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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Can you explain to me how it is possible that I don't own this album Hanna?
Great pick. Outstanding.
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You know what Dis, I could understand that
The MTV UNplugged wasn't the same success that it was following the release of this performance. That album became a beast of it's own in regards to record sales... it reached a whole new audience... almost like the adult contemporary audience was buying up the units. I think the sales and new listeners had brushed of what would have been other listeners.
With the reliease of the movie sountrach for Rush and I think one of the Leathal Weapon... this releiase wasn't really the reliease that Clapton fans were waiting for or antisabating. I could have my time line off but if I remember correctly there was a huge growing demand for Eric to finially put out a blues record (From the Craddle).
Unfortunilty MTV and the record lable missed the boat and left out two of the most important songs from the show. With the death of his son Conor the songs My Fathers Eye's and Circus Left Town were more written about Conor then Tear's in Heaven, which was more written for the Rush movie and allowed him to touch on his emotions about the loss of Conor but know where in the depths of the other two songs.
.... One other not about the recording, I remember for the longest time afterwards that Eric had always performed Layla with the new acoustic arrangment. When he finially did eventually change over to the original electirc version... that opening riff at the show was like a bolt of electircity. A very amazing response from the crowd.