Great channel Joe! Because of Eric, I traded in my beat up old Les Paul copy in 1971 and a pawnshop for used Stratocaster I thought of myself as the next Slowhand and realized later when I met my future wife that it was not to be lol put the guitar away, pulled it out recently and my friend who is a guitar tech told me I had quite the guitar turned out it was a 1954 Stratocaster serial number 0260, all thanks to Eric. Have a great day.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Clapton took the blues and turned it into going up, down and back up all five positions of the pentatonic scale, a tradition that Bonamassa continues and excels at.
Yes indeed. He took what BB King established with that fluidity of phrasing major/minor pentatonic scales, and brought it to a whole other level. That was Clapton's genius for sure
Great vid! Wish you mentioned his Lace Sensor/Soldano years, however. Love that tone. Wanna hear EC rip it up? Listen to Double Trouble from his Live at Madison Square Garden with Steve Winwood release. EPIC!
Damn! 'Just one Night' was the album that my brother turned me onto back in the early eighties and said this is the man you need to aspire to. I went and bought that record and I would try to play along with it and wore that thing out! I still have it, I still love it along with his version of 'Further up along the road'. I knew of his music through some of the hits but nothing more . That album introduced me to EC as a player and the songs I would chase from the original source along with others - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Robert Johnson, Albert King etc. A wonderful rabbit-hole of musical discovery. It was 'Just one Night' that sent me to EC's back catalogue all the way to 'Beano' and back... along with my first Fender Stratocaster, of course in black.
Joe ! You really have the early Clapton sound and style down pat. I'm 74 and been a guitar player since anbout 1960. I was a bit dissapointed when Eric quit playing like that and picked up a strat. He was my hero back then. I thought he would continue playing those ripping solos like on the Wheels of Fire album. His Album from 1970 with Delany Bramlet was a far departure from that. Over the years I have come back to like his stuff a lot. I think his "Another Car Another Rider" DVD Concert from 2002 with Eric and his group of excellent musicians is one of the best live performances captured on DVD that I have seen . Just my 2 cents worth.
'"Just one Night " was my introduction to EC and then "461 OB" ... love those recordings and of course "Slowhand" .... Neil Schon is another great call
Joe, I disrespected you for your reaction to the initial covid hullabaloo. I was wrong. You were right. I respect you man. You're a great player and you showed great discernment and balls when you sit up like that. Massive kudos. Keep up the great playing and God bless you.
@@RobertFairweatherLuvMachine That some of the policies and approach in the same place were we live made no sense at all. Joe was rather vague and didn’t really express anything I thought was controversial at all but rather logical but of course at that time people were attacked for expressing such things even if it was pretty rational. At the time Joe was living not to far from my house in Los Angeles. Every economy in SoCal got decimated except the movie business the studios still were able to film and rent out locations but everyone else was screwed. I didn’t understand how awful it was in LA until I went out of state to visit fam and the place wasn’t locked down and it was like 2019 still there they were having concerts and live music and i was there for weeks and nobody was dying because of attending large gatherings and it made me realize that this might be some what of a major over reaction. The initial perception was so much more dire then it actually was
I saw Derek and the Dominos twice in 1970, in August and October. The same town, but different venues. For the 18th August gig he played his ES 335 almost exclusively. When the band returned less than 8 weeks later, he was playing Brownie.
Growing up in a small rural farm town with the local bar owned by my grand parents. They owned the jukebox instead of renting and it played 45 size records. When they would get new records in, they would give me the old ones, and that was my introduction to Clapton. Of course they had his hit Cocaine but it never left the jukebox. So I was given a single of I Can't Stand It from the album Another Ticket which came out in 80 or 81 (can't remember) That had Albert Lee on rhythm guitar and it was my favorite of Eric's to this day. Such a great tune. The guitar work was intentionally left very simple and fit the song perfectly. I play over it as a backing track and you can really get juicy with lead work with solid rhythm tone like that! It's kind of an odd choice of favorite considering his catalog, but we like what we all like!
