[Slowhand] On This Day in EC History - December 6

[Almighty Geetarz]

On this day in EC History ...    

George Harrison - along with EC and his regular touring band - continued 
a tour of Japan.

A listen to recordings of this performance will make one wonder what the 
Suits at the label were thinking when they chose the recordings to be 
used for the official live CD from this tour, as the tracks used for 
that project have always struck some of us as some of the weaker 
performances from those shows.

Even more importantly, "what were they smoking" is the question at hand, 
when one considers that EC's solo set was also cut from the finished 
product.  There are as many (or more) legends and rumors about the 
reasons why as there are about the non-release of "Nothing But the 
Blues".  EC's management said no.  The label said no.  Harrison's ego 
said no.  The boys were fighting by the end of the tour.  Who knows?

Perhaps the real reason was that GH and EC realized some of the irony of 
EC performing not only "Wonderful Tonight" but also "Old Love" - two 
songs written about/for Patti Boyd HARRISON - in his set.  Not to 
mention Harrison also performing "Something" - GH claimed he didn't 
write it for Patti, but we all *know* that he did.  Perhaps they should 
have been called., the "Patti" concerts.

In order to help right this wrong, here we present to you one of the 
finest EC performances not only of that tour, but of that entire decade, 
and perhaps beyond, this one from the recording "Live in Peace" on the 
FrontPage label:

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/clapton/live-in-peace.htm

http://www.geetarz.org/tunez/12-06-live-in-peace-pretending.m4a

Enjoy!

 AG