Clapton Knopfler Tour
| Presentation album | Crossroads |
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| Beginning of the tour | January 22, 1988 |
| End of the tour | 5th November 1988 |
| Total concerts (by continent) |
* Asia : 4
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| Concerts in total | 42 |
| revenue | + $ 13,789,775 |
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Clapton and Friends Tour (1986-87) |
Clapton Knopfler Tour (1988) |
Journeyman World Tour (1989-91) |
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The Clapton-Knopfler-Tour [ klæptɒn-nɒbfleə-tʊə ], more rarely: 25th Anniversary Tour , was a concert tour of the British rock musician Eric Clapton . Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler appeared as a regular guest . During some appearances Elton John also made a guest appearance . The tour began on January 22, 1988 in Birmingham and ended on November 5 of the same year in Osaka . The tour went through Asia, Europe and North America.
The tour announced in December 1987 was almost sold out quickly. During 42 concerts, including four in Japan , 12 in the United Kingdom and 26 in the United States and Canada , the British rock musician performed in front of more than 492,000 concert-goers, earning around 14 million US dollars . Clapton's band changed only minimally during three and a half months of intense travel. Clapton hits and blues titles were performed.
Tour events
The Clapton-Knopfler Tour was announced on December 1, 1987 by the tour organizers, Peter Jones and Jack Postblog. They announced that concerts would take place in Europe, the United States and Asia. Although it should remain unknown with which line-up or with which guests Clapton was to contest the tour, it was announced on January 2, 1988 that Mark Knopfler would be a permanent part of the tour and Elton John a guest. All tickets for the European concerts on the tour were sold out in January. Most concerts in the United States sold out in early April and in Japan in August.
Clapton and Knopfler started the tour together with two sold out concerts at the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham. From late January to early February, nine sold-out concerts followed in London's Royal Albert Hall. On February 7, 1988, the Europa-Leg ended with a concert at Guildford Civic Hall. In September the duo continued the tour. From September 1 to October 8, 1988, Clapton and Knopfler performed 19 times in the United States and seven times in Canada. In Japan, Clapton and Knopfler only gave four concerts. Here Elton John came as a guest to the concerts in the Asian country.
Musicians and crew
The following line-up and supporting groups contested the tour.
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Equipment
Throughout the tour, the British rock musician used a 1988 model of his Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster in the silver-gray color “Pewter”. These were strung with guitar strings of the so-called strengths 0.10 to 0.46 from the Ernie Ball Incorporation . During ballads by Elton John, which Clapton performed with the British in Japan, he used a semi-acoustic, classical guitar of the model "Chet Atkins" with nylon strings from the Gibson Guitar Corporation .
The strings of the guitars were renewed daily to ensure a fresh tone of the sounds and a more comfortable guitar playing. To strike the strings, Clapton used hard picks, which were also provided to him by the Ernie Ball company. As a guitar amplifier, Clapton tested the 100-watt Soldano SLO-100 , which he used from 1989 as the main model in the Soldano / Cornish Guitar Routing System .
Setlist
During the tour section in the United Kingdom, 16 songs were performed per concert. Clapton and Knopfler mainly performed successful songs from Clapton's career such as White Room , I Shot the Sheriff , Wonderful Tonight , Run , Tearing Us Apart , Holy Mother , Badge , Let It Rain , Cocaine , Layla , Behind the Mask and Sunshine of Your Love . In addition to these hit songs, blues titles such as Further on Up the Road and Crossroads were also performed. At the end of each concert, Money for Nothing was played. For the concerts in North America the setlist was reduced to 14 pieces and some hits were replaced by either others like Lay Down Sally or by blues titles like Motherless Children and Same Old Blues . In Japan, John usually played four hits like Candle in the Wind or Daniel .
