From joek1000@aol.com Fri Sep 19 08:20:45 2003
Subject:Re: billy preston question (Eric Clapton DVD)

--- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
> Where do you find this DVD? Bill

Its the "One More Car One More Rider" DVD. I liked it because Clapton
gave plenty of time to his sidemen for their own solos.

Billy Preston is great on it. The solo for "When a Man Needs a Woman"
is one of those classic Hammond solos where the first verse is
tasteful phrasing and the second verse blasts off into a screaming
Leslie solo. Melvin Seales does the same kind of solo on the "Jerry
Garcia Band Live" CD in "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Brent
Mydland of the Grateful Dead used to like to play like that also.

I don't know who the piano player on Clapton's CD is but he is also
excellent. In Layla he gets up to play the second guitar part and
then sits down to do the extended piano part. As my guitar player
from Vermont used to say "He ain't no slouch!"

Joe