Comments on: Eric Clapton – Kind Of Blues (Mid Valley MV 003/004)

By: eric99

eric99 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:51:25 +0000

I need to learn to re-read before I post. But I have been thinking about buying the License plate version also, I think it’s readily available. Just wondering if it’s the same version of MV’s.

By: wgpsec

wgpsec — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:56:17 +0000

There is also a reissue of this from Mid Valley (MVR 326/327) under the same title and was reasonably priced. It claims to be digitally remastered but I don’t know how it compares to the Mid Valley original.

By: classicrawker

classicrawker — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:41:53 +0000

I have the “E.C. IS HERE” label version of this show titled”BLUESMN” which for me is a very warm sounding excellent SB recording. I love the whole show of Eric playing his favorite old blues songs and especially enjoyed the acoustic numbers at the beginning of the set. This title comes in a unique package. It comes in a thin rectangular cardboard case, which opens like a book, and is the size and shape of a State of California automobile license plate it is designed to simulate. The front has “California” in small yellow letters on top and “BLUESMN” in big yellow letters below. The back has “FORUM,LA,CA,NOV.3RD,1994″ in small yellow letters on top and “ERCCLPTN” in large yellow letters below against a black background. There is a small attached cardboard pouch inside which hold both discs. I don’t know how this title compares with the MV title reviewed above but it is an excellent, possibly less expensive, option and should be easier to find as the MV title was sold out with every vendor I tried. it is also highly recommended.

There is also a very nice single DVD release on the European “Way of Wizards”(WOW) label of the November 7th, 1994 Fillmore West show, titled “At the Fillmore”, which claims to be a single camera proshot video by Martin Scorcese as a practice run for the filming of the subsequent shows for a never released EC Offical DVD. It is hard to say if this is true or if this is just a well shot audience video but it is VG video quality and has a VG+/EX SB audio soundtrack. Worth searching out if you like EC’s 94 tour blues classics shows….I will try to do a more complete review of the DVD when time permits….

By: eric99

eric99 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:22:28 +0000

I was just surfing around this site, killing time at work. I have this and it is an excellent quality recording, that’s well established. But, I was at this show and I don’t think it is actually from L.A. This was easily one of the best concerts i ahve ever seen. Claptons playing was on that night, and I mean one of those nights where he is realy on. If you have evr been luckily enough to see catch him on one of those nights, you just how good he can be. His playing is not the same on this release. “Sinners Prayer” was extended way longer and his playing was much more fluid. Infact more fluid throught the whole concert. But mainly, the acoustic set was much longer than on here and, at the time I was dating the loudest girl in the world. We were in the 17th. row, and for some reason,during “Third Degree”, which is slow blues, she just started shouting “EEEERRIIIIIC”, incredibly loud. I don’t why, and she was pissing people off. But, I guarantee that she would be picked up and heard by the stage mic’s. I don’t hear her on the CD. It’s one of the reasons why I hunted this down when I found out this wasout. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a smokin release, easily the best from this tour, which was one of his best, I can’t recomend it enough.