Greatest Rock Guitar Playing: Duane Allman on Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude"
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2013
- Introduction: Eric Clapton names what he considers to be the "best rock guitar playing on an R&B record". Duane Allman plays lead guitar on Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude"-Version from 1969.
Part of the playlist "Duane "Skydog" Allman - Top Tracks & Solos" here: • Duane "Skydog" Allman ...
“I love being alive and will be the best man I possibly can. I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it.., seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me.” Duane Allman 
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I grew up in the 60's and one of the great things about that was we listened to the radio. GET IT? No pictures, no faces just music! Color-blind, baby, the way it should be. It's all one color to me, man, and that's the color of sound. Wilson was awesome!
Many years ago I saw Duane Allman in a bar with the Allman Bros Band. They blew me away. I became a fan and went on to see them live about a dozen times in the next 25 yrs. Ten years ago I bring home a Labrador Retriever puppy. My wife always named our dogs celestial names like Amber Star, Halley Comet , etc. She named this new puppy "Sky" and I went on to call her the "Sky Dog" not having the slightest idea that it was also Duane Allman"s nickname. When I read it on You Tube one day I nearly shit my pants . It's like it was meant to be .God I love this dog. God I miss Duane!
Let's see...Beatles composition...Wilson Pickett on vocals...Duane Allman on guitar...we must be in Heaven
Lol you sir are so right!
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ROBERT FOTI ..Amen
SINGIN 🎤 WITH ❤️ THE 🎸 ANGELS 😇 👍🎶❤️🎸🎼😇💋💯💋
@@allieneyates5070 ya their all jammin....what a trip...frye,garcia,joplan,hendrix,muddy,etta james,bowie,harrison,petty... wow cant wait to here that jammmmmmm
Love how Pickett's vocal pushes the channel to distort! Don't know if its purposeful or accidental, but it's really effective on his screams.
Universal Audio 610 console. They always pushed the vocal channel. Listen to Aretha or Clarence Carter...
Skydog is still the greatest guitarist to ever live
Yes!!!
More I listen ..... the more I agree
Love his play just wish we had a bigger example! 24 years old and so much talent. Wish we saw the next years of continued growth as a guitarist! We would be talking about him before some others who came after!
to all the people saying "nothing too great about this" because hes not being all showy like the lead guitarist in a rock band are forgetting a few crucial things. 1. he was a session musician on this track. hes not meant to showboat the entire track. 2. good guitar playing isnt always about speed and being able to go up and down the scales like a madman. sometimes being a good guitarist is about knowing exactly how to play your instrument to compliment the song perfectly. the playing doesnt have to be complicated or difficult in a technical sense to be brilliant. too many people complaining that because its not fast or showy it isnt good
Perfectly stated!!! It's what makes U2's The Edge such a great guitar player in my opinion. Just do what is required of the song not of the masses.
you're right, man!
You got that SO right! Fast, complex and out of time is just a noise! Dont complicate things, play in time, accompany to song, no need to own it!
Andreas Poppe Nothing too great here. Hackneyed defensive mechanism at best.
Gregory Tyska The Edge isn't a great guitarist.
Duane Allman has never got the respect he deserves. Pure genius.
Oh but those of us that were lucky enough to see him live. Know just how good he was. He will always be my personal favorite. I'm 64 and have been blessed to have seen Hendrix, Clapton and many others live, Duane was my choice when you talk about the best.
saw Allman Bro in the Fillmore East 3 times. I was at the closing of the Fillmore-last show open to the public. Late show-All Bro played till about 4:30 AM or later-it was lite when we left.
Duane was amazing, but I think the one guitarist who never gets the credit he deserves is Mick Taylor.
^Only era of the Stones I ever listen to anymore.
Ben Talbot absolutely the greatest guitar player ever to pick up the instrument.
Duane Allman, what a loss to the music world.
Duane had a natural talent that no one since has demonstrated. He knew exactly how to make his guitar compliment any song without overpowering the music.
Yes Duane is unbelievable. But who ISN'T unbelievable on this.
Horns kicking ass
and the Pickett is Wickett!
M Jordan If you haven't heard it yet, check out King Curtis' "Games People Play" w/Duane on guitar. Curtis' sax has most of the solos (their version's an instrumental). Just when Curtis and Duane start letting loose, the song fades out, but you can't help but smile, kind of like after listening to Pickett's "Hey Jude"!
