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23e Heure wrote:Last night I attended the UK premiere of the Eric Clapton documentary "Life In 12 Bars".

On Beeb 2 this evening.

Brilliant - thanks Mike

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Just watched it on iPlayer - really enjoyed it. The racist comments appeared to be so totally at odds with basically the rest of his life and seemed to come at a time when he was on the road to self destruction. Not excusing it, but knowing that episode was coming it really struck me how weirdly against the rest of his life that episode was.

As to whether the bit on his son’s death was mawkish. Dunno. Hard to think of anything much more tragic than losing a child.

He seems to have had plenty of trouble in his life - hope he’s found some peace now - he seems to have.

thought i knew all about Clapton ............found this quite surprising in places ,can't understand why Brian Epstein turned up in one clip ?
overall enjoyed it .......

I always thought the expression ‘Clapton is God’ was a refrerance to his guitar playing, but then having had the misfortune to meet him once, I found he thought he actually was.

Slope330 wrote:thought i knew all about Clapton ............found this quite surprising in places ,can't understand why Brian Epstein turned up in one clip ?
overall enjoyed it .......

Ditto Vic - thought there might have been an explanation in the commentary

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Also surprised how little reference there was to his friendship with Pete Townsend - especially as Townsend organised a concert (the Rainbow concert - which I was at) in an attempt to lure Clapton out of 'hibernation' ...

ok Andy ...........used to go to Northwick Park legion to listen to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers ....7/6 pence most Fridays !

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I still have some of my old programmes/membership cards from 'back then' - 7/6 must have been the going rate for John Mayall - same price at the Marquee :

Mike wrote:I always thought the expression ‘Clapton is God’ was a refrerance to his guitar playing, but then having had the misfortune to meet him once, I found he thought he actually was.

wow Andy thats West End ..........we were out in the sticks .............we did get Zoot Money and the big roll band thrown in !
now feeling very old !!!!

Zoot money played the wine bar I worked in in the 80s - retro tour. Also had Long John Baldry and Georgie Fame several times

same group of oldies came to our village hall about ten years ago..........Zoot money was as ugly as ever and still about 2' 6", LJB was still wearing the same orange shirt as he had on at Eel Pie islandin 1969 .....the audience were even older than me .......was a great night !

I saw Georgie Fame in a small jazz/blues club in Kensington a couple of years ago (saw him lots in the '60's including several times at the Flamingo) & he was excellent - luckily the club was dark enough not to be able to see the audience !!

Ronnie scotts was good for the music ....all types .......his Manager Bob King had an aubergine 2.7 rs which i tried to buy once .......could nt agree on a price .......................next best maybe Marquee , Animals etc Flamingo was definitely for crumpet catching.................bedsit in Nottinghill those days ,no worry driving home ..............lucky now if i stay awake until the end of the film ,whatever ......