That's the exact lineup I saw on the Journeyman tour in 1990. That Ray Cooper twit wasn't here banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee as he was sick. The band is better without him, I reckon.
EC on Larry King live tonight. click Damn, I wish I had cable. Guess I'll have to read the transcript.
I'm watching it right now. Favorite part from the book so far: The Beatles, Cream, and the Monkees dropping acid and listening to Sgt. Pepper's. EDIT: I keep forgetting how mediocre an interviewer King is.
Cute clip from '77. Clapton drunk, but not wasted. Laid back as all hell. This is the period where EC gave George Terry most of the lead guitar duties. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72oq1jqejhA I quite like 'Country Clapton' - Tulsa Time, Further On Up The Road, Promises, Black Summer Rain etc. And here's another Journeyman era rarity - Breaking Point live; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8H2XSEKTEY
Win a Clapton Strat; http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/eric_clapton/news/10412 o celebrate the release of 'Complete Clapton' on October 8 -- a 2-disc career retrospective from the man universally known as Slowhand -- Uncut.co.uk and Polydor Records have joined forces to run an exclusive competition to win a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar! All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning this exclusive prize is to simply upload a video to YouTube of yourself or your friends performing to a clip of an Eric Clapton classic track such as 'Sunshine Of Your Love', 'Layla' or 'Wonderful Tonight'. Just choose any track from 'Complete Clapton' and get creative! We're looking for anything from an air-guitar mime, simple acoustic guitar rendition, karaoke sessions with all your friends or full-band reinterpretations of any great song, the more entertaining the better! These videos should be uploaded to this specially-created YouTube Group with the winning entry being selected on October 22. TO ENTER CLICK HERE: www.youtube.com/group/completeclaptoncomp This is gonna be tragic - looks like there's only 3 entries - 2 by the same guy! And they're all ****.
Despite the dubious moral characters of the men in her life, it seems that Boyd wasn't so upstanding herself.
Winwood doesn't impress me. "Higher Love" is the worst song ever, and he also butchered the vocals on "Hey Joe" a few years ago at Jimi's induction into the UK Music Hall of Fame.
He's a great vocalist, no doubt. Higher Love - well, it was the mid-80s, and that album did bring us "Back In the High Life" which was, I think, one of the greatest covered songs of all time when Warren Zevon recorded it for Life'll Kill Ya.
Yeah, I've always said that pretty much everybody sucked in the 80s. Even formerly great bands and artists cheesed out when the 80s rolled around. Clapton, Chicago, Bob Dylan, and ZZ Top just to name a few.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vNxf9fivJJ8 I've always liked this song. I remember when my friends and I first got into Clapton, this was the only live video we were able to get hold of. Many moons before DVD, youtube, etc. Great version of Five Long Years.
So, I'm here at work listening to "One More Car, One More Rider", and I've forgotten what a damn good bassist Nathan East is! Great bass line for "Change the World" [image=http://www.tonebone.com/images/artist-NathatEast-370w.jpg]
Nathan was out here touring with jazz greats Joe Sample & Randy Crawford a few months back. I think EC's country songs are way underrated. Hello Old Friend Here's Don Williams, the original author, singing Tulsa Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBxAWGHwy0 And a boozed up 1970s Clapton version. And then again 30 years later at this year's Crossroads Festival. Pretty cool, even if Sheryl makes nonsense of the first line by saying Arizona twice.
Just One Night was my first Clapton CD, my 2nd CD ever and was my first musical epiphany. I was 16 at the time. I think the zenith of that album are Early In The Morning and Double Trouble. It was those two tracks that started me on my exploration of The Blues. I got, I think, the 4CD Crossroads set next after Just One Night and was bitterly disappointed in the studio version of a number of the tracks on Just One Night than had no balls in their studio versions (Tulsa Time, Blues Power, Further On Up The Road in particular)
