slowhand Digest Volume 02 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
questions: "Bluesbreakers + 12 [IMPORT]" ? & current mayall guitarist
Buddy Guy and EC
Portland 2001 Show
Re: Overrated???
Interesting item on eBay-Item #1502940143
Eric and Champion Jack Dupree- inquiry
Eternally overrated
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From: "Apurva Parikh"
Cc: deltanick@home.com
Subject: questions: "Bluesbreakers + 12 [IMPORT]" ? & current mayall guitarist
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Guys:
Still don't know what the difference is between the cd deltanick sent and
url for and what has already been out there, besides using the mini lp cover
art. any new digital remastering on the beano import??
Also, does anyone know how good the new Mayall guitarist Buddy Whittington
is? He's not new, but the latest rather. Anyone heard him play? please
advise
Thanks,
Apurva
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From: Dale.Kalina@rrd.com
Subject: Buddy Guy and EC
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Last Night on "Sound Opinions", a weekly radio talk show on WXRT hosted by
Greg Kot and Jim Derogadis, rock critics for the Chicago Tribune and
Chicago Sun Times, respectively, Buddy Guy was the live, in-studio gust.
He played a few tunes and talked about the blues in general, his career,
and various other topics. He dropped Eric's name numerous times during the
show.
He mentioned that for the benefit concert in New York (where he appeared
with Clapton), EC's folks contacted him and asked him to rehearse the tunes
with Paul Schaeffer's band, since he knew them well. Eric apparently
showed up at the last minute to perform at the show, without rehearsing.
As you may recall from my post on Monday, Greg Kot had recently written
that Clapton was one of the most overrated musicians. During the
interview, with Buddy mentioning Clapton frequently and questions being
asked about Buddy being the idol to many guitarist (Page and Clapton in
particular), not once did Mr. Kot have anything disparaging about Clapton
in the presence of Buddy Guy.
Dale
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From: "Sean Cox"
Subject: Portland 2001 Show
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Okay... maybe I'm just a little out of the loop... but I don't remember ever
hearing about the all-gibson show in portland this past year. (at least not
until a passing mention of it in yesterday's SD). Could someone with a
better memory prehaps spare this poor soul some details as to what guitars
he used on what songs... and if there's a decent boot floating about, I'm up
for a trade.
-Sean.
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From: Tony Dalessio
Subject: Re: Overrated???
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Hmmm... I don't think it is so much that fans of the early Clapton catalog
are dyed in the wool blues-rock fans, as much as they are fans of good
music. The fact that Clapton really hasn't released very much worth
listening to since the Dominos breakup is more the point.
Some of us just think that Clapton really isn't all that special on his
own, but what makes him great is when he is pushed by other musicians who
are also part of the creative process. Lets face it, Clapton's voice really
isn't all that great, and his song writing isn't very good either. He is
really just an incredibly talented guitar player with a bit of other
talent. His occasional song contributions with the early bands were just
that, a song here or there. LAOALS is a bunch of blues covers intermingled
with his own songs with input by Whitlock and Allman. Whitlock's vocals
also added a lot to the album.
For the most part, at least to my ears, Clapton doesn't even sound like he
enjoyed playing a lot of the music he released over the past 30 years. When
listeners can tell you are just going through the motions then maybe it is
time to find some other line of work. I would have much rather seen him
become much less popular and played/recorded the music he really enjoyed
than release a lot of drivel in the hopes of getting airplay and selling
out arenas.
There are so many artists from the late '60s and early '70s that dropped
off the planet (in the commercial success view point) that are still making
music they love and want to play, and then doing small tours to support
them. When you see them play live they are just really into what they're
playing and appear to be having a great time. They don't care about the
commercial success, they made their money and can afford to do what they
want.
Maybe Clapton should think about doing what he wants to like some of his
contemporaries. I would rather listen to the post-'60s offerings of Jorma
Kaukonen, Steve Winwood, Alvin Lee, Peter Green and David Gilmour (outside
of the Floyd).
Don't get me wrong, there are lots of bands from the '70s, '80s, and '90s
that I listen to, from blues to rock to jazz to pop, and Clapton's
offerings from that time period can't compete.
Tony
At 12:26 PM 1/16/02 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Monte Tourville"
>Subject: STILL OVERRATED???
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>The Blues is embraced by folk, country, rock, pop and jazz. A nice groove
>for a broad appeal. Clapton has spent his career weaving through hyphenated
>versions of the above, no doubt the reason why he picks up and leaves behind
>followers on a regular basis. I'm continually amazed, though not surprised,
>at the dyed in the wool blues-rock(or whatever's) devotees who can't seem to
>move out passed the 1970's.
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From: "DeltaNick"
Subject: Interesting item on eBay-Item #1502940143
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Interesting 1965 Gibson EB-3 bass being auctioned.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1502940143
DeltaNick
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From: "Apurva Parikh"
Subject: Eric and Champion Jack Dupree- inquiry
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Guys and gals,
Browsing on ebay I saw a cd Titled Champion Jack Dupreee with Eric Clapton,
John Mayall, and a host of others, attached is a link to it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1503252419
But i was wondering how this cd is and how much eric actually plays on it?
Please let me know
Thanks
Apurva
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From: olli oksala
Subject: Eternally overrated
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Hi all,
I'd like to thank Monte Tourville for very wise if maybe
unfashionable words in SD #12.
I think Eric Clapton has been always years ahead of his critics. Even
during his days in Cream he was heavily criticized as master of
cliche. The criticism has gotten heavier every time Clapton changed
direction from heavy-jazz-rock to rock'nroll
to country-rock to stadium-rock to unplugged to back to the blues to
fusion-rock to techno-rock to reptile-rock.
These "rock-critics" have been always fun to read, as they can't
handle such versatility.
I'm sure most people reading Slowhand Digest have enjoyed EC's career
so far and even let him retire in good spirits.
Cheers,
Olli
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