So Soulful......
Real music.beautiful and magical touches the sole
@@schleifMets41 AGGREEED!!
@Lats Niebling I've probably watched this 10-12 times. Your comment made me watch it again focusing on Rodger : ruclips.net/video/tyM-X01c8a4/видео.html
Playing what is needed to make a good song great is a unique gift granted to a very few session musicians, and Duane Allman was one of those musicians. Aside from his prodigious talent, the guy had a intuitive gift for playing the right notes at the right time. Didn't matter who he was playing for, he just made it happen and brought those tracks to life. Respect and RIP.
The perfect complement to the most moving soul singer of all, Wilson Pickett. Horn section hits it just right, as well.
Certainly one of the greatest r&b hits of all time. A tribute to the Beatles, Muscle Shoals, and all R&B.
Two legends covering a legendary song by a legendary band......enough said.
No denying it. Duane and Gregg has laid their hands and hearts of millions, in a musical way, that is so special. We were truly blessed to have them both as creators of the music genre Southern Rock. Finally RIP Brothers.
The "REMEMBER DUANE ALLMAN" at the end of the video that you see was carved into a bank along Interstate 20 just east of Vicksburg, Mississippi. I was hitchhiking through in about 1973 and seen it.
Man I wish I had been alive to see it in person. Duane is my namesake. My daddy loves the Allman Brothers. Duane especially. ❤️❤️❤️
My wife and me saw the carving driving back from Texas. Being from GA and loving the ABB it still send chills down my spine.
It's still there but just barely. R.I.P Greg and Skydog.
I was reading about this carving not too long ago. One person said the letters were halfway dissolved in 1985 before it was completely washed away from erosion in 1988, 15 years after it was carved. Today the carving is no longer there and from looking at the street views it’s all covered with brush and the wall is crumbling.
All I know is that Allman and Clapton deserve all received accolades but, what about Mr. Pickett's screams!!! He and James Brown...the all-time best.
Agreed !!
it is very Soulfull wish they were both here today,..making that Dam Good music,..
blue222blue Otis became the star he deserved to be post-death. Had he lived, who knows. While I think he is regardless, he could have become among the most revered by even the most casual listener had he lived. We'll never know..
pickett is a true vocalist. mccartney was great but more a product of his environment. pickett is a true professional. the black american voice was everything sir paul emulated from the 60s. people will hate me for being so up front, but if they are being true to themselves then i need not explain.
pantheryou I agree. Paul McCartney is not a true professional. How he made a lot of money out of music is a mystery.
He has left this world too early . He could contribute more but he remains one of the best guitar players.
Wow I still get goosebumps even after 51 years of listening to that powerful solo at the end, absolute genius.
man he was 22 years old when this was recorded, to understand at that age how to play in the cut like that is craaaaaazy
+MyIndianHair Totally! I marvel that Mick Taylor played the way he did at age 20.
No coincidence that the Stones best albums were made with Mick Taylor. Sticky Fingers, Let it Bleed and Exile on Main Street.
Refugee59 Let it Bleed was essentially pre- Mick Taylor
John Osterwoman Keep that inspiration, from a 37 year old who pissed it away for booze, and good times, rather than the art and the business of being a musician.
Keep that drive and determination, I love seeing younger people who have it.
you can't beat natural talent...
Wilson Pickett had the most beautiful essence of soul ever. His voice was an instrument of the highest order! Anything else is second .
Every single time, there's always an argument over who's better than who. And every single time, they get it all, all so wrong. These guys are artists, with magic in their fingers, every one of them. Like painters and their canvas, great guitar players cannot be rated, because their works are different, and can't be judged on any rating system, other than our ears. It's not the range, or the notes, or the speed of their hands that makes them great. It's how they make you feel as you listen to them perform, you can feel the emotion come through the music. And that's what makes a musician, whether a singer, or someone playing an instrument, great. And that said, the guitarist who brings it all together to me, in more different ways than any other, is Carlos Santana.
huzza!
