STEPPIN' OUT (1966) by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2009
- This is my second video of Eric Clapton playing with John Mayall's Blues Breakers (see also 'Hideaway' on my channel page). Like that one, this is also an instrumental, and was originally performed by Memphis Slim and written by James Bracken. Steppin' Out was from the 1966 album by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton as lead guitarist. It is often referred to as The Beano album because the photograph on the album cover shows Clapton reading The Beano, a well-known British children's comic. Apart from being one of the most overall influential albums in blues-rock history, it was likely the first time anyone had heard a Gibson Les Paul guitar through an overdriven Marshall amplifier; this unique sound would become particularly influential.
Eric Clapton told Guitar Player magazine that the 1960 Les Paul Standard he played on Blues Breakers was "the best Les Paul I ever had... just a regular sunburst Les Paul that I bought in one of the shops in London right after I'd seen Freddie King's album cover of Let's Hide Away And Dance Away, where he's playing a gold-top. It had humbuckers and was almost brand new -- original case with that lovely purple velvet lining. Just magnificent. I never really found one as good as that. I do miss that one." According to Clapton lore, his sacred 1960 was purchased in Lew Davis' guitar shop on Charing Cross Road in London in 1965.
According to the most widely accepted story, Eric Clapton wanted an amp that would fit in the boot of his car, so he asked Jim Marshall (whose store in London he frequented) to make him a combo amp powerful enough to use on stage. According to Robb Lawrence's The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy, Jim Marshall initially gave Clapton a Model 1961 with 4x10" speakers, which was soon replaced with a 2x12" Model 1962. Clapton used the combo amplifier with his 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard, allegedly in combination with a Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster, which resulted in the creation of a texture of sound that would become regarded as iconic in the realm of blues oriented rock. (Update: I was reading an interview with Joe Bonamassa who said he doubted the Rangemaster was used as he was able to recreate the Beano sound using a '59 Les Paul plugged into the treble jack of a real '66 Marshall Bluesbreaker type combo without one. He tried a couple of Rangemasters but didn't think they were part of the sound, although he acknowledged he could be wrong. Unless Clapton says something, we will probably never know with certainty).
The Bluesbreakers included John Mayall on harmonica, keyboards and a majority of the vocals, John McVie on bass, Hughie Flint on drums. On some songs, including this one, a horn section was featured, including John Almond, Alan Skidmore and Derek Healey, (misspelt on the sleeve as Dennis Healey). In 2003, the album was ranked number 195 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. (Much of the above info was adapted from Wikipedia).
There is no video for this song, so I have created my own. Comments are welcome, but please no 'my guitarist is better than your guitarist'. 
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RIP John Mayall (November 29, 1933 - July 22, 2024), aged 90
You will be remembered as a legend.
RIP John Mayall. It was a great ride.
Gotta tell ya, my favorite Eric Clapton period is STILL his tenure with the Bluesbreakers… And Cream…
His tenure with the BB was one album, unfortunately.
RIP John Mayall. You will be missed and always remembered.
I don't think one was better than the other they're just different and thank God for differences or we wouldn't have all this fine music
This is the inspiration that led to the song Lazy by Deep Purple.
Yup! The great Richie Blackmore has admitted this to be true.
This led the inspiration for alot of great players.. nobody had ever heard someone play at this time so good.
With Blackmore’s mathematical guitar solo
Another classic!
But this is easy compared to Lazy .. thats insanely hard to play
Rest in peace John! You allowed these young English musicians to spread their wings. God bless you for that!
Eric said he was 18 or 19 when he was first with John.
I don't understand why every Clapton post immediately draws the "Hendrix was better" or "Peter Green blew him away" comparison. Can't we just appreciate what HE did? This is one of the greatest electric performances ever by anybody. Perfect tone and magnificent choice of notes…unparalleled solo architecture. I love SRV, Hendrix, Beck, Albert King, etc., and they all make their own statement. Just appreciate the great ones individually…it's like politics, everyone wants to take a side.
