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It's 10:40 so I'm assuming it's just about ended.

June 4th I'll be in the audience.
I'm getting psyched!!!! (been a loooong time since I've seen him)

What songs should I expect?

just got back.... It was amazing. It was the first time I had witnessed Clapton live. I have to say it's likely one of the best shows I've ever been to, though that hasn't been many. It's def. a blues driven tour and for some this may be a let down. However, I am a huge fan of the blues. Little Wing was by far my favorite of the night with Tell The Truth, Double Trouble, and Hoochie Coochie Man a close second. Layla and Cocaine was a perfect way to end the night.

GREAT SHOW!!!

"Nobody Knows You...When You're Down And Out".......Mr. Clapton!

I am quit sure that Eric had the place on fire last night, what a complete master of the guitar he is!

Mercer & StarGlow - Sounds good!
Again, I can't even wait for Wednesday night.

Was he playing with Derrick Trucks (slide guitar - red Gibson) and Doyle Brahmorn (sp? - left hander, strings upside down)?

Mercer - Eric worships the blues. It's what he's all about.

To most of us pickers, Eric is God. He's older now, but he's still good.



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I bought a Blackie tee-shirt and a hat (like a kid again).
All eight of us enjoyed the show to no end. Very back to his true roots - the blues. More blues than I ever saw him do before...but that's what he likes, he worships the blues.
He openned up with Motherless Children from 461 Ocean Blvd (slide guitar)...and finished with a rockin' tune where Robert Randolph joined the band. That was probably the best song of the night. You could see a big smile on Eric's face during the song after the dual lead he and Robert did - pure magic -
He did a 'sit down' period in the middle of the performance with his accoustic guitar. One of the tunes being Runnin' on Faith. Not too many of his popular songs (which is ok with me - I've seen him do them many times). Little Wing was something I'd never seen him do before.

Thank God for Eric Clapton.

I would like to see him live, but I would have to find someone other than Jules to go with me. Any takers?

I'll go.

I'll go! Don't be jealous Jules, I prefer redheads anyway!

Okay, so it's DC, Babe, and me. We need one more to make it even.

I thought you hated him because of ONE song??

It has nothing to do with the song, he's a cheating wife stealer!

Well then, why are you mad? You don't like him.

I don't like being left out.

So you want to come with us and sneer at him the entire time? That will be fun.

I'll come too, Michelle. I'll dress like a woman, though, so DC can really feel like a man. I have nice legs.

Don't worry Jules, I'll come down and pick you up so we can go to a Pure Prairie League concert.

Not saying we had to meet at the "crossroads", DC, but I'm pretty sure you and I could "lay down sally" in the "white room"

not enough cocaine in the world to make me do that...

I am willing to go and be the designated driver. We can hitch a wagon up to the back of my moped.

Likely story.

I don't suggest you read his book.
He was quite a cheat. But I'm thinking the VAST majority of traveling rock musicians were.

Oh, I don't care about that. I'm just mad at him because of George.

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Pure Prairie League concert.

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They Rock, I still like the old stuff, like Amy ect, that were Vince gill got his start, seen them long ago.....I mean long ago.....

http://www.projo.com/music/content/ERIC_REV_06-05-08_N5ADFRB_v14.38e775c.html

Clapton celebrates his blues side
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, June 5, 2008
BY RICK MASSIMO

Journal Pop Music Writer
MANSFIELD, Mass. — There’s always been a battle for control going on within Eric Clapton between the guitar slinger who helped start the British blues revival in the mid-’60s (which not incidentally helped spark a similar resurgence here in the home country of the blues) and the smooth adult-contemporary singer-songwriter he became once he decided there was only so far he could go with the former. Even after his celebrated return to the blues starting in 1994, the dichotomy remained as he released “mature” albums such as Pilgrim and Back Home. Last night at the newly renamed Comcast Center, however, the bluesman won in a rout.
Starting off with the galloping “Motherless Children” and heading into a stomping “Key to the Highway” and a pounding “Hoochie-Coochie Man,” Clapton established that it would be a blues night and didn’t let go until near the end, when he slipped in the pop-oriented “Running on Faith.” And where his voice may not have had the right kind of menace for something like “Hoochie-Coochie Man,” his combination of string-bending and corrosive disharmonies on “Little Wing” and “Tell the Truth” and the Albert Collins-like bursts and stabs during the slow blues “Little Queen of Spades” made up for it.
As is Clapton’s tradition, he gave his second guitarist plenty of free rein, and Doyle Bramhall II responded with a wonderfully nasty tone that beautifully set up, and was set up by, Clapton’s cleaner tone. Bramhall’s primitively distorted solo on “Hoochie-Coochie Man” was a particular delight, as was his honking slide on “Tell the Truth.” He showed the ability to play prettily as well, with birdlike chirping on the minor-key ballad “You Can Make It If You Try.”
A semi-acoustic mini-set in the middle of the show, starting with Clapton seated solo and eventually bringing in the band, broke up the full-electric, keyboard solo-Bramhall solo-Clapton solo routine that had started to set in. Country-esque blues (“Driftin’ Blues”) mixed with old-time acoustic jazz, and Clapton’s easy-going voice was better suited. The sequence reached a high point in an electric, subdued version of Robert Johnson’s “Traveling Riverside Blues” before ending with “Running on Faith.”
Clapton finished off with a run through some of his rock and blues-rock hits by nodding to his ballad side with “Wonderful Tonight,” pushing through a “Layla” that was a bit slow (the incandescent original recording probably can never be matched) and dropped suddenly into a sauntering “Cocaine.”
Robert Randolph and the Family Band opened the show, with pedal-steel whiz Randolph tearing through a series of mostly one-chord stomps that felt like a mix of gospel, demented country blues and a hornless Sly Stone, particularly the joyous “I Need More Love” and “Deliver Me.” Randolph also lent a wonderful chaos to Clapton’s raucous encore “Got My Mojo Workin’.”
The location’s name change was announced in a ceremony yesterday afternoon at the venue. The communications giant has contracted with Live Nation for a 10-year deal on naming rights to the outdoor amphitheatre, which had been known as the Tweeter Center since 1999. It opened as Great Woods in 1986.

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From the Providence Journal