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Post subject: Your opinion on Eric Clapton's touring dilemmas
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:42 pm
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Excuse me if this has been brought up before...

How do you feel that Clapton is leaning towards retirement?

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Post subject: Re: Your opinion on Eric Clapton's touring dilemmas
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I thought he already played his last concert? Or, I should say, tour date, since he plans on doing some one off appearances. I think it's a good move. He probably wants to go out leaving a good impression and still have time to enjoy himself.

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Post subject: Re: Your opinion on Eric Clapton's touring dilemmas
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:47 pm
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His choice but if I had a dollar for every time a celeb said they were retiring and then come back I would be rich. I do think he may have had it with big tours and venues but for as long as that guy can still play I can't imagine him ever hanging it up..this is his life and all he does and has done for decades.

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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:20 pm
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He could've retired in 1975 and I wouldn't have missed his subsequent efforts.

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Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:24 pm
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He could've retired in 1975 and I wouldn't have missed his subsequent efforts.

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Just happy I saw him at JazzFest this year... wonderful show !

Guess I never expected to see him play live ever again anyway...

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Lightnin MN wrote:
Just happy I saw him at JazzFest this year... wonderful show !

Guess I never expected to see him play live ever again anyway...

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That is so cool having a pic of yourself with Eric. He is by far my dads favorite and he has seen him live many times. I have never seen him live and guess it might remain that way but as long as he is alive there is alway a chance. I do have a pic of myself with Tom Morello from rage against the machine and audioslave who is actually a great guitar player and is seen on a Fender from time to time. I used that on my facebook for years lol. Not quite close to the stature of Clapton but we all can't be that lucky.

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I don't know about the 'other guy', but Clapton's age is fast catching up with him appearance wise. So it seems, are the physical demands of touring according to reports. I expect that he will do precisely what his spirit and his physical limitations will permit.

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Gotta retire sometime so Good for him. Hes been doing it along time. Touring is tough when your older.


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IIRC, Eric Clapton never said he was going to stop performing live, just that the days of him doing big, international tours were coming to an end. He said that the logistics of the traveling circus (constant travel, hotels, passports and customs, etc.) were just getting to be too much of a headache for an aging musician like him. He said he was fully open to doing extended bookings in one city before moving on, kind of like Santana does in Las Vegas now.

As far as musicians cutting back on their touring, I read an interview a couple of years ago with Steve Miller in which he said that due to digital music's ease of transfer (illegally), musicians could no longer count on sitting back and getting rich off their royalties because they weren't getting nearly as many, and that touring was the best way (if you could get good bookings) for bands to put ready money in their pockets. Now, if a guy with a royalty-rich back catalog of hits like Steve Miller has will make a statement like this, it's worth paying attention to.

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:45 am
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rudorama wrote:
IIRC, Eric Clapton never said he was going to stop performing live, just that the days of him doing big, international tours were coming to an end. He said that the logistics of the traveling circus (constant travel, hotels, passports and customs, etc.) were just getting to be too much of a headache for an aging musician like him. He said he was fully open to doing extended bookings in one city before moving on, kind of like Santana does in Las Vegas now.

As far as musicians cutting back on their touring, I read an interview a couple of years ago with Steve Miller in which he said that due to digital music's ease of transfer (illegally), musicians could no longer count on sitting back and getting rich off their royalties because they weren't getting nearly as many, and that touring was the best way (if you could get good bookings) for bands to put ready money in their pockets. Now, if a guy with a royalty-rich back catalog of hits like Steve Miller has will make a statement like this, it's worth paying attention to.


Agreed.

Joe Walsh made similar comments on a show recently.

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:01 am
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Lightnin MN wrote:
rudorama wrote:
IIRC, Eric Clapton never said he was going to stop performing live, just that the days of him doing big, international tours were coming to an end. He said that the logistics of the traveling circus (constant travel, hotels, passports and customs, etc.) were just getting to be too much of a headache for an aging musician like him. He said he was fully open to doing extended bookings in one city before moving on, kind of like Santana does in Las Vegas now.

As far as musicians cutting back on their touring, I read an interview a couple of years ago with Steve Miller in which he said that due to digital music's ease of transfer (illegally), musicians could no longer count on sitting back and getting rich off their royalties because they weren't getting nearly as many, and that touring was the best way (if you could get good bookings) for bands to put ready money in their pockets. Now, if a guy with a royalty-rich back catalog of hits like Steve Miller has will make a statement like this, it's worth paying attention to.



Joe Walsh made similar comments on a show recently.

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I have to agree with you two. That statement has been made by several musicians.

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Post subject: Re: Your opinion on Eric Clapton's touring dilemmas
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:19 pm
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He said that the logistics of the traveling circus (constant travel, hotels, passports and customs, etc.) were just getting to be too much of a headache for an aging musician like him.

That's interesting. I wonder how much of it falls on his shoulders in terms of the planning. You would think that a tour organizer would be able to package that all in a 'box' and not have it impact on the talent. It's not like Clapton gets involved with complex sets like the Stones do.

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He said that the logistics of the traveling circus (constant travel, hotels, passports and customs, etc.) were just getting to be too much of a headache for an aging musician like him.

That's interesting. I wonder how much of it falls on his shoulders in terms of the planning. You would think that a tour organizer would be able to package that all in a 'box' and not have it impact on the talent. It's not like Clapton gets involved with complex sets like the Stones do.

Somewhere on the Strat forum a few months ago Chromeface posted a link to a recent interview where Clapton said exactly the above. He isn't retiring, he's keen to record, do TV, guest appearances, one-off shows or sequences of gigs in one venue (the Albert Hall and Madison Square Gardens, I'll bet). He just doesn't want to do the big tours anymore. It's the endless round of soundcheck-gig-hotel-travel on a daily basis he's had enough of.

A lot of people get tired of that side of things a lot younger. Though of course others never stop (BB, etc).

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:29 pm
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I have been in touring bands and it is not as bad doing halls, theaters and smaller venues like BB probably does vs someone like Clapton who can sell out a stadium. I have played a few larger venues (10,000ish spectators) and it was not that bad considering all you need to do is play, the techs and sound people do everything. That said, the schedule can be grueling and it is really not something you can easily cancel if you don't feel well since you are talking so much money and so many fans who would be affected. Someone told me it was a situation where he had bad sound that got to him as it has to many other musicians but I imagine with someone like Clapton does not have to put up with it anymore...he paid his dues and I am sure has a nice retirement fund. But he is a player and performer so I am sure as long as he can play he will be doing something with it. Just no more huge venues and tours. I don't blame him for that. IF he doesn't need the money and does not care about or need groupies anymore then it is probably more of a hassle to him then anything else.

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