazing on a nice stereo system. 89% from Sori and 92% from Vin a little light in my opinion but that is their opinion. I would rate this live version at 95% and the album overall at 90% It is excellent all around.
Ok, my 9/11 moment...I had missed my bus to work, so I called a cab. The Jamaican cabbie turns and says "You know them crazy Arabs have crashed a plane into the World Trade Center"... and I'm like Really? No shit on the outside, and Yeah, right on the inside, and I get to work just in time to see the 2nd tower get hit. I spent the rest of the day being emotional support for whoever called in...
The problem with the 'war on terrorism' is that terrorism is a concept. You cannot defeat a concept with a war. Waging war against terrorists breeds more terrorisim. An endless vicious cycle.
May I remind everyone about the Truman Doctrine vis-a-vis Vietnam...if Communism shows it's face, we Americans are obligated to join combat with it....
This song had nothing to do with Vietnam….the Conquistadors were from 16th century Spain who were the world power at that time under the Spaniard Monarchy decided to span their territories into America, Mexico and Peru…..any inhabitants of those countries were either mauled and/or tortured …the ones that survived became slaves under Spanish rule…
Millions of the conquered died from diseases they had developed no antibodies for, just as a new strain of syphilis was brought by Columbus' crew from the Caribbean to spread across Europe.
@@dwaynewladyka577 Is it just me, or is Dave Ball's work on this album pretty great and noteworthy (and under-appreciated)? Trower will never not be the quintessential Procol guitarist, but I always felt that Ball's style and sound were especially fitting for this arrangement with an orchestra.
