ERIC CLAPTON "24 Nights" Rare Original Sealed 1991 US Double LP MINT OOP
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Eric Clapton / 24 Nights - Reprise/Duck Records W1-26420 (US)(1991) ...This auction is for a factory Sealed, original issue Double Record on (U.S.) vinyl. This original limited edition vinyl pressing was only available for a short time through the Columbia House record club and was soon out of print. It is very hard to find still sealed.
Eric Clapton, who had not released a live album since 1980, had several good reasons to release this one in the early '90s. For one thing, his spare backup band of keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, bassist Nathan East, and drummer Steve Ferrone was his best live unit ever, and its powerful live versions of Cream classics like "White Room" and "Sunshine of Your Love" deserved to be documented. For another, since 1987 Clapton had been playing an annual series of concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London, putting together various special shows (blues nights, orchestral nights, etc.). 24 Nights, a double album, was culled from two years of such shows, 1990 and 1991, and it demonstrated the breadth of Clapton's work, from his hot regular band to assemblages of bluesmen like Buddy Guy and Robert Cray to examples of his soundtrack work with an orchestra led by Michael Kamen. The result was an album that came across as a lavishly constructed retrospective and a testament to Clapton's musical stature.
Track listings and reviews listed below...The brand new Double Record and Gatefold Cover are in excellent (Mint) condition. Record will include a plastic outer record sleeve. Satisfaction Guaranteed. For payment please use Paypal (other payments are no longer accepted due to eBay’s new policy. If that is a problem, please let them know and contact us to work something out). Payment and Shipping information is listed below but S/H charges will include actual postage rate (plus $1-2 for shipping supplies). All items are shipped worldwide (except Russia*). Specialized shipping is extra ~ Not responsible for uninsured items ~ Insurance (US prices only) is $2.50 for $5.00 to $200.00 in coverage (Foreign Insurance can be expensive and complicated) ...Thank you (*previous USSR bidders are accepted except ????? ?????? who is no longer a trusted/wanted bidder) (Click the (me) file next to the feedback score for our seller profile)
Detailed item info:
Track listingRecord 1
(Side One)
1. Badge
2. Running on Faith
3. White Room
4. Sunshine of Your Love
(Side Two)
1. Watch Yourself
2. Have You Ever Loved a Woman
3. Worried Life Blues
4. Hoodoo Man
Record 2
(Side One)
1. Pretending
2. Bad Love
3. Old Love
4. Wonderful Tonight
(Side Two)
1. Bell Bottom Blues
2. Hard Times
3. Edge of Darkness
Details Number of LPs: 2 Producer: Russ Titelman Recording type: Live Distributor: Warner Bros./Columbia House
Album notes Personnel: Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar); Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan, Phil Palmer (guitar); Jerry Portnoy (harmonica); Johnnie Johnson (piano); Greg Philinganes (keyboards, background vocals); Chuck Leavell (keyboards); Nathan East (bass, background vocals); Richard Cousins, Joey Spampinato (bass); Steve Ferrone, Jamie Oldaker (drums); Phil Collins (tambourine); Ray Cooper (percussion); Katie Kissoon, Tessa Niles (background vocals).
Recorded live at The Royal Albert Hall, London in 1990 & 1991.
Record one finds Slowhand playing a Cream-heavy set. On Clapton's blues band set he jams with heroes and friends such as Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimmie Vaughan and Johnny Johnson on songs by Guy ("Watch Yourself"), Junior Wells ("Hoodoo Man") and Maceo Merriweather ("Worried Life Blues").
The 9-piece band opening up record two essays numbers from JOURNEYMAN along with "Wonderful Tonight" and a Derek & The Dominos favorite, "Bell Bottom Blues." Things wrap up with Clapton backed by the aforementioned nonet and The Michael Kamen-led National Philharmonic Orchestra. Along with a version of "Hard Times" that does justice to Brother Ray's original, there's the instrumental "Edge Of Darkness." Taken from the Lethal Weapon movies Clapton scored with Kamen, it shows another side of Slowhand that's usually buried under the deification he's shunned his whole life.
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