During the summer of 1969 we toured the USA and played at the Newport(Rhode Island) Folk and Blues Festival. Our set was interrupted, to tell the audience that the US Apollo 11 mission to the moon had been successful, and that Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon.
Some of the audience actually booed and cat called - They were upset that the music had been interrupted and wanted it to continue! In a news programme later that evening there was a coast to coast TV show, looking at what was happening around the world at the precise moment that the U.S. had put a man on the moon. There we were, it was very exciting.
On the same day I remember standing back stage with John (Renbourn), hunched together around a corner, listening to a conversation between Big Mama Thornton and Muddy Waters talking "Jive" Neither or us could understand a word they were saying. I couldn't believe I was standing so close to two of my heroes.
In that Same week we were taken out to dinner courtesy of our record company Warner/Reprise - I sat next to Phil Everly, another of my heroes, What a week that was...........
You could speculate that walking on the moon was nothing new to large sections of the audience. In fact some of them were there at the time............ man. (Back)