Amph [The Worst] Eric Clapton

you guys have been going back and fourth for 13 days and 17 posts now. Let the damn thread die and Private Chat.

 

Go private chat yourself.

 

New Cream show up at Wolfgangs. No idea if it's been widely bootlegged before, probably has. Anyway...

Also a Jimi Hendrix Experience show added today.

 

Here's the clip from "Rolling Hotel" where he talks about Hendrix.

Yes, Master-Fett, I'll post in this thread and you'll damn well like it!

 

Hey, Guy. Nice Journeyman era clip of Clapton & Robert Cray doing Old Love together...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBilW9cPfDA

 

There's was this one awesome clip of him playing "Pretending" on Saturday Night Live, but it was taken down and nobody put it back up.

Here's an obscure Journeyman track "Anything for Your Love" being performed live. I think it's actually a lot better than the studio version,

 

That's great, there's not a bad track on Journeyman - a great return to form after the 80s pop on August & Behind the Sun & Money & Cigarettes.

Here's another Journeyman track, rarely performed (from the same show as the Cray duet earlier by the looks);

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-LvbDIEuQ

 

Early 90's fashion FTW.

 

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Also, another Ray Charles cover!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BEFNcSKVytg

 

WOW! I remember when this originally broadcast when I was a kid. It was on real late one Sunday night. I remember I had school the next day, and I had to tape it. Got up early to watch it over and over before school. Damn nice find!

 

I love this dancefloor remix of Sunshine of your Love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x4ZjJ4cei4

And also this "How Many Times" that samples Clapton's guitar & vocals. He even appears in the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOVm0RruSog

 

Not remixes!

 

First extract from Clapton's autobiography. It reads a hell of a lot better than Patti's...

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2557616.ece

 

Going by what he wrote in the front of the concert book I have, he sure as hell didn't write the autobiography alone.

That man is awesome.

 

Yeah, ghostwritten, and a lot of people to help fill in the blanks.

What did he write in the book you have?

 

Just some stuff talking about the '06-'07 tour.

 

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003650004

Good selection, the full Clapton/ Winwood set too if memory serves me corectly.

 

From the NY Times;

Unlike some of his peers, though, Mr. Clapton has long
been known as extremely private and press-shy. He said
that he had thought about writing his memoirs for a
long time, though always at the prompting of others.

He first attempted the conventional process for a
celebrity memoir, with the use of a ghostwriter:
Christopher Sykes, a longtime friend. But Mr. Clapton
was unhappy with this version. ?It looked very
defensive, judgmental, full of self-justification,? he
said. ?It just looked dreadful.?

Charlie Conrad, Mr. Clapton?s editor, acknowledged
that the early drafts were ?a bit breathless.? He
said, however, that even at that stage, ?we were fully
satisfied; we were actually surprised at how frank and
forthcoming it was, but he felt it wasn?t truly him.?

So in the midst of a worldwide tour last winter, Mr.
Clapton ? who, in the book, describes himself as both
lazy and a perfectionist ? took over the writing
himself. He put himself on a disciplined schedule,
working in ?self-imposed exile? in his hotel room
every morning and afternoon.

?I found that I couldn?t wait to pick up the thread
each time,? he said. ?I really enjoyed doing it; it
was really fun to learn how to put a sentence and a
paragraph together.?

What is most striking about the result is the author?s
distinctly measured tone, which never becomes
hysterical or sentimental, even when writing about
painful, dramatic or unflattering situations. (?I
considered all of my previous irrational behavior to
have been reasonably excusable,? he writes, fairly
late in the story, ?because it had been conducted with
consenting adults.?) In at least one case, though, his
voice was a cause for concern from his editors.

 

That's really interesting. So I wonder why the ghostwriter is still credited on the excerpt...

 

Either contractually, or he did have some hand in cleaning up what Clapton had written I guess.

 

Do you have the rest of the article? The last sentence seems like it's supposed to continue.

EDIT: Nevermind, found the rest.

 

Yeah, talking about detachment in his writing when discussing the death of Conner.

 

Thumbed through the Autobiography at a record store today. Looked pretty good from what I read. Will probably buy it next week.

 

I found the SNL performances of "No Alibis" and "Pretending". I think they're very good, especially for a notoriously-bad venue like Saturday Night Live.

I don't recognize the host, but she seems excited.

 

Awesome find Guy, I haven't seen those in years!