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Blind Faith ... unreleased version of - pilotwingz - Mar-17-13 8:50 PM
- thanks for posting this, very cool - slushpaddler - Mar-18-13 9:55 AM
- very nice - kanaka - Mar-18-13 11:37 AM
- A trip - PJC - Mar-18-13 5:03 PM
  - Blind Faith trivia - thebob.com - Mar-19-13 1:56 PM
    - Bob, - PJC - Mar-19-13 2:59 PM
      - Cover art.............. - thebob.com - Mar-19-13 4:03 PM
        
        Blue Cheer - PJC - Mar-19-13 5:13 PM
    - EC and the - krusty - Mar-19-13 9:00 PM
- Went to see Slowhand - Canuka - Mar-18-13 5:58 PM
  - I'll bet - PJC - Mar-19-13 1:14 PM
    - Well, believe it or not - Canuka - Mar-19-13 4:07 PM
- I thought it was about Obamacare..... - Yanoer - Mar-19-13 1:43 PM
  - 1969 - thebob.com - Mar-19-13 2:08 PM
- Keeping it real - krusty - Mar-19-13 8:49 PM
- Geez, I'm old........... - toesnorth - Mar-19-13 9:45 PM
- Blind Faith LP - vic - Mar-20-13 12:58 AM
  - Minot AFB - tktoo - Mar-20-13 8:59 AM
  - Played the grooves off................ - thebob.com - Mar-20-13 1:56 PM

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  thanks for posting this, very cool
  Posted by: slushpaddler on Mar-18-13 9:55 AM (EST)

Not a bad version to have playing in my head this morning.

  very nice
  Posted by: kanaka on Mar-18-13 11:37 AM (EST)

very nice indeed. Nice bluesy guitar - soothing for a monday morning. Thanks.

  A trip
  Posted by: PJC on Mar-18-13 5:03 PM (EST)

in the Wayback machine... Thanks. Haven't listened to Blind Faith in, well, possibly a decade. Never forgot that album cover. The kid playing with a B-52. Blind Faith.
Its snowing again here. I did my work in town for the day. I hear its coming down out east also... This post took me back to listen to Cream again on a cold snowy day. Maybe others also.
If you haven't heard that Cream 05 Albert Hall reunion concert, there's another Youtube Wayback trip with Clapton and Ginger Baker, if not Winwood. Whoda' thunk that crew would still be alive and playing - and so well.
And then, for old Dead Heads like myself, it always comes back to them. For another "compare/contrast" of a jewel in the rough and finished cut try the Youtube - well, heck compare these... Final version first and how it was before the lyrics were written.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6mjNMNytY
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-4XirBj9A

"Winter rain, now tell me why
Summers fade, roses die
The answer came, the wind and rain..."

Thanks again for sending me off this way on a day like this.

  Blind Faith trivia
  Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-19-13 1:56 PM (EST)

Blind Faith
Clapton/Winwood/Baker/Grech
Album # RS 1-3016 (1969) RSO Records

Side one: Had To Cry Today
Can't Find My Way Home
Well Alright
Presence Of The Lord

Side two: Sea Of Joy
Do What You Like

Cover photo: Bob Seidemann
Cover subject: A red headed, rosy cheeked, rosy lipped young lady, quite obviously lacking in clothing, staring boldly into the camera.
The object she is holding appears to be the chrome hood ornament from an Oldsmobile, or perhaps a Chevy; not a model of a B-52.

I don't think the album lasted very long on American record store shelves. Some good music & for 1969, a rather risque cover. Fairly difficult album to find in nice, original condition. Happy to have one that is.

BOB

  Bob,
  Posted by: PJC on Mar-19-13 2:59 PM (EST)

Never owned that album myself. (Come to think of it, they were the only folks I knew then who had a "stereo". I and the rest of the folks I then knew were still in a "mono" world.) It surely is a collector's item though and I'm not very surprised that as avid a collector as you has a copy. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you had an autographed copy... (Don't suppose you'd want to trade it for a Blue Cheer and a Buffy St. Marie, would you?)
It, to me, brings back memories of two brothers I knew, Tim and Dan H., who played it almost to death. And I had no objections, I might add. I think that might have been the first album where I heard either Winwood or Ginger Baker.
We had conversations at the time, as I recall, about the cover art. Could be we were just goofy kids playing at artistic interpretation... actually, there's no "could be" about it. We were goofy kids and I guess we were doing exactly that.
But the memories persist. Thankfully. Even if Tim is gone now.
And it is really neat that another version of any of those songs would show up in 2013 on the internet... Thanks again, PW.

