Amph [The Worst] Eric Clapton

Amazon in the U.K. and U.S. will sell a digital version with the bonus track "Midnight Hour Blues."

// Rage //

 

ESPN.com is streaming the entire album through the 29th.



Not including the bajillion bonus tracks.

EDIT: This would have made a better album cover.

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Cool - I'm liking most of what I'm hearing. And I also like the existing cover - a nice nod back to Journeyman.

 

4/5 stars

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment-reviews/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502967&objectid=10675837

There should be an expanded version of that on Elsewhere soon.

 

I'm (obviously) not one of those Cream era-only fans who thinks that he should break out a '60 Les Paul and crank it up to 11, but I wouldn't have minded at least one epic guitar solo, which he is still quite capable of. That's part of the reason I wanted "Here But I'm Gone"; that produced some good playing from him live.

 

Maybe he shreds on one of the bonus tracks? Is 'Watch yourself' the same song as recorded for 24 Nights?

 

I imagine that at least a couple of the bonus tracks contain guitar solos, yeah. They're blues standards, after all.

 

There has been a delay in the manufacturing of the limited edition, so I got a "free" download of the album.


Jokes on them because my copy already shipped!

 

byebyespammer

 

Crap, here we go again...

http://www.whereseric.com/eric-clapton-news/303-crossroads-guitar-festival-2010-best-buy-exclusive-edition-dvd-blu-ray-30-minu

 

haha

 

If the Best Buy blu-ray is about the same price as Amazon, I might as well get it.



AFAIK, Amazon doesn't have its own exclusive version... please no...

 

Did you get 'Clapton' undelayed in the end?

 

It was a couple days late.

 

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"Traveling Alone"

"When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful"

 

They played the whole album when I was in Barnes & Noble a week or two ago. It took me a few minutes to figure out who it was. Not really someone I'd connect with a New Orleans sound.

 

Ooh, nice. I'll have to find the Jools Holland whole show. "See Kings of Leon, that's how a white boy does it"

And no strats!

 

A blogger on FB just posted this (wonderful) clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtnZq5_3-5A

1969 - sure sounds like Clapton, not Harrison on that "stinging guitar".

 

Yeah, that's him, unless George was really feeling like copying his friend that day.

 

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/gibson-to-reproduce-eric-claptons-legendary-beano-les-paul-293481

Well, I suppose it's better than that Hendrix strat.

 

Since the actual guitar is long gone (making a Blackie-level of detailed reproduction out of the question), they must just be reproducing the 1960 Les Paul, and surely they've done that before.


EDIT: Okay, without the nickel covers on the pickups, but still.

 

I read that as legendary banjo. I wouldn't put it past Gibson to release a Clapton sig banjo.

 

I want a Clapton Signature stick bass.

 

Get a Vanishing Elephant Clapton Cardigan:
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