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[narrator] On January 16, 1992,
Eric Clapton walked out in front of a small audience
at Bray Studios, just outside of London,
to shoot his installment of the MTV concert series,Unplugged.
Since joining his first band at the age of 17,
Clapton had gone on to play with legendary groups
including the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers,
the first rock supergroup, Cream,
Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominoes.
He explored other musical directions
with various other artists
and also recorded a dozen solo albums
throughout the 1970s and '80s,
including461 Ocean Boulevard, Slow HandandJourneyman.
ForUnplugged,Clapton distilled this lifetime of music
into an hour-long set
that became a turning point in his career.
Putting aside his electric guitar,
but still accompanied by his band,
he played the whole set, well, unplugged.
The story it told paid tribute
to some of the idols of his youth, like Muddy Waters,
Bo Diddley, Robert Johnson.
It also allowed him to reimagine
some of his own best known music,
like the 1970"Layla"
and the more recent "Tears in Heaven,"
a song tragically inspired by the death
of his four-year-old son, Connor, just the year before.
Unpluggedpremiered a few months after filming
and was greeted with instant acclaim.
Its accompanying album won six Grammy Awards,
sold 26 million copies worldwide,
and went on to become the biggest live album of all time.
It is a performance filled with heart and history.
Fortunately, the crew that filmed it also took time
to interview Clapton just moments before he went on stage.
This is his story ofUnplugged.
I knew about the show, I knew aboutUnplugged,
I think a couple of years ago, I saw Don Henley.
I then kind of avoided watching it because I thought,
"well, I'd like to do this one day
"and I don't want to see how many other people--
"I don't want to see--
"I don't want be influenced
"by the way other people are doing it,"
so I sort of avoided watching it from then on.
And someone sent me The Elton John,
and I didn't even look at it, I refused to look at it
because it was close to doing the show
and I didn't want to be influenced,
so I wanted to do it as if it was brand new.
And so, I don't know
how my show will tally in with the others, but.
- Well, you ready? Okay. - Yeah.
♪♪♪
[crowd cheering]
Yeah, that was, um, that was an early, early record
that I'd heard, "Before You Accuse Me"
was, I think, on the first Bo Diddley album I ever heard
and it had "Hey! Bo Diddley" and "I'm a Man"
and a lot of other things, "Bring It to Jerome."
And that was one, I thought, it was just like--
It was a straight blues and it could be played
any way you like it, which is great.
So, I play it on stage with the electric guitar
and I think it'd be nice
to try it with two acoustics as well.
Most of the songs in the set, if they're cover songs,
they're songs I heard when I was very young
that I've always wanted to do.
So, this is a great opportunity for me to play those things
that originally influenced me.
[applause]
[crowd cheering]
♪ Before you accuse me ♪
♪ Take a look at yourself ♪
[audience clapping along]
♪ Before you accuse me ♪
♪ Take a look at yourself ♪
♪ You say I'm been spending my money on other women ♪
♪ You taking money from someone else ♪
♪ I called your mama ♪
♪ About three or four nights ago ♪
♪ I called your mama ♪
♪ About three or four nights ago ♪
♪ Well your mama said, ♪
♪ "Son, don't call my daughter no more" ♪
♪ Before you accuse me ♪
♪ Take a look at yourself ♪
♪ Before you accuse me ♪
♪ Take a look at yourself ♪
♪ You say I'm spending my money on other women ♪
♪ You taking money from someone else ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Come on back home baby ♪
♪ Try my love one more time ♪
♪ Come on back home baby ♪
♪ Try my love one more time ♪
♪ You know when things don't go to suit you ♪
♪ I think I lose my mind ♪
♪ Before you accuse me ♪
♪ Take a look at yourself ♪
♪ Before you accuse me ♪
♪ Take a look at yourself ♪
♪ You say I'm spending my money on other women ♪
♪ You taking money from someone else ♪
♪♪♪
[crowd cheering]
Thank you!
"Hey Hey" is an instrumental--
Well, it's semi-instrumental by Big Bill Broonzy.
And that was probably the first blues album--
One of the first blues albums I've heard.
And it was a piece that I always wanted to play.
In fact, I used to play it in pubs when I was very young.
I never felt like I'd mastered it,
but that's why we do it with two guitars.
