slowhand Digest Volume 02 : Issue 86
Today's Topics:
Re: Clapton DVD
Producer
Birthday Box Offer
Woking 2001
Woking 2001
Overrated (or, Don't These People Know Who I Am?)
Downloads + VCD help
Fw: did Duane write the Layla solo?
Fw: another topic - "You are the Producer"
Budokan (Live in Japan - 4 December 2001) VCD Offer
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From: "Fred Frome, online"
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Subject: Re: Clapton DVD
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There is a Reptile DVD on the market (some 30 Euros or so) - do not buy
because it is just the CD Reptile with different sound availabel and some
still info!
Fred
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From: "treacy r"
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: Clapton DVD
> Would anyone happen to know if EC has any plans to
> release a DVD of a show from his most recent tour?
> Or for that matter if a show was filmed for that
> purpose?
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> Thanks
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From: jbusch2@juno.com
Subject: Producer
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If I were producing EC's next album, I would urge him to do an album that
maybe opens with a rocker, mainly charged by sizzling Strats and Les
Pauls, with long extended solos, and maybe throw in an acoustic slow song
at the end. I think we have had about enough of the
singer/songwriter/acoustic guitar player for awhile. I would really
like to hear Eric play his guitar again. As a matter of fact, why not a
life concert album? That seems to be what all the boot people seem to
want anyway (Budokan). His songs have almost always sounded better
played live anyway, more energy, more life, more guts. I would ban Simon
Climie from the studio, and if there are any electronic drum machines or
synthesizers around I would order them destroyed. Eric needs to climb
out of the doldrums and lay down something that rocks. Maybe put a
couple of blues on it, max. The rest of it should rock. I am not a
young kid anymore (55), and I really think that Eric's best stuff is
rock, with a touch of blues. Just my opinion.
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From: "Donn Bullock"
Subject: Birthday Box Offer
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I'll take 5 US requests.
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From: dgkalina@aol.com
Subject: Woking 2001
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Dale dgkalina@aol.com on Sat Apr 27 13:44:20 2002.
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message: As Pat posted, I am one of the recipients of the Woking 2001 New years Eve set that I should be receiving in the next week or two. I will offer this up to the first 5 responses to this email. Tony F- Your response before I even knew I was getting this adds you to the list. Nergis, if you email to me was in regards to this show, please email me again to confirm. Who will be the other lucky 5?
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From: dgkalina@aol.com
Subject: Woking 2001
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Dale dgkalina@aol.com on Sat Apr 27 13:45:09 2002.
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message: As Pat posted, I am one of the recipients of the Woking 2001 New years Eve set that I should be receiving in the next week or two. I will offer this up to the first 5 responses to this email. Tony F- Your response before I even knew I was getting this adds you to the list. Nergis, if you email to me was in regards to this show, please email me again to confirm. Who will be the other lucky 5? Dale
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From: Miami718@aol.com
Subject: Overrated (or, Don't These People Know Who I Am?)
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We on this list are probably all aware that EC didn't compose the Layla riff
- EC himself has admitted in interviews that Duane came up with the riff that
changed his "little ditty" into a rock classic. But outside of EC fanatics, I
doubt the general public is aware of the history of the tune, and most of the
world would assume it was EC's handiwork - hence the irony that EC would
appear as sort of worst and best on the same poll :-) A bit more history...
>From the VH1Four-Play interview aired during the pre-auction media blitz:
EC: "Layla" was being written, um, over a long period of time, and it was
like, it was first of all, um... It was a chord sequence for the verse
(plays). Y'know, this bit (plays opening riff) came later - but originally it
was that (plays). That was one part, and then there was, uh (plays) which was
the verse. Now all of that, I can break it all down to influences. This came
from a Blind Blake tune called (?) "Road Stretching Blues" - so it starts out
- (plays). So I just ripped that. I mean, I was actually, I think, even then,
not being legally conscious about songwriting parameters. I thought, well,
you can only take so much of this before you actually become liable. So I
think it was just that bit (plays). Then I'm back into actually writing my
own thing.
Rolling Stone August 25, 1988:
EC: You know what? That riff is a direct lift from an Albert King song. And I
don't have to pay royalties because . . . [He hums the riff.] Hmmm, maybe I
do [laughs]. It's a song off the Born Under a Bad Sign album ["As the Years
Go Passing By"]. It goes, "There is nothing I can do/If you leave me here to
cry." It's a slow blues. We took that line and speeded it up. I've tried to
re-create the sense of that again and again when I've done albums. And it
cannot be done. It pales in significance. I've realized it's pointless. Just
leave it be.
Duane Allman, quoted in a Best of Guitar Player EC Tribute issue, published
1992:
"I went down there to listen to them cut 'Layla,' and Eric just greeted me
like an old partner or something. He says, "Yeah, man, get out your guitar.
We got to play!" So I was just going to play on one or two, and then as we
kept on going, it kept developing. I'm as proud of that as any album I've
ever been on. I'm as satisfied with my work on that as I could possibly be."
And for another opinion of polls/lists,etc, from www.the-times.co.uk, Oct 22,
1999:
EC: "I was watching a TV show not long ago which listed the 100 most
important records made. It was a long programme and it went all the way
through the hundred, and I wasn't in there. And I've had to accept that I
don't really have a very significant role in the history of music. If I can
live with that I can get a deal of contentment in my life. If I was to fight
against it - Where's my record? Don't these people know who I am? - I would
be in a state of anxiety pretty well all the time. Everyone's dust in the
end."
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Cheers, Janet
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From: LukeLinus
Subject: Downloads + VCD help
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We now have the 3 BirthdayBox/ Farewell discs and the
2 Budokan discs and much more ready for download
in the SLOWHAND group on Audiogalaxy (164 members
today).
Before I spread the VCD I need some help.
I have a hard time playing it on my computer.
It seems my players cant handle the intro-picture made
by Mark.
I used WinDVD or PowerDVD. They both stop and crash
there. The only way I get it running is accessing the
mpeg file directly. This means that there is no menu
for me and I am not able to jump to individual tracks.
Any help is appreciated.
best regards
Peter K / Germany
(aka LukeLinus)
last show: Tribute to Jeff Porcaro
next shows: Sara K, Natalie Merchand Trio, Roger
Waters
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From: "Denis & Susan LeBlanc"
Subject: Fw: did Duane write the Layla solo?
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Subject shoulda said "intro," not "solo."
-d
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From: "Denis & Susan LeBlanc"
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I'd have Eric do the "white Buddy Guy" gig, baggy trousers and all. In
other words, the blues trio he intended Cream to be.
Denis
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From: "Kevin Wilson"
Subject: Budokan (Live in Japan - 4 December 2001) VCD Offer
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I would like to offer this 2 VCD set to 5 respondents.
There's probably no one else in South Africa, so I'll take a holistic view and offer it to anyone who agrees to copy it to 5, not 4, more people on the digest.
To the person who said it does not play under Windows XP, you're right, but it plays just fine on a DVD player - after you've figured out you need to press 1 after pressing play. It copies without hassles under Windows XP.
Thanks to Tone Shanahan for getting it to me and to Mark for his Geetarz Production.
Kevin
End of slowhand Digest V02 Issue #86