Blessed for having been alive and old enough to watch it when it was first released. Double blessed for being young enough to find it again so freely available (kind of) on youtube. Those were the days, these are the days, my friend. Legends. Absolute Legends!!!!
E eu que vivenciei o som, servi Clapton no San Lorenzo em knighbridge, uma semana após o acidente com o filho em NYC , antes da musica ( ... If i ser you in the heaven....)e TB servi knofler, no Elevem Park Walk, em Chelsea. I feel blessed! God blessed ALL who read This!
Depends on the original source music, and it may be remastered and digitalized. Much like up scaling video, so yes it can be done. It all depends on the Codec, and whether it’s been stripped down to smaller file size in order to upload faster.
As long as the sound is good and the vídeo shows you decently what the are doing and playing it is good for me. But this vídeo real is superb and watchable on big screens.
0:09 Crossroads 6:24 White Room 12:55 I Shot The Sheriff 21:24 Lay Down Sally 27:49 Wonderful Tonight 35:24 Tearing Us Apart 42:49 After Midnight 48:56 Can’t Find My Way Home 55:02 Money For Nothing 1:02:16 Candle In The Wind 1:06:37 I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues 1:11:20 I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That 1:17:35 I’m Still Standing 1:21:10 Daniel 1:25:18 Cocaine 1:35:20 Layla 1:45:51 Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) 1:51:44 Sunshine Of Your Love
What makes Mr. Clapton such a very special luminary in the world that he inhabits is the enormous ammount of ground he has covered and is still covering. A bluesman at heart, he has additionaly written and performed some of the most diverse and beautiful songs to come from one artist over the past 50 some odd years. The years have caught up with him which is why it's wonderful to watch this 1988 concert from Tokyo with Mark Knopfler. Eric Clapton set the bar high and so many other performers work very hard in attempting to reach it.
Mark always looks like he is having such a good time up there. No matter if it is HIS concert or not -- those smiles of his. Music is his life, no matter whose it is. Love him.
@@ChristianWelbury I actually love the song "Cocaine", to the chagrin of my parents with that music came out. I just love the energy and the rhythm of it. No personal experience with cocaine in my my past at all, but I sure love the song. Layla is good, but it is so overplayed. Or at least it WAS there for a while.
@@ChristianWelbury I was a fan of music from the time I got my first portable radio/record player when I was 9. I took it everywhere. The first song I ever heard on my new radio was Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth." Whenever I hear that song, I am still that little girl, bopping to the beat of my shiny new red radio. I have since expanded my musical taste to include just about every genre. I love discovering music I would ordinarily not listen to. Having teenagers in the house really opened up my mind when it came to music. So glad it did. I cannot live without some song in my head or some beat in my bones.
@@patsy5294 are you a musician also? I will like to listen to your song or your voice 😀. Do you have a private email address so I can write to you private
Over the years i have come to appreciate mr Ray Cooper on percussions. Who ever may be the main star , he always seems to be the guy who enjoys the most being there . Its a real pleasure to look for him on the back and see how much fun he's having ! I 'm a real fan , keep on banging on those bongos Ray ! 🎉🥁🪘🎶
For me it's the opposite - I never understood why he appeared on so many concerts. In fact I always get annoyed seeing him with his silly poses in the background. To my ears he doesn't add a thing to the musical experience.
It's true...I'm afraid it will never be the same again. What good music...young people. All top musicians...top vocals. A superb concert that can be listened to non-stop every day.
And because of that I can tell you’re a content man; who’s, for the most part, enjoying life. By the way, I’m 58 and working some challenging stuff out (which I will do), but I wish you an all the best ‘rockin’ and ‘rollin’ my friend. 🤘🎸
This is the unedited footage from the concert which has been professionally remastered for 4K quality. This version contains tracks not present on the official DVD disc.
I was living in Portland, OR in the late 80s and this tour was there for a couple nights...getting to see/hear these two slingers on the same stage for a whole concert was one of the high points of my concert-going career! WOW.,..just, wow!
HELP! Every time I try to click away from this video and go do non-procrastinatory things, Eric Clapton goes wild on his guitar and I am paralyzed by awesomeness.
Really wonderful experience to see Knopfler playing support for Elton. Doesn't try to steal the show, just picks out beautiful notes to enhance Elton's performance. Fantastic musician, and knows what the music needs.
These kids are a ton of noobs, they can't even play claw. And they are hard scoping, no 1080 no scopes or killstreaks. Nothing but flak jacket one man army noob tube campers boosting with tactical insertion.
I watch this and I wonder when the world became such a bland place by comparison? Absolutely incredible concert, the music is phenomenal, the talent unparalleled, and I can't believe I watched all 2+ hours of it non-stop. Thanks for putting this together and posting -- it makes me nostalgic for a time I wasn't even around for.
I learned recently that it has to do with a major piece of legislation signed during the Clinton era. It gave media companies the power to buy all the radio stations and consolidate operations. So dj's could no longer choose their own music. And producers have to answer to levels of bureaucracy- so I guess it affected the record industry too.