♪♪♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, baby, hey ♪
♪ I love you baby ♪
♪ Sure ain't gonna be your dog ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, baby, hey ♪
♪ My arms around you, baby ♪
♪ 'Cause all I can say is hey ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, baby, hey ♪
♪ I love you baby ♪
♪ But I sure ain't gonna be your dog ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Hey, hey, lost your good thing now ♪
♪ Hey, hey, you lost your good thing now ♪
♪ You had me fooled ♪
♪ I found it out somehow ♪
♪♪♪
[crowd cheering]
Thank you!
Andy Fairweather-Low, please.
[crowd cheering loudly]
The next song from that was "Tears in Heaven,"
was, um, part of the score for a film that I did
with Lili Zanuck, um, calledRush.
Because it was really needed
to illustrate loss
because of what happens in the movie,
and it was a good opportunity for me to--
to write about my son, about the loss of my son.
And also, um, have somewhere to put it, to channel it,
and I really wanted to say something about
what had happened to me.
And the opportunity the movie gave me was excellent
because it meant that I could write this song for the film
and express my own feelings
and have it come out soon
so that there was an audience for it.
I think, um,
with what happened to me last year,
and the loss of my son,
I think the audience, my audience,
would be very surprised
if I didn't make some sort of reference to it,
and I wouldn't want to insult them
by not including them in my grief, in a way,
and so I do intend to make these things known
and I will play them in concert and put them on record.
It is, for me, a healing process and I think--
I think it's important that you share that
with people that love your music.
♪♪♪
♪ Would you know my name ♪
♪ If I saw you in heaven? ♪
♪ Would it be the same ♪
♪ If I saw you in heaven? ♪
♪ I must be strong ♪
♪ And carry on ♪
♪ 'Cause I know ♪
♪ I don't belong ♪
♪ Here in heaven ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Would you hold my hand ♪
♪ If I saw you in heaven? ♪
♪ Would you help me ♪
♪ If I saw you in heaven? ♪
♪ I'll find my way ♪
♪ Through night and day ♪
♪ 'Cause I know ♪
♪ I just can't stay ♪
♪ Here in heaven ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Time can bring you down ♪
♪ Time can bend your knee ♪
♪ Time can break your heart ♪
♪ Have you begging please ♪
♪ Begging please ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Beyond the door ♪
♪ There's peace, I'm sure ♪
♪ And I know ♪
♪ There'll be no more ♪
♪ Tears in heaven ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Would you know my name ♪
♪ If I saw you in heaven? ♪
♪ Would it be the same ♪
♪ If I saw you in heaven ♪
♪ I must be strong ♪
♪ And carry on ♪
♪ Cause I know ♪
♪ I don't belong ♪
♪ Here in heaven ♪
♪ Cause I know I don't belong ♪
♪ Here in heaven ♪
Thank you.
[strumming guitar]
♪ I must be invisible ♪
♪ No one knows me ♪
♪ And I have crawled down dead end streets ♪
♪ On my hands and knees ♪
♪ And I was born with a raging thirst ♪
♪ A hunger to be free ♪
♪ What I've learned through the years ♪
♪ Don't encourage me ♪
♪ Cause I'm a lonely stranger here ♪
♪ Well beyond my day ♪
♪ And I don't know what's going on ♪
♪ I'll be on my way ♪
♪ Yes, I will (I'll be on my way) ♪
♪ Yes, I will ♪
♪ Yes, I will (I'll be on my way) ♪
♪ When I walk ♪
♪ Stay behind ♪
♪ Don't get close to me ♪
♪ Cause it's sure ♪
♪ To end in tears ♪
♪ So just let me be ♪
♪ Some will say ♪
♪ That I'm no good ♪
♪ Maybe I agree ♪
♪ Just take a look ♪
♪ Then walk away ♪
♪ That's all right with me ♪
♪ Cause I'm a lonely stranger here ♪
♪ Well beyond my day ♪
♪ And I don't know what's going on ♪
♪ So I'll be on my way ♪
♪ Yes, I will (I'll be on my way) ♪
♪ I'll be on my way ♪
[cheering]
Thank you.
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out"
was originally--
I first heard it by Bessie Smith, and--
in fact, no, I first heard it by an English musician,
and I can't remember who, a pub player,
and I learned it from him,
and then I found out later that it was by Bessie Smith,
and it is one of the early songs that I played
when I was around the pubs, when I was about 15, 16,
and I played it unaccompanied, and it was one of my first--
one of the first songs that I felt I could sing
because it's a melodramatic song,
and I could, you know,
I could put all this angst into it, you know?
