slowhand Digest Volume 01 : Issue 300
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Jack Bruce
Rio concert on TV broadcast
EC possible tribute to GH
EC on GH
Trading boots
More of EC on GH
Guitars and Licks
Eric wrote Cocaine?.......
RES: George Harrison Tribute Album?
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From: M.Prehn@t-online.de (Michael Prehn)
Subject: Jack Bruce
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So, Eric wrote "Cocaine"!!?? I must have missed something! And Jack took up
that point and talks about it! I don't know what to think of that.
Michael
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From: Andre Salles
Subject: Rio concert on TV broadcast
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Hi all,
The TV will broadcast the Rio gig (Oct 13,2001) next Monday. They do not
use to broadcast it entirely, but let`s pray....
It`s the second TV broadcast of this tour,it happened one in Argentina, now
in Brazil and the late in Tokyo - not bad; 3 in total until now.
AFAIK, it happened just one radio broadcast until now, Sao paulo gig on
Brazil "Radio Cidade" station; not entirely, just one hour.
I`ll be offline until Christmas;
Regards,
Andre
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From: Andre Salles
Subject: EC possible tribute to GH
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Hi all,
>A 3 song mini set devoted to George would have been cool.
>Acoustic: Here comes the Sun,
>Strap on the Les Paul for While My Guitar Gently Weeps, then Badge
>
>Wait a minute... they would have to rehearse. Oh well.
>Scott
Actually, certainly no big problem for EC.
Just an example :
On one of the MK`s concerts in Brazil, at the end,people started screaming
out loud :"So Far away, So Far away", etc;
MK looked and smiled to the other band guys;
On the following day,we arrived soon at the venue and listened to the sound
check, guess what ? They were rehearsing intensively So Far away !
At the concert,MK said "It`s for you", and started SFA !
It became regular to the set from then on;
I`d love EC himself to take sometime with the band and rehearse WMGGW, I am
sure they`d take no more than a few hours to have it ready;
Cheers,
Andre
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From: Miami718@aol.com
Subject: EC on GH
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Jay asked:
<< 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... >>
Since EC hasn't had much to say recently about George, thought I'd go back
and see what he's had to say about him in the past...
Beat Instrumental 1966 (thanks DN :-)
That led me to ask which home-bred guitarists he likes.
EC: Strangely enough. I like some of the things George Harrison does,
although I don't know how much of that is off his own bat, and how much is
planned by the whole lot of them.
Rolling Stone May 1968
That ought to make an incredible headline in England.
EC: Shit! That's the most incredible thing, man. Whenever I do any kind of
interview in London, I'll say a complete paragraph, all of which will make
sense as a paragraph, but someone will take three words out of it and put it
on top and make it controversial. In some Irish paper I was asked if the
Beatles would ever play onstage again. I went into this flowery thing about
how the Beatles, if they did, would be incredible because they would put on a
circus and it would be an incredible thing. I said they wouldn't just go on
and only play, it would probably be very difficult for them. The paper put as
a headline, "Clapton thinks the Beatles couldn't play onstage." That always
happens.
Out of this, you could get the headline, "Clapton shits on London."
EC: It's gonna happen. It's great now because musicians now are so tight
among each other that they go "fuck" about it if they read something that
they don't think is right. Like George Harrison reads something that I say
about him that he doesn't believe to be true, he doesn't believe it, 'cause
I'm not going to say anything shitty behind his back. The English music
papers aren't taken seriously. The drag is the kids might think it's true.
Guitar Player June 1970
Was that you playing the lead guitar part on "As My Guitar Gently Weeps" on
the Beatles album? There were some rumors that you took George Harrison's
place on that track.
EC: That was me. George and I were doing something the day he was to record
that track. He had to go down to the studio and cut the track with the rest
of the group. They were all waiting for him, and he wanted me to play the
guitar on the cut because he thought he couldn't do it the way he wanted to
hear it. I didn't agree with him. I thought he should have played guitar on
it, but it was great for me to do it. We agreed that I wouldn't get paid for
it or have my name mentioned.
Billboard December 1993
During late '67 and at various points in '68, you did sessions with George
Harrison for his "Wonderwall Music" soundtrack and "While My Guitar Gently
Weeps" with the Beatles. Were you aware of how you were helping George's
songwriting cause with the other Beatles by showing this kind of support for
him?
