ALBUM REVIEW: ERIC CLAPTON, "24 NIGHTS"

Eric Clapton has come through some stormy seas, but he never fails to reach in and touch something in most people. The whole spectrum is covered with the tracks culled from the 1990/91 stints at the Royal Albert Hall, from his more accessible tracks through to his love of the Blues, and then to the pomp of an orchestrated evening or three. This can't fail to hold something for everyone, and maybe open a few eyes to the other sides of this legend.

Trackwise, we are talking "Badge," "White Room," "Worried Life Blues," "Hoodoo Man," "Pretending," "Old Love," "Wonderful Tonight," "Hard Times," and "Edge of Darkness." That's just a few. As for the musicians, well, would the all-encompassing heading of the "Best in the World" suffice? I mean there are single notes that say more than some entire albums I've heard, and feelings that radiate beyond the speakers and turn you to mush.

Having seen the man in action in 1990 (I'm the one sitting on the left hand side near the stage), this probably holds even more of a meaning, because I have never seen anyone play the guitar and get so much emotion out of it in my life. Isn't it a fascinating phenomena that one person can touch so many others. GRADE A

Peter Grant
Riff Raff
January, 1992

Revenge...?

Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Edited by the ultimate music biz insider, Mark Crampton, and employing such talents as Mark Blake, Jerry Ewing, Mike Harris, Paul Smith, Chris Collingwood, Alan McCrorie, Simon Robinson, Lyn Guy, Anna Marx, Nick Douglas, Marion Garden, Peter "Grunty" Grant, Joe "The Crow" Mackett, Billy "The Kluck" Kulke, and, lastest and mostest, the incredible Liddell Brothers, Mark (a.k.a. "El Perro") and Colin (a.k.a. "Der Fly"). Unfortunately, Riff Raff was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more trainspotterly, nerdish, and politically correct publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers, some of whom, luckily for the Rock Kosmos, still continue to write about music. This is the REVENGE of Riff Raff...Rock on!