Concert dates
| date | city | country | Venue | Number of visitors | revenue |
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| Europe | |||||
| January 22, 1988 | Birmingham |
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National Exhibition Center | 26.858 / 26.858 | $ 940,030 |
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| January 25, 1988 | London | Royal Albert Hall | 52.155 / 52.155 | $ 1,825,425 | |
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| 3rd February 1988 | |||||
| 4th February 1988 | |||||
| February 7, 1988 | Guildford | Civic Hall | 1.480 / 1.480 | $ 51,800 | |
| North America | |||||
| September 1, 1988 | Dallas |
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Starplex amphitheater | NN | NN |
| 2nd September 1988 | New Orleans | Lakefront Arena | 10.012 / 10.012 | $ 182,725 | |
| 4th September 1988 | Pittsburgh | Civic Arena | 14.199 / 14.199 | $ 262,837 | |
| September 6, 1988 | East Rutherford | Brendan Byrne Arena | 20.659 / 20.659 | $ 389,123 | |
| September 7, 1988 | Philadelphia | The Spectrum | 17.758 / 17.758 | $ 318,931 | |
| September 8, 1988 | Landover | Capital Center | NN | NN | |
| September 10, 1988 | Hartford | Civic Center | |||
| September 11, 1988 | Uniondale | Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum | 17,426 / 17,426 | $ 346,948 | |
| September 13, 1988 | Mansfield | Great Woods Center | 23.132 / 23.132 | $ 582,193 | |
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| September 16, 1988 | Auburn Hills | Palace of Auburn Hills | 17,452 / 17,452 | $ 349,040 | |
| 17th September 1988 | East Troy | Alpine Valley Music Theater | 33.307 / 33.307 | $ 682.904 | |
| September 19, 1988 | Denver | Fiddler's Green Amphitheater | NN | NN | |
| September 21, 1988 | Mountain View | Shoreline amphitheater | |||
| September 22, 1988 | Sacramento | ARCO arena | |||
| September 23, 1988 | Laguna Hills | Irvine Meadows Amphitheater | 15,000 / 15,000 | $ 264,141 | |
| September 26, 1988 | Portland | Veterans Memorial Coliseum | NN | NN | |
| September 27, 1988 | Tacoma | Tacoma Dome | 21.821 / 21.821 | $ 302,482 | |
| September 28, 1988 | Vancouver |
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PNE Coliseum | 13.557 / 13.557 | $ 286,600 |
| September 30, 1988 | Calgary | Canadian Airlines Saddledome | 16.794 / 16.794 | $ 332,461 | |
| October 1, 1988 | Saskatoon | Saskatchewan Place | 11.382 / 11.382 | $ 199,291 | |
| 3rd October 1988 | Winnipeg | Winnipeg Arena | 13.249 / 13.249 | $ 208,921 | |
| 4th October 1988 | Minneapolis |
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MET Sports Center | 13,255 / 15,000 | $ 245,215 |
| October 6, 1988 | Montreal |
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The Forum | 13,500 / 13,500 | $ 285,827 |
| October 7, 1988 | Toronto | Maple Leaf Gardens | 13.214 / 14.500 | $ 286,983 | |
| October 8, 1988 | Hamilton | Copps Coliseum | 10,690 / 12,000 | $ 231,107 | |
| Asia | |||||
| October 31, 1988 | Nagoya |
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Rainbow Hall | 11.255 / 11.255 | $ 528,985 |
| November 2nd, 1988 | Tokyo | Tokyo Dome | 53.972 / 53.972 | $ 2,536,684 | |
| 4th November 1988 | Nippon Budōkan | 13.741 / 13.741 | $ 645,827 | ||
| 5th November 1988 | Osaka | The Stadium | 31.985 / 31.985 | $ 1,503,295 | |
| Summary | 487,821 / 492,194 (99%) | + $ 13,789,775 | |||
Remarks
Elton John performed during the Japan concerts on October 31, 1988, November 2, 1988, and November 4 and 5, 1988 with Clapton and Knopfler. In the meantime, Clapton interrupted his tour to take part in other projects. The British rock musician played on June 5 and 6, 1988 as a guest at “The Prince's Trust Rock Concert” in London's Royal Albert Hall. On June 8, 1988, Clapton performed with Dire Straits at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. On June 11, 1988, the Briton appeared again with the band at Wembley Stadium to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday . In addition to Clapton and Dire Straits, other internationally successful artists also took part in the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert .
After a month-long hiatus, Clapton played on July 2, 1988 at the Wintershall Estate in Bramley, Surrey. This concert was a fundraiser for the King Edward VII Hospital. On September 24 and 25, 1988, the Briton interrupted the US leg of his Clapton Knopfler tour to perform the song Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) with Little Feat during the title Apolitical Blues and with Elton John . After that, Clapton returned to his tour. Before Clapton to Japan traveled to bring his tour ended, he entered October 11, 1988 for the first time after the separation of the band Cream again with bassist Jack Bruce during a concert on. Ginger Baker was not part of the reunion in The Bottom Line Club of New York City .
