EC maintains the balance

I confess to be a big Clapton fan. This does not mean that I uncritically accept everything I put in front of EC. His life and his music is a long sequence of ups and downs. Unfortunately, he is since a few years back in free flight down (musically speaking). With "Pilgrim" took the misfortunes its course. Supposedly made for his "young" fans, the guitar god verrannte in hiphop rhythms and thus verkraulte his "old" fans. The brief interlude with BB King gave reason to hope that strangled Clapton succinctly with its extremely low "reptile". Now rested all my hopes on the new live CD. As Clapton, nearly every phase of his career, was always great live, I expected even now a highlight.
"One more car, one more rider" is not really bad, but it is not as fantastic as hoped. Criticism on my part at the selection and the Sound.
CD 1 begins like how Clapton likes: pithy, bluesy and warm. "Key to the Highway" unfolds from a short acoustic introduction and is simply beautiful. Incomprehensible that after joining the boring "Reptile". It immediately attracts the mood down and cuts the acoustic part. In "Tears in Heaven" you realize that Clapton played it in the meantime a thousand times and it sounds experienced and uncaring. That is the impression one has on several other pieces also. From "Bell Bottom Blues" then captures the plate finally properly and is really great. "My Fathers Eyes", adjusted by Hiphop, entpupt as pearl, "Hoochie Coochie Man" literally exploded and "Have you ever loved a woman" shows a band that has it. This merit is ascribed also a long-serving veteran: Billy Preston on Hammond to play fingers to the bone. Finally, the classic "Cocaine", "Wonderful Tonight" and of course "Lyla", would also be great if it were not for these bad mix. The bass was partly so strongly mixed in the foreground that it covers the Lead guitar. The sound becomes plump but also "mushy" and that does not fit.
The new live CD Clapton is every fan must establish. Presumably they will after a few days in the CD collection and disappear when you feel like Clapton live, you will grab more like "Just One Night" or the brilliant "24 night", or to "Unplugged" or the live box "Crossroads 2". Nevertheless, Clapton is still a million times better than Modern Talking.