slowhand Digest Volume 02 : Issue 78
Today's Topics:
RE: Help needed
European Budokan and Birthday Set Offer
Derek and The Dominoes (fwd)
FA: several magazines with EC on cover
Legends: Crossing Over Fest. '97 & Derek and the Dominos
Birthday Box Set offer
Download birthday box
Re: slowhand Digest V02 #77
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From: POLLET Eddy
Subject: RE: Help needed
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Hi,
Perhaps worth mentioning for people that joined the SD recently :
THE source for any questions regarding bootlegs, is the Bootography at
http://pages.infinit.net/ronfaith/index.html
Another excellent starting point for any research on EC, is the ECFAQ, at
http://www.ericclaptonfaq.com/
If you're looking for artwork (and info), check out this website from a
young and promising member of our little community, at
http://www.sysabend.org/users/geetarz/
Besides those, there are myriads of excellent EC-websites ... the best ones
made by people on the Slowhand-Digest :-), which usually link to each other,
but rather than to list them here, I'd suggest that you go to the FAQ, and
then choose "Resources - Online", in which you'll find a number of links to
such websites, and that you go on from there . Be sure to read everything
very carefully ... see you in 2020 :-)
Eddy
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From: Constant Backes
Subject: European Budokan and Birthday Set Offer
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Thanks to different slowhanders, I can offer the Budokan Audio CDs,
the Budokan VCDs and the Birthday set to the first 5 Europeans who
contact me by mail.
If you are one of the lucky ones, you have to distribute 5 copies to
other slowhanders.
Good luck
CB
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From: David Hillman
Subject: Derek and The Dominoes (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:38:09 -0400
From: ChucklesIV@aol.com
To: slowhand@planet-torque.com
Subject: Derek and The Dominoes
Hello all,
I have to chime in on this issue.
"For Clapton to continue long-term with the name Derek..... would have
been completely inappropriate, with Duanne Allman out of the picture."
Not to attack Keith's opinion (which we all have a right to express),
but I feel this line has been taken out of context. While it cannot be
argued that Duane Allman elevated the Layla sessions to a level of one of the
finest hours in rock's history, I do not believe that band as a whole relied
on Allman for their existence.
First of all, Derek and The Dominoes was around for a while (with one
small European tour under their belt) before Allman's name even came up
during the initial recording sessions in Miami. They were a solid working
unit before they hit the studio in 1970 for the Layla sessions (they already
had studio experience together as a group working with Harrison too).
Second of all, I don't believe Derek and The Dominoes relied on or
considered Duane to be a "full" member of the band. If my memory serves,
Allman was featured on two songs at first...Key To The Highway and Have You
Ever Loved A Woman...and then, due to a lull in the ABB touring schedule, he
was able to return to the Studio in late Oct/early Nov. 1970 to overdub some
more parts on most of the other songs on the album. History shows that
Clapton offered Duane a spot on the D&D American tour in 1970...and Duane did
meet up with them on two dates. Obviously, Clapton as well as the rest of
the band saw the conflict that Duane would have as a member of the Allman
Brothers (in reference to touring and recording with The Dominoes). It has
always seemed to me that the Layla album is almost a "John Mayall with Eric
Clapton" type of recording. While all five of the men are listed as a group
on the album, the stories from the studio show Duane as more of a very
special guest as opposed to a normal member of the band. While Clapton was
considered a Bluesbreaker in every means, I think Allman falls into a guest
category in regard to the Layla album. Why wasn't it Derek and The Dominoes
With Duane Allman?...who knows!
In my years of listening to the album, I always considered Duane
Allman as much a part of the Derek and The Dominoes as any of them...it
wasn't until I read the stories from the studio and interviews with all of
the members that I realized that Duane's appearance on the album was more of
a one-time deal. I'm sure both Derek and The Dominoes as well as Duane hoped
to record and perform together in the future...but, as we all know, that
wasn't in the cards!
