E.C. WAS HERE: A Comeback or Swansong?
Eric Clapton’s British comeback tour has been getting a mixed reception over here, and knowing how much bad reviews hurt the man, it almost seems like bad taste to say anything against him. But the shame about Clapton is that he has a legend to vindicate, and for his fans, it is not good enough for him to merely show that his fingers are as nimble as ever.
E.C. WAS HERE: A Comeback or Swansong?
AMERICAN TOUR PREVIEW
by Nigel Burnham
Eric Clapton’s British comeback tour has been getting a mixed reception over here, and knowing how much bad reviews hurt the man, it almost seems like bad taste to say anything against him. But the shame about Clapton is that he has a legend to vindicate, and for his fans, it is not good enough for him to merely show that his fingers are as nimble as ever.
His playing is as fluent and as stylized as it ever was, but Clapton continues to face audiences .who still regard the break-up of Cream as unnecessary, even unforgiveable. Over the last few years, he's changed his musical associates as often as he's modified hjs facial hair, with the restless attitude which has always characterized the man. In these kinds of circumstances, the “comeback” tour has to be difficult, even traumatic.