EC: No, I had no idea. I felt very honored to be recognized by this group of
people - especially by George - as being any kind of talent. But I thought
that what I played at that time, the style I played, was far too jazzlike; it
wasn't Beatles-like. They always had a sense of humor and a sense of
self-ridicule involved, and I took my stuff very seriously. So I didn't think
this would work at all because I was a blues or a blues-rock player. But they
kind of laughed around it all. Paul's statement has always been to caricature
stuff - a nod and a wink: "We love the blues, but let's not take things too
seriously, folks." But they couldn't escape the fact that the song itself was
a very heavy deal.
Guitar Player July 1985
During the Beatles "White Album" period, you and George were obviously
influencing each other, and he made great strides as a guitarist.
EC: Well, he was very much held down by the others. When we met up, I was
trying to boost his confidence a lot and tell him that he was great, because
he was great. It was just that he was in a powerhouse band where everyone was
fighting to get to the front - and they really did fight. There were the most
cruel confrontations going on all the time. Then he got outside the group and
came across Delaney & Bonnie, and they really wanted to hang out with him,
not just because he was a Beatle, but because he had great musical ideas. A
real mutual admiration society built up between us.
Rolling Stone July 1985
You were also doing some sessions - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with the
Beatles, for example. And you played that gig in Toronto with John Lennon and
Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band. What was that like?
EC: I'd met John and would see him a lot around the London clubs. I got the
impression that he was a very shy, slightly bitter but also very sweet young
man. There seemed to be a game going on between John and George, partly, I
suppose, because John was a pretty good guitar player himself. When I was
with Cream, George became interested in my playing, and I think he might have
told John that he liked my work. So John assumed that if George liked me, I
was probably better than George. So we got into these sessions...
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Cheers, Janet
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Gauthier?=
Subject: Trading boots
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Hi !Hi !
I'm searching some Clapton's bootlegs ....
- good boots from the 2001 tour (specially in Paris Bercy)
- good boots in VCD format...
I really want these Cd so please please contact me !!!
I've a list of bootlegs (Clapton and others) to trade...
Please mail me....
Thank you, Fred
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From: Miami718@aol.com
Subject: More of EC on GH
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>From the book "Rock Lives," 1989
Thinking again of friendships, kinships and where they lead, people might
forget that when Derek and the Dominos were coming together as a unit, you
were all doing work for George on All Things Must Pass, out at his home
studio in the English countryside.
EC: That's right. We made our bones, really, on that album with George,
because we'd just got together and we were rehearsing and living at my house,
and we had no gigs, there was no game plan at all. We were just living there,
getting stoned, and playing and semi-writing songs. When George said, "Can I
use some of the guys?" I said, "Yeah, help yourself!" But I added, "Let's
just make a deal. It'd be nice if we could get Phil [Spector, producer of
Harrison's LP] to produce something for the band." George said, "Okay, what
we'll do is get Phil to produce an A- and a B-side for you for your first
single, and then we'll use the band for my album." So that was it. I would
just go in with the Dominos and watch them play the tracks, and then we set
aside a day with Phil Spector and put down two songs with him.
Rolling Stone October 1970
You go to so many sessions, like you're trying them out for size. Why are you
so available?
EC: I'm not really that available. I mean, all the sessions I've done in the
last two or three months have been for George, for his new album. Either for
him or for our group. When I'm playing with them, I'm happy; when I'm not
playing with them, I'm sort of bored. But most of the reason for doing
sessions before was because I was lonely...
Rolling Stone July 1974
Did you ever think you could say things to [Pattie] thrugh the [Layla] album
that maybe you couldn't face to face?
EC: Yeah, I did think that. And also some of the emotional content of some of
the blues on it, you know. But no, man, I mean, her husband is a great
musician. It's the wife-of-my-best-friend scene, and her husband has been
writing great songs for years about her, and she still left him. You see, he
grabbed one of my chicks, and so I thought I'd get even with him one day, on
a petty level, and it grew from that. She was trying to attract his
attention, trying to make him jealous, and so she used me, and I fell madly
in love with her.
Rolling Stone July 1985
I guess you had to work that [drug] stuff out for yourself.
EC: I don't know about that. When I started using [heroin], George and Leon
[Russell] asked me, "What are you doing? What is your intention?" And I said,
"I want to make a journey through the dark, on my own, to find out what's in
there. And then come out the other end." But that was easy for me to say,
because I had a craft, music, that I could turn to. For people who don't have
that, there's a lot of danger; if you haven't got something to hold on to,
you're gone. It's no good just saying, "Well, that person is gonna go through
it, no matter what." You've actually got to stop them and try to make them
think.
