Cool rock n roll photos

[Michedelic]

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Clapton’s mother? Not exactly…his actual mother was 16 when he was born, having become pregnant by a Canadian soldier who left the UK as WW II was ramping down. As there was societal shame about such a situation, Clapton’s grandparents raised him under the ruse that they were his parents, his birth mother his sister. She ran off when he was a small child; eventually he was told the truth, and there was a continuing estrangement between he and her.
That woman pictured was the wife of a member of British Parliament; as a publicity stunt, The Yardbirds were brought in to play an impromptu set at his estate, for them and their teenage daughter…
The day The Yardbirds gatecrashed a Lord's house and took on the British establishment

 

[FunkHead]

Clapton’s mother? Not exactly…his actual mother was 16 when he was born, having become pregnant by a Canadian soldier who left the UK as WW II was ramping down. As there was societal shame about such a situation, Clapton’s grandparents raised him under the ruse that they were his parents, his birth mother his sister. She ran off when he was a small child; eventually he was told the truth, and there was a continuing estrangement between he and her.
That woman pictured was the wife of a member of British Parliament; as a publicity stunt, The Yardbirds were brought in to play an impromptu set at his estate, for them and their teenage daughter…
The day The Yardbirds gatecrashed a Lord's house and took on the British establishment

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Was that Bill Hader on bass?

 

[GregC]

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

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[roccobass]

George Porter, Jr and the Runnin’ Pardners.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Clapton’s mother? Not exactly…his actual mother was 16 when he was born, having become pregnant by a Canadian soldier who left the UK as WW II was ramping down. As there was societal shame about such a situation, Clapton’s grandparents raised him under the ruse that they were his parents, his birth mother his sister. She ran off when he was a small child; eventually he was told the truth, and there was a continuing estrangement between he and her.
That woman pictured was the wife of a member of British Parliament; as a publicity stunt, The Yardbirds were brought in to play an impromptu set at his estate, for them and their teenage daughter…
The day The Yardbirds gatecrashed a Lord's house and took on the British establishment

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Ok, great to know…I just pilfered the pic from somewhere else.

 

[Michedelic]

Eric Clapton and his grandmother, circa 1970…

She and her second husband, a man with the last name of Clapp, ironically, raised him.

He did finally reconcile with his birth mother in later years…

 

[Holdsg]

They look remarkably similar.

 

[Bass V]

Cliff Gallop on the Gretsch with Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps

 

[GregC]

Thundercat.

 

[Geogio]

Happy Birthday - 20 FEB 1950...

Walter Becker of Steely Dan

With Floyd Rose, always with a Floyd Rose. He dug the percise intonation.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

 

[Richland123]

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Jefferson Airplane Drummer Joey Covington (real name Joseph Michno) was from my hometown, Johnstown, PA.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

 

[roccobass]

Steve Marriott and friend.

 

[tangentmusic]

Frampton

 

[DaDo625]

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I recently saw an add someplace- “looking to put together a Yoko Ono cover band”
The comments were priceless….

 

[roccobass]

Bad Company

 

[GregC]

Brittany Howard and Nate Smith.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Jefferson Airplane Drummer Joey Covington (real name Joseph Michno) was from my hometown, Johnstown, PA.

Cool town. I visited the flood museum way back when visiting ex-inlaws up the hill in Westmont. I enjoyed the town, but not the inlaws.