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The Guitarist and singer Eric Clapton will be back on the road in 2025 to promote his new album "Meanwhile" (2024). The musician who played last year in Europe, South American and North America will now be performing in Japan, Europe and United States. He will perform in cities like Tokyo, Nottingham, London, Assago, Paris, Nice, Nashville, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, New York and Uncasville. Curiously, his opening act in the United States will be The Wallflowers, band led by Bob Dylan's son Jakob Dylan. They are known for 90s hits like "One Headlight" and "6th Avenue Heartache". Eric Clapton announces new 2025 tour dates April – Japan 14 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 16 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 18 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 19 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 21 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 24 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 26 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan 27 – Tokyo, Japan – Nippon Budokan May – Europe 18 – Nottingham, UK – Motorpoint Arena 21 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall 23 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall 24 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall 27 – Assago, Italy – Unipol Forum 28 – Assago, Italy – Unipol Forum 31 – Paris, France – Accor Arena June – Europe 2 – Nice, France – Palais Nikaïa September – USA 8 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena 11 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Arena 13 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Center 16 – Boston, MA – TD Garden 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden 20 – Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Sun Possible setlist Eric Clapton usually makes a lot of changes on his setlists, but many of the songs from his 2024 shows might be played. This was his set in his most recent 2024 concerts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s69ahzjCtW8&pp=ygUMY2xhdHBvbiAyMDI0 Electric Sunshine of Your Love (Cream song) Key to the Highway (Charles Segar cover) I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Willie Dixon cover) Badge (Cream song) Acoustic Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Jimmy Cox cover) Running on Faith Change the World (Wynonna Judd cover) The Call Tears in Heaven Electric Got to Get Better in a Little While (Derek and the Dominos song) Old Love Cross Road Blues (Robert Johnson cover) Little Queen of Spades (Robert Johnson cover) Cocaine (J.J. Cale cover) Before You Accuse Me (Bo Diddley cover) The post Eric Clapton announces new 2025 tour dates appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

The drummer of Scorpions from 1977 to 1996, Herman Rarebell was also an important part of the band's songwriting, being the co-writer of many of their hits like "Rock You Like a Hurricane", "Blackout" and "Bad Boys Running Wild". But by the mid-90s he wasn't happy with the direction the band decided to take, writing more ballads and less heavier songs. So that was the reason he decided to leave them as he told Dr. Music (Transcribed by Blabbermouth). Drummer Herman Rarebell explains why he left Scorpions "Actually, two or three. 'Animal Magnetism' (1980). The follow-up, 'Blackout' (1982). I wrote a lot of lyrics in this one. Also the album title was me again. Then, of course, the one with Michael (Schenker) on it, 'Lovedrive' (1979). I think those are my three favorite ones. Then, of course, 'Taken By Force' (1977), there's one favorite song on there, 'The Sails Of Charon'. "But I tell you what — what I don't like anymore — the albums, really, after 'Crazy World' (1990)," he explained. "Just the one  'Face The Heat' (1993) with Bruce Fairbairn (producer); that was nice. But everything after that, I wasn't a fan anymore. That's probably the reason why I left. I couldn't see any more progressing. So I said to the band, 'It's time for me to do something else.' I didn't wanna go along this way, 'cause after (the ballad) 'Wind Of Change' (from the 'Crazy World' album), Klaus said to me, 'I'm gonna write more songs like this.'" "I said, 'You can do this, but I'm not with you anymore.' Then came another one out, which I couldn't listen to this. And I left then. Then I said, 'That's it for me. I stay in rock.' I wanted to stay in rock. I don't wanna drift up in the 'Wind Of Change' way. Great song, but it wasn't for me. For me, I'm more in the direction of 'The Sails Of Charon' and songs like this," Herman Rarebell said. After leaving in 1996, Herman played as a guest with Scorpions in 2006. Since then he recorded as a solo act and also as part of Michael Schenker's Temple of Rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h3Gg7Z791MThe post Drummer Herman Rarebell explains why he left Scorpions appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

