The second staging of guitar hero and rock legend Eric Clapton's CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL found a sweet home in the Second City on July 28, 2007 when many of the world's greatest guitarists convened for a concert benefiting Clapton's Crossroads Centre rehabilitation facility in Antigua. Filmed live at Chicago's Toyota Park, the 2-DVD set CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2007 FROM CHICAGO presents four hours of world-class guitar masters, spanning multiple genre boundaries, performing incendiary solo sets and jamming in unison. The 2007 festival, which Rolling Stone called “a marathon of solos and joy,” no doubt was the stuff of dreams for the fans in attendance as well as for Clapton and friends. The Festival featured a multi-generational array of talent spanning John Mayer to Jeff Beck to B.B. King that Modern Guitars Magazine dubbed an “incredible nexus of old-school electric guitar titans and younger upstarts.”Shot in HD, the double-DVD set features 38 tracks,
Three years ago, Eric Clapton assembled a who’s who of guitar masters for
the first Crossroads Guitar Festival, raising funds for the Crossroads
Centre, Antigua, a chemical dependency treatment and education facility
Clapton founded. The sold-out show yielded a double-DVD that has been
certified platinum eight times on the way to becoming one of the worlds’
top-selling music DVDs.
In a second stunning effort earlier this year, Clapton invited old friends
and new for the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. The all-star cast
featured Steve Winwood, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill,
Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks, John Mayer, Doyle Bramhall II, and
more. Rhino Entertainment captured every angle with a two-DVD set
chronicling that scorching summer day in Chicago with Crossroads Guitar
Festival 2007 From Chicago.
Crossroads Guitar Festival: Clapton, B.B. King, Jeff Beck Tear Through Six-String Salutes to Friends and Idols“I do this for fun,” Eric Clapton confessed in an interview the day before he hosted and headlined the second Crossroads Guitar Festival, an eleven-hour marathon of solos and joy, on July 28th for 28,000 people at Toyota Park in Chicago. The sold-out event was held to benefit the Crossroads Centre, the drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility Clapton founded on the Caribbean island of Antigua in 1997. (Sales of the two-DVD set filmed at the inaugural Crossroads, a three-day affair in Dallas in 2004, have raised about seven million dollars for the Centre.) But the true theme of the day was Friends and Idols. The heart of Clapton’s hour-and-a-half set was a dynamic reunion with singer-organist-guitarist Steve Winwood. Together, they revived three songs from their 1969 album as Blind Faith. Clapton also paid tribute to a lifelong friend who couldn’t be there, George Harris
I attended the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival this past Saturday at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL. What an incredible day. There were so many great players and jams. My favorite set of the day was Derek Trucks. Great band. Jeff Beck and John McLaughlin were also awesome. And Albert Lee was on fire with Vince Gill's band. The Guitar Village was really cool too. Fender, Gibson, and Ernie Ball all had booths setup where you could play their various guitars.
I took a ton of pics and uploaded them to a Picasa web album. I wasn't close enough to the stage to get any great pics, but they're not bad. I took a lot of shots of the video screens too. Some of the pics may seem redundant, but I basically uploaded everything I had. Click the pic below to see the album.
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
I am totally excited that Eric Clapton’s collaboration show, the Crossroads Guitar Festival for 2007, is going to be held right here around Chicago. After seeing the DVD from the show back in 2004, I was a little down that I didn’t get to go, (it was in Texas and like now, I was in Chicago). There was a DVD released of it though that was great. My only disappointment is that the festival wasn’t available in its entirety either on DVD or CD, as there were a lot of artists who’s performances weren’t shown. Still, the DVD does features some great performances, some amazing jams featuring multiple artists and an action packed lineup from a range of genres.
Now, tickets are on sale today for the 2007 edition of this festival on July 28th, so if you’re here in the Chicagoland area you can pickup tickets through Ticketmaster and a few other places I’m sure. They start at $90 (before all those ticketmaster fees of course).
I am definitely going
PRESS RELEASECredited throughout his career with creating super sounds in super
groups, the ultimate Clapton collaboration will take place July 28,
2007 when he gathers the past, present and future of guitar music onto
one stage for an incredible full day musical event. Announced today,
the second Crossroads Guitar Festival, scheduled for July 28, 2007 at
Toyota Park in Chicago, will be a cornerstone of this year's summer
music festival season. Profits from the Festival will benefit The
Crossroads Centre in Antigua, a treatment and education facility
founded by Clapton for chemically dependent persons.
Since its inception, Clapton's vision for the Crossroads Guitar
Festival has been to create an event where his friends and
contemporaries can have fun and jam together for the benefit of a good
cause. This year's Festival will feature a full day of musical
performances with once-in-a-lifetime guitar collaborations. Known as
pioneers in their field, the roster of artists spans old a
Steve Vai at Crossroads Guitar Festival.How To Share Videos With Your Friends And Get Paid! Click Here.I'm earning money here by submitting videos like this, it's easy and we'll show you how ... just sign-up at the top of this page and get started NOW!Steve Vai continues to tour regularly, both with his own group and with his one time teacher and fellow guitar instrumentalist friend Joe Satriani on the G3 series of tours. Former David Lee Roth bassist Billy Sheehan also joined him for a world tour.In 1990 Steve Vai released his critically acclaimed solo album "Passion and Warfare". In 1994 Steve Vai began writing and recording with Ozzy Osbourne. Only one track from these sessions "My Little Man" was released on the "Ozzmosis" album. Despite Steve penning the track he does not appear on the album. His guitar parts were replaced by Zakk Wylde.Vai received a Grammy Award in 1991. Vai's band members throughout the 1990s included drummer Mike Mangini, guitarist Mike Keneally and bassis