@@molliedash6126If that is true then that's so f&#%Ed up. What we hear on the airwaves now is.... There's no description for it. I was born in 1955 so I know good music and lyrics when I hear it... Especially as I'm sipping Johnny Walker and coke a cola in a tall glass loaded with ice on a warm evening in the Caribbean island Trinidad. 😜 Sweeeeet muzic.
1 hr 11m 22s into this Elton starts something magical and eventually shows us what a great piano player he is. Just look at the faces of Mark, Eric and Nathan as they enjoy letting rip with Elton. Magic! Fabulous. This is what playing music with other people is all about: Having super fun, rising to another level of existence and taking the audience with you :)
Tre grandissimi eccezionali musicisti eric clapton Elton john e mark kopfner hanno fatto la storia della musica rock country blues mondiale con le loro splendide bellissime canzoni e performance grazie tantissimo a voi 3 per le splendide emozioni che ci avete regalato con le vostre stupende musiche ❤❤❤ thank you so much you are wonderful
I agree, this was the most incredible " rockin' " on piano I've seen in my short 57 yrs of life! And I have been admiring Sir Elton for decades now, as well as Mark K and Eric. We are blessed to witness such great musicians. (incl Sting)
I saw Elton & Ray in 1980, Eric in 83 and Mark in 85 but all of them together? 🤯 My mind is blown... As much as I love Dire Straits It is a joy to see Mark play on these songs! Wow!
And! Got the full version of 'Money for Nothing' this time...only with the slightly more genteel substitution of 'queenie' for..the less-flattering epithet. I'm not a fan of editing things in general, but...Elton John is there with them this time..
EC loves playing in Japan, and MK always gets the best of him. Too good for words. Just pure joy of the experience,ce. Oh to have been there with them.
Clapton fan since Cream. Took his music with me all over the world where Uncle Sam took me, even when the other guys were shooting at us in the '60s and '70s. Now 2024, enjoying the music in my 70s. Girls came and went, but Clapton's music is still with me.
Got ya brother. Was there and the music was the only saving grace. Bad as it was I would go back in a minute just to do it again and live on the edge. Peace out my friend.
Dang, when mark knopfler is next to you and dueling you and you clearly are the virtuoso on stage, you know you’re in a very tight group of guitar GOATS. Clapton is a stud. Love that they’re dressed like 80s bankers too 😂
@@andree.b4723 Maybe you and your frinds looked like bankers, we looked like rebells and hippies... Better said, we hated bankers (for the eternal red numbers) in our sad bank accounts and dreamed about the perfect bank robbery... Be careful banker, if you look like an overpaid bank employed you maybe get ripped off... depending the district of the city...
Mr Knopfler looks a completely different man, a suit on, his hairs cut, combed and smoothed down and keeps looking tentively at Eric Clapton, 2 GREATS and I'd only at the beginning 😶 Magic
Not sure this could be any better!! 36 years later……..Fucking timeless!! Thank you for this wonderful concert!! Totally digging it!! Very HOT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!! Thank you so much!! ❤️🎸❤️🎸 Denise from Boston XO!!!
Concerto strepitoso, con due grandissimi chitarristi, tra i migliori al mondo, che suonano insieme ad una band affiatatissima di accompagnamento. Un video tecnicamente ineccepibile, rende bene l'idea della bravura dei musicisti e dell'atmosfera dell'esibizione live. Grazie a chi l'ha realizzato e postato su UA-cam. 🙂
Trying to compare Clapton to Knopfler to is like comparing oxygen to water. Why try? Equally important and impressive. Like comparing Hendrix to Van Halen. Quit wasting your time. All on the Top Shelf. No better, just different.
