slowhand Digest Volume 02 : Issue 83
Today's Topics:
Birthday box offer
anyone without a burner - Budokan show
Eric Clapton To Guest On New Album
Birthday box and Budokan VCD
Dominos
Dominos con't
The Usual Band Woking
Budocan VCDs
Birthdaybox in germany
VCDs to non-burners
Eric Clapton To Feature On New Kelly Price Album
Woking suppliers
Woking
My VCD Lotto winners are...
woking again
birthday box set
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BIRTHDAY BOX AND THE FAREWELL SET
Budokan Audio CD
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From: "Michael Delman"
Subject: Birthday box offer
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Thanks to Greg Wenker and others who have offered this set!
I'll provide free copies to five Slowhanders picked at random
from all requests I receive by Sunday 4/28 12:00 pdt. In your email,
please provide your mailing address and confirm that you will make
FREE copies of this set for five others.
If you don't hear from me, you didn't make the list.
Best regards,
Michael Delman
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From: Pat Seger
Subject: anyone without a burner - Budokan show
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PLEASE PUT BUDOKAN in the SUBJECT line
Thanks to Billy S. - 5 people without burners that want to have the
Budokan show for Blanks only send me your snail mail address.
I will do a random selection from emails received
Hope to have the Birthday Box avail soon.
Pat Seger
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From: Lisa
Subject: Eric Clapton To Guest On New Album
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NEWS - Kelly Price Gets Eric Clapton To Guest On New Album
04/22/2002
(4/22/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Rock legend Eric Clapton collaborates with platinum R&B
singer Kelly Price on the song "Again" from Price's third album, Priceless,
which is due out on June 25 on Def Soul records.
Clapton graciously agreed to appear on Price's record after her A&R and
management representatives put in her request to work with him, the singer told
LAUNCH. Price was surprised to find out that Clapton was familiar with her
work. "And once the connection was made, we found out that Eric Clapton was not
only aware of who I was, but was a very big fan of my work, and agreed to do it
with no strings attached, except for one thing. And the one thing is that I
agreed to come back and do a recording with him on his next project."
Price added that Clapton was the perfect fit for the effort. "I produced the
song, it's a song that has kinda a Latin flavor to it, but it's not beating you
over the head with Latin flavor. You get it because it's very, very heavy with
guitars and acoustic feel, so that's really where it comes from. Other than my
voice, the guitar is the dominant thing in the song. And so, I know a lot of
great guitar players, but I just kept telling myself, 'Wouldn't it be amazing
to have one of the best guitar players in the world, where it would be the
feature on this particular song?'"
Price's teaming with Clapton isn't her first effort featuring an artist outside
of the hip-hop/R&B arena. Country star Wynonna Judd performed a duet with Price
on Price's holiday album, One Family: A Christmas Album, released last
November.
The song "How Does It Feel? (Married Your Girl)" is the first single from
Priceless, which also includes songs with Faith Evans and the Clark Sisters.
-- Billy Johnson Jr., Los Angeles
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From: Stephen McKellar
Subject: Birthday box and Budokan VCD
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Thanks to Donna, i have the Birthday box and the Budokan vcd's for the
first 5 emails that get to me. These will be b&p however.
Steve McKellar
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From: Miami718@aol.com
Subject: Dominos
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Heard on the radio today that there is a survey sponsored by Ibanez guitars
and Peavey amps, listing the most overrated guitar players, and the best
riffs of all time. EC topped the list as most overrated player - but the
opening riff to Layla came in as second best riff of all time. Go figure!
Catching up on some old topics... My vote for one of the more interesting
electric versions of Layla is on the video of EC's 25th Anniversary concert
in Japan from 1988. Mark Knopfler duets on the guitar, Elton plays piano, and
it has one of the best endings I've ever heard. EC and Nathan sing along to
the piano part ("Dum... duh duh duh dum, da da da...") And EC's face right
before he steps up for his solo is classic. Even makes that slicked back
hairdo bearable :-)
Regarding the continuation of the Dominos - from Rolling Stone August 25,
1988:
RS: Your first record with Derek and the Dominos, the original single of
"Tell the Truth," produced by Phil Spector, was killer stuff, full of
screaming guitars and wild vocal harmonies. Why was it recalled so soon after
its release?
