"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:


Don't know. But they did walk off before a full concert. Check the
attendance at that show Chuck and you will find it was far less than 1/2
capacity (the Coliseum was the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball arena).


Once my curiosity is aroused, I can be as relentless as a terrier with
a chew toy. Bad personal trait, I know.

Turns out there was more than one recording made that night. The first
CD I already referenced and this one:

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/clapt...r-required.htm

"No Longer Required" is a double album, but there are only 6-8 songs
per disc.
So, was the show longer than you remember and these numbers included
long solos and a lot of jamming, or did Clapton flee the scene after
just a 12-song set? The reviewer's notes of the concert said that the
most unusual thing to occur was Eric Clapton dedicating a song to
bandmate Albert Lee in honor of Lee's impending marriage, but if they
edited out the part where Clapton said, "To hell with Cleveland! If you
can't completely fill the house like my normally rabid fans everywhere
else we're just outa here......", and if the reviewer was writing from
the recording and not present at the show then the reviewer missed all
the fireworks.

Aha, I just figured out a way to tell whether the Cleveland show was
any briefer than others at the time.... I'll be back. :-)


Interesting stuff Chuck....thanks. I was there and remember them leaving
the stage in a huff. I apparently was wrong about half a show, but I guess
we expected more than 45 minutes and certainly an encore performance that
never happened.

But that was 27 years ago. ;-)