Eric Clapton and his music

GRAMMY 1999

Обнаружена запись Австралийского Тура 1984 года...и это здорово!

И что интересно, SHAUN MURPHY (бэк-вокал) в нескольких песнях подыгрывает на гитаре... :)))

1)Правда ли, что Эрик играл джем с Пасториусом (то, что называется B-minor jam)? А когда и где это произошло?
2)Есть фоточка Эрика с Ронни Лейном? Спасибо:)

2Евгений Глухов:
1)Правда ли, что Эрик играл джем с Пасториусом (то, что называется B-minor jam)? А когда и где это произошло?
B-minor jam был записан во время сессии 461 OCEAN BOULEVARD.
Ни единого упоминания из уст Клэптона о Пасториусе не встречал. Естественно, что он не упомянут и в COMPLETE RECORDING. Не думаю, что они встречались.

>2)Есть фоточка Эрика с Ронни Лейном?
Есть, но не отсканированные...

In the week of his 60th birthday (30 March) Eric Clapton joins Johnnie Walker (born the same day) for his first full length radio interview in a number of years. To be transmitted in 2 parts, Eric recalls his 40 plus years in the music business beginning with the Yardbirds and Cream before progressing to international stardom as a solo performer.

Eric also talks openly about his personal battles with drug and alcohol addiction and gives a remarkable insight to his music and his philosophy of music making.

Featured music includes Got to Hurry (Yardbirds), Telephone Blues (John Mayall's Bluesbreakers), Spoonful (Cream), Layla (Derek & the Dominos), Wonderful Tonight, Forever Man, Bad Love & Tears in Heaven.

!!!Интервью можно послушать в течении недели...!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/ericclapton.shtml

Inside The Music Series - Cream DVD

INSIDE CREAM 1966-1969 THE ULTIMATE CRITICAL REVIEW

In January 2005, the amazing news came through that Cream would be reforming for five concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.

Naturally All tickets sold out instantly. This is the ultimate critical review of Cream, on record, on film, and live on stage.

Drawing on rare film and television archive material this independent and highly authoritative review revisits every single Cream album and critically reassesses the work of this legendary band from the glorious debut album right through to the demise of the band.

A leading team of music critics, musicologists and working musicians considers vintage performances by Cream and traces the secrets of the band’s success. This hard hitting powerful film makes no concessions to labels, artists or management and pulls no punches when it comes to deciding what made the music work and, sometimes, why it didn’t.

Featured tracks include:

Sunshine of Your love

Politician
White Room
I Feel Free
Tales of Brave Ulysses
and many more.

To ensure editorial control, the film is totally unauthorized and has not been approved by Cream, nor has it been authorised or approved by past or present management of the band.

http://www.classicrockproductionsonline.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CRP1823

2Primal Scream:
Будем искать...(с)

Интересная фраза из интервью 1999 года...

P: Certainly. The last guitar, that went to the auction table, was a
Stratocaster, the one affectionately called "Brownie" by fans around the
world.

EC: "Brownie " was an old '56 Stratocaster, that I bought eleven years
later, because I was not quite satisfied with the weak/bad sound of my
Gibson SG.

Clapton's guitar 'genius' legacy
By Stephen Dowling
BBC News

Blues guitarist and singer Eric Clapton is celebrating his 60th birthday on Wednesday, alongside a forthcoming reunion with his old band Cream.

Long before Eric Clapton embarked on a solo career, he was already a genuine rock 'n' roll icon.

In the late 1960s, as his career with proto-supergroup Cream was in full flight, graffiti in New York and London screamed: "Clapton is God!"

His intricate guitar style became the bedrock of several bands in the late 1960s and early 70s - including John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, Cream and the supergroup Blind Faith.

But while Clapton became a huge star in the late 1960s, his rise to fame did not run smooth, his career peaking and slumping as he jumped from band to band.

'Revered'

As he Clapton reaches his 60th birthday, a revival of his music is long overdue, argues music writer Terry Staunton.

"He's probably as revered as Sir Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney or John Lennon now," says Mr Staunton.