Rolling Stone July 1974
So who would you shuffle about in the top five?
EC: That's a very difficult question... B.B. King, Joe Walsh, Pete Townshend,
George Harrison - his slide playing. Do you mean musicians that are still
living, because there's Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix...
What about the George Harrison tour rumors which sounded good to your ears
when you first heard them?
EC: They still do sound good except that he's got a lot on his plate at the
moment, let alone thinking about touring. Sure, I'd love to work with him on
stage. I really would. But he's got his own fish to fry and so've I.
Rolling Stone November 1975
Did you see George Harrison's tour at all?
EC: No, I just heard the tapes that he made himself. The ones I heard were
obviously after he'd gotten his voice back. So it must have been near the end
of the tour or something. It was fascinating. There was a lot going on -
perhaps too much, I don't know. I think he came up against a brick wall with
the audiences because of the Indian thing. A lot of people are really sick of
that side of him now. I mean, he tends to get ridiculed in the press a lot
for it, which I think is unfair. But it's to be expected, I suppose.
Were you and Pattie [Harrison] actually on 'Dark Horse'? You're listed in the
liner notes.
EC: That one? No. He just put our two names on the credits for "Bye Bye,
Love." I can't remember what he said, but everyone took it to mean we were
actually playing on it. In actual fact, he did the whole thing on his own. He
sent me the tapes just after he'd done it. He played everything on it.
At least he has a good sense of humor about it.
EC: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
What about that quote from his last press conference, "Better Pattie with him
than some dope"?
EC: I think I remember that. I believe the quote was, "Better she's with some
drunken Yardbird than some old dope," or something like that. Yeah, we get
along all right. Still, we have little bickers now and then. But I've known
him too long not to still love him. I've known George since we were kids...
and we both had that fire that we'll try the rest of our lives to preserve.
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Cheers, Janet
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From: KingoftheBlues@webtv.net (M P)
Subject: Guitars and Licks
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Since Delta Nick brought up some some of the guitars he owns,I
thought would share some of the guitars I have owned.
I started collecting in 1981 and the list is as follows;1952 Les Paul w/
soapbar pickups,1954 Fender Esquire( Tele' with one pickup at the
bridge)1954 Strat two tone sunburst,1957 Goldtop w/ PAF's,1959 Les Paul
w/ bookmatched flamed maple top,1959 Black Beauty w/ three PAF's,1960
Cherry Sunburst Les Paul w/ offset top,Late 1960 Strat three tone
sunburst w/ maple neck,1963 Blonde Strat w/ rosewood neck.1965 Candy
Apple Red Strat(Pre CBS)w/ rosewood neck(when I say neck,I mean
Fingerboard)1958 Flying V formerly owned by Rick Neilson of Cheap
Trick,1958 ES-345,1958 Junior,1957Junior w/double cutaway,1959 faded
sunburst Les Paul.There have been others I can't even remember.I
recently picked up a 1961 reissue SG w/ 57 humbuckers.It gets that Cream
sound to the max.
Delta Nick? You once wrote about the Marshall Bluesbreaker amp.Is that
what you play through?To get that Clapton sound you also need some PAF's
in your 69' Les Paul. As far as some tasty Clapton
stuff post 1965,how about this; Breaking Point off of Journeyman ;
Teasin ,w/ King Curtis.I also like the second side of There's One In
Every Crowd.I think it's some great writing and very underrated.It kind
of reminds me of his version of the second side of Abbey Road.
Well thats all for now,See Ya !! ~The King
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From: "Joseph A. Vargas"
Subject: Eric wrote Cocaine?.......
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Slowhanders,
I found it interesting that neither Corey Levitan nor Jack Bruce know that
J.J. Cale wrote Cocaine - not Eric. BTW, J.J. Cale's original version of
Cocaine is great. Clapton lifted his overall arrangement pretty closely. For
those of you who have never heard it, its worth getting. J.J.'s vocals
almost sound like Eric. Guitar is more sparing, but very tasteful, as are
quite a few of J.J.'s songs. I can see why Eric was drawn to his songs.
Cheers,
Jay
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From: "Marissom Roso"
Subject: RES: George Harrison Tribute Album?
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> Well, I would suspect that, inevitably, there will be a George Harrison
Tribute Album of some kind. What song should EC play?
>
> Ken
- Cheer Down and While My Guitar Gentrly Weeps.
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