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Eric Clapton - Current Tour
After three successful reunion shows with Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden, which sold out of Eric Clapton tickets almost immediately, Eric Clapton has announced that he will embark on a short tour of the United States and Canada during the summer of 2008.
The tour will begin on May 3 in Tampa Bay, Florida and is scheduled to run until June 5, when he will perform in Wantagh, New York. Other stops along the way will include Toronto, Ontario, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Mansfield, Massachusetts.
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Complete Eric Clapton Tour Schedule:
May 2008 - Eric Clapton Tickets
3 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre At The Florida State Fairgrounds
5 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Hard Rock Live At The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
6 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena
22 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
25 - Atlantic City, NJ - Borgata Events Center
27 - Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre
28 - Montreal, QC - Centre Bell
30 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
31 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
June 2008 - Eric Clapton Tickets
2 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena
4 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center
5 - Wantagh, NY - Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Eric Clapton - History
Eric Patrick Clapton was born on March 30, 1945 in Surrey, England. Eric Clapton was raised in a musical household, as his grandmother played piano and his uncle and mother enjoyed listening to the popular music of the time. For his thirteenth birthday, Eric Clapton received a Hoyer steel string guitar, which he began playing incessantly. He became interested in the Blues after hearing the music of American artists like Freddie King, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and Buddy Guy, and asked for his grandparents to help him purchase a double cutaway Kay electric guitar in 1962.
When he was seventeen, Eric Clapton joined his first band, The Roosters, and played with a band called Casey Jones and The Engineers for a month. He was then recruited to join The Yardbirds with Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith in October of 1963, where he stayed for eighteen months. With The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton recorded his first albums, titled Five Live Yardbirds (1964) and Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds (1964). After leaving The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton joined up with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1965. The Bluesbreakers recorded the now classic Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton in 1966, but Eric Clapton soon left the group to form his own band, which he named Cream.
Cream consisted of Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals, Jack Bruce on bass and vocals, and Ginger Baker on drums. The group was wildly successful in both the UK and the United States, and produced a number of albums including Fresh Cream (1966), Disraeli Gears (1967), and Wheels of Fire (1968). Cream disbanded after only two years, but Eric Clapton quickly came back with Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Rick Grech to form rock's first "supergroup," Blind Faith. After just seven months, that group also fell apart, and Eric Clapton formed Derek and the Dominoes with Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, and Bobby Whitlock. Derek and the Dominoes produced Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in 1970, but dissolved soon after.
Due to the breakup of Derek and the Dominoes, the death of Jimi Hendrix, and other tragic events, Eric Clapton sank into three years of drug addiction. He reemerged in 1973, and began on a solo career that has lasted for over thirty years. Some of the most notable material from this period in Eric Clapton's career includes 461 Ocean Boulevard (1974), Slow hand (1977), Money and Cigarettes (1983), From the Cradle (1994), and Back Home (2005). Eric Clapton has also collaborated with numerous other artists, including The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend, Elton John, Sting, and Bob Marley.
Eric Clapton has received many awards over the course of his long and successful career, including three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and eighteen Grammys. Buy some of the best Eric Clapton tickets from TicketNetwork today!
Eric Clapton - Links
Official Eric Clapton Website
The Eric Clapton Portal
Eric Clapton - Trivia
- Eric Clapton's mother was only sixteen when he was born, so his grandparents raised him as their own child. As a result, Eric Clapton grew up believing that his mother was his sister.
- Eric Clapton attained the nickname "Slowhand" because he often broke guitar strings during shows, and would replace them onstage. The crowd would slow handclap until he resumed playing.
- Eric Clapton is the only triple inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was inducted with The Yardbirds, with Cream, and as a solo artist.
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