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jlowe
Interesting, the Wheres Eric website has mentioned ongoing work on an Anthology film type project for a number of years by film maker Larry Yellon.
This may be the same, not sure.
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stone4ever
I love Eric like i love Keith, but he really needs to call it a day now.
Seen him twice recently and he is just too old and too tired to give a great performance. I'd like to remember the great man like this.
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5.10 in. best soulful solo ever
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stone4ever
I love Eric like i love Keith, but he really needs to call it a day now.
Seen him twice recently and he is just too old and too tired to give a great performance. I'd like to remember the great man like this.
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
5.10 in. best soulful solo ever
[www.youtube.com]
Well its weird. Cause as you linked, he was still pretty damn good with Winwood and that wasn't that long ago. Hitting 70 though I think it is time to hang it up. Since the 90s he's always been borderline boring, and I mean that nicely, which has only become more evident as he ages. Still a beast when he wants to be.
That trailer looks awesome. It is amazing how much he's done. And then how much he went through. Overcoming drugs, overcoming alcohol, then your son dies?! Its insane and its miraculous he's come out rather normal after all that and all these years of music. He's kinda the only one that survived it all. Sure Keith and the Stones have too, but Clapton was at that same level as a Jimi Hendrix and has managed to stick around. Truly up there with the legends of that time, unquestionably.
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stone4ever
The one time Eric gets to blow Ronnie off the stage, and boy does he deliver.
Nothing boring about this performance. Man can you imagine what the Stones would have sounded like if they chose Eric to replace Taylor instead of Ronnie.
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stone4ever
The one time Eric gets to blow Ronnie off the stage, and boy does he deliver.
Nothing boring about this performance. Man can you imagine what the Stones would have sounded like if they chose Eric to replace Taylor instead of Ronnie.
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stone4ever
The one time Eric gets to blow Ronnie off the stage, and boy does he deliver.
Nothing boring about this performance. Man can you imagine what the Stones would have sounded like if they chose Eric to replace Taylor instead of Ronnie.
[www.youtube.com]
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stonehearted
There's a couple posters above who think that Eric Clapton should just "hang it up" and retire, but they just don't understand.
In the 1990s, I was working alongside WWII veterans, just working class folk who didn't want to stop working. They could have. They had their houses, their pensions, their Social Security... but they didn't have their activity. So they kept on working.
It was light but steady manual labor, but they just had to do it.
One of them was born in 1918, but he took his cue from the old farmers who had lived to a ripe old age: "Just keep movin', that's all."
He kept working until age 78, until major heart surgery forced him to stop. Another of these guys wouldn't stop until diabetes made him go blind.
Have you ever seen a working class laborer stop working when they're finally forced to? They'll be used to waking up at an early pre-dawn hour, they'll have coffee and read the newspaper, then by 7 a.m. they're ready for their first beer.
Well, that's the thing also with the working class and rock and roll. Eric Clapton could have retired in 1971, with all those royalties earned since, and been living as comfortably as now and forever on, so why doesn't he?
Do you think he does it just for the applause?
Only sedentary, middle class office workers "retire".
Better learn to appreciate the dogged determination these English Post-War working class musicians give to their craft, even now, because when they're gone, we'll never see the likes of them again, and fan message boards dedicated to middle class generation X and Y bands will just be virtual ghost towns, with their album every five years mentality.
Oh, and by the way, Eric Clapton in later years is suffering from a serious nervous disease, "peripheral neuropathy": [www.washingtonpost.com]
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35love
I am looking forward to seeing this on Showtime Network
looked for a date, none I could find as of yet.
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35love
I am looking forward to seeing this on Showtime Network
looked for a date, none I could find as of yet.
Saturday night Feb 10