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Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 From Chicago |
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Subtitle: Item No.: 99999990 Series: DVD Medium: DVD Pages: 0 Tablature: Price: $29.99 |
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| The second staging of guitar hero and rock legend Eric Clapton's CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL found a sweet home in the Second City on July 28, 2007 when many of the world's greatest guitarists convened for a concert benefiting Clapton's Crossroads Centre rehabilitation facility in Antigua. Filmed live at Chicago's Toyota Park, the 2-DVD set CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2007 FROM CHICAGO presents four hours of world-class guitar masters, spanning multiple genre boundaries, performing incendiary solo sets and jamming in unison. Shot in HD, the double-DVD set features 38 tracks, and also gives viewers an all-access pass with extraordinary behind-the-scenes footage captured backstage at this all-star, six-string summit. The audio is presented in 5.1 Surround Sound. Highlights of the CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2007 FROM CHICAGO include Clapton playing onstage with former Blind Faith band mate Steve Winwood for the first time in 25 years. They rip through classics including “Presence Of The Lord,” “Had To Cry Today” and “Crossroads,” totally transcending their quarter century apart. Another Clapton highpoint was his dedication of “Isn't It A Pity” to George Harrison, noting, “This is for someone I wish was here.” The Allman Brothers Band's Derek Trucks joined in on a solo, and David Fricke noted in Rolling Stone that, “on a day full of extraordinary solos, this was true rapture.” When later describing rock icon Jeff Beck's virtuoso, take-no-prisoners set, the veteran rock journalist called it, “a near-hour of instrumental fusion napalm. |