David Webster You are correct, I never understand the comparisons of this man and other people, but what he did on this album and during this period very few can touch.
Hendrix is iconic of the black artist while Green is iconic of the gifted loser, the might have been. People resent Clapton's success and his 'normalcy' in later years.
Well said, friend! In each of the great guitarists you can hear the individuality. It's about expression, plain and simple. People like to compare and contrast, which is fine in my opinion. It's when it turns to hatred that it becomes childish. Because in the end, he's Eric Clapton. His career speaks for itself, the good and the bad. Who are we to judge.
Yeah. I agree. But Peter Green DID blow him away. So there's that.
I would say just the opposite. Green never played anything as good as Beano, and he also copped a lot of Clapton's style.
No gadgets, just fingers, 6 strings & a touch of genius without ego. Clapton at his 'in your face, finest' !
I think Clapton was something of a blues purist at the time hence he left the Yardbirds when For Your Love was released. Although Clapton went on to fame and fortune the Beano album catches him at an interesting point in his career. Artists' best albums are always a subjective category. Anyone wanting to explore Clapton's music could do a lot worse than starting off with this album. When it comes to playing blues, this album represents Clapton at his peak.
What makes Eric Clapton unique and for me the unparalleled best is his constant playing with rhythm, putting notes when you don’t expect them, starting licks at unexpected times and making his music always surprising and exciting.
You got it. Clapton was great the way he syncopated his playing. I never heard anybody else do it like that except Gene Krupa or maybe Sinatra.
Clapton was the greatest white electric lead blues guitarist, greatest intonation of any white guitar player then.
@@johnsolis7631 WAS.
I've preferred Jimi Hendrix over anybody since 1967. Am I showing my age?
@@csakbencee Yup, WAS. Your point being? This was nearly 60 years ago man...
I'll never get tired of listening to this .. what a talent.
This song kicks A..!! Crank up the volume and listen! Killer guitar sound, riff and solo!
recorded just before his 21st birthday, if you can believe that. I usually don't pay much attention to 20 yr olds, but I'll make a major exception here. Sounds as good now as 55 yrs ago. How often can you say that about anything ? Absolutely astounding guitar playing
Brilliant sound - No, I perfect sound. Great riff, a solo that tells a story. Masterpiece
he actually sounds A LOT BETTER 55 years ago then now heheh
The album that changed the sound of the electric guitar forever! Near perfection achieved.
+Anthony Monaghan You are so right! Clapton is GOD. The Marshall JTM 45, and ERics Les Paul with all the amps controls dimed. The engineers said the tone was unrecordedable, I think Jimmy Page also had a hand in getting the tone on tape.After the Wold heard this TONE, Clapton was coined as God in the streets of London, and in the World. Preceded Hendrix, but when they all...Jeff Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend heard JIMI< they where like WTF???
Even with the great EC on display here always great to see the INCOMPARABLE Jimi gettin' some love! "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" STILL leaves me with my mouth hanging open.
Jimi...was, is, and always will be the MAN:) Nobody has influenced the guitar world like he did. No Jimi...No SRV, Gilmore, Van Halen, Healey, Moore, Trower, Lange, Shepard and on and on and on:)
Anthony Monaghan without the Mayall man we may never have heard of Eric
And then........Jimi came along...........
My older brothers used to play John Mayall's Bluesbreakers all the time when I was growing up, I remember the iconic picture with Eric reading the Beano, it seemed better days back then.
Indeed ☕🎸
Clapton was at his fucking BEST when he played a les Paul!
I recall being so damned envious of Clapton when Disraeli Gears came out. I considered myself a bit of a hot geetar man in my youth, and I knew upon hearing him that Clapton could play circles around me. It was a very humbling experience. I later switched to classical and there are plenty of people around in that circle to keep me ever so humble. Now I just enjoy listening to Clapton. Thank you for posting this.