"He has quietly ploughed his own furrow. He hasn't really changed that much, either. The album he released recently, Songs for Robert J, is really not very far removed from the stuff he was doing with the Yardbirds in 1965."

Born in Ripley, Surrey, in 1945, the illegitimate son of a Canadian soldier, Clapton was brought up by his maternal grandparents.

He taught himself guitar after being given an instrument at the age of 14 by his grandfather, copying note-for-note the style of great blues guitarists.

He established his reputation during 18 months with the Yardbirds, at the age of 18, earning the moniker "Slowhand" - before honing his blues skills with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers where he earned a second nickname: "God".

Cream, the group he formed with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, propelled Clapton to global recognition, selling more than 35 million copies of their three albums.

Hits included classics such as Sunshine of Your Love, but the group dissolved in acrimony after little more than two years together in 1969.

Similarly Clapton's next band, Blind Faith, a blues rock supergroup he formed with Traffic's Stevie Winwood, Cream's Baker and Rick Greche, lasted less than six months - May to November 1969.

After a 24-date US tour which spawned a live album but also band arguments, they broke apart.

Reggae pioneer

Clapton then formed Derek and The Dominos, with members of the folk group who had supported Blind Faith on tour.

It was while leading them that he penned Layla, a song inspired by a love triangle between himself, former Beatle George Harrison and Harrison's then-wife, Patti Boyd.

He later married Boyd in March 1979, divorcing in 1988.

In the 1970s, Mr Staunton says, it was Clapton who brought an international audience to Bob Marley by covering the reggae star's I Shot the Sheriff - and also invented the genre "white reggae".

"Though bands like The Police and The Clash might not liked to have admitted it, they were taking their lead from Eric Clapton," he says.

But for all his success, Clapton's life has not been without its traumas.

He has had to deal with drug and alcohol problems, and the death of his four-year-old son Connor, a death which inspired his mournful 1992 song Tears In Heaven.

But, says HMV record chain spokesman Gennaro Castaldo: "Clapton for the most part seems to have lead a fairly exemplary life, and he seems to have avoided many of the controversies iconic rock stars get into.

"I think because Eric is still around, we kind of take him for granted. To be able to celebrate him and shout out about what he's achieved is a really wonderful thing.

"And remember - Jimi Hendrix might not be as iconic if he was still alive today."

Clapton has won plaudits for his guitar-playing, but because he was always honest about its blue roots "he's not attributed with innovation", according to Mr Castaldo.

Drug support

"But Clapton has created wonderful entertaining music for the last four decades, " he says.

Mr Staunton says Clapton's career has been largely scandal-free - save the affair that sparked Layla.

In 1974 Clapton's comments to a Birmingham audience that he supported Conservative MP Enoch Powell's views on immigration - loudly criticised in the music press - meant he did not play in the city for a decade, adds Mr Staunton.

When Clapton played his next show, he made a point of playing with a mostly black backing band.

And, says Mr Staunton, Clapton's experiences as a heroin addict lead him to create the Crossroads Centre, a rehab unit in Antigua which opened in 1993.

Clapton has spent a lot of his own money to keep it running, including auctioning the guitar with which he recorded Layla.

After helping organise the benefit concert to raise money for the Boxing Day tsunami, and receiving a CBE from the Queen, it is arguably Clapton's time for reappraisal.

Certainly, he has shown his 60th year will involve at least one highlight - the first reunion of Cream for gigs at London's Royal Albert Hall in May.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4322309.stm

2SergeK:

>Интересная фраза из интервью 1999 года...
>P: Certainly. The last guitar, that went to the
>auction table, was a
>Stratocaster, the one affectionately called "Brownie"
>by fans around the
>world.
>EC: "Brownie " was an old '56 Stratocaster, that
>I bought eleven years
>later, because I was not quite satisfied with
>the weak/bad sound of my
>Gibson SG.
Припоминается, что в каком-то древнем Guitar Player-е было написано, шо этот гибсОн, расписаный по стилю, кажется, Максом, причинял массу неудобств Эрику по причине невысыхающей картинки. Грят, до сих пор к рукам и к одежде липнет :)

2john lee hooker:
Видимо, секрет этой "волшебной" краски -утерян...

