Crossroads Guitar Festival (2004) (V)

User Rating:

8.8/10   

Director:

Ron de Moraes

Release Date:

October 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Music

Plot:

This is a video from Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, held in June 2004. Artisits include Eric Clapton...

Plot Keywords:

Clapton

Cast

Eric Clapton	...	Himself
J.J. Cale	...	Himself
B.B. King	...	Himself
James Taylor	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jeff Beck	...	Himself
Rocky Frisco	...	Himself
Pat Metheny	...	Himself
Carlos Santana	...	Himself
ZZ Top	...	Themselves

Directed by
Ron de Moraes

Produced by
David Horn	....	executive producer
Mitch Owgang	....	producer

Film Editing by
Laura Young

Production Management
Matt Uzzle	....	production manager

Sound Department
Susan Pelino	....	post-production audio mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Stan Crocker	....	lighting director

Editorial Department
Stephen Hoppe	....	on-line editor

Other crew
Peter Margolis	....	dga stage manager

Distributors

• Warner Music (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)

Runtime:

USA:270 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Fair Park, Dallas, Texas, USA

Quotes:

John McLaughlin: For me, music is the true spiritual voice of the human being I mean how is it that everybody understand, relate and enjoy music? Whether you come from this culture or that culture or any culture - it doesn't matter. It's wonderful. The true language of the human spirit is music. And this is the opposite of all war and aggression...

Tons Of Varied & Great Music

Three-and-a-half hours of footage at a guitar festival in Dalls that drew a lot of big names is more than enough entertainment for rock/blues fans. You can pick and choose and still get plenty of great music from this Eric Clapton-organized concert to benefit his alcohol rehab facility.

There are two discs. My personal preference, by far, went to the first disc which featured Clapton, Jimmy Vaughan, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Dan Tyminski, Vince Gill, James Taylor, J.J. Cale, Robert Randolph, Doyle Bramhill, John Mayer and Carlos Santana. Wow!

My personal favorites from this disc were the performances by Gill (known for his country but a fabulous guitar player), Cale (more of a songwriter than singer), Tyminski (the man who performed "Man Of Constant Sorrow" from the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") and, of course, Clapton.

The second disc sported some entirely different music for the first part, Indian and jazz, and then returned more to the blues/rock venue with Clapton, David Hidalgo (of Los Lobos), Eric Johnson, the frenetic Steve Vai, the crazy Joe Walsh and, finally, capped off by hometown Texas favorites Z.Z. Top.

All in all, an amazing concert with tons of great music.