When Lonnie Mack's first record came out I realized that my friends and I didn't know our way around the fretboard as well as we thought we did.
Yes. It's really a shock to find out how many real good musicians are out there. You might think you have chops and then you hear someone (and it doesn't have to be someone famous) do things you can't do and never will do. It's just how it is.
He was hot back then
Starting in the early 70's my buddy and I would study Clapton endlessly. JMB, especially Guitar Boogie and of course Cream. He had a head start so I was gladly playing catch up. We really work on all those many embellishments in his playing You guys know exactly what I'm talking about. To this day I still have a lot of those licks deeply ingrained in my playing, and for that I am deeply appreciative of Eric Clapton and my pal. To this day Eric continues to be a force of nature. I do wish more people would mention his singing, which I think is incredible. So soulful.
Do you still keep in touch with your pal from the 60 's ?
Wow, got love John Mayall, RIP.
Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Green, B B, Winwood, etc. etc. I don’t compare, just incredibly lucky to have been alive to see them all.
In *addition* to the iconic sound and tone, I think it's Clapton's melodic and rhythmic creativity and the phrasing in the solos that puts this track (and the other tracks on the this album) into the stratosphere. He contrasts bursts and clusters of notes with searing single note sustains and melodic grace notes and he never overplays. There's almost a vocal quality to a lot the solos. I first heard this when the record came out and over 50 years later and every note is still imprinted in my musical soul.
Excellent comment.
I about have a freakin' heart attack every time I hear this. Clapton takes the paint off on this track...
To be honest, every track on Beano is ripped.
Nobody will ever play this as good or have that sound.. whoever stoled claptons les Paul is a lucky man.
@@ninjavigilante5311 Too right!!
@@ninjavigilante5311 the thief is not, or ever will be, Clapton!
I'll bet the thief can't even play guitar.
A milestone in sound, innovation and guitar playing. Never get tired of hearing this.
Eric wasn't messing around at this time, kinda bitter that yardbirds got ride of him and showed the world ok! I'll show you aggressive blues playing.
So glad I still got my pld vinyls....R.I.P John
I still have my mono version of this album from my high school days.
Still sends shivers up my spine when I hear this.. a match made in heaven: JTM45 combo, a Les Paul Standard, and a young EC at the top of his game - and let's not forget the rest of the Blues Breakers - a great sound.
Never forget this album. I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was in a music store in Glasgow in the mid sixties and picked up the album to listen to through the store headphones, I was completely blown away with it. I immediately purchased it and have cherished it ever since. This to me was the best of Clapton by far.
+Hugh Crawford Yep my 1st blues album at age 14. It took me weeks to decide between this & one by (???) Blues Crusaders? I had no idea who any of these guys were.
I bought this album in Portland Oregon on the basis of the cover alone in the 60's
" best of Clapton by far " 100% correct
IMHO, This and Super Session side 1 are clinics in electric blues guitar. Unequaled.
R.I.P. John Mayall, the lead guitar playing of mr. Eric Clapton is impressive, mr. Clapton was on fire in the sixties, thanks for sharing.
You a correct. This is the album that changed everything. IMO it's still some of Clapton's best work.
The song that started it all and launched a million guitar-god wannabe's. Before this song came out, most of the rockers were still playing those jangly, weak sounding guitars and amps. The fat tone of Clapton's Les Paul cranked up through an overdriven Marshall Bluesbreaker amp started a Renaissance and changed Rock n Roll forever.
"started a Renaissance" a renaissance of what?
a renaissance? not hardly. a change in the manner music was presented. the recording process of these events was lacking by today's standards.
+MerkinMuffly - he indeed did crank a humbucker through a Marshall very loud with the mic backed away. Maybe not as dramatic as Van Halen's first album, but Eric did it first! A simple idea that was the genesis of all hard bluesy rock and early metal.
