August

Eric Clapton - August

August
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Artist: Eric Clapton
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-19
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. It's In The Way That You Use It
  2. Run
  3. Tearing Us Apart
  4. Bad Influence
  5. Walk Away
  6. Hung Up On Your Love
  7. Take A Chance
  8. Hold On
  9. Miss You
  10. Holy Mother
  11. Behind The Mask
  12. Grand Illusion

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Free Music Review: Overproduced sequel to Behind The Sun...
Hit: 5 Stars

1986 - Phil Collins is back behind the controls & is now playing all of the drums (except on in the the way that you use it - steve ferrone). I'm not sure why he didn't play all the drums on Behind the Sun... Anyway this album consisted of just Clapton (guitar), Collins (drums/production), phillinganes (keys/vocals), & east (bass/vocals). Tina Turner also makes a vocal appearance on tearing us apart. this album is much more produced than behind the sun with more keyboard & synth bass lines shooting at more R&B as BTS aimed for a more bluesy/rocky sound. That's okay I guess... Collins definitely had a feel for R&B in his solo stuff & it showed in his outside production as well & clapton agreed. Clapton's vocals are strong & smoky as in BTS & he sounds healthy & happy. His guitaring is more distorted with plenty of good solo work retaining his characteristic claptonisitic sound. East & phillinganes bring a more synth-bass sound typical in the mid 80s & loved by collins (listen to no jacket required). Collins drumming is all live leaving the drum machine alone except for backing rhythm. His complex syncopation is way above par per usual as he's using the typical high tom fills & lots of high-hat. Good tunes are grand illusion, hold on, walk away, & hung up on your love, & holy mother. holy mother was cowritten by clapton's/collins's good friend stephen bishop who couldn't find much commerical success in the mid 80s. The album is good but just didn't give me the chills that behind the sun did. it was overproduced. I usually like phil production but this one was too R&B & not enough rock. but then it was 1986. I thought there was too much going on including too much programming & sequencing. I prefer more live instrumentation. Overall a good album but not as good as BTS. These guys toured in 1986-87 between collins's breaks on his genesis tour(invisible touch tour). Those live shows were great & the recreations of these august tunes were better as they were more stripped down. There are some good DVDs out there including live in birmingham '86 & live at monteaux '86 - both great shows. August would prove to be the end of the Collins/Clapton production era but they would play together on clapton's 1989 journeyman album (bad love - collins on drums) & collins's 1989 but seriously album (wish it would rain down - clapton on guitar). I my opinion their relationship in the mid 80s helped to keep an industry of inmature music respectable by creating mature/complex/articulate music to marvel over.
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Eric Clapton adopted a new, tougher, hard R&B approach on 'August,' employing a stripped-down band featuring keyboard player Greg Phillinganes, bassist Nathan East, and drummer/producer Phil Collins, plus, on several tracks, a horn section. Guest artists appeared on a couple of tracks, including backup vocals by Tina Turner, and performing songs written by old Motown hand Lamont Dozier, among others. The leadoff track 'It's in the Way That You Use It,' was written by Clapton and Robbie Robertson for Robertson's score to the film 'The Color of Money.' Elsewhere, Clapton sang and played fiercely on songs like 'Tearing Us Apart,' 'Run,' and 'Miss You.' 'August' reached gold status in less than six months, Clapton's best commercial showing since 1981's 'Another Ticket.' The title commemorates the birth in August 1986 of Clapton's son Conor.

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