There are several excellent non-commercial concert recordings held by serious collectors of Blind Faith's music. Over the years, these recordings, often referred to as "bootlegged recordings" because of unauthorized efforts to capture musician's artistry and to resell at a profit, have become highly desired artifacts of the rock & roll music collector's scene. During recent years, Blind Faith concert performance recordings have been ressurrected from dusty shelves and basement vaults, and several have actually been marketed and sold for handsome prices on the international collectors market through the internet. Alas, some of those are hashed together from several performances, of varied quality, even including Morgan Rehearsal tracks to fill out the length of a cassette or disc.

Below is a comprehensive listing of the known non-commercial recordings of Blind Faith's concert performances in Europe and North America. Within this listing you will find playlist and audio playback quality notes. This information may be beneficial to you in your quest to learn more about this intriguing topic; this rather rare and valued music captured many years ago on portable reel tape recorders by audience amateurs and enterprising bootleggers who attended the meager Blind Faith concert tour dates during the summer of 1969.

Currently known Blind Faith concert performance recordings
Blind Faith at Hyde Park, London, UK. 7 June 1969.
Blind Faith at Konserthallen/Liseberg, Nöjespark/Göteborg, Sweden. 18 June 1969.
Blind Faith at Madison Square Garden, NYC, USA. 12 July 1969.
Blind Faith at the Midwest Rock Festival, West Allis, WI, USA. 26 July 1969.
Blind Faith at the International Ampitheater, Chicago, IL, USA. 27 July 1969.
Blind Faith at Alameda Coliseum, Oakland, CA USA. 14 August 1969.
Blind Faith at the Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles, CA, USA. 15 August 1969.
Blind Faith at the Santa Barbara County Fairgrounds, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. 16 August 1969.
Blind Faith at the San Antonio Fairgrounds, San Antonio, TX, USA. 20 August 1969.

The selected non-commercial recordings below are the cream of the crop, most valued and finest quality reproductions of Blind Faith's performances. These particular five bootlegg recordings are rare audience recordings, pleasantly good audio quality, and suprisingly complete (except for a bit of choppy amateurish recording techniques that cause breaks in the continuous recording of the performances). Each recording has variations that are held by collectors, some with preliminary tuneups, others with announcements and verbal warnings to audiences to behave non-violently before the performances commenced. All classic glimpses into the Blind Faith era and the summer of 1969 when progressive rock music prevailed.

If you have curiosities or questions, Well All Right folks, just email me and we'll see what we can do!!!
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Blind Faith at Hyde Park, London, UK. 7 June 1969.

Audio source - Audience, reel audio tape, very good quality.

Best known availability to collectors - Analog audio tape signal coverted to digital audio tape & compact disc recordable. Complete performance, including instrumental tuneups and introduction of Blind Faith to audience.

Performance Time - 60:54 minutes. Performance Playlist - Well All Right; Sea Of Joy; Sleeping In The Ground; Under My Thumb; Can't Find My Way Home;
Do What You Like; In The Presence Of The Lord; Means To An End; Had To Cry Today.

45th Anniversary is coming ~ Listen to the BF Hyde Park Free Concert on netcast radio
A single boot broadcast performance will be aired on 7 June 2014, beginning at 3pm CDST USA. Details forthcoming..... Keep The Faith!!!

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Blind Faith at Konserthallen/Liseberg, Nöjespark/Göteborg, Sweden. 18 June 1969.

Audio source - Audience, reel audio tape, very good quality.

Best known availability to collectors - Analog tape signal converted to digital audio tape & compact disc recordable. Complete performance, including instrumental tuneups and introduction of Blind Faith to audience.

Performance Time - 77:00 minutes. Performance Playlist - Well All Right; Sea Of Joy; Sleeping In The Ground; Under My Thumb; Can't Find My Way Home;
Do What You Like; In The Presence Of The Lord; Means To An End; Had To Cry Today.

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Blind Faith at Madison Square Garden, NYC, USA. 12 July 1969.

Audio source - Audience, reel audio tape, good quality.

Best known availability to collectors - Analog tape signal coverted to digital audio tape & compact disc recordable. Complete show, including instrumental tuneups, introduction of Blind Faith to audience, and "the MSG incident" interlude before the encore performance.

Performance Time - 62:06. Performance Playlist - Had To Cry Today; Can't Find My Way Home; Sleeping In The Ground; Well All Right;
In The Presence Of The Lord; Sea Of Joy; Do What You Like; Means To An End.

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Blind Faith at the Midwest Rock & Roll Festival in West Allis, Wisconsin USA. 26 July 1969.

Audio source - Audience, reel audio tape, very good quality.

Rediscovered in 1999, now availability to collectors - Analog tape signal coverted to digital audio tape & compact disc recordable. Incomplete performance, missing Sea Of Joy and Means To An End. Sizzling guitar performance on Sleeping In The Ground. Encore performance of Sunshine Of Your Love with Delaney & Bonnie on vocals.

Performance Time - 60:00. Performance Playlist - Had To Cry Today; Can't Find My Way Home; Sleeping In The Ground; Well All Right;
In The Presence Of The Lord; Sea Of Joy; Do What You Like; Sunshine Of Your Love.

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Blind Faith at the Chicago Ampitheater in Chicago, Illinois USA. 27 July 1969.

Audio source - Audience, reel audio tape, good quality.

Lesser known availability to collectors - Analog tape signal coverted to digital audio tape & compact disc recordable. Incomplete show, including instrumental tuneups, introduction of Blind Faith to audience. Appareently missing Sleeping In The Ground, possibly Means To An End, and encore performance of Sunshine Of Your Love.

Performance Time - 46:16. Performance Playlist - Had To Cry Today; Can't Find My Way Home; Well All Right; In The Presence Of The Lord;
Sea Of Joy; Crossroads; Do What You Like.

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Coming soon - Tasty information on Blind Faith at West Allis, Wisconsin. In the future we will also add snippets
about the Detroit, Oakland, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Antonio performances!

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Updated 31 July 2013
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