EC: I don't remember. I remember it didn't do well.
RS: It wasn't out long enough to do well!
EC: Perhaps. I've never had a handle on the business. I just do not
understand it all. Don't forget that Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs died
the first time out. I don't understand that either. I don't even know what
made it sell later. Did it sell on merit? Or because they found out it was
me? I have no idea. I'd rather not know.
RS: Looking back now at the power and musical clarity of 'Layla', it's hard
to believe it was recorded amid such heavy drug consumption. Didn't your
habit get in the way?
EC: We were very fit. We would have saunas, go sun-bathing and swimming
during the day and then go to the studio and get loaded. It didn't affect the
playing or the sessions. But as is the way with drugs, it would catch up
later.
RS: Did touring aggravate the Dominos' drug problem?
EC: Yes. We scored a massive amount of coke and H [heroin] before we left
Florida and took it on tour. I don't know how we got through it with the
amount we were taking. I couldn't do it; I would die now. Even the idea of it
frightens me. But it definitely wore the band down and introduced a lot of
hostility that wasn't naturally there. It drove a wedge between each one of
us.
RS: By the time of the Dominos' 1971 sessions for the aborted second album,
were you past the point of no return?
EC: Money and dope and women were getting so far involved with our nucleus
that we couldn't communicate anymore. I remember it came to a crunch when one
day Jim [Gordon] was playing the drums, and he heard that I'd made some
remark about a drummer in another band. I don't remember making the remark,
but he got up from behind his kit and said, "Why don't you get so-and-so in
here? He could play it better than I could!" and walked out. Or maybe I
walked out. Somebody walked out. And we never went back into the studio
again. It was that dramatic.
RS: There is something very hard and haunting about those unfinished tracks
on 'Crossroads,' of something falling apart, poisoned beyond repair.
EC: There was a feeling of real sadness there, of futility. The tapes stayed
in the studio. I never went back. Nor did the others. The fact that the
tracks are out now is fine. But it was a closed book. There was no going
back. It was time to move on. Or time to just go and hide and rest.
RS: How does it feel playing "Layla" now, almost twenty-years later?
EC: I'm incredibly proud of that song. To have ownership of something that
powerful is something I'll never be able to get used to. It still knocks me
out when I play it.
More to come...
Cheers, Janet
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From: Miami718@aol.com
Subject: Dominos con't
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My favorite EC era, the Dominos... I could go on for days (but I won't :-)
>From Guitar World December 1994:
EC: We'd started the Derek and the Dominos album and we hadn't really got
very far. I'd written some songs and we had played some gigs - some touring
in England - and we'd got a kind of persona. But in the studio it was very
one-dimensional, and it didn't feel like we were getting anywhere. There was
a bit of frustration in the air. Tom Dowd has always been a very clever mixer
of people; he's always been a great one for being a catalyst and putting
different combinations of musicians together to get an effect. I don't know
whether he saw an end result or not, but I think he just wanted me to see
Duane; in fact, I'd been talking about Duane because I'd heard him play on
"Hey Jude" with Wilson Pickett, and I kept asking people who he was. So Tom
took me and all the rest of the Dominos to see the Allman Brothers play in
Coconut Grove and introduced us.
I said, "Let's hang out - come back to the studio." I wanted Duane to hear
what we'd done. We just jammed and hung out, got drunk and did a few drugs.
