Eric Clapton - "Crosscut Saw" Washington 1994
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- Eric Clapton - "Crosscut Saw"
Live at the Capitol Centre, Washington, D.C. - October 12, 1994.
Clapton plays the famous cherry red Gibson ES-335, a guitar he used already with Yardbirds and Cream. He sold it in a Crossroads Centre charity auction in 2004 for $847,500.
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He played this guitar with Blind Faith too. His playing sounds so great here. He should play Gibsons again every once in a while.
For me, the problem lies in the AMPS. Even with Gibson, his tone is never like 68 or 69, cos the amps today are much worse. Of course, it is all a personal mere speculation, but.........
Throw your Strats away!
I love this particular version of the many ways he plays it...always similar with a few notes changed around. I modestly admit I have it down so cold that you can't hear ANY difference when i play along with it ...except...his finale....where he does that high speed series of triplets before the final A9...he has a few micro pauses in there...so there are some Clapton articulations even in that....It's the details as usual in this fairly simple architecture...like his fast horizontal vibrato on the 14th fret A .....where he holds that note longer then elsewhere in the song, and slides the vibrato down the board while keeping the string depressed around 2:45.....then around 2:55 rings the 13th fret C and pulls another signature slide where he goes way down the neck and shoots right back up to the high C to play that recurring triplet again....This song is so loaded with great bends and subtle time signature changes on the few notes he using....I love how he completes phrases in A on the 5th and shoots back to the 14th all the time....It's so full of technique and feeling....His gigantic bend at 2:49 is so hot......Anyway....some of his stuff i just sit back and admire...but this one is very learnable....I use a heavily modified Tele with Lollar humbuckers, a harmonic overdrive and clean boost through an old fender tube amp.....although the audio and visual are blurry....it's still very clear what frets he's on.........Among other things...he's a human metronome....and his play is so damn articulate....it's a blueprint for great musicianship.....If I'm reincarnated a million times I'll never be able to compose on the fly like him...but with a lot of work and a pretty good ear.....but with labor and patience a few of his tricks and secrets...after 50 years of listening to him.....are finally "revealed" to me......Sometimes I'll learn one of his tunes note for note....and then see a live cut and see he's doing it all in different places then me...so i scrap my method...try to learn not just the notes but his exact positions...because his mastery of neck geography has few parallels...and the thing is....he's finding the easiest ways to play the hardest things...and that efficiency is part of the greatness....to minimize any superfluous moves to get the job done......If he has any "weakness" it's his perfection......his knowledge of what he wants to hear and ability to instantly be there....like a master chess or billiards player that's always many moves ahead....is so profound...that even his spontaneous stuff sometimes can sound sort of rehearsed......Like his "weakness"is that he's too good.....so even when he takes chances....and he surely does sometimes.....it comes out so spot-on it's hard to believe.....but there it is........if he isn't the greatest guitarist that's ever lived....he's definitely the greatest Clapton that ever lived.....I don't think any other guitar player has given so many phrases to the overall blues vocabulary as him.......whether they know it or not....every player has some of his work in their vocabulary....Political figures make their moves and they call that history....but a new Clapton piece is history in the book of soul to me....he's been finding sweet spots like few others for decades.......He doesn't just riff....so many of his solos are little masterpieces of composition.....stories...beginning....middle....end....and he just "Keeps on growing"......god he keeps me humble......what brilliance.......he has made a difference in my life...in the best possible way....jealousy excepted...but that's a small price.......To me he's one of the great Father's of the idioms he works in.......I love his work.....and i'll shut up now because i could go into endless detail.......It's just too huge a contribution ....thank God he chose this field!
This is way better the the other Clapton version; just killer!!! Thanks!
On a Gibson, hes a completely different player. Kinds of owns it. Like really really owns it.
I wish he would play this more often. He sounds great with the Gibson tone. That is what I was brought up on ,him playing a Gibby in Cream.
I'm a cross cut saw
Just drag me 'cross your log
You know, I'm a cross cut saw
Just drag me across your log
I cut your wood so easy for you
You can't help but say 'Hot dog!'
Some call me wood-choppin' Sam
Some call me wood-cuttin' Ben
Last girl I cut the wood for, you know
She wants me back again
I'm a cross cut saw,
Just drag me 'cross your log
I cut your wood so easy for you
You can't help but say 'Hot dog!'
I've got a double-bladed axe
That really cuts good
And I'm a cross cut saw, just bury me in the wood
I'm a cross cut saw,
Baby, just drag me 'cross your log
I cut your wood so easy for you, woman
You can't help but say 'Hot dog!'
@taariqtaariq In fact Clapton owned and used this ES 335 since 1964 until 24 June 2004, when he sold it at the benefit auction for Crossroads Centre for 847,000$. It's still the biggest sum paid for a Gibson guitar. Guitar Center is the proud owner of this guitar nowadays.
This guitar can be seen also on the 1996 Live At Hyde Park DVD
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I was at that show. Great tour, great memories.
Would love to hear Him do "Stepping Out" from this Concert.
He sounds here just play different lick bring the some more Alive
I think Todd Rundgren (excuse the spelling in incorrect) owns the Clapton "Fool: SG at the moment but I could be wrong
When you achieve the ultimate sound you don't start using a strat .
@taariqtaariq SURE !!!
Yow. Hearing this does make you wonder what he sees in the Strat.
got that right
Clapton likes how his strats sound. Millions of fans like how their strats sound. Accept it man ... and be happy with your sg, lp or whatever you play. Everything is music
@@siciomateo I think it's the fact that he had the mid boost and 20db boost and at one point the Gold Lace Sensors to emulate humbuckers it seems to have made more sense to just stick to humbuckers.
clapton is the best ever
but my favourite is slash
Damn he loved that guitar, should have never sold it..!
He sold it?
No, it isn't a Gibson SG, but it certainly is the same Gibson ES-335, that Clapton used during the Cream Farewell shows 1968.
That Gibson SG called The Fool is totally different guitar and Clapton stopped using it as his main guitar already in April 1968.
gotta love these old school clapton bootlegs
The best ever!!!
Awesome guitar part.. I remember all the times I've been listening to this on the "money and cigarettes" album, but it's the first time I'm seeing it live..
It seems like he's singing a tad too slow, though.
I wonder why he never used that 335 with John Mayall.After all he said he bought it while with the Yardbirds.I'm wondering if he sold it to Chris Dreja back then and then got it back off him later on.
This just sends chills down the back of my neck. Big EC fan and just bought a red 335 - need to go away and practice!
Bruh..... this is terrific! Energetic as hell!
Let's chop some wood!*****
He certainly did at the Hyde Park gig
@timj41 No, I believe you're right.
One of his best!