The Alan Parsons Project — Night of the Proms 1990
Recorded October 25, 1990
Sportpaleis · Antwerp · Belgium
Featuring Gary Brooker
Setlist
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Latest album at the timeGaudi1987Gaudi is The Alan Parsons Project's most recent studio album at the time of the recording.“To see the Alan Parsons Project's live debut in Antwerp, with Parsons still at the mixing desk.”
Context
In October 1990, the name that stood for a studio partnership finally reaches the stage of the Sportpaleis in Antwerp. Night of the Proms brings together regular Alan Parsons Project musicians and an orchestra. The debut has one peculiarity: Alan Parsons stays at the mixing desk, while Eric Woolfson follows everything from backstage.
Andrew Powell conducts his own music, and the collaborators from the records take the stage. Lenny Zakatek and David Paton share vocals with Gary Brooker of Procol Harum. At the close, Parsons leaves his engineer's post and picks up an acoustic guitar to join the musicians on Don't Answer Me.
The occasion does not launch a Project tour. That same year, Freudiana marks the last album on which Parsons and Woolfson work together, before they go separate ways. Parsons carries on with a career of records and concerts under his own name. The Antwerp recording preserves this exceptional passage between studio construction and stage presence.
- Gary Brooker guests and Andrew Powell conducts the orchestral arrangements.
- Parsons takes up acoustic guitar on Don't Answer Me, at the close.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Alan ParsonsMixing; acoustic guitar on Don't Answer Me
- Lenny ZakatekVocals
- David PatonVocals, backing vocals and acoustic guitar
- Ian BairnsonGuitar
- Richard CottleKeyboards and saxophone
- Laurie CottleBass
- Stuart ElliottDrums
- Andrew PowellOrchestral conductor
- Gary BrookerguestVocals and keyboards
Trivia
Alan Parsons works the mixing desk and only picks up the acoustic guitar at the close, on Don't Answer Me.
Eric Woolfson follows the performance from backstage.
Andrew Powell conducts the orchestral arrangements he helped build in the studio.
According to setlist.fm records, this is the first time Parsons combines Lucifer and Mammagamma into Luciferama.
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