Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 [Blu-ray]
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Often credited as being one of the all-time greatest guitarists, and known amongst his peers as one of the all-time greatest collaborators. The ultimate Clapton collaboration took place on June 26, 2010 at Chicago’s Toyota Park. For one day only, Clapton gathered the past, present, and future of guitar music onto one stage for an incredible all-day musical event in front of a crowd of over 27,000. The third Crossroads Guitar Festival was a sold out, 11-hour tour de force with all profits benefiting The Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility founded by Clapton for chemically dependent persons.
Rhino Entertainment captured every epic note from that blistering summer day in Chicago, and will release over 4 hours of footage in High Definition on ‘CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2010.’ Fans around the world will have a chance to experience many of the festival’s greatest moments, including performances by Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, Steve Winwood, BB King, Jeff Beck, Sher
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Gary Covington "Southern Rocker"
Apparently The Best Buy Exclusive With A Bonus 3rd DVD Has Expired. Best Buy Now Only Has the Same 2 Dvd Version as Amazon!!!!,
As far as the basic 2 dvds go, this is “Guitar Heaven”. Like Buddy Guy states during one of his performances, “I don’t know how you feel, but I feel like I’m in Heaven”. I love all of this guitar festival. If you like guitar rock, it doesn’t get any better than this. Bill Murray is an excellent host as usual. Plus, the mutual respect and camaraderie amoung the guitarists and musicians is great to see. Plus, there are great commentaries by some of the guitarists themselves. You can tell they are all glad to be there, performing with each other. It’s a great atmosphere.
Some of my personal favorites include the performances by Sonny Landreth, from my home state of Louisiana. He plays the guitar in a Louisiana, Cajun/Zydeco style, called “Slydeco”. Also, there’s Robert Randolph & The Family Band. Robert is awesome on his pedel steel guitar. I like the tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan “Six Strings Down” by Jimmy Vaughan and others. I like Hubert Sumlin, he’s a living blues legend, and he’s still full of passion for the blues. I like ZZ Top, Doyle Bramhall II, & Gary Clark Jr., all from Texas. I like James Burton from Louisiana, on “Mystery Train” & other songs. James Burton started playing guitar on the Louisiana Hayride Radio Program, when he was 14 years old. He was in Elvis’ TCB Band (Taking Care of Business). Also, he was one of the first “sidemen” inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
I really enjoyed the Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band’s performances, this is their first debut on a dvd, as a reorgainized new band. I love Derek’s slide guitar playing. He is a master of the slide guitar, plus Susan is great on guitar, and a great vocalist also. I liked all the collaborations of different musicians playing together. I liked Warren Haynes, Sheryl Crow, Robert Cray, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, Buddy Guy, Ron Wood, Johnny Lang, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and all the rest. I really liked Buddy Guy’s perfomances, especially the Stone’s “Miss You”, where he breaks a guitar string, and handles it gracefully, and then is handed another guitar. Plus I loved the grand finale, “The Thrill is Gone”, by B.B.King (another living blues legend) & Ensemble.
If you liked the first two EC’s Guitar Festival DVD’s, then you’ll certainly enjoy this one, for sure. These festivals just keep getting better and better. Thanks!!!
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|cd-heaven "cd-heaven"
5 star product…1 star price,
Updated best buy bonus disc info
BEST BUY EXCLUSIVE EDITION BONUS DISC (DVD AND BLU-RAY):
01. Gary Clark Jr. – Don’t Owe You A Thang
02. Sheryl Crow – Everyday Is A Winding Road
03. Citizen Cope – Son’s Gonna Rise
04. Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Band – Love Has Something Else To Say
05. Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood – Glad
06. Eric Clapton Interview
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|Daniel G. Lebryk
An excellent film of an incredible day of music,
Crossroads 2010 is around four and a half hours of pure great guitar playing, filmed nearly perfectly, with fantastic sound. This is an amazing concert film.
