Loading ...70th Birthday Party is a live album or DVD by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Friends. The friends are Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor and Chris Farlow.
It was recorded in Liverpool on July 19 2003. The celebration was a little premature since Mayall was born on 29 November 1933.
While former Rolling Stones lead guitarist Taylor returned to play with the Bluesbreakers in the early 1980s, this was the first time for nearly forty years that Clapton and Mayall had appeared together on stage. Back in early 1966 they had recorded the classic studio album John Mayall & The Blues Breakers with Clapton reading the Beano comic on the cover.
This isn’t the over-the-top guitar album that you might have expected with younger versions of Clapton and Taylor. Both are aware that they are honouring the contribution that John Mayall has made to the British blues and are sharing the limelight with John Mayall rather than seizing it away.
The album therefore lies in the intersection of blues and blues rock.
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