Joe Plays in Surrey on NYE as part of Totally Abandoned

[sodascouts]

Got this in a Yahoo alert:

http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=3778

Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joe Walsh, Pete Townshend Are Totally Abandoned
by Paul Cashmere - January 5 2008

Here's an excerpt:

"A band calling themselves Totally Abandoned, featuring Pete Townshend of The Who, Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Ringo Starr of The Beatles and Eric Clapton, boss of Heaven, performed [...] to a small VIP crowd at a secret charity gig in Surrey. The set is said to have been one long jam session. London's Independent newspaper reports that the band played a lot of "old classics" but did not name them."

[Maleah]

Wow!! How amazing would it have been to be there? What a group!

[Freypower]

Joe and Pete Townsend? Interesting. I find Townsend so pompous and humourless. He would have had to lighten up somewhat to play with Joe and Ringo (and yes, I do know he had Keith Moon to put up with all those years).

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Thanks for posting that, Soda. Wow - that's some band. I would love to get my hands on that setlist.

[sodascouts]

Your wish has been granted, dreamer!

http://www.undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=3781

Knock on Wood
Reconsider Baby
Judge A Book
Sea Cruise
Gin House
Rockin Robin
Rocky Mountain Way
Boys
Honey Don't
Old Black Joe
Auld Lang Syne
In The Midnight Hour
Hoochie Coochie Man
Lucille
Blueberry Hill
We Shall Not Be Moved
Goodnight Irene
Three Steps to Heaven
Cocaine
Shake Rattle n Roll
White Shade of Pale
Little Queenie

[sodascouts]

Theo posted this link on the EOC blog - it's a video someone did in honor of "Totally Abandoned":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvAOXcRazMI

[tbs fanatic]

WOW! I wish I had been there. It sounds like it is an annual event although maybe not with so many famous names as this year. How cool.

[Freypower]

Sea Cruise. Good grief.

A Whiter Shade Of Pale would have been awesome. I wonder who sang it? If you think about it Joe doesn't sound that different from Gary Brooker. How cool.

Edit: I have just read Undercover's story and Gary Brooker was in fact in the band, so he would have sung Whiter Shade Of Pale.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Thanks for that setlist, Soda. That must have been a REALLY good show!

[JoeFan]

That's quite a show, every time I read of Joe or the Eagles performing in England I wish terribly that I could have gone, but this not only has Joe but people like Townshend, amazing.