Tonight was the last show.
EC had the great and the best show.
Thank you Mr Eric Clapton!!!
the first night report :09 Nov.
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please click to the other shows short reports. EC's last tour of '90's, 1999 Japan Tour has started at Budokan Tokyo from 9th November. At ten past seven, the lights went off and the music from TDF album stopped. Eric was walking in to the stage from the right hand side of the stage with his guitar followed by the other members. It was a very simple stage without any gimmicks other than instruments. Eric was in the half sleeve light blue shirts and the rolled up blue jeans with the raced up boots on. The glasses look different from the one from the Chronicles jacket picture. It was a silver framed smaller one. The guitar was black Fender Eric Clapton signature Stratocaster with black Ernie Ball strap hooked into Fender tweed Twin amp through effecters as usual. The other 6 members are all dressed in black. The first tune was “My Father's Eyes” as expected. There were no slide guitar part but Eric played the lead in the intro. Next two blues tunes were “Hoochie Coohie Man” and “Reconsider Baby” both from “From the Cradle”. In my opinion, he is in the best form when he plays the blues. As he gets older, the blues fits him better. I’m sure he likes to play the blues the best, and I like him playing the blues the best. Then he played 4 pilgrim songs, “Going Down Slow”, “River of Tears”, “Pilgrim” and “She’s Gone”. After that, they changed into the acoustic set. The first one was “Rambling on My Mind” which was one of the best performance of the night. He played the Dobro with the glass bottle neck bar on his little finger. I felt like listening real Robert Johnson. I do hope he will continue to play like this in the small halls when he becomes 70 years old. Then he changed to Martin 000-28EC and started the intro of “Bell Bottom Blues”. It was unbelievable for us to listen him to play this rarely live played song. It sounded like the original “Layla” version than one in the “24 Nights”. It was definitely the highlights in the show. (At least for maniac old fans.) Then he continued the hit medley, “Tears in Heaven” and “Change the World”. (For non-maniac new fans.) The band changed back to the electric set but somehow Andy Fairweather Low was spotlighted instead of Eric. I though it was the mistake but it was not. It was a big surprised for us Suddenly Andy started singing the heavy blues called “Gin House”. It was a big surprise for us. It was nice to hear Eric playing very heavy slide solo. Then he continued promised “Cocaine” and heavy “Old Love” followed by “Badge” and “Wonderful Tonight”. Then he started playing the most dramatic intro of the rock music, which was the long waited electric version of “Layla”. We expected this to happen as he didn’t play this song in the acoustic set. It was me at 15 years old who froze on the arena when I heard this song first time in the opening of the show at the same place, the Budokan 24 years ago. Since that day, I have never be able to get out of this world. The laid-backed latter part of the song is also very good. After that I thought he started the “Cocaine” again but it was the intro of “Sunshine of Your Love” which was the last song before encore. There were 3 vocal part which were Andy, Nathan and Eric. The encore was “Before You Accuse Me”. He walked out from the stage about quarter past nine. |
13th Nov. Fukuoka show set list :16th Nov.
15th Nov. Osaka show set list :16th Nov.
16th Nov. Osaka show set list :16th Nov.
17th Nov. Osaka show set list :17th Nov.
19th Nov. Tokyo show set list :19th Nov.
20th Nov. Tokyo show set list :20th Nov.
22th Nov. Tokyo show set list :23th Nov.
24th Nov. Tokyo show set list :24th Nov.
26th Nov. Tokyo show set list :26th Nov.
27th Nov. Tokyo show set list :27th Nov.
29th Nov. Tokyo show set list :29th Nov.
30th Nov. Tokyo show set list :30th Nov.
Tour Programme :25th Nov.
Tour Items :03th Dec.
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I got this!! |
I will join 11shows. 09th 13th 15th 19th 20th 22th 24th 26th 27th 29th 30th Nov.
I will try to update every shows as much as possible.
I wait e-mail from all you.
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| 9th Nov.(Tue) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 11th Nov. (Thu) | Aichi Taiikukan, Nagoya |
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| 3th Nov. (Sat) | Fukuoka Messe, Fukuoka |
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| 15th Nov. (Mon) | Osaka jo
Hall,Osaka
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| 16th Nov. (Tue) | Osaka jo Hall,Osaka |
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| 17th Nov. (Wed) | Osaka jo Hall,Osaka |
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| 19th Nov. (Fri) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 20th Nov. (Sat) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 22nd Nov. (Mon) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 24th Nov. (Wed) | Yokohama Arena, Yokohama |
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| 26th Nov. (Fri) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 27th Nov. (Sat) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 29th Nov. (Mon) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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| 30th Nov. (Tue) | Budoukan Tokyo |
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