Confessions of a Fanboy

And sometimes that’s a good thing.  I got some belated birthday gifts this week, and they are good ones.  I’ll be listening to them and writing about them in the coming days.

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There are dozens of great tracks from Clapton’s more than four-decade career and I’ve spent some time listening to a few of my favorites. My favorites might not be yours and I am certainly not going to tell you these are the best, but here’s a quick rundown of what I’ve listened to today [...]

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The first (and I believe only) three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Eric Clapton, turns 63-years old today.
We’ll save for another day a discussion as to whether or not the R&R HoF knows fuckall about what they’re doing (they don’t) or whether or not Clapton actually stands head and shoulders above [...]

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Amazon Prime brought me a present yesterday: a double live album recorded when Harrison fronted Eric Clapton’s band in Japan. I don’t know how long it had been since George had played a live gig, but he’d been relatively absent from touring for most of the ’80s.

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We have a winner (pronounced winn-ah) in yesterday’s retail therapy sesssion: Derek & The Dominos’ Layla…. Wow! What a great album! I never knew. I guess for some reason I allowed it in my head that it was “Layla” and some other songs to fill out the record. I [...]

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It’s pay day today and I played my favorite game of retail therapy. I’m actually not in a particularly bad place mentally, but the combination of a few dollars in my pocket and an incurable music addiction took control of me at lunch today.
While some people were out sucking down Quarter Pounders and wraps [...]

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