You can bag this model for its price and the brevity of its use by Clapton as much as you like, but for me this guitar, that concert, those tracks on that album, and this player at that time are why I wanted to play the guitar and started to learn. It was originally a partscaster like most of his Fenders, and that has some meaning for a player who got inspiration from the man. I’ll never own one of these but I still love everything about the guitar.
I was going to write my own comment as I started to scroll down and read the comments and I noticed yours and your inspiration that you speak of. I can too honestly say Eric has been the largest inspiration on my guitar playing since I picked up the first guitar in 1984 and I absolutely tried to score one of these but unfortunately did not get the opportunity to do so I was about two grand short and I’m sure even looking them up now if I tried the price has got to be astronomical, but I would buy everything that has Eric Clapton signature on it because I believe that the man truly make sure the products you get are good, and he has certainly proven out That what they’re copying will provide you the total range that he obviously is able to obtain. I have certainly learned over all of these years through my fingers how to play almost all of Eric songs and love to do so he is a guitar hero I’ve never called anyone of God except God, but Eric didn’t like being called God either as I read many books, studied and have three signatures on guitars from him now, and have met him on seven occasions, I’ve been very lucky and donated a lot of money to crossroads when I’ve had it. I got clean myself around 15 years ago. The crossroads clinic in Farmville Virginia helped me I can’t say enough good things about Eric he may have made some mistakes in his life, no doubt, but he is certainly owned them and he doesn’t brag about it like Nikki six or well you know what how can I even say Nikki six his name in the same sentence with Eric Clapton because Nikki six is not a Musician, he’s a showman Eric Clapton and bodies the word musician. His commitment has always been to the music and providing the best performance available to the audience. He doesn’t need sparklers and flamethrowers he just needs the guitar are damn well anyone you put in his hands God bless you, Eric live long And continue to prosper as your influence has helped me to prosper as well as playing your music. Thanks again for all of it, and I like to think fender to it this time just for their commitment to working with Eric people make the remarks but it makes me sick. Eric worked hard to get where he got, and he deserves everything he has And the people that sit here at the dog him make me sick because they haven’t spent 10 hours a day playing guitar or 12 hours a day they didn’t go through our live through the things that Eric had to live through and overcome to get where he’s at, he was handed nothing And anybody that read his book or watched his movie knows the truth because he’s willing to own up to any of it, I’d say he’s more than a leader, and certainly worthy of being a guitar hero but no God and that’s the first thing he would tell you too I hope, and I am sure many generations to come see more guitars from Eric Clapton as his legend will surely live on to the end of time you don’t see them making guitars like this for Jimmy page as much as I think he is a wonderful guitarist Eric Clapton is truly probably the most celebrated musician there is there’s a reason for that And your negative comments mean nothing nor do they diminish that at all you can’t say anything good why not say anything at all thank you again guitar center for this great demo and releasing such a wonderful guitar. Maybe there will be a second run. Thanks. 10:23
Actually he played Telecaster before he played any other serious guitars. He played a blond and a red fiesta telecaster extensively while in the yardbirds. Don't talk about stuff without knowing the facts.
I love all these "legendary" guitars with sounds like no other, that all these guitarists played at like one show and never touched again. Put together from leftover parts, and then 50 years later. WOW x- grand for an exact replica. That white binding gives it that extra resonance. :P
"Doing anything for Eric is always an honour." - Todd Krause is the man. I'm lucky enough to have had him build for me a lefty Oly White EC Strat w/Lace Sensors back in 2006. It's a tremendous guitar.
Can't wait to see the next signature model recreating a guitar in a shop window Eric passed by once and glanced at it this one time way back in, ah screw it, let's say 1978. Gonna be awesome.
I'm really sort of surprised to hear Clapton say that the telecaster's tone was too thin and wasn't thick enough for what he wanted. Because I thought the tone he had during Blind Faith's Hyde Park concert was stellar, and wasn't a tone that he ever could replicate on a Strat. I'm not trying to make a debate about Strat vs Tele, but his comment surprised me considering how great it sounded live in that old footage; at least to me. He just seemed sort of dismissive of the telecaster.
Absolutely @jchessermusic - Clapton had a fantastic Tele + Marshall tone at BF's Hyde Park outing, no question. Warm, throaty, but with that nice bell-like harmonics thing--especially compared to the (presumably Fender) amp tones in this video.