And it sort of come back--
it came back when I had Derek and the Dominoes,
we did a version of it, and I still--
it's another one like "Alberta" and "San Francisco Bay Blues",
just part of the-- of the old history
that's in my head, you know, it will never go away.
♪ Once I lived the life of a millionaire ♪
Spent all my money, didn't have any care
♪ Took all my friends out for a mighty good time ♪
♪ We bought bootleg liquor, champagne and wine ♪
♪ Then I began to fall so low ♪
♪ Lost all my good friends and nowhere to go ♪
♪ If I get my hands on a dollar again ♪
♪ I'll hang on to it till that old eagle grins ♪
♪ Because nobody knows you ♪
♪ When you're down and out ♪
♪ In your pocket, not one penny ♪
♪ And as for friends, you don't have many ♪
♪ When you get back on your feet again ♪
♪ Everybody wants to be your long lost friend ♪
♪ I said it's strange, without any doubt ♪
♪ Nobody knows you when you're down and out ♪
♪ Lord, nobody knows you ♪
♪ when you're down and out ♪
♪ In your pocket, not one penny ♪
♪ And as for friends, you don't have any ♪
♪ When you get back on your feet again ♪
♪ Everybody wants to be your long lost friend ♪
♪ I said it's strange without any doubt ♪
♪ Nobody knows you (Nobody knows you) ♪
♪ Nobody knows you when you're down and out ♪
[cheering, whistling]
Thank you.
Layla, um...
-It sort of mystified me -♪ Got me on my knees, Layla ♪
that I've done it the same all these years,
and never, ever considered trying to revamp it,
and a lot of artists do that, you know, a lot of--
Bob Dylan, for instance, changes everything
every time he plays it, and I thought
this was another great opportunity
to just take it off on a different path,
and to put it to a shuffle,
and for a start, making it acoustic.
Denied all the riffs, really,
they would have sounded a bit weak, I think,
on the acoustic, so...
It just seemed to become jazzier, somehow,
and of course, I'm singing it a whole octave down.
So it gives it a nice kind of atmosphere.
Well, Andy Fairweather Low and myself
were at my house some pre...
Pre-rehearsal rehearsal for this.
And I just picked up the guitar and said,
"What do you think of this?" And it just happened.
And I mean, it clicked straight away.
So we kept it like that.
See if you can spot this one.
[opening chords to "Layla"]
♪ What will you do when you get lonely ♪
♪ No one waiting by your side ♪
♪ You've been running, hiding much too long ♪
♪ You know it's just your foolish pride ♪
♪ Layla ♪
♪ You got me on my knees, Layla ♪
♪ Begging darling, please, Layla ♪
♪ Darling, won't you ease my worried mind? ♪
♪ Tried to give you consolation ♪
♪ When your old man let you down ♪
♪ Like a fool, I fell in love with you ♪
♪ You turned my whole world upside down ♪
♪ Layla ♪
♪ You got me on my knees, Layla ♪
♪ Begging darling, please, Layla ♪
♪ Darling, won't you ease my worried mind? ♪
♪ Make the best of this situation ♪
♪ Before I finally go insane ♪
♪ Please don't say we'll never find a way ♪
♪ Tell me all my love's in vain ♪
♪ Layla ♪
♪ You got me on my knees, Layla ♪
♪ Begging darling, please, Layla ♪
♪ Darling, won't you ease my worried mind? ♪
♪ Layla ♪
♪ Got me on my knees, Layla ♪
♪ Begging darling, please, Layla ♪
♪ Darling, won't you ease my worried mind? ♪
♪ Layla ♪
♪ You got me on my knees, Layla ♪
♪ Begging darling, please, Layla ♪
♪ Darling, won't you ease my worried mind? ♪
♪ Layla ♪
♪ You got me on my knees, Layla ♪
♪ Begging darling, please, Layla ♪
♪ Darling, won't you ease my worried ♪
♪ Mind ♪
Thank you!
"Running on Faith" was onJourneyman,
and Jerry Lynn Williams wrote that, yeah.
That I'd heard him play on piano,
and acoustic and electric,
and in a lot of different ways,
so I knew that that song was easily adaptable,
so that was an obvious choice to do,
and also, it's a fairly well-known song,
and it's part of my usual stage repertoire,
so I thought it was good to include that.