Released in 1970, the album "Led Zeppelin III" is one of the most important albums from the band's discography. It has important tracks like "Immigrant Song", "Celebration Day", "Since I've Been Loving You", "Gallows Pole" and "Tangerine". However, Jimmy Page is not a big fan of the cover of the album which is really a mix of many things. There are butterflies, planes, birds, fruits and the faces of the four band members. Why Jimmy Page doesn't like the cover of "Led Zeppelin III" Jimmy Page said that that album cover is a disappointment and that he takes full responsibility for that. Because the band explained to the artist Zacron (Richard Drew) their idea but according to Page, Zacron got very personal with the artwork. "A disappointment. I will take responsibility for that one. I knew the artist and described what we wanted with this wheel that made things appear and change. But he got very personal with this artwork and disappeared off with it. We kept saying, 'Can we take a look at it? Can we see where it is going?'" "Finally, the album was actually finished and we still did not have the art. It got to the point where I had to say, 'Look, I have got to have this thing.' I was not happy with the final result — I thought it looked teeny-bopperish. But we were on top of a deadline. So of course, there was no way to make any radical changes to it." He continued: "There are some silly bits—little chunks of corn and nonsense like that. But it is no worse than my first meeting with an artist from Hipgnosis, who were the people that designed Pink Floyd covers. We had commissioned them to design Houses of the Holy, and this guy Storm came in carrying this picture of an electric green tennis court with a tennis racquet on it." "I said, 'What the hell does that have to do with anything?' And he said, 'Racket — don’t you get it?' I said, 'Are you trying to imply that our music is a racket?? Get out!!'We never saw him again. We ended up dealing with one of the other artists [laughs]. That was a total insult — racket. He had some balls!! Imagine. On a first meeting with a client!" Jimmy Page said in an interview with Guitar World in 1993. The album peaked at number 1 in several countries like Australia, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom and United States. More than 6 million copies were sold only in the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmxaT37yeOs&pp=ygUMR2FsbG93cyBQb2xlThe post Why Jimmy Page doesn’t like the cover of “Led Zeppelin III” appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.

When people ask who were the greatest guitarists of all time, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen are often mentioned as the two greatest ones because of the huge impact both of them had in guitar playing. They were so influential that already in the first album they released during their careers, the impact was huge and impressed everyone from the Rock and Roll scene. Hendrix sadly died too soon at the age of 27 back in 1970 and didn't have the chance to see Eddie Van Halen play but what was the opinion of the Dutch guitarist on Hendrix? Eddie Van Halen’s opinion on Jimi Hendrix Eddie Van Halen had some mixed feelings about Jimi Hendrix, although he said he respected the guitarist and praised him he also criticized some aspects about him. During his career he was tired of always being called the "Hendrix of his generation" and to be compared with the late American guitar player and singer. Eddie believed they really didn't have anything in common. "I say it's a hell of a compliment (to be compared with him). But at the same time I'm really nothing like Jimi Hendrix." He notes that he doesn't mean any disrespect and continues: "I'm just saying I'm very different than Hendrix because I create stuff." Eddie Van Halen continued: "He used so many effects and stuff that I was the complete opposite. I wanted the guitar to do things, but nobody built the guitar that I wanted. Hendrix didn't do things like that. He was an amazing player. But if you ever heard any live bootlegs of him, even some of the Woodstock stuff, it's hard for him to keep that thing even tuned," He said in an interview with Steve Baltin in 2009. As Eddie said, one of the things that bothered him about Hendrix was that the musician used too much equipment. The musician once told Rolling Stone in 2011 that he never bought a Hendrix record Hendrix because he couldn’t afford the equipment he used. During the conversation he also noted that Hendrix was “more abstract in his approach”. He couldn't afford what Hendrix used Van Halen said a similar thing to Howard Stern in 2006 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage). “He used a bunch of pedals and stuff. I couldn’t afford the shit.” The guitarist was then questioned if he thought that Hendrix was a “hack”. So he replied: “No, no, no. He did some crazy shit, but I don’t know. I couldn’t afford the wah-wah pedal, the fuzzbox, all that stuff. So kind of did my own thing,” Eddie Van Halen said. Already in the early years of his career after Van Halen had released their first albums, Eddie already said he was not a big Hendrix fan. "I did an interview once with Circus magazine. They asked me, 'Who are your main influences?' I said, 'Well, Clapton. You know, the usual.' And they said, 'Oh, not Jimi Hendrix?' I go, 'No, actually I didn’t like Jimi Hendrix at all. He was too flash for me. I get off on the bluesy feeling that Clapton projected'. But then I said, 'Even though I don’t play like Clapton or sound like him at all,' Eddie told Jas Obrecht in 1979. According to a friend, Eddie though that Jimi Hendrix was sloppy when playing live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGMSXLGWUiA&pp=ygUWamltaSBoZW5kcml4IHZhbiBoYWxlbg%3D%3D Since Eddie said that he felt like it was hard for Hendrix to keep the guitar in tune when he was playing live, we can imagine that he felt like the artist could be a little sloppy during his performances. According to his friend, the ex-Whitesnake guitarist Adrian Vanderberg, the late guitarist thought that Hendrix was indeed sloppy during his shows. “I went to Eddie’s home a bunch of times when I was recording in 1994, the Manic Eden album. (It was) a group I had with Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge, and Ron Young. We were recording pretty close to Eddie’s house. He’s Dutch, as most people will know. So it was for him a lot of fun to talk in Dutch. His wife didn’t understand what we were talking about, of course.” “We didn’t really play-play. We just were there with guitars on the left. And he asked me who my favorite guitar player was. I said, ‘Well, it’s Jimi Hendrix.’ He thought Jimi Hendrix was too sloppy. His favorite was Eric Clapton. He could play the solo to ‘Crossroads’ note-to-note, perfectly. As a kid, he just worked all those solos out,” Adrian Vanderberg told Kylie Olsson back in 2020. The post Eddie Van Halen’s opinion on Jimi Hendrix appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.