Elton John Grow Some Funk Of Your Own 76

The first Leg of the 1976 "Louder Than Concorde(but not quite as pretty)" Tour took Elton and his band through the UK and this was the second night at Earl's Court in London. May 12th 1976. The back up singer in the bright striped shirt is Cindy Bullens, a Boston girl who crashed an MCA party in 1975 and was asked if she'd like to go on the road for the West Of The Rockies Tour, and the rest is history. Cindy would have her first hit in 1979 with a song called "Survivor". For Elton this was his peak for sure! Enjoy!!!

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[StewartSummers]

Caleb Quaye is playing an Epiphone Casino which John & George played on the Beates '66 tour as did Keith Richards on the Stones appearance on "Hollywood Palace". The '76 "Concord" tour was my first EJ show. I've seen just about every EJ tour since then sometimes multiple nights but the best was this tour when it hit MSG August 1976. And after watchin' Russ's clips I see my memory has served me well. This was a monster tour.

[russelljdj]

Caleb is now a minister in Los Angeles. The Epiphone that John used on the 66 tour wa sthe same he used on the roof as he stripped off the finish. I wonder if Caleb would ever break out the Hercules solo during a serman. That would be cool.

[russelljdj]

Had to chop some of the intro off this due to the 100MB restriction. I so want to add Hercules, but at 19 minutes, and not having a "Directors" account it would have to be in 5 parts and that would ruin the song. But this is Elton at his peak!

[desertscorpion34]

Saw this tour at Foxboro (Schaefer) Stadium in Mass. on the Bicentennial (July 4,1976)

Dave Mason opened concert.

Elton came out dressed as Statue of Liberty and then shed the costume for a blue shirt and stars and red and white striped "hot pants"!

Opened with this song and rest of concert was amazing...played for over 3 hours!

[Bodebodango]

This was probably the tightest band he ever had! Lot of talent here!

[MrJbroc3]

Great version

[diddlytube]

Still have a tour program from the Foxboro show. I forget what tix cost, but I remember that floor (premium) seats to Bowie at Boston Garden earlier the same year were $8.50! Managed to be on the field for Foxboro, maybe 125 feet away. Some yahoo fired off a Roman candle from the field, which went halfway up into the stands into somebody's lap -- old Schaefer Stadium was always a Wild West show. Saw Dave Mason again last year, at the Showcase Live venue in the mall next to the new stadium.

[1caninelover]

@nigelguliver22 As a Californian I was familiar with some of the lingo even as a kid. I was more surprised that Bernie Taupin wrote it (although he's lived here for a long time I don't think he relocated to Southern California in the '70s)

[nigelguliver22]

After three years, today I finally understood, "We no like to with the gringo fight". It was hard for this non-native speaker to follow, but I finally did. Genius!

[Digger2527]

This was from the tour on which I saw my very first concert---Saturday July 24, 1976 in St. Paul, MN... I was 12 years old..this was the very first song of then night as well...I will never, ever forget that day and the feelings of absolute euphoria that filled me the entire day and night

[bigledge]

@bobble123

that was my first concert too. i was 14. and yes the bar was set very high.  i never aain saw anything that even came close to the show that elton put on that night.

[QJby1Hod]

This is an all ass kicker of a perfprmance! Check out the girl in the chorus, she's giving it her all.

[10footmonkey]

@Bodebodango Definitely was his best band ever ........ he once said "I've just realised I'm the worst musician in this band" ............. and he doesn't like to share the limelight!!

[snorkelbda03]

I was at the Philadelphia show July 7th...first concert when i was 13 yrs old.

Its great to see video

[strangefruit42]

A time machine! A time machine! A kingdom for a TARDIS!!! What I'd give to have seen this concert. Where does this clip come from? Is there a DVD or video available?