One, two, three, four.
[cheering]
♪ Lately I've been running on faith ♪
♪ What else can a poor boy do? ♪
♪ But my world would be right ♪
♪ When love comes over you ♪
♪ Lately I've been talking in my sleep ♪
♪ Can't imagine what I'd have to say ♪
♪ Except my world would be right ♪
♪ Love comes back your way ♪
♪ Lord, I've always been ♪
♪ One to take each and every day ♪
♪ Seems like by now ♪
♪ I'd find a love who would care ♪
♪ Care just for me ♪
♪ Then we'd go running on faith ♪
♪ All of our dreams would come true ♪
♪ And our world would be right ♪
♪ Love comes over me and you ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Ooh, I've always been ♪
♪ One to take each and every day ♪
♪ Seems like by now ♪
♪ I'd find a love who would care ♪
♪ Care just for me ♪
♪ Then we'd go running on faith ♪
♪ And all of our dreams would come true ♪
♪ And our world would be right ♪
♪ Love comes over me and you ♪
♪ Yes it would ♪
♪ And love comes over you ♪
♪ Love comes over, over you ♪
♪ Love comes over you ♪
♪ All of your dreams will come true ♪
♪ When love, when love comes over you ♪
♪ All of your dreams will come true ♪
♪ When love, when love comes over you ♪
♪ All of your dreams will come true ♪
♪ (Love comes over you) ♪
♪ (When love comes over you) ♪
♪ (Love comes over you) ♪
♪ (When love comes over you) ♪
♪ Love comes over you ♪
♪ When love ♪
♪ Comes over ♪
♪ You ♪
[crowd cheering]
Thank you.
Well, Walking Blues is a Robert Johnson song,
but the actual style I'm playing on the guitar is
a Muddy Waters style, and--
And the first-- it's a kind of hybrid because
one of the first Muddy Waters songs I ever heard
was called "Feel Like Going Home",
and that's the guitar part from that song,
but with Robert Johnson's lyrics superimposed.
So it's my sort of tribute to both of them, really.
And it's a piece that I've played
ever since I was 14 years old,
but I only just recently decided to start singing that song.
[lightly strumming guitar]
♪ Woke up this morning
♪ Feel around for my shoes ♪
♪ You know about that babe ♪
♪ Had them old walking blues ♪
♪ Woke up this morning ♪
♪ I feel around for my shoes ♪
♪ You know about that babe ♪
♪ ooh, Lord, I had them old walking blues ♪
♪ Leaving this morning ♪
♪ I had to go ride the blinds ♪
♪ I've been mistreated ♪
♪ Don't mind dying ♪
♪ This morning ♪
♪ I had to go ride the blinds ♪
♪ I've been mistreated ♪
♪ Ooh, Lord, I don't mind dying ♪
♪♪♪
♪ People tell me ♪
♪ The walking blues ain't bad ♪
♪ Worst old feeling ♪
♪ I most ever had ♪
♪ People tell me ♪
♪ The old walking blues ain't bad ♪
♪ Well, it's the worst old feeling ♪
♪ Ooh, Lord, I most ever had ♪
♪♪♪
[crowd cheering]
Thank you.
"Alberta" was an old Snooks Eaglin song.
Again, from when I was very young,
it was part of my record collection,
theSnooks Eaglin Street Singeralbum.
He was a great player and singer.
He did things like "Malagueña".
And they recorded him on the street in New Orleans,
and the variety of his repertoire was amazing.
But that song, "Alberta",
was accessible to me
as a beginning guitar player
because it's three chords and all just straight strumming.
And it just lodged in my mind as a very sentimental song,
part of my early influences.
[strumming chords]
[accompanying band joins in]
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Where you been so long? ♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Where you been so long? ♪
♪ Ain't had no loving ♪
♪ Since you been gone ♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Where'd you stay last night? ♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Where'd you stay last night? ♪
♪ Come home this morning ♪
♪ Clothes don't fit you right ♪
Chuck.
[jazzy piano solo]
♪♪♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Girl, you're on my mind ♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Girl, you're on my mind ♪
♪ Ain't had no loving ♪
♪ Such a great long time ♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Where you been so long? ♪
♪ Alberta, Alberta ♪
♪ Where you been so long ♪
♪ Ain't had no loving ♪
♪ Since you been gone ♪
[crowd cheering]
The first one I heard of "San Francisco Bay Blues"
was Jesse Fuller.
