Gotta love Eric. What he did with Cream opened the umbrella for Zeppelin, Hendrix and Sabbath to build the sound of modern rock and Metal. And he masters the Johnson's double tempo like he wrote it.
Every single Clapton video is so full of comments people trashing a guy who's: a.) a phenomenal guitarist, b.) passionate for the blues, c.) played with the legends you all claim he steals from. Man, you guys got some serious issues.
Gibson, I agree with your comment! To try and diminish one musician because others are under appreciated is a juvenile approach. Eric Clapton has always diverted praise away from himself towards the original bluesmen. Others can play faster, others can slide better, write better, strum better etc... but the person alive today, who has done the most for the blues, and rock, who's guitar skills are only matched by his charitable skills. . is Clapton. He rightly deserves the praise he receives.
+Gibson Blues Dude, I am CONVINCED he gets trashed so much because people know full well he is the greatest guitarist that ever lived. I have never EVER seen any other guitarist come close to playing just the perfect notes or solos for different songs. his phrasing is also incredible. he can play lightning fast or tortoise slow and it will still be the most perfect emotional playing. listen to Holy mother from war child with Paverotti in 96 I think, he also did one in 2002 but the 96 version is better, and listen to the song by Sheryl crow called Ordinary morning, jesus christ the feeling the emotion the playing everything. BB King said no one can touch him on guitar. and there is nothing that highlights what I am talking about more than,such a funny video with BB King and Clapton and Albert Collins and Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy, called Sweet Little Angel, where Bb asks them all to play a lick they all play something and when it comes to Clapton he plays this Bend release couple of notes that are just from heaven. such feeling and emotion so in tune. But anyways BB after says to Him, " I believe you're a little greedy Son" pahahaha!! Classic BB :) Or listen to the heavy stuff he was playing in his teens while with John Mayall, Listen to Steppin out, One of his best, and there is a very long vibrato that lasts forever in the first 30 seconds, its just unreal, how a teenage can think to play those kind of notes. Play steppin Out full Blast sit back and Just BOW DOWN!!
i hope when people watch this they appreciate the tallent they are viewing, and how utterly hard it is what hes doing playing those sort or riffs and singing, i consider myself a seriously good guitarest but i could NEVER do this i just know i couldnt i wouldnt even try!!!! pure and utter vertuosity!!
Raucous, vibrant, at times sounds like two guys playing at once, and so vocally evocative as to put the hackles up on my neck. They say you shouldn't meet your heros, but I'd love to have a jam with Eric. For about the next twenty years. I am shocked at how much some people can hate this man, at an almost cellular level, when everything I have heard so many people attest to his generosity of spirit, and genuine concern for the welfare of others, not to mention his epic talent.
thanks Clapton for letting us relive Robert Johnson live! I wish an old navy friend of mine could see this so that he finally appreciates Robert Johnson!
how does he play this and sing at the same time, god!! i hear him say once about this very song that it took him a while to master. singing over that little riff awesome.
Ive spent a lot of time doing this version too and the singing does come in the end you just have to take it step by step pause after pause,after listining to this well over a thousand times,this is literally the way robert plays if you compare ghem side by side only diff is the recording was’nt so good back then 👍
@mcfarmland Oe G: 1st string: down to D 2nd string: B 3rd String: G 4th string: D 5th string: down to G 6th string: down to D Derived from banjo tuning and commonly used by slide players. 'open tuning' is essentially tuning the guitar to a chord. Other common open tunings are: open E, open D, open A and open C. There are plenty of online forums devoted to slide playing.
@timmy47 very true the blues is a emotion that resinates throughout the human race, even if the musical side to the blues is gone it will be in everyone's and i meen EVERYONE'S heart.
