Blind Faith - 1969 The Lost Concert

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Blind Faith: The Lost Concert Recorded Live at State Fair Park Rock and Roll Festival, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA July 26, 1969. Soundboard recording ? fairly good audience +/- not the best but it's perfectly acceptable and for diehard Blind Faith fans much better then the Gothenburg audience! As far as I can ascertain, these bootleg have never been officially released and this is a premiere on YT 00:00 Had to Cry Today 8:56 08:56 Can't Find My Way Home 5:04 14:00 Sleeping in the Ground 5:05 19:05 Well All Right 5:27 24:32 Presence of the Lord (cut) 5:25 29:57 Do What You Like 11:53 41:50 Sunshine of Your Love 9:08 Eric Clapton Guitar, Vocals :: Steve Winwood Keyboards, Vocals :: Ginger Baker Drums :: Rick Grech Bass, Vocals Notes: Very sketchy information is available about this little known Blind Faith performance. The tape recording found was ressurrected from an obscure used music/bookshop on the eastside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here's a brief background leading to the music that is by now, moderately distributed among Blind Faith enthusiasts around the world! A few years ago, I met a fellow (now a good friend) in Madison, Wisconsin, who attended the Blind Faith performance on 26 July 1969. He informed me that this concert took place at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Grounds in West Allis, Wisconsin, a suburb southwest of Milwaukee. To my amazement, he also mentioned that this was a rock & roll festival, that included several other well-known groups of the late 1960's. This was information I wanted to further investigate and share with my friends. During April of 1999, I was with two of my good friends on a used vinyl/compact disc search adventure in Milwaukee. We were looking for interesting collectibles, including obscurities like bootlegg concerts, music related books and magazines from the glorious years of our youth. While digging around in one of those book stores, we detected a stack of old cassettes under a glass shelf, with a small notice that suggested that the owners of the store had a selection of local musical concerts recorded on cassette tape. Well, we decided to ask what the selection was. Eureka, one of those listed was Blind Faith in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 1969! Well, that was too good to pass by, although collectively, we (as serious Blind Faith collectors) already had a copy of a portion of the concert from earlier music swaps. My good buddy suggested, "Let's get this copy also, it may be an alternate, or better recording". So we did, and it was indeed, a very nice recording, with additional performance tracks!!!.