  Cover art..............
  Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-19-13 4:03 PM (EST)

-- Last Updated: Mar-19-13 4:12 PM EST --

Oh, I'm sure you & many others had some serious, "artistic interpretation" discussions about the album cover in question. Probably some other not so artistic, or serious discussions too.

Was never interested in what Blue Cheer had to offer, but must admit I do have a few Buffy St. Marie albums stashed away in some storage area.

Clapton autograph? Why yes, I do.
He signed my Yardbirds, The Original Recordings, 1963 to 1968 album, with a couple of "rhythm" guitar "hacks". Some guys called J. Page, and J. Beck; whoever the hell they were? The hacks signed the album too.
I'd probably turn it loose for a buck or 2; that's probably all it's worth.

NOT!
:^/

BOB

  Blue Cheer
  Posted by: PJC on Mar-19-13 5:13 PM (EST)

Well, why do you suppose I want to get rid of it? It was bad music then and still is. And they were WAY too loud, even for the time. But I hear the album has some collector value.

That cover art then (and still does to me at least) represented a glaring incongruity; a portrait of obvious immaturity (displayed in a way that nobody could ignore), and I recalled holding a model B-52... but maybe it is a hood ornament (of a stylized B-52?). And then the label "Blind Faith". Seems like whoever put that image together was trying to say something, unless it was simply meant to be outrageous. Many other album covers of the day were.

Funny how those images from the album, the songs, and the memories persist from such a long time ago. I sometimes wonder how unaltered such youthful memories really are. Its like trying to remember what you thought about something before you really learned anything about it, and then comparing that to what we think we know now. How many of the old notions linger unrecognized in the back of our minds?
But I digress... it sure was a great album.

  EC and the
  Posted by: krusty on Mar-19-13 9:00 PM (EST)

Yardbirds - one of the oldest vinyls i have, its in great shape, pretty raw. Wonder what its worth? Beck, Page, EC... 1963 i think.

  Went to see Slowhand
  Posted by: Canuka on Mar-18-13 5:58 PM (EST)

-- Last Updated: Mar-18-13 5:59 PM EST --

Last night at the Erwin Center in Austin. E.C. did not disappoint. Absolutely awesome, balls-to-the-wall blues and rock n' roll.

The Wallflowers weren't bad either.

  I'll bet
  Posted by: PJC on Mar-19-13 1:14 PM (EST)

that was a fine show. Congrats. I envy you that... we don't seem to draw that many big acts around here. Have to go to Chicago.

  Well, believe it or not
  Posted by: Canuka on Mar-19-13 4:07 PM (EST)

I don't think we are such a big draw here in Austin for some of the "classic" acts of my era (late 60s and 70s). Nevermind SXSW and Austin's self-proclamation as the "live music capital of the world" (I roll my eyes every time I hear that--yeah, like NYC, New Orleans, Paris, Rome, etc. suddenly vanished from the map).

In the 23 years I've been in Austin, I don't remember Clapton ever having a concert, Santana has been here maybe twice, the Stones were here for the first time ever some five years ago.

Yeah, lots of great musicians call Austin home and Stevie Ray Vaughn made his career here, but the big acts tend to skip Austin and go to Dallas and Houston.

  I thought it was about Obamacare.....
  Posted by: Yanoer on Mar-19-13 1:43 PM (EST)

from the title :)

  1969
  Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-19-13 2:08 PM (EST)

-- Last Updated: Mar-19-13 2:39 PM EST --

Yanoer:
Blind Faith might refer to the hopes you "used to have" of being anything besides an Illinois, corn field irrigation ditch paddler!
You overfed, long haired, leaping gnome!
Equating anything related to Blind Faith with Zero is a low blow to the members of Blind Faith.

If you can make the Rendezvous this year; bring that raggety Nomad with you. You probably aren't ever going to be able to use it to it's full potential. I'd give you 3 hundred for it; if you load it onto my truck for me. You could find a neat Pelican canoe, and be a happy paddler.

:^)
BOB

P.S."Beware of soft shoe shufflers, and their I'm a star wifes".