А вот эта не красилась, а он её все равно продал...

Ну и за компанию...Майал, Клэптон, Брюс...

...Сам я не курю....

This time I won't forget what song I'm playing
(Filed: 29/03/2005)

Eric Clapton, celebrating his 60th birthday, is tuning up for the first Cream concert in 36 years with Jack and Ginger - but no drugs. Hugh Davies reports

Eric Clapton has told his fans that they will notice something different about him when he returns to the stage with Cream for the first time in 36 years: he won't forget what he is playing halfway through a solo.


Eric Clapton: ‘I can't slow down’
Rock's first supergroup sold 35 million records with a new form of "heavy" music that fused hard rock, blues and jazz. But the guitarist's performances were often blurred by his consumption of drugs and drink.

Clapton said: "We'd be in the middle of a song and not remember what it was. You just kept playing until you recalled what it was you were coming back to."

Even now, he said, it was "difficult to remember if there were any lucid periods. I don't think there were. I think it was wall-to-wall, bang-at-it stuff."

Clapton, long free of an addiction to alcohol, cocaine and heroin, spoke for the first time since agreeing to reform Cream with the bassist Jack Bruce, now 61, and drummer Ginger Baker, 65.

They will return for four nights in May to the Royal Albert Hall in London, where the trio last performed in November 1968.

Tickets for the reunion concerts sold out within minutes, and are being resold by touts for as much as £1,995 for a £125 seat.

Clapton, who is 60 tomorrow, told Radio 2 that he was surprised to be approaching such a significant birthday. "I didn't think I'd make it," he said. "I don't feel like I'm 60. I can't slow down. I say yes to whatever is interesting." He said forming Cream had been difficult from the start.

"Here was I struggling with the idea that I could control people like Jack or Ginger and have them subservient to me. It was an absolute farce. I didn't have the power to hold them down - and that's what happened, even in our first rehearsals.

"On our first gig at Reading Jazz Festival, we ran out of rehearsed material after the first hour and just jammed. Everyone thought that was the right bit. There were headlines about us being the first supergroup, with our extended solos.

"It was a licence to print money. We could do anything - and get away with it. It was actually a huge temptation.

"We had the time of lives, for as long as we could stand it. We had a six-month whistle-stop tour of America, playing every night of the week. It really got entrenched.

"Some of the nights that I played with the band have never been equalled, because to really get to that level, you have to play together every night with nothing else to distract you. I have really never equalled that.

"But at the same time, it is so punishing, you really can't do it for long. You have to take a break."

The reunion plans were prompted by Cream's induction into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 1993, when they came together and played White Room, Crossroads and Sunshine of Your Love.

Clapton said: "They wanted us to play, so we went into rehearsals. The place was full of technicians. I saw them climbing the walls; the power was so extraordinary. Who knew it was going to be so strong after 25 years?"

A decade on, Clapton decided that "the time was right" to give himself a "birthday present".

"We are doing only four nights, and I think we have to accept that that's probably it. I've got a world tour to do, and we're not young guys any more." However, he left the door open for more, saying the group "may have another discussion" after the concerts about whether they want to play extra dates.

Clapton has already written a set list for the new performances. "It will be like a set in the 60s. We'll probably do Strange Brew, I Feel Free and Wrapping Paper [their first UK release, which reached No 6 in the charts].

"Then there will be the stuff that was interesting, Sitting On Top of The World, I'm So Glad, Spoonful, with those long extended things.

"There is nothing quite like the power of a live band."

Вот сейчас где-то кипит работа... Торт готовят, свечки считают....... Думают, что подарить - девочки, марихуана и виски отпали, сидят, небось, головы ломают. :))Что тут ломать - подарите ему билет в Россию. Мы здесь его повеселим, концерты повспоминаем. И пусть ритм-секцию захватит - мастер-класс волшебный получился бы!

Имеет смысл поздравить ЭРИКА с 60-ти летием...

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