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Eric Clapton
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Eric has a new book out