Jesse Fuller, and it was...
Jesse Fuller is a one-man band.
He had a bass drum and a foot bass
and harmonicas and kazoos
and a great, big 12-string guitar.
And that was another one of those songs
which he played in a pub to get free beer, you know.
And also very accessible and a good sort of sing-along.
And I just wanted to do this song because
it's never gone away.
And like the other songs in my set,
like "Hey Hey" and "Alberta",
those songs have never left my head.
They're always there and part of my life.
[crowd cheering]
[Eric testing out kazoo]
Now this is the first and last time you'll ever see this.
[crowd laughing]
I'd like to introduce the band to you.
We have the girls, Tessa Niles and Katie Kassoon,
you should know them.
[crowd cheering]
Chuck Leavell on keyboards.
[crowd cheering]
Andy Fairweather Low on guitar.
[crowd cheering]
Ray Cooper on percussion.
[crowd cheering]
And Steve Ferrone on drums and peculiar outfits.
[crowd cheering]
And Nathan East on bass.
[crowd cheering]
[spirited strumming]
♪♪♪
♪ I got the blues from my baby ♪
♪ Left me by the San Francisco Bay ♪
♪ The ocean liner's gone so far away ♪
♪ Didn't mean to treat her so bad ♪
♪ She was the best girl I ever have had ♪
♪ She said good-bye, liked to make me cry ♪
♪ I want to lay down and die ♪
♪ I ain't got a nickel and I ain't got a lousy dime ♪
♪ If she don't come back, I'm going to lose my mind ♪
♪ If she ever gets back to stay ♪
♪ It's going to be another brand new day ♪
♪ Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay ♪
Go on, Andy.
[jaunty harmonica solo]
♪♪♪
[Eric playing the kazoo]
♪♪♪
♪ Sit down looking from my back door ♪
♪ Wondering which way to go ♪
♪ The woman I'm so crazy about, she don't love me no more ♪
♪ Think I'll catch me a freight train ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm feeling blue ♪
♪ And ride all the way to the end of the line ♪
♪ Thinking only of you ♪
♪ Meanwhile, in another city ♪
♪ Just about to go insane ♪
♪ Thought I heard my baby, Lord ♪
♪ The way she used to call my name ♪
♪ If I ever get her back to stay ♪
♪ It's going to be another brand new day ♪
♪ Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay ♪
♪ Well, I'm walking with my baby♪
♪ Down by the San Francisco Bay ♪
[crowd cheering]
[song ends]
Thank you!
I often enjoy singing more with an acoustic situation
because when you're on stage with an electric band
and you've got the PA and everything
is at a pretty high volume,
you usually haven't got much to pitch to
other than the monitors which are in front of you
and it's a very artificial setting.
You can't really hear your own voice
as it comes out of your mouth.
You have to depend on the loudspeakers
and it's such a joy to sing with a full band
acoustically and be able to hear your voice.
And you can, I find it so much more easy to adjust
the volume of your own voice.
Whereas on stage I seem to be singing flat out all the time.
Here you can sing quietly, you know,
you've got more dynamic range.
♪ I keep drinkin' malted milk ♪
♪ Tryin' to drive my blues away ♪
[twangy guitar]
♪ I keep drinkin' malted milk ♪
♪ Tryin' to drive my blues away ♪
♪ Baby, you're just as welcome to my lovin' ♪
♪ As the flowers in may ♪
♪ Malted milk, malted milk ♪
♪ Keep rushin' to my head ♪
♪ Malted milk, malted milk ♪
♪ Keep rushin' to my head ♪
♪ And I have a funny, funny feelin' ♪
♪ And I'm talkin' all out of my head ♪
♪ Baby, fix me one more drink ♪
♪ ♪And hug your daddy one more time
♪ Baby, fix me one more drink ♪
♪ And hug your daddy one more time ♪
♪ Keep on stirrin' my malted milk, mama ♪
♪ Until I change my mind ♪
[guitar solo]
♪ My doorknob keeps on turnin' ♪
♪ There must be spooks around my bed ♪
♪ My doorknob keeps on turnin' ♪
♪ There must be spooks around my bed ♪
♪ And I have a funny, funny feelin' ♪
♪ And the hair's risin' on my head ♪
[song ends]
[crowd cheering]
Thank you.
