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Rehearsals for the Eric Clapton's comeback shows at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London, UK, begin at Ronnie Wood's home, The Wick, Richmond Hill, Hampton Court, Surrey.
Full article:
Pete Townshend : I think Ronnie Wood had a fantastic amount to do with it. The whole thing about it was the enthusiasm.
(Source : Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, NME, Feb 24, 1973)
Ronnie Wood : We made him spend ten days at The Wick with us, rehearsing.
[Extract from Ronnie Wood's Autobiography 'Ronnie', McMillian Publishers, 2007. Chapter 8, Rainbow, p104-106]
Glyn Johns (producer) : All we had to do, the rest of us, was just turn up, but Townshend put the rhythm section together. Woody (Ron Wood) offered his house for rehearsal, which I thought was very sweet, and I went along to the rehearsal. I didn't produce, because it's a live album after all, I was just there at the rehearsals, and I don't remember saying very much - what do you say to Eric Clapton? I said I'd do it and remain involved with it as long as Eric proved to be interested, and the minute he didn't turn up, or started pulling any nonsense like being four hours late, I'd be long gone, because I couldn't be bothered with all that, and that was the arrangement.
Pete Townshend : On the day of the first rehearsal we met up with a young guy called Jim Karstein, who was gigging with The Crickets, and he sat in for two days.
Ric Grech arrived and sat in on bass, and then I turned round to both of them and said, "Do you want to do the gig?"
Ric said sure, but Jim Karstein didn't know what was happening. He said: "Hey, what gig? I thought we were jamming." That's how serious the work was! But it was incredibly loose.
(Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, NME, Feb 24, 1973)
Pete Townshend :
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(Source : Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, NME, Feb 24, 1973)
Ronnie Wood : We made him spend ten days at The Wick with us, rehearsing.
[Extract from Ronnie Wood's Autobiography 'Ronnie', McMillian Publishers, 2007. Chapter 8, Rainbow, p104-106]
Glyn Johns (producer) : All we had to do, the rest of us, was just turn up, but Townshend put the rhythm section together. Woody (Ron Wood) offered his house for rehearsal, which I thought was very sweet, and I went along to the rehearsal. I didn't produce, because it's a live album after all, I was just there at the rehearsals, and I don't remember saying very much - what do you say to Eric Clapton? I said I'd do it and remain involved with it as long as Eric proved to be interested, and the minute he didn't turn up, or started pulling any nonsense like being four hours late, I'd be long gone, because I couldn't be bothered with all that, and that was the arrangement.
Pete Townshend : On the day of the first rehearsal we met up with a young guy called Jim Karstein, who was gigging with The Crickets, and he sat in for two days.
Ric Grech arrived and sat in on bass, and then I turned round to both of them and said, "Do you want to do the gig?"
Ric said sure, but Jim Karstein didn't know what was happening. He said: "Hey, what gig? I thought we were jamming." That's how serious the work was! But it was incredibly loose.
(Interview with Charles Shaar Murray, NME, Feb 24, 1973)
Pete Townshend :