@@geschickt I agree completely! When Eric said "This sounds really good," I was like, it sounds like a standard amp setting. Nothing really about the sound that stood apart. The tone at Hyde Park was MUCH better
@@jchessermusic Ya know, watching that video, EC's Marshall's (which still had "CREAM" stenciled on the back) were like the elephant in the room. You can't talk about his Hyde Park guitar without talking about his Hyde Park amp! Nothing "thin" about this guitar sound!: ruclips.net/video/PJJnA6zEcGk/видео.html
I’ve always been under the impression that a Tele bridge pickup tends to be more powerful and thicker sounding than the bridge pickup of a Strat. Am I off-base here?
@@geschickt Absolutely. Nothing thin about that sound AT ALL. I actually prefer his Hyde Park sound to the sound he got later on with the strat. And it's not that the strat tone is bad, because it's not. But the tele sound with that Marshall just had a bite to it. You're absolutely right on that!
1039sflem could be but I just saw him last year and he didn’t miss a beat just seems like a shame to go through all the trouble of filming him and not using it even if it was him telling the story of the guitar it would have been cool
I made one myself way before this. I used the classic vibe body with a Mexican strat neck. It came out awesome. I am not sure I could afford one of these custom shop ones. I would have loved to here Clapton tell the story of the guitars creation, more than the custom shop designers. Great video non the less.
Gotta hand it to Fender, ever since they started the custom shop and the whole relicing thing, it's been a license to print - and they keep that press running!
The Paranoid Blues Man totally agree, I mean the strat is more of a chordsy strumming guitar I always thought. They are both single coil guitars but I found that strange that he said a telecaster is thin compared to a stray, a les Paul I could see
My only guess is he's comparing '50s Strats (like Blackie and Brownie) with '60s Teles. Fenders of the 1960s are known to be a bit brighter than those of the '50s. Or maybe he's talking about his signature Strats, with an active mid-boost.
I wouldn’t expect Eric to put on an actual performance, but would rather see him play basically whatever than to hear someone from Fender do it. But it’s not just for me so, I understand. No store within a hundred miles of here will have one to try, but maybe someone will write a great song with it. Cool project.
He never plays at these sit downs, I think he must instruct them not to expect that of him, or he just doesn't want to without a band backing him, or he's just plain tired...who knows.
Eric played a Tele in the Yardbirds briefly. Are you going to make a signature Custom Shop replica of that too?? I think there's a few lawyers and dentists left who still have an empty display case to fill.
I love my Fender Custom Shop Guitars but this should be titled, 1,000,000,000 ways to remake and sell a simple Fender guitar. Leo got it right the first time with all the 50’s and early 60’s model guitar and amps. Same thing apples to Gibson.
Im putting together a tele. Ive always loved big strat headstocks like I saw on Hendrix Fender Stratocasters. I wanted to put one on the Ash USA Tele body I got... Im glad to see this :)
Yeah the Teles with the binding on the bodies were some sort of deluxe model if i remember right , very expensive in the 60s they cost like £200 pounds which back then you could buy a car for in the UK
I wouldn't pay 12K if Clapton personally delivered it to my front door! Besides having a Strat neck, what makes it different from any other telecaster? Oh yeah that's right....nothing! I bet it sounds no better than a $675 player series Telecaster
I put a Strat style neck on my sunburst tele without even knowing this guitar existed, let’s just say it transformed my tele into one of the best sounding guitars I’ve ever owned
This is one of the more obscure Clapton guitars. It first appeared with Cream, early 1968 sporting a 1966-7 rosewood Strat neck. Even stranger, there's a photo of Eric from 1967 at the Fillmore, playing a Sunburst Strat with a Tele neck!
Fender- here’s your Blind Faith Tele! Clapton- this is great- but, teles we’re always thin for my taste. They just don’t thicken up like a Strat or Les Paul! 😂
man, you build a new custom guitar for him and he just looks it over and thumbs a few notes ..and then someone else plays for 99% of the video. Thanks Eric. ;-) Guessing Eric has had a few signature guitars in his time :)
I see the prototype that Clapton had the cigarette burn in the neck behind the nut where he would rest his lit cigarette. ....as does the Brownie neck. THe other Todd and the Project Manager didn't have the brownie neck with this 'feature of originality'. Just curious which will be for sale?
It goes to his crossroads rehabilitation center, carlos santana john mayer and I think someone else had picked some iconic guitars from their career to sell to also go towards his crossroads rehabilitation center
Looks like they gave Eric one of the prototypes in this video. The neck for this guitar is taken from the Brownie specs the CS already had (because that was the neck on the original Tele), but as they mention in some interviews, they realised the neck was at an earlier stage than we saw on the Brownie Strat, and didn't yet have the cigarette burns on the headstock - as indeed the guitar Mike Lewis is playing doesn't - so the necks on the Teles are reliced less than the Brownie Strats were. Except the one Eric is playing in this video.
