Photograph: Eric Clapton on stage at Cow Palace, San Francisco, July 21, 1974, simply earlier than his reveals that includes cameos by Pete Townshend and Keith Moon. Courtesy: Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Pictures
Eric Clapton was a busy man in the summertime of 1974. Within the US touring his new 461 Ocean Boulevard album since mid-June, the schedule took him on August 1 to Atlanta, and a gig on the Omni Coliseum that grew to become broadly celebrated and much-bootlegged amongst Slowhand aficionados.
That was partly due to what occurred on stage that night time. 24 hours later in Greensboro, North Carolina, it occurred once more, and one other two nights down highway in West Palm Seashore: Clapton was joined on stage by Pete Townshend and Keith Moon.
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Clapton’s band featured George Terry as second guitarist, his Derek and the Dominos colleague Carl Radle on bass, Dick Sims on keyboards, Jamie Oldaker on drums, and the backing vocals of Yvonne Elliman. Beginning the set with “Smile,” Clapton featured such songs as “Let It Grow,” “Willie and the Hand Jive,” and the Cream favourite “Badge.”
However because the Atlanta present got here to a conclusion, who ought to seem from the wings however half of The Who. Townshend jammed with Clapton on “Layla” and Moon sang together with Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie,” carried out in a medley with “Baby Don’t You Do It.” Pete then proceeded to smash a plastic ukulele over Eric’s head.
The next night time in Greensboro (ticket worth: $7.50), Townshend appeared earlier within the set for “Hand Jive” and “Get Ready,” returning with Moon for an encore that included “Little Queenie” in addition to “Layla” and “Badge.” The Clapton, Townshend & Moon mixture would occur as soon as extra, on August 4, when the tour headed right into a break of a number of weeks with a gig on the West Palm Seashore Worldwide Raceway. Townshend, Moon, and even Joe Walsh had been readily available to hitch within the festivities, together with a model of The Who’s ”Can’t Clarify.”
None of these reveals have been formally launched, however we may give you a style above of Eric’s 1974 tour because it sounded at his Lengthy Seashore Enviornment present about two weeks earlier than that Atlanta escapade.
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