Eric Clapton / TOKYO090224 (2CDR)

◆Budokan, Tokyo, Japan 24th February 2009
Disc 1
01.intro
02. Tell The Truth
03. Key To The Highway
04. Hoochie Coochie Man
05. I Shot The Sheriff
06. Here But I'm Gone
07. Why Does Love Go To Be So Sad?
08. Driftn'
09. Travelin' Alone
10. That's Alright
11.Motherless Child
12. Running On Faith

Disc 2
01. Motherless Children
02. Little Queen Of Spades
03. Before You Accuse Me
04. Wonderful Tonight
05.Layla
06. Cocaine
-encore-
07.Crossroads
08.outro

◇Eric Clapton &
His Band: Eric Clapton (guitar, vocals)
Doyle Bramhall II (guitar, vocals)
Willie Weeks (bass)
Abe Laboriel Jr. (drums)
Chris Stainton (keyboards)
Michelle John (backing vocals) & Sharon White (backing vocals)

This ultra-high-quality audience recording captures the entire live performance at Nippon Budokan on February 24, the fourth day of their Tokyo performance from their 2009 Japan tour. Following their historic two-day collaboration with Jeff Beck in Saitama, the EC Band returns for a fresh start. This first set of the second half of their Budokan performance features a continuation of their February 19 set, including a rendition of "Here But I'm Gone," a track they performed brilliantly with Beck. The sound quality is captured using the original master, recorded perfectly center-line from the front block, resulting in a rich, immersive sound that's impossible to achieve anywhere else. In terms of "clarity of the contours of each instrument," it could be said that it is a step behind the sound sources from other days, so that will be a matter of preference for listeners, but it is the best sound that is packed with all the "Budokan-ness" in a good sense.