The VP is describing that they say a Strat in the pictures from Hyde park. I’ve watched the complete concert many a time. I’ve seen the Firebird guitar laying on top of Steve’s piano. There are a few photos out there in the Blind Faith time with him using the Firebird. Also in the movie Super show? He uses his Firebird. All the stuff I’ve seen with Delaney and Bonnie he was using a Les Paul . The guitar used on the Blind Faith album kinda sounds like the Tele, but I’ve seen pictures from the recording of the album and the 335 is seen. He doesn’t seen like he cares that much . 50 years ago.
Love Mike Lewis. Adore Clapton. But what anthems were on Blind Faith’s only album??? Cry Today and Presence? If you could call them anthems. Great songs surely. But anthems?
It’s about time! Beautiful guitar. I have to say that I enjoyed the video, but I really wish EC would put a little more thought and effort into his playing when he does these videos. I mean would it have killed him to play a few chords from “Presence of the Lord” instead of his usual random bluesy noodling?
I saw McCartney last month, and he told a story about Hendrix and his "Bigsby handle." He was referring to the Strat whammy bar, of course. Apparently old English guys use alternate terms for guitar parts.
I played some telecaster thinking it would be my next purchase. Can't remember what year, just the noiseless pickups and the worst necks I ever played. I bought an SG that same day.
Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Morse to name a few had Tele's with a Strat neck on them. It seemed to be fairly common mod in the 1960's. It never took off. Obviously, the Hyde Park Blind Faith concert with EC made a photograph that 50 years later is making a BFD about something fairly mundane, but also very cool, now. I have a couple of these I built cheaply from scratch with a humbucker in neck. And a linear tone pot for a better wah control without a wah pedal. I've dumped all my other guitars. Its simple and gets it done lead, rhythm, one volume and one tone, done.
How about a Lolly Vegas (Redbone) Tele? A Tele body with a humbucker in the neck position and 2 vintage Strat pickups in the bridge position. With a maple fingerboard Strat neck.
How does Eric think that Teles were thin sounding compared to a Strat especially seeing as how the bridge pickup on a Tele could be influenced by adjusting the tone control whereas Strats from that era had a shrill bridge pickup where there wasn't an option to roll off unwanted highs via the tone control ?
Clapton used the Telecaster his whole career. Its Said the Telecaster is featured on every electric album Clapton ever made from 1963 to 2021. The Telecaster was Claptons main guitar from 1963 to 1966. He used it heavily live during the sixties ( not only the 1963 to 1966 period Where it was his main live guitar) seventiees and eightiees. He stopped using the Telecaster live 1989. The Telecaster was usually used for 3 to 5 songs a concert in the seventiees and eightiees since the Fender Stratocaster became his main guitar in 1974. But 2 Tours USA 1976 and Japan 1975 had Eric Clapton playing the Telecaster as his main guitar.
The Tele was his primary guitar in Blind Faith, and that is it. He played one briefly in the Bluesbreakers before finding the Les Paul Marshall combination, which defined Blues/Rock Guitar for decades. He rarely played tiles in the seventies and eighties, and he certainly didn't play one on every album. I've seen him in concert five times, and he never put a tele over his shoulder. The Strat became his primary guitar in 1970, right through today. In the last 3 decades, he has either played a Strat, ES 335 or rarely a Les Paul. I've seen footage of him playing a tele in the studio on the EC/JJ Cale album from the mid-2000s, but no other time. He may have used a tele occasionally, but it would have been very rare.
I much prefer the tone on a Tele versus a Strat. I am surprised about what he said about the tone on a Tele being thin. To me a Strat is thin sounding, especially on the bridge pup. I think of the tone on aTele as cutting and/or twangy on the bridge, almost acoustic like on the middle position, and then all kinds of different tones with the neck from classic jazz to rockish tones. If you put a 4 way switch on it you even have close to a bucker. Much prefer the Tele (have 5 right now) to the Strat (only one of these).
I thought for like 30 years that this outstanding guitar solo on 'Can't find my way home' , Hyde Park '69, had been created with a Sunburst Les Paul Neck PU. How wrong was I ...............
Personally I think this is one of the reason why Fender and Gibson are failing, and why China copies are being bought when they shouldn't be bought. They just try and milk it - and us - at every opportunity. Last time I looked Fender offered something like 144 different models of Stratocaster, and that doesn't include Squier. I don't think that's quite what Leo Fender had in mind. There is no way in the world this guitar can justify its price tag, other than the corporate executives think they can get away with it. Eric, mate, you should be ashamed of yourself. .
