Best Eric Clapton Song (and with other groups)

[benny05]

Love all of these songs, but what do you think?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. Other: Cocaine

[benny05]

2. Thanks, another good choice n/t

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. Salon.com had a "news" article from the AP saying he was going to start

performing it again. Apparently, he stopped after getting sober. I'm not sure how it's news today, since Clapton performed it when I saw him in 2004, and that was after he got sober.

:shrug:

[haf216]

3. Wonderful Tonight

I love the fact that he in an argument with the woman when he wrote the song. I wish I could make some one mad like that. LOL

[benny05]

5. I saw him married to Patti not long after he wrote the song

And they didn't stay together more than a few years...despite his pursuit.

[haf216]

6. Still it's a nice story.

[benny05]

7. A Video I forgot

Clapton/Phil Collins--Wonderful Tonight

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JSIQo4WXoRc

[speedoo]

8. Crossroads and Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)

although he shares the vocals on Sunshine of Your Love with Jack Bruce.

Crossroads is just a great song.. one of my all time favorites. By anyone.

[benny05]

9. good point

Still love White Room of that time..

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

12. I saw Cream play MSG last fall.

It was awesome.

[speedoo]

20. Oh man...

I wish I had seen them.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. My ticket was $200 face value for the press box, but it was worth it.

I figured it was probably once in a lifetime, so I went for it. It happened by chance actually. I was just sitting in my hangout bar and someone, who I only know from there, came up to me and said, "My BIL has an extra Cream ticket. Do you want it?" I was like, "fuck yeah" and *boom* Cream ticket.

[Carla in Ca]

10. All great songs...but

my absolute favorite is Badge. Love that melody!

A little history...

The 1969 song "Badge", penned by Eric Clapton and George Harrison during a collaborative effort between Clapton, Harrison and Ringo Starr, was originally an untitled track. During the production transfer for the album Goodbye, the original music sheet was used to produce the liner notes and track listing. The only discernable word on the page was "Bridge" — a notation intended to identify the transitional moment in the song. Clapton's handwriting, however, was so bad that Ringo Starr looked at it and thought it said Badge, so the band named it "Badge".

George told the story differently, however. "I helped Eric write 'Badge' you know. Each of them had to come up with a song for that 'Goodbye Cream' album and Eric didn't have his written. We were working across from each other and I was writing the lyrics down and we came to the middle part so I wrote 'Bridge.' Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing-- 'What's BADGE?' he said. After that Ringo walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park."

The noteworthy mention of the bridge points to both Clapton's and Harrison's understanding that the musical transition they had crafted was the foundational construct through which the song would gain its power. To enhance the atmosphere, Clapton ran his guitar through a Leslie speaker.

They were remarkably correct about the bridge. Audiences and critics continue to tout Badge's bridge as the most powerful musical passage that came out of Cream. It was this musical bridge that provided the inspiration for Harrison's later Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" for the album Abbey Road, and would appear again at the end of two other Abbey Road tracks, "You Never Give Me Your Money" and "Carry That Weight".

[benny05]

11. That is my very favorite

I feel so glum for omitting it...but thanks for lifting me up with that song...

[benny05]

13. And I walked into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

I heard the place play Badge, and I was the only person who recognize it, sadly, but for me, happily..I was snappin' my fingers, tapping my toes waitin' in line..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CMY_V7vK8a4

[enigmatic]

14. "Badge"

Yeah it's overplayed, but it's still a nearly perfect song.

[benny05]

17. Here's a great video of it

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CMY_V7vK8a4&mode=related&search=

[enigmatic]

21. Thanks, Benny!

:thumbsup:

[benny05]

23. You Are Workin' It!

Love Eric Clapton..

[speedoo]

27. That IS a great video.

Thanks!

[idgiehkt]

15. Lay Down Sally is the only one I really like

just not that big of a fan, but I love Sally.

[benny05]

16. Thank you

Another great song, sorry I omitted it!

[benny05]

18. How is the EC knocks my socks off

On every song he performs on?

[benny05]

19. My life partner looks sorta like EC

With beard and w/o

I just wish he could play and sing like EC...:-)

[wildhorses]

24. what is IT about white room?? that song still gets me

In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

Ill wait in this place where the sun never shines;
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.

You said no strings could secure you at the station.
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows.
I walked into such a sad time at the station.
As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning.

Ill wait in the queue when the trains come back;
Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves.

At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd.
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
Shes just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.

Ill sleep in this place with the lonely crowd;
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves.

[benny05]

25. Me too!

thanks for your post...

[wildhorses]

26. oh, sure thing...anytime...

:hi:

[Mendocino]

28. "Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad"

Derek and the Dominoes were Claptons high point, all downhill after that, IMHO.

[donheld]

29. "Layla" only if it's the Derek and the Dominos version

The other version is OK but nothing to get worked up over.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

30. LayLA! You got me on my knees....

Layla! I'm beggin', darlin', please....

How can that, with Duane Allman on second guitar, NOT be the best?

Plus the piano coda is kick-ass!

:headbang:

On Edit: Don't get me near that stupid acoustic version he did. Bleh. Only the D&D, please!