#SONGS LIKE LAYLA UNPLUGGED FULL#
Three new songs followed – “Circus Left Town”, “Tears In Heaven” and “Lonely Stranger“ – with the full band. I never felt that I mastered it, so that’s why we’re doing it with two guitars!” It was a piece I used to play in pubs when I was very young. "Hey Hey" is a semi-instrumental by Big Bill Broonzy, and that was probably one of the first blues albums I ever heard. Eric pointed out, “this show was a great opportunity for me to pay homage to the things that originally influenced me. It was also the first song he wrote as part of his healing process after Conor's death.īo Diddley’s 12-bar blues “Before You Accuse Me” and “Hey Hey” featured Eric and Andy on guitars without the rest of the band were next.
Eric later said he wrote it on a yacht named Signe, which he had charted the previous summer. It was also the first public indication of Eric’s love of Brazilian music. On Eric’s hand-penned set list – which can be glimpsed taped to a table next to him – it’s listed as “instrumental”. Some songs had to be redone due to technical concerns.Įric and his ban opened the two hour taping with the bouncy samba, “Signe” (the song order would be changed for the television broadcast and again for the home video release and CD the interview segments would also be cut from the home video release). It was a typical television shoot with a lot of stopping and starting over the course of two hours. Behind them were Steve Ferrone (drums), Ray Cooper (percussion), Chuck Leavell (piano) and Katie Kissoon and Tessa Niles (backing vocalists). New band recruit Andy Fairweather Low (rhythm guitar and mandolin) was to his right and Nathan East (bass) to his left. He sat center stage with 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and a dobro within easy reach. Please be patient while this process is happening."Īfter everyone was seated and some directions were given by the stage manager, Eric walked out to loud applause.
They were also given a letter that read in part: "You should all be aware that sitting is not on a 'first come first served basis.' The producers of the show will allocate everybody their seats. The question asked was a no brainer: “Where did Eric stay whilst recording ‘I Shot The Sheriff’?” Competition winners were told the show would take place at a “secret location”. On January 6, 1992, BBC Radio 1 gave away 150 pairs of tickets for the taping. It's something I just recently started to work on again.” One of the outgrowths from Unplugged was that Eric did indeed begin to play finger style on the electric guitar and the style continues to feature prominently in his live shows and recordings. I think you get a nice tone that way there’s a beautiful sound to be gained from the finger actually touching the string. I could never really find the right combination of flat pick, finger picks or thumb picks so really the easiest way to learn to play – though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips – is finger-style. In an interview filmed the afternoon of the taping, Eric said, “When I first started playing, I played a lot of finger style. Eric would also debut five new songs, all penned in the months following the tragic death of his young son, Conor in March 1991. The music was minimalist, alternating between his pop songs and the traditional blues that influenced him as a youth. With Eric’s episode, the show would have its finest moment. By the time MTV approached Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Don Henley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Allman Brothers Band, Sting, Elvis Costello and others had been featured. The show's premise was simple: musicians associated with amplified music would “unplug” from their amps and effects and go acoustic performing stripped down and sometimes radically reworked songs. On the 25th Anniversary of the filming and recording of this landmark work, the Where’s Eric! Team looks back at Eric Clapton's one and only all-acoustic concert. The album, released in August, became the biggest seller of Eric’s career. It proved so popular, a “Part 2” featuring a few songs not included in the original broadcast was put together for a June air date. When MTV Unplugged with Eric Clapton debuted on television in March, it became the series’ highest rated show.
It turned out to be some of the finest music ever recorded by Eric. Little did they know music history would be made on Soundstage 1 as MTV filmed the opening episode of Unplugged’s third season. On this date in 1992, 300 music fans boarded coaches in London that took them to Bray Studios, near Windsor. Janumarks the 25th Anniversary of the recording of Eric Clapton’s blockbuster album, Unplugged, before a live studio audience. Must dig it out tomorrow for a play.Įric Clapton Unplugged Recorded 25 Years Ago »ĮRIC CLAPTON UNPLUGGED RECORDED 25 YEARS AGO Have to admit I havent listened to this in a long time. I went in for the Radio One competition, sadly didnt win.
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