Absolutely nailed that tone, Joe. The Brownie tone on the first solo album and Derek and the Dominos is likely my favorite tone and Live at the Fillmore, probably my favorite live album. This month I’ve been binging on Money and Cigarettes which still has that great kind of strat tone you’ve got there. Love that Eric was never afraid to use Solid State like the Sessionette 45 as well on August.
I read that Schon spent hours and hours copping early Clapton licks. He used to fall asleep to Clapton's albums. I love Neal Schon's playing. I can totally hear Clapton's style in Neal's. Not only the fire and melodies but the way Clapton mixed major and minor pentatonic. Listen to Journey's Just The Same Way and you can hear Neal mix the two scales beautifully to create tension and resolve.
Eric. To me he sounds perfect on everything he's ever done. He's not normal. He is off the map. Joe is also brilliant and has the ability and work ethic to make the blues accessible to millions. Hats off. Saw him in Leeds last year with Josh and it was a marvellous show. When you hear Clapton, Green, Taylor and the earlier blues guys like BB, Albert etc they all got it and they had their own true voice. Same notes, played their way. It's true, the Cream always rises to the top.
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun I recalled seeing a photo of the band on stage with Eric sitting, playing a rosewood ‘board Strat and think it was before a show - it might have been in a studio 🤔 I never knew he used a Strat in Cream until I saw that photo 👍🙂
Noboby ever thinks of Clapton as a telly player. But he played a red Fender Telly with the Yardbirds, and a sunburst Fender Telly with a Stratocaster neck with Blindfaith in 1969. Though not typical telly playing awesome stuff as in " Do What You Like". Peace ..
cheers Joe.....although i like my strat (with a maple neck of course) for myelf and (Erics late 60s years) i prefer by far my humbucker guitars....SG and prs singlecuts (SE!!) Mccarty.....there's just a lot more in it....
The best tone Eric ever had was with an ES 335. 'Later with Jools Holland' is testimony to that of Eric playing 'Crossroads' using a sunburst 1960 ES 335 .
Why not just use a hardtail? AFAIK it's because he likes the sound that the trem cavity springs add. He just doesn't need the bar nor any of the tuning stability issues that come with a moving bridge
@@arhzee3310 That "in between" sound (pickups 1+2) is more associated with his early Strat days in the 70's. It's all over his first solo album and on some Derek and the Dominoes too,. Later 70's albums too I think, but 100% sure about that. When he hit the 80's he started using the middle pickup a lot for a thicker sound.
I prefer the Les Paul. What’s interesting is how thin the tone is on Clapton’s first solo Album using Brownie. The Layla album it had a fatter sound. The Johnny Cash show he had Brownie. Again horribly thin sound. The live Derrick and the Dominoes recording to tone got fatter again. He introduced Blackie to the world at the Rainbow concert. That sounded more like a hollow body. I never liked the tone of Blackie too thin. I prefer Brownie. When Fender started building his guitars now they sound a lot better.
Nice Dumble sitting up there on the Marshall head. Don't ask how much it's worth. Eric plays his signature Strat in the middle position mostly these days.
Thanks Joe! Ocean Blvd is my favorite Clapton record. Also, I always thought Clapton used only the neck pickup on his Strat….thanks for the clarification!
My great grandfather owned a 1957 Fender Strat that he stole from an old colored Gospel band guitarist. He saw the colored guitarist leave church one day and lock the Strat in his Oldsmobile, so when the coast was clear, great grandpa busted the window of the car with a brick and absconded with the green Strat. When many years later we asked him if he felt badly about having stolen the guitar, he just laughed and laughed and laughed. But it wasn't a mischievous laugh, it was maniacal and almost demonic. When our great grandma asked him if he was okay, he finally spoke, and in a deep, devilish voice he said, "Hail Satan" over and over again. He must have said it 40 to 50 times. Then he walked out of the front door and never returned. He was 91yo and neither we nor anyone we know ever saw him again.
