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Just one of the band: George with Eric Clapton and Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. “Oh God, George let his hair down more than I ever saw before or since,” Bramlett laughed. This, then, was not the perma-meditating, self-denying George that some people might have inferred from his more mystical associations. “There I was, running up the street, naked as a jaybird,” he said. That night, when Bramlett got up from his seat in the dressing room to make his way to the tour bus, George grabbed the seat of his new velvet trousers and tore them off. At the Liverpool Empire, he stepped out of the shadows and told the crowd, “This brings back a lot of memories.” Backstage, Bramlett told me, “there was beer flying everywhere”. These were the first live shows George had played since The Beatles stopped touring in August 1966. He just said, ‘I’m going on tour – I don’t know how long we’ll be gone.’” “I knocked on the door,” said Bramlett, “and he said, ‘I got a couple of things and I’ll be ready to go.’ I didn’t think Pattie liked that – George going off with a bunch of hillbillies. The tourbus duly made its way to George’s home in Esher, Surrey. “I said, ‘Could you be in the band? Of course you can.’ He said, ‘Could you pick me up tomorrow morning?’” “George met me backstage and said, ‘Could I be in the band too?’” Delaney Bramlett told me many years later. For George, the fun had started on December 5, 1969, when the tour called at the Royal Albert Hall.