"The bit onstage, that's easy," Clapton, 67, tells senior writer Brian Hiatt. "If I could do that around my neighborhood, that would be great. You have guys in Texas that play their circuit, and it keeps them alive. But for me, the struggle is the travel. And the only way you can beat that is by throwing so much money at it that you make a loss. So the idea is I'm taking a leaf out of JJ [Cale]'s book: When I'm 70, I'll stop. I won't stop playing or doing one-offs, but I'll stop touring, I think."
...na, dann geht`s in 3 Jahren nur noch in die RAH
....und ein paar Konzerte bei uns kann man ja wohl auch nicht als Weltreise bezeichnen...... angenehme Unterkünfte für Senioren sind auch erschwinglich
Eric Clapton has revealed that he has been doing his own laundry whenever he's on tour.The 67-year-old rocker was caught taking care of his own washing by paparazzi in 2011, but admitted that he has been in the know about which spin cycles are best for years.
"I'm very fussy about how my clothes are washed. (Hotels) destroy stuff, and I don't like that they put starch in there. I like tumble-dry. And it's a good reality check," he told Rolling Stone.
The guitarist added: "The first thing I do when I get to any American town when we're on the road is find a laundromat."
The Layla hitmaker has even found a way of dealing with fans who recognise him in the laundromat.
"If someone's going to freak out, you look them in the eye, and it sort of calms them down. When we're waiting for our stuff to finish in the wash, we're on the same level. It's very human. I like it," he said.
Vielleicht sehen wir ihn ja in 3 Jahren als Nachfolger für Klementine im TV
Wolfgang Niedecken kann ihm sicherlich einen guten Waschsalon in Kölle empfehlen
klar, Stones-Fans sind neidisch auf alle Musiker, die besser sind als "ihre" Stones. Und das sind nun mal viele, allen voran EC im Vergleich zu KR. Man denke nur an den Gastauftritt von EC zuletzt. Da musste uns Eric ja nur ein klein bisschen was von seiner Saitenkunst aufblitzen lassen, um Richards und Co. an die Wand zu spielen. Mal ganz zu schweigen von Jaggers grottenschlechtem Singsang.
Hallo Gemeinde, hallo Peter,
du hast Recht. Habe mir heute die Concert for George Doku angesehen.
Da erkennt man sehr schnell, welcher Geist und Zusammenhalt bei den britischen Musikern gepflegt wird.
Nicht das einer meint, das gäbe es nur in Kölle (Arsch hu....).
Nur die raufboldenden Herren von den rollenden Steinen waren sich dazu wohl zu fein.
Last year, Eric Clapton found himself with two weeks to kill between a tour finale in L.A. and Jimmie Vaughan’s birthday party in Texas. So he took his band into the studio and began work on his 21st solo album, Old Sock, an amiable, laid-back grab bag of mostly covers, from the killer unreleased JJ Cale song “Angel” to “Goodnight Irene.” “I don’t see myself as a recording artist,” says Clapton, 67. “I’m more of a live guy. In the studio, I get overpressured, fearful, hesitant, all of that. It’s always best when you don’t particularly care if it works or not. You just go in and have fun.”
When you play a solo, you can’t say, “Hey, no one’s expecting Eric Clapton here.” How do you deal with living up to yourself?
Good question. My expectation of myself is greater than anybody’s – I have to live with me, and the work I’ve done is on my shoulder. But does it mean I’ve got to do something I’ve never done before, or play faster? It comes back to how it feels – whether it comes from the heart, or it’s almost channeled, where I get out of the way and let it come through. If I listen and say, “That’s not me, I couldn’t have thought like that,” that’s when I’m most proud.