I listen to this every day. Sometimes twice a day. Love them all. In 7th through 9th grade, all we listened to was Elton. What a Master. Thank you Markie, Eric and Elton!! ❤ U Forever!!❤❤❤
It's very hard to compare who is the best guitar player, there where so many they were the very best at what they expressed,I love them very much 🎉❤ They are a part of me at 64 and for ever more!!🎉❤
November 21, 1987 Eric went back to Hazleton for a 2nd treatment and returned home for Christmas. It’s interesting that he went right back into touring in 1988 sober now, and for the rest of his life. Here is some background information on the year of 1988 and the workload of the tour: (( BROADCAST RECORDING FROM ERIC CLAPTON S 25th ANNIVERSARY TOUR IN 1988 - FEATURING ELTON JOHN. Eric Clapton s 25th Anniversary Tour, featuring Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler among band members, was arranged to celebrate what was, in the late-1980s, Clapton s quarter century in the music business. Beginning on January 22, 1988 in Birmingham and ending on November 5 the same year in Osaka, the tour led through Asia, Europe and North America. Announced in December 1987 the tour quickly sold out and during 42 concerts, including four in Japan, 12 in the United Kingdom and 26 in the United States and Canada, Eric and band performed in front of more than 500,000 concertgoers, taking around 14 million US dollars in revenue. On November 2nd, the entourage performed at Japan s Tokyo Dome, for a show which was recorded for live broadcast on TV and FM radio, both in Japan and across the US. Elton John performed both solo on a couple of numbers during the concert, and alongside Clapton and band for several more songs. This entire gig is now presented on this 2CD Set in perfect quality for the first time. ))
Wow Wow Wow! The intro to Crossroads alone is worth a mint! Then right into Straight-Ahead 12-Bar Blues at its Absolute Best! And then, for a nice change of pace, we get "Money For Nothing"! Just realized how complex it is. 💥
Hear the intro to I shot the sheriff! Just the independent piece of music, and smoothly passing to original song. Eric's solo, started around 18:00 is also different to what I know, I think it was from influence of playing with Mark - it's more delicate. Good sound mixing, I can still hear Mark putting extra notes to the complex solo. Marvelous cooperation. And Sally - roughly 24:00 such country riffs by Mark. After finding the video I can't resist to play it few times per week. Thanks, KnopflertkUnlimited for posting it! Regarding "Money" you see how different had Mark played it. Such a show, and then! Comes the boss! From the title I didn't expect the presence of Elton John and was highly surprised. Music, which they performed together is very unique, what else to say? It's good that probably will last in UA-cam for years.
Thanks to both of these dudes for providing the soundtrack during the best time of this iteration of existence. The fortune of experiencing music is abundant here.
I know how weird not to include Elton’s name. I mean it’s Elton John. Arguably Elton is more well known that Knopfler and is definitely a bigger musical icon.
I was born in 57 …… and heard the best …. like Knophler , Springsteen , CCR ,Fleetwood Mac, Styx, Foreigner, Nazareth ,Neil Young , JJ Cale , on and on and on 🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎼🎵🎶🎵🎼🎶
Yes, and we don't see tattoos anywhere, thank God. In my opinion tattoos make entertainers look so ugly. These handsome men obviously have class and their suits and physical appearance are like icing on a delicious cake! P.S. I am exactly one month older than Eric Clapton! I'm an old lady with good taste. And it happened so fast!
I'VE BEEN TO THE CROSSROADS ONE TIME TOO MANY TIMES BUT I'D CERTAINLY LOVE TO GO TO THE CROSS ROADS WITH THESE EVER AWSOME DUDES, PEACE AND LOVE ALWAYS TO ERIC CLAPTON AND ALL INTHIS BAND🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤LAURA IN TEXAS USA ❤❤❤
Wow, what a star-studded show, Some real talent on show here. We are spoiled for talent with these folks, thanks for posting, I would have loved to be there.
I was born in early 66, and so glad i came in time to appreciate all of this great stuff and got to see all three of them play live. Separately that this. Seeing all three on the same stage at the same time, would have been a dream.
While I wasn't at this particular show? I was able to see Eric with Mark(sadly no Elton 😔) still great show,as Eric abd his Crack band were on fire the night I went,Thank-you very much for posting this!❤️🎸😎👍
Anyone else notice the opening piano to Layla was replaced with the opening piano to Dire Straits’ Romeo & Juliet??? Fitting for Layla- the bass then proceeds into DS’ Latest Trick- b4 hitting the opening to Layla- BRILLIANT! What happens when you have another band’s keyboardist and guitar 😂😂😂
Yeah, great intro, but to my ears it was not "your latest trick" but the first bass melody-part in "a remark you made" by weather report, which fits perfectly in the knopfler-cosmos.
William I must have you seen and heard this concert 100 times. And I never noticed the opening to Layla…you have a quick ear, must be a musician. Im not but I’ve been listening to extraordinary musicians both on and off the hallowed ground known as the stage. I’ve been fortunate To be able to work for concert promoters out of NYC, back .he day.. When the stars ( real rock n rollers) were just.. getting started I think Music and those who make (create ) are as important as the air we breathe.
I am 72 yo & honored to have grown up in the age of Eric Clapton & Mark Knopfler! I will never stop loving them. 💯❤️❤️💯
Well, said I am 74 and listening to them right now
These two are more ❤then a Class Act ❤❤❤❤ beyound their talent ❤❤their lyrics 😢😢😢😢
Ditto.
I wish i had grew up in that time, iam 13
Yep I am a Young 72 and still listening to one of the best guitar playing humans alive
I Am 78 years old Still Sounds Great They Are The Best
I agree.❤
Blessed for having been alive and old enough to watch it when it was first released. Double blessed for being young enough to find it again so freely available (kind of) on youtube. Those were the days, these are the days, my friend. Legends. Absolute Legends!!!!
E eu que vivenciei o som, servi Clapton no San Lorenzo em knighbridge, uma semana após o acidente com o filho em NYC , antes da musica ( ... If i ser you in the heaven....)e TB servi knofler, no Elevem Park Walk, em Chelsea. I feel blessed! God blessed ALL who read This!
