Golden Earring @ Chicago, IL 1984-03-17

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=== THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I RECEIVED IT IN A TRADE ===

GOLDEN EARRING
"Soft & Sensual"
1984-03-17
McGravy's Club, Chicago, ILL, USA

Audience Recording

taper: Unknow

Artwork Included

Tracks:
01. Enough Is Enough  4:32
02. Mission Impossible  9:11
03. When The Lady Smiles  6:25
04. Long Blond Animal  5:42
05. Bass solo  4:27
06. Radar Love  10:05
07. Twilight Zone  8:59
08. The Devil Made Me Do It  7:19
09. Clear Night Moonlight  5:12
Total time: 61:51 min.


George Kooymans - Guitars & Vocals
Barry Hay - Vocals & Guitars
Rinus Gerritsen - Bass
Steve Potts - Drums

Notes:
The unknown Golden Earring drummer
Steve Potts: 'I learned the show on the bus!'

During Golden Earring's tenth US tour, the N.E.W.S. tour from March 5 to the end of May 1984, Cesar Zuiderwijk's mother became seriously ill and he went back to the Netherlands for a week. The band faced the difficult choice of interrupting the tour or finding a replacement for Cesar. They decided for the latter and found a replacement in the person of Steve Potts, a well-known and in-demand studio drummer from Memphis, Tennessee. Stephen Steve Anthony Potts plays as session drummer for the renowned Stax label on at least 150 albums by renowned artists such as Al Green, Tony Joe White, The Judds, Boz Scaggs, Neil Young, and The Blues Brothers. He is also the current drummer for Booker T & The MGs.
After 25 years, Steve still remembers very well how his adventure with the Earring started. "The band's manager called Willie Mitchell, a well-known producer in my hometown of Memphis, and asked if I was interested in doing some gigs with Golden Earring. Willie called me and explained that their drummer had to go back to the Netherlands because his mother was very ill. Of course I said yes! I knew the band from Radar Love and Twilight Zone, both huge hits in the States. They played 38 Special that night (March 11th, 1984; ed.) at the Memphis Coliseum. I drove to the Coliseum and spoke to the band backstage before they played. After the show they asked: You wanna do it? I said: absolutely, yes, lets go! and my wife then dropped me off at the Coliseum to drive the band to the next gig.
They gave me a little time to learn the show and gave me a tape of the Memphis show. I got earphones on the hole time; I learned the show on the bus, while we were riding! That way I got the songs under my belt! Later they also gave me a video of the Twilight Zone and another song." I was out for a little bit with them.
After 25 years, Steve still talks in superlatives about drumming with the Earring: "I did not change very much on the setting of Cesars drumset. I remember he had triggers on his set. The sound on stage was incredible, also because they set the drums on a certain sound. The band was really good and I had a drum solo, did that and I really loved it. Playing with Golden Earring was great. It was actually a lot of fun. I nailed it and came home to Memphis!"
Cesar flew back to the United States after a week and sat behind his drum kit at the Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 20.
Rinus Gerritsen: "Freddy Haayen (the manager of the Earring; red) had arranged a drummer. We expected a blond rock n roll drummer, so to speak, but Steve turned out to be a black soul drummer. He was very good and very nice. During the show in Memphis he sat behind Cesar to get a good look at the drumming.He was still practicing in the dressing room before the performances.Steve also played a drum solo during Radar Love. During that tour through the USA we drove from show to show in a luxurious white Lincoln Town Car. Me at the wheel with George next to it and Barry and Cesar in the back. But before Memphis' trip to the Rockford gig two days later, it was decided that Steve, Barry and George would join the roadies on the tour bus to go over the songs. Freddy and I drove the Town Car six hundred miles over slippery roads to Rockford in the freezing cold. Over the next few days, Steve, Barry, George and I drove to the shows in our Lincoln Town Car. Also to St. Louis, where we got lost in a slum in the city. Three whites and a black man in a luxurious white limo, asking directions in a slum in St. Louis! Steve ducked under the couch and yelled I am not supposed to be here; were gonna get killed!. Fortunately, our St. Louis experience ended well!"
Barry Hay (in the book Haags(ch)e Bluf by Pieter Franssen): "Steve was a very engaging man. He came to see Cesar's last concert. We recorded the show on the walkman and Cesar explained some more tricks to him. The same night we sat with Steve in a converted Greyhound bus. About the installation we played the concert very loud. He has been on headphones for twenty four hours, drumming blindly. The following show I made the announcement: Ladies and gentlemen I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that our drummer can't reach it but the good news is we have the incredible and one and only Steve Potts with us. He really saved us, like a black angel that came down from heaven. That guy drummed like Cesar. Only Radar Love was a tad too fast. I liked that he held up so well and had so much fun with it himself."

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