The us tour continued until the groups final concert on 24 august in hawaii. Blind faith eric clapton, ginger baker, steve winwood and rick grech the second. Had to cry today steve winwood its already written that today will be one to remember the feelings the same as being outside of the law had to cry today well, i saw your sign and i missed you there im taking the chance to see the wind in your eyes while i listen you say you cant reach me but you want every word to be free had to cry today well, i saw your sign and i. Blind faith released their only album, blind faith, in august 1969. Easy rider, blind faith, rock festivals jann werner on. Blind faith 1969 tour concert program clapton baker. Blind faith setlist at madison square garden, new york. The rock band blind faith, composed of steve winwood, eric clapton, ginger baker and rick grech played a small number of gigs in england, scandinavia and the united states between june and august 1969. Rising from the ashes of two defunct english rock bands, blind faith lived a very short life as a super group in 1969. The band received negative press for the lps cover, which featured a topless schoolgirl playing with a.
The first gig, on 7 june at hyde park, london was witnessed by 100,000 fans. You are bidding on a concert tour book from a blind faith show in 1969 the band consisted of eric clapton, steve winwood, ginger baker, rick grech and robin turner. So, rather than play woodstock, clapton and his blind faith bandmade steve winwood decided to have a retreat to really work on their music. It has to be a tour book for the one blind faith tour in 1969. Kennedy stadium, bridgeport, ct jul, 1969 jul 1969. Well, that was too good to pass by, although collectively, we as serious blind faith collectors already had a copy of a portion of the. Clapton, as ever, remained tactful, telling nme on the 15th that i am pleased with the album and with a lot of the performances we did, but i dont think the group is going to stay together very long. Their first tour grew longer and longer, and clapton saw his chance to get back home from the road quickly dwindle. Blind faith concert setlists sign in to get statistics for your attended concerts. Overall condition is a strong 8 of 10 very slight cover wear great condition for its age.
Get blind faith setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other blind faith fans for free on setlist. Blind faith oakland 69 bootleg album, 1969 youtube. London hyde park 1969 is the official video album by blind faith of their appearance at a free concert held in hyde park in london on 7 june 1969. Find blind faith biography and history on allmusic blind faith were the band. It is almost the exact size of a record album, but its very slightly smaller. It was released in the uk in 2005, and in the us and canada in 2006. Blind faith concert setlist at the forum, inglewood on.
This was for the historic blind faith tour in 1969. The stones in the park was a free outdoor festival held in hyde park on 5 july 1969, headlined by the rolling stones and featuring third ear band, king crimson, screw, alexis korners new church, family and the battered ornaments, in front of an estimated audience between 250,000500,000 spectators it was the stones first public concert in over two years, and was planned as an introduction. In the area of supergroups and life expectancy, blind faith came and went in a flash. Clapton became increasingly isolated during the tour, preferring to spend time with support act delaney. Blind faith 1969 hardcover tour program winwood clapton. Get blind faith setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other blind faith fans for free on. Upon its release in july 1969, the bands first and only album blind faith topped both the uk chart. It topped the album charts in the uk, canada and us, and was listed at no. The rock band blind faith, composed of steve winwood, eric clapton, ginger baker and rick. Eureka, one of those listed was blind faith in milwaukee, wisconsin, august 1969. Blind faith concert setlist at konserthuset, gothenburg on. Because of that, some aspects of that lifespan are just not well documented.
Blind faith is the selftitled and only album by the english supergroup blind faith, originally released in 1969 on polydor records in the united kingdom and europe and on atlantic records in the united states. This was a supergroup comprised of members of cream eric clapton and ginger baker and steve winwood of traffic. Blind faith concert tour book program 1969 hardcover. With the album at number 1 in america, the nme reported on september 6 that blind faith was planning a european tour in the autumn. Since 7th june, 1969 when this concert took place, it has never been. Chris was devoted to stevie and stigwood was devoted to his cheque book.
Blind faith self titled lp rso 19691977 reissue original. Blind faith madison square garden, new york, ny jul 12, 1969 jul 12 1969 following concerts blind faith john f. At the end of blind faiths american tour clapton made the unusual career. Despite being together for less than one year, they manageg to release one eponymous album which captured lightning in a bottle by aptly displaying the immense talents of the members of this quartet which seemed to effortlessly jive together as a group. Blind faith 1969 tour book visual thing, hardback, photos, claptonwinwo 1969 blind faith 32 page hardcover picture book by the visual thing blind faith 1969 hardcover tour program winwood clapton blind faith 1969 hard back tour book visual thing. Featuring eric clapton, ginger baker, and steve winwood, and.
The yardbirds were long dead, cream was recently dead, and clapton decided to pour all of his effort into launching his new supergroup, blind faith. Blind faith perform at londons hyde park, 1969 only live concert video of this group and their first gig. They were eagerly anticipated by the music press as a continuation of clapton and bakers former group cream and winwoods former group traffic, but they split after one album and tour. A 20 wildest censored album covers from nudity to toilets yes, really, see what got these lps shelved. Blind faith s concert performances can be placed into three distinct phases. The hyde park free concert in early june 1969, the scandinavian concert tour of mid june 1969, and the north american concert tour of july and august 1969. Blind faith the visual thing 1969 tourbook in hardback cover, sized like an lp. Blind faith were an english bluesrock band that comprised eric clapton, ginger baker, steve winwood and ric aka rick grech. Blind faith kb hallen, copenhagen jun 19, 1969 jun 19 1969 blind faith madison square garden, new york, ny jul 12, 1969 jul 12 1969 last updated. Blind faith us tour book rare 1969 us 34page 12 square glossy hardback book, produced for the bands julyaugust tour. Eric clapton and steve winwood join forces at the historic blind. On february 8th, 1969, three anointed stars of the music world. Get the blind faith setlist of the concert at john f.
Immediately after hyde park, the band flew off for the scandinavian tour and it was not. Their only studio album originally released in 1969, this is the 1977 reissue that resurrected the original banned cover. Ascap, latinautor, cmrra, emi music publishing, and 4. The free concert on june 7, 1969, shown above in its entirety, was. A short description of each concert phase is presented below. Blind faiths debut gig was in front of a cool 100,000 people on a warm day in hyde park. Gothenburg 1969 recorded live in gothenburg, sweden june 18, 1969. Blind faith first live performance in hyde park, london, 9 th june 1969. The concert was the bands debut performance and took place two months before the release of their debut album, blind faith in august 1969.
June 7, 1969 hyde park, london, eng blind faiths first public performance, with richie havens. Blind faith were an english supergroup featuring steve winwood, eric clapton, ginger baker, and ric grech, active in mostly 1969. Eric clapton guitar vocals steve winwood keyboards guitar bass vocals rick grech bass electric violin ginger baker drums. List of blind faith concerts news newspapers books scholar jstor february 2019 learn how and when to remove this template message.
Disraeli gears, remains a psychblues masterpiece that ensured clapton and cos place in the history books. The orchard music, wmg on behalf of plg uk catalog. The band, which was one of the first supergroups, released their only album, blind faith, in august 1969. October 8 it is announced that clapton, having already lost interest, will carry on touring with delaney and bonnie.
On february 8th, 1969, three anointed stars of the music world announced the formation of the first true super group, blind faith. It shows some wear in the gloss on the hard cover, and t is some wear on the corners and in one spot on the right edge of the front cover. Blind faith gothenburg 1969 live 1969 full bootleg. Click on the link here for audio player blind faith live at konserthallen liseberg, gotesberg, sweden june 18, 1969 sveriges radio this one might take some getting used to. This was followed by a series of dates in scandinavia through the rest of the month, followed by a us tour starting.