Far, far fewer models, with some good colour options, and none of the fake-aged stuff. That would be better. Guitarists could choose to buy new, or second hand, and it's what they do with the instrument that matters.
Buy a sunburst Fender Squier Affinity Tele and a maple neck Affinity Strat. $400.00. Put Strat neck on the Tele. If it can be done, you will save a lot of $. Some of us don’t have a lot of $.
I have an idea, buy a $900 telecaster, $100 case, and spend $11,000 on lessons to get as good as EC. have fender make your own custom telecaster after you become famous.
Coming soon: The Eric Clapton signature jazzmaster. His guitar tech owned one and played it once at a sound check in 1971. $20 k
Haha brilliant!
Coming sooner: the Fender MasterCard. Don’t leave Guitar Center without it... 😕
😂😂😂
I must have one even if I have to sell my first born
We’re baffled at Fenders prices!!
9:40 when Clapton plays so well it causes an earthquake
What an amateur place to put a camera, ontop of an amp that vibrates with sound. Ive never even held a proper camera in my life and I know that much.
You can bag this model for its price and the brevity of its use by Clapton as much as you like, but for me this guitar, that concert, those tracks on that album, and this player at that time are why I wanted to play the guitar and started to learn. It was originally a partscaster like most of his Fenders, and that has some meaning for a player who got inspiration from the man. I’ll never own one of these but I still love everything about the guitar.
That's cuz yer gey
You don't need it you can get one made just as well if not better from Korea
I was going to write my own comment as I started to scroll down and read the comments and I noticed yours and your inspiration that you speak of. I can too honestly say Eric has been the largest inspiration on my guitar playing since I picked up the first guitar in 1984 and I absolutely tried to score one of these but unfortunately did not get the opportunity to do so I was about two grand short and I’m sure even looking them up now if I tried the price has got to be astronomical, but I would buy everything that has Eric Clapton signature on it because I believe that the man truly make sure the products you get are good, and he has certainly proven out That what they’re copying will provide you the total range that he obviously is able to obtain. I have certainly learned over all of these years through my fingers how to play almost all of Eric songs and love to do so he is a guitar hero I’ve never called anyone of God except God, but Eric didn’t like being called God either as I read many books, studied and have three signatures on guitars from him now, and have met him on seven occasions, I’ve been very lucky and donated a lot of money to crossroads when I’ve had it. I got clean myself around 15 years ago. The crossroads clinic in Farmville Virginia helped me I can’t say enough good things about Eric he may have made some mistakes in his life, no doubt, but he is certainly owned them and he doesn’t brag about it like Nikki six or well you know what how can I even say Nikki six his name in the same sentence with Eric Clapton because Nikki six is not a Musician, he’s a showman Eric Clapton and bodies the word musician. His commitment has always been to the music and providing the best performance available to the audience. He doesn’t need sparklers and flamethrowers he just needs the guitar are damn well anyone you put in his hands God bless you, Eric live long And continue to prosper as your influence has helped me to prosper as well as playing your music. Thanks again for all of it, and I like to think fender to it this time just for their commitment to working with Eric people make the remarks but it makes me sick. Eric worked hard to get where he got, and he deserves everything he has And the people that sit here at the dog him make me sick because they haven’t spent 10 hours a day playing guitar or 12 hours a day they didn’t go through our live through the things that Eric had to live through and overcome to get where he’s at, he was handed nothing And anybody that read his book or watched his movie knows the truth because he’s willing to own up to any of it, I’d say he’s more than a leader, and certainly worthy of being a guitar hero but no God and that’s the first thing he would tell you too I hope, and I am sure many generations to come see more guitars from Eric Clapton as his legend will surely live on to the end of time you don’t see them making guitars like this for Jimmy page as much as I think he is a wonderful guitarist Eric Clapton is truly probably the most celebrated musician there is there’s a reason for that And your negative comments mean nothing nor do they diminish that at all you can’t say anything good why not say anything at all thank you again guitar center for this great demo and releasing such a wonderful guitar. Maybe there will be a second run. Thanks. 10:23
The same guitar was used with Cream as well nothing in the studio and live.
Bothvin the studio and Live with Cream.
Clapton looked at a Telcaster once now there's a Signature model.
I completely agree with your point but I love the Blind Faith Tele so much
This one isn't even a Signature Model. Just a reproduction. For $12K!
@@firstshirt434 Huh?
There are photos and videos of Blind Faith performing in Hyde Park and he IS playing a guitar just like this one.
Actually he played Telecaster before he played any other serious guitars. He played a blond and a red fiesta telecaster extensively while in the yardbirds. Don't talk about stuff without knowing the facts.
