Eric Clapton performing "Everyday"

So who's this Eric guy then?

Sounds pretty reasonable for an old fellow..... :wink:

Thanks for posting that Taso, that was outstanding. I just love that style of music. :) Couldn't help feeling slightly sorry for the harmonica player. The video frequently cut to shots of him puffing his heart out, but I couldn't hear a single note of his in the mix... :( Maybe I just need to listen more carefully.

This is going to get played here a lot over the next few days. What's it off? Is it a DVD or whatever that's still available?

Cheers - with a big envious grin. :mrgreen:

Chris

lol, I never noticed that we can't hear the Harmonica. He takes a very nice solo earlier in the night - this is from the Live at Hyde Park (1997?) DVD, looks like it was an AWESOME concert. Maybe I'll work on getting all the songs from the concert up on youtube over the next few days. I also cut the audio out and made it into .mp3 so I could put it on a CD.

He does a bunch of blues songs during the concert, as well as an AMAZING "Badge" and "I shot the Sheriff"

London, Saturday June 29, 1996 :wink:
Produced in 1997

I don't know if you agree but it could be the best concert DVD by Eric Clapton... I wrote some thoughts this week in another thread about which guitar do you prefer and how do you change your opinion. When I watch this concert, I always think my guitar will be a black Strat.

And Taso, I agree, Andy is a great player, rhythmic and also lead, and his solo here is great. Unfortunately he is not playing with Eric lately but there are great moments in other concert DVD's (for example, Unplugged). He has a new solo recording which I'm looking for... and he is also playing with Roger Waters. He also has a great work in "In the flesh" DVD. (BTW, Doyle Bramhall II, currently gigging with Clapton, also plays in that concert.)

I saw Eric in 2006, and to be honest, even though Andy is a great player, the new line up Eric has is probably one of the best I'll ever see, with Derek Trucks and Doyle.

Hey Taso, is Derek Trucks playing with Clapton? Derek Trucks from Derek Trucks Band? I remember you recommended them in other thread. I still looking for some Derek Truck Band gear here, sometimes it isn't easy.

Doyle Bramhall II is a great player. It is curious, he is lefty and plays a Strat with a lefty body (buttons in the bottom) but with a right neck. He puts the chords like a non-lefty. Very strange. When I saw "In the flesh" I didn't understand what is he doing. I remember a friend also played in this way.

Thanks for the pointer taso. Thats a great video and a great song.

You know a lot of people over here put Eric down as a player, saying he doesn't have his own style and that he pinched all his licks from his predecessors such as BB and Freddie king and such like. Also that he isn't as fluid in his playing as he could be and that he hasn't developed as a player should.
Quite where they get such clap-trap I don't know.
I have only been lucky enough to see him once and that was also in 2006 on his last European tour.
As for watching his DVDs and any youtube video's I should think I've seen pretty well most of them. "Live in Hyde Park" is one of my favorite one's ! Eric plays with style, feeling and tone to die for. His solo's are melodic, tuneful and sometimes as fast as lightning.
Eric has never sung his own praises and even names Buddy Guy as being the greatest living blues guitarist
Quite where Eric got the nickname "Slowhand" I don't know "God" I can understand :wink:
If the pundits that run him down could play half as good as him I would listen to their point of view.

Thanks again Taso

From a fellow Claponite,

Rod

Slowhand... it is a funny story:

http://www.whereseric.com/ecfaq/biography-ecs-life-career/slowhand-nickname.html

Hi again,

Thanks for all the info about the performance. I checked the local store out this morning, and ... whoopee... they had one in stock. So now they're out of stock again, but I have a very pleasant afternoon ahead watching the DVD.... :D I never realised quite how many tempting DVDs they had there, so I came out with a Dylan one as well. Not sure that the wallet can stand this sort of assault on a regular basis but it's all educational..... right???... :wink:

Cheers,

Chris

Very cool Chris. Actually, with all the HD stuff I have in the apartment now, it's tempting to go out and buy the DVD for myself :P

Ran across this one the other day. I've heard countless Clapton recordings, official and bootlegs, and this one quickly climbed very close to the top of my favorites. Knocked me out. Quite simply some of the best playing I've heard from him ever. Would have loved to have been there that night. He was on. Check it out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_LCWuu8913U

Hi again,

... I never realised quite how many tempting DVDs ... Not sure that the wallet can stand this sort of assault on a regular basis but it's all educational..... right???... :wink:

Too many tempting ones! Time to up the household contents insurance policy.

Ran across this one the other day. I've heard countless Clapton recordings, official and bootlegs, and this one quickly climbed very close to the top of my favorites. Knocked me out. Quite simply some of the best playing I've heard from him ever. Would have loved to have been there that night. He was on. Check it out.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_LCWuu8913U
Damn, that is incredible, he is the man. I wish there was a better recording of it though. Thanks for sharing that.