Elmer Gantry

Everything went down apart from the PA system.

And I just scattered and made stuff up for about 10 minutes and got the audience involved and then clapping and stamping and right into it.

And when the sound came back on again, there was this eruption of applause.

You know, you get that kind of feel when it's all going well.

You know you've got the audience.

It's not so much you've got them as they're with you.

And Joe Walsh said, I don't know who you are, man.

He said, but you're a great band.

And we're about to do the sound check and we find the wires have all been ripped out the back of the AC-30.

We were saying to Cliff, we want this to stop.

We want to go home.

We've had enough.

and we just wanted out.

It was humiliating.

The TV, the papers, it's just getting worse, you know, and it's all very well soldiering through and going down to sort of 500 people or 1,000 people in a gig, but that doesn't compare to thousands of newspapers out there and the thousands of people that are being reached by snide comments on the TV.

You know, we were not going to win that one.

It felt like a victory that we managed to persuade Cliff to organize the flights for us to come home.

When we get back to England, they were suing all of us, including Cliff, Kirby, myself, everybody involved.

They were suing all of us, including Cliff, Kirby, myself, everybody involved.

was just clearly bollocks and the judge wasn't buying it.