Bought it just to play can't find my way home. Now I can't buy my own home.
RM-PC, 😂🤣🤗😇
ruclips.net/video/1HHMA1Dpo5M/видео.html
So you sold your “home” just to purchased that tele?
@@dzn7976 🤦🏿♂️
I love all these "legendary" guitars with sounds like no other, that all these guitarists played at like one show and never touched again. Put together from leftover parts, and then 50 years later. WOW x- grand for an exact replica. That white binding gives it that extra resonance. :P
"Doing anything for Eric is always an honour." - Todd Krause is the man. I'm lucky enough to have had him build for me a lefty Oly White EC Strat w/Lace Sensors back in 2006. It's a tremendous guitar.
The signature guitar with stacked Humbuckers a preamp and an insane 25 Db mid boost that has 140 times higher output than s Gibson Les Paul ?
9:49 You can hear him tear up. Shows how much he loves what he does.
So good thank you Clapton
Can't wait to see the next signature model recreating a guitar in a shop window Eric passed by once and glanced at it this one time way back in, ah screw it, let's say 1978. Gonna be awesome.
I can't wait for the guitar Eric " almost " played once at a guitar shop in 1966 but chose to have a cup of tea in the cafe next door instead 👍
I'm really sort of surprised to hear Clapton say that the telecaster's tone was too thin and wasn't thick enough for what he wanted. Because I thought the tone he had during Blind Faith's Hyde Park concert was stellar, and wasn't a tone that he ever could replicate on a Strat. I'm not trying to make a debate about Strat vs Tele, but his comment surprised me considering how great it sounded live in that old footage; at least to me. He just seemed sort of dismissive of the telecaster.
Absolutely @jchessermusic - Clapton had a fantastic Tele + Marshall tone at BF's Hyde Park outing, no question. Warm, throaty, but with that nice bell-like harmonics thing--especially compared to the (presumably Fender) amp tones in this video.
@@geschickt I agree completely! When Eric said "This sounds really good," I was like, it sounds like a standard amp setting. Nothing really about the sound that stood apart. The tone at Hyde Park was MUCH better
@@jchessermusic Ya know, watching that video, EC's Marshall's (which still had "CREAM" stenciled on the back) were like the elephant in the room. You can't talk about his Hyde Park guitar without talking about his Hyde Park amp! Nothing "thin" about this guitar sound!: ruclips.net/video/PJJnA6zEcGk/видео.html
I’ve always been under the impression that a Tele bridge pickup tends to be more powerful and thicker sounding than the bridge pickup of a Strat. Am I off-base here?
@@geschickt Absolutely. Nothing thin about that sound AT ALL. I actually prefer his Hyde Park sound to the sound he got later on with the strat. And it's not that the strat tone is bad, because it's not. But the tele sound with that Marshall just had a bite to it. You're absolutely right on that!
$12K??? Does it come with some of those 60s drugs Clapton used?
@@xandermohan6331 oh yeah the crossroads centre for rich drug addicts
I love how Eric’s in the video for like 3 seconds wtf
He's had a nerve disease for about 4 years now and he can't play like he used to. Maybe that is why.
1039sflem could be but I just saw him last year and he didn’t miss a beat just seems like a shame to go through all the trouble of filming him and not using it even if it was him telling the story of the guitar it would have been cool
@@scottfleming6166 he still tours and plays regularly, not really restricted at all in his performances.
@@arthurias7693 He does not tour like he used to and I believe he is not playing as he used to.due to the nerve issue.
@@thomast596 he rocks harder than ever dude. didn't u hear the sick ass solo he did?
I made one myself way before this. I used the classic vibe body with a Mexican strat neck. It came out awesome. I am not sure I could afford one of these custom shop ones. I would have loved to here Clapton tell the story of the guitars creation, more than the custom shop designers. Great video non the less.
Eric talks and the VP plays? WTF
Michael Goodhand eric is loosing his hands movements, that’s actually pretty sad :(
Would've cost Fender too much money to have Eric play some of his music.....and I don't blame him one bit for being mercenary if that was the case.
Find another VP that plays as good as Mike.
You won’t.
My dream guitar. And the only guitar player whos hand i would love to shake and thank for the years of inspiration.
Rob Chapman behind the camera!!!❤
Gotta hand it to Fender, ever since they started the custom shop and the whole relicing thing, it's been a license to print - and they keep that press running!
Strange that he says he found Teles thin sounding compared to Strats. In my experience it's always been the complete opposite...
Completely agree with you on that!
Agree!
