Wow, we certainly enjoyed going to the Eric Clapton concert last night. I had gotten tickets for this concert back at the end of November to give to Marty as a special present last Christmas. I also got him an Eric Clapton CD and attached the tickets to the back of it, it was an extra added surprise when he unwrapped the CD gift. The concert was at the Gwinnett Arena in Duluth, GA. Located just minutes from us. It's a smaller, or shall I say, more intimate Arena that holds about 13,000. We had great seats with a nice view of the stage! The Wallflowers were the opening performers, lead by guitarist Jakob Dylan(Bob Dylan's son) and they were good. I enjoyed their time on stage, especially seeing them do "Sixth avenue heartache" and "One head light" live.
Let me tell you the Eric Clapton performance was totally fantastic! He opened with "Hello old friend", then from there played a variety of his collections and thoroughly entertained the crowd with some awesome rockin' and bluesy sounds! He is quite the guitarist, and there he was guitar in hand, always playing one type or other. He played some songs from the unplugged album too, "Layla" and "Tears in Heaven", I must admit during this one I got a little teary eyed myself, and saw that a few others had as well! In light of what the song is about(the death of his son) and a recent personal family loss in my family. Paul Carrack of the band Squeeze, was on piano for Clapton and performed his '80s hit "Tempted" and also sang lead on a couple others, "How long" and "Ain't it high time we went." One of our favorite -Our song's- is "Wonderful tonight", and it was a pure joy to be there seeing and hearing it live!
We really enjoyed the concert, and this may have been one of the best we've ever seen, or at least the best we've seen in a long time! Eric Clapton is a very impressive performer, especially at the age of sixty-seven, well actually he'll be sixty-eight in just a couple of days since he was born on March 30th, 1945. A Happy 68th Birthday wish to Eric Clapton! Again, like I said before, very impressive!
Let me tell you the Eric Clapton performance was totally fantastic! He opened with "Hello old friend", then from there played a variety of his collections and thoroughly entertained the crowd with some awesome rockin' and bluesy sounds! He is quite the guitarist, and there he was guitar in hand, always playing one type or other. He played some songs from the unplugged album too, "Layla" and "Tears in Heaven", I must admit during this one I got a little teary eyed myself, and saw that a few others had as well! In light of what the song is about(the death of his son) and a recent personal family loss in my family. Paul Carrack of the band Squeeze, was on piano for Clapton and performed his '80s hit "Tempted" and also sang lead on a couple others, "How long" and "Ain't it high time we went." One of our favorite -Our song's- is "Wonderful tonight", and it was a pure joy to be there seeing and hearing it live!
We really enjoyed the concert, and this may have been one of the best we've ever seen, or at least the best we've seen in a long time! Eric Clapton is a very impressive performer, especially at the age of sixty-seven, well actually he'll be sixty-eight in just a couple of days since he was born on March 30th, 1945. A Happy 68th Birthday wish to Eric Clapton! Again, like I said before, very impressive!
Eric Clapton
The Wallflowers
We're ready for the Show!
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Local News - Article about the event.
I'm so glad I got to see Eric Clapton perform live, and will always remember what a great show it was!...
~ Tammy ~