LOVED his playing with Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, Delany And Bonnie and even the throwback blues albums much later. But when he switched to being a singer songwriter frontman -- he seemed to care less about amazing virtuosity. 461 Ocean Blvd was brilliant. Then the guitar took a bit of a backseat. I mean "Tears In Heaven" is an amazing song and does not need or call for crazy bluesy bends. But I still really miss the guitar slinger Eric...
You can also blame his management which made him view himself as being a solo act rather than part of an ensemble. My theory is that he usually needed other strong personalities around to bring out his best. Mayall, Bruce, Delaney, Duane.
@@BRLaue Nah Clapton said in a documentary that he was afraid of being associated with only one type of music, whether it be blues, pop or psychedelic. He was terrified of being defined by one thing in his younger days, then he saw The Band and JJ Cale later on and settled with being a mellow blues player who play to serve the song rather than doing acrobatics on the fretboard. And he mentioned in From the Cradle that he fought it for a long time but finally had to except that he is a blues player, plain and simple.
Huuum ... interesting, they don't sound out of phase. When I select two pickups (single coils) on my PRS they are out of phase. Great for funky rhythmic playing but not as punchy for solos. Eric should grab a Gibson for some songs though. His modified strat just does not cut it for me. Nothing beats a LesPaul (at least humbukers) for a LesPaul sound.
Fender didn't start doing that until, I believe, the American Standard series was introduced. Before then, the 2 and 4 positions were all hum, all noise, all the time lol
I never really liked just one night, still don't. Didn't think the playing was v vital Barr double trouble.Though I'll give it another listen. Was it Albert Lee was the back up guitar? I felt he was better on that album. My first EC album was EC was here. That's the most fantastic live album. And still my favourite guitar album.
I'm sorry claptons greatness ends when the bird on layla chirp the end of the song. There are two mentionable returns one being tears in heaven the other 2005 stormy Monday with cream
he isn't but I really like his style. The more I play guitar and the more I listen to Eric's 70s and 80s stuff the more I like it. Maybe it's maturity thing?
Believe it are not, I think I just wrote a hook within a hook. I actually think I write everything a hook within a hook. SSV(Soldiers Songs and Voices) is who you should really talk too. They help veterans with PTSD and more like me. Please give them a call.
His greatest 'Fender years', and in fact peak of his career, was during the 90s. Even the later 2005 Cream reunion was much more enjoyable than the original.
this dude has one of the most robotic and machine-like playing I have ever heard, nothing musical about it, his musical career is actually flipping vintage guitars
I think his current tone and chops are smooth and clean but bland and boring. I thought the Cream reunion was dull - no fire at all. Zeppelin reunion was so much better (but I still don’t really listen to it).
@@dphinman6952 , I don’t like spinach either. thinking very highly of oneself, needing admiration, believing others are inferior, and lacking empathy for others. Hummm. That doesn’t sound like you does it?
Sounds NOTHING like Clapton. Keep trying. No. Wrong. MOSTLY he played with the MIDDLE pickup ONLY... to be different. He didn't want people to copy his tone, so he did things differently. To create his own sound. You sir, DID NOT and DO NOT sound like Clapton AT ALL... Sorry.
In this era he DID mostly play in the in-between bridge and middle pickups - read any if his interviews at the time, after the fact, or look at footage. YOU sir are INCORRECT. Show us the RESPECT we deserve by getting your facts straight PRIOR to trolling. Thanks MUCH !!!
Great channel Joe! Because of Eric, I traded in my beat up old Les Paul copy in 1971 and a pawnshop for used Stratocaster I thought of myself as the next Slowhand and realized later when I met my future wife that it was not to be lol put the guitar away, pulled it out recently and my friend who is a guitar tech told me I had quite the guitar turned out it was a 1954 Stratocaster serial number 0260, all thanks to Eric. Have a great day.🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Well, you'll be keeping THAT one! Congrats!
