[Slowhand] Melvin To Selvin

[Bbanderic at aol.com]

Mel Wrote:
 

>Selvin is an ass. Apurva doesn't know that because he doesn't live  in the 

Bay Area and hasn't had to >endure his insufferable editorializing for  the 
past 19-yrs. This is the same critic who ripped Eric's >performance in  1988 at 
the Shoreline Pavilion, an excellent program available in stores on a  single 
DVD (or >an even better 2-disc boot that hasn't been compressed to fit  on a 
single disc) - and every Clapton >performance since then!  


>I'm not missing Selvin's point; Apurva is missing Selvin's point,  which is 

simply that he doesn't LIKE >Clapton. Never has and never will. In  trashing 
Clapton's performances (and others - he doesn't like Knopfler  >either), he is 
grandstanding. He fails as a journalist because he is biased.  


>I thought that Clapton's tour performance at HP Pavilion was superb.  I 

thoroughly enjoyed the entire setlist >and all the new arrangements (with  the 
possible exception of Key to the HW). All the band members >performed  
exceptionally well. In a word, the program showed "balance." In my opinion, this  was 
the best >performance by a Clapton band since 1994/5 NBTB.  


>BTW, who was doing the cooking for Clapton in 1994?   



>And who was in the kitchen for Clapton with the 4-piece band at  RAH in 

1990? 

I don't know anything about this Selvin guy, never heard of him.   But,  I 
have to agree, on the current tour EC has the other guys doing most  of the 
cooking.  I've seen EC on every tour since 1989 and this is the  first time I can 
honestly say that.  

 
I absolutely love the new rhythm section and the setlist but can someone  
tell me why EC needed three guitarists in the band, add in Robert Cray on a  
couple songs and you have four.  I don't care about this EC is a humble guy  
nonsense, when I see EC live I go to see EC to do the heavy lifting on  guitar, not 
balanced out between 3 and sometimes 4 guitarists.
 
As far as the 1994 and RAH 1990 shows, anyone who saw those shows can't  
honestly say that Eric is still playing at that same level on the current tour  
today, not even close!  I'm talking about Eric's performance, specifically  his 
guitar playing, not the band as a whole.  I personally thought EC's  guitar 
playing was much better in 2004.  
 
I still love EC and I think he still has the chops but maybe not so much  the 
desire, hence the 3 guitarists in the band.  The current tour would  have 
been SO much better with just Derek (preferably) or Doyle, not both.
 
Jon
 
 



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