Flashback Sunday:
I've gotten some 50 year old pictures sent to me by HS classmates of late. These are pretty special...
In July, 1969, a leather goods store,
The House Of Lewis, put on a free concert on their back porch that overlooked an alley in Skokie, Illinois, with what he described as some of his friends.
I was there, along with a number of fellow HS students. At the mini-reunion I attended in March of this year, I learned from my classmate Frankie that not only was he there, but he'd taken a number of snapshots on his Brownie. These are several of those snapshots.
Here we have 24 year old Eric Clapton, and Bonnie Bramlett of
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, and a bunch of 16 and 17 year old kids:
Another picture of Slowhand, this time with Delaney. The big fella in the white long-sleeve shirt is Lewis:
IIRC, Ginger Baker was there as well, but I'm not sure he played. I have no pictures to confirm that, though I believe this is Ginger over Eric's right shoulder.
Here is a 2013 write-up by the Chicago PBS station about that day:
A Guitar God Comes to Skokiehttps://news.wttw.com/2013/09/16/guitar-god-comes-skokieThe woman quoted in the article, Judy Clutters, was another classmate.
Delaney & Bonnie and Friends members at different times included Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, George Harrison, Leon Russell, Bobby Whitlock, Dave Mason, Rita Coolidge, King Curtis, and Eric Clapton.