Same, I have both and can say my Strat is thinner sounding
The Paranoid Blues Man totally agree, I mean the strat is more of a chordsy strumming guitar I always thought. They are both single coil guitars but I found that strange that he said a telecaster is thin compared to a stray, a les Paul I could see
My only guess is he's comparing '50s Strats (like Blackie and Brownie) with '60s Teles. Fenders of the 1960s are known to be a bit brighter than those of the '50s. Or maybe he's talking about his signature Strats, with an active mid-boost.
I just love listening to mr Clapton ,
Doing anything for Eric is always an honor.. this is true..
Clapton got two signatures unveiled in less than 24 hrs. Damn
He deserves it, right?
Leevi Lipponen I think it might be three. This one, a new Firebird from Gibson, and a new Martin acoustic.
Clapton is God 🤷🏻♂️
David Parker Ever had Martinelli’s sparkling cider?? Well, Erics got his own signature bottle of that as well.... 🍾 🥂 Cheers
...dont forget ThE Ferrari 450 E.C.
I love this guy. "Can we roll?"
Do a regular production model for $1800 and I’m in.
Stewart Hilton yep , agreed
as well ;
this one is about 11.000 ....
Stewart Hilton You can build one yourself for under $1200
18 bucks sure guitar is butt ugly
Seriously, make your own. Cheap sunburst Fender knock of Telecaster body, put a Strat neck on it...it's yours for a few hundred.
You can tell Clapton didn't really care at all about that guitar. He was only there because he was promised golden corral.
I still love the guitar and blind faith, but i think its worth noting that blind faith was before he sold out to fender.
Judge Steve you don’t know anything
ThE tone in Do what you like IS very good
You can say what you May believe, but Eric Clapton is the greatest player when it comes to being “Smooth”!
I wouldn’t expect Eric to put on an actual performance, but would rather see him play basically whatever than to hear someone from Fender do it. But it’s not just for me so, I understand. No store within a hundred miles of here will have one to try, but maybe someone will write a great song with it. Cool project.
He never plays at these sit downs, I think he must instruct them not to expect that of him, or he just doesn't want to without a band backing him, or he's just plain tired...who knows.
Blind faith were awesome.
I'd love to have Todd Krause build my dream Strat, he is really one of their best.
What a beautiful, great sounding guitar.
Eric played a Tele in the Yardbirds briefly. Are you going to make a signature Custom Shop replica of that too?? I think there's a few lawyers and dentists left who still have an empty display case to fill.
I love my Fender Custom Shop Guitars but this should be titled, 1,000,000,000 ways to remake and sell a simple Fender guitar. Leo got it right the first time with all the 50’s and early 60’s model guitar and amps. Same thing apples to Gibson.
Im putting together a tele. Ive always loved big strat headstocks like I saw on Hendrix Fender Stratocasters. I wanted to put one on the Ash USA Tele body I got... Im glad to see this :)
Yeah the Teles with the binding on the bodies were some sort of deluxe model if i remember right , very expensive in the 60s they cost like £200 pounds which back then you could buy a car for in the UK
I was there at Hyde park listening to that guitar and Blind Faith! Must admit I was puzzled why he chose to play it. Great guitar though! Thanks. UK.
I wouldn't pay 12K if Clapton personally delivered it to my front door! Besides having a Strat neck, what makes it different from any other telecaster? Oh yeah that's right....nothing! I bet it sounds no better than a $675 player series Telecaster
I put a Strat style neck on my sunburst tele without even knowing this guitar existed, let’s just say it transformed my tele into one of the best sounding guitars I’ve ever owned
Went down to the Crossroads and made himself a Hell of a deal👹
Never ending ways to sell wood and metal parts that cost $50 for $50,000
Lol yeah about right
Don't worry, they'll bring out a Mexican sweatshop version that will only cost $10 000.
this one has the added benefit of having a improper fitting neck - MOJO!!
Beautiful
I could hear Rob Chappers in the background behind the cameras.
Nice, nice. 😍😍😍😍
This is one of the more obscure Clapton guitars. It first appeared with Cream, early 1968 sporting a 1966-7 rosewood Strat neck. Even stranger, there's a photo of Eric from 1967 at the Fillmore, playing a Sunburst Strat with a Tele neck!
Gibson Les Paul, Gibson ES-335 ,Fender Strat, Fender Tele, Mr. Clapton is the best!
Fender- here’s your Blind Faith Tele!
Clapton- this is great- but, teles we’re always thin for my taste. They just don’t thicken up like a Strat or Les Paul! 😂
@@jehovahnissi1961 just google blind faith and buy the parts separately its not rocket science
Wow custom shop
Kids!!!!! Clapton is God!!!! A legend among legends. Enough said. Cheerio mate!!!
