ERIC CLAPTON : OLE! EC PLAYS BUENOS AIRES

 

Disc One (71:23)

  1. Introduction (Layla)
  2. Pretending
  3. No Alibis
  4. Running On Faith
  5. I Shot The Sheriff
  6. White Room
  7. Can't Find My Way Home
  8. Bad Love
  9. Before You Accuse Me
  10. Old Love

Disc Two (64:22)

  1. Badge
  2. Wonderful Tonight
  3. Band Introduction
  4. Cocaine
  5. A Remark You Made
  6. Layla
  7. Crossroads
  8. Sunshine Of Your Love

Label : Slunky

Venue : River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Recording Date : October 5, 1990

Quality : Soundboard Recording (A+)

Review for Latin Blood (Collector's Music Reviews) : After Eternal's "Amigos" and Slunky's "Ole", MidValley's "Latin Blood" is the third silver release of this show. "Amigos" was the first one to see the light of day. It was released back in 1997: being a soundboard tape and and featuring gold discs it was a very limited edition. Needless to say it sold extremely quickly and it is now a very much sought after item. In fact I have to say I have never seen a copy exchange hands amongst collectors. This is what the liner notes on this release say about this show: "Eric's tour of South America proved to be one of the hottest, and I just don't mean the temperature, that he and the band undertook. Eric soloed wildly and clearly found himself rejuvinated in front of highly enthusiastic and emotive crowd. They clung on to every note and responded with total abandonement end Eric and Co. rewarded the fans with some of the best performances ever. The two highlights were the Montevideo and Buenos Aires shows, the latter you are lucky enough to hear in stunning soundboard quality for the first time ever in its complete form. Kick back end enjoy Eric at his best!!" We are lucky this show was professionally recorded. With such an excited crowd, any audience recording that might have surfaced would have been simply pathetic! No changes in the setlist which sees all of the material from Journeyman performed in its first half. Pretending opens the show with strength and it's followed by No Alibis : with a couple of mistakes from our man its intensity will not match Montevideo's. Sheriff is given the "Slowhand treatment" and is a highlight and so is Old Love. Bad Love is worth mentioning too. It's the strongest rock song on "Journeyman" and alongside White Room it's the strongest rock song in this live setting too. How EC attacks the guitar on these four songs is just unbelievable! EC's solo on Badge seemed uninspired to me the first time I listened to it. EC goes from short phrase to short phrase making the solo so different from Montevideo's. But I played it again and it just grew on me. and I now think it is another standout song in the setlist. Cocaine witnesses another great guitar solo making Greg Phillinganes' subsequent work on the keyboards absolutely dull for me. EC plays his heart out on a blistering rendition of Layla. The encore consists of Crossroads - great two minute intro by EC on his own - seguing into Sunshine Of Your Love: longer than in Montevideo I keep skipping the percussion/drum solos!!! I believe "Amigos" and "Latin Blood" are sourced from different tapes or they are remastered differently. Both sound great but maybe "Latin Blood" has a cleaner/thinner sound? Either way, whether you already own "Amigos" or not, you have to score a copy of this MidValley 4CD set. It comes housed in the red slipcase shown above and also includes a mini tour programme replica of the Journeyman Tour. According to Marc Roberty's "The Complete Recording Sessions 1963-1992?, the shows from Sep 29th and Oct 7th in Santiago de Chile and Rio de Janeiro were also officially recorded for potential release so one can only hope that MidValley has access to those tapes and puts those two shows out one of these days.. It would be a dream come true. "Latin Blood" is an absolutely essential title that any self-respecting collection should include.