[Slowhand] Re: No Subject : Jenny Katz

[Richard Millard]

I really don't understand messages like this.  No one
on the list is entitled to express an opinion, because
our opinions detract from your enjoyment of the
concert?  Where is that coming from?

I'm glad you're going to the concerts and I hope you
enjoy them.  I'm going to RAH myself (from California)
for the 19th and 22nd, and I'm sure I'll enjoy them
too (well, maybe not Wonderful Tonight).

But I don't get the idea that being a true Clapton fan
requires one to passively accept whatever is dished up
and pretend that we're living in the best of all
possible worlds.  Sure, I'll enjoy I Shot the Sheriff
(again) and Got to Get Better (again) and probably
even Layla and Cocaine (again and again and again) -
but what's wrong with wanting to hear something new
and different every once in a while?  

Sure there are some unusual things on this list, and
that's great, but as I said in my first "bash" it's a
mixed bag.  There was an opportunity, with this new
band, to really shake it up and break out of the box,
and that opportunity wasn't seized.


> > From: "Jenny Katz" <buddy at bigpond.net.au>

> To: <slowhand at planet-torque.com>

> Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 10:23:53 +1000

> Subject: [Slowhand] (no subject)

> 

> I am so dismayed at the set-list bashing that is

> emerging on this tour.  Why?  Because for my 50th

> birthday, my daughter consipired with some obviously

> incredible friends around the world, to buy me two

> tickets (12th row) and my flights from Sydney, to

> get to the RAH in two weeks time.

> 

> This will be the 3rd time I am travelling across the

> globe to see EC as he hasn't visited Australia for

> more than a decade, possibly 15 years.  I saw a San

> Fran (2004) and Kansas City (2001) show but this

> time it is a 34 hour haul each way and I will only

> be in London for 2 days and 3 nights. To hear the

> negative reviews (which I probably shouldn't have

> looked at) is detracting from the incredible gift

> that has been given to me by people who live in

> South Africa (my birth country), Australia (my

> resident country), the US, the UK, East Timor and

> Ghana.

> 

> Give the guy a break - let him play what he likes to

> play and trust that it will be great anyway!  Aren't

> we supposed to love, warts and all?

> Anyone who will be at the show on 22nd May - see you

> there!

> 

> Jenny



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