You gotta love Eric. No matter what bullshit they say about him. What he did with Cream opened the umbrella for Zeppelin, Hendrix and Sabbath to build the sound of modern rock and Metal.
the performance Same Old Blues (original Claton song) in the concert for Monserrat or the powerfull and perfect (if slighly over80's sounding) version of White room in the albun 24 Nights, his guitar work on While my guitar gently weeps by the Beatles... I don't care if it's pure blues, he's in the rock and roll history for a reason (well a number of them).
This song is played in open A tuning. Robert Johnson played this ong as long with a slew of other in open A tuning. If any of you have ever played in different tunings, most especially if you only have one guitar, you try and play, or create them all in one tuning. Clapton was really big on reproducing the sounds Robert had. Which are a lot easier than some think. If you notice you can hear that bit of bass from striking the low strings in the middle of nowhere.
I am CONVINCED he gets trashed so much because people know full well he is the greatest guitarist that ever lived. I have never EVER seen any other guitarist come close to playing just the perfect notes or solos for different songs. his phrasing is also incredible. he can play lightning fast or tortoise slow and it will still be the most perfect emotional playing. listen to Holy mother from war child with Paverotti in 96 I think, he also did one in 2002 but the 96 version is better, and listen to the song by Sheryl crow called Ordinary morning, jesus christ the feeling the emotion the playing everything. BB King said no one can touch him on guitar. and there is nothing that highlights what I am talking about more than,such a funny video with BB King and Clapton and Albert Collins and Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy, called Sweet Little Angel, where Bb asks them all to play a lick they all play something and when it comes to Clapton he plays this Bend release couple of notes that are just from heaven. such feeling and emotion so in tune. But anyways BB after says to Him, " I believe you're a little greedy Son" pahahaha!! Classic BB :) Or listen to the heavy stuff he was playing in his teens while with John Mayall, Listen to Steppin out, One of his best, and there is a very long vibrato that lasts forever in the first 30 seconds, its just unreal, how a teenage can think to play those kind of notes. Play steppin Out full Blast sit back and Just BOW DOWN!!
+atourdeforce Yes sir atourdeforce, Clapton is simply the best guitarist ever. He has the best phrasing, the most sure touch, and the most musical approach.
He is undoubtedly a great guitarist and has had a long and successful career, but the only Britsh blues guitarist who gave B B KIng the cold sweats was Peter Green.
I think hes second best alive next to buddy guy but my all time fave is stevie. allways loved clapton we can all just pray we can be half as good as he is someday
@Skeneyedcockeykent Johnson devoted his life to one style though, and became the master of one genre. Clapton has obviously spent years deviating off into rock, psychedelic music, pop and even reggae, and the fact that he can even match Johnson here (just about?) proves he is the master of many unrelated genres.
Consider just his psychedelic solo on Dance the night away by Cream, the use of feedback and layering on Sweet whine or the magnificient break on the Cream rendition of Spoonfull, doing things in a way previously unheared, I wonder what'd current Clapton haters say.
@TheElmajo2007 Yeah that's right. What I do is tune to open G and then use a capo on the second fret for this song and then you can remove the capo for when you want to play things like 'Walking Blues' and so on. Open G is what Keith Richards of The Stones uses for most of his famour sriffs (he takes it a step further by removign the bottom string altogether!)
@timmy47 Yep. Howlin' Wolf hit the nail on the head: roughly, "You got the blues. You know why? Because you're thinkin' evil". Thinking evil is a sufficient condition for having the blues, and ethnicity is not a necessary condition, nor is it sufficient. Perhaps we are aware of more black people who expressed the hellacious trials they were put through through song, but that does not mean that they are the only ones capable of having the blues. Much like any style of music.
@winwhatever.....this style of playing is incredibly hard to do and is harder that just normal slide play maybe you've heard of robert johnson or any other delta blues artist?
Its Open G or A a.k.a Spanish Tunning wich means a 515135 (DGdgbd) string configuration. Open Dor E a.k.a Vestapol is a 151351 (DAdf#ad) string configuration. He's playing the riff's on the bottom two/three strings in this video and is using the 5th (low G) string as a rootnote so its open G. If it was D he would have played the rifs one string string up and used the 6th (low D) string as rootnote.
