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Or How To Have a "Lofty Peak" Experience in 4 Days
Part One - The Paler Band Experience |
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Starring ........ * Dennis Fetchet * Rodger Phillips * BtP's Paler Band * |
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with Special Guests, Procol Harum
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at B. B. King's Blues Club City Walk, Universal City, Hollywood, California.
Saturday, July 26 through Monday, July 28th, 2003
Directed by Webmistress Jan |
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Dennis and Rodger began their ADVENTURE with a Friday night practice at Jeremy Gillian's home in Los Angeles.
Rehearsals at B. B. Kings Blues Club in City Walk at Universal Studios began at 11 am prompt on Saturday morning.
BB King's Blues Club is pictured on the City Walk map below in the yellow upper level and boasts a lovely stage and state of the art sound system. |
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Band members, BtP staff and guests were issued "Beyond the Pale" BACKSTAGE PASSES like the one on the left. ...... As well as the PRIVATE PARTY PASS pictured below.
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The 2003 Los Angeles BtP Palers Band Brought to you by Beyond the Pale's website at www. procolharum. com |
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Richard Beck vocalist |
Charlie Kirelawich vocalist |
George Lovell vocalist |
Donna Blue vocalist |
Dennis Fetchet vocalist |
Al Edelist vocalist |
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Nathan Walpow guitar |
Gary Shepard guitar |
Jeremy Gilien guitar |
Gothic Harris guitar |
Richard Beck guitar |
Dennis Fetchet violin |
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John Crouch bass |
Roland Clare bass |
Beatle Buck bass |
Gary Shepard bass |
Dennis Fetchet mandolin |
Rodger Phillips banjo |
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Jeremy Gilien keyboards |
Roland Clare piano |
Don Milione keyboards |
Tony Sadowski keyboards |
Gothic Harris keyboards |
Roland Clare accordian |
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Marvin Chassman drums |
Charlie Kirelawich drums |
Tito Davila drums |
Jens Anders Ravnaas drums |
Jeff Levine drums |
Beatle Buck maracas |
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Dennis Fetchet harmonica |
The audience [including members of Procol Harum] |
Apeneck Lloyd, Roland and Gary... Blues that even BB can be proud of! |
Vince, Sound Technician |
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The Paler Band Finale |
The All Male Chorus |
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Rodger and Gary setting up. |
Roland and Dennis at the 1st rehearsal at BB King's. |
Charlie's big number.... |
Breaktime..... |
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Although Saturday saw Rodger at Beyond the Pale rehearsals at 11 am sharp, Dennis had to soldier on at Mickey's Magic Kingdom in the Billy Hill Show and both Dennis and Rodger had to work their regular gig at Vincenzo's Pizzeria in Santa Clarita on Saturday night with their popular bluegrass band, The Grateful Dudes.
Sunday morning rehearsals started at 3 pm sharp with: 8 pm: The First Palers Set [listed below] 9:20 pm: Apeneck 9:45 pm: The Second Paler Set [also listed below] |
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The Paler Setlist |
"One Eye on the Future" with "One Eye" Edelist |
A violin and piano duet. |
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"So Far Behind" with the Eight Eye Blind Bluegrass Band |
My favorite Gary and Rodger picture. |
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Dennis on mando |
Rodger on banjo |
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Roland, Dennis and Richard |
Gary and Rodger in the afternoon rehearsal |
Roland and Dennis... in GRAND style! |
Rodger and Dennis with Grateful Dudes web-mistress Jan Vincent, and BtP Webmaster Roland Clare. |
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Monday morning rose bright and sunny [for the time being], as Palers rose from their Sheraton Universal hotel rooms to be at BB King's by 8 am sharp for final rehearsals until noon.
This was followed by two short Paler sets, a lovely talk by George Lovell and a fascinating "Whiter Shade of Pale" Presentation by Neil Fisher. These began at Noon and ended by 4 pm.......
Only 4 more hours until........... Procol Harum |
As the event neared, so did the threat of rain....... and to think we laughed when we first read "Rain or Shine" on the ticket stub..... |
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