Fact #88381
When:
Short story:
Yes play at The Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland, supported by The Eagles.
Full article:
Ron Gerber (audience) : The friends I went with had previously seen them and ELP at The Spectrum in Philadelphia with Bruford on drums. I am a drummer and was excited to finally see Bill Bruford live. While en route to Merriweather we had the radio on and the DJ announced that Yes would be playing with a new drummer, Alan White. I was shattered. I loved White but Bruf was the main event for me. Good as I knew him to be White just wasn't going to play those parts like Bruford.
John Sullivan (audience) : If I remember right White had just replaced Bruford three weeks earlier, when he walked out of rehearsal with Robbert Fripp of King Crimson. The Eagles opened the show promoting there debut album from which Take it Easy had just gone No.1 on the charts. They also put on a fine show.
Ron Gerber (audience) : Once we were at the venue we were taking in the stage set-up and soundboard. Standing behind the soundboard was a guy who looked incredibly like Eddie Offord. We figured it was just a guy who coincidentally looked like him. On a dare I went over and asked and (sure enough) found myself conversing with Eddie Offord (who, for us at least, was legendary). He confirmed the change in the line-up and and had nothing but great things to say about Alan's playing.
John Sullivan (audience) : I do remember a huge thunder storm towards the end of the concert that sent thosands of fans running in from the rain towards the stage. I remember the panic look on Anderson's face as he tried to settle the crowd down, and Steve Howe strumming a few chords of Take It Easy and singing those lyrics. (The Eagles were opening act). They opened up with Siberian Kahtru which hadn't even been released yet. I had seen Yes the prior year when they opened up for Jethro Tull in June of
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John Sullivan (audience) : If I remember right White had just replaced Bruford three weeks earlier, when he walked out of rehearsal with Robbert Fripp of King Crimson. The Eagles opened the show promoting there debut album from which Take it Easy had just gone No.1 on the charts. They also put on a fine show.
Ron Gerber (audience) : Once we were at the venue we were taking in the stage set-up and soundboard. Standing behind the soundboard was a guy who looked incredibly like Eddie Offord. We figured it was just a guy who coincidentally looked like him. On a dare I went over and asked and (sure enough) found myself conversing with Eddie Offord (who, for us at least, was legendary). He confirmed the change in the line-up and and had nothing but great things to say about Alan's playing.
John Sullivan (audience) : I do remember a huge thunder storm towards the end of the concert that sent thosands of fans running in from the rain towards the stage. I remember the panic look on Anderson's face as he tried to settle the crowd down, and Steve Howe strumming a few chords of Take It Easy and singing those lyrics. (The Eagles were opening act). They opened up with Siberian Kahtru which hadn't even been released yet. I had seen Yes the prior year when they opened up for Jethro Tull in June of