I don't think that whites should apologize to blacks for past slavery, discrimination, etc. Anymore than Spanish for invading the Americas.Those things happened in the past, you nor I weren't there. The history of humankind is full of horrible and beautiful things. It made us what we are. This beautiful music was born of human suffering. Instead of apologizing for things our ancestors did to each other we should learn from them and try to be better so our children will build a better world.
Read his biography, for what he said, a LONG TIME ago. Do you believe NO-ONE can CHANGE inside? Eric has recorded with musicians of all races over DECADES, and none have called him racist. Ask Nathan East or Greg Phillanges if he is racist! He created the Crossroads centre in Antigua, where he charges the rich for rehab, but frequently treats skint locals completely free-of-charge, who get as much care as movie-stars and rock-legends. Eric gives PLENTY back, and has done for years.
god damn thats a beautiful guitar, and i've heard these recordings but its amazing to see him play that i thought he used 2 guitars but i guess its just one
@laurencej81 Open A (E-A-E-A-C#-E) It's not really recommended for acoustics unless using very light gauge strings or a guitar thats setup for it. It's easier to tune to Open G ( D-G-D-G-B-D) and use a capo at the second fret to play along with Clapton or Robert Johnson if you have tabs. Open A and Open G have the same fingerings.
PD: I remarked "black" because I dont think is a word to be used, we should not be judged by our skin colour or our origin, we are the same thing, people...
@jaiji Actually I jus't nail it down!!!!! The Tunning is: 1st string E 2nd string C 3rd string A 4th string E 5th string A 6th string E So, it's the same tunning you said, but one whole note up!!!! Sounds amazing this tunning!!!!
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Gotta love Eric. What he did with Cream opened the umbrella for Zeppelin, Hendrix and Sabbath to build the sound of modern rock and Metal. And he masters the Johnson's double tempo like he wrote it.
Clapton sounds so authentic when he spills out all of his soul in the blues.
It’s makes you realise how good Robert was .
Those rhythms are from some place else .
RIP .
Clapton's whole life was about this performance! Shows you how good Johnson was....
Wherever Robert Johnson is, i like to belive he's smiling with tears in his eyes
Mr Clapton is for me the best blues guitar player in the world.
it's really domage that i haven't decouvert him earlier.
Thanks for all.
Every single Clapton video is so full of comments people trashing a guy who's: a.) a phenomenal guitarist, b.) passionate for the blues, c.) played with the legends you all claim he steals from. Man, you guys got some serious issues.
Gibson, I agree with your comment! To try and diminish one musician because others are under appreciated is a juvenile approach. Eric Clapton has always diverted praise away from himself towards the original bluesmen. Others can play faster, others can slide better, write better, strum better etc... but the person alive today, who has done the most for the blues, and rock, who's guitar skills are only matched by his charitable skills. . is Clapton. He rightly deserves the praise he receives.
+Gibson Blues Dude, I am CONVINCED he gets trashed so much because people know full well he is the greatest guitarist that ever lived. I have never EVER seen any other guitarist come close to playing just the perfect notes or solos for different songs. his phrasing is also incredible. he can play lightning fast or tortoise slow and it will still be the most perfect emotional playing. listen to Holy mother from war child with Paverotti in 96 I think, he also did one in 2002 but the 96 version is better, and listen to the song by Sheryl crow called Ordinary morning, jesus christ the feeling the emotion the playing everything. BB King said no one can touch him on guitar. and there is nothing that highlights what I am talking about more than,such a funny video with BB King and Clapton and Albert Collins and Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy, called Sweet Little Angel, where Bb asks them all to play a lick they all play something and when it comes to Clapton he plays this Bend release couple of notes that are just from heaven. such feeling and emotion so in tune. But anyways BB after says to Him, " I believe you're a little greedy Son" pahahaha!! Classic BB :) Or listen to the heavy stuff he was playing in his teens while with John Mayall, Listen to Steppin out, One of his best, and there is a very long vibrato that lasts forever in the first 30 seconds, its just unreal, how a teenage can think to play those kind of notes. Play steppin Out full Blast sit back and Just BOW DOWN!!
