Eric Clapton and his music

Eric Clapton - Best Of The Early Years
Due for release on 10/04/2006

1. Baby What's Wrong
2. Boom Boom
3. Honey In Your Hips
4. Talkin' About You
5. I Wish You Would
6. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
7. Got To Hurry
8. I Ain't Got You
9. Putty (In Your Hands)
10. For Your Love
11. Too Much Monkey Business
12. Let It Rock
13. Five Long Years
14. Louise
15. Take It Easy Baby - Clapton, Eric & The Yardbirds/Sonny Boy Williamson II
16. Draggin' My Tail - Clapton, Eric & The Immediate All-Stars
17. Snake Drive - Clapton, Eric & The Immediate All-Stars
18. West Coast Idea - Clapton, Eric & The Immediate All-Stars
19. Choker - Clapton, Eric & The Immediate All-Stars
20. Freight Loader - Clapton, Eric & The Immediate All-Stars
21. Miles Road - Clapton, Eric & The Immediate All-Stars
22. I'm Your Witch Doctor - Clapton, Eric & John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
23. Telephone Blues - Clapton, Eric & John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

2Primal Scream:
Они ЭТО уже в 83497673 раз издают...
Вот релиз 1987 года...

И еще столько же раз издадут!

BB King is widely regarded as the greatest living blues guitarist. Many contemporary rockers credit him as a formidable inspiration - from Mick Jagger to Eric Clapton to Bono. But the 80-year-old musician has a different perspective on his ability. "I don't think it's true," he says with a shrug. "Kids tease me. They start to bow. I'm not trying to stop them. I think I'm a pretty good musician. I don't think I'm the best, that's all."

When I point out that he's often hailed as the second most gifted guitarist of all time, after Jimi Hendrix, he shakes his head. "Well that's very nice, but I would put Eric Clapton and a few others ahead of me. Eric is the number one rock and roll guitarist and he also plays the blues better than a lot of us. And I can tell you this, I consider him as a great friend, he's a wonderful man, what we call in Mississippi 'free-hearted'."

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http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article354366.ece

За Эрика! За чудо света!

...первое чудо света!
Эх! Долгих лет и отличных песен!

Я даже нафигачил несколько капель рома за здравие Эрика!

А я - молока! :)))

Legendary blues star BB KING has hailed rocker ERIC CLAPTON as the best guitarist in the world - despite himself being regarded by many as number one. The Mississippi-born musician is humbled by the adulation he has received from SIR MICK JAGGER and U2 star BONO, but claims Clapton's talents far outweigh his. The 80-year-old says, "I don't think it's true. Kids tease me. They start to bow. "I'm not trying to stop them. I think I'm a pretty good musician. I don't think I'm the best that's all. "It's very nice (to be called the best) but I would put Eric Clapton and a few others ahead of me. Eric is the number one rock and roll guitarist and he also plays the blues better than a lot of us. "And I can tell you this, I consider him a great friend, he's a wonderful man, what we call in Mississippi 'free-hearted'."

2SergeK:

>А я - молока! :)))

А маккартниевская "old lady" пить молоко не советует

2Primal Scream:
Маккартни нам не указ!

...а еще!

I keep drinking malted milk.... И оно дает по мозгам....

Another date added to Eric Clapton's European Tour schedule:

11 July 2006 - Moon and Stars Festival, Piazza Grande Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland

Eric will play in Locarno (Ticino, Switzerland) on 11 July 2006 during the "Moon and Stars Festival 2006". It's a small town in Switzerland, but the concerts take place on the beautiful and quite famous "Piazza Grande", where there is every year an important Film Festival. Tickets will be soon available on www.ticketcorner.ch (99 Swiss Francs).

Here is the whole programm of the Moon and Stars Festival 2006:
10 July 2006 - Depeche Mode
11 July 2006 - Eric Clapton, Robert Cray
12 July 2006 - Eros Ramazzotti
13 July 2006 - Bryan Adams
14 July 2006 - The Who
15 July 2006 - Ben Harper
16 July 2006 - Roger Waters

For many guitar fans, March 30, 1945, deserves recognition as an international holiday – the birth of Eric Patrick Clapton. The son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton, and a 24-year-old Canadian soldier, Edward Walter Fryer, his childhood was probably little different from that of hundreds of other “war babies.” His mother and father were unmarried (his father returned to Canada before Eric was born), and given the social values of the time, it would have been incredibly difficult for Pat to raise Eric on her own. Instead, her parents, Rose and Jack Clapp, stepped in and raised Eric as their own. Eric was nine before he learned that his “big sister” was actually his mother, a revelation that devastated him.

It’s not surprising that Eric became interested in music. His grandmother played piano, and his uncle was a fan of the big-band music of the era. His mother told Clapton’s official biographer (Ray Coleman) that Fryer was also a gifted musician, playing piano with several dance bands. Clapton’s teachers also noted that he had an aptitude for art.

In the late 1950’s, rock and roll was exploding as a new music genre, and Clapton wasn’t immune to its appeal, asking for a guitar for his 13th birthday. Within a few years, Eric would be expelled from the Kingston College of Art because he hadn’t submitted enough work – listening to the blues and playing the guitar occupied far too much of his time. The “electric blues” sound of greats like B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy captured his interest, and he asked for his grandparents’ help to buy an electric guitar in 1962.

