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oldschool
Clapton is a legend but his health is starting to fail him so who knows how much longer he will be able to play live.
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I hope to get to see him at least one more time before he stops touring even if he is not on top of his game any longer.
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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
All chapters are told either about EC, or with his point of view in mind. The narrative is always done by actual people,and maybe it is Graham who tells that Bruce and Baker fought every day, often for no reason, and this plus constant touring contributed to their alienation.Quote
Rollin92
Anyone seen this film , is attention given to Jack and Ginger? Arguably the players most crucial in forcing Eric to push boundaries.
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tatters
I watched it yesterday. What I found particularly sad and depressing is that he doesn't seem to even have gotten much enjoyment from his successes. A very well-made film, though I tend to get distracted by the little things. Like there's a scene filmed in a record company office where someone appears to be talking on the phone about how best to promote the new Derek and the Dominos project, and there's a poster on the wall behind him advertising a Bette Midler album that wasn't released until 1973. Stuff like that drives me nuts.
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Ross
Great documentary, but a few things were overlooked. There was no mention of his less-than-stellar appearance at the Bangla Desh concert, the affect of the death of Duane Allman, the Rainbow comeback concert, etc. I think those events were significant touchstones in this mans sad story.
Amazing John Mayall & Cream footage, and the aforementioned Aretha footage was priceless!
Good show overall.
Ross
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Ross
Great documentary, but a few things were overlooked. There was no mention of his less-than-stellar appearance at the Bangla Desh concert, the affect of the death of Duane Allman, the Rainbow comeback concert, etc. I think those events were significant touchstones in this mans sad story.
Amazing John Mayall & Cream footage, and the aforementioned Aretha footage was priceless!
Good show overall.
Ross
"the Rainbow comeback concert", I was really hoping to hear about this maybe from Pete Townshend or Ron wood,Quote
Ross
Great documentary, but a few things were overlooked. There was no mention of his less-than-stellar appearance at the Bangla Desh concert, the affect of the death of Duane Allman, the Rainbow comeback concert, etc. I think those events were significant touchstones in this mans sad story.
Amazing John Mayall & Cream footage, and the aforementioned Aretha footage was priceless!
Good show overall.
Ross
I think that in the overall story, from EC's stand point, that show was not as huge as Ron Wood likes to tell it.Quote
usetobesampeg"the Rainbow comeback concert", I was really hoping to hear about this maybe from Pete Townshend or Ron wood,Quote
Ross
Great documentary, but a few things were overlooked. There was no mention of his less-than-stellar appearance at the Bangla Desh concert, the affect of the death of Duane Allman, the Rainbow comeback concert, etc. I think those events were significant touchstones in this mans sad story.
Amazing John Mayall & Cream footage, and the aforementioned Aretha footage was priceless!
Good show overall.
Ross
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Ross
Great documentary, but a few things were overlooked. There was no mention of his less-than-stellar appearance at the Bangla Desh concert, the affect of the death of Duane Allman, the Rainbow comeback concert, etc. I think those events were significant touchstones in this mans sad story.
Amazing John Mayall & Cream footage, and the aforementioned Aretha footage was priceless!
Good show overall.
Ross
Completely agree.
Also no mention of the role and support given by his two (main) Managers..over a 40 year or so period.
Namely:
Robert Stigwood
Roger Forrester
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Bungo
Yeah it was pretty good even though they glossed over or completely omitted a LOT that I would have liked to have seen something on. I guess they had to make a choice to focus on his life and "problems" over that of a chronological history of his musical career. My perspective comes from living through all of those years as a big fan of music from the 60's and 70's.
My biggest personal criticism is the films subtle inference that Eric was/is the greatest guitarist to ever walk the planet. The truth is he was probably very key to the development of the blues movement in England in the mid 60's with his involvement with the Yardbirds and John Mayall. I think that is undeniable. But after that he was pretty much a mute point. By '67 pop/rock music had evolved light-years beyond the blues movement with the appearance of psychedelia and a multitude of other hybrid musical styles. Even when he formed the worlds first so-called "supergroup" (Cream) the world barely took notice, maybe because they only stayed together for a short time. I think Blind Faith was a great band but they only produced one record. The same with Derek and The Dominoes (with the way over-rated Layla). Hell, even the record company admitted that that record didn't sell well. They blamed it on the name of the band (which is probably true) but there was just too much other great music out there for that record to compete with. After that he relegated himself to making so-so commercial pap.
That being said I will readily admit that Eric is an incredible blues guitarist but he never really moved guitar playing forward the way dozens of other rock guitarists did at that time and afterwards like Jimi Hendrix, John McGlaughin, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Van Halen etc. I think it could even be said that he was an over-achiever in that he took his passion of playing great blues guitar and made a long and successful career of it. I wish him all the best.