Yes Merkin
I agree this recording was "The Great Wake Up Call" from Clapton
"Now see here Uncle Sam !!! Roust Yer Youth outta bed git em off their bloody surf boards !!! Git em some old gittars and amps and Freddy King records an Git em ta try ta Play The Blues like me and the rest o me Brit Mates"
Oh Yeah ,,,jest ta lit Ya know Ill be coming across The Pond in a coopal years with me mates in "Cream" we'll be blowing lots of minds and making A LOT OF MONEY!!!!!
You could not be more right, this is the foundation of all guitar-driven blues-based rock to follow.
oh, Lord please make Clapton play Gibsons again!!!
+Doug Rappoport - Yeah it's a great thick sound on his original 1960 Les Paul Standard sunburst. Eric made guitarists want to play them after they were already discontinued from lack of sales. This one LP in particular had a great bite to it I think, and it fit Eric's hands well bringing out his best. The guitar was stolen at rehearsals for Cream's first tour, and never recovered - it took many years till he even found one as good.
wonder where that LP is now.
He does play his 335 alot
love you man
What you say is even more so now with Gibson's bankruptcy this year!
The back to back to back guitarist that came out of John Mayall's Bliusebreakers doesn't get enough praise. Clapton, Green, Taylor...WOW!
Like The YARDBIRDS school of lead guitarists . Everyone of them wrote entire books about guitar ( musically speaking). And I was fortunate to have seen each one of them live , in concert. 🎸 🎶 🎵
Clapton from 66 on the Beano album to Derek & the Dominos is his greatest period. Even though he had started using Fenders he still had the Clapton touch.
Really from the Yardbirds up until he really did heroin hard (71' or so) he was amazing. Junk killed him.
No one had ever played guitar like this before - extraordinary! Clapton invented lead guitar as we know it today- his playing is exquisite. Hail Eric Clapton -an absolute giant of music !
I think you might be a hit mistaken here. Yes EC was and is a great guitar player, but he didn't invent the lead guitar as we know it. ask him and he will tell you were he got his shit, the masters that came before him.
@@firstwaterramblers745 He took blues guitar somewhere else - he definitely invented the blues rock guitar. Hail EC ! His playing is sublime - he inspired Hendrix - no Clapton, no Hendrix.
True that. In Cream he had almost total freedom. He was responsible for all the instrumental harmony, melody and rhythm plus all the improvised solos.
BEANO!!! RIP, John Mayall☮️🎸
I remember when I first bought this album, back in 1966. I still have it.
Me too. I bought this and Fresh Cream at the same time. But I don't have my copies anymore.
The best Clapton tone by far.
No shit
@@ninjavigilante5311 I'm partial to the Cream sounds but this is absolutely brutally awesome and incredibly aggressive for the time and I don't even think he was using a fuzz pedal like a lot of the guys were at the time that were getting all the "heavy" sounds. People can say what they want but Clapton was and is the man.
I don’t understand what he saw (or heard) in the Strat...It was a regression from the Gibson Les Paul / Marshall combination. This sound is unbeatable and unequaled.
@@Sinnerboy88
There are about as many or more that prefer the Strat sound as there are those that love the Les Paul sound. I like both sounds but the Les Paul is much better for my taste.
A great scatter-wound PAF Les Paul through an overdriven Marshall is a bossy and swaggering tone that can also wail and sing like no other.
Oh well..
@Strick nine yeah this les paul bluesbreakers sound literally created the gold standard for electric blues tone.
This album is the #1 reason why a '59 Les Paul is worth $500,000 today.
And once Page started usin' 'em. Then it was allllll over.
@@silasmarner7586 True.
Was a 1960 but I get your point
@@silasmarner7586 Yeah but what's funny is he was probably using a Tele more than we'll ever know. LOL!
58-59-60 same $$
Clapton ...Oh my God ...Best Blues i Ever heard ...Eric "Slowhand" Clapton ..He is a LEGEND ..