He just came in the studio and I kept him there! I kept thinking up ways to
keep him in the room: "We could do this. Do you know this one?" Of course, he
knew *everything* that I would say and we'd just do it - a lot of those
things like "Key to the Highway" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and
Out" are first or second takes. Then I'd quickly think of something else to
keep him there. I knew that sooner or later he was going to go back to the
Allmans, but I wanted to steal him! I tried, and he actually came on a few
gigs, too. But then he had to say, almost like a woman, "Well, you know, I am
actually married to this band and I can't stay with you." I was really quite
heartbroken! I'd got really used to him, and after that I felt like I had to
have another guitar player. I had Neal Schon come in for a little while,
having met him through Carlos Santana, but by that time we were getting
really fucked up and the band was on it's way out.
I don't know whether it can be fairly placed at the door of drugs or
relationships or life issues as much as I had been out there for a long time,
playing and playing with no break. I do that a lot. I do work quite hard - I
always have - and at that point, for some reason, a combination of things put
me into a fairly necessary retirement that I needed. I remember, at the end
of that period, that I was starting to fall back in love with music. I
remember listening to music very hard and wanting to play very much, but I
had to get off the scene to get that enthusiasm back. Because I'd lost it.
Derek and the Dominos were recording in here when we broke up and I went into
that dark place. I was coming in and I didn't give a shit about the music
anymore. We'd come in and just argue all day and have a go at one another,
and then one of us would blow up and split. The music didn't matter; I didn't
like the sound of my guitar, I didn't like the way I played, and it took me
awhile to go away and come back to it. When I came back, it was with a fresh
enthusiasm and a kind of open-mindedness to learn about new music, because
that's when I heard reggae - I was just like a kid in a sweet shop again.
Rolling Stone November 20, 1975 (the Cameron Crowe interview):
RS: If Layla had become a hit immediately after the album came out, as
opposed to two years later, do you think the Dominos might still be together?
EC: Listen, I considered reforming that band before this band got together. I
was saying, "Who am I going to play with? I don't want to look in the
musicians union book and look up the most famous names." I considered calling
them all up but it never reached the stage where I picked up the phone. I
just sat and brooded on it. And actually what happened was, Carl sent me a
telegram and said he had a band for me and did I want to play with them? So I
brooded on that for a while and finally fell into it.
RS: There was talk, after Duane Allman's death, of you joining the Allman
Brothers Band...
EC: Really? I never heard about that. If I'd been approached, I probably
would have done it. That's a strange prospect. I'd probably be in the band
right now. I only knew Duane though. I didn't know Gregg at all. I've only
met him once and that was when they came to the studio after a gig. And he
was very, very shy then. He was really Duane's younger brother. So Duane did
all the talking. Duane was the man. Interesting.... me in the Allman
Brothers...
*******
Cheers, Janet
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From: David Gourlay
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Steve -
With all due respect, I find your joke or whatever you
may call it about Eric not child-proofing his
apartment in very poor taste.
Eric will live with this tragedy for the rest of his
life and it is a truely awful event to occur to
anyone.
David Gourlay
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From: "pat"
Subject: The Usual Band Woking
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Alright here are the folks that are kind enough to spread this show. They have agreed to do
at least 5 shows and will ask others to do the same.
Tom (Dickie Betts)--- TOMUCITYMO@aol.com
Donna ----Drutherford63@aol.com
Jason --- jstewart@Insight.com
Pat seger001@gold.tc.umn.edu
Ken ---- Ken_Norris@umit.maine.edu
Dale --- DGKalina@aol.com
And only one so far in Europe
Constant --- cbackes@pt.lu
Let's give 'em all a big round of applause !!!
Thanks guys
Pat
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From: "Gerhard Kleintges"
Subject: Budocan VCDs
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Hi,
I now have the Budocan VCDs. Same procedure...
Europeans (Germans) preferred.
>From Berlin
Gerhard
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From: andreas@gleis.de
Subject: Birthdaybox in germany
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Hello!
I received this box some days ago and still haven't found 5 slowhanders
from germany who want a copy.
Normal conditions apply (burn it for 5 others etc.)
I like this concept and will be happy to make the copies for you! If you dont hear from
me, bad luck.
If you're not from Germany but still interested I'm willing to trade
- just send me a list.
