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to front pageSAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3, 1994 -- Grammy-winning rock superstar Eric Clapton will follow his sold out appearance Thursday at the San Jose Arena with an unprecedented three-night run at the relatively tiny Fillmore Auditorium next Monday through Wednesday, The Free Press has learned.
Hot on the heels of a No. 1 album, "From the Cradle," the first blues album to ever top the best-selling charts, Clapton is bringing his blues show into the historic site where he recorded a live album with his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, Cream, 27 years ago.
Ticket sales to this extraordinary show will be closely guarded. Orders will be taken by BASS over the phone with a limit of one pair per caller. Each purchaser will have to provide two pieces of identification over the phone and, then, produce the same pieces of identification at the door the night of the show when picking up the tickets. The tickets must be taken immediately from the box office window at the Fillmore to the hall entrance.
These measures are being taken both to foil scalping and insure that the tickets will get in the hands of the intense Clapton fans willing to undergo the strict scrutiny.
Exact sales date had not been definitely set, but radio stations were expected to begin announcing details Thursday.
At the San Jose Arena show Wednesday, Clapton, whose most recent previous album, "Unplugged," sold more than 8 million copies and swept the 1992 Grammy awards, was expected to concentrate on material from his current blues outing, performing a 27-song song set ranging from an acoustic "Motherless Child" to the ringing finale of "Sweet Home Chicago."
Backed by an eight-piece band, he will draw on the songbooks of black American blues greats such as Albert King, Lowell Fulsom and Elmore James, although he will also touch base on his own blues-based past with "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" from Derek and the Dominoes and "Crossroads," the Robert Johnson blues he made famous in the Fillmore live session with Cream.
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