Dennis and Rodger's
 Most Excellent Adventure

 

Or How To Have a "Lofty Peak Experience" in 4 Days

 

Part Two - The Procol Harum Experience

 

Starring ........

*  Dennis Fetchet    *   Rodger Phillips   *   BtP's Paler Band  *

with Special Guests,   Procol Harum

at

The John Anson Ford Theater

Hollywood, California

Monday, July 28th, 2003

&

BB King's Blues Club

Universal City Walk

 

Directed by Webmistress Jan

 

On to the The John Anson Ford Theater....

The Los Angeles Set List:

     Bringing Home the Bacon

     Pandora's Box

45 minute Rain Delay

     Whaling Stories

     VIP Room

     Magdalene

     Homburg

     Wall Street Blues

     War is Not Healthy

     As Strong As Samson

     Shadow Boxed

     The Blink of an Eye

     Simple Sister

     Weisselklenzenacht

     A Salty Dog

     A Whiter Shade of Pale [shortened by rain]

The rest of the concert was rained out, so Palers adjorned to BB King's After Party.

 

On to  BtP's After Party at B.B. King's Blues Club.....

Dennis with Gary Brooker

As the Paler Band plays....

"Wow, Gary Brooker!"

Mandolin with Geoff Whitehorn

Dennis with Matt Pegg

Dennis with Matthew Fisher

Waiting for an autograph

Dennis with Gary, Matthew

and Mark

Dennis with Geoff Whitehorn

 

Dennis and Rodger along with Roland Clare on bass and Nathan Walpow on guitar

 perform a bluegrass version of Procol Harum's "So Far Behind"

from their newest album "The Well's on Fire".

Dennis performs

"So Far Behind"  with The Eight Eye Blind Bluegrass Band

 

As Dennis sings

the bluegrass version

of Procol's song....

...Gary Brooker looks on.

 

  As the crowd called out for more, Procol Harum takes the stage at BB King's.....

The set list for this brief impromptu concert included:

     * A Rum Tale

     * The Emperor's New Clothes

     * Echoes in The Night

     * Juicy John Pink

     * Green Onions

Gary Brooker

Geoff Whitehorn

 

Mark Brzezicki

 

Matt Pegg

 

Matthew Fisher

Bob [from Vincenzo's], Rodger and Dennis enjoying the PH set

 

The crowd gives it a "thumbs up"

The adventure continued.....

 On Tuesday, July 29, 2003 with the

Procol Harum Concert

at 4th & B in San Diego.

 

The set list in San Diego included:

The First Set:

     Bringing Home the Bacon

     Pandora's Box

     Wall Street Blues

     A Robe of Silk

     Piggy Pig Pig

     Homburg

     Memorial Drive

     The Blink of An Eye

     As String as Samson

     Weisselklenzenacht

 

Intermission

The Second Set:

     Grand Hotel

     Whisky Train

     Shadow Boxed

     The Question

     Conquistador

     An Old English Dream

     A Salty Dog

 

Encores

     A Whiter Shade of Pale

     Repent Walpurgis

Tired but happy, our heroes wind their way home

from the ultimate "Lofty Peak Experience" [quote by George Lovell]

 

The End...or is it?

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