Andreas
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From: "Shanahan"
Subject: VCDs to non-burners
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Thanks Loraine,
As I only had 2 takers from my VCD offer down-under, I'll now take 3 more
(world-wide).
However the offer is only to those without CD burners.
To be fair I'll take the 3rd, 17th & 72nd emailers.
Tone
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From: DeltaNick
Subject: Eric Clapton To Feature On New Kelly Price Album
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Eric Clapton is set to feature with Kelly Price on the song "Again," a track
from Kelly Price's upcoming third album "Priceless," which will be released
on June 25. Clapton agreed to appear on Price's album and to Price's
surprise even was familiar with her work. Kelly Price produced the song and
the song apparently has a Latin flavor to it. Other artists to feature on
Kelly Price's new album are Faith Evans and the Clark Sisters. First single
from the album will be "How Does It Feel? (Married Your Girl)."
http://www.musictarget.com
DeltaNick
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From: "pat"
Subject: Woking suppliers
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Hello
Got a few more folks that will copy the NYE show for you. They are:
In Europe
Jane ------- jane.newell@paytontate.com
Franz ------ franzchatelin@yahoo.fr
Ole -------- Oleax@vip.cybercity.dk
Thats 10 so Please my offer is closed but the good folks above will be glad to help you out.
Pat
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From: "pat"
Subject: Woking
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Me again
For the Aussies your contact for this show is
Carey ----- cbird@tig.com.au
Pat
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From: Dave Clark
Subject: My VCD Lotto winners are...
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Drum roll please Mr. Gadd...
16 entrants with the name and *mailing address* were in the hat and
the lucky five are:
Eric Fallas, Republic of Panama
Cheyney Rushing, Michigan, USA
Andre Salles Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Forrest Smith, California, USA
Steve Voepel, Illinois, USA
I'll get these out right away to the lucky winners and to one lucky
fellow Texan was given a copy from the judge, Nick Morris of Laporte,
Texas... See, it's good to be a Texan. ;o)
I would just like to point out that when someone makes these offers
and asks for the mailing address, they mean the physical address. It
cuts down on the legwork to get CDs to you if/when you are the
recipient. I had a few that didn't include it and I can't remind
everyone. Ya gotta follow the rules to be eligible... ;o) Don't worry
I don't have the time or inclination to stalk anyone and I don't sell
the addresses to mass-marketing mailing houses...
FYI the selection was done by drawing numbers from a hat 1-16 and
I took the corresponding enail from a VCD lotto folder I put the
requests in. Numbers 1,3,10,13,14 were the winners sorted by date in
the folder. Thanks for entering!
--
Dave Clark Austin, Texas
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mailto:davec@jump.net W 97d 48.826m
Half the people you know are below average.
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From: "pat"
Subject: woking again
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Sorry about taking up so much space in the Digest but Jane in the UK would like to be reached at
janenewell@mac.com
for the Woking show
No more posts I promise
Pat
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From: David Kessler
Subject: birthday box set
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Thanks to Greg, I am able to offer this 3 cd set to
the first responses US
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From: Jonathan Goulet
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I've heard everything !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_572518.html
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From: "Luis Lopes dos Santos"
Subject: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BIRTHDAY BOX AND THE FAREWELL SET
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Hi Slowhanders,
Can semeone tell me which are the diferences between the Birthday Box
and the Farewell Set Compilations?
Thanks beforehand.
Luis Lopes dos Santos
Apartado (P.O. Box) 27102
1201-950 Lisboa
Portugal
( lls1959@mail.telepac.pt - 1st option
luis.santos@orey.com )
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From: ToeKneeF
Subject: Budokan Audio CD
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Due to a misunderstanding (I thought I was signing up for the Budokan
VCD) and Peter Smolens' generosity, I received a second set of the
Budokan Audio CD. Per my commitment to Peter, I am offering it to the
first 5 SDers who commit to offering it to 5 other SDers and respond by
midnight April 25 (EDST).
--
"It's all about sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it
made." ....................Former NFL Head Coach, Monte Clark
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