Eric Clapton declares new live dates

Eric Clapton is to hit the street once more for 4 new stay dates, regardless of quitting journeying closing year and recently admitting nerve damage has made it difficult for him to play the guitar again.

Eric Clapton has introduced 4 new stay dates - in spite of quitting visiting ultimate yr.

The 71-year-old guitarist will hit the street within the US in 2017 for a quartet of indicates,  at the big apple metropolis's Madison rectangular garden on March 19 and 20, and a couple of gigs on the discussion board, l.  a., on March 25 and 26.

The shows are to be billed as a celebration of the legend's 50 years in track and he could be supported through Jimmie Vaughan and Gary Clark Jr.

earlier this year, Eric discovered incurable harm to his anxious gadget had made it "hard work" to play the guitar.

He stated: "i've had quite a variety of ache during the last yr. It started with lower lower back ache, and became what they name peripheral neuropathy - which is where you feel like you've got electric powered shocks happening your leg.

"And i have had to parent out how to cope with a few different things from growing old.

"because i am in restoration from alcoholism and addiction to materials, I remember it a superb issue to be alive at all. by way of rights I have to have passed on to the great beyond a long time in the past."

ultimate 12 months, Eric insisted he become not going to tour any more.

Writing in a programme for concerts celebrating his seventieth birthday in London and new york, he wrote: "I swear this is it, no extra.

"I recognize i've been threatening retirement for the ultimate 50 years, however I failed to assume i'd ever really need to prevent. i love what I do and always have accomplished, but over the previous couple of many years i've found what i was continually truly seeking out, a loving circle of relatives who love me just the manner i am."

In 2014, he insisted journeying had come to be "unapproachable" and "unbearable".

He said on the time: "There are heaps of factors i might love to do, but i am searching at retirement too.

"What i will permit myself to do, is reasonably, is keep on recording within the studio. I do not want to go off the boil to the factor wherein i am embarrassing myself."