I used to have this on VHS. Almost wore it out I played it so much. This is a great performance of this period of his. Smoother than butter. Smoother than the brandy he's necking backstage that's for sure!
I have been a huge Eric fan most all of my many years on this planet. I saw him many times over the years. I did go and see him back when his band included Marci Levi and Yvonne Elliman. I can tell you that those two girls all but stole the show from Eric that night....they were amazing! I guess being a guitar player myself has made me notice things that others may not. When Eric was playing the solo in the song "Tell the Truth" he made some pretty bad mistakes. I would attribute that to his heavy drinking and drug usage during this period of his life. In fact did you notice he could not even introduce Yvonne properly, slurring his words? If you take this performance and compare it with for example- the live Cream reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall. you should notice a HUGE improvement with Eric. He never misses one note - Not even one, and it was all improvised. Do you even know how hard that is to do? Only someone with Eric's experience can pull that off...Love him and his music.
DAMN GOOD concert! I've been playing the Rockpalast '81 concert for years; although, IMO this is a MUCH better recording of those songs! Long live and God bless the (ORIGINAL and BEST version of) The Outlaws! That would be (IMHO) Hughie, Billy and Freddie! 😁🎸🤘
I’m 20 minutes in and it’s amazing so far! The verse change in “Levitz” from “I don’t think I’m gonna miss you much, For I’ve got knobs and dials soft to the touch” to “I don’t think I’m gonna miss you, bitch, For I’ve got knobs and dials I’d rather switch” caught me off guard and cracked me up so much!! Thanks so much for posting this!! ❤
I was lucky enough to see him in Macon Coliseum, he had broken his foot and he performed great sitting on a stool the whole night,a sad note,after the concert we heard that Lynyrd Skynyrd plane had crash on the radio,great concert but sad ending for the night,thank you EC for all the great music over all these years
It doesn't get any better Bob dylan Eric Clapton writing together and recording with The Band as the sound engineer /back up band. Really a monumental moment in music history. What was produced is called "No reason to cry" circa 1976.
Abe Union pride what a show so happy we can still hear what a powerful performer he was and still is named my son Derek who is know a lawyer his own firm Bernstein law out of St Pete fld
I was lucky enough to be there when they played. Forgot how good they sounded. McCoy Tyners power when live was amazing. I wish I would have seen him play with Pharoah Sanders
73 year old nam vet, had front row seat palace of auburn hills wearing yellow tshirt with "eric your music saved my life and soul" 15:17 🎉 When he came back out for last songs he seen it gave me a nod.
Recorded in 1965 . Our gang of 6th formers dug this while the rest of our school and the UK were immersed in beatlemania. Stan was house pianist at Ronnies for years. Mullins was the top sax man.
Setlist: 01. Aurora (Missing) 02. Times Like These 03. Have It All 04. All My Life 05. My Hero 06. The One 07. For All The Cows (Missing) 08. Generator 09. Stacked Actors 10. Weenie Beenie 11. Low 12. Hey, Johnny Park! 13. Monkey Wrench 14. Learn To Fly 15. Disenchanted Lullaby (Missing) 16. Tired of You (Missing) 17. Everlong (Missing)
I remember how Eric seemed to have lost his way and lost his fire at this time, and how disappointing it was that he never really progressed in his guitar playing after the 60s, but this is actually a great show. He’s singing well, his voice sounds great - Alberta is a terrific vocal performance. And the band sounds great. Guitar playing is not god-like, but it’s on the money. A pretty great performance, overall.
I personally think this period was Clapton's best. This solo is my favourite in this show 53:59. A great album from this period is "EC Was Here". All live with some great blues tracks.
George Terry was from Miami, Fla. Producer Tom Dowd hooked him up with Clapton. Dowd ran Criteria Studios in Miami which was owned by Atlantic Records. Atlantic also leased 461 South Ocean Blvd. for those artists in residence at Criteria. 461 was in Golden Beach, north Miami Beach.The whole Clapton, Elliman, Terry thing came out of Tom Dowd, Criteria and Miami Beach.
