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Celebrating Bernie Marsden
Rufus Publications is taking pre-orders on their new book Celebrating Bernie Marsden.
The promo blurb reads:
With the kind permission of his family we have been working on a new book to celebrate the career of the amazing Bernie Marsden. This new, 300mm square book with over 300 pages includes written contributions from David Coverdale, Doug Aldrich, Ian Paice, Don Airey, Steve Lukather and others plus a wealth of photographs and memorabilia from Bernie’s extensive career including his time with Whitesnake and of course his special relationship with the Steelhouse Festival.
The profits from this publication will be donated to Bernie’s favoured charity; The Trussell Trust and we hope to raise over £10,000.
This unique edition is numbered 1-300 and is estimated to ship by the end of May 2025.
SAVE 10% IF PRE-ORDERED BEFORE FEBRUARY 28TH 2025
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Not a guitar hero, just a proficient musician playing wonderfully melodic solos with a real songwriting talent. That is a lot more than many guitar heroes ever achieve.
February 1st, 2025 at 14:23Hitting the nail on the head Uwe, well said. Cheers.
February 1st, 2025 at 21:50@ 1
February 1st, 2025 at 22:55Gee Uwe tell me a good album from Eric Clapton the guitar hero has done since the Cream times?
There’s been a couple, AL, Derek & the Dominos or 461 Ocean Boulevard come to mind, but it is unfair to compare them to his body of work with Cream. That is like saying Jon Lord’s Sarabande sucks because it sounds nothing like Made In Japan.
In the aftermath of Cream, Eric switched genres, he wanted to sing more, solo less, write introspective lyrics rather than rousing rock anthems, leave the to him limiting trio format behind (so did Joe Walsh and Sting in their bands – Pete Townsend grew tired of it too), let more C&W and and Bluegrass into his music – he had already started listening extensively to The Band during his tenure with Cream and realized that this was the more adult type of music he wanted to do in the future. The improvisational frenzy of Cream did little for him, unlike Baker and Bruce he did not come from a jazzy background and never took an interest in that type of music either, there is no Billy Cobham’s Spectrum or Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow in Eric’s oeuvre.
I prefer Cream too, but if that is how he really felt, who can blame him for radically changing course and sticking with it to become a singer/songwriter in the bluesy-poppy adult-oriented field who plays more tasteful and song-serving than spectacular lead guitar?
In the early 70s, Eric could have at any point hired a charismatic singer and a powerful rhythm section to tour himself silly and wealthy in US arenas and stadiums. His own Led Zep or Beck, Bogert & Appice so to say. But he consciously eschewed that and ploughed a less histrionic furrow. I believe he was sincere in what he did, so why blame him for not playing Cream music for the rest of his life?
February 2nd, 2025 at 20:01Never a Clapton fan in the first place I prefer his 70s solo records over anything else he did. 461 Ocean Boulevard, Another Ticket, Slowhand, No Reason to Cry…it ended after Money and Cigarettes for me. There are some nice songs on those albums, some in the vein of J.J. Cale (whom E.C. liked a big deal) and you can listen to that stuff to this day. It went downhill for me from August on which was a a kind of Phil Collins album.
February 3rd, 2025 at 07:50