Following @Fatima-Xberg’s terrific thread I wanted to add my own experience before the post disappeared into the ether:

16th June 1974, Guildford Civic Hall.

I wish I could find who the support act was as I assume it was them I went to see.

This was Silverhead’s first, (and last,) headline tour and their record company, Purple Records, had splashed a few quid on posters and interviews in the music-press. Lead singer, (and legend in his own lunchbox,) Michael Des Barres had given an interview to the NME where he had bad-mouthed anyone and everyone, taking pot-shots at many of my favourite bands. I took agin him, big time.

Let’s just say, the hype was on.

I remember going back into the hall from the bar, post support act, and wondering where everyone was. I swear there were less people in their seats than had been earlier.

We’d been called back in from the bar by the ten-minute and then the five-minute bells. Yet, fifteen minutes later, the lights were still up. There was no music playing over the p.a so we sat there in a mumbled silence. After twenty minutes, someone started a slow handclap. » Continue Reading.