07-31-2007, 03:54 PM
As fine as Blind Faith's album was the tour was a moderate disaster. I caught the show in Santa Barbara and the warm up band, Bonnie and Delaney, blew Blind Faith off the stage. The tour ended early as I recall with both bands breaking up. Bonnie and Delaney's album, Accept No Substitute, is a classic blues rocker too. B&D had a fantastically tight band. Very interesting was the fact that Clapton took the whole Bonnie and Delaney band (except for B&D) down to Florida where they went on to do a really great album - Layla. Layla was the true culmination of that failed Blind Faith tour. The rest of the band continued to back up album after album over the years. Kind of a Missouri version of the Funk Brothers.
I caught Janis Joplin in 1965 in Haight Ashbury just as things were starting up. Big Brother was playing at the Straight Theater (Janis was just a band member then) and the show cost about a buck and included a plate of spagetti. I was fouteen and in that one night in the Haight found out about sex, drugs and rock and roll. Very, very memorable. I had plenty to tell my friends back at Ventura High.
Lots of memorable concerts over the years for sure.
Sure is more fun remembering all the R&R history than the Viet Nam and Civil Rights battles. Got run out of a town in Oregon by a pack of drunk lumberjacks. Got a bullet hole in my van in Kansas. It was the "love it or leave it" days.... I moved to London. I was then fortunate to catch Hendrix's last show at the Isle of Wight and was actually standing in front of the hospital in London a few days later when they brought his body in. Real sad day that.
Got a job in London working for a guy named Richard Branson. Branson was running a student magazine and preparing to launch a record company called Virgin. Their first recording was "Tubular Bells". Anybody have that on the shelf?
I would not trade those years for anything..... Geez, you guys and gals got me totally waxing nostalgic.
I caught Janis Joplin in 1965 in Haight Ashbury just as things were starting up. Big Brother was playing at the Straight Theater (Janis was just a band member then) and the show cost about a buck and included a plate of spagetti. I was fouteen and in that one night in the Haight found out about sex, drugs and rock and roll. Very, very memorable. I had plenty to tell my friends back at Ventura High.
Lots of memorable concerts over the years for sure.
Sure is more fun remembering all the R&R history than the Viet Nam and Civil Rights battles. Got run out of a town in Oregon by a pack of drunk lumberjacks. Got a bullet hole in my van in Kansas. It was the "love it or leave it" days.... I moved to London. I was then fortunate to catch Hendrix's last show at the Isle of Wight and was actually standing in front of the hospital in London a few days later when they brought his body in. Real sad day that.
Got a job in London working for a guy named Richard Branson. Branson was running a student magazine and preparing to launch a record company called Virgin. Their first recording was "Tubular Bells". Anybody have that on the shelf?
I would not trade those years for anything..... Geez, you guys and gals got me totally waxing nostalgic.
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