The first guitar I ever had was a gut string,
a Spanish guitar,
and I couldn't really get the hang of it.
I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents
into buying it for me, and I tried and tried
and tried, and I gave up about a year and a half later.
I got nowhere with it, and I took it up,
I took up the guitar a bit later once I'd heard,
I think, Muddy Waters,
because it sounded to me like it was easier.
Wrong.
So then it had to be, it wasn't acoustic I wanted anymore,
I wanted an electric guitar, and again,
I talked my grandparents into buying me an electric guitar,
and actually, within a very short space of time,
I had got somewhere with it.
So I had two starts, really, and the second time around,
I bumped into people that had the same interests,
that liked Muddy Waters, liked Little Walter,
liked Big Bill Broonzy, liked Robert Johnson,
and that was the original Yardbirds,
and we used to play a lot together at parties
and ended up forming a band,
and that was really when I became professional.
It was a very short amount of time.
♪ I can feel your body ♪
♪ When I'm lying in my bed ♪
♪ There's too much confusion ♪
♪ Going round through my head ♪
♪ And it's making me so angry ♪
♪ To know that the flame still burns ♪
♪ Lord why can't I get over ♪
♪ And when will I ever learn ? ♪
♪ Old love ♪
♪ Leave me alone ♪
♪ Old love ♪
♪ Just go on home ♪
♪ I can see your face ♪
♪ Yes ♪
♪ But I know it ain't real ♪
♪ Just an illusion ♪
♪ Caused by how I used to feel ♪
♪ And it's making me so angry ♪
♪ I know now that the flame will always burn ♪
♪ The flame will always burn ♪
♪ I ain't never gonna get over ♪
♪ Knowing now that I'll never learn ♪
♪ Never learn ♪
♪ Old love ♪
♪ Leave me alone ♪
♪ Old love, old love ♪
♪ Just go on home ♪
♪ Go on home ♪
[guitar solo]
[crowd cheering]
♪ Old love ♪
♪ Just go on home ♪
♪ Go on home ♪
Chuck.
[piano solo]
[crowd cheering]
♪ Old love ♪
[song ends]
[crowd cheering]
["Worried Life Blues" by Eric Clapton]
♪ Oh, lordy lord ♪
♪ It hurts me so badly ♪
♪ For us to part ♪
♪ Oh lordy lord ♪
♪ Lordy lord ♪
♪ It hurts me so badly ♪
♪ But someday, baby ♪
♪ I ain't gonna worry my life anymore ♪
♪ You're on my mind ♪
♪ Every place I go ♪
♪ How much I love you ♪
♪ Nobody knows ♪
♪ But someday, baby ♪
♪ I ain't gonna worry my life anymore ♪
♪ So many nights ♪
♪ Since you went away ♪
♪ I've had to worry ♪
♪ Both night and day ♪
♪ But someday, baby ♪
♪ I ain't gonna worry my life anymore ♪
Chucky, yeah.
[piano solo]
♪ So that's my story ♪
-[crowd cheering] -Chuck Leavell.
♪ That's all I got to say to you ♪
♪ Bye bye, baby ♪
♪ I don't care what you do ♪
♪ But someday, baby ♪
♪ I ain't gonna worry my life anymore ♪
♪ Oh, lordy lord ♪
♪ It hurts me so badly ♪
♪ For us to part ♪
♪ But someday baby ♪
♪ I ain't gonna worry my life anymore ♪
♪
[guitar solo]
[crowd cheering]
[song ends]
Thank you!
The Circus Left Town you know, is about,
directly about my son, really.
And the last night I spent with him was at a circus in fact so,
I mean there's not much I can say about these things except
that they helped me get through a very, very hard patch
in my life and I want to put them on a record.
In fact this is the first time that we'll be played publicly
in any condition so they'll probably change
in the recording process.
Like, they're in a very early stage
of development now, but they will be on record one day.
["Circus"]
Two, three, four...
