Central Park, NYC 7 septembre 1974

The concert was in Central PArk as part of the Shaefer Beer Music Festival. Rory preceded the headliner, Aerosmith. In 1974, they sold beer in bottles to the crowd. Rory was really rocking it out in "bullfrog blues' when a man in a suit walked up and whispered in his ear. He told us this would be his last song and preceeded to repeat the song 3 full times. The crowd went crazy but no encore was allowed. As roadies were removing his equipment, people started to throw empty Shaefer beer bottles onto the stage. After a few starts and stops of the roadies and many announcements, Aerosmith took the stage. Their first song "long train runnin'" was interupted when a broken bottle was thrown and cut the drummer's arm. He stopped the song, told us what happened, threw his sticks into the crowd and proceeded to pound out a bare handed drum solo dedicated to the bottle tosser whom he called "F*cko". Rumor has it that this solo was performed at all their shows for a few years.

I was also at this concert. Rory was amazing, and I remember the crowd going ballistic when Rory left the stage. Aeosmith got the crap booed out of them when they hit the stage.