From: davies@ils.nwu.edu (Brian Davies)
Subject: CRD: Clapton's "Help Me Up"
An underappreciated gem off of the Rush soundtrack...
HELP ME UP by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings
Transcribed by Brian Davies (davies@ils.nwu.edu)
[Em] [G] [Em] [G]
(If that Em sounds a little too dark to you, try 022x00 (E5?))
[Em] Are you going to help me [G] or will you let me down?
[Em] I'm looking for a true love [G] but am I lost or found?
[Em] And will we cry in passion [G] or will we cry in pain?
[Em] And will our lonely teardrops [G] fill the world with rain?
Help me [Em] up, [Bm] don't you let me [C] down. [Am]
I'm gonna [G] wake up in [C] heaven, not the [Am] cold, cold [G] ground.
[Em] [G] [Em] [G]
[Em] Can't you hear the lovers [G] crying in the night?
[Em] They spend their whole lives trying; [G] still can't get it right.
[Em] I don't know where we're going [G] but I guess we'll start
[Em] And just to show that I mean it, [G] baby here's my heart.
Chorus
(Walk it up hard on the bass: G G B B C C D D)
[D] Living on my [D#dim] feelings, [Em] feelings all I [G] know.
[C] Baby once we [D] touch it, we'll [C] never let it [G] go.
(I'm guessing on the D#dim -- he pulls something weird out of his hat,
and this sounds decent.)
[Em] [G] [Em] [G]
First Verse
Chorus
Chorus
Long Solo on Verse
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Me singing "Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton (AndyF)
"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written and performed by Eric Clapton about the pain he felt following the 1991 death of his four-year-old son, Connor, who fell from a 53rd-story window in his mother's New York City condominium. By all accounts, the death was simply a tragic accident, and Clapton was distraught for months afterwards.
Clapton wrote the song with Will Jennings, who was reluctant at first to help him with such a personal song.The song was initially featured on the soundtrack to the film Rush, and it won three Grammy awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1993. It was also included on Clapton's Grammy award-winning album, Unplugged. It is #353 on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Songs.
"Eric and I were engaged to write a song for a movie called Rush. We wrote a song called 'Help Me Up' for the end of the movie... then Eric saw another place in the movie for a song and he said to me, 'I want to write a song about my boy.' Eric had the first verse of the song written, which, to me, is all the song, but he wanted me to write the rest of the verse lines and the release ('Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees...'), even though I told him that it was so personal he should write everything himself. He told me that he had admired the work I did with Steve Winwood and finally there was nothing else but to do as he requested, despite the sensitivity of the subject. This is a song so personal and so sad that it is unique in my experience of writing songs." -- Will Jennings
Clapton stopped playing it in 2004, as well as the song "My Father's Eyes."
"I didn't feel the loss anymore, which is so much a part of performing those songs. I really have to connect with the feelings that were there when I wrote them. They're kind of gone and I really don't want them to come back, particularly. My life is different now. They probably just need a rest and maybe I'll introduce them for a much more detached point of view."
Covers
Joshua Redman recorded a jazz rendition on his 1993 album Wish.
Paul Anka covered the song on Rock Swings.
Gregorian chant group.
The Choirboys, an English boyband, on their self-titled album.
Declan Galbraith on his album Thank You.
George Nozuka had a video of him playing the song in a room with his acoustic guitar.
Aled Jones has recorded a cover version of the song, which can be found on his album, Whenever God Shines His Light.
... and myself
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
My cover of Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven.
I know it's not perfect but it's a start. Feel free to let me know what you think of the song with any comments or critiques. Feedback and opinions will help me get better.
I'll try to put up a better version soon. I have a bunch of other songs if you want to check them out as well. Enjoy!
Dirty City ~ Steve Winwood
From the Amazon! - http://www.coloradream.com
Dirty City ~ by Steve Winwood 2008 -
Off his new "Nine Lives" album release.
The amazing talent of Steve, along with a great guitar solo by Eric Clapton, brings this tune to life. The percussion work by Karl Vanden Bossche is somewhat like that of the late former Traffic member, Rebop Kwaku Baah.
~~~
Dirty City by Steve Winwood with Eric Clapton
The gangster came to see by boy
When I was working nights to pay one more bill
He promised the kid a sweeter life
Said, "Gotta understand it's dog eat dog out there"
Well I looked in his room when I got home
And underneath the covers found a loaded gun
He looked at me with empty eyes
He said, "It's time for me to be moving on"
Dirty city, this is a dirty town
Where's the pity, I can't move on up to higher ground
I spoke to my woman the other day
She said, "I need more cash we can't pay our way"
She said, "Everything gets really hard
And I need something sweet, don't you understand?"