  Keeping it real
  Posted by: krusty on Mar-19-13 8:49 PM (EST)

I like this one, EC's solo is a real bonus, the drum set out front. and to think, they were just jammin' - no tickets, no hype, just jammin' in the park.

http://youtu.be/mUW1SGF7bR8

  Geez, I'm old...........
  Posted by: toesnorth on Mar-19-13 9:45 PM (EST)

I not only remember it, I think I still HAVE it!

  Blind Faith LP
  Posted by: vic on Mar-20-13 12:58 AM (EST)

I still have the original Blind Faith LP I bought in 1969 at the PX at Minot Air Force Base. Needless to say the base PX did not offer that LP for sale until the original LP cover was changed.

Almost played the grooves off that record while lying down in a purple haze with my head between the speakers and the volume turned up to eleven.

However, I did wear out the grooves of the first Led Zeppelin LP in exactly the same way and the same state of mindlessness. In fact I had to replace that Led Zeppelin album even before Blind Faith was released. And I still have that original Led Zeppelin LP as well as its replacement.

  Minot AFB
  Posted by: tktoo on Mar-20-13 8:59 AM (EST)

My dad was stationed there in the early '60's and we lived on base for a little over a year.

I remember tumbleweeds, snow, and the Thunderbirds going supersonic in F-100's as part of the show. That's about it.

  Played the grooves off................
  Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-20-13 1:56 PM (EST)

-- Last Updated: Mar-20-13 6:17 PM EST --

One of the buddies I shared a funky old house with in college invited some members of Pure Prairie League back to our place for a party after their concert performance.

Lots of libations, and other treats were sampled that evening.

Late in the morning the party wound down, and everybody starting crashing.
The last person to crash left Frampton Comes Alive on the stereo; a stereo that would play the last record repeatedly until the cows came home, or until the stereo burned up. Frampton would NOT quit!

No one had the motivation, or energy to walk or crawl over to the stereo & turn it off. Frampton Comes Alive played, high volume, from about 3 a.m. to daylight. Occasionally someone would holler, "Turn off that stereo"! or "Please turn off that damn stereo"!. Somebody hollered, "Kill that SOB"! I don't know who broke the record album & threw it & the album cover on top of the roof of the house? The album cover got blow away by the wind; the album melted in the sun.

Before the evidence blew away or melted, there were quite a few questions.........
"Hey man, what's up with the Frampton album cover on the roof of your house"?

Have to admit, Frampton's voice box routine was a little trippy if you were totally blitzed, but only the first time or 2. After about 4 hours of voiced boxed "Do you feel; do you feel like we do"?........I was ready to holler, "Kill that SOB"! And maybe I did!

BOB

P.S. Need to know information: The fine young lady who comes to the party to pick up her 19 year old sister, because sis is unable to drive herself home, may NOT be the "older" sister. A wise man is aware that ignorance of the law(she looked older than that!) is NOT a defense.

	thanks for posting this, very cool Posted by: slushpaddler on Mar-18-13 9:55 AM (EST)
	Not a bad version to have playing in my head this morning.

	very nice Posted by: kanaka on Mar-18-13 11:37 AM (EST)
	very nice indeed. Nice bluesy guitar - soothing for a monday morning. Thanks.

	A trip Posted by: PJC on Mar-18-13 5:03 PM (EST)
	in the Wayback machine... Thanks. Haven't listened to Blind Faith in, well, possibly a decade. Never forgot that album cover. The kid playing with a B-52. Blind Faith. Its snowing again here. I did my work in town for the day. I hear its coming down out east also... This post took me back to listen to Cream again on a cold snowy day. Maybe others also. If you haven't heard that Cream 05 Albert Hall reunion concert, there's another Youtube Wayback trip with Clapton and Ginger Baker, if not Winwood. Whoda' thunk that crew would still be alive and playing - and so well. And then, for old Dead Heads like myself, it always comes back to them. For another "compare/contrast" of a jewel in the rough and finished cut try the Youtube - well, heck compare these... Final version first and how it was before the lyrics were written. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6mjNMNytY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-4XirBj9A "Winter rain, now tell me why Summers fade, roses die The answer came, the wind and rain..." Thanks again for sending me off this way on a day like this.

