![]() The winners were told the show would take place at a “secret location”. The competition question was a no brainer, even for casual music fans, “Where did Eric stay whilst recording ‘I Shot The Sheriff’?” Answer: 461 Ocean Boulevard. On 6 January 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 he did indeed begin to play finger style on the electric guitar and 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. All together, it was some of the finest music ever recorded by Eric Clapton. He debuted five new songs, all penned in the months following the tragic death of his young son, Conor, the previous March. The music was minimalist, alternating between his pop songs and the traditional blues that influenced his youth. Eric’s episode would become the show’s finest moment. By the time MTV approached Eric, Paul McCartney, Don Henley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Allman Brothers Band, Sting, Elvis Costello and others had been featured. The premise of MTV Unplugged 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. The resulting live album, released that August, became the biggest selling album of Eric’s career. It proved so popular that a “Part 2” featuring a few songs not included in the original broadcast was put together for broadcast in June. When MTV Unplugged with Eric Clapton debuted on television in March 1992, it became the series’ highest rated show. Little did they know music history would be made on Soundstage 1 as MTV filmed the opening episode of Unplugged’s third season. On that date in 1992, 300 music fans boarded coaches in London for Bray Studios near Windsor. And Jim Gordon sadly has been incarcerated, often in a mental facility, since 1983, convicted of killing his mother before he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.Hard to imagine, but 16 January 2022 marks the 30th Anniversary of the filming and recording of Eric Clapton’s blockbuster Unplugged before a live studio audience. The death of Clapton’s four-year-old son), and that the acoustic version ofĬlapton typically played a Fender Strat on the “Layla” sessions, while the 1957 Gibson Les Paul Gold Top that Allman used on the song (often called the “Layla” guitar) went for $1.25 million at auction last year. Song, though many argued that the win was for sentimental reasons (following And “Layla” wonĪ Grammy, more than two decades after it was originally recorded, for Best Rock Live albums in history with a purported 26,000,000 copies sold. Propelled by “Layla” and “Tears In Heaven,” Unpluggedīecame Clapton’s biggest selling-album, as well as one of the biggest-selling Recording, but had no idea who it was, especially given the Derek and theĭominos moniker. Song to a new generation of listeners who may have heard the original That version later appeared on his own Unplugged album, introducing the ![]() Received credit for the song, which would have generated an incredible amountġ992 Clapton recorded an acoustic version of “Layla” for MTV Unplugged. Rita Coolidge, in her book Delta Lady: A Memoir by Rita Coolidge, also asserts that she should have Place on it … I think ‘Layla’ rocks without a piano on it.” Piano coda taints the integrity of this incredibly beautiful song. Jim took the melody from Rita’s song andĭidn’t give her credit for writing it. Has no place on Eric’s incredibly soul-on-the-line-for-the-world-to-hear songĪbout his world and his experience. Songwriting session … I still don’t think that it’s rock ‘n’ roll and really ‘Time.’ I didn’t hear it as rock ‘n’ roll and bowed out of the little Guest house and invited me to join in on writing this song with them called Whitlock continued, “Rita and Jim were up there in the Garfield’s old house in the Hollywood Hills and there was a guest house with an I know because in the Delaney & Bonnie days I lived in John Not Jim’s! Jim took that piano melody from his ex-girlfriend RitaĬoolidge. Nothing to do with this song that Eric wrote entirely himself. Keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, who had his own recollection and opinion about the Website, though, New York City broadcasting executive Linda Wnek interviewed Dominos
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