Before Derek And The Dominos were to perform in Berkeley, California at the Berkeley Community Theater, Eric Clapton was aware of a 16-year old guitarist named Neal Schon. Clapton decided to jam a bit with Santana and Schon and see what was going on. Clapton decided that Schon would be a good guy to bring with him in The Dominos. as Duane Allman was in The Allman Brothers Band and George Harrison, who had played on the first Dominos single, was not ready to perform solo yet, and All Things Must Pass was only a week away from being released. Schon declined the offer to join Clapton's band, but he did agree to perform with him at the Derek And The Dominos concert. According to the story, Schon had already joined Santana as a new member. A few years later, Schon would leave Santana and form his own group, Journey. Village Recorders Tapes is a soundboard recording but is a few generations away from the original source.
Eric Clapton‘s 1977 album Slowhand is being released as a super deluxe edition box set (and other formats) on 19 November to celebrate its 35th anniversary. The album includes of two of Clapton’s best known songs Wonderful Tonight, and the cover of J.J. Cale’s Cocaine. The Super Deluxe box set includes three previously unreleased session outtakes (four in total) and two CDs are devoted to presenting the complete 14-track performance of the Hammersmith Odeon concert on 27 April 1977. The record has been remastered from the original Olympic Studios 1/4″ flat analog master tapes and the session tracks and live performances are newly mixed from the original two-inch analogue tapes. This all sounds very promising from a sound perspective. Probably the most exciting aspect is the audio-only DVD that comes only with this super deluxe box. This disc offers the album in 5.1 surround sound (not hi-res) and a hi-res stereo version.
Eric Clapton was contracted to Polydor Records from 1966 to 1981, first as a member of Cream, then Blind Faith, and later as a solo artist and as the leader of Derek and the Dominos…
Between laid-back and listless, between the tastefully restrained and the downright niggardly, the line can be perilously thin. Eric Clapton's new album teeters precariously on the very edge, flirting with, but in the nick of time always just skirting, dullness.
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Eric Clapton is a compilation album by the British rock musician Eric Clapton. It was released on 15 June 2004, by Polydor Records and is part of Universal's 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection series. The compilation album has eleven tracks that Clapton recorded in the 1970s both as a solo artist and with Derek and the Dominos. Glyn Johns produced the album in association with Tom Dowd. Although the release sold 1,366,610 copies in the United States, it has not been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.