A Walk Down Abbey Road

Alan Parsons' A Walk Down Abbey Road was a concert tour that was launched in North America in 2001 to pay tribute to The Beatles and promote the hits of various headlining band members. Similar to Ringo Starr's All Starr Band tours, each successive year the band members swapped out and featured the songs of the new line-up.

A Walk Down Abbey Road
Tour by Alan Parsons
Associated albumVaried
Start date2001
End date2002

The first set included all band members assembled to play each other's hits. The second set featured all Beatles songs performed by various band members depending on the specific tune and the strength and style of the performer.

Although certainly successful enough to continue over two years, the show was mired by some problems, not the least of which was prohibitive concessions having to be paid to The Beatles for the use of the name "Abbey Road".

An obvious play on concert-goers expectations with Who bassist John Entwistle in the group, the second song of the opening set was Open My Eyes from Todd Rundgren's first band, The Nazz. The chord pattern at the beginning is lifted directly from The Who's "I Can't Explain". It was one of Entwistle's last concert series as he died on 27 June 2002, one day before the scheduled first show of The Who's 2002 US tour.

2001 tour

Band

Additional musicians:

  • Godfrey Townsend: guitar, backing vocals (from John Entwistle Band)
  • Steve Luongo: drums (from John Entwistle Band)
  • John Beck
  • Spazzy McGee

Set list: Set 1
  1. "Magical Mystery Tour (Pack, Wilson)
  2. "Open My Eyes" (Rundgren)
  3. "Eye In The Sky" (Parsons)
  4. "Crazy On You" (Wilson)
  5. "My Wife" (Entwistle)
  6. "Hello, It's Me" (Rundgren)
  7. "Don't Answer Me" (Parsons)
  8. "Biggest Part Of Me" (Pack)
  9. "How Much I Feel" (Pack)
  10. "Bang The Drum All Day" (Rundgren)
  11. "The Real Me" (Townsend)
  12. "Dreamboat Annie" (Wilson)
  13. "Games People Play" (Parsons)
  14. "Barracuda" (Wilson)
  15. "My Generation" (Pack, Rundgren)

Set list: Set 2
  1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (Pack)
  2. "Lady Madonna" (Rundgren)
  3. "I'm Down" (Wilson)
  4. "The Fool on the Hill" (Pack)
  5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Rundgren, Wilson)
  6. "Here Comes the Sun" (Entwistle)
  7. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Pack, Wilson)
  8. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (Rundgren acoustic solo)
  9. "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Wilson)
  10. "Rain" (Rundgren)
  11. "Blackbird" (Parsons acoustic solo)
  12. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" (Wilson)
  13. "Revolution" (Rundgren)
  14. "Day Tripper" (Pack, Rundgren)
  15. "Ticket to Ride" (Pack, Rundgren)
  16. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (Pack, Rundgren)
  17. "Hey Jude" (Wilson)

Encore
  1. "Birthday" (All)
  2. "Golden Slumbers" / "Carry That Weight" / "The End" (Wilson)

Tour dates

[1][2][3]

Date City Country Venue
North America
June 13, 2001 Redmond, Oregon United States Deschutes County Fairgrounds
June 15, 2001 Kelseyville, California Konocti Harbor
June 16, 2001 Anaheim, California Sun Theater
June 17, 2001
June 18, 2001 Saratoga, California Villa Montalvo
June 19, 2001
June 20, 2001
June 22, 2001 San Diego, California Humphrey's Concerts By the Bay
June 23, 2001 Phoenix, Arizona Celebrity Theater
June 24, 2001 Mescalero, New Mexico Inn of the Mountain Gods Casino
June 26, 2001 Houston, Texas Arena Theater
June 27, 2001 Mobile, Alabama Saenger Theater
June 29, 2001 Clarkston, Michigan DTE Energy Music Theater
June 30, 2001 Champion, Pennsylvania Seven Springs Mountain Resort
July 2, 2001 Saint Paul, Minnesota Harriet Island Regional Park
July 3, 2001 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Henry W. Maier Festival Park
July 5, 2001 Chicago, Illinois Grant Park
July 6, 2001 Dayton, Ohio Fraze Pavilion
July 7, 2001 Big Flats, New York Tag's Summer Stage
July 8, 2001 Hamilton, Ontario Canada Copps Coliseum
July 9, 2001 Verona, New York United States Turning Stone Resort & Casino
July 10, 2001 Montville, Connecticut Mohegan Sun Casino
July 11, 2001 Boston, Massachusetts Fleet Pavilion
July 13, 2001 Waikoloa Village, Hawaii Hilton Waikoloa Village
July 16, 2001 Barnstable, Massachusetts Cape Cod Melody Tent
July 17, 2001 Vienna, Virginia Filene Center
July 19, 2001 Oyster Bay, New York Westbury Music Fair
July 21, 2001 Stanhope, New Jersey Waterloo Village
July 22, 2001 Wallingford, Connecticut Oakdale Theater
July 25, 2001 York, Pennsylvania York Expo Center
July 26, 2001 New York City, New York Seaside Park
July 27, 2001 Mantua, New Jersey Washington Township High School
July 28, 2001 Marion, South Carolina Carolina Amphitheater
Asia
November 9, 2001 Tokyo Japan Tokyo Kousei Nenkin Kaikan
November 10, 2001
November 12, 2001 Osaka Osaka Kousei Nenkin Kaikan
November 13, 2001 Fukuoka Fukuoka Sun Palace
November 14, 2001 Nagoya Nagoya Shimin Kaikan

2002 tour

Band
  • Alan Parsons: vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Todd Rundgren: vocals, guitar, backing vocals (Selected dates)
  • Christopher Cross: vocals, guitar, backing vocals
  • Jack Bruce (of Cream): bass guitar, backing vocals
  • Mark Farner (of Grand Funk): vocals, guitar, backing vocals
  • Eric Carmen (of The Raspberries): vocals, guitar, backing vocals (Eric Carmen was originally scheduled to take part, and perform at the shows where Todd Rundgren was not available, but he backed out before the first show that he was scheduled to appear) [4]

Additional musicians:

  • Godfrey Townsend: Guitar, backing vocals
  • John Beck: keyboards
  • Steve Murphy: drums

References
  1. "Alan Parsons 2001 Tour Dates". www.theavenueonline.info. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  2. "Todd Rundgren Tour Info". trconnection.com. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  3. "Search for setlists: artist:(A Walk Down Abbey Road) date:[2001-01-01 TO 2001-12-31] | setlist.fm". www.setlist.fm. Retrieved 2020-10-15.
  4. http://www.theavenueonline.info/site1/tao1.htm
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