As you say, as soon as a name crosses the lips another great guitarist comes to mind. Eric Clapton is an extremely humble artist and his compliments are sincerely offered to his peers. If you remember the Tribute DVD to Stevie Ray Vaughn there is an interview with Clapton where he said that Stevie's playing so overwhelmed Eric that he had to back away from the stage wings before he lost all confidence in himself. His thought was, after hearing SRV, "what's the use! (of playing after such a great performance.) If you'll remember Eric and Carlos did that great 24 minute jam together on "Eyesight to the Blind" back in the 70's. These cats love to play with each other because they know how hard it is to earn membership in the guitar fraternity. Sure, they compete, the same way rams lock horns, to make each other better. But there is an underlying love and appreciation for the others' talents that makes their making music that much more special.
Yes, it's all a matter of tastes, life experiences, your mood at the time, the memories and feelings it brings up. Like you said there is no greatest just great. Usually my favorite guitar player is the last great guitar player I heard. Duane was great but this definitely was not one of his shining moments. Maybe EC was referring to another. Anyway like they say tastes are like belly buttons everybody's got one.
See what I mean. It's an emotional experience. When I listen to Clapton I don't hear all that but I understand. It is art and something happens inside you when you listen that you can't share with anyone else. You just wish you could. But it's wonderful isn't it?
I like the early Cream stuff but lately I've been listening to a variety of John Mayall with all the guitarists he attracted. Buddy Whittington, Gary Moore, Coco Montoya, Eric Clapton, Rocky Athas. Mick Taylor, Otis Rush and others that don't come to mind right now. John was a magnet for good guitar players and he has really perfected his craft. I guess he's in his 80's now but his voice just kept getting better up into his late 70's which is rare for a singer. Mists of Time with Gary Moore and Buddy Whittington, So many Roads and If I don't get Home with Gary Moore and on and on. Gary Moore for raw ripping apart and Buddy for some finesse.
To think playing the guitar was one of Duane's latent greatnessess.
He didn't pick up the guitar until Gregg was working as a musician and "it seemed like it would be fun to be in a rock band."
Most of the greats are broken souls looking for validation,
He would have been ecstatic to be sitting on a bench with six other people, in sync, pounding out a rhythm on of phone books with their fists, if If he got to be part of a great groove!
Most vituosos don't want to be in a band with other virtuosos. Not Duane, Duane didn't need to be entertaining he needed to be entertained.
Being a "Guitar God" was beneath him.
That is why he is so special.
***** I don't know, but is it possible that Duane Allman might have actually said that in an interview or something? And that Bilo isn't just making stuff up? And that your invective is not the least bit called for? Is that possible?
In any case I pity anyone who has been so badly treated by the world that they would tell a total stranger to go sit on a spike. As if the world didn't already have enough hatred and animosity in it.
So, you have elicited my pity. Is that what you were hoping for? Pity from someone?
Wrong. Read Gregg's book. Read Duane's daughters' book They were just boys when Duane grabbed his younger brothers' guitar and didn't want to give it back
Can't beat Southern Blues and Rock
My favorite soul singer with my favorite guitarist. I'm in heaven.
Jeff Smith I was at the Wilson Pickett review...DA was the best of all... Hjd
People should hear this. Even without Clapton's endorsement, it's a great version of a landmark song in rock history. Thank you so much for posting this.
Every time I listen to this song, Wilson screams, the horns come alive, and Duane kicks it in... the hairs on my arm stand!
I agree. This is soul music. It always touches my Soul. Best wishes to you.
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Same here man. Every time I
It's my personal belief that Duane Allman was the greatest guitar player and slide man that EVER played. Cool hand heard him for the first time with Wilson Pickett and knew it from the get go. Memories are all we have now. R.I.P. Greg and Duane Allman
I turn 60 on Sunday.....putting together my play list for the day. This goes right to the top of the list!
+Ricardo Lobo Happy birthday!!
+Ricardo Lobo Happy late Birthday Ricardo!
LoL!
YT says it's one year later, so happy birthday Ricardo!!
I remember stayin up LATE New Year's Eve 1968 just to hear that Hey Jude had made the #1 song of the year...
Duane, the background sesh player cannot be denied. God bless em' all.
They will rock into all eternity.Their music lives on.
if ya like Duane you need to check out Derek Trucks playing with the Allman Brothers. The best slide guitar player on the planet in my opinion
Hey Judith..... See you on mewe
Duane once said he was the second best guitarist in the band. He said, just listen. Dickie's a better player than me, I just play louder than him. Listen to "blue sky" or "Elizabeth reed". You can't really say Duane's solos are better than Dickie's. They are both equally fabulous. But nobody ever mentions Dickie. Dickie was/is as good as anyone.
