Ok ok ok… I’ll try to not go on and on about music ALL the time, especially out of respect to our large number of new visitors this month from near and far. But I have to give you my response to the Clapton show.
We arrived as Robert Randolph was opening the gig and he was lovely and pleasant and a fun entertainer. And then WA-ZAM! He sits down at his pedal steel and plays the opening riff for “Voodoo Child” AND MY FACE MELTED RIGHT OFF! Reincarnation #1.
Then Clapton comes on stage and what does he start the set off with? None other than “MOTHERLESS CHILDREN”. Reincarnation #2. Before the end of the first measure, I’m pretty sure Matt was not only weeping but had also soiled his pants. People, my husband was not even this happy ON OUR WEDDING DAY!
He played stuff from Journeyman and No Reason To Cry. They even did the piano part from “Layla.” Possibly my favorite moment in the show was his tribute version of “Little Wing” which has so much collegiate significance for me. For those of us who will never have the opportunity to hear the greatest guitarist of all time in real life, we got pretty close to that moment last night (#3, of course). And then they ended the show with an encore version of “I Got My Mojo Workin’” with Robert Randolph once again rockin’ his pedal steel, which of course is a Matt & me song from his days playing in Smokestack Lightening.
It was a great show. Seriously up there. And Matt and I both realized about halfway through that this probably marked The Show that meant we had now gone to more shows together than apart. Aaaa… wedded concert bliss.
I took some snappy video of the concert with my cell phone but it looks like a psychedelic mind trip, and I don’t want you to think I was smoking pot with everyone else there. Plus, you don’t have time for my ILLUSIONS.