70 years old and Eric still sing live with a perfect intonation, great intensity, confidence and wonderful vocal expression. Eric Clapton is an artist unique and a true living legend of the music.
Have to admit that is one of my favorite Clapton song, and he bails this perfectly with his amazing voice and the riffs coming out from his electric guitar. Mind you he is into his 70’s but plays brilliantly. What a legend. Bless him
In my 60 plus years on this earth. I've been to a lot of rock shows. But never had the opportunity to go to a Clapton show. I would love to see this man in person. This is one of my favorite songs ever.
Dont think there is anybody in the Rock n Roll industry with a resume to match this guys...Have had the pleasure of seeing his show 3 times and would see it again in a NY minute i dont care how old he would be...
Great live version from EC my guitar hero since childhood. Kind of a refeshing upbeat change of pace from the hard pentatonic blues grind. He's the only survivor from Cream now. Here's to many more years...
I just heard his 1970 live version from the Filmore East with Derek and the Dominoes and that was just stunning! A 19 minute version and I've never heard him play so fast!
I have this DVD. What I love about this Royal Albert Hall performance it is all Eric! No second guitar player but all Clapton and only Clapton on the guitar.
Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as “Let It Rain” and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died in 2008 as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery. Song writers of today should listen to this.
And its basically a three-chord song! So simple at its root. But today's kids don't want to write a song. They want to write a... sound. The results are usually something that just goes all over the place, like a candy wrapper in the wind.
His lead solo doesn't even sound like the recorded version which is a big disappointment. I've noticed this with Clapton. Its like he can't remember how he played it on the original recording. He might try practicing the original leads first.
I just started to practice a guitar 27 years ago and played this little known cool tune in a band at my university club. My guitar performance was horrible then. But a captain at the club said you had an individual bluesy tone. He was a person who seldom praised others. Still rock me.
Hey folks I have been quiet,but I have been enjoying this album very much.First time I heard it. And it's good stuff When you get a chance,try it. You'll like it !
The rain is falling through the mist of sorrow that surrounded me The sun could never thaw away the bliss that lays around me (Let it rain, let it rain, let your love rain down on me) (Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain, rain, rain) Her life was like a desert flower burning in the sun Until I found the way to love, was harder said than done (Let it rain, let it rain, let your love rain down on me) (Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain, rain, rain) (Now I know the secret, there is nothing that I lack) (If I give my love to you, you'll surely give it back) (Let it rain) let it rain (let it rain) woo-hoo (let your love rain down on me) (Let it rain) let it rain, yeah (let it rain, let it rain, rain, rain) let it rain (Let it rain, let it rain) ooh-hoo-hoo (let your love rain down on me) (Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain, rain, rain) (Rain, rain) (Rain, rain) Rain, rain, rain, rain
@@hankbenson7535 agreed. His performance on "Ramblin' on My Mind", for example, is much stronger and more soulful from the 90's on than it was in the mid 60's with the Bluesbreakers.
I would say from hearing Clapton at different points in his career that around about the time of the early to mid 90's he developed into a more well rounded and technically proficient rock/blues singer with a broader range than when he first started with Cream and Derek and the Dominoes in the mid to late 60's and early 70's. Clapton's tone and timbre are very distinct and instantly recognizable. I have both the Cream reunion show at Royal Albert Hall in 2005 and his tour with Steve Winwood in 2008 on DVD and I think he does some of his best singing and playing in both concerts despite the fact that he is in his early 60's and at a point when many singers have already experienced a significant drop off in vocal range and stamina. Clapton, however, still clearly has both in each performance. I would say that the same holds true for his performance at the Crossroads Festival in 2013 where he sounds very similar, if not identica,l to his shows with Cream and Winwood in the mid and late 2000's respectively. I have listened carefully to this clip and others from his 70th birthday concert at Royal Albert Hall in 2015. The only significant differences I have noticed in this show, as compared to the others I have cited, is that while most if not all of his range remains in tact, his style of singing seems a little more jazz influenced at points, his delivery a little slower, and his voice sounds a little thinner and quivers a little at different points during his performance. He also seems to deviate a bit from his standard interpretation of songs by singing certain lines lower and less forcefully than in previous live renderings of them. Some of this may be attributable to age, his recent revelations of being diagnosed with tinnitus and having experienced some significant hearing loss, or simply exercising a singer's prerogative and taking a bit of poetic license with his own music. I would have to hear more of his recent performances to determine if it is one or the other or a combination of more than one of the things I have noted. At any rate, all things considered, he still holds up rather well when compared to many if not most of his contemporaries and remains a vitally important force in and influence on rock and blues music as he arguably has been for more than 50 years.
Yeah a bit like people who profess to be Christians and lecture others about it ad nauseum but take their time to make negative comments about others on videos like this. There's just no need really is there?
I don't know the names of the ladies doing the backing vocals but... Paul Carrack on Organ Steve Gadd on Drums Nathan East on Bass Chris Stainton on Keyboard and The god himself.
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