I agree with you completely. I have seen every one of the artists that you named at least once. However, you might to listen to some David Gilmour.
Don't ya'll just love this cover?
I do bruh ... I'm learning it
This is the most legit Robert Johnson cover I've ever heard, by far.
i hope when people watch this they appreciate the tallent they are viewing, and how utterly hard it is what hes doing playing those sort or riffs and singing, i consider myself a seriously good guitarest but i could NEVER do this i just know i couldnt i wouldnt even try!!!! pure and utter vertuosity!!
Raucous, vibrant, at times sounds like two guys playing at once, and so vocally evocative as to put the hackles up on my neck. They say you shouldn't meet your heros, but I'd love to have a jam with Eric. For about the next twenty years.
I am shocked at how much some people can hate this man, at an almost cellular level, when everything I have heard so many people attest to his generosity of spirit, and genuine concern for the welfare of others, not to mention his epic talent.
Brilliant Eric brilliant
Right on NickB yall have some respect this man has led many small kids to the guitar and the blues i wouldn't be alive it wasn't for Eric Clapton
Outstanding
One of EC's best vocals ever. Thanks for posting this awesome version.
Once a hero, always a hero - Eric Clapton. ❤
thanks Clapton for letting us relive Robert Johnson live! I wish an old navy friend of mine could see this so that he finally appreciates Robert Johnson!
Clapton has spent years trying to copy Robert Johnson. A testament to Johnson's virtuosity.
this music is where my music was born and raised
how does he play this and sing at the same time, god!! i hear him say once about this very song that it took him a while to master. singing over that little riff awesome.
Ive spent a lot of time doing this version too and the singing does come in the end you just have to take it step by step pause after pause,after listining to this well over a thousand times,this is literally the way robert plays if you compare ghem side by side only diff is the recording was’nt so good back then 👍
The perfect combination of guitar & Singer......Nuff Said....!
pour jouer le blues il savoir que tu vas te présenter face a ton créateur.quel bel hommage a robert jhonson
wow its so loose and free yet he pulls it all together so nice kinda like something some1 happened to record rather than a "performance" love it
im white n eric clapton makes me believe i can do anything. be anyone i wanna be. he give me hope. Long live the blues
@mcfarmland Oe G:
1st string: down to D
2nd string: B
3rd String: G
4th string: D
5th string: down to G
6th string: down to D
Derived from banjo tuning and commonly used
by slide players. 'open tuning' is essentially tuning
the guitar to a chord. Other common open tunings are:
open E, open D, open A and open C. There are
plenty of online forums devoted to slide playing.
@timmy47 very true the blues is a emotion that resinates throughout the human race, even if the musical side to the blues is gone it will be in everyone's and i meen EVERYONE'S heart.
hoooo hermoso hermoso hermoso!!!!
gracias Clapton por este blues! gracias por tanto! te amamos!!
You gotta love Eric. No matter what bullshit they say about him. What he did with Cream opened the umbrella for Zeppelin, Hendrix and Sabbath to build the sound of modern rock and Metal.
Clapton is God!
Clapton et le blues❤❤❤😊😊
love him so much !!
great act
"Without Each Other, None Of Us Would Exist"
this is fabulous
the performance Same Old Blues (original Claton song) in the concert for Monserrat or the powerfull and perfect (if slighly over80's sounding) version of White room in the albun 24 Nights, his guitar work on While my guitar gently weeps by the Beatles... I don't care if it's pure blues, he's in the rock and roll history for a reason (well a number of them).
very impressive
This song is played in open A tuning. Robert Johnson played this ong as long with a slew of other in open A tuning. If any of you have ever played in different tunings, most especially if you only have one guitar, you try and play, or create them all in one tuning. Clapton was really big on reproducing the sounds Robert had. Which are a lot easier than some think. If you notice you can hear that bit of bass from striking the low strings in the middle of nowhere.
this is a brilliant interpretation, very good version
EC actually sings this style better than anything else in his catalogue.
