{"id":2443149,"date":"2019-04-18T09:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=824027"},"modified":"2019-04-18T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T15:52:23","slug":"watch-eric-clapton-play-layla-electric-for-first-time-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-eric-clapton-play-layla-electric-for-first-time-in-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Eric Clapton Play \u2018Layla\u2019 Electric For First Time in Six Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the past six years, Eric Clapton<\/a> has been disappointing fans by playing a stripped-down rendition of \u201cLayla\u201d on the acoustic guitar at this concerts as opposed to the original, electric one. He introduced that new arrangement of the 1970 Derek and the Dominos classic at his 1992 Unplugged special and it became a radio hit and even went into rotation on MTV, but the novelty wore off for many when he began playing it at regular shows instead of the of the familiar (and far superior) one. He switched back and forth for many years, but for the past six years he struck strictly to the Unplugged \u201cLayla,\u201d bumming everybody out in the process.<\/p>\n

The streak broke on April 13th when at Tokyo\u2019s Budokan when he finally strapped on his electric guitar, stood up and played the song in its original form. There\u2019s not a ton of great video of the moment, but check out this clip from YouTube by a fan that apparently grew so exited that he forgot to turn his phone sideways to film it properly. The sound is pretty good though and you can feel the excitement in the room.<\/p>\n

The show also marked his first performance of Bobby Womack\u2019s \u201cWanna Make Love To You\u201d since 1989, his first performance of \u201cPretending\u201d since 2015 and the first \u201cRunning on Faith\u201d since 2010. John Mayer also came out for the encores to join him on \u201cCocaine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert was the beginning of a five-night stand at Budokan and anyone that showed up to the next three nights hoping to hear the electric \u201cLayla\u201d was in for a major letdown since \u201cLayla\u201d was once again played acoustic and seated. The Budokan residency wraps up on April 20th, so there\u2019s still one more chance to hear the song played properly. Once it finishes, he takes a short break before gigging around Europe and June. The only chance to see him in America is at the Crossroads Guitar Festival at The American Airlines Center in Texas on September 20th and 21st. Let\u2019s all hope the lone electric \u201cLayla\u201d at Budokan was merely a rehearsal for bringing it back full time at Crossroads.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past six years, Eric Clapton has been disappointing fans by playing a stripped-down rendition of \u201cLayla\u201d on the acoustic guitar at this concerts as opposed to the original, electric one. He introduced that new arrangement of the 1970 Derek and the Dominos classic at his 1992 Unplugged special and it became a radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 13:10:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}