1. Eric was really feeling his "BEANO"s on this track.
2. Steppin' Out with...TONE !
3. No One can play better Electric Blues than this - No One.
4. Eric Clapton - You're the MAN.
5. Nobody could have done a better Job on this video - what with the perfect picture-placement at the right time & all, etc. Thanks so much.
Whoever now owns Clapton's Les Paul Standard, please give it back!!
facts the world needs to see it
Was it stolen in UK? It's either been resold dozens of times or it's still in the hands of the thief
@ps10iceman because strats is better LOL
Joe B. Claims to know. Said residing on east coast of US and it’s a ‘60.
This track influenced so many players. The michaelangelo of the rock guitar.
The phrasing and feel here are quite extraordinary. If you can forget all the context and history and just listen to the playing. It is really rewarding and fresh.
Pure genius that still stands up today as good as it ever was. Amazing.
One of bluest riffs ever!! Love this song
It's a raw sound that Angus later used.
Thanks for posting this iconic and historical recording of the birth of where the heavy British blues/hard rock groups all came from.
At 21 years old, Clapton is so young! You can hear his unique touch forming as he develops as an artist. Wonderful.
Clapton’s best recording!
I couldn't get enough of the album. The solo on 'Have you heard' left everyone in the business reeling.
Filthy.
This and Mike Bloomfield = always the best, kings for ever!
Early 60s Clapton and Telecaster Bloomfield will always be some of my favorite guitarists of all time.
@@roberthenry6910 Bloomfield never lost his touch. Clapton went on the heroin too hard in the early 70s.
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Thats why i said early 60s Clapton. In my opinion the later bloomfield records and recordings were not nearly as good as his earlier work. I say anything past Super Session is his less stellar work.
@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer "Bloomfield never lost his touch. Clapton went on the heroin too hard in the early 70s."
I like Mike. But surely you know that he died deeply addicted to heroin. In fact, he OD'd at a party in San Francisco and his body was taken away and left elsewhere in a car.
See my post.
JTM 45 Combo and a healthy set of PAF's!!
R.I.P. John.
This is the only kind of music I can hear all the time and not get tired of. I’m just and old school blues man at heart when it all comes full circle.
2 people had a heart attack from listening to just how amazing this track is and by mistake, hit dislike before they died from the incredibleness
The tone that started EVERYTHING. Clapton is God!
I put this solo up with anyones.. it's that time and fire he had in playing
@@ninjavigilante5311 He really is one of kind. That signature Clapton style always get me.
Ground Breaking Guitar Sounds and Solo,
Young Clapton Took the American Surf Guitar Solo Mentally and Applied it to the Blues !
Under the Masterful Guidance and Blues Mindset of Mayall!
Clapton's best work came out of that Les Paul...changes don't always come for better !
Rock In Peace John.
I was 15 and at boarding school when this album came out and soon enough bought the mono LP (sadly since "gone" into others' hands). None of us had ever heard a guitar played in this way before. So, Mayall and Clapton became heroes, Clapton fading into Green on the Mayall side as he burst into Cream, which represented the ultimate musical orgasm on our clapped-out record players. Nowadays this is all well-known stuff, Eric Clapton a household name. But then, even Cream was in fact on the fringe. Most kids did not identify with the blues, even if Cream filled the Albert Hall. The audience would have travelled from far and wide, not sauntered down from the local pub.Thanks for posting!
Cream in 1968 was the biggest live band in the world and Eric was even more highly lauded than Jimi then. Cream "on the fringe"? Not!
Saw Clapton fot the first time while visiting my Cousin in England . He took me to see these guys and I was blown away . I had never heard sounds and tones like this . I was a 12 string Folk rock fan but soon switched to this . My 12 string was soon collecting dust and I was looking for a Gibson .
this LP together with jazz blues fusion, will always remain examples and cornerstones of a genre that will remain in history !!! For an amateur musician like me who loves blues rock and jazz, they are important references! Thanks for giving them to us!!!
possibly my favourite 2 mins of guitar ever
That sound which made history their and then!