You might have mentioned the neck profile, & fret type.
man, you build a new custom guitar for him and he just looks it over and thumbs a few notes ..and then someone else plays for 99% of the video. Thanks Eric. ;-)
Guessing Eric has had a few signature guitars in his time :)
I see the prototype that Clapton had the cigarette burn in the neck behind the nut where he would rest his lit cigarette. ....as does the Brownie neck. THe other Todd and the Project Manager didn't have the brownie neck with this 'feature of originality'. Just curious which will be for sale?
i think eric once saw a tele.....across the street in a shop window....yeah Im buying 2
$12K??? Ok... EC is my number 1, but that's just absurd.
@GretschDog I don't consider him no. 1 but I don't get what you mean
It goes to his crossroads rehabilitation center, carlos santana john mayer and I think someone else had picked some iconic guitars from their career to sell to also go towards his crossroads rehabilitation center
@GretschDog get out
Great sound
Looks like they gave Eric one of the prototypes in this video. The neck for this guitar is taken from the Brownie specs the CS already had (because that was the neck on the original Tele), but as they mention in some interviews, they realised the neck was at an earlier stage than we saw on the Brownie Strat, and didn't yet have the cigarette burns on the headstock - as indeed the guitar Mike Lewis is playing doesn't - so the necks on the Teles are reliced less than the Brownie Strats were. Except the one Eric is playing in this video.
I have a thing for Telecasters. This one is a beauty! But maybe let us hear Eric play it!
It sure is beautiful.
The VP is describing that they say a Strat in the pictures from Hyde park. I’ve watched the complete concert many a time. I’ve seen the Firebird guitar laying on top of Steve’s piano. There are a few photos out there in the Blind Faith time with him using the Firebird. Also in the movie Super show? He uses his Firebird. All the stuff I’ve seen with Delaney and Bonnie he was using a Les Paul . The guitar used on the Blind Faith album kinda sounds like the Tele, but I’ve seen pictures from the recording of the album and the 335 is seen. He doesn’t seen like he cares that much . 50 years ago.
Incredible I wish I can afford one
Love Fender products.
Best guitarist of all time.
How about player series tele's with strat necks???
The Middle Position is the Neck Pickup with NO Tone Control so its hotter?
why does clapton's repro have a cigarette burn on the headstock and the one the fender guys play does not?
Because in 1969 at the Hyde Park concert the cigarette burn was not there. Nice catch Fender!
Clapton probably still smokes
A beautiful guitar, wonderful design and craftsmanship
On a day when I just purchased the EC tweed deluxe amp...coincidence? I think not
Tell us ABOUT ThE amp, please
He used marshall at the time tho
@@김기태-m2l maybe his BEST sound ever was w Musicman amps... Derek live
Love Mike Lewis. Adore Clapton.
But what anthems were on Blind Faith’s only album???
Cry Today and Presence? If you could call them anthems.
Great songs surely. But anthems?
Clapton played a Telecaster for a time when he was in The Yardbirds.
Now it's a collectors item for 50 lucky individuals.
It’s about time! Beautiful guitar. I have to say that I enjoyed the video, but I really wish EC would put a little more thought and effort into his playing when he does these videos. I mean would it have killed him to play a few chords from “Presence of the Lord” instead of his usual random bluesy noodling?
it seems he is suffering from an osteo arthritic situation of the wrists and hands perhaps why he plays so few gigs nowadays.
I always kinda wanted an SG with a Strat neck.
Blind Faith a distinct sound..
It's a very loud sounding telecaster, sizzling tone pickups 🎵🎸🍳
I love these videos of Eric and these vintage re-creations (but I think that's "binding", not "purfling", lol).
I saw McCartney last month, and he told a story about Hendrix and his "Bigsby handle." He was referring to the Strat whammy bar, of course. Apparently old English guys use alternate terms for guitar parts.
gibson probably trademarked 'binding'
I played some telecaster thinking it would be my next purchase. Can't remember what year, just the noiseless pickups and the worst necks I ever played.
I bought an SG that same day.
Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Morse to name a few
had Tele's with a Strat neck on them. It seemed to be fairly common mod
in the 1960's. It never took off. Obviously, the Hyde Park Blind Faith concert
with EC made a photograph that 50 years later is making a BFD
about something fairly mundane, but also very cool, now.
I have a couple of these I built cheaply from scratch with a humbucker in neck.
And a linear tone pot for a better wah control without a wah pedal.