Smart man keeping that beautiful guitar all these years.
40,000 smackers....clam...buckaroos....awesome for you.
@@RobertFairweatherLuvMachine 😉
Unreal!
If you close your eyes, you can hear Eric Clapton in every note. Very Nice Joe. Great Lesson to learn !
Hooks within a hook. Excellent work JB 💙🎶🎸
Wonderful video as always, JB nails the sounds and the vibe. Love it! ❤❤
Best guitar content out there is a guy with all the gear that can play all the licks doing deep dive history/tones/lessons/gear reviews.
Clapton took the blues and turned it into going up, down and back up all five positions of the pentatonic scale, a tradition that Bonamassa continues and excels at.
I always liked the way EC switches from minor to major pentatonics and back again like in the Crossroads solos.
When I was a teenager listening to Crossroads for the first time and I realized that I was blown away! It's a fantastic solo - everything about it.
Yes, great - also love the soloing on White Romm
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Badge is a really good example of him switching from major and minor
Yes indeed. He took what BB King established with that fluidity of phrasing major/minor pentatonic scales, and brought it to a whole other level. That was Clapton's genius for sure
Indeed... thank you for sharing the goodness Joe B ☕🎸
Watch Out For Lucy is one of my favorite Clapton songs. I love the 70's Clapton. Clapton is my all time guitar hero and I still love him to this day.
The Strat and fender combo amp era of his music will always be my favorite. Layla and Other Assorted Love songs blew mind mind when i was teenager.
Great vid! Wish you mentioned his Lace Sensor/Soldano years, however. Love that tone. Wanna hear EC rip it up? Listen to Double Trouble from his Live at Madison Square Garden with Steve Winwood release. EPIC!
Damn! 'Just one Night' was the album that my brother turned me onto back in the early eighties and said this is the man you need to aspire to. I went and bought that record and I would try to play along with it and wore that thing out! I still have it, I still love it along with his version of 'Further up along the road'. I knew of his music through some of the hits but nothing more . That album introduced me to EC as a player and the songs I would chase from the original source along with others - Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Robert Johnson, Albert King etc. A wonderful rabbit-hole of musical discovery.
It was 'Just one Night' that sent me to EC's back catalogue all the way to 'Beano' and back... along with my first Fender Stratocaster, of course in black.
Joe ! You really have the early Clapton sound and style down pat. I'm 74 and been a guitar player since anbout 1960. I was a bit dissapointed when Eric quit playing like that and picked up a strat. He was my hero back then. I thought he would continue playing those ripping solos like on the Wheels of Fire album. His Album from 1970 with Delany Bramlet was a far departure from that. Over the years I have come back to like his stuff a lot. I think his "Another Car Another Rider" DVD Concert from 2002 with Eric and his group of excellent musicians is one of the best live performances captured on DVD that I have seen . Just my 2 cents worth.
Find Eric’s version on the Bob Dylan 30 concert album. --Don't think twice it's alright. End of song is epic. Band of legends.
The rehearsal track of Don't Think Twice (included in the deluxe version) is killer
An HD version finally hit RUclips a few months ago.
That steve cropper look at final solo says it all. Very very favorite ❤
'"Just one Night " was my introduction to EC and then "461 OB" ... love those recordings and of course "Slowhand" .... Neil Schon is another great call
Great playing as usual. Thanks Joe and GW.
It's truly a great and wonderous thing to have a consummate professional and historian such as Joe share his love for all this. 🙏
Joe, I disrespected you for your reaction to the initial covid hullabaloo. I was wrong. You were right. I respect you man. You're a great player and you showed great discernment and balls when you sit up like that. Massive kudos. Keep up the great playing and God bless you.
Covid...what was the 'hullabaloo"?
Respect this big time
Props to you!!!!
