Posted on 09/04/2018 1:52:53 PM PDT by mylife
I think it’s end of 2019, if what I’m hearing is correct.
Eric Clapton's best "Crossroads" was on "Wheels of Fire". The speed version. The slow versions like in Michelob commercials sucked. I have it on MP3 and listen to it. All of Cream was amazing together. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were as key to the group as Eric. Saw them once live.
Also the only legit version of Layla is the original with Dwayne Alaman and done fast.
Crossroads is simply the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. That it was live is even more astounding.
That was a great great show! Everybody on that stage was in the family. Two or Richard’s sons, a daughter, a grandson, a son-in-law and his son-in-law’s brother too!
One of my favorites done with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. “Presence of the Lord”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98XqT4kBWT4
Another with Eric Clapton with the Allman Brothers “Why does Love Have to be so Sad”. A really great song.
You don’t have to pay family as much plus you can get a family discount at the Empire State Building.
I will always like Richard Thompson..... Yeah I know he is fake Muslim of some kind. BTW he has lived in the LA area for about 25 years. He bailed from the British Isles long ago.
We know he can always be a rocker. His version of Cream’s White Room is on you tube. The drummer is amazing.
I have heard it X number times in my life and as I listen I know every note that is about to come. Engraved in my memory. Thanks for reminding me that Eric Clapton pulled this off live.
Since you think it is the greatest I will be play it even more.
A really tasty solo is on Alan Parson’s Project, “Closer to Heaven.”
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