I've dumped all my other guitars. Its simple and gets it done lead, rhythm,
one volume and one tone, done.
How about a Lolly Vegas (Redbone) Tele? A Tele body with a humbucker in the neck position and 2 vintage Strat pickups in the bridge position. With a maple fingerboard Strat neck.
If this Tele has the neck from the Brownie strat then which neck is on Brownie?
Cool stuff GUitar Center.
How does Eric think that Teles were thin sounding compared to a Strat especially seeing as how the bridge pickup on a Tele could be influenced by adjusting the tone control whereas Strats from that era had a shrill bridge pickup where there wasn't an option to roll off unwanted highs via the tone control ?
Clapton used the Telecaster his whole career. Its Said the Telecaster is featured on every electric album Clapton ever made from 1963 to 2021. The Telecaster was Claptons main guitar from 1963 to 1966. He used it heavily live during the sixties ( not only the 1963 to 1966 period Where it was his main live guitar) seventiees and eightiees. He stopped using the Telecaster live 1989. The Telecaster was usually used for 3 to 5 songs a concert in the seventiees and eightiees since the Fender Stratocaster became his main guitar in 1974. But 2 Tours USA 1976 and Japan 1975 had Eric Clapton playing the Telecaster as his main guitar.
The Tele was his primary guitar in Blind Faith, and that is it. He played one briefly in the Bluesbreakers before finding the Les Paul Marshall combination, which defined Blues/Rock Guitar for decades. He rarely played tiles in the seventies and eighties, and he certainly didn't play one on every album. I've seen him in concert five times, and he never put a tele over his shoulder. The Strat became his primary guitar in 1970, right through today. In the last 3 decades, he has either played a Strat, ES 335 or rarely a Les Paul. I've seen footage of him playing a tele in the studio on the EC/JJ Cale album from the mid-2000s, but no other time. He may have used a tele occasionally, but it would have been very rare.
I much prefer the tone on a Tele versus a Strat. I am surprised about what he said about the tone on a Tele being thin. To me a Strat is thin sounding, especially on the bridge pup. I think of the tone on aTele as cutting and/or twangy on the bridge, almost acoustic like on the middle position, and then all kinds of different tones with the neck from classic jazz to rockish tones. If you put a 4 way switch on it you even have close to a bucker. Much prefer the Tele (have 5 right now) to the Strat (only one of these).
I’m not trying to be clever, I just don’t know the answer. I thought Strat and tele body and necks weren’t compatible? Different shape at heel?
why does your bass have 6 strings
I know of noone who can cough up $12,000....come on EC. U WERE A PART OF THE COUNTER CULTURE..
he sold out after blind faith. but you really hit the nail on the head
Do most strat necks fit the standard tele body? I’d love to build one but I need to research. Any help appreciated.
I thought Eric's had the oversized strat headstock?
I'm mysterious, how I work. Mind Body spirit
wait how did the fender team see the original guitar if the original neck was later placed onto brownie??
I thought for like 30 years that this outstanding guitar solo on 'Can't find my way home' , Hyde Park '69, had been created with a Sunburst Les Paul Neck PU. How wrong was I ...............
Fascinating story. Hand me a clothespin for my nose
Personally I think this is one of the reason why Fender and Gibson are failing, and why China copies are being bought when they shouldn't be bought. They just try and milk it - and us - at every opportunity. Last time I looked Fender offered something like 144 different models of Stratocaster, and that doesn't include Squier. I don't think that's quite what Leo Fender had in mind. There is no way in the world this guitar can justify its price tag, other than the corporate executives think they can get away with it. Eric, mate, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Damn right Billy
Far, far fewer models, with some good colour options, and none of the fake-aged stuff. That would be better. Guitarists could choose to buy new, or second hand, and it's what they do with the instrument that matters.
Did Clapton say that the tele sounded thinner than the strat?
Didn't his Blind Faith tele have a big headstock?
So it is rob chappers behind the camera
WOW!!!
Buy a sunburst Fender Squier Affinity Tele and a maple neck Affinity Strat. $400.00.
Put Strat neck on the Tele.
If it can be done, you will save a lot of
$. Some of us don’t have a lot of $.
Infinity's have too small a body. Don't like them in the least.
I have an idea, buy a $900 telecaster, $100 case, and spend $11,000 on lessons to get as good as EC. have fender make your own custom telecaster after you become famous.
Eric played, not took lessons, though:)
dont take lessons
7:33 why does he say "here's the neck" looks like neck + bridge to me
Mr Kraus I have one question 'how much of this guitar did you personally do'??
Honest know!! the camera's aren't rolling you can tell me.