@@RobertFairweatherLuvMachine
That some of the policies and approach in the same place were we live made no sense at all. Joe was rather vague and didn’t really express anything I thought was controversial at all but rather logical but of course at that time people were attacked for expressing such things even if it was pretty rational. At the time Joe was living not to far from my house in Los Angeles. Every economy in SoCal got decimated except the movie business the studios still were able to film and rent out locations but everyone else was screwed. I didn’t understand how awful it was in LA until I went out of state to visit fam and the place wasn’t locked down and it was like 2019 still there they were having concerts and live music and i was there for weeks and nobody was dying because of attending large gatherings and it made me realize that this might be some what of a major over reaction. The initial perception was so much more dire then it actually was
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
I love it thank you Joe 👍 Eric all the way 🎸👑
Joe in these awesome short clips always leaves us wanting more. 😉🤣
I saw Derek and the Dominos twice in 1970, in August and October. The same town, but different venues.
For the 18th August gig he played his ES 335 almost exclusively. When the band returned less than 8 weeks later, he was playing Brownie.
👏🏼🎸 Thanks JB!
Growing up in a small rural farm town with the local bar owned by my grand parents. They owned the jukebox instead of renting and it played 45 size records. When they would get new records in, they would give me the old ones, and that was my introduction to Clapton. Of course they had his hit Cocaine but it never left the jukebox. So I was given a single of I Can't Stand It from the album Another Ticket which came out in 80 or 81 (can't remember) That had Albert Lee on rhythm guitar and it was my favorite of Eric's to this day. Such a great tune. The guitar work was intentionally left very simple and fit the song perfectly. I play over it as a backing track and you can really get juicy with lead work with solid rhythm tone like that! It's kind of an odd choice of favorite considering his catalog, but we like what we all like!
Ya know, watching EC's hands as he plays always mesmerizes me
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Absolutely nailed that tone, Joe. The Brownie tone on the first solo album and Derek and the Dominos is likely my favorite tone and Live at the Fillmore, probably my favorite live album. This month I’ve been binging on Money and Cigarettes which still has that great kind of strat tone you’ve got there.
Love that Eric was never afraid to use Solid State like the Sessionette 45 as well on August.
I read that Schon spent hours and hours copping early Clapton licks. He used to fall asleep to Clapton's albums. I love Neal Schon's playing. I can totally hear Clapton's style in Neal's. Not only the fire and melodies but the way Clapton mixed major and minor pentatonic. Listen to Journey's Just The Same Way and you can hear Neal mix the two scales beautifully to create tension and resolve.
my "stealing licks" weekend is set to begin tomorrow, thanks Joe.
Eric. To me he sounds perfect on everything he's ever done. He's not normal. He is off the map. Joe is also brilliant and has the ability and work ethic to make the blues accessible to millions. Hats off. Saw him in Leeds last year with Josh and it was a marvellous show. When you hear Clapton, Green, Taylor and the earlier blues guys like BB, Albert etc they all got it and they had their own true voice. Same notes, played their way. It's true, the Cream always rises to the top.
Great video
Slowhand was my introduction! Had the 8 track in my dads 63 Impala
Thanks Joe!
Don't forget .... before Derek, Eric had run across Delaney and Bonnie, and i believe it was that period which first drew him to the Stratocaster.
He started playing Strats immediately after Cream in Blind Faith.
Clapton first used a Strat at the end of Cream 👍
@@derekclactonThat’s true, but I was referring to live shows…I should have been clearer!
@@AllenGarberGuitarFun I recalled seeing a photo of the band on stage with Eric sitting, playing a rosewood ‘board Strat and think it was before a show - it might have been in a studio 🤔 I never knew he used a Strat in Cream until I saw that photo 👍🙂
@@derekclactonI think that might be the one photo I was thinking of as well!
JB is outstanding, and keeps the flame alive! Thanks Joe for being who you are, and for doing what you do so well.
Nice segment, Joe. I can't quite capture how Eric does first finger vibrato straight up and down as opposed to rotating wrist and arm.
