Oakland

EAGLES
Day On The Green, Oakland Coliseum
June 29, 1975

The Doobie Brothers, Commander Cody, and Kingfish also performed.
Elton John joined the Eagles onstage as a guest.

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During their first encore, surprise guest, Elton John, joined the Eagles for a version of Chuck Berry’s “Oh Carol.”
A week earlier, on June 21st, the Eagles performed at Elton’s Mid-Summer Music Concert at Wembley Stadium in London.

The review below has a nice description of the Eagles’ set:

Elton and Glenn Frey backstage. The woman in the photos is Connie Pappas (later Connie Pappas Hillman), who worked for John Reid Enterprises, who managed Elton. ¹

Neal Preston took a series of photos of the group backstage.
See more photos here: Eagles by Neal Preston – Day On The Green, Oakland, CA, June 29th, 1975

Promoter Bill Graham gave each member of the band a gift for participating in Day On the Green. It was a figure with an eagle head made of iron on a wooden bass with a metal plaque. Randy’s eagle head currently resides with his son, Dana. The inscription on Randy’s plaque reads: “Randy, Cheers and thanks. Bill & the F.M. Family, June 29, 1975.” The “F.M.” refers to FM Productions, a company founded by Graham that mostly handled concert promotions.

_{Photo courtesy of Jennifer Meisner}

1. Meisner family friend and former nanny, Janice Heilbrun, later worked for Connie Pappas Hillman and John Reid at John Reid Enterprises. I hope Connie doesn’t mind if I tell the following story. Last year, she contacted me after seeing my blog post about Elton John’s Mid-Summer Music. In the post, I had mentioned how Janice had been suffering from Parkinson’s Disease the last few years. Connie asked if I would pass along a message to Janice wishing her the best, which I did via Jennifer Meisner. But I couldn’t end my correspondence with Connie without mentioning how much Randy had admired her husband Chris Hillman. I told her that Randy had said in interviews that he was in “awe” of Hillman and thought he was one of the best bass players he’d ever seen. This is what Connie told me in her response: “Chris was very moved when I relayed Randy’s sentiments about him….very, very sweet.” ↩︎