March 11, 1973. De Doelen, Rotterdam

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The exctiement started much earlier. Lowell Sun (USA) January 26, 1973 : 'Scotland Yard, not exactly England's most trendy institution, is showing an interest in rock music - because an overwhelming number of tickets countefellers are showing an interest in David Cassidy (..) Despite the fact that tickets  to the tour concerts set for March 17 and 18 at Wembley are available only through mail application, kids who can't resist the bargain, or who want to avoid the long trip to Manchester to buy tickets in the box office, are falling pray to tickets countefellers..'

DC arrived in Germany at the beginning of March 1973. He attended the Radio Luxembourg Golden Lion Award in Dortmund, played a concert in Hamburg, was in Paris ( for a tv show), played a concert in Antwerp (Belgium) , but the next two gigs in Germany  were cancelled because of poor ticket sales. DC : 'Not that I worried much about that with the screams ringing in my ears every night and my roadies having no trouble pulling chicks for me.' (David Cassidy:Could It Be Forever?, 2007)

On March 11th David arrived at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. He had his own 99-passenger Caravelle jet..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVWaFo7n5w&t=153s

In the evening David Cassidy played one of his best concerts in the 70s. De Doelen, Rotterdam.

De Doelen is a concert venue and convention center. DC ( I think so ) performed at the Grote Zaal (Grand Hall) a 2.200 seat concert hall..And what a concert it was! 

There is an audio of it, containing the last 9 songs ( there were 12, we have a set list). DC, his backing girls, his band, they were truly amazing. He sang 4 TPF's songs, the rest were his solo hits (including Two Time Loser), and a great rock, exciting version of 'Im a Man' (with DC's solo drums) and Eric Clapton's 'Blues Power'. The concert closed with 'Rock Me Baby'

Girls were screaming and David was in great form. But the concert proved to be dangerous and not only because of fans. Double-checking of one of the microphones just at the last moment saved his life, the voltage was high enough to have killed him instantly..

http://www.davidcassidy.com/fansite/ConcertPages/1973March11_Audio.html

Those concerts and screaming fans on the Continent were just a kind of prelude of what was waiting for David Cassidy in England..


F.Eveleens,CCBY3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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