Bright Lights, Big City - Clapton and Townshend

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• RickLucas Frets: 401

  July 2021

  Nice.

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• EricTheWeary Frets: 16293

  July 2021

  https://youtu.be/E4YMeZF1l58

  Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 

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• Hurling_Fruitmig Frets: 675

  July 2021

  EricTheWeary said:

  https://youtu.be/E4YMeZF1l58

  Is that the interview where Townsend complained that when he famously impaled himself doing a windmill he was playing a Clapton signature strat, and EC told him it wasn’t his fault because he always took them off?

  I'll get a round to buying a 'real' guitar one day.

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• EricTheWeary Frets: 16293

  July 2021

  Hurling_Fruitmig said:

  EricTheWeary said:

  https://youtu.be/E4YMeZF1l58

  Is that the interview where Townsend complained that when he famously impaled himself doing a windmill he was playing a Clapton signature strat, and EC told him it wasn’t his fault because he always took them off?

  There were at least two joint interviews, the Lawley one and a Parkinson one and that was in one of them. I remember them as the first time I had any awareness of Clapton really, I knew more about Townsend and was surprised that he was playing second fiddle to someone. 

  Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 

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• tone1 Frets: 5141

  July 2021 edited July 2021

  I remember the TV Interview with them both playing acoustic guitars…Clapton playing some sublime stuff on a flashy Martin…and Townsend almost unable to move his fingers from an E chord…(well almost)
  
  This one with Sue Lawley 
  
  https://youtu.be/E4YMeZF1l58
  

  http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/59137/tone1#latest

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• Hurling_Fruitmig Frets: 675

  July 2021

  LEricTheWeary said:

  Hurling_Fruitmig said:

  EricTheWeary said:

  https://youtu.be/E4YMeZF1l58

  Is that the interview where Townsend complained that when he famously impaled himself doing a windmill he was playing a Clapton signature strat, and EC told him it wasn’t his fault because he always took them off?

  There were at least two joint interviews, the Lawley one and a Parkinson one and that was in one of them. I remember them as the first time I had any awareness of Clapton really, I knew more about Townsend and was surprised that he was playing second fiddle to someone. 

  Now you’ve jogged my memory, I think it was the Parkinson one. How can I remember all this tosh from decades ago but not anything useful?

  I'll get a round to buying a 'real' guitar one day.

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• EricTheWeary Frets: 16293

  July 2021

  Hurling_Fruitmig said:

  LEricTheWeary said:

  Hurling_Fruitmig said:

  EricTheWeary said:

  https://youtu.be/E4YMeZF1l58

  Is that the interview where Townsend complained that when he famously impaled himself doing a windmill he was playing a Clapton signature strat, and EC told him it wasn’t his fault because he always took them off?

  There were at least two joint interviews, the Lawley one and a Parkinson one and that was in one of them. I remember them as the first time I had any awareness of Clapton really, I knew more about Townsend and was surprised that he was playing second fiddle to someone. 

  Now you’ve jogged my memory, I think it was the Parkinson one. How can I remember all this tosh from decades ago but not anything useful?

  Watching that clip it was like yesterday, except I have more problems remembering what I did yesterday. 

  Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 

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