Posted on 10/22/2006 11:51:35 AM PDT by stm
Well worth the 6 hour drive to Jax. Cray played for about a half hour and Clapton played for about 2 hrs and 15 min. $300 for two tickets was well worth it, we were in the center about 20 rows back.
Here's the FTU article on the show.
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonville.com ...
I saw Alice Cooper last night in NYC ... he's just as mean looking and just as amusing as he was 30 years ago :) Good stuff ... Rock n ROOL !!!
Cray snuck in a couple of times during Clapton's show. He was in the shadows, where no one could see him. Then out of the blue, he picks up a solo from Eric and the spotlight turned on him. It was really cool.
Derek Tucks (a native from Jax) played some unbelievable licks with a bottleneck.
Well worth the trip and the money for the tickes. There is no one else on the planet I would have paid $150 a pop for tickets.
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In a couple of days or maybe weeks, someone will post that show. An audience recording of the show-
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Cray was doing great until he played his little anti war in Iraq song "Twenty". I got really pissed off then. He's a flaming lib-tard, along with his wife.
When I plunk down a ton of money to go to a concert the last thing I want to hear is politically oriented songs. Save that shit for MTV. Who over the age of 17 watches that crap anyway?
Yah, a couple of years ago I went to see Crosby Stills and Nash (not Young), and when David Crosby broke out with his new tune "They Want It All" about the Enron disaster, he expected us all to rise up and cheer like it was still 1968 ... we didn't. I sat on my hands and didn't say a peep. Not because I wasn't pissed off about the Enron thing, but because some rock star who was first in line to get a liver transplant after decades of drug and alcohol abuse has the frickin NERVE to dictate psalms to the masses. Birds of a feather, as it were ... Enron and David Crosby
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When you get his age, what else are you gonna do? Too old for dancing . . . |
.... a big baseball fan and restauranteer too ... alicecooperstown.com ....
It would've been so cool if the Mets and Tigers were playing in the World Series last night, because Alice hails from Detroit and was playing a show in NYC during the first game of the WS ... he could'a ripped off his jacket to reveal a Detroit Tigers jersey, everyone would BOOOOO, and Alice would just sneer back at them !! I would've been a perfect foil :)
Keith on the other hand...
Haven't seen him live in over 20 years, but the videos I've seen of him recently show him to be at or near the top of his game (guitar-playing wise, at least).
Blackie has been unplayable for quite some time now, and was sold at auction many moons ago. Clap is using all new Fender Custom stuff live.
..and, yes, he's doing great for his age. Always a plyer of great tase.
Used to watch Robert Cray and the Crayhawks in the clubs in Eugene Or. Great musician.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I was hoping he'd play one of his old Gibsons (if he still has any of them) on that Cream reunion tour last year, but he stuck with his Strats. (Cream's music better suits humbucker-equipped guitars, imo).
Is that acoustic crap, acoustic Layla dead and gone? "Pretending" was played on the radio today. What a great Clapton tune. I remember when he played it on SNL in 1988. Phil Collins drums
He played several tunes acoustically but Layla was not one of them. The acoustic stuff he played were tracks that were originally recorded acoustically.
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