	Blind Faith trivia Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-19-13 1:56 PM (EST)
	Blind Faith Clapton/Winwood/Baker/Grech Album # RS 1-3016 (1969) RSO Records Side one: Had To Cry Today Can't Find My Way Home Well Alright Presence Of The Lord Side two: Sea Of Joy Do What You Like Cover photo: Bob Seidemann Cover subject: A red headed, rosy cheeked, rosy lipped young lady, quite obviously lacking in clothing, staring boldly into the camera. The object she is holding appears to be the chrome hood ornament from an Oldsmobile, or perhaps a Chevy; not a model of a B-52. I don't think the album lasted very long on American record store shelves. Some good music & for 1969, a rather risque cover. Fairly difficult album to find in nice, original condition. Happy to have one that is. BOB

	Bob, Posted by: PJC on Mar-19-13 2:59 PM (EST)
	Never owned that album myself. (Come to think of it, they were the only folks I knew then who had a "stereo". I and the rest of the folks I then knew were still in a "mono" world.) It surely is a collector's item though and I'm not very surprised that as avid a collector as you has a copy. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you had an autographed copy... (Don't suppose you'd want to trade it for a Blue Cheer and a Buffy St. Marie, would you?) It, to me, brings back memories of two brothers I knew, Tim and Dan H., who played it almost to death. And I had no objections, I might add. I think that might have been the first album where I heard either Winwood or Ginger Baker. We had conversations at the time, as I recall, about the cover art. Could be we were just goofy kids playing at artistic interpretation... actually, there's no "could be" about it. We were goofy kids and I guess we were doing exactly that. But the memories persist. Thankfully. Even if Tim is gone now. And it is really neat that another version of any of those songs would show up in 2013 on the internet... Thanks again, PW.

	Cover art.............. Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-19-13 4:03 PM (EST)
	-- Last Updated: Mar-19-13 4:12 PM EST -- Oh, I'm sure you & many others had some serious, "artistic interpretation" discussions about the album cover in question. Probably some other not so artistic, or serious discussions too. Was never interested in what Blue Cheer had to offer, but must admit I do have a few Buffy St. Marie albums stashed away in some storage area. Clapton autograph? Why yes, I do. He signed my Yardbirds, The Original Recordings, 1963 to 1968 album, with a couple of "rhythm" guitar "hacks". Some guys called J. Page, and J. Beck; whoever the hell they were? The hacks signed the album too. I'd probably turn it loose for a buck or 2; that's probably all it's worth. NOT! :^/ BOB

	Blue Cheer Posted by: PJC on Mar-19-13 5:13 PM (EST)
	Well, why do you suppose I want to get rid of it? It was bad music then and still is. And they were WAY too loud, even for the time. But I hear the album has some collector value. That cover art then (and still does to me at least) represented a glaring incongruity; a portrait of obvious immaturity (displayed in a way that nobody could ignore), and I recalled holding a model B-52... but maybe it is a hood ornament (of a stylized B-52?). And then the label "Blind Faith". Seems like whoever put that image together was trying to say something, unless it was simply meant to be outrageous. Many other album covers of the day were. Funny how those images from the album, the songs, and the memories persist from such a long time ago. I sometimes wonder how unaltered such youthful memories really are. Its like trying to remember what you thought about something before you really learned anything about it, and then comparing that to what we think we know now. How many of the old notions linger unrecognized in the back of our minds? But I digress... it sure was a great album.

	EC and the Posted by: krusty on Mar-19-13 9:00 PM (EST)
	Yardbirds - one of the oldest vinyls i have, its in great shape, pretty raw. Wonder what its worth? Beck, Page, EC... 1963 i think.

	Went to see Slowhand Posted by: Canuka on Mar-18-13 5:58 PM (EST)
	-- Last Updated: Mar-18-13 5:59 PM EST -- Last night at the Erwin Center in Austin. E.C. did not disappoint. Absolutely awesome, balls-to-the-wall blues and rock n' roll. The Wallflowers weren't bad either.

	I'll bet Posted by: PJC on Mar-19-13 1:14 PM (EST)
	that was a fine show. Congrats. I envy you that... we don't seem to draw that many big acts around here. Have to go to Chicago.

