Robin Trower
I always liked Robin’s work with Procol Harum, who I was a huge fan of. His first solo album, ‘Twice Removed From Yesterday’ came out while I was in college, and became very popular very quickly.
After I moved to San Francisco, I went to a show at Winterland, which I believe had Golden Earring opening, then Robin Trower, then Sha-Na-Na headlining. An unfortunate billing for Sha-Na-Na. Trower was touring ‘Bridge of Sighs’, and this was his first time in SF.
To cut a long story short, the crowd went berserk - they called him out for THREE encores, and they would have happily had him play all the rest of the night. Sha-Na-Na played to a rather small crowd.
So Trower was King of San Francisco for awhile and played a number of headlining shows. These pictures were taken at a ‘Day On The Green’ which were mini-festivals put on at Oakland Stadium by Bill Graham. This was a ‘Monsters of Rock’ or a ‘British Rock’ theme, I forget which. Trower didn’t headline that day - usually more metal types of bands headlined, but he could have….
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Day on the Green, Oakland Stadium, 08/03/75