Well to be fair Dickey wrote both of those songs so he probably knew what to do to make them so good.
mblimmina
Dickie better technical player but Duane had so much soul
Skydog said Dickie was better but he was more famous
i agree....and i listen to guitars all my life...age 62...started with the Ventures...gotta mention jerry garcia when talking about talent..and Steely dan's multiple players.
Sky Dog was the peanut butter and Dickie Betts was the jelly. Absolutely perfect together!✌️
the greatness of this solo is in it's feeling and raw emotion, expressed through the electric axe. not in mindless technical flourish which people seem to worship stupidly well over true expressiveness of the artist's soul.
Happy Birthday to my one and only grandson, Jude at 6yrs. and this is the best cover of this song!!!! Ever.
The ending this track gives me goosebumps... all over my body...
Me too!! Duane could do that.
Even Eric knew greatness when he heard it played. RIP- Duane and Berry
Artie RT and Wilson pickett
Artie RT Eric Clapton is a true student of guitar playing, never satisfied to rest on his laurels. See the Robert Johnson project.
dlc1119 Eric Clapton Robert Johnson project is the most overproduced LP he's ever made
I think it's more like "especially" Eric Clapton knows greatness. I think EC is a very qualified critic when it comes to guitar playing.
Forget the guitAr, that’s the WICKED PICKETT!
I wish this was 14 minutes long!!! Wilson and Duane wailing together is total bliss.
Wilson Picket is such a HUGE singer. And Duane Allman a HUGE guitarist. Perfect match.
Unbelieveable ! This rendition really just says it all about the wonderful magic created by Wilson and Duane.
Well worth the 54 year old - waiting to discover this treasure.
If you listen,Clapton is telling us something here.The "Best" guitar playing on an R & B record is NOT, to take over and start chopping wood !, but to blend in to the feeling and to go to the place the song was meant to take us, by the artists who wrote and sang the song..Many of us get tied up into thinking that a lead guitar has to always take the lead and "shred", many times to the detriment iof the piece as a whole.Eric Clapton knew this,
as good as a lead guitarist there is on the planet !
dana, very well put and so true, I mentioned that in an earlier post. It was more about the entire band and how they sound as a unit.
Sometimes it's the "Slowhand" that moves the soul 10x more than a shredder. I'll take a tasteful bend over sweep arpeggios with no feel or swing any day
The amazing pipes of Wilson Picket and then WOW the rock guitar by Duane Allman!
one of the best covers of a Beatles song. Wilson Pickett and Joe Cocker really did wonders with Beatles songs
This song was cut in Muscle Shoals, AL. Where the "Magic" is.
Good early recording.
+Lisa Lee And I wish I could have been there just one time, Just once!
Plans have been made, I will get there. I have to see all the beauty and peace you can't experience any where else in the world.
There is only a building, left, Lisa, and it is deserted and empty. I saw it in the movie on Netflix about Muscle Shoals. I would like to see that beautiful country myself in person, that once inspired so many great artists. When you go, you'll see the beautiful countryside which is incredibly peaceful, and you'll have to use your imagination if you want to go back in time to hear them play in that once remarkable space. I say,go for it. :)
Thanks, I really wasn't expecting FAME to still be in operation. I just think it would be a beautiful trip. Also just be there and walk in the places that the greats have been. I would just be happy with that.
I've never heard this version before...I love it. The horns and everything ...too cool !! They all did awesome !
Nantucket Island, 1976 I was an 18 yr old lifeguard listening to this 8 track as we traveled the island....oh yeah....Duane Allman and the Blues
To this day I regret not seeing Wilson Pickett live. I was a huge fan, and his music remains timeless and top notch
Wow! Am I glad I clicked on this at randon, that's the first time I've ever heard that track. Awesome! Thanks for the upload GionoYT.
I'd pick Loan Me A Dime over this as my favorite Duane work.
listen to his version of "Goin down slow", but yes "loan me a Dime" is fantastic
@@roylatekajxam Love that song.
U r so right, great look, I too get so tired of people trying to compare the greats, trying to say who is better, man, they r all great players, unbelievable musicians!!!