	Well, believe it or not Posted by: Canuka on Mar-19-13 4:07 PM (EST)
	I don't think we are such a big draw here in Austin for some of the "classic" acts of my era (late 60s and 70s). Nevermind SXSW and Austin's self-proclamation as the "live music capital of the world" (I roll my eyes every time I hear that--yeah, like NYC, New Orleans, Paris, Rome, etc. suddenly vanished from the map). In the 23 years I've been in Austin, I don't remember Clapton ever having a concert, Santana has been here maybe twice, the Stones were here for the first time ever some five years ago. Yeah, lots of great musicians call Austin home and Stevie Ray Vaughn made his career here, but the big acts tend to skip Austin and go to Dallas and Houston.

	I thought it was about Obamacare..... Posted by: Yanoer on Mar-19-13 1:43 PM (EST)
	from the title :)

	1969 Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-19-13 2:08 PM (EST)
	-- Last Updated: Mar-19-13 2:39 PM EST -- Yanoer: Blind Faith might refer to the hopes you "used to have" of being anything besides an Illinois, corn field irrigation ditch paddler! You overfed, long haired, leaping gnome! Equating anything related to Blind Faith with Zero is a low blow to the members of Blind Faith. If you can make the Rendezvous this year; bring that raggety Nomad with you. You probably aren't ever going to be able to use it to it's full potential. I'd give you 3 hundred for it; if you load it onto my truck for me. You could find a neat Pelican canoe, and be a happy paddler. :^) BOB P.S."Beware of soft shoe shufflers, and their I'm a star wifes".

	Keeping it real Posted by: krusty on Mar-19-13 8:49 PM (EST)
	I like this one, EC's solo is a real bonus, the drum set out front. and to think, they were just jammin' - no tickets, no hype, just jammin' in the park. http://youtu.be/mUW1SGF7bR8

	Geez, I'm old........... Posted by: toesnorth on Mar-19-13 9:45 PM (EST)
	I not only remember it, I think I still HAVE it!

	Blind Faith LP Posted by: vic on Mar-20-13 12:58 AM (EST)
	I still have the original Blind Faith LP I bought in 1969 at the PX at Minot Air Force Base. Needless to say the base PX did not offer that LP for sale until the original LP cover was changed. Almost played the grooves off that record while lying down in a purple haze with my head between the speakers and the volume turned up to eleven. However, I did wear out the grooves of the first Led Zeppelin LP in exactly the same way and the same state of mindlessness. In fact I had to replace that Led Zeppelin album even before Blind Faith was released. And I still have that original Led Zeppelin LP as well as its replacement.

	Minot AFB Posted by: tktoo on Mar-20-13 8:59 AM (EST)
	My dad was stationed there in the early '60's and we lived on base for a little over a year. I remember tumbleweeds, snow, and the Thunderbirds going supersonic in F-100's as part of the show. That's about it.

	Played the grooves off................ Posted by: thebob.com on Mar-20-13 1:56 PM (EST)
	-- Last Updated: Mar-20-13 6:17 PM EST -- One of the buddies I shared a funky old house with in college invited some members of Pure Prairie League back to our place for a party after their concert performance. Lots of libations, and other treats were sampled that evening. Late in the morning the party wound down, and everybody starting crashing. The last person to crash left Frampton Comes Alive on the stereo; a stereo that would play the last record repeatedly until the cows came home, or until the stereo burned up. Frampton would NOT quit! No one had the motivation, or energy to walk or crawl over to the stereo & turn it off. Frampton Comes Alive played, high volume, from about 3 a.m. to daylight. Occasionally someone would holler, "Turn off that stereo"! or "Please turn off that damn stereo"!. Somebody hollered, "Kill that SOB"! I don't know who broke the record album & threw it & the album cover on top of the roof of the house? The album cover got blow away by the wind; the album melted in the sun. Before the evidence blew away or melted, there were quite a few questions......... "Hey man, what's up with the Frampton album cover on the roof of your house"? Have to admit, Frampton's voice box routine was a little trippy if you were totally blitzed, but only the first time or 2. After about 4 hours of voiced boxed "Do you feel; do you feel like we do"?........I was ready to holler, "Kill that SOB"! And maybe I did! BOB P.S. Need to know information: The fine young lady who comes to the party to pick up her 19 year old sister, because sis is unable to drive herself home, may NOT be the "older" sister. A wise man is aware that ignorance of the law(she looked older than that!) is NOT a defense.