[Slowhand] The Nothing But The Blues Mystery

[Mark Deavult]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Norris" <Ken_Norris at umit.maine.edu>
To: <slowhand at planet-torque.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: [Slowhand] The Nothing But The Blues Mystery


> The video was originally given a release date and a catalogue number,
right? Were there any review copies sent out?

It was given both.  I was in the video rental business at the time and had
already preordered it. To my knowledge no copies were ever shipped to
distributors.

Warner Brothers did send out promotional copies.  They looked like this:

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/clapton/nbtb-promo-vhs.jpg

The promotional copies begin with a test pattern and the sound is in mono.
However, they are complete, containing the performance of "Driftin'" that
was not shown on the PBS broadcast.

When PBS broadcast the program they did offer copies as a promotional item
for people willing to donate a certain sum.  I have never seen one of the
PBS in person.

>
> Can we hear from anyone who knows anything about what happened with this,
and why it was never released?

EC himself dodged the question, IIRC it was a SD member who collared him
about it on Larry King Live (12 February 1998) and he did the lawyer thing
where someone talks for a few minutes but won't actually answer the
question!

Your guess is as good as anyone's.

Cheers,
Mark Deavult