What a combination. The best guitarist and the finest rhythm and blues singer of his era.
+Flike Amen!
Long live Skydog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you have to remember the time of this recording, 1969, and the sound produced by duane here, was new and was the gate to southern rock which followed. agree that we all have our favs for various reasons.
I don't know if I agree with you. This sounds very hendrixesque... Jimi's first album came out in 67 with this type of chord improvisation. Even the solo at the end sounds Hendrixy... Although I feel like Hendrix would have gone a step higher
Wilson Pickett just kills this! Duane's solo is considered the beginning of Southern Rock.
PREFECT Rest in Peace Wilson and Duane🖤💙
The best slide guitar player ever hands down, and no one even comes close.
The best guitar player. GOAT!!
Derek trucks is pretty damn good but you know he’s got Duane in his heart
@@DotoreMartinezvasconcelos I'm over 67 years old so I have no ideal what( goat) even means except it's an animal. And I didnt say the greatest guitar player ever I said the best slide guitar ever. Incredible
@@williamgleaton2992 G.O.A.T. means Greatest Of All Time :) Great player!
@@2wheeled76 Dude your talking to the chorus, I'm over 67 and am we'll aware of what GOAT MEANS, I LIVE IN TAMPA WE HAVE THE GOAT AS OUR QUARTERBACK
How could this man have done so much in only 24 years?
This song is the first recording Duane Allman ever played on. He was living in a tent in Muscle Shoals and doing odd jobs around the studio. Amazing.
Not the first recording by a long shot - also he was living in a little cabin he rented on a lake in the woods. Plenty of bios written about this time in his life.
John Hammond, Jr. and Clarence Carter would differ with you on that remark.
Wison Pickett just killed it on this great Beatles tune and what can you say about Duane Allman …..awesome
Love that bass line.
Seriously - who the fuck is playing bass?
David Hood of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section better known as the Swampers I do believe.
was my guess too .
David Hood (father of Patterson Hood of the great Drive-By Truckers)
The bass player on this is Jerry Jemmott. David Hood tends to get credit for all the Muscle Shoals bass lines, but at this time the bass players were Jerry and Tommy Cogbill. Jerry also played with Duane on a number of Aretha Franklin cuts and was the bass player on BB King's "The Thrill Is Gone". His break came when he joined King Curtis and the Kingpins.
Forgive the hyperbole but it's simply the greatest song in rock history! By a mile!
I'm a massive Beatles fan(My first born son is named Jude after this song) . There are very few covers of their songs that I will even listen to. This is an exception. The horn section, The extra drive near the end, and Duane Allman baring his soul on his guitar exiting the song is like a punch in the gut. He is not a 10000 notes a second player but has soul and guts and feeling in buckets. Still love the original but this just makes you FEEL!
Everyone has a favorite guitar player, having said that, "Layla", is one of the best rock ballads ever, because of Duane's & Eric's performance. PERIOD. rip D.A.
ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!! 🎶☮️
Duane had only been playing 8 years!! Some have it some don't.
Rolling Stone Magazine classed the 3 greatest Rock Guitarists as # 1 -Jimi Hendrix # 2 DUANE ALLMAN and # 3 as Eric Clapton. What's amazing is that from the time Duane Allman picked up a guitar to learn it -until he died was only a 10-year period and in that short time got voted # 2 among Rock's Greatest Guitarists.
Ba Ke Duane is and always will be the number one guitarist in my book.
Wow. Gave me goose bumps. Duane does that to me in Mountain Jam too.
Never heard this before. It immediately became one of my favorites. Thanks for posting it!
Magic came from Muscle Shoals and the musicians that resided there.
Not surprisingly Clapton "borrows" a lot from this solo. You can hear him use it all the time, in so many songs, till now. But it's admiration from one great guitar player to another, and I'm sure that Duane, who was such a nice person, wouldn't mind a bit.
Ya, reminds me of the song 'Let It Rain'.
There are untold thousands of musicians who , at one time or another, were the greatest. Every show , every song, is a snapshot of skill and connection with an audience.
Some of you know what I mean.
A certain night. A certain song.
A guitar player in a bar in front of 100 half drunks plays the solos in, say "Roughboys" better than has ever been played. Sound great, tone killer, fingers flying and lying. Emotion dripping off the fretboard. Leaving the rest of the band fucking stunned!
