CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL
COTTON
BOWL
DALLAS,
TEXAS 6/6/2004
This concert entered
my top ten well before
it ended. I have
never seen a lineup like this in all my days (and I have seen well over
750 bands since
1969). As you will see in the pictures, the stands were sparsely populated
for the first
half of the day and never got past 40,000 according to the Dallas Morning
News.
There's hope
for anyone who wanted to make it out and couldn't though, I saw over a
dozen
cameras running
the entire show and I expect a DVD to come out soon.
This concert was
put on to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua that he founded (Eric's
second home is
in Antigua). The Centre is a wholistic treament facility for addictions.
This concert
also allowed Eric to realize a dream of getting some of the world's greatest
guitar
players together
in one place for one show. I'd say he hit the mark.
Here is the list
of performers...each link will contain the pics I got as well as a short
review of
their performance....enjoy!
UPDATE!!
The concert's highlights are now available on DVD here...
Crossroads
DVD
Neal
Schon
Steve
Vai
Contest
winner Mike Kelsey
Sonny
Landreth
Larry
Carlton
Pat
Metheny
John
McLaughlin
Robert
Cray
Jimmie
Vaughn
Hubert
Sumlin and David Johansen
Booker
T and the MG's
Bo
Diddley
David
Hidalgo
Joe
Walsh
Vishwa
Mohan Bhatt
Vince
Gill
James
Taylor
BB
King & Friends
Carlos
Santana
Eric
Clapton & Jeff Beck
ZZ
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