The amount of talent on this stage is STAGERING!!!
I see what you did there, @renegadecinetrax, it IS STAGEring' the talent up there on the STAGE. It is also 'staggering'. Ha ha
Lucky to be able to see performances like this live and un cut amazing musicians ❤❤
Knopfler is making a guitar excellence journey of his own
MGEA= Making-guitar-excellent-again
FINALLY!!! Someone knows how to turn older videos into HD, has good musical taste, and posts them on YT.
You cannot make anything into HD. This isn't HD despite whatever UA-cam claims.
@@aresorumWell.. I can upscale old VHS into 8k and it will be 8k. It wont be any better than the original was, but it's super high resolution.
@@hmm3495
Right, so no point.
Depends on the original source music, and it may be remastered and digitalized. Much like up scaling video, so yes it can be done.
It all depends on the Codec, and whether it’s been stripped down to smaller file size in order to upload faster.
As long as the sound is good and the vídeo shows you decently what the are doing and playing it is good for me. But this vídeo real is superb and watchable on big screens.
Two of the best guitar players in the world. So glad I found this.
one of them is .
V@@Mrlespaul1964
P 7:01 7:02
How long have you been a fan? You love music 🎶
Amen. Like watching Van Gogh paint. True artists!!! Excellent. Thank God for artists!! ❤
0:09 Crossroads
6:24 White Room
12:55 I Shot The Sheriff
21:24 Lay Down Sally
27:49 Wonderful Tonight
35:24 Tearing Us Apart
42:49 After Midnight
48:56 Can’t Find My Way Home
55:02 Money For Nothing
1:02:16 Candle In The Wind
1:06:37 I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
1:11:20 I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That
1:17:35 I’m Still Standing
1:21:10 Daniel
1:25:18 Cocaine
1:35:20 Layla
1:45:51 Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
1:51:44 Sunshine Of Your Love
pro tip: you can watch series at Flixzone. Been using them for watching all kinds of movies these days.
@Jayden Frank definitely, I've been using Flixzone for since november myself :)
Cocaine is at 1:28:56
What's not to love! This is absolutely insane, Great selection of songs 👍 & the line up Exceptional !! Thanks for the upload!! 💯 💯 💯 💯
Props to you thank you for your service 🫡
Eric and Marc enjoying playing together makes the show all the more fun.
What makes Mr. Clapton such a very special luminary in the world that he inhabits is the enormous ammount of ground he has covered and is still covering. A bluesman at heart, he has additionaly written and performed some of the most diverse and beautiful songs to come from one artist over the past 50 some odd years. The years have caught up with him which is why it's wonderful to watch this 1988 concert from Tokyo with Mark Knopfler. Eric Clapton set the bar high and so many other performers work very hard in attempting to reach it.
Mark always looks like he is having such a good time up there. No matter if it is HIS concert or not -- those smiles of his. Music is his life, no matter whose it is. Love him.
How long have you been a fan? You love music 🎶
@@patsy5294 which song of Eric is your favourite song I will like to listen
@@ChristianWelbury I actually love the song "Cocaine", to the chagrin of my parents with that music came out. I just love the energy and the rhythm of it. No personal experience with cocaine in my my past at all, but I sure love the song. Layla is good, but it is so overplayed. Or at least it WAS there for a while.
@@ChristianWelbury I was a fan of music from the time I got my first portable radio/record player when I was 9. I took it everywhere. The first song I ever heard on my new radio was Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth." Whenever I hear that song, I am still that little girl, bopping to the beat of my shiny new red radio. I have since expanded my musical taste to include just about every genre. I love discovering music I would ordinarily not listen to. Having teenagers in the house really opened up my mind when it came to music. So glad it did. I cannot live without some song in my head or some beat in my bones.
@@patsy5294 are you a musician also? I will like to listen to your song or your voice 😀. Do you have a private email address so I can write to you private
It is among the best concerts of both Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler.
Clapton & Stevie Winwood was the best
Over the years i have come to appreciate mr Ray Cooper on percussions. Who ever may be the main star , he always seems to be the guy who enjoys the most being there . Its a real pleasure to look for him on the back and see how much fun he's having ! I 'm a real fan , keep on banging on those bongos Ray ! 🎉🥁🪘🎶
For me it's the opposite - I never understood why he appeared on so many concerts. In fact I always get annoyed seeing him with his silly poses in the background. To my ears he doesn't add a thing to the musical experience.
Such a cool era for Clapton, what a lineup.
The best.
80s, what a decade for music. For all genres too!
The two of them together!!! WOW!!! And nice that they are wearing jackets to give respect to both their music and their audience.
GRAZIE , NON AVEVO PENSATO A QUESTO !!
I love how there's NO GRUNGE on Clapton's stage!❤️❤️
What a joy to see Eric together with Marc and this incredibly good band. Thanks for sharing.
May God bless the algorithm that brought me here 😊
Oh, come on, don't you understand? God IS the algorithm that brought you here.