GREAT vid!
Thank You Robert Johnson For your Blues Legacy , Clapton pays him tribute in the most decent way
Holy shit..... I just found the jackpot... I have been trying to figure out this song for monthes. Thanks for helping me cheat.
excellent
he did give out the cd/dvd Sessions for Robert J, some years back and is worth having
brilliant...
Well said.
unbelievable how good one man can get!
I´m really glad to say, that he cooks with water too,
so that i can get one day maybe near as good as him!
I am CONVINCED he gets trashed so much because people know full well he is the greatest guitarist that ever lived. I have never EVER seen any other guitarist come close to playing just the perfect notes or solos for different songs. his phrasing is also incredible. he can play lightning fast or tortoise slow and it will still be the most perfect emotional playing. listen to Holy mother from war child with Paverotti in 96 I think, he also did one in 2002 but the 96 version is better, and listen to the song by Sheryl crow called Ordinary morning, jesus christ the feeling the emotion the playing everything. BB King said no one can touch him on guitar. and there is nothing that highlights what I am talking about more than,such a funny video with BB King and Clapton and Albert Collins and Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy, called Sweet Little Angel, where Bb asks them all to play a lick they all play something and when it comes to Clapton he plays this Bend release couple of notes that are just from heaven. such feeling and emotion so in tune. But anyways BB after says to Him, " I believe you're a little greedy Son" pahahaha!! Classic BB :) Or listen to the heavy stuff he was playing in his teens while with John Mayall, Listen to Steppin out, One of his best, and there is a very long vibrato that lasts forever in the first 30 seconds, its just unreal, how a teenage can think to play those kind of notes. Play steppin Out full Blast sit back and Just BOW DOWN!!
+atourdeforce Yes sir atourdeforce, Clapton is simply the best guitarist ever. He has the best phrasing, the most sure touch, and the most musical approach.
He is undoubtedly a great guitarist and has had a long and successful career, but the only Britsh blues guitarist who gave B B KIng the cold sweats was Peter Green.
I think hes second best alive next to buddy guy but my all time fave is stevie. allways loved clapton we can all just pray we can be half as good as he is someday
The best !!!
This is amazing.
THE COOLEST!!!
He's better than I gave him credit for. great playing! great artist! realy impressive
ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
myyyyyyyyyyy
fuccccckkkkkkkkin
goooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1❤ star😊❤❤❤
Only a tormented person can do it like this.
@Skeneyedcockeykent Johnson devoted his life to one style though, and became the master of one genre. Clapton has obviously spent years deviating off into rock, psychedelic music, pop and even reggae, and the fact that he can even match Johnson here (just about?) proves he is the master of many unrelated genres.
Dedication, thy name is Eric.
this man is God
Consider just his psychedelic solo on Dance the night away by Cream, the use of feedback and layering on Sweet whine or the magnificient break on the Cream rendition of Spoonfull, doing things in a way previously unheared, I wonder what'd current Clapton haters say.
Viva Clapton!
@TheElmajo2007
Yeah that's right. What I do is tune to open G
and then use a capo on the second fret for this song
and then you can remove the capo for when you want to
play things like 'Walking Blues' and so on. Open G is what
Keith Richards of The Stones uses for most of his famour sriffs (he takes it a step further by removign the bottom string altogether!)
And now it is on His new album!
Dear God Belleza Bianca
God taking on the Devil's "Stones In My Passway." lol nicely put haha
And some folks have to have a fancy studio.
read his biography... he touches on all subjects and deeply talks about his past and present
E.C.I.G.
