Date: 18 April 1995

Venue:
Ahoy Hall
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Title: Gatemouth

A Mikey Mike Master with series number: MMM066

Note Jan 2020: 
A fresh and direct transfer from Mikes original master tape. No noise reduction has been applied, but the old mastertapes have been been carefully remastered and now includes the previously missing centerpiece "Everyday I Have The Blues". Mike's favorites from this show are Third Degree and Groaning The Blues. The MMM series is curated by ECfan according to the wishes of Mikey Mike. 

Disc 1:
01. Motherless Child
02. Malted Milk
03. Four Until Late
04. How Long 
05. Kidman Blues
06. County Jail Blues
07. Forty Four 
08. Blues Leave Me Alone
09. Standing Around Crying
10. Hoochie Coochie Man
11. It Hurts Me Too
12. Blues Before Sunrise
13. Third Degree
14. Reconsider Baby
15. Sinner's Prayer

Disc 2:
01. Every Day I Have The Blues
02. Groaning the Blues
03. Before You Accuse Me
04. Someday After A While
05. Tore Down
06. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
07. Crosscut Saw
08. Five Long Years
09. Crossroads
10. Sweet Home Chicago (with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown)

Lineup:
Eric Clapton – guitar / vocals
Andy Fairweather Low – guitar
Chris Stainton – keyboards
Dave Bronze – bass
Steve Gadd – drums
Jerry Portnoy – harmonica
The Kick Horns (Simon Clarke – baritone saxophone, Roddy Lorimer – trumpet, Tim Sanders – tenor saxophone)

Lineage: Unknown recorder=>Master tapes TDKMA90=>Marantz Pro PMD300CP=>USB=>Audacity=>Wav=>Flac8

General notes about The MikeyMikeMaster series (Sept 2018): 
Although introduced to the Bluesbreakers with Eric in the 60's when still a schoolboy, MikeyMike first saw EC at Hammersmith Odeon in 1974 but was hooked from that point onward. Since then he has seen Eric play literally hundreds of times on many continents, and from massive auditoriums to small venues with a handful of other lucky people. Never wanting to 'miss the moment' he taped that first show and has 'archived' virtually every one he has witnessed since then. From the early days of tape-recorders with built in condenser microphones, via mini-disc, DAT and also visually with VHS-C, 8mm camcorders up to SD cards and beyond, he has built up after over 40 years of recording and videoing a massive amount of archival live recordings of his hero. From EC solo in the 70's, his drunken 'lost years' through to his re-emergence as a real guitar hero in the 80's & 90's, the Blues tutorials of the mid-90's, via various eras such as the Roger Waters collaboration to the Jazz influenced Legends. Initially, a lot of his recordings were shared with fellow fans but he soon found many of these eventually appearing on expensive Bootlegs. So, he curtailed sharing them.....until now. Realizing that no-one is immortal and not wanting his precious recordings to end up as land-fill, plus with a bit of gentle coercion from a fellow fan, some of the many recordings and videos will shortly be seeing the light of day, many for the first time ever. All recordings will be numbered as part of the MMM series, and the videos will receive a watermark making life for people with commercial interests in the tapes, as hard as possible. Enjoy them all. Collect the series!