Sep 24, 2009

Nikos Deja Vu - Eric Clapton - Layla (Unplugged)




In 1992, Clapton was invited to play for the MTV Unplugged series. His subsequent album, Unplugged, featured a number of blues standards and his new "Tears in Heaven". It also featured an "unplugged" version of "Layla". ...The new arrangement slowed down and reworked the original riff and dispensed with the piano coda. This version climbed to #12 on the U.S. charts but failed to chart in Britain. It would later win a Grammy Award in 1992 for Best Rock Song, beating out "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. The win would later be named one of the 10 biggest upsets in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly. Clapton only half-joked that he had rearranged the song in a slower, acoustic version because he was getting too old to play the demanding electric guitar riff very well...

3 comments:

  1. I like the way you ...select the music, I admire and love so much how Clapton is performing, his songs and all what he transmits to us...

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  2. today I felt the need to listen again...and I was touched like every time I am listening this....

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