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Topic: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

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Further On Up The Road... Eric Clapton..

does anyone know where (what CD / album etc...) I can find this track?

A quick google search yielded little fruit except a couple of 7 minute live efforts..

In interviews etc, Joe B talks about the track as if there is a "definitive" version...

Before parting with ca$h on an obscure Live Clapton CD i'd like to know what the definitive version may be...

All advice gratefully received...

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

I don't know about Joe but my favourite version is the one the double live album Just One Night (1980). One of my all time favourite albums (well, I learned to play guitar with that one...). There's another great version on the seventies live album E.C. was here (1975). I like that one, too.
I think it's the latter version that you'll find on the double CD anthology Blues (1999), essential for every CD collection, IMHO.
I can't remember on top of my head whether there's a studio version.

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

I'm almost positive that Joe's version that he loved was from Just One Night, but I'm not completely positive.

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

I am in agreement with Bluesbreaker, and Deezer.

Just One Night, was where i first heard it.

It's also on, Chronicles
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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

Can agree with Bluesbreaker on the 'EC Was Here' version, which I find one of the best. The whole album, although quite short I suppose, is a great live recording. He had a tremendous band with him then with the great Yvonne Elliman on backing vocals and duetting with him

The track before FOUTR , 'Ramblin' on My Mind' on this album turns into something of an improvised extended version and you can hear Clapton shouting out chord changes.

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

Thanks guys..!

I'll check out the versions you have suggested..

It seems that there must not be a studio EC version of this track..

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

Sorry to muddy the waters, but I thought it was the live version with Freddie King that he originally heard and tried to play along with. It on this album:  http://www.amazon.com/Freddie-King-1934 … B000001FM1

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

Oh, good find Lynnl, just researched it, you could be right.

I also found, Johnny Cash covered it, along with many others..
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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

The song Man in Black recorded was not the same tune. 

This one was done by Bobby "Blue" Bland in 1957.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3cYcEfJtY

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

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The song Man in Black recorded was not the same tune. 

This one was done by Bobby "Blue" Bland in 1957.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3cYcEfJtY

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

bigjeffjones wrote:

The song Man in Black recorded was not the same tune. 

This one was done by Bobby "Blue" Bland in 1957.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq3cYcEfJtY

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

Rooster07 wrote:

....

It seems that there must not be a studio EC version of this track..

Cheers....

yes, it's been always a live thingy for him all the way through a large part of his career and never made it onto one of his regular studio-albums...

BTW:...while browsing through the web I came across this nice vid-clip from 1981 (with an great Jeff Beck and drummer Simon Phillips) --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZBeerUD-zc

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

pit_s_xroad wrote:
Rooster07 wrote:

....

It seems that there must not be a studio EC version of this track..

Cheers....

yes, it's been always a live thingy for him all the way through a large part of his career and never made it onto one of his regular studio-albums...

BTW:...while browsing through the web I came across this nice vid-clip from 1981 (with an great Jeff Beck and drummer Simon Phillips) --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZBeerUD-zc

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

My favorite version of all time would be in The Last Waltz ( The Band's last concert) Clapton was playing with The Band and his strap actually came off in the begining of the song lol so robbie robertson had to fill in.  big_smile  Its a great verson though i think 78?

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Re: Eric Clapton - Further On Up The Road

renzo wrote:

My favorite version of all time would be in The Last Waltz ( The Band's last concert) Clapton was playing with The Band and his strap actually came off in the begining of the song lol so robbie robertson had to fill in.  big_smile  Its a great verson though i think 78?

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