Some vintage Clapton, from back when he didn't suck...

[nomorenomore08]

[LuckyLib]

1. Thanks for posting this! A rocket from the closet of my teen years!

[nomorenomore08]

2. I'm about to finally get a turntable for Christmas - only thing I asked for - and I was

thinking of buying the original Derek and the Dominos live double LP. Found it used on Amazon for 7 bucks.

[easychoice]

3. Smokin!

[onager]

4. Good documentary...

...if you haven't seen it:

"Beware of Mr. Baker"

As in Ginger Baker. Recent footage of Clapton and Jack Bruce reminiscing about the days of Cream, also some great old concert/recording studio footage of those days. And lots of Mr. Baker, of course, since he's the subject of the docu.

And no, Ginger Baker has not mellowed a bit from the days when he was (literally!) stomping Jack Bruce into the floor to end an argument.

The documentary begins with the 72-year-old Baker getting mad at the documentary film maker. And proceeding to beat the film maker in the head with his cane.....

I just wish he had said, "Get off my lawn..."

Oh, and I just recently caught an old BBC show, "Sweet Home Alabama." It has some nice footage of Clapton and Duane Allman during the "Layla" sessions.

[retread]

5. Thought it was something from the Beano album.

[KamaAina]

6. I wouldn't say he sucks.

A shadow of his former self, perhaps, but not suckitude of Miley Cyrus proportions.

[Iggo]

7. He still doesn't suck when he's playing the blues.

[nomorenomore08]

8. You guys are right. It's only his songwriting that went down the shitter.

'Journeyman' was his last halfway decent album of original material, and that was a quarter-century ago.