Eric Clapton - Latin Blood Vol. II (CD1) - Bootleg Album, 1990

Eric Clapton Stadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay. October 03, 1990 01 Layla Orchestra Introduction 02 Pretending 03 No Alibis 04 Running On Faith 05 I Shot The Sheriff 06 White Room 07 Can't Find My Way Home 08 Bad Love 09 Before You Accuse Me 10 Old Love Eric Clapton: Guitar, Vocals Phil Palmer: Guitar Steve Ferrone: Drums Nathan East: Bass, Vocals Greg Phillrnganes: Keyboards Roy Cooper: Percussion Tessa Niles: Backing Vocals Katie Kissn: Backing Vocals With a capacity of 18,000 the Estadio Centenario held 20,000 enthusiastic people… 1,500 more were unable to get tickets which ended up in riots while the show was taking place with over 50 people being arrested and 20 injured…. which makes the title to this set quite accurate… History repeats himself and MidValley brings down the house once again by finally unearthing the complete soundboard recording of this classic Clapton show. First released by the short-lived label United Records as “Montevideo Blues Vol. 1&2?, I remember buying that set back in January 1994 for just about 25 EUR. It was a stunning soundboard tape. I remember going from cloud nine to nine feet under in a matter of just a few seconds…. when I found out that Sheriff was incomplete… I desperately changed discs and started playing Disc2 only to see if the solo was there….. Needless to say it was an absolute tragedy for me: the solo was gone! How could that be possible? It’s true that the encore was not included either but that was a minor problem when compared to the loss of the solo on Sheriff. A few years ago Paddington released “Complete Montevideo 1990“, which used an alternate source to fill the gaps in “Montevideo Blues Vol. 1&2” but the tape they used was of a much inferior quality than the original one making it a kind of a half success. Thank Heavens the MidValley gang come to the rescue: no cuts, no gaps that need to be filled using any alternate sources, no missing encores… For the first time ever you get to listen to the original master recording from beginning to end!! Isn’t life just wonderful? Besides the pristine recording we are also treated to a terrific performance. The crowd just gets wild while EC builds his solo on Sheriff…. which is worth the 20-year wait, by the way!! Not much more to add to wgpsec’s review of ”Complete Montevideo 1990” but I would still like to give an honorable mention to No Alibis - the solo on the outro is pure Clapton and undoubtedly has to remain as my favourite of all time on this song - and White Room and Old Love, which are absolutely incendiary. Layla includes A Remark You Made and sees EC flub a line at the end of his solo. You also get every second of the 17-minute Sunshine Of Your Love but I plead guilty of skipping the 8-minute percussion/drum solos. It surely was fun to watch live in the Stadium but definitely not to be played on my stereo: I always found these minutes as a missed chance for EC to play one more song… Enjoy the music and feel free to Subscribe!