You got it Joe. Thanks. Might be my favorite tone. 😊
I would love to jam some guitar with you one day. Have a great day Joe!
Noboby ever thinks of Clapton as a telly player. But he played a red Fender Telly with the Yardbirds, and a sunburst Fender Telly with a Stratocaster neck with Blindfaith in 1969. Though not typical telly playing awesome stuff as in " Do What You Like". Peace ..
Eric Clapton and Neal Schon as his favorite melodic lyrical guitarists... Yep, Joe knows his guitar!!
cheers Joe.....although i like my strat (with a maple neck of course) for myelf and (Erics late 60s years) i prefer by far my humbucker guitars....SG and prs singlecuts (SE!!) Mccarty.....there's just a lot more in it....
Joe is the man
80s Clapton tone was cool, with TBX +20db strat mode
The best tone Eric ever had was with an ES 335. 'Later with Jools Holland' is testimony to that of Eric playing 'Crossroads' using a sunburst 1960 ES 335 .
I actually prefered Albert Lee's playing on that record "just one night"
He was the dude.
I noticed ever since his beginning of using Fender he never has the WHAMMY BAR on, he never uses it at all. Does he have it blocked?
Yes, he put a wood block in the trem cavity.
Why not just use a hardtail? AFAIK it's because he likes the sound that the trem cavity springs add. He just doesn't need the bar nor any of the tuning stability issues that come with a moving bridge
@@ObjectiveDynamics They're hard to find. Pro guys look for a perfect neck and perfect body join.
And in the 80's he started leaning on the middle pickup more, especially for leads, which I think he still does.
I read somewhere that he kept the pickup switch in between two positions, he got a different sound
@@arhzee3310That's what you do on old strats that only have the 3 way.
Buddy Holly used a toothpick to keep it there.
@@arhzee3310 That "in between" sound (pickups 1+2) is more associated with his early Strat days in the 70's. It's all over his first solo album and on some Derek and the Dominoes too,. Later 70's albums too I think, but 100% sure about that. When he hit the 80's he started using the middle pickup a lot for a thicker sound.
How loud do you need to go to get a 6L6 based Fender amp to sound like that? Really don’t understand how this is done without some kind of boost…
The reverb dropped on that amp gives the strat a les paul kindve tone
I prefer the Les Paul. What’s interesting is how thin the tone is on Clapton’s first solo Album using Brownie. The Layla album it had a fatter sound. The Johnny Cash show he had Brownie. Again horribly thin sound. The live Derrick and the Dominoes recording to tone got fatter again. He introduced Blackie to the world at the Rainbow concert. That sounded more like a hollow body. I never liked the tone of Blackie too thin. I prefer Brownie. When Fender started building his guitars now they sound a lot better.
Nice Dumble sitting up there on the Marshall head. Don't ask how much it's worth. Eric plays his signature Strat in the middle position mostly these days.
Live with the Dominoes he used Dual Showman’s and strat through a cocked wah.
ec is the man
Le vibrato de Clapton et sa justesse juste un cable un ampli et une guitare...EC Is God!
Thanks Joe! Ocean Blvd is my favorite Clapton record. Also, I always thought Clapton used only the neck pickup on his Strat….thanks for the clarification!
He also fitted a boost switch and I believe a switch that allows the neck pickup to be selected at any time.
@@classicraceruk1337You might be thinking of the late 80s and forward Clapton Strats with the Mid Boost knob. Clapton’s Strats were stock before 1989.
Lol "house of horrors" lol thanks again for these vids
Thanks joe
I think that E.C. himself would be a better source of this type of information.
2 of the best ever...EC and JB
JB one of the best ever? Lol
No no no. No JB.
Hey Mr. Bonamass. In Derek and the domino's. Mr allman. Was the lead player. So look it up.
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You don't know what you're talking about. They shared the leads.
