slowhand Digest Volume 02 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
Budokan soundboard offer
Concert poster?
Eric Clapton's Career Questions
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From: olli oksala
Subject: Budokan soundboard offer
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Hello all,
As a thank you to all nice Slowhanders I'm offering a sounboard
recording of EC's Budokan gig on the 4th of December 2001 to first
three to e-mail me(not this list).
The only condition is, that those who get it, do the same to first
three Slowhanders to contact them.
The recording is a very nice soundboard document of this famous
Autopilot-phase of Clapton's career.
Cheers
Olli (the arrogant)
P.S. Parts of this messages are not meant to be taken that seriously,
but the offer certainly was.
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From: jbroh1@netscape.net (John Broholm)
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Roger Ebert, a Chicago critic with some cred, says that if you find a critic with whom you absolutely disagree all the time, READ HIM/HER RELIGIOUSLY. The theory is, at least you can depend on where the criticism is coming from. Personally, I've always thought mass media criticism (as in assessment of commercial culture bad & good) has been an exercise in arrogance and futility. Criticism in its best form sets art and music into a higher context and, while definitely opinionated, comes to conclusions that rise above "I like/I don't like." Not many newspaper or magazine critics can pull that off, or even want to. It takes real thought, and thinking is hard work. Some of them are at least able to articulate their intellectual process -- most are unable. So take this guy for what he's worth -- or alternatively, what he ISN'T worth.
John Broholm
Lawrence, KS
>>I didn't get upset when I read the comments Greg Kot made about EC. I live
in Chicago but never read his page in the paper. I only know about it from
the digest, I don't read the paper. Why, because its been my experience over
the years that when ever I see a concert that I really like, Greg Kot knocks
it. His opinion is 180 degrees away from mine.<<
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From: "Michael Delman"
Subject: Concert poster?
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Hi, Slowhanders:
Does anyone know a good source for concert posters? Specifically,
I'm looking for the poster for EC's November, 1994 appearances at
the Fillmore in S. F.
Thanks for the bandwidth,
Michael Delman
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From: "Robert W. Rost"
Subject: Eric Clapton's Career Questions
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Greetings,
I found DeltaNick's questions from awhile back interesting and also
found many of the responses interesting. I'd like to follow up his
questions with a few questions from a different perspective.
I understand that some folks will like certain periods of any artist
career better than others. While I understand that some can like Cream
or Mayall better than Pilgrim or Reptile, I find it hard to comprehend
that, as people grow older, wiser and more mature, there taste in almost
everything, including music, doesn't change. Maybe I just misunderstand
some folk's answers.
So, to help better understand people view, I pose the following
questions. If you could turn back the clock to the late 60s and you
were Eric Clapton's manager, what advice would you give him? How would
try to direct his career? What innovations have there been in guitar
playing that he isn't responsible for (that he should have been
responsible for)? What should he have done that you believe would have
made his career better?
I think your answers need to address at least two important parts of
anyone's life. As a musician, Eric Clapton needs to grow and be
satisfied and as a person, he needs to be happy. To just have a career
where he would cover other's blues tunes, to just be a part of band, to
never get to do what he thinks is the right thing to do, I don't think
would be acceptable to him (or to anyone).
Bob Rost
Clapton page: http://milkyway.mie.uc.edu/~bob/clapton.html
Mail to bob.rost@uc.edu
End of slowhand Digest V02 Issue #18