@@patcartier8171*Clapton is God*
😂
@@jdenino6022*Clapton interviewed one time he said, how does it feel to be the world's best guitarist? Clapton says I don't know I'm not, Prince.
God bless that great big musical algorithm in the sky ...
Worlds Greatest musicians of our time's
It's true...I'm afraid it will never be the same again. What good music...young people. All top musicians...top vocals. A superb concert that can be listened to non-stop every day.
I am 66 and I am still a Rocker,
in my own Rockin Chair!!!❤
Ditto, and I'm 75
I've got both you kids beat. But, why quibble, we're all enjoying this spectacular, innit?
And because of that I can tell you’re a content man; who’s, for the most part, enjoying life.
By the way, I’m 58 and working some challenging stuff out (which I will do), but I wish you an all the best ‘rockin’ and ‘rollin’ my friend.
🤘🎸
Rock on brother!
i am 68 still rocker in general pico .la pampa, argentina
Never let it be said that Eric Clapton is not a vocal legend. A guitar legend no doubt, but he is such an incredible lead vocalist, too.
Thankfully Delaney and Bonnie pushed him too sing more
This is the most complete version out there. Thank you for this.
This is the unedited footage from the concert which has been professionally remastered for 4K quality. This version contains tracks not present on the official DVD disc.
I was living in Portland, OR in the late 80s and this tour was there for a couple nights...getting to see/hear these two slingers on the same stage for a whole concert was one of the high points of my concert-going career! WOW.,..just, wow!
❤
That must have been the same tour I saw at Radio City Music Hall. Dire Straits and Clapton…in the 80s
Loved the man since I was a kid. Mark just added to it.
HELP! Every time I try to click away from this video and go do non-procrastinatory things, Eric Clapton goes wild on his guitar and I am paralyzed by awesomeness.
49:47 ...go...
🌙 49:47
Pass the go back.ok...
Just crank it up, grab a broom or a mop, and clean the house!
😂😅
Really wonderful experience to see Knopfler playing support for Elton. Doesn't try to steal the show, just picks out beautiful notes to enhance Elton's performance. Fantastic musician, and knows what the music needs.
Absolutely fantastic Eric mark and Elton three of the worlds top musicians it makes me proud to be british
Would have been great to include Sultans of Swing.
These kids are a ton of noobs, they can't even play claw. And they are hard scoping, no 1080 no scopes or killstreaks. Nothing but flak jacket one man army noob tube campers boosting with tactical insertion.
Total jam
Elton?
I watch this and I wonder when the world became such a bland place by comparison? Absolutely incredible concert, the music is phenomenal, the talent unparalleled, and I can't believe I watched all 2+ hours of it non-stop. Thanks for putting this together and posting -- it makes me nostalgic for a time I wasn't even around for.
ya mean a bad place ?
wtf happened ?
I was at Mozart's first symphony debut & he brought the house down by lighting his powdered wig on fire. What a showman - those were the days!
I learned recently that it has to do with a major piece of legislation signed during the Clinton era. It gave media companies the power to buy all the radio stations and consolidate operations. So dj's could no longer choose their own music. And producers have to answer to levels of bureaucracy- so I guess it affected the record industry too.
clear! 💥 what channel yo?
@@molliedash6126If that is true then that's so f&#%Ed up. What we hear on the airwaves now is.... There's no description for it. I was born in 1955 so I know good music and lyrics when I hear it... Especially as I'm sipping Johnny Walker and coke a cola in a tall glass loaded with ice on a warm evening in the Caribbean island Trinidad. 😜 Sweeeeet muzic.
1 hr 11m 22s into this Elton starts something magical and eventually shows us what a great piano player he is. Just look at the faces of Mark, Eric and Nathan as they enjoy letting rip with Elton. Magic! Fabulous. This is what playing music with other people is all about: Having super fun, rising to another level of existence and taking the audience with you :)
Tre grandissimi eccezionali musicisti eric clapton Elton john e mark kopfner hanno fatto la storia della musica rock country blues mondiale con le loro splendide bellissime canzoni e performance grazie tantissimo a voi 3 per le splendide emozioni che ci avete regalato con le vostre stupende musiche ❤❤❤ thank you so much you are wonderful
SIR !!
Ok mate I like Elton John too but seriously.!!
I agree, this was the most incredible " rockin' " on piano I've seen in my short 57 yrs of life! And I have been admiring Sir Elton for decades now, as well as Mark K and Eric. We are blessed to witness such great musicians. (incl Sting)
😅@@giorgioromano898
Nathan East the beast.. Maybe not on the same 'legendary level' as the two other legends, but man, he is such a contributor on the stage!
Great vocals too!! He really adds a lot.
Oh yes- he’s got the best slap- he took Money for Nothing up a notch!!!
