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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
OK Spexxvet, you've got your ticket, the show's in an hour.
They caught a guy that put a bomb in the venue.
Clapton says he's leaving town if they don't find it in 30 minutes.
They have a waterboard.
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They'll make a martyr of me. Saint Spexxvet.
I worked until after 7:00, so I missed some of Robert Cray. The seats were first row of upper section (205), about 1:00 from stage center. Clapton is so unassuming - he looks like somebody's dad. He wore glasses, an untucked button-up shirt, jeans and sneakers. His hair was very short and no beard or mustache. No pretention at all. He walked onto stage with two other guitarists, a bass player, two keyboardists, and a drummer. Opened with Pretending, did about 5 more songs, brought out chairs and did about a half-dozen accoustic, then back to electric. Ended with Coccaine, did Crossroads as encore. Robert Cray joined him for a couple songs. He did Layla, Wonderful Tonight, I Shot The Sheriff, After Midnight, and some I couldn't place, probably traditional blues. He was generous with attention to each band member, they all did several solos. The one guitarist looked like he could have been Johnny or Edgar Winter's son - long blonde hair in a pony tail.
There's a reason they call him slow hand. Most other guitarists do all kinds of hystrionics when they play a difficult piece. Clapton just stands there, like he's waiting for a bus, playing incredible riffs. The other guys on stage were good, they did the Layla lead and other stuff while Clapton sang, but there was a noticable difference between them and Clapton. You know how sometimes when a guitarist does a solo, he can lose his sync with the rest of the band? I'm not a musician, so I don't know how else to express it - he is not playing to the same beat or in the same chord (?) as everybody else. Anyway, not Clapton. His solos were part of the whole, and when he came out of a solo, he made it meld right into the rest of the bands' playing.
In short, it was fanfuckingtastic.