Just another day at the office for Eric....
Clapton is a fucking Legend!!!!
This is Sessions for Robert J.
Its a Cd + Dvd.
Earlier before this there was an album: Me and Mr. Johnson
This is fucking rock and roll!
GOD.....
he's receiving his next guitar which in standard. This clip he's playing open.
Eric Clapton : The Best Guitar Player of History. Better than Hendrix.
@timmy47 Yep. Howlin' Wolf hit the nail on the head: roughly, "You got the blues. You know why? Because you're thinkin' evil". Thinking evil is a sufficient condition for having the blues, and ethnicity is not a necessary condition, nor is it sufficient. Perhaps we are aware of more black people who expressed the hellacious trials they were put through through song, but that does not mean that they are the only ones capable of having the blues. Much like any style of music.
@winwhatever.....this style of playing is incredibly hard to do and is harder that just normal slide play maybe you've heard of robert johnson or any other delta blues artist?
the one song Clapton didn't do is Crossroads... and that is the one I'd love to hear him do acoustically!
mastery
Yep
He's right.
on the new album as well :)
TAFKAg
nice post, thank you
@N3XU551X glad to help,btw sweet home chicago or come in my kitchen are also covers but with another text that RJ made up
HOLY SHIT!
This reminds me of Terraplane blues at places.
Its Open G or A a.k.a Spanish Tunning wich means a 515135 (DGdgbd) string configuration.
Open Dor E a.k.a Vestapol is a 151351 (DAdf#ad) string configuration.
He's playing the riff's on the bottom two/three strings in this video and is using the 5th (low G) string as a rootnote so its open G. If it was D he would have played the rifs one string string up and used the 6th (low D) string as rootnote.
I don't think that whites should apologize to blacks for past slavery, discrimination, etc. Anymore than Spanish for invading the Americas.Those things happened in the past, you nor I weren't there. The history of humankind is full of horrible and beautiful things. It made us what we are. This beautiful music was born of human suffering. Instead of apologizing for things our ancestors did to each other we should learn from them and try to be better so our children will build a better world.
Suite 414 / Gunter Hotel, San Antonio TX. The original recording sessions site.
when were these videos recorded? is there a dvd?
Read his biography, for what he said, a LONG TIME ago. Do you believe NO-ONE can CHANGE inside? Eric has recorded with musicians of all races over DECADES, and none have called him racist. Ask Nathan East or Greg Phillanges if he is racist! He created the Crossroads centre in Antigua, where he charges the rich for rehab, but frequently treats skint locals completely free-of-charge, who get as much care as movie-stars and rock-legends. Eric gives PLENTY back, and has done for years.
@Aquenissa my favourite key, so much emotion.
god damn thats a beautiful guitar, and i've heard these recordings but its amazing to see him play that i thought he used 2 guitars but i guess its just one
@laurencej81 Open A (E-A-E-A-C#-E) It's not really recommended for acoustics unless using very light gauge strings or a guitar thats setup for it. It's easier to tune to Open G ( D-G-D-G-B-D) and use a capo at the second fret to play along with Clapton or Robert Johnson if you have tabs. Open A and Open G have the same fingerings.
Brill
the Johnny Winter version is great too !! Robert Johnson rules
@MrMickyblueeyes2010 It's called a slide... It's made of glass.
So what is the blues about? A bit of finger-picking and some chord sequences?
PD: I remarked "black" because I dont think is a word to be used, we should not be judged by our skin colour or our origin, we are the same thing, people...
@jaiji Actually I jus't nail it down!!!!! The Tunning is:
1st string E
2nd string C
3rd string A
4th string E
5th string A
6th string E
So, it's the same tunning you said, but one whole note up!!!!
Sounds amazing this tunning!!!!
wow i can't believe he achieved the two sounding guitars with one guitar like robert johnson did
Nice sea view from window :)))