♪ Little man with his eyes on fire ♪
♪ And his smile so bright ♪
♪ In his hands are the toys you gave ♪
♪ To fill his heart with delight ♪
♪ And in the ring stands a circus clown ♪
♪ Holding up a knife ♪
♪ What you see and what you will hear ♪
♪ Will last you for the rest of your life ♪
♪ And it's sad ♪ ♪ Sad ♪
♪ So sad ♪
♪ There ain't no easy way 'round ♪
♪ And it's sad ♪ ♪ Sad ♪
♪ So sad ♪
♪ All you friends gather 'round ♪
♪ Cause the circus left town ♪
♪ Little man with his heart so pure ♪
♪ And his love so fine ♪
♪ Stick with me and I'll ride with you ♪
♪ Till the end of the line ♪
♪ Hold my hand and I'll walk with you ♪
♪ Through the darkest night ♪
♪ When I smile I'll be thinkin' of you ♪
♪ And every thing will be all right ♪
♪ And it's sad ♪ ♪ Sad ♪
♪ So sad ♪
♪ There ain't no easy way 'round ♪
♪ And it's sad ♪ ♪ Sad ♪
♪ So sad ♪
♪ All you friends gather 'round ♪
♪ Cause the circus left town ♪
♪ And it's sad ♪ ♪ Sad ♪
♪ So sad ♪
♪ There ain't no easy way 'round ♪
♪ And it's sad ♪ ♪ Sad ♪
♪ So sad ♪
♪ All you friends gather round ♪
♪ Cause the circus left town ♪
Thank you.
[crowd cheering]
Yeah, uh,My Father's Eyeswas a song that I wrote
on holiday last year, when I had a kind of
revelation about my son and I--
It's a very personal matter but I never met my father.
And the closest I realized was when I was with my son.
The closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was
when I looked in my son's eyes.
So I wrote a song about that. It was kind of-- it was strange,
like a cycle thing that occurred to me.
And another thing that I felt I would like to share.
["My Father's Eyes" by Eric Clapton"]
♪ Sailing down behind the sun ♪
♪ Waiting for my prince to come ♪
♪ Praying for the healing rain ♪
♪ To restore my soul again ♪
♪ Just a toe rag on the run ♪
♪ How did I get here? ♪
♪ What have I done? ♪
♪ When will all my hopes arise? ♪
♪ How will I know him? ♪
♪ When I look in my father's eyes ♪
♪ Then the light begins to shine ♪
♪ And I hear those ancient lullabies ♪
♪ And as I watch this seedling grow ♪
♪ Feel my heart start to overflow ♪
♪ Where do I find the words to say? ♪
♪ How do I teach him? What do we play? ♪
♪ Bit by bit, I've realized ♪
♪ That's when I need them ♪
♪ That's when I need my father's eyes ♪
♪ Do you really so far away? ♪
♪ Then the jagged edge appears ♪
♪ Through the distant clouds of tears ♪
♪ I'm like a bridge that was washed away ♪
♪ My foundations were made of clay ♪
♪ As my soul slides down to die ♪
♪ How could I lose him? ♪
♪ What did I try? ♪
♪ Bit by bit, I've recognize ♪
♪ He was here with me ♪
♪ I looked into my father's eyes ♪
♪ As my soul slides down to die ♪
♪ How could I lose him? What did I try? ♪
♪ Bit by bit, I've recognize ♪
♪ He was here with me ♪
♪ I looked into my father's eyes ♪
Thank you!
["Rollin' and Tumblin'" by Eric Clapton]
♪ Well, I woke up this morning ♪
♪ My biscuit rolling on ♪
♪ Well now, come here, baby ♪
♪ Sit down on daddy's knee ♪
♪ Well now, come here, baby ♪
♪ Sit down on daddy's knee ♪
♪ I wanna tell you about the way they treated me ♪
♪ Well, I rolled and I tumbled ♪
♪ Cried the whole night long ♪
♪ Well, I rolled and I tumbles ♪
♪ Cried the whole night long ♪
♪ When I woke up this morning ♪
♪ All I had was gone ♪
♪♪♪
I told you.
[crowd cheering]
Thank you.
[applause]
[crowd cheering]
["San Francisco Bay Blues" by Eric Clapton]
♪ I got the blues when my baby left me down by the Frisco Bay ♪
♪ An ocean liner came and took her away ♪
♪ I didn't mean to treat her bad ♪
♪ She was the best gal I ever had ♪
♪ She said good-bye, made me cry ♪
♪ Made me wanna lay down my head and die ♪
♪ Well I ain't got a nickel, and I ain't got a lousy dime? ♪
♪ She don't come back, I think I'm gonna lose my mind ♪
♪ She ever comes back to stay...♪