One moment remains frozen in time from Eric Clapton's concert Wednesday night at the United Center.
September 22, 2006 (Press Release) --
One moment remains frozen in time from Eric Clapton's concert Wednesday night at the United Center. It came during "Old Love," the fourth tune in a tightly scripted two-hour show (onstage at 8:30 p.m., not 8:29 or 8:31, off at precisely 10:30), when guitarist Derek Trucks, standing just behind Old Slow Hand, leaned forward as discreetly as possible to peek at the neck of Clapton's Stratocaster.
Trucks, moonlighting from the Allman Brothers Band and his eponymous group, is one of the world's greatest slide players, and he doesn't need to cop any riffs from anybody. It was just one young craftsman admiring the work of a recognized master.
Along with Trucks and Clapton, the tune featured solos by the third guitarist on the tour, Texas southpaw Doyle Bramhall II, and opening act Robert Cray, who was sitting in for that song. What an all-star collection of axmen! You wouldn't want to pitch to the middle of this lineup.
There has been a feeling for several years that Clapton needed some external push onstage, and indeed he seems reinvigorated by his tour mates. Perhaps he was dragging from the demands of being a bandleader, as he unintentionally indicated by naming his live album from a 2001 tour "One More Car, One More Rider." Often it seemed as if he was playing one more paint-by-numbers concert, which was definitely not the case Wednesday night.
In 2004, Clapton went to the blues well with two discs of material from the Robert Johnson songbook, and the king of the Delta bluesmen seemed to have helped Clapton to rekindle the creative spark. Last year he reunited with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, his mates in the great '60s power trio Cream, for several concerts in London and New York, out of which also came a live disc.
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Posted by JEFF JOHNSON
Trucks, moonlighting from the Allman Brothers Band and his eponymous group, is one of the world's greatest slide players, and he doesn't need to cop any riffs from anybody. It was just one young craftsman admiring the work of a recognized master.
Along with Trucks and Clapton, the tune featured solos by the third guitarist on the tour, Texas southpaw Doyle Bramhall II, and opening act Robert Cray, who was sitting in for that song. What an all-star collection of axmen! You wouldn't want to pitch to the middle of this lineup.
There has been a feeling for several years that Clapton needed some external push onstage, and indeed he seems reinvigorated by his tour mates. Perhaps he was dragging from the demands of being a bandleader, as he unintentionally indicated by naming his live album from a 2001 tour "One More Car, One More Rider." Often it seemed as if he was playing one more paint-by-numbers concert, which was definitely not the case Wednesday night.
In 2004, Clapton went to the blues well with two discs of material from the Robert Johnson songbook, and the king of the Delta bluesmen seemed to have helped Clapton to rekindle the creative spark. Last year he reunited with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, his mates in the great '60s power trio Cream, for several concerts in London and New York, out of which also came a live disc.
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Posted by JEFF JOHNSON
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