Eric Clapton - 1974-07-29 - Birmingham, AL (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Eric Clapton

461 Ocean Boulevard

USA Tour, 1st Leg

EC Is Here/DJ Copy 157

Legion Field

Birmingham, AL

July 29, 1974

Lineage:

Soundboard Recording > CD-R(?) > EAC > WAV > FLAC 6

Eric Clapton guitar, vocals

Jamie Oldaker drums

Dick Sims keyboards

Carl Radle bass

George Terry guitar

Yvonne Elliman backing vocals

01) Smile

02) Let It Grow

03) Layla

04) Willie And The Hand Jive

05) Get Ready

06) Key To The Highway

07) I Shot The Sheriff

08) Badge

09) Tell The Truth

10) Let It Rain

PLEASE NOTE:The following review comes from HotWacks.com

'The * disc is a soundboard that claims to be from the evening following the Memphis gig at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama on July 29th. This is a previously undocumented and unreleased tape. There is no mention of the state, city, venue or date but it seems to be genuine. It has a beginning very similar to the July 20th Long Beach soundboard with the introduction and Clapton saying "Legs Al!...If we're all sitting comfortably we'll begin" before "Smile". Long Beach was used for a bogus July 30th New Orleans release on cdr, but the difference is that Clapton says "Legs Al" once instead of twice and doesn't say "oops a daisy" as he does in Long Beach. After doing a comparison with all of the known set lists from 1974 this is doesn't match any. WGPSEC (who this is I do not know) also can confirm this is, as far as he can tell, an unique tape so we can take this as face value.

The Alabama tape is very similar in tone to the other two in this collection, probably why they are all grouped together. It sounds like a high generation tape with some hiss present and overall sounding a bit dull. There is a cut before "I Shot The Sheriff" and a small one in "Tell The Truth". And also like the other two there are no encores present. The acoustic beginning is very short with fast versions of "Smile" and "Let It Grow". It sounds like Clapton is impatient and wants to go electric early. "This one's for Donner and Galadriel" he says before "Layla". "Willie And The Hand Jive" is paired with "Get Ready" as usual on this tour but the definite highlight of the set is "Tell The Truth". Clapton's jams are very inventive and he ends the song by playing The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood". "Let It Rain" is the set closer for only the second known time on this tour. It is a tape that will interest Clapton collectors because it is new and authentic and for that reason Three Smiles is worth having.'