[Slowhand] Cream Reunion
Joe Toomey
joetoomey at eircom.net
Thu Dec 9 03:45:22 EST 2004
Hi all
Been away for some time and just heard about Cream reunion. Can anyone
tell me the venues & dates of UK gigs. I assume they've sold out - can
anyone suggest how I might get hold of a ticket?!!
All the best
Joe
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Today's Topics:
1. Sessions for Robert J (Scott Wallenberg)
2. One Of Life's Little Ironies (Ken Norris)
3. Re: Sessions for Robert J. - First impressions (Kelly Murphy)
4. Another Grammy Nomination (Dale.Kalina at rrd.com)
5. I'll Take You up on your offer Jon (George Thomakos)
6. Sessions for Robert J- Outstanding (Apurva Parikh)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:42:23 -0800
From: "Scott Wallenberg" <scottw at frazmtn.com>
Subject: [Slowhand] Sessions for Robert J
To: "Slowhander" <slowhand at planet-torque.com>
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I was fortunate to have rec'd an advance review copy of both the DVD and
CD
about a month ago but had to sign a waiver not allowing me to talk about
it
until release. I thought it was a fantastic look into both EC, his love
for
Robert Johnson's music, and his interactions with his band. His acoustic
duets with Doyle in the same hotel that RJ played in was an extra treat
as
far as I'm concerned and the rehearsal footage in England was superb.
I strongly urge you to pick this up! Scott
Scott Wallenberg
Publisher Racer X/Road Racer X
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:45:31 -0500
From: "Ken Norris" <Ken_Norris at umit.maine.edu>
Subject: [Slowhand] One Of Life's Little Ironies
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The Hammersmith Odeon show that's part of the 461 Deluxe Edition is
probably the best live EC album post-Derek and the Dominos.
Best,
Ken
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 16:45:34 -0600
From: "Kelly Murphy" <brucespringsteenfan at semo.net>
Subject: Re: [Slowhand] Sessions for Robert J. - First impressions
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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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From: "Robert Laude" <r_laude at gmx.de>
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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
>
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:33:06 -0600
From: Dale.Kalina at rrd.com
Subject: [Slowhand] Another Grammy Nomination
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I see EC and Paul McCartney are nominated for a Grammy in the best pop
collaboration with vocals category for "Something" from the Concert for
George.
Dale
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:18:00 -0500
From: "George Thomakos" <Yankeefan01 at chartermi.net>
Subject: [Slowhand] I'll Take You up on your offer Jon
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Jon,
I tried to Email you to take you up on your offer of a DVD copy of the
Clapton NBTB remaster. There was a problem with your Email, do you have
an alternative?
Thanks,
George
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:29:44 -0600
From: "Apurva Parikh" <apuraja8 at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Slowhand] Sessions for Robert J- Outstanding
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Picked up cd/dvd combo and I must say this is a great Christmas gift,
just
for the DVD itself. I don't think we've ever seen Eric this talkative
and in
the settings he's shown in the DVD, rehearsals, solo acoustic, talking
at
great length about this past and what not. The performances in the
DVD/CD
are arguably better than the studio album that was released.
It's the best Clapton related DVD ever, I'd recommend it highly!
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