The Soft Parade: A Tribute to Jim Morrison on His 75th Birthday
It was back on the Ides of June when George Pennington III and a group of musicians he put together delivered a superb night of music with “Scream of the Butterfly: A Tribute to Jim Morrison and The Doors.” The show was presented by Bungalow Entertainment. It marked the first major effort by Pennington and the first by Bungalow and its founder, Jess Phillips, and of course it sold out!
You know that phrase “So nice, you’ve got to do it twice”? They thought so, and they will present “The Soft Parade: A Tribute to Jim Morrison on His 75th Birthday” on Saturday, December 8th, at The Ale and the Witch in St. Petersburg. The Ale and the Witch is the outstanding beer emporium with a beer garden in the courtyard hosting live music most days of the year.
Pennington, who has played with his own band and with Troy Youngblood and the Soulfish, is currently tearing it up with Displace, the outstanding jam quartet from Tampa. For “The Soft Parade,” he has again assembled a top-notch crew of musicians. Pennington takes the Morrison role as he did so ably at “The Scream of the Butterfly.” Levi Foe will be Ray Manzarek, playing keyboards and singing. Michael Nevins will adopt the guitar position of Robby Krieger. And the rhythm section will be Pennington’s Displace bandmates Vinny Svoboda as bassist Jerry Scheff and Tucker Sody as drummer John Densmore.
You need a horn section for some of those great Doors songs, of course, so to the core band add Richard Saez, trumpet; Bradlee Brown, trumpet; and Joseph Kelemen, tuba and trombone. Bella Toro of Flow Sisters will also be on hand as vocalist on “Touch Me” and “Waiting for the Sun.”
Clearwater author Bird Stevens recently wrote an excellent book titled Jim Morrison’s Clearwater: Then and Now. Stevens will have a table set up with her book and will share stories she discovered in her ten-year research for the book!
Mark your calendars now! This is a free show. Please plan to hit the tip jar!
THE SOFT PARADE
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