B.J Wilson - Why is there so little praise

Shout out to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  One of my favorite Procol Harum albums.

dr wu23 wrote: Wonder where the band would have ended up had Terry Reid joined and also Wilson....what would Zep have sounded like..? Certainly nothing like what they came to be.

BJ Wilson was a fabulous drummer. He had a great feel and wonderfully precise time. He was a studio drummer in 66 and drummed for Lulu and Cat Stevens also. Oddly he was also chosen to fill in on AC/DC's Flick Of A Switch album in '83 when Phil Rudd took ill. Wilson passed 28 years ago from a drug OD that happened 3 years prior. Reports were that this was intentional and this saddens me. Because he was in pain to cause this. And it saddens me that no one was there for him to see this and help before it became too late. Okay admittedly he is not on my Must Hear List, but he produced some very fine music and had the right stuff, as they say, for Procol Harum whom I believe to lead the way for Prog. BJ Wilson is missed!

yup!!!

well nobody from Procol really gets a huge amount of recognition.  It was more about the band and the overall sound.  But honestly, Matthew Fisher has to rank pretty high in terms of underappreciated players.  When he left and they had Chris Copping double on organ while being primarily the bass guy, the sound became less rich and more like other bands.  Though Grand Hotel was pretty refined and that occurred after.  It was kind of the exception in the post Fisher discography

kenethlevine wrote: well nobody from Procol really gets a huge amount of recognition.  It was more about the band and the overall sound.  But honestly, Matthew Fisher has to rank pretty high in terms of underappreciated players.  When he left and they had Chris Copping double on organ while being primarily the bass guy, the sound became less rich and more like other bands.  Though Grand Hotel was pretty refined and that occurred after.  It was kind of the exception in the post Fisher discography

Fisher also have a very sensitive voice

SteveG wrote: Fisher was certainly recognized when PH first broke out with A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Good God, the song is all him. Wilson was not even on the recording of A Whiter Shade. A session drummer was used.

kenethlevine wrote: ^ I'm not intimately familiar with the band history but I believe that Fisher left after Salty Dog and Trower after Broken Barricades, which was 2 albums later..  He might well have hated David Ball but there is no evidence they were in the group at the same time,  Fisher did return to Procol for a time in the 1990s

The.Crimson.King wrote: kenethlevine wrote: ^ I'm not intimately familiar with the band history but I believe that Fisher left after Salty Dog and Trower after Broken Barricades, which was 2 albums later..  He might well have hated David Ball but there is no evidence they were in the group at the same time,  Fisher did return to Procol for a time in the 1990s Oops...you're correct he left after A Salty Dog and Trower after Broken Barricades...I misread Fisher's wiki page  Although no longer involved directly in recording and touring, Fisher continued as a producer for the group. After Trower left in 1971 for a solo career, he briefly rejoined the band, with bandmate Chris Copping moving full-time onto bass. He was unhappy with the financial situation of the band, and with Trower's replacement, Dave Ball, and so left again, this time acrimoniously, to become a full-time producer for CBS.