For those 10 minutes or so, this guitarist was the best ever.
I've been involved in such cases.
The best feeling ever!
The end goal of every musician.
duane died aged 24 in a motorbike accident in 1971 and who knows how big this man would have been, rest in peace duane you rocked dude!
You ought to check out the slide guitar on Aretha Franklin's "The Weight". Duane Allman from beginning to end.
If had had to play a person only one song on my ipod, that would be the one. It has made my life better, and I feel it will improve the outlook of any person with feeling that hears it. I'm gonna listen to it now! I recommend you do the same.
My 3 favorite lead guitar playings ever are:
1. Voodoo Child -Jimi Hendrix
2. Dazed and Confused (live) 28 min. Version. (SRTS)-Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
3. Echoes (live at Pompeii) David Gilmour of Pink Floyd!
Amazing vocals by Wilson Pickett!
All I can say is you take one of the greatest songs by the greatest band and they make it better, Simply brilliant!
He's a slidin' great on Aretha's "The Weight" !
listen to his version of "Goin Down Slow". Best slide guitar ever
First of all, this is EXACTLY what he said, "To this day, I've never heard better rock guitar playing on an R&B record. I mean, it's the best." Second of all, there IS a lead solo of sorts, although I'm sure some might argue it's not a lead solo but merely a bunch of licks and fills. It starts at 3:29 and lasts for the entire remainder of the song, but Pickett is screaming so fucking loud over the top of it, it doesn't come off as an actual lead solo, more like licks and fills I guess....whatever. However, that point is really moot, because Clapton never said it was the best lead solo he had ever heard, only that he's never heard better rock guitar playing on an R&B record.
Exactly, Duane was awesome no matter how he played. Another great session guitarist who played on other artists' albums for years before he became famous was Jimmy Page. Most people only know him from Led Zep though.
Well said Terry!
Bob Dylan was a session guitarist and harmonica player when he first recorded on Columbia.
@@MsPhilsmith Dylan was a session harmonica player? Jesus, times must have been hard at Columbia then. 😆
Terry Sanchez
Glen Campbell and Leon Russell were session players on west coast in a group known as the Wrecking Crew.
A great and beautiful song made into something truly special and one of a kind by wilsons vocals and Diane's guitar playing filled with so much feeling it makes the heart ache just to hear it.
I morn all the lost music provided by the early passing of Duane. His music will shine forever.
***** So very true.
I don't know man, the heavy rock guitar with WP's soulful voice, I think he played it just about right. More would have taken away from it, just thinkin out loud.........................
Remember Duane
Wow... so understated, so perfect. Thanks
Love this bluesy-funky rendition of the classic!
Fore the guitar people of the world.
are you my cuzzzzin ?? lol hi anyway
jim shaw Are you my doppelgänger???
Pre-Coricidin but very tasty nonetheless. Loved his work with Clapton on the "Dominoes" double LP. Can't believe we lost him so long ago and so young. RIP Skydog.
This is session work, he isn't supposed to showboat like Page playing in Zepplin -- for Lawd's sake son, that just ain't raight...
It's what you would enjoy most at the time!the style of play,in other words ,what makes you buzz at that moment in time!
Will there ever be another??? Don't hardly think so!!!! Brother Duane and Allman Brothers Will play on forever!!!!!
It should be noted that Duane Allman was the one who convinced Wilson Pickett to record this song....
I love Duane Allman's guitar and no disrespect meant to either Duane Allamn or Eric Clapton but I honestly think Clapton's Crossroads that was recorded live while he was with Cream is the best Guitar lead I have ever heard.
Ironically Clapton considers that one of his worst.
I don't know where Clapton was quoted as saying his solo on "Crossroads" on the Cream DVD was one of his worst. I'd like DuckTalesWooHoo1987 to back that one up. That said, I'll pass along a comment from a good friend about the solo, "perfect professionalism" said in the highest sense of the word. My opinion is that the Cream Crossroads Solo is about the finest one I've ever heard, including all the bootlegs I could find and the 6 times I heard Eric play it live over the last 15 years.
