"Willie and the Hand Jive"
3 Rivers Stadium
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
July 5, 1974
lun - CD-R1 - SB 4
Track List:
1) Further On Up the Road (*)
2) Smile
3) It's Robby's Birthday
4) Let it Grow
5) Can't Find My Way Home
6) Willie and the Hand Jive / Get Ready
7) Blues Power
8) Little Queenie
(*) Crystal Palace Bowl; London, England; July 31, 1976 (with Freddie King, Ronnie Lane and Larry Coryell sitting in) - Thanks to RG!
Band Lineup:
Eric Clapton Guitar, Vocals
Jamie Oldaker Drums
Dick Sims Keyboards
Carl Radle Bass
George Terry Guitar
Yvonne Elliman Backing Vocals
Geetarz (OU's) Comments: It seems some people had fireworks left over from the July 4th celebrations the night before and brought them to the show. EC really loses it when someone tosses fireworks on stage at 1:38 in "Blues Power": "F*!k You, you c*&t! Whoever Threw That! Your F-ing Mother!".
The band continues on, and at 3:33, EC, sounding a bit sheepish after his outburst, says "I'll tell you one thing...your f-cking aggrivation...these fireworks and things like that...NO WAY! It's SILLY BEHAVIOUR!!! STOP IT!!!!!"
And During "Little Queenie" ... "and meanwhile...Martin Bormann...oh, never mind...VOTE NAZI!!!".
Most of this curiously-titled Eric Clapton bootleg was recorded at the Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 5, 74 - on Robbie Robertson's 31st birthday.
The Band and Todd Rundgren also played sets at the same concert. It is an OK quality soundboard recording.
Robbie and The Band probably had nothing to do with Clapton's show and did not perform.
But, track 2 on the CD, called "It's Robbie's Birthday", is a very drunk Clapton singing a happy birthday song to Robbie. So he was probably sitting in the audience or backstage or something...
Below is a review of the event submitted to geetarz.org, from someone who was there:
"I was at that July 5, 1974 show. Eric Clapton was the headliner. Also on the bill: The Band, Todd Rundgren's Utopia and Billy Cox's 'Rainbows & Gypsies,' who had the good sense not to show. Overall it was an ugly day - the previous day, of course, was July 4th. Everybody still had fireworks, firecrackers, sparklers, etc. The buzz of the day appeared to be downers and liquor. Much violence. Someone threw an oversized sparkler onto the canvas roof of the stage and set it on fire during The Band's set, which was otherwise unmarred and wonderful. Things seemed to culminate during EC's set - he was hit in the face with a frisbee - one of the backup singers - maybe Yvonne Elliman? Was hit with a beercan. He took time out to curse the audience ("f--- you, whoever threw that one; your f-ckin' mother...") and told them to just knock off the 'f-ckin' aggravation.' When I saw the name of the boot, I thought 'it can't possibly be THAT show...' EC did indeed sing 'it's Robbie's birthday' for all of a few seconds. An account in the press (maybe Rolling Stone?) claimed Clapton joined The Band for a song or two, but I was there and I saw nothing of the kind - I felt bad that I'd missed something til I realized you can't believe everything you read. If it did happen in all the mayhem, too bad. You would think that would surface." (Submitted by JSK).
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5 comments:
Cool! Thanks for the Clapton.
Best, Dutchy
I remember incidents from shows back in the 1970`s. I used to have this paranoid fear that something thrown would hit me. While attending a Stones concert at the JFK stadium in Philadelphia back in 1978 a guy sitting below us was throwing m80s
into the crowd. Thanks for the Clapton SBD.
CSNY came to Tampa in August of 1974. It was an unruly crowd from the start. Mainly because of the Quaaludes and the Florida sun. Plus the fact that Crosby had to argue with the hecklers who didn't dig their soft set. Then came nightfall. During Nash's little solo spot(Simple Man), some jerk up in the stands set off a cherry bomb. Nash stopped playing; stood up; took off his harmonica harness and slammed it down on the piano and walked off. The bootleg confirms this much. What the taper cut out was the 10 to 15 minute SILENCE that transpired while the others tried to get Graham back out onto the stage. He finally did come back. Stills is heard to say later that "you people are the worst crowd we've ever played for". But there were people there who tried to dig what they were laying down. Like me :)
So now if you ever hear the boot and wonder what all the ruckus was about, well now you know. 1974 was a very weird year.
Thanks Dave. It is unfortunate, but I downloaded from MEGA and RS and both have serious issues with the last track. There is also a bad digital click at the start.
I had problems with the last track too - lots of really bad digi-distortion. Shame. Interesting gig.
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