I was at Crossroads 2010; the really great parts of the concert are here on this DVD. The really low points were gratefully left off, namely Citizen Cope and Johnny Winter (Winter was virtually carried on stage, and was so far out of tune and rhythm, Derek Trucks had to rescue him). November 9, 2010 is the release date of this DVD, any reviews prior to that date are simply conjecture on what may or may not be on this DVD, and are likely about the theatrical release of this film. I would also say that the Best Buy bonus disc is not worth chasing after. Another reviewer mentioned the songs included those were all my least favorite performances of the day, and mostly belonged on the cutting room floor anyway. Behind the scenes footage, during the standard four and a half hours there is just enough behind the scenes shown. The talking head pieces are more than enough for my taste. I’m not interested in more.
There are thirty performances on this two disc DVD. Every guitarist is famous in one circle or another; these are big names in the industry. Yes, Eric and BB are the best known. The sound choice on the DVD is simple – straight stereo for the purist or DTS surround. Both sound great. The sound mix was done to perfection. They chose to package this DVD in the old DVD-Audio cases, slightly larger than a CD case, and with a snap shut mechanism to open.
This is concert coverage at its best. Camera movement is kept to a minimum, shots are steady, rarely is focus missed, and there aren’t a million short cuts trying to follow the music or tons of cuts back to crazy hippie dancers in the audience. The film tries very hard to let the music speak for itself and focus on the performers. Unfortunately there are a number of interviews or talking head moments in the film. About half are good and informative, the rest are really annoying. Sadly there was some voice over during performances by Sonny Landreth, Bert Jansch, and Earl Klugh. In a way, the editor is saying, folk music, jazz, and instrumental is boring, he needed to spice things up with commentary. The film opens with a hokey drive around Chicago in an old convertible. I would have preferred one more song instead of this lead in.
Every Bill Murray introduction is included. At the concert, Bill was hilarious. On DVD, I’m not sure he is that funny. The finale, which felt like fireworks to me, was cut short. BB King and around twenty guitarists played Sweet Home Chicago – the sound was amazing.
There is a huge difference between sitting one hundred yards away, listening to the PA mix, and the fine intimate clear mix the film captured. Some energy was lost in the mixing, but mostly clarity of the voices was hugely improved.
My highlights for the day – Sonny Landreth, Robert Cray, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Keb’ Mo’, Jeff Beck (his new bassist is amazing), and BB King. By far the highest energy performance of the day was Buddy Guy. He was lit up that day, and it shines through on the DVD. The lowest of the low, Johnny Winter, Citizen Cope, Jimmie Vaughan (I despised his horning in on Robert Cray’s performance when Hubert Sumlin pointedly says Robert is going to do this next song), and ZZ Top (at the concert they phoned in their performance, it was impossible to hear any vocals – in the remix for the DVD that was corrected). And I know this is heresy, but Eric Clapton did not perform very well during his set. He was outstanding when he sat in with other performers. But when it came time to do his set, his voice seemed very tired and that he just wasn’t into the performance. I saw Clapton a few years ago and had a similar feeling.
DVD Number one, roughly the first half of the concert, opens with Sonny Landreth demonstrating that he is an incredible guitarist. There are so many close ups of him working the strings and frets, there is a major guitar lesson in there. The Robert Randolph & Family Band play some great slide guitar – Joe Bonamassa steps in for one song. Robert Cray with Hubert Sumlin and the awful Jimmie Vaughan (The Famous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray’s brother) perform two songs. ZZ Top follows up with two songs each – on disc these are nice, in the concert they were terrible. Doyle Bramhall II is involved in the next four songs. Sheryl Crow leads a bunch of artists for two songs – the saving grace is Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi. Bert Jansch is apparently a fantastically popular folk singer in Great Britain. He sat in a chair center stage with his acoustic guitar. His playing is impressive, but he was a significant buzz kill at the concert. One of his songs is represented here. Stefan Grossman and Keb’ Mo’ are spectacular doing some very quite simple blues. Keb’ Mo’ is an artist to listen to, he is amazing. Then there…
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