Eric Clapton - 1985-02-28 - Edinburgh, Scotland (AUD/FLAC)

(Audience FLAC)

Edinburgh Playhouse

"Scottish Ramblin'" [Beano 009 - box set]

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Band line-up:
Eric Clapton guitar, vocals
Donald 'Duck' Dunn bass
Tim Renwick guitar
Chris Stainton keyboards
Jamie Oldaker drums
Marcy Levy backing vocals
Shaun Murphy backing vocals

Disc one (58:52):
(1) Everybody Oughta Make A Change (5:04)
(2) Motherless Children (4:38)
(3) I Shot The Sheriff (6:51)
(4) Same Old Blues (8:10)
(5) Blues Power (5:26)
(6) Tangled In Love (5:13)
(7) Steppin' Out (7:06)
(8) Just Like A Prisoner (5:17)
(9) Tulsa Time (4:21)
(10) When Something Is Wrong With My Baby (6:42)

Disc two (61:21):
(1) Badge (7:44)
(2) Behind The Sun (4:05)
(3) Wonderful Tonight (5:06)
(4) Let It Rain (5:22)
(5) Blues Medley (12:39)
(6) Cocaine (6:36)
(7) Layla (7:52)
(8) Knock On Wood (4:22)
(9) Further On Up The Road (7:31)

Info file, artwork, FFP, and md5 signature file are included.

Comments:
This was originally posted by "ECMusicMan" to Dime in April 2007. I had owned a crappy cassette copy for years, but this was a significant upgrade (of the same source) for me. This was the second date of the "Behind The Sun" world tour (the first of which was at the same venue the prior evening) which took EC through Europe, a lengthy jaunt through the United States, and Japan promoting his new album with a slightly tweaked line-up (I think Donald "Duck" Dunn joined him on bass during this tour, and the rest were carried over from the 1983-84 dates). This is a solid performance which doesn't give any indication of opening-night jitters or snafus; a solid performance which set the stage for the lengthy tour that followed.

In terms of performance, this is pretty consistent with the rest of the tour, with the exception that "Just Like a Prisoner" was rather quickly dropped from the set after these opening dates. There are other tracks ("Behind The Sun," "Knock On Wood") which survived a bit longer but were still gone by the time the tour reached less-patient U.S. audiences. With these setlist variations aside, it's a workmanlike presentation of a range of material from across his career, favoring shorter pop songs and mainly dropping the extensive blues jams featured on prior tours (the one exception was the fun blues medley near the end of the set). If you're a fan of this period of his career, you'll like this one.

As far as sound quality, I suspect this was done by the same taper and equipment, but was in a better line with the PA and/or closer to the monitors. The sound is more lively and "immediate," with clearer vocals. Sounds to me like there was some EQ work done here based on the processed sound on the high end, but overall this is a very solid audience recording, particularly given the era in which it was recorded.