[Slowhand] Sessions for Robert J. - First impressions

[Kelly Murphy]

I'm way too happy to even give a proper "first impressions" comment.
What I have watched is so good.  I love it!  I'm listening to the cd now.
I'll watch all of it later, but for now I have to do a lot of stuff since 
this
semester of college is coming to an end.

Oh, but I can say I'm more than ecstatic to be able to see and hear Stop
Breakin' Down Blues!  How I love that song. :)

Kelly

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Laude" <r_laude at gmx.de>
To: <slowhand at planet-torque.com>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 2:25 PM
Subject: [Slowhand] Sessions for Robert J. - First impressions


>
> Hi,
>
> I have just finished  watching the "Sessions for Robert J."-DVD for
> the first time and would like to share some of my thoughts about it
> with you.
>
> I think the second session is the best of them all. Here Clapton
> sounds as rough and dirty as he possibly can. There are strange, not
> straith-forward ryhthms, the guitar sounds distorted and EC plays some
> very good solos here.
>
> The first session sounds somewhat lukewarm to me. It's not bad of
> course, but it is so very much, well, unexciting. Like professionally
> played bar-blues. Like a very good Eric Clapton plays the
> blues-Coverband. There are some songs played here that allready could
> be heard in Japan 2003. Ah, and they sounded much fresher, more
> powerful, better then. I think a part of this is because of good old
> Andy Fairweather-Low.
>
> I was surprised by how uninteresting the third and forth session were
> for me. I always wanted to hear him play that kind of music in such an
> intimate setting.  But what is lacking here for my taste is a certain
> aura of mystcism, of old ragged characters and their storys, world
> weariness, wisdom, heartache and all that romantic stuff. What the
> Stones had on their version of Love in vain, and EC doesn't even comes
> close to. To me those songs sound exactly like what they are -
> performed in front and just for a camera. How different was "From four
> until late" or "Terraplane Blues" at the RAH in 1993. That was great.
> I love those shows. So I probably will forget the last two sessions.
> If I want to hear a guy with an old acoustic guitar singing old songs
> about love and life I will listen to Dylan's "World gone wrong" again
> next time. That one gives me chills, EC in 2004 doesn't.
>
>
> Not to be misunderstood: this is an excellent release, but it's just
> not really my cup of tea. I prefer strong black coffee :-)
>
> Well, I am very eager to hear about your impressions.
>
> All the best
>
> Robert
>
>
>