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Neal Preston is simply the best!

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I saw Peter Frampton at the Capitol Centre (Largo Maryland) in '77 (my first concert) and I have told the story to my kids, who are big Star Wars fans, of him inviting a "guest" on stage, and it was R2D2, and the crowd going nuts. To date I had found no evidence on the internet that it actually happened, and I was beginning to doubt my memory (I was 12 at the time). Thanks to a Facebook page about The Bayou (a legendary club in DC), and a post about the man who owned the lighting rig there in the 70s, I now have proof. I don't know the full story, but it seems he knew the Frampton crew, and was also a bit of a character, building robots and such. Best I can tell he built his own R2D2, and he and the Frampton crew played a prank on Peter at Madison Square Garden, where R2D2 brought out a guitar for Peter. Frampton enjoyed the gag so much, "R2" came on the road with him until a cease and desist order from Lucasfilm was received in the mail.

This pic is from MSG, 1977.

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JMacBass65 said:
I saw Peter Frampton at the Capitol Centre (Largo Maryland) in '77 (my first concert) and I have told the story to my kids, who are big Star Wars fans, of him inviting a "guest" on stage, and it was R2D2, and the crowd going nuts. To date I had found no evidence on the internet that it actually happened, and I was beginning to doubt my memory (I was 12 at the time). Thanks to a Facebook page about The Bayou (a legendary club in DC), and a post about the man who owned the lighting rig there in the 70s, I now have proof. I don't know the full story, but it seems he knew the Frampton crew, and was also a bit of a character, building robots and such. Best I can tell he built his own R2D2, and he and the Frampton crew played a prank on Peter at Madison Square Garden, where R2D2 brought out a guitar for Peter. Frampton enjoyed the gag so much, "R2" came on the road with him until a cease and desist order from Lucasfilm was received in the mail.

This pic is from MSG, 1977.

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Brilliant! I love it.
 
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JMacBass65 said:
I saw Peter Frampton at the Capitol Centre (Largo Maryland) in '77 (my first concert) and I have told the story to my kids, who are big Star Wars fans, of him inviting a "guest" on stage, and it was R2D2, and the crowd going nuts. To date I had found no evidence on the internet that it actually happened, and I was beginning to doubt my memory (I was 12 at the time). Thanks to a Facebook page about The Bayou (a legendary club in DC), and a post about the man who owned the lighting rig there in the 70s, I now have proof. I don't know the full story, but it seems he knew the Frampton crew, and was also a bit of a character, building robots and such. Best I can tell he built his own R2D2, and he and the Frampton crew played a prank on Peter at Madison Square Garden, where R2D2 brought out a guitar for Peter. Frampton enjoyed the gag so much, "R2" came on the road with him until a cease and desist order from Lucasfilm was received in the mail.

This pic is from MSG, 1977.

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A short time after John Lennon's passing, I saw ELO (supporting their "Time" album) in St. Louis. There is a mechanized voice in the introduction of the title song, and an R2-D2 unit on stage 'provided' it. Whoever was operating the robot made a miscalculation and it tumbled onto the monitor platform. Cool & humorous. ;) Jeff Lynne and crew performed a couple of songs in tribute to John, one being "Across the Universe".
 
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I’ve seen that picture before!! :woot:

I wanna have a BIG, framed copy of it on our music room wall...:)

Allow me? to offer a picture of our grand daughter, who has been raised to respect and support Buskers...

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...a beautiful Spring day on our way to take the Viking Cruise (AARRRRRGG!!!), on the streets of Dublin.

(...ranks as (IMHO) one of the 3 or 4 best shots I’ve taken in my life...’course, I might be a li’l partisan...);)
 
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