Eric, you were wonderful tonight..

Ok...technically, it was last night... but then the pun on the lyrics to "Wonderful" wouldn't really work then LOL

My birthday festivities kicked off early with Doug taking me to the Eric Clapton concert last night at the Xcel Center in St. Paul. It was the first stop of the North American leg of the tour. Of which he is only doing the eastern part of the US. This is common and probably why I have waited about 20 years to catch him live. And it was SO worth the wait.

Clapton has more cool in his pinky than most of us could hope to have in our entire bodies. His voice is still fantastic and his guitar playing .. breathtaking. The Robert Cray Band did an opening set.. and he too is still amazing and I swear hasn't aged a bit in all the years I've been listening to him.

I even found a new interest... the second lead guitar, was played by a young man named Derek Trucks (27). Again, he is incredible. But I guess you need to be if you get to play with Clapton! Doug looked him up online this morning and come to find out he's the nephew of an Ullman, which explained a lot. And well deservedly is the youngest guitarist ever named to the Rolling Stone Top 100 Guitar Players of All Time list. He has his own band called, not so originally, The Derek Trucks Band. I'm gonna check out some of his stuff!