slowhand Digest Volume 01 : Issue 290
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Re: George Harrison + Eric Clapton + Japan
Fw: re Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad
Leave Slowhand for John Fogerty, LMAO
Boots
Boots
George Harrison / Clapton
Harrison Recorded A Secret Last Album
London Sunday Times reports last Harrison album with EC on it
EC on new George Harrison album?
Re: George Harrison + Eric Clapton + Japan
New George Harrison CD to be releases
A Very Incredible Guitar Player
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From: "Pat Toth"
Subject: Re: George Harrison + Eric Clapton + Japan
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My bet is this, as far as the tribute for dear George.
I bet Eric gets out of auto-pilot and plays......................drum roll
...................Badge.............................
Thats it. ;)
Pat
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From: greg delaney
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: George Harrison + Eric Clapton + Japan
> HI Slowhanders
> its intersting to note with the passing of a icon
> would anybody know if there was a tribute by EC for
> George.
>
> Also does anybody know if Clapton will be broadcast
> on Japanese t.v.like he was last time.
> if so anybody taping it?????
>
> Greg
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From: "DeltaNick"
Subject: Fw: re Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad
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>>> was truly dismayed when I learned (only very recently at that), that it
was Duane that fired up "Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad" <<<
>> no! it's Clapton. he repeated it later too as a guest on a cover version
by
Buckwheat Zydeco <<
Nope, it's Duane Allman on "LAOALS," but Clapton shows up about halfway
through Duane's solo and adds his 2 cents. And it's quite an inspiring 2
cents.
However, it is Clapton on the Buckwheat Zydeco track.
DeltaNick
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From: Keith Bode
Subject: Leave Slowhand for John Fogerty, LMAO
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Now I have to stand up and be proud to say, I too am a huge Fogerty
fan. When Blue Moon Swamp came out, I bought it the first day it went
on sale, mainly because I was going to buy it anyway, but I had tickets
to see John that Friday night at the HOB, Hollyweird. I bought the
tickets not knowing if John had somethng new he was working with, or if
he was going to be a weak ass image of the man who wrote all the hits he
did. BTW, during the days of CCR, they sold more records, including
singles, than any band of their time, more than the Beatles, more than
the Stones, more than Clapton in all his bands. I learned that in the
most important class i took in my college career, "The History of R+R".
Anyway........
John Fogerty came out of the woodwork with Blue Moon Swamp. His show at
the House of Blues was one of the best shows I've ever seen. John
hadn't toured in god knows how long, and IMO, some of the songs on Blue
Moon Swamp were the best songs of Johns career. But, John has never
been prolific in the last 30 years, his releases are about as infrequent
as a Cubs World Series, well not that rare.....
John is a good guitarist, a very good guitarist. But he doesn't quite
make it into Guitar God category, as does Clapton and a few others.
I would never put Fogerty in Clapton's class. John is pure R+R. That's
all he plays. Clapton plays a few other styles also, as many have
noticed. The highest praise I ever heard for Clapton was from one of my
personal guitar gods, Jerry Garcia. In the late 60's Garcia said
"Clapton is the best Guitarist in R+R". Now that is praise coming from
a pretty heavy hitter. I don't think Jerry would say that about John,
although the 2 did play together a few times.
Anyway, I think in my life I am fortunate enough to be able to enjoy all
of the above named musicians, artists or whatever category you choose
for them. I don't think I would exclude any for the other exclusively.
For a person who almost never listens to the radio, I do have to say
that "Walkin' in a Hurricane" is the best song I have heard on the radio
as a new release, since Clapton's "From the Cradle". IMO, I don't see
how the same man who put out such a great interpretive of American
Electric Blues as "From the Cradle" could put his name on such comercial
lame crap as "Reptile" and "Pilgrim". Just my opinion, no need to start
a 3rd world civil war over this.
Keith
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From: "Joseph A. Vargas"
Subject: George Harrison / Clapton
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Fellow Slowhanders,
Has anybody heard any comments yet from Eric regarding George ? Many times I
have heard them called best friends. I love George's humor in referring to
he and Eric as husbands-in-law.
Well, for me, the pairing of Eric and George was something I always greatly
enjoyed. I thought George was a wonderful player. Sparing in number of
notes, but very tasteful in execution. A few notes from George could wow
just as much as a million from Van Halen. .......and I always thought he was
a very underrated slide player.......he had such a distinctive slide sound.
