[Slowhand] Debate... question about brownie/blackie, pilgrim..

[Apurva Parikh]

I dont think Eric is afraid, I just dont think he "gets off" on playing like 
he used to.  It's like when you're working at a job, over the years, you 
tend to get bored with doing certain tasks, in Eric's case he's neglecting 
his most superior skill!  I think under the right settings he has gone back 
to that place (FTC, NBTB tour, Riding W/The King, Pilgrim Tour, parts of 
Reptile album)...

Side note, I think I might have mentioned this before, but i pulled out 
pilgrim again, it's one of my favorite EC albums, and I always thought that 
if this record had been De-Climie-'d, (ie: less glossy and more organic, no 
drum machines), that it'd have been such a killer pantheon record.. Eric's 
playing on it, for a studio recording, is better than anything he's done 
along with FTC.

Also, when did Eric last play Blackie and Brownie??


----Original Message Follows----
From: slowhand-request at planet-torque.com
Reply-To: slowhand at planet-torque.com
To: slowhand at planet-torque.com
Subject: Slowhand Digest, Vol 1, Issue 98
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:00:02 -0500 (EST)

I came into this discussion late because of holiday travel. I look at EC 
playing the way we all love him to play as kind of wielding the sword of 
truth. That he goes/transcends consciousness almost -- like the transcendent 
state of a shaman when EC plays so profoundly. It makes me wonder if he 
isn't almost a little afraid to go there again? He is content to play the 
way he has been playing because playing in his full capacity of brilliance 
is too painful to play as it reveals too much for him?

Just my two cents,
Cathy

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