Images of Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan et al @ Blackbushe 1978

Images of Eric Clapton and a few others performing at the legendary concert @ Blackbushe in 1978.
Check out http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/blackbushe.html for some more great images of that day.

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Music

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• clapton
• dylan
• blackbushe
• 1978
• Harvey
• Goldsmith
• concert

[sludgefingers]

The sick joke is that if you read the music press from that time it was all punk (or 'new wave') and in their world nothing else existed. Yet nearly all the many thousands of pple at this, the major gig of that year, had long hair/denims etc - all just real normal rock fans loving the music. We were badly let down by the music press and it was all we had - no newspaper coverage of rock and precious little TV, let alone any internet. That week's NME probably had Richard Hell on the cover.

[jjmc60]

@sludgefingers

So true! Great comment!

[stratking69er]

With my luvly girlfriend ,we fought tooth and nail to get about 30 yards from the stage. I can remember joan armatrading doing a great set, but when eric clapton played I was in heaven........................­...until his Bobness came on....then we went somewhere better than heaven!!! i have to confess that I cried tears of joy. I was desperate to see bob at the isle of white in 69, but mum said no !! I then saw him 3 times at earls court. No one will ever come close to Bob Dylan.

[jjmc60]

@stratking69er

Thank you for the wonderful recollections!

"..tooth and nail.." - forgot about that bit!

[margotcaprile]

I was there too!!!!

at that time learning english in London, what a good time!!!!

can somebody tell me the title of the music is playing in this video??

thanks thanks xx!

[jjmc60]

@margotcaprile

Thank you for the lovely comment! The tune is called "Nicer Iff" - a play on the words "Nice Riff" and is my own.

[salguodmc]

I was there with my friends Howard, Paula, and Sue. I only went to see Graham Parker and the Rumor, Joan Armatrading was Fantastic and boy could she play, I fell asleep during Eric Clapton, but woke to a screaming Paula as Eric Launched into Layla. Bob came on and just as I was thinking anyone could sound great with this backing band, He sent the band off, and did six numbers just him and his strat, I must have been one of the the first to light my Bic Lighter. What a wonderful day to remember.

[ianthemaggot]

I was there... It was fun , no screens, loads to smoke, a bit of a lively crowd. I was told see all those people over there....they had bum tickets and had to wait outside! It hitch-hiked back up to Newcastle, walked into work with no sleep! Joan Armatrading was excellent..

I was with Steve and Dianne. I still have the badge somewhere!

Thanks for posting the imajes and stuff.

[soph108]

my dad at 3.54 :)

[britbluesfan]

great playing & good memories ♪ of course i wish i was there haha looks awesome

[maccerinrdu]

I went down to London the night before, stayed with friends and we drove over. We really went for Graham Parker but Dylan blew us away. Walked to the station after the concert with a friend and eventually got a train to Waterloo where we slept on the stairs to the Tube under newspapers before the trains started running. Good times.

[ohiodixiechick2]

What happened to Bob dylan here? Fa;se title??

[jonnybrowne]

@ianthemaggot our memories are very similar. Graham Parker was great - I think of that day when "New York Shuffle pops into my head. I was with my mate Pete and his friend Keith. Badly stoned, the three of us slept in Keith's Morris Minor, which wasn't fun - I'm six foot one, Pete wasn't a slim man even then, and Keith was six foot six. Funnily enough, my wife, who I ws to meet a couple of years later, was also in the crowd, having driven down from Newcastle with her then boyfriend!

[jonnybrowne]

@sludgefingers Well said, mate. There was so much bullsh*t in the London-based music press about the new wave changing the world - the myth persists - and in truth it was a phenomeon confined mainly to London (where of course the music press was based) and, to be fair, Manchester. The truth is that most young people in the UK kept their long hair, wore denim and listened to rock. I was of the "punk generation" - I was 20 and living in London in 1976 - and nobody I knew became a punk.

[billbrovold]

@sludgefingers

Yes, what I was meaning, is the musicians weren't really the ones being so nasty., it was the press.

[sludgefingers]

@billbrovold I take your point a lot of it was stale but the baby was pretty violently thrown out with the bathwater. I saw the early '77 Clash tour and yes could I see the appeal. But not content with merely switching to a 'new' type of music the UK press felt compelled to try and dismantle the 'old'. Worse, I think deep down they knew a lot of what they were pushing was unlistenable shit (Eater, anyone?) but they had to show us all the way forward, sheep that we were.

[billbrovold]

@sludgefingers

The thing about that is Television (a band Richard Hell co-founded) did a beautiful version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". Punk was what a lot of very stale musicians needed.