Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum

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Whiter Shade of Pale is a song about....(From Wikipedia)....Keith Reid (the song writer said) I was trying to conjure a mood as much as tell a straightforward, girl-leaves-boy story. With the ceiling flying away and room humming harder, I wanted to paint an image of a scene. I wasn't trying to be mysterious with those images, I was trying to be evocative. I suppose it seems like a decadent scene I'm describing. But I was too young to have experienced any decadence, then. I might have been smoking when I conceived it, but not when I wrote. It was influenced by books, not drugs.

Generally the song is thought to be about a relationship of a sexual nature between a male and female. Anyway, "As the Miller told his tale" is a reference to Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale."

Frank on vocals, Gordon on Yahama electric drums, John playing lead on my awesome 1997 Bourgeois Country Boy and me playing rhythm on my sweet 1994 Gibson Hummingbird. We hope you like our version of this song.