My great grandfather owned a 1957 Fender Strat that he stole from an old colored Gospel band guitarist. He saw the colored guitarist leave church one day and lock the Strat in his Oldsmobile, so when the coast was clear, great grandpa busted the window of the car with a brick and absconded with the green Strat. When many years later we asked him if he felt badly about having stolen the guitar, he just laughed and laughed and laughed. But it wasn't a mischievous laugh, it was maniacal and almost demonic. When our great grandma asked him if he was okay, he finally spoke, and in a deep, devilish voice he said, "Hail Satan" over and over again. He must have said it 40 to 50 times. Then he walked out of the front door and never returned. He was 91yo and neither we nor anyone we know ever saw him again.
Good word! Write the hooks.
Oh no, Bonamassa mentioned the need for a maple fretboard. Here come all of the tonewood deniers.
would love to see Joe try and copy Stephen Malkmus strat tones 😂
Rather here about the Les Paul years of Clapton. Not to mention the SG Standard. Gibson 🇺🇸
see my comment...and watch Joes video about the "gibson years".....of Eric of course....
LOVED his playing with Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, Delany And Bonnie and even the throwback blues albums much later. But when he switched to being a singer songwriter frontman -- he seemed to care less about amazing virtuosity. 461 Ocean Blvd was brilliant. Then the guitar took a bit of a backseat. I mean "Tears In Heaven" is an amazing song and does not need or call for crazy bluesy bends. But I still really miss the guitar slinger Eric...
You can still get it when he plays live. Clapton is 1000 times better live.
He decided to level up as a singer, and I think he doesn't get enough credit as a great blues singer. Love his vocals.
You can also blame his management which made him view himself as being a solo act rather than part of an ensemble. My theory is that he usually needed other strong personalities around to bring out his best. Mayall, Bruce, Delaney, Duane.
@@BRLaue Nah Clapton said in a documentary that he was afraid of being associated with only one type of music, whether it be blues, pop or psychedelic. He was terrified of being defined by one thing in his younger days, then he saw The Band and JJ Cale later on and settled with being a mellow blues player who play to serve the song rather than doing acrobatics on the fretboard. And he mentioned in From the Cradle that he fought it for a long time but finally had to except that he is a blues player, plain and simple.
@@NhânHoàng-b5t Yeah, that is what he said.
Spot on!
Yeah after Delaney and Bonnie and the heroin battle
He became JJ Clapton 🤠
Huuum ... interesting, they don't sound out of phase. When I select two pickups (single coils) on my PRS they are out of phase. Great for funky rhythmic playing but not as punchy for solos.
Eric should grab a Gibson for some songs though. His modified strat just does not cut it for me. Nothing beats a LesPaul (at least humbukers) for a LesPaul sound.
Fender didn't start doing that until, I believe, the American Standard series was introduced. Before then, the 2 and 4 positions were all hum, all noise, all the time lol
Joe.........a guy that could write a hook within a hook then dancing those hooks on top of those hooks..........Phil Keaggy........jeepers creepers.
Clapton was best on Gibsons the 335,Les Paul and maybe the ESG
All I know is the very last "dah nah nah nah" E7 riff in "Cocaine" is so fat you need three Strats and a Hammond B-3 to recreate it!
I never really liked just one night, still don't. Didn't think the playing was v vital Barr double trouble.Though I'll give it another listen. Was it Albert Lee was the back up guitar? I felt he was better on that album.
My first EC album was EC was here. That's the most fantastic live album. And still my favourite guitar album.
I'm sorry claptons greatness ends when the bird on layla chirp the end of the song. There are two mentionable returns one being tears in heaven the other 2005 stormy Monday with cream
All the guitar greats are from the 60s and fading. Sadly. There are No more. That matter.
👍👍🫶
I dissected a frog in my sophomore year of high school.
Clapton is god
he isn't but I really like his style. The more I play guitar and the more I listen to Eric's 70s and 80s stuff the more I like it. Maybe it's maturity thing?
Layla.