You knew immediately it was George..........there was a certain sweetness
and just the right "bite" in his slide work. Witness the gorgeous Handle
With Care solo or that nasty slide burst in Gimmie Some Truth. Also, loved
his feel and technique for rockabilly and basic rock and roll. I imagine he
and Eric thought each other a few things throughout the years. Has Eric ever
commented publically on George's ability as a guitarist ?
George was a favorite of mine.........I mostly loved his guitarwork. Wished
he would have showed it off a bit more............with George passing,
perhaps they will finally release the DVD / Laser of Harrison/Clapton in
Japan............this release is LONG overdue.
We will miss you George !!!
Cheers,
Jay
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From: "DeltaNick"
Subject: Harrison Recorded A Secret Last Album
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This article, from The Sunday Times (London), states that George Harrison
secretly recorded a last album, "Portrait Of A Leg End," believed to include
Eric Clapton and Jim Keltner.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/article/0,,9003-2001555241,00.html
DeltaNick
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From: Bryan Reid
Cc: DeltaNick
Subject: London Sunday Times reports last Harrison album with EC on it
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SUNDAY DECEMBER 02 2001
Harrison recorded a secret last album
MAURICE CHITTENDEN
A LAST album of George Harrison's music was being finished in secrecy in the
months before his death. He played tracks from the CD to his family and
friends in his private room at a Los Angeles hospital last Sunday, four days
before he died.
His wife Olivia and son Dhani seem certain to release the CD as a tribute to
Harrison's courage in the face of the cancer that killed him at the age of
58. It could repeat the success of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Double Fantasy
album, which sold millions of copies in the international outpouring of
grief that followed Lennon's murder in New York in 1980.
Harrison had given the album the working title of Portrait of a Leg End, a
pun on his celebrity. Unlike his last song, Horse to Water, recorded in
Switzerland for a new Jools Holland CD and released with a poignant
publishing credit to Rip Ltd, the songs on his own CD do not allude to his
illness.
One of the tracks, Rising Son, is an ambiguous reference to Harrison's
interest in Far Eastern religions and philosophy and also to Dhani's
emergence as a gifted guitarist in his father's footsteps.
Harrison was completing work on 25 unreleased tracks in a studio at his
Friar Park mansion at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. A few tracks date to
the 1980s and others are new. Some allude to traumatic personal events,
including the attempt on his life by an intruder who broke into the mansion
in December 1999 and stabbed him.
The tracks were part of a concerted effort by Harrison in his final months
to put his musical legacy in order: he remastered and re-released All Things
Must Pass, his 1970 hit album, earlier this year and was planning to reissue
other albums as well as to complete his new music.
Jim Keltner, the world's most in-demand session drummer, who has recorded
with Harrison, Lennon, Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan, flew from his home in
California to Friar Park to add drums to the tracks that Harrison and other
musicians, believed to include Eric Clapton, had recorded.
Keltner, who last played with Harrison in the Traveling Wilburys supergroup
in the 1980s but still saw him regularly as a friend, said this weekend: "It
was fantastic to be in the studio with him again. Some of the new songs are
very poignant concerning his life in the past few years. It will be obvious
when you hear them what they are about.
"The CD is very close to finishing. There is a certain soulfulness about
George's music that doesn't need a lot once he has put that voice on.
"There will be people who argue that it is underproduced and maybe there
should be more on it. Knowing George, I have a feeling he would rather it be
as simple and as direct as possible."
He added: "I last saw him on Sunday night. It was a great gift to us that he
was so beautiful. He looked fantastic. He looked like a prince. He didn't
look like a person suffering from cancer. His skin was shining and he was
smiling."
Keith Badman, a Beatles authority whose latest book on the group, The Dream
is Over, was published last month, said: "The recording of the new album was
shrouded in secrecy, but George had planned to bring it out this October
before he fell ill again."
Harrison was cremated in Los Angeles within a few hours of his death on
Thursday and before the news was released. Friends expect his ashes to be
spread on the Ganges or another holy river in India.
Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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From: "Brian Sleeman"
Subject: EC on new George Harrison album?
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Harrison recorded a secret last album
MAURICE CHITTENDEN
A LAST album of George Harrison’s music was being finished in secrecy in the
months before his death. He played tracks from the CD to his family and
friends in his private room at a Los Angeles hospital last Sunday, four days
before he died.
