Page 1 of 1
BBC2 Life in 12 Bars
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:08 pm
by tweber
On BBC2 tonight (30/6) @ 9pm.
Might be interesting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b95q4f
Re: BBC2 Life in 12 Bars
Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 1:42 pm
by Ivor
I'll set that to record... thanks.
Re: BBC2 Life in 12 Bars
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:44 pm
by Rocker
I read his autobiography, thus I had a reasonable understanding of his childhood problems, his music, his addictions and his tragedies.
I recorded 'Life in 12 Bars' and simply never got round to watching it. Eventually I did and with one thing or another, I had to split the viewing into three fairly equal slots. The bad bits: all those blurry low res films of him playing and messing around - they added nothing to the documentary apart from portraying EC and his friends as a lot of a self centred jerks. The good bits: somewhere around the hour and a quarter mark, the story suddenly took on a different feel - the footage about the death of his son and his recovery from that tragedy, his Crossroads guitar sales etc.
On the whole, I thought the narrative was very poor. Eric Clapton is a major power in music - his music charmed millions of fans and his guitar playing inspired thousands of guitarists. 'Life in 12 Bars' does not do EC justice and is a poor attempt to chronicle his life. EC and those of us who enjoy his music deserve better.