SEA OF JOY (1969) by Blind Faith vs the Moon Landing!

I saw Blind Faith at the Baltimore Civic Center on 20 July 1969, the day man landed on the moon. A momentous day - and the moon landing was pretty significant too! Delaney and Bonnie, Procreation and Lemon Lime were support acts. Great concert, although the sound is never as good in those large cavernous venues such as the BCC. This video is a tribute to Blind Faith and that Baltimore concert. I've even put in a few images of the landing at the end of the video.

Blind Faith was an English blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Ric Grech. The band, which was one of the first "super-groups", released their only album, Blind Faith, in August 1969. They were stylistically similar to the bands in which Winwood, Baker, and Clapton had most recently participated, Traffic and Cream. They toured the album, often doing old Traffic and Cream numbers due to lack of material. In the end they broke up after about a year.

I have attempted to make the best slideshow I can for this song. That's a cropped scan of my original flyer for the concert at 4.30.

Comments are invited.

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Music

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• blind
• faith
• moon
• landing
• steve
• winwood
• eric
• clapton
• ginger
• baker
• cream
• Delaney
• and
• Bonnie
• michaelbackhouse

[beroth77]

the singers sounds exacttly Grahan Bonnet,is it him?

[wilsonmcphert]

@beroth77

The singer is Steve Winwood. 

[guitar1067]

Thanks for this. I was at this show also. Ginger Baker had a tv backstage as the moonwalk took place about 10:56 pm. It is why only 5000 of 14000 seats were full. What a great time for music. July 11 and 12 I was at the Laurel Pop Festival and saw Page wZep, Beck wRod Stewart, Sly, Alvin Lee, Mothers, Johnny Winter, Buddy Guy, Guess Who. Saw Cream Nov 3 68 and Hendrix May 16 69 at Balto Civic Center. Clapton & Winwood fantastic on latest tour dvd.

[wilsonmcphert]

@guitar1067

Thanks for that info about the BF concert. Unfortunately I missed Laurel but still have a newspaper clipping with the line up. I saw Hendrix at BCC in June 1970. Also saw Ten Years After in a college hall in DC around the time of Laurel and they were sensational. I was living in the USA '69 to '71 and saw some great bands.

[nowurtalkin]

@DONDIVA1969 overrated....ha....by who?....nobody has ever overrated them...only underrated....unmatched talent, creativity, pioneering, musiciamship, etc....and "..pleasant tune..."???.....yeah...maybe if you're 99% deaf and/or on too much valium....easily one of the most beautiful pieces ever made...and holds up 1000% to that 41 yrs later....listening to it takes me touring through galaxies...

[ZJoHanable]

great song !!!

[stackingswivel]

great great songs, IMMENSE TALENT. anyone who thinks otherwise is tone deaf, stupid or knows nothing about music,even rick grech,the least known, is a very underated and unhearled bass /violin player...

[maskedman72]

the difference between this concert and the moon landing is the fact that one of them actually happened!

[nantasketph]

Richard Roman Grech (1 November 1946 – 17 March 1990) R.I.P.

[rasputinslovechild1]

Well, at least we know this concert actually took place as opposed to that sham moon landing. How can people be so naive?

[adproductn]

Thanks for the post. I watched that landing on Baker's TV. Another great Silver Bullet multi-band show from that spring and summer following the assassination of Martin Luther King when Klotzman was trying to help revitalize the downtown again. I have that poster and I'm still looking for the Spirit/Butterfly/Lemon Lime poster from that year.

[beroth77]

@wilsonmcphert wow didnt know he could sing that high i.tank you

[bsonor]

I've always loved this violin solo...