I love the song Stepping out.I can’t imagine hearing this in 1966.I can see why he changed the recording & playing of the electric guitar.It’s just crazy!!
I totally Agree with you here. I never heard of this group until now. Years of Thanks for sharing this revolutionary Blues guitar playing!!!
thanx for the rare pix, especially the shots of the holy grail 1st sunburst LP that was stolen and never seen again.
The album that launched the guitar GAS industry. Perfect tone, perfect playing.
Clapton is great, period. But John Mayall is still touring & releasing quality albums after all these years. The man is in his 80s. I am looking forward to seeing him in NYC in August.
All the greats are going to the next world don't be late.
Awesome... Absolute genious thru a Les Paul and Marshall Combo amp. With outstanding sustain... Can't believe some actually said "weak sustain" down there somewhere.
I saw him perform this as part of Cream, just a week or two after the group's formation. The year was 1966, the venue a Scout hut called "The Blue Moon" at nights, in Hayes, Middlesex, close to Heathrow Airport, London UK.
My brother and myself were on the front of a bunch of people standing no more than 10 feet away from him and the group.
Exactly the same fantastic tone to the guitar as you hear here. Doesn't get better.
I love His sound and chops from this period, just pure fire!
John I love your music very much I grow up on your music love you dearly RIP.
I don’t think it was about whether Clapton played a Les Paul or a Strat. His change to a strat was on the surface. It was all about the fact that he didn’t want long loud guitar solos to be the focus anymore. The influence of The Band and Delaney and Bonny and that band becoming Derek and the Dominoes - he didn’t even want to use his own name at that point. That’s why his guitar playing changed. The change of guitar was the effect, not the cause.
And someone else here made a spot on comment - you can be first or you can be best. The impact of Clapton playing like this in the early/mid 60s can’t be fully understood by anyone who wasn’t there at the time. It was unique and a game changer. THAT is Eric Clapton’s contribution. He was never going to be the best. But he was the best at that moment because he was the first and nobody else was doing that.
He also had great phrasing at this time, particularly on show in this track and Hideaway, still there in Cream, but which seemed to dissolve later. Later solos seemed to become meandering pentatonic widdling . But the playing on this track, that’s why they wrote ‘Clapton is God’ on walls in London.
Good comment - I know - I was there - I saw him - I heard him - but I still don't believe in God
At last someone who analyses Clapton correctly. Historically important but been overtaken with time.
Les Paul + Marshall + Treble Booster = Heaven!
Zane Hamill could have done without the irritating horns on this tune tho ... but pure magic from EC as ever
Whaaaaaa this adds a nice jazz feel, makes me feel like I'm in an old time concert
Ok ok I kind of agree, a mix of what was old and new at the time. John Mayalls taste
Sorry bro no treble booster that's a myth the only effects Clapton uses are a wah and a Leslie he did use a boss chorus in the 80s though just a 1960 les Paul into a cranked Marshall bluesbreaker
+ Zane ..the general consensus is there was no treble booster ..
if there was why cant you see it sitting on top of his amp?
Just b4 He formed Cream - So Sweet - Great Timing & Tone - And Eric Clapton is still with us!
Absolutely awesome!!! A true masterpiece which stands in its own category up above the very best things Clapton used to do when he was with the Bluesbreakers and his inspiration and sound were at their finest. And yes, I have to agree that using Gibson made his tone much more dynamic, wild and full of expression.
Vintage Clapton, just brilliant.
I might be getting old But this album isn't. 🏆 cheers
The master at work!!
I heard this album in 1969 in New Orleans then he played more of Mayall’s blues influences - orginal bluesmen
Opened my eyes forever
Never forgot that afternoon
Still Clapton's best-ever solo, love that sustain at 0:25
Yes, it's just the fattest, most passionately felt, boldest vibratoed note ever. I too feel it. Clapton is indeed the God of guitar!
