Day on the Green Eagles concert – Aug. 3, 1976

This Day on the Green Eagles concert at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, CA included a total of four bands:

• Renaissance
• Loggins & Messina
• Linda Ronstadt
• Eagles

This was Day on the Green #6 for 1976, and it started out in the afternoon with Renaissance. By the time the Eagles took the stage it was evening, and this was the first time a Day on the Green performance was after dark. There’s a great photo below of Linda Ronstadt backstage with the show times of the bands written on the chalkboard.

Bill Graham was the promoter for Day on the Green, and the Eagles also performed in 1975 and 1977. This was one of the last shows on the One of These Nights tour. Less than a week later the Eagles were at the Mile High Stadium in Denver, which was their last show of the tour.

Day on the Green Eagles concert

Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Don Felder
David Dalton, photographer

Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, and Don Felder

Kenny Edwards (Stone Ponys) and Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt and Kenny Edwards (Stone Ponys)

Linda Ronstadt backstage at Day on the Green

Linda Ronstadt
Ira Resnick, photographer

Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Don Felder
Richard McCaffrey, photographer

Day on the Green Schedule for 1976

Wikipedia

Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA) – July 9, 1976

“Following the completion of this tour, Loggins and Messina will disband after eight albums together.”

San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) – July 17, 1976

San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA) – Aug. 1, 1976

“The first twi-night ‘Day on the Green’ rock show at the Oakland Coliseum stadium was a winner.”

“The addition, recently, of Joe Walsh to the Eagles front line, which now boasts three first-rate guitarists plus bassist Randy Meisner (of the lovely voice) makes it a group of apparently unlimited potential.”

San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, CA) – Aug. 4, 1976

“Bassist Randy Meisner hit his near-inhuman falsetto note at the close of ‘Take It to the Limit’ with apparent ease.”

“A real, live golden eagle was brought on to assist producer Bill Graham in introducing the headline act.”

(Photos of eagle that was on stage with Bill Graham are below.)

San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) – Aug. 5, 1976

“Opening the show was a farewell appearance by Loggins and Messina offering a chronology of the light-hearted music that made them famous.”

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) – Aug. 6, 1976

“The Eagles were preceded on stage by a real eagle borrowed from Marine World.”

“Loggins and Messina were not quite up to par for their part of the show, although they were still very good. The instability of the group could be felt during their farewell performance.
Adding to the high emotions was the adjustments in the band to compensate for the missing guitar playing of Kenny Loggins who had seriously injured his hand recently while whittling.”

(Photos of eagle borrowed from Marine World are below.)

The Argus (Fremont, CA) – Aug. 13, 1976
This article incorrectly states that Joe Walsh replaced Don Felder and that Bernie Leadon is in the band’s line-up. Joe replaced Bernie Leadon after Bernie left in late 1975.

Joe Walsh, Bill Graham, Glenn Frey, and Irving Azoff

Joe Walsh, Bill Graham, Glenn Frey, and Irving Azoff

“After Ronstadt saluted the Eagles by encoring with their ‘Desperado,’ and a short intermission, the crowd erupted as the headliner act appeared wearing matching warmup jackets emblazened with a large ‘E,’ with recently hatched Eagle Joe Walsh standing far stage left.”

Billboard – Aug. 21, 1976