He's a legend in my book
Maravilloso
Seen him a few times with Clapton, guy is a legend
I saw Elton & Ray in 1980, Eric in 83 and Mark in 85 but all of them together? 🤯 My mind is blown... As much as I love Dire Straits It is a joy to see Mark play on these songs! Wow!
And! Got the full version of 'Money for Nothing' this time...only with the slightly more genteel substitution of 'queenie' for..the less-flattering epithet. I'm not a fan of editing things in general, but...Elton John is there with them this time..
Exactly
Back in 1988, they all had Hair!
And I had teeth 😮 !
The good old days ❤
Jajaja!
hahahaha tem isso mesmo!
It's 2024 now, and Eric has really good hair still. By the way, I'm 1 month older, and my hair looks really great too!
Eric is almost 80 and still has a lot of hair
EC loves playing in Japan, and MK always gets the best of him. Too good for words. Just pure joy of the experience,ce. Oh to have been there with them.
Clapton fan since Cream. Took his music with me all over the world where Uncle Sam took me, even when the other guys were shooting at us in the '60s and '70s. Now 2024, enjoying the music in my 70s. Girls came and went, but Clapton's music is still with me.
Me too started with mayall
Got ya brother. Was there and the music was the only saving grace. Bad as it was I would go back in a minute just to do it again and live on the edge. Peace out my friend.
Dang, when mark knopfler is next to you and dueling you and you clearly are the virtuoso on stage, you know you’re in a very tight group of guitar GOATS. Clapton is a stud. Love that they’re dressed like 80s bankers too 😂
LMFAO 😂yeah man your so right 80s all the way.😊🫠😁
Yeah you can't forget the mullet WOW!!!!! The 80s were cool times.awesome times.
@@andree.b4723
Maybe you and your frinds looked like bankers, we looked like rebells and hippies...
Better said, we hated bankers (for the eternal red numbers) in our sad bank accounts and dreamed about the perfect bank robbery...
Be careful banker, if you look like an overpaid bank employed you maybe get ripped off... depending the district of the city...
I still pick Mark….. sorry. He was just playing here; it wasn’t his gig. Clearly great fun for all.
Eric Clapton is great, so is Mark Knopfler.
Together they are wonderful
Blues is Our soul, our heart! Eric and Marc together on the stage ! Awesome !!!
EC is the greatest. So much talent! He’s had a hard life but is so humble ❤️🎸OMG, the more I listen this is fantastic!
How long have you been a fan? You love music 🎶
Mark Knopfler is my favorite guitarist and composer...
so cute-reminds olme of Prince William !❤
Wonderful talent. His songwriting is stellar! So diverse! Love all his music and his persona. Have you heard the soundtrack from Local Hero?
Semplicemente meraviglioso.
@@ginrogbel / Normal....
You wanna talk about people who make their guitar literally sing... 😊❤
My son just received a new set of strings at our home.
Timeless! Two eternal guitar GREATS together. What a show. Wow. Just great thats it. Music Heaven
Excellent concert. Eric, Mark, Nathan Elton and Steve are masters of their crafts. Nathan singing background for Elton was super.
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#boardsofcanada
Mr Knopfler looks a completely different man, a suit on, his hairs cut, combed and smoothed down and keeps looking tentively at Eric Clapton, 2 GREATS and I'd only at the beginning 😶
Magic
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Awesome. Saw Eric in Toronto with Mark on this tour. Thanks for posting
Not sure this could be any better!! 36 years later……..Fucking timeless!! Thank you for this wonderful concert!! Totally digging it!! Very HOT 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!! Thank you so much!! ❤️🎸❤️🎸
Denise from Boston XO!!!
Concerto strepitoso, con due grandissimi chitarristi, tra i migliori al mondo, che suonano insieme ad una band affiatatissima di accompagnamento. Un video tecnicamente ineccepibile, rende bene l'idea della bravura dei musicisti e dell'atmosfera dell'esibizione live. Grazie a chi l'ha realizzato e postato su UA-cam. 🙂
Lay Down Sally really suits Mark Knopfler's guitar style.
Amazing lineup!! Eric, Marc, Nathan East, and Elton John.. insane!!
steve ferrone on the kit!
Who is the bald percussionist?
@@selina9091 Ray Cooper. He toured extensively with Elton John, sometimes as just himself backing up Elton John, and sometimes as part of the band.
@@johnweeks65 Yes! I saw him with Elton John . Thanks.
Ray Cooper.
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Trying to compare Clapton to Knopfler to is like comparing oxygen to water. Why try? Equally important and impressive. Like comparing Hendrix to Van Halen. Quit wasting your time. All on the Top Shelf. No better, just different.
This has to be the most intelligent and well articulated "best guitarist" reply I've ever read.
Exacto....! Te contradices en lo que opinas!!! Léete!!!!
Comparar cosas iguales....no se puede!!!! But...your ignarace IS GREAT!!
Nobody comparing shit but you
You right man
The backup singers are perfect for eric. Great bass. What a beautiful group. Thanks.
