Word: clapton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the album is dredgedup old rockers, which I for one don't begrudge one bit. The most intriguing cut on the album is Hendrix's "Angel." Now, nobody ever covers Hendrix songs, simply because they're much too complex, lyrically as well as musically. But Eric Clapton brought off "Little Wing," and Stewart brings off "Angel," partially because it is one of Hendrix's simplest compositions, in both respects. He's therefore able to remain faithful to its arrangement, and infuse it with some of its original mysticism...
...Crusaders got a run on their first time at bat, and Al Clapton led off the sixth inning with a home run. But Malinowski gave up only four hits in the entire game, and he had seven strike outs...
When George Harrison brought some musician friends together last summer to do a benefit for the war victims of Pakistan, the occasion became an event. The musicians (Harrison, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan among them) were loose and enthusiastic, the audience wildly receptive. To gether they generated the reciprocal excitement of a revival meeting...
...Concert for Bangladesh was the rock-musical event of 1971. On August 1 a galaxy of musicians including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and Leon Russell joined together in one huge band, one night only, to raise money for the refugees of Bangladesh. Cameras and tape recorders were rolling away during the concert, and as a result we were given a recording of the concert last December, and now at last we have the movie...
...their live performances, the Allman Brothers amply demonstrate on this double lp why they are considered by many to be the best white blues band in the world. Duane lent his talents to another monster album of 1971, Derek and the Dominoes (Atco), which also must be considered Eric Clapton's best effort in years. The tightly interwoven lead guitar work of Allman and Clapton, ranging from dense, driving chords to ultra-high register wailing, is a rock masterpiece and surely the most perfectionistic endeavor in the field of pristine white blues. Funky, it ain't. If portions of Jimi...