Publications
Official
- The September 7, 1988 concert was officially recorded for American television.
- The concert on September 21, 1988 was officially recorded for US television.
- The November 2nd, 1988 concert was officially recorded for Japanese television.
Bootlegs
More than 28 unauthorized blackouts from more than 28 different concerts each were published on compact disc by the Clapton-Knopfler tour . Including nine bootleg recordings that document every concert at the Royal Albert Hall from January 25, 1988 to February 4, 1988. In addition to pressing on standard CD and mini CD, more than 12 different concerts were recorded with video cameras and published on DVD , also unauthorized. It is unclear whether the one-hour, unedited interview with Clapton himself, recorded on November 4, 1988, was officially or unofficially recorded and published. With recordings of more than half of the concerts, the Clapton-Knopfler tour is one of Clapton's most documented tours.
reception
Journalist Steve Gett from Billboard magazine praised the concept of the entire tour and believes that the guests Knopfler and John, who brought Clapton on stage, should have "made a Clapton concert unforgettable". Gett particularly praised the performance of the musicians during the tracks Cocaine , Money for Nothing and Layla . Ending the concert with Layla resulted in the audience leaving the venues "breathless [and] speechless". Another reviewer of the publication, Bruce Haring, rated the performance at the Brendan Byrne Arena: “Call it a greatest hits tour. Clapton is celebrating 15 of his best works from his entire career with the tour. [...] All the songs are performed in the two-hour show. And a brilliant band is also there […] ”.
Bill Coleman of Billboard described the Clapton-Knopfler tour as a "complete success". When he came to talk about the commercial result of the tour, he said that "the short tour with Knopfler" was the most successful tour of a rock musician in 1988 in terms of ticket sales and income. Coleman went on to say that the final calculation of the numbers “absolutely easily kept up with Michael Jackson's Bad World Tour ” . Music critic Tom Letter of the Surrey Advertiser attended the performance on February 7, 1988 and noted, “No one has ever seen anything like it. Two rock stars on stage who perform so persistently and precisely. […] But after all the singing, Clapton looked happiest when he could present his extensive solos, ”said Letter.
Web links
- Complete tour archive (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 25th Anniversary Tour. In: The Setlist Wiki. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ 1987 to 1996: Eric Clapton Band History and Lineups. Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ^ Mark Knopfler on tour with Eric Clapton. In: On Every Bootleg. Jeroen van Tol, accessed June 15, 2016 (Dutch).
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- ^ Peter Jones: European Tour Track. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., April 30, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Geoff Mayfield: Clapton 'Crossroads' Fuels Unexpected Sales Mileage. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., June 4, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ^ Jean Rosenbluth: Grass Route. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., August 27, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
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- ↑ Linda Moleski: Photographer Bachman To Get Fitting Rock Tribute. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., January 30, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
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- ↑ Fender Eric Clapton Signature Model Stratocaster. Whereseric.com, accessed June 23, 2016 .
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↑ a b c Dates and ticket sales:
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. September 10, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. September 17, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. September 24, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Billboard Magazine. September 30, 1988, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 15, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. October 1, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. October 8, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. October 15, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. October 22, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- Billboard Boxscore - Top Concert Big. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. October 29, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
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- ↑ June 5, 1988 - Eric Clapton & His Band. Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine, accessed June 15, 2016 .
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- ↑ June 11, 1988 - Eric Clapton & His Band. Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ July 2, 1988 - Eric Clapton & His Band. Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine, accessed June 15, 2016 .
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- ↑ October 11, 1988 - Eric Clapton & His Band. Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Eric Clapton & Mark Knopfler Philadelphia. YouTube, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Eric Clapton & Mark Knopfler Mountain View. YouTube, accessed June 15, 2016 .
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- ↑ Steve Gett: Royal Rock Headliners. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., June 18, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Bruce Haring: Eric Clapton, Buckwheat Zydeco. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., October 1, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ^ Bill Coleman: Talent: Big Acts, Big Gross. (PDF) In: Billboard Magazine. Nielsen Business Media, Inc., December 24, 1988, accessed June 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Tom Letter: Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler Rock Surrey . In: Surrey Advertiser . February 13, 1988 (English).