@@NewFutureFantasyI read that he once asked Kossoff about his vibrato technique 🤔.
@@Juergen.Scheiblhofer Yes, not that familiar with Kossoff, just listened to some. His playing seems a little more rough and ready than Clapton's, but he has a beautiful, consistent vibrato that is fat yet very even. Bravo.
Clapton used to play with such venom when he was young....
The reason was getting high on heroin
@@barbaraschwartz6336 Les Paul, Marshall. The difference in tone between this and what he's doing now is measured in light years.
I always thought that his solo on "Have You Heard" had plenty venom.
@@richardlstern9840 lest we forget Hideaway.
It's because he was pushed out the yardbirds for a pop single... so he said the he'll with it I'll show people how to play the guitar.
This is the one I was searching for. Thank you
This is the appropriate video to Comment because John Mayal was the original British Blues School. What happens when you can't make up your mind who is better, Clapton or Hendrix. The positive thing is that this is 2022 and this old argument has resurfaced. This means fresh interest in this most hip and groovy genera. To cut to the chase they are dead heat, both artists Clapton and Hendrix two of the greatest guitarists of all time to walk the planet. The original Beautiful People, OK kids !! 😁😎✌️♥️🍀🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁🎷🚐🤞
I've worn out two copies of this LP over the years. It's freakin' magic...
That's the vinyl format for ya. Those things don't never unless you just have them laying around as museum pieces.
Mayall could certainly spot the greats. Clapton, Green and then Mick Taylor.
Don't forget CoCo Montoya.
Buddy Whittington is no slouch, either. But neither Buddy nor Coco Montoya has the legendary status of Clapton/Mick Taylor/Peter Green, who were right at the beginning of the developing blues/rock thing. Mayall’s band had the constant gigs which enabled those guys to develop. And make a living, along with a huge reputation.
Videos on RUclips show Buddy playing with Mayall with Eric and Mick guesting - Buddy plays at least as well, better in some ways, but he’s not the legend, because those guys came first. Later generations had those early innovators to learn from.
it is impossible for me not to make faces like I've been zapped by a space ship while listening to this especially when EC gets toward the end.more guitar faces,in fact, have probably been made during this tune than most blues/rock tunes.when CREAM does it live on the (unavailable) soundtrack of 'MEAN STREETS' it truly electrifies the ending of the film.
Gosh, I wish this was a live video! Great stuff.
Clapton started it all. Greeny and Hendrix were good but goddamn this playing is unbeatable
Mike Bloomfield was doing it in the US at the same time.
@@bradnelson4778 Bloomfield was a legend in his own right but he was NOT playing like this, nor was he getting THIS tone. This is what set the world on fire.
Riff Caliente , excelente solo. De lo mejor de E. Clapton IMO.
What mastery in such a young man Eric will always be God
Taking it back to he beginning. Awesome! Happy Birthday John. He turns 81 today.
Fucking hell that tone. Fucking hell that tone, fucking hell th....
Back in the day you had to learn this and be able to play it to be taken seriously as a guitar player..
@Bill Miles LOL!
@Clout Lord you mean Freddie King..Memphis Slim played piano..
@Clout Lord I'll check it out..
The tone that launched a million seekers...some of which, IMHO, transcended it in many different ways...Pivotal, to be sure.
I love the way the guitar roars in this song.
pure lightening
Not bad for a 21 year old...........
Not many mention that he was only 21 when this was recorded. Amazing.
Jshortca1 With no overdubs as far as I know, you really can't compare this to anyone else.
Jshortca1 listen to Greta van fleet
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the song that launched a zillion Blues rock guitar hopefuls in the 60's.........
Such a mind-bending and mind-blowing song!! I want some of whatever they're on!! Just sayin'......