His wife Olivia and son Dhani seem certain to release the CD as a tribute to
Harrison’s courage in the face of the cancer that killed him at the age of
58. It could repeat the success of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Double Fantasy
album, which sold millions of copies in the international outpouring of
grief that followed Lennon’s murder in New York in 1980.
Harrison had given the album the working title of Portrait of a Leg End, a
pun on his celebrity. Unlike his last song, Horse to Water, recorded in
Switzerland for a new Jools Holland CD and released with a poignant
publishing credit to Rip Ltd, the songs on his own CD do not allude to his
illness.
One of the tracks, Rising Son, is an ambiguous reference to Harrison’s
interest in Far Eastern religions and philosophy and also to Dhani’s
emergence as a gifted guitarist in his father’s footsteps.
Harrison was completing work on 25 unreleased tracks in a studio at his
Friar Park mansion at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. A few tracks date to
the 1980s and others are new. Some allude to traumatic personal events,
including the attempt on his life by an intruder who broke into the mansion
in December 1999 and stabbed him.
The tracks were part of a concerted effort by Harrison in his final months
to put his musical legacy in order: he remastered and re-released All Things
Must Pass, his 1970 hit album, earlier this year and was planning to reissue
other albums as well as to complete his new music.
Jim Keltner, the world’s most in-demand session drummer, who has recorded
with Harrison, Lennon, Ringo Starr and Bob Dylan, flew from his home in
California to Friar Park to add drums to the tracks that Harrison and other
musicians, believed to include Eric Clapton, had recorded.
Keltner, who last played with Harrison in the Traveling Wilburys supergroup
in the 1980s but still saw him regularly as a friend, said this weekend: “It
was fantastic to be in the studio with him again. Some of the new songs are
very poignant concerning his life in the past few years. It will be obvious
when you hear them what they are about.
“The CD is very close to finishing. There is a certain soulfulness about
George’s music that doesn’t need a lot once he has put that voice on.
“There will be people who argue that it is underproduced and maybe there
should be more on it. Knowing George, I have a feeling he would rather it be
as simple and as direct as possible.”
He added: “I last saw him on Sunday night. It was a great gift to us that he
was so beautiful. He looked fantastic. He looked like a prince. He didn’t
look like a person suffering from cancer. His skin was shining and he was
smiling.”
Keith Badman, a Beatles authority whose latest book on the group, The Dream
is Over, was published last month, said: “The recording of the new album was
shrouded in secrecy, but George had planned to bring it out this October
before he fell ill again.”
Harrison was cremated in Los Angeles within a few hours of his death on
Thursday and before the news was released. Friends expect his ashes to be
spread on the Ganges or another holy river in India.
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From: "Jlduane"
Subject: Re: George Harrison + Eric Clapton + Japan
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<< Also does anybody know if Clapton will be broadcast on Japanese t.v.like
he was last time.
if so anybody taping it????? >>
One of the shows ( I can't remember which) is being broadcast on Dec 20th on
Japanese TV.
Jeanna
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From: Gary Girolimon
Subject: New George Harrison CD to be releases
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According to the Sunday London Times, George recorded a new album on
which EC appears. It is to be released soon:
-G.
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From: olli.oksala@luukku.com
Subject: A Very Incredible Guitar Player
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Hi all,
There was a funny comment on Clapton's guitar playing abilities in SD
288.
The commentator was the famous Very-Incredible-Guitar-Player-Rick.
Usually these would-be musicians are full of jealousy and hatered
against those, who have achived something,
they themselves never will. This time we had a wise musical genius
Rick (A Very Incredible Guitar Player), whose
well researched opinions made me decide, that I have been wrong all
these decades. Clapton is in fact a very poor guitar player. Rick the
Incredible Guitar Player said: "There are many, many
players here on the L.A. circuit alone that could have done as good."
And I belive this.
These English guys suck and L.A. circuit players are the ones who
know how to play the blues.
"Clapton needs to understand this concept" as Rick (the Guitar-God)
so well said.
It's a great mystery to me why nobody ever hears any music from these
Incredible Guitar Players from L.A. ,
that know so well how Clapton should play, if EC ever wanted to get
near their musical genius.
Please Rick (the one and only Incredible Guitar Player) tell us all,
where we could hear your art and find the truth
about guitar playing.
I'd like to leave you with these thoughtful words from incredible-
Rick:
"No, was, and still is, Eric Clapton, and he will never, ever be great
again until he recognizes that fact."
I am yours,
Olli
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