[Slowhand] CLAPTON GUEST SPOTS

[Richard Gutter]

> From: "Jeff Elliott" <jnt.elliott at comcast.net>

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

> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:33:36 -0500

> Subject: [Slowhand] CLAPTON GUEST SPOTS

> Sitting here balancing my checkbook this morning with Stephen Stills' debut

> album playing in the background and I hear a familiar run of bluesy notes

> and realize for the first time (where have I been?) that Mr. Clapton graced

> "Go Back Home" with some very nice fretwork.


"Very nice"? One of my favourites. And by the way, Stills says that
was Clapton "warming up" at the start of a rehearsal take - he never
made it back to the studio for a second session, so Stills just tacked
it on to the song.


>And it got me wondering, what

> other great guest spots has Eric provided over the years


Someone asked that exactly a year ago on Steve Hoffman's forum, and
one of the responses
(http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showpost.php?p=4122957&postcount=67)
was a wee list of a couple of hundred tracks. It's a good starting
point...


> and what are the

> favorites of the digesters?


Uh-oh, now you've started something.