This was on the shopping music in a home furnishings store in Studio City yesterday, January 1st, a perfect way to announce the new year. Clapton has never sounded better, in terms of tone, energy, passion. I wish he were still this electrifying & still playing Les Pauls.
This was on the shopping music in a home furnishings store in Studio City yesterday, January 1st, a perfect way to announce the new year. Clapton has never sounded better, in terms of tone, energy, passion. I wish he were still this electrifying & still playing Les Pauls.
The band is cookin' and you can tell it's always hot and tasty in that kitchen! Albert Lee! yeah! And- who's that pedal steel player? (Looked it up, it's Hank Devito.) He's excellent! I love the intro Devito and Lee play together there. I'd do my level best to cop as much of his pedal-steel licks, vibe 'n' tone if I was workin' up a band cover of this for gigs...
Veering tangentially- Dave Borisoff, inventor, founder and president of Hipshot, all-around great guy and a very fine pedal-steeler and banjoist in his own right, once said to me at an unplanned jam between bands-sets at a charity benefit gig as he was settling down behind his pedal-steel rig, "Hey, I was wonderin', if you could set up your stuff a little further up front here, I'd like to see how you're using your pedals... ?" To which I replied, "That's funny, I wanted to be able to see how YOU use YOUR pedals!" He gave me a look of surprise and we both had a big laugh about that! Now, FWIW, much of what he was curious about in my playing came primarily from my manipulating my Les Paul's volume knobs- "pinky-swells" and the like- and pickup-selector-switch along with oblique-bends playing two or three strings plucked simultaneously finger-style, somewhat evoking a bastardized 'pedal-steel' sound and style. Though I imagine he was also curious about my Boss RT-20 Leslie-sim sounds, Foxrox Octron octave-fuzz, harmonic-feedback from my Sustainiac pedal...
But I digress...
Here's another vid of the same song performed live onstage by the same band, posted on YouTube, with better audio and video quality:
BÖC has announced they’re doing a new album, etc. in the near future, which reminded me of the time I got to see them in concert- I had the curious priviledge of seeing BÖC perform at a club in Austin in the 1990s, with the just-signed Galactic Cowboys and locals Black Pearl opening. HELL OF A SHOW!!!
Black Pearl’s vocalist, Lisa Tingle, had a killer voice. Should have broken bigger, but...
GC’s show was a bit of a wreck- their keyboard player was drunk off his ass and kept hitting on my friend...while simultaneously stumbling over my crutches & cast. So when they got on stage, he was barely functioning. Sloppy, playing the wrong stuff, off tempo... I don’t think he made it to the first record (but I don’t know for sure). And the headliners?
Simply put, BÖC played a “greatest hits” playlist. All killer, no filler, as they say.
But thinking about that night made me think of Black Pearl more. I just had to binge on some of the songs they played back then, and found a couple I remember for sure.. (Thank you, Internet!)