Believe it are not, I think I just wrote a hook within a hook. I actually think I write everything a hook within a hook. SSV(Soldiers Songs and Voices) is who you should really talk too. They help veterans with PTSD and more like me. Please give them a call.
Clapton's prowess ended the moment he attempted to play a Strat.
His greatest 'Fender years', and in fact peak of his career, was during the 90s. Even the later 2005 Cream reunion was much more enjoyable than the original.
Not even close man
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Wheels of fire..after that snoozefest...
After Cream...clapton went to Bar Band status.
this dude has one of the most robotic and machine-like playing I have ever heard, nothing musical about it, his musical career is actually flipping vintage guitars
😂😂😂😂 nope
I think his current tone and chops are smooth and clean but bland and boring. I thought the Cream reunion was dull - no fire at all. Zeppelin reunion was so much better (but I still don’t really listen to it).
"an extension of his singing voice" then proceeds to play on autopilot the same mechanical bullshit lines that sound like absolute shit
"Everything they play is a hook." --- That is what I said about Nugent in the 70s. (:
The talking in this video is louder than the guitar playing.
A blackface champ doesn’t hurt either for the 1970 tone!
Black face champ?
@@mikedfurman yes, a 1964-1967 fender champ with a 1x8” speaker
The Fender years, when Clapton lost all creativity after Jimi Hendrix destroyed him on stage.
Clapton switching to Fender was a big downer at the time- it sounded like he lost the plot, and he never regained it without the humbuckers.
Jeez, Eric was boring at this stage in his career.
Clapton has been a complete since Cream Period dentist office muzak Pure lazy crap CREAM WAS THE TOP
Tens of millions of people disagree with you, so who cares what you think?
You should stick to writing on bathroom walls.
I don't require any "dissection" from this used guitar salesman to appreciate the music. Bonamassa should stick to ripping people off with Uncle Norm.
It must suck being you and what you require.
Bonamasa is the Bruce Springsteen of gear! He has to be in everything!!
Huh?
He knows a lot of stuff.
@@brbadge like I said, "He's the Bruce Springsteen of gear."
Traumatic brain injury?
@@rijancaffe no Señor flames!
I just don't like Clapton's style of playing. He pulls all the right faces but the playing just has no feel.
And I just don’t care for that sound.
Who cares?
@@dphinman6952 , obviously you or why bother
@@kmichaelp4508 I confront negative narcissists whenever I can.
@@dphinman6952 , I don’t like spinach either. thinking very highly of oneself, needing admiration, believing others are inferior, and lacking empathy for others. Hummm. That doesn’t sound like you does it?
The bland leading the bland. Elevator music.
That exactly explains why Clapton and Bonamassa are both guitar icons and you are user-tl2qn1qi1g.
Sounds NOTHING like Clapton. Keep trying. No. Wrong. MOSTLY he played with the MIDDLE pickup ONLY... to be different. He didn't want people to copy his tone, so he did things differently. To create his own sound. You sir, DID NOT and DO NOT sound like Clapton AT ALL... Sorry.
In this era he DID mostly play in the in-between bridge and middle pickups - read any if his interviews at the time, after the fact, or look at footage. YOU sir are INCORRECT. Show us the RESPECT we deserve by getting your facts straight PRIOR to trolling. Thanks MUCH !!!
@@SSStinger6 Nope wrong. Thanks for playing.
@@SSStinger6 He literally only uses 3 way switches in his guitars, to AVOID this sound.....look at his RIG RUNDOWNS. Thanks again! \m/
@@doctersound9630 Nope wrong. Thanks for playing
@@SSStinger6 People just hate on Joe cause they’re jealous of his playing. It’s funny actually
Joe Bonamasa is so annoying!
Huh?
@@brbadge yup!
"Joe Bonamasa is so annoying!" Then why do you watch him?
The hate on him is unnecessary
@@keanusgirl not hate. He's just annoying. Big difference Señor!