Just when I thought I'd found the best versions of 'I Shot' (prob my all time favourite live Clapton track), I stumble across this...
Man, what a night that must have been ❤❤❤❤😂🎉😊
I listen to this every day. Sometimes twice a day. Love them all. In 7th through 9th grade, all we listened to was Elton. What a Master. Thank you Markie, Eric and Elton!! ❤ U Forever!!❤❤❤
How long have you been a fan? You love music 🎶
It's very hard to compare who is the best guitar player, there where so many they were the very best at what they expressed,I love them very much 🎉❤ They are a part of me at 64 and for ever more!!🎉❤
Mark Knopfler makes everything better
Absolutely. Genius
Agreed :)
Except for Wonderful Tonight. Still sucks
Why cause it was too slow?@@tangentz0007
Put more Mark Knopfler in your life :)
November 21, 1987 Eric went back to Hazleton for a 2nd treatment and returned home for Christmas. It’s interesting that he went right back into touring in 1988 sober now, and for the rest of his life. Here is some background information on the year of 1988 and the workload of the tour:
(( BROADCAST RECORDING FROM ERIC CLAPTON S 25th ANNIVERSARY TOUR IN 1988 - FEATURING ELTON JOHN. Eric Clapton s 25th Anniversary Tour, featuring Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler among band members, was arranged to celebrate what was, in the late-1980s, Clapton s quarter century in the music business. Beginning on January 22, 1988 in Birmingham and ending on November 5 the same year in Osaka, the tour led through Asia, Europe and North America. Announced in December 1987 the tour quickly sold out and during 42 concerts, including four in Japan, 12 in the United Kingdom and 26 in the United States and Canada, Eric and band performed in front of more than 500,000 concertgoers, taking around 14 million US dollars in revenue. On November 2nd, the entourage performed at Japan s Tokyo Dome, for a show which was recorded for live broadcast on TV and FM radio, both in Japan and across the US. Elton John performed both solo on a couple of numbers during the concert, and alongside Clapton and band for several more songs. This entire gig is now presented on this 2CD Set in perfect quality for the first time. ))
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Danke 👍👍👍
2 of my very favorite guitarists on the same stage! I wish I could have seen this concert in person.
Never compare kings of their trade. In their own genres, they are both magicians...like serious magicians. Both absolutely brilliant
Wow Wow Wow! The intro to Crossroads alone is worth a mint! Then right into Straight-Ahead 12-Bar Blues at its Absolute Best! And then, for a nice change of pace, we get "Money For Nothing"! Just realized how complex it is. 💥
Knopfler plays different from anyone else.
Hear the intro to I shot the sheriff! Just the independent piece of music, and smoothly passing to original song. Eric's solo, started around 18:00 is also different to what I know, I think it was from influence of playing with Mark - it's more delicate. Good sound mixing, I can still hear Mark putting extra notes to the complex solo. Marvelous cooperation. And Sally - roughly 24:00 such country riffs by Mark. After finding the video I can't resist to play it few times per week. Thanks, KnopflertkUnlimited for posting it! Regarding "Money" you see how different had Mark played it. Such a show, and then! Comes the boss! From the title I didn't expect the presence of Elton John and was highly surprised. Music, which they performed together is very unique, what else to say? It's good that probably will last in UA-cam for years.
How long have you been a fan? You love music 🎶
Thanks to both of these dudes for providing the soundtrack during the best time of this iteration of existence. The fortune of experiencing music is abundant here.
You should definitely add Elton John's name to that title. Great restoration btw, I always wanted to watch this concert with a better quality.
I know how weird not to include Elton’s name. I mean it’s Elton John. Arguably Elton is more well known that Knopfler and is definitely a bigger musical icon.
I wish there was stuff like this now. People born in the 60s and 70s got to enjoy real good music in their younger years
Shit yeah we did we more bands to cover the 60s 70s and 80s era type music so it will never be forgotten long live rock and roll.
You're absolutely right 👍 ! Golden words ❤ many thanks for placing it ❤😊
I was born in 57 …… and heard the best …. like Knophler , Springsteen , CCR ,Fleetwood Mac, Styx, Foreigner, Nazareth ,Neil Young , JJ Cale , on and on and on 🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎼🎵🎶🎵🎼🎶
Olvidate.... nunca mas
@@michaelosborne4050what was really great, there was no singing of the audience like they do now.
Greatest verision of Layla ever (and i've seen many). Intro, solo, Elton and smoking guitar - Eric is GOAT!
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I came for the whole band - and stayed for the whole band ❤
That band was the greatest Clapton band ever
Great stuff. Brilliant quality. Thanks a lot.
Clapton and knopfler are beyond the beyond
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Great concert ❤ Would have been great to include Sultans of Swing. Such great musicians! Loved the drum and percussion solos at the end!❤
geez, give it a break !
There is way too much talent on this stage
These were the day's when they wore nice clothes and played awesome music and sang wonderful songs that meant something🥰
Unlike today...now they look like construction workers!