By 1963, Clapton has joined his first band, The Roosters, then moved on to Casey Jones and The Engineers. Music may have been a preoccupation and an obsession by then, but it wasn’t a full-time endeavor. Clapton supported himself as a laborer at building sites, working alongside his grandfather, who was a master bricklayer.

Even part-time, Eric was becoming one of the most talked about guitar players on the local pub circuit, and in October 1963, Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith recruited him as a member of The Yardbirds. Clapton spent 18 months with the band, recording two albums and gaining the nickname “Slowhand” But The Yardbirds began moving towards a more commercial sound with “For Your Love”, and Eric left the band.

Clapton joined the Bluesbreakers in April 1965. The group’s almost purist focus on American-style blues suited his musical interests perfectly, but the mix of personalities was volatile. Eric left the band to tour Greece, rejoining on his return. In July 1966, he left Bluesbreakers for good, and teamed up with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker to form Cream. Cream was together only two years, but those years cemented Clapton’s reputation as rock’s finest guitarist, and elevated him to the status of superstar.

After the break-up of Cream, Clapton founded Blind Faith with Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Rick Grech. Their American tour was a disaster, and the group disbanded after only one album. Clapton toured briefly as a sideman with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and issued his self-titled solo debut in 1970. In the summer of that year, Eric formed Derek and the Dominos. Seen now as another “classic” band, they recorded only one album, and then drifted apart after their American tour.

Since the mid-70’s, Clapton has continued to grow musically, releasing a number of solo albums. He also has frequently shared his talents with other artists, contributing to numerous albums over the decades. He can be heard with The Beatles (he added guitar to “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”), Aretha Franklin, Steven Stills, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Sting, Roger Waters, and more. He also has turned his hand to movie scores.

Clapton has not only been prolific, but has received a great deal of critical acclaim over the years. He has either won or shared in 18 Grammy Awards, and holds distinction as the only triple inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream as well as a solo artist).

Like many of the music greats of the era, Clapton struggled with – and eventually overcame – a heroin habit in the 1970s. Unfortunately, he replaced his addition to heroin with an addiction to alcohol, and both his personal life and his work suffered because of it. In 1982, he entered the Hazelden Foundation, a rehabilitation center. He relapsed but was able to get back on track, and has been clean and sober since 1987. He has been committed to working with others who suffer from addictions, and in February 1998, he announced the opening of Crossroads Centre, a rehabilitation facility on the island of Antigua. One of its missions is to provide subsidized care for the poorest people of the Caribbean, who cannot afford such care on their own, and Clapton has frequently headed fundraisers to support the foundation providing for that care.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4736.asp

Талантливый гитарист, средний мелодист. Припечатал.

Eric Clapton Sales is an eBay Store where all proceeds from items sold benefit the Crossroads Centre at Antigua. Everything sold in the online store is genuine Eric Clapton merchandise.

Visitors to Eric Clapton Sales on eBay can purchase unique collectibles like the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival Display; a full-size cardboard replica of the Crash 3 Fender Stratocaster guitar which symbolized the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival. Other exclusive items include collectible backstage passes (unused from previous tours), tour programmes, catalogs from the 2004 guitar auction, a variety of T-shirts, caps, and more! The available items change periodically.

2006-04-03 16:51:47
Eric Clapton will make history once again this summer. On August 3, Slowhand will perform in Moscow’s Red Square for the first time, following in the footsteps of such artists as Paul McCartney, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti. As previously reported, Clapton will be joined on tour this summer by Derek Trucks, who will juggle guitar duties in three separate bands in the coming months. Trucks first hooked up with Clapton through Clapton guitarist Doyle Bramhall II. After Bramhall worked with Trucks’ wife, singer Susan Tedeschi, the axe-man recommended the Allman Brothers guitarist to Clapton.

“It is one of those opportunities that you don’t turn down and you don’t really ever expect to get. It should be quite a year,” Trucks told Relix/Jambands.com writer Rob Turner last month. “It sounds like a good time, some amazing touring. I get to go to a lot of places in the world that I’ve never been. Getting to play with him is gonna be quite an education. He’s seen and done it all.”

Trucks and Clapton recently recorded a series of studio sessions with J.J. Cale, who penned Clapton’s hits “After Midnight” and “Cocaine.” In addition to Trucks and Bramhall, Clapton’s touring band will include keyboardist Chris Stainton and Tim Carmon, bassist Willie Weeks, drummer Steve Jordan, the Kick Horns and backing vocalists Michelle John and Sharon White.

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ЧТО НАС ЖДЕТ!!!

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The producers of the forthcoming Eric Clapton video anthology are still looking for your rare home video and photographs of Eric. The anthology will span his entire career. The producers are particularly interested in video and images from his time with The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Blues Breakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos and anything from the 1970s.

If you have photos, film, video, super 8 or other visual media prior to 1980, please contact the producers at their new email address: ec_anthology@yahoo.com.

Regrettably, the former email address used for this project was problematic. They encourage anyone who previously contacted them with material prior to 1980 without a reply to please do so again at this new email address (ec_anthology@yahoo.com)

You will be credited and compensated if your material is used.