*****
That's Eric being Eric, humble and self-contained. On the Cream video, I think Jack Bruce and especially Ginger Baker stoked a lot of fire and energy on the rhythm line. What may have been subconscious, like a thoroughbred horse racing in a sweepstakes, is that Eric "stepped on the gas" that was apparent to many viewer/listeners.
The beauty of Clapton's playing, and the reason you go to many concerts to hear the same songs again, is that each solo is different, driven by his interpretation in the spontaneity of the moment.
The "best" version is always nebulous as it is judged by each person's ear. Still, the Cream 2005 video performance has to rank high in the "one of" category.
Even a friend who isn't a close follower of Clapton's music perked his ears after seeing the song on video. He said, "that's pure professionalism." Can't disagree with that.
Joe Walsh said he considers the Crossroads main solo to be the best guitar solo ever recorded. EC commented in an interview (sorry don't remember which one) that he "he may have gotten lost" in the song when he was playing that solo (i.e. he thought he was playing over the A but should have been playing over the D7 or the E). When just playing with the bass guitar holding down the key (and depending on one's mental state) - you can get confused sometimes. Of course EC is very humble but it could have easily been a happy accident. In my opinion - that is the finest guitar TONE in blues/rock song.
Clapton said "on an R&B record" which limits the comparisons AND you've got to consider the date when this was released. No sense comparing to later stuff. And I've always been most partial to Clapton on "Badge." Killer. Or Duane all over Live at Fillmore East.
Soul,funk & rock with a little blues no category required.
Exceptional! It just does not get better than this!
Beatles should have asked Duane to help them with their version.
Bazinga!! ouch
To be honest and I read this somewhere, not sure where, that George Harrison wanted something like this at the end of "their" version of this, BUT mr McCartney said NO!!!! I like this version better with Duane's guitar SOLO...yes SOLO at the end....I guess great minds think alike...
MsFancy Pants
With due respects to these great musicians, Hey Jude is what it is due to Paul's brilliance as a singer, songwriter, and composer. With the Beatles, even the most complex musical arrangements only supplement their singing. In this particular song, even a genius like Lennon has to take a backseat.
And with all due respects to you (DIFFBREAK) I prefer this version better. I absolutely love Duane's approach and playing at the end. You are correct that Paul's song (solely Paul's) was important and but due to the fact that he was a Beatle and recorded it while they were still a band made it a brilliant song no doubt about that...I am just saying that Duane's playing and style made it EVEN BETTER!!!
I bet Duane could have convinced Mr. McCartney to give him a try!
"Best rock guitar playing on an R&B record." Eric Clapton
fucking joker lmao
Hendrix was revered by all whites as the top dog, hands down!!
Michael Kelly Pickett released Hey Jude 1/1/69, Band of Gypsies release March 1970, Layla released November 1970. So Eric had not heard Power of Soul until after he heard Duane on Pickett's Hey Jude. No doubt while recording Layla, Eric and Duane were probably listening with amazement to Power of Soul. Also interesting to note songs 7 and 8 on POWER OF SOUL: A TRIBUTE TO JIMI HENDRIX... You might read: www.uncut.co.uk/eric-clapton/eric-clapton-on-cream-i-was-in-a-confrontational-situation-24-hours-a-day-feature I'd say Eric was as impressed with Hendrix as he was with Duane, and I imagine Duane and Jimi thought a lot of Eric. I surely love em all...
Man Cow That's right, though this is a good rendition of the Beatles song, Power of Soul will rip your face off, especially when Hendrix comes in full force near the beginning! I think Clapton was being generous here with Skydog. Duane Allman was a great player for sure, but his career was cut short, and that's an understatement.
bertelliish granted, Hendrix was and to an extent still is the most innovative player to pick up an axe. Also, just like slow hand, he is self taught. BUT...he is a bit of a sloppy player...
Skydog...all tone, clean, cut and in your gut!
I was 15 when I saw my 1st rock concert. Got to see Duane play. Amazing.
When I was a kid, My older brother loved "The Wickit Pickit"...He passed to the Good Lord some years ago and I have come to agree he was right! landO a thousand dances was a great song to him!!!...He loved Hey Jude Love ya Brother!!!
Terry Kath blows them all away...including Hendrix... Jimi said so himself
let me put it like this jim comes first then duane then stevie and the rest is mediocre
Goosebumps! Amazing!!!
Phenomenally COOL ~WilsonP and Duane!