To claim that Duane Allman had as much a part in Derek and The
Dominoes as Dickey Betts had with The Allmans or Brian Wilson has with the
Beach Boys is over stepping the facts (in my opinion). While it is true that
Duane's work with the band is legendary and simply some of the best guitar
work ever performed, Allman's absence from the road and the second album is
not what totally stopped Derek and The Dominoes from being one of the
greatest bands ever. I personally believe the drug use and Clapton's supreme
aggravation with life (Patti Boyd) is what drove the band to stop work.
For Clapton to continue the name of Derek and the Dominoes had little
to do with Duane Allman. It had much more to do with Clapton's coming of age
as a performer. To claim that Clapton would have continued to be successful
with another name besides Derek and The Dominoes after Duane died is also a
bit wrong in my books...The band's true success didn't come until after the
demise of the group! It took the Layla album almost three years to sell any
significant copies if you remember! This is, according to Clapton, one of
the reasons for his seclusion after 1970 (check out one of his 1985 video
interviews for that fact).
Keith and other digest members, please do not consider these words as
any kind of attack on your opinions or ideas. It is rare that I speak up in
the digest, I just wanted to share some light on this subject. Also know
that I am HUGE fan of Duane Allman and I do not, for one second, doubt his
role in Derek and The Dominoes or in the history of Rock N Roll. I just feel
that, perhaps, there is a little more to the issue than stated in previous
emails!
Thanks for reading! God bless!
Bill
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From: "Chuck Sonney"
Subject: FA: several magazines with EC on cover
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I am cleaning house. I have found several magazines with Eric on the cover.
Heres the link to the site.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=860148707
Thanx :)
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From: Art Arias
Subject: Legends: Crossing Over Fest. '97 & Derek and the Dominos
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Re: LEGENDS: CROSSING OVER FESTIVAL 1997...
>Yeah, I've had it for a while and it's not
particularly brilliant
either. It
sounds odd, kind of like an audience recording but
with the instruments
overlayed from the SB - weird! - It also runs fast.<
WRONG! I don't know what audience source recording
your listening to but this new title on the "EC IS
HERE" label is a superb soundboard recording that has
all members playing top notch throughout.
Highly Recommended!
Re: Derek and the Dominos...
>For Clapton to continue long-term with the name
Derek..... would have
been completely innapropriate, with Duane Allman out
of the picture.<
I disagree, as Derek and the Dominos were a great band
without Duane Allman along full time. Granted, he
provided the inspiration to kick start the band in
it's infancy but nobody actually believed Duane would
have left the Allmans to join Eric's band full time.
They both complimented each other's guitar style but
the band jammed quite nicely in concert. I think Eric
would have enjoyed having Duane play with the band
just to take the burden of having to handle all lead
guitar duties in a concert setting as he did with
George Terry in the years to come. It's no secret that
he tried to get Neal Schon who was just 17 at the time
to join the Dominos which persuaded Carlos Santana to
make his mind up and hire him for his band back in
1970. The group Derek and the Dominos wasn't about
Duane Allman, it was about Eric as Derek. Just my
opinions...
Art Arias
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From: RRRenee@webtv.net (Renee Hinton)
Subject: Birthday Box Set offer
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Hi to all SDers.
Thanks to Ed, I have the Birthday Box Set of three CDs. The first three
who respond privately will receive te show free.
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Cheers,
Renee
rhinton@san.rr.com
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From: LukeLinus
Subject: Download birthday box
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I put up the first disc of Birthday Box for download
in Slowhand group on Audiogalaxy. The other two will
follow
in the next couple of days.
I am also looking for Digest #71 and #72.
best regards
Peter K/ Germany
aka LukeLinus
last show: Tribute to Jeff Porcaro
(feat: Steve Gadd)in Koblenz
next show: Roger Waters in Oberhausen
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From: Daniel Shearon
Subject: Re: slowhand Digest V02 #77
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I have it as Otis Rush
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>Subject: Help needed here!
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>Anybody heard of The Professors Blues Review? It's Clapton and somebody. I
>just came across some songs that I can't place.
>
>Søren
>
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