"Grand Hotel Is a must for any Orchestral-rock fans. It almost prodecesed Queen's 'A Night at the Opera' and the Moody Blues 'On a Treshold of a Dream'. PH uses odd instruments such as 22 mandolins on 'Grand Hotel' which the mandolins sound like a full string ensemble! 'Tojurs L'amour' with a fuzz-like guitar and bass. 'TV Ceasar' which has very good string and chior arrangements. 'A Rum Tale' with a waltz sound and a clestial harp and church-like organ. 'A Souviner of London' with a skiffle-sound, banjos, and spoons. 'Bringing Home The Bacon' with an elctric piano, haunting recorders that sound like an organ. 'For Lichoriche John' with a drowning-sound of the piano and a good harmonica solo. 'Fires which burned so brightly' with the haunting female-background singers and a light touch of the harpsichord. And a grand finale with 'Roberts Box' with latin percussion, a bossa-nova/cha-cha sound, Beach Boy-like harmony, and a great brass finale." - BertstownOH67-ProgArchives

"A Salty Dog was PROCOL HARUM's 3rd release and continued their highly classical progressive exploration in music. Title track "A Salty Dog" remains to this day one of my all- time favorite songs which was very influential to young bands like GENESIS and YES. This is truly a mighty album and in many rivals "Shine On Brightly" and their debut release for both beauty and character in song and performance. For those not all that familiar with PROCOL HARUM's music it is really their first 3 albums which are essential in my opinion with "A Salty Dog" being perhaps the most complete and versatile album hitting heavy Blues and progressive elements throughout. This is an essential album and remains one of my most treasured albums of all time." - loserboy-ProgArchives

"This album is really a masterpiece. Considering the year (1968) where most of the great progressive rock bands didn't exist. The other were only proto progressive (the only exception, maybe The Moody Blues). Procol Harum really made a truly progressive and fantastic album. The first side of the original vynil has five short songs, all good rocks, specially Skippy Softly (My moonbeams), that is very cool, with lots of different parts in a short songs and Wishing me well. All of them have good organ and guitar, by Fisher and Trower. The second side has a short song, Magdalene (good) and the highlight: In held ´twas in I.." - akin-ProgArchives

"PROCOL HARUM came out of the ashes from a band called the PARAMOUNTS that had its roots back in 59 (!!) and had split in early 66. Gary Brooker meet lyricist Keith Reid and began writing songs and by 1967, it became clear that they would need the help from their old colleagues from PARAMOUNTS days to form their new band to be called PROCOL HARUM. They developed a really new sound with two KB (piano for Brooker and Hammond organ for Fisher) and a guitarist extraordinaire called Robin Trower who was greatly influenced by JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE. They quickly became one of the precursor of PROGRESSIVE ROCK (along the MOODY BLUES and The NICE) and mixed in some CLASSICAL influences (BACH in “Whiter Shade of Pale”) and sold millions of singles but also albums." - ProgArchives