They were skilled! Top performers.
I make sure I wear good cloths including a tie especially when I go to see blues or soul performers. It's out of respect for their talent.
Dos genios
Yes, and we don't see tattoos anywhere, thank God. In my opinion tattoos make entertainers look so ugly. These handsome men obviously have class and their suits and physical appearance are like icing on a delicious cake! P.S. I am exactly one month older than Eric Clapton! I'm an old lady with good taste. And it happened so fast!
I don't care what you or anybody else thinks.God and I know Eric Clapton is the best...
Puts falou tudo. ❤
Acuérdate cuando Hendrix tocó con el Clapton quedó perplejo tiritando
Марк и Эрик на одной сцене это очень круто! Эффект взорвавшейся бомбы! Невероятно красиво! Огромное Уважение!Спасибо! ❤👍👍👏
Nathan on vocals, Can't Find My Way Home!! Beautiful!!
Fabulous concert
Superstar lineup.❤
Saw this in Calgary 1988. Yes it was amazing
What a JOY to watch! A blessing!
I'VE BEEN TO THE CROSSROADS ONE TIME TOO MANY TIMES BUT I'D CERTAINLY LOVE TO GO TO THE CROSS ROADS WITH THESE EVER AWSOME DUDES, PEACE AND LOVE ALWAYS TO ERIC CLAPTON AND ALL INTHIS BAND🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤LAURA IN TEXAS USA ❤❤❤
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This gig went off big time. Excellence. Well restod 2 4k 2!
Awesome watching virtuosos just playing and having fun. They are great when they play together. Such joy and respect
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Wow I Love it together my Fav two lead Guitarist, LEGEND
Awesome Awesome! I love it. Thanks for letting me come to the concert.
Awesome-Such a cool Video with Eric Mark Elton Nathan and the Band. Love it👍👍👍
Nathan East is one of the best singers ever
I saw this concert. I should be somewhere in the crowd. I forgot the venue, Probably Tokyo dome or Budokan. Thank you for posting this.
2 Legends in concert!
Four ! Elton John and Ray Cooper
@@jamesbetaman2769 Ferrone and East are also legends
Wow, what a star-studded show, Some real talent on show here. We are spoiled for talent with these folks, thanks for posting, I would have loved to be there.
I was born in early 66, and so glad i came in time to appreciate all of this great stuff and got to see all three of them play live. Separately that this. Seeing all three on the same stage at the same time, would have been a dream.
Look Mark looks awesome!!
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And lace Sensor pickups made that Sound very spezial.. really cool😎😎
You sir are a fucking mad man. Thanks for the work on this gem !
Wow, love it. Wanted to see this performance of Money for nothing for years.
While I wasn't at this particular show? I was able to see Eric with Mark(sadly no Elton 😔) still great show,as Eric abd his Crack band were on fire the night I went,Thank-you very much for posting this!❤️🎸😎👍
no matter how cool you are, you will never be "Eric Clapton smoking on stage and ripping a kickass solo"-cool
good that Marks there to make it all sound good !
Was he smoking in this concert?
Yeah that’s a different kind of cool
Fumando la guitarra
srv is, imho
Wow it's 3:15 am here now, what did I just witness!?😮 thanks a lot for this awesome time capsule
Muito feliz por me deparar com este lindo concerto aqui no UA-cam, obrigado por postar! From Brasil
excelente grandes musicos cada con su estilo que se unen para hacer excelente musica,
I saw this tour. I felt Mark being on stage with Eric really pushed his playing to his best.
Anyone else notice the opening piano to Layla was replaced with the opening piano to Dire Straits’ Romeo & Juliet??? Fitting for Layla- the bass then proceeds into DS’ Latest Trick- b4 hitting the opening to Layla- BRILLIANT! What happens when you have another band’s keyboardist and guitar 😂😂😂
Chills. Literally chills.
Alan Clark did a very good job there even though I’m pretty sure it was Mark Knopfler’s idea.
Yeah, great intro, but to my ears it was not "your latest trick" but the first bass melody-part in "a remark you made" by weather report, which fits perfectly in the knopfler-cosmos.
William I must have you seen and heard this concert 100 times. And I never noticed the opening to Layla…you have a quick ear, must be a
musician. Im not but I’ve been listening to extraordinary musicians both on and off the hallowed ground known as the stage. I’ve been fortunate
To be able to work for concert promoters out of NYC, back .he day..
When the stars ( real rock n rollers) were just.. getting started I think
Music and those who make (create ) are as important as the air we breathe.
@@oneverystreet That's Alan "Hurricane" Clark my brother.
Proud to say I've seen the holy trifecta 🎸Clapton 🎸Beck &
🎸Page !!
And there's also Elton John what a Gig thanks for posting !!!
I saw this tour in Pittsburgh! At the old Civic Arena! Awesome show! Good times!
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Was there as well
Tanta nostalgia grazie per tutto ciò
A Free Concert by two of The Best! How good is this!