The roar of the train runs by my room
And on these summer nights I can't sleep anymore
I walk in the streets to greet the dawn
Or stay at home all night and stare at the floor
Dirty city, this is a dirty town
Where's the pity, I can't move on up to higher ground
Dirty city, this is a dirty town
Where's the pity, I can't move on up to higher ground
Help me now
Move on to a higher ground
Help somehow
Make a move to a higher ground
Won't you help somehow
Make a move to a higher ground
Won't you help somehow
I need a little help...
Dirty city, this is a dirty town
~~~
Steve Winwood Dirty City
2008 Wincraft Music, Inc.
Eric Clapton - tears in heaven ( acoustic guitar cover )
as most of you guys already know ... Sir Eric Clapton composed and dedicated this song to his son after his all for the most tragic death ...
On 20 March 1991 at 11 a.m., four-and-a-half-year-old Conor Clapton died when he fell from a 53rd-story window in a New York City apartment. He landed on the roof of an adjacent four-story building.
this is a so very sad story and it sure took a lot of courage to Eric to accept it and to compose this extraordinary song for him ....
now .. if you followed the video just a little .. in the instrumental break you can see two pictures displaying in the background
first picture is my sister Gina Valentini, daughter of Nicole Lefrançois ( my mother ) and Satournĩno Valentini ( my mother's first husband )
who passed away november 27 2003 due to a breathing problem .... she was 34 years old, She was my mother's first born child ...
and... the second picture was my brother Yannick Vigneault son of Roland Vigneault ( my father ) and Pauline Deschaînes ( my father's first wife )... he died in a tragic car accident on december 15 2006 at the age of 31
.... he was my Father's first child also .....
so you can see now why this song means an awful lot to me and why i get so emotionnal every single time i play it ...
can't help but remember growing up with my sister and my brother by my side ...
and this was actually ... my sisters favorite song .....
i still love you Gina ... same for you Yannick ... and i truely ever will ..
your departs changed a lot in my life ... but i still remember the love you both had for life and for your dear ones .. never forgotten ... never will be ... that's why i manage to smile at life even though all this stuff happened to me... i try to offer your love of life to the most people i imaginnally can ... and i sure hope i do it well
Rest in peace you two.. because peace is what you deserve the most
Badge - Cream - Eric Clapton - Cover - Mr Bogus
Randall "The Rooster" Franklin Smith puts in a nice performance with a little help from Mike Klova(drums),Anthony Marsh(bass),Ernie Monster(keys) and the young Ansel Barnum sitting in on Harp. The 1969 song "Badge", by Cream, was penned by Eric Clapton and George Harrison during a collaborative effort between Clapton, Harrison and Ringo Starr. Although it was paired with one of Cream's less notable songs, "What a Bringdown", Badge was nonetheless a major hit when it was released as a single in April of 1969, following release of the album Goodbye in January.
It was originally an untitled track. During the production transfer for the album Goodbye, the original music sheet was used to produce the liner notes and track listing. The only discernible word on the page was "Bridge" — a notation intended to identify the transitional moment in the song. Clapton's handwriting, however, was so bad, that Ringo Starr looked at it and thought it said "Badge" — so the band named it Badge.
Harrison told the story differently, however: "I helped Eric write 'Badge' you know. Each of them had to come up with a song for that Goodbye Cream album and Eric didn't have his written. We were working across from each other and I was writing the lyrics down and we came to the middle part so I wrote 'Bridge.' Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing-- 'What's BADGE?' he said. After that Ringo walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park."
A common legend or misconception is that the name came about because its chord progression is B-A-D-G-E (it is not)[1], or simply because an anagram of a guitar's string tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E) can spell "Badge".
It was this musical bridge, a series of arpeggios played through a Leslie speaker, that provided the inspiration for Harrison's later Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" for the album Abbey Road, and would inspire a similar arpeggio at the end of two other Abbey Road tracks, "You Never Give Me Your Money" and "Carry That Weight".
Cream were a 1960s British rock band comprising guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Celebrated as the first great power trio and supergroup of rock, their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, pop and psychedelic rock. Cream combined Clapton's blues guitar playing with the powerful voice and intense basslines of Jack Bruce and the jazz-influenced drumming of Ginger Baker. They have sold over 35 million albums worldwide and Wheels of Fire was the world's first platinum-selling album.[2]
Cream's music included songs based on traditional blues such as "Crossroads" and "Spoonful", and modern blues such as "Born Under a Bad Sign", as well as more eccentric songs such as "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "Toad". Cream's biggest hits were "I Feel Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room", "Crossroads", and "Badge".
Cream, together with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, made a significant impact upon the popular music of the time providing a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed the emergence of bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and The Jeff Beck Group in the late 1960s. The band's live performances influenced progressive rock acts, jam bands such as The Allman Brothers Band, Rush, Grateful Dead and Phish; and even heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath. Although Cream's studio work has stood the test of time, their true influence lies in their live sets. Cream took the idea of jamming to a whole new level, incorporating their individual virtuosity into long 20-minute jams.
Cream were ranked #16 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.
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