Eric Clapton & His Band
"Spitting Distance"
18 May 2011
Royal Albert Hall (Show #2)
London
England

An Audience Recording

Lineage:
Core Sound Binaural Mics > Edirol R-1 Flash Recorder > 24-bit/44.1kHz WAV > Adobe Audition Editing v1.0 (32-Bit) > 16-bit WAV > Split CD Wave Editor v1.98 > FLAC Frontend v1.7.1 Etree edition (Level-6 + Align on Sector Boundaries).

Mastering:
Disk-1
Whole disk
Fade-In & Out
LHC: +1dB
RHC: +4dB
Seated Section
L+R: +3dB (Hard Limit on clapping)
Disk-2
All tracks up to Cocaine
Fade-In
LHC: +1dB
RHC: +4dB
Due to a change in conditions for the last two numbers, the levels were higher,
resulting in some clipping which has been hard-limited to reduce the adverse effects.
Mid to high frequency boost employed.
Fade-Out

Location:
Second Row

Set List:
Disk-1 1:08:14.772
01. Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy)
02. Tell The Truth (Clapton/Whitlock)
03. Hoochie Coochie Man (Willie Dixon)
04. Old Love (Robert Cray/Clapton)
05. Tearing Us Apart (Clapton/Greg Phillinganes)
/Seated Set
06. Driftin' (Charles Brown)
07. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (Jimmie Cox)
08. Still Got The Blues (Gary Moore)
09. I Got The Same Old Blues (J.J. Cale)
10. When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful (Fats Waller)
11. Layla (Clapton/Gordon)
Seated Set/

Disk-2 0:46:19.970
01. >Badge (Clapton/Harrison)
02. Wonderful Tonight (Clapton)
03. Before You Accuse Me (Bo Diddley)
04. Little Queen Of Spades (Robert Johnson)
05. Cocaine (J.J. Cale)
Encore:
06. Crossroads (Robert Johnson)

Band:
Eric Clapton, CBE - vocals & guitars
Chris Stainton - keyboards
Tim Carmon - keyboards
Willie Weeks - bass
Steve Gadd - drums
Sharon White - backing vocals
Michelle John - backing vocals

Support:
Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders

ARTWORK
None, roll your own.

PIX
Included.

Notes:
FLASH-FLIP
Performed at the end of the seated section; this caused a small loss of the start of Badge. Sorry ;~)

SOUND
Placed inside of the venue overhead PA, the sound was direct from the monitor speakers. Consequently, the last two numbers suffered some muffling due to (live) bodies obscuring the stage after the stage rush.

TITLE
Saliva Salvo, or too close for comfort.

COMMENTS
Clapton played his balls off; a really enjoyable show and he seemed to enjoy it too.
The setlist even got a shake-up and the guitar was prominent.
Clapton and Weeks shared some obvious fun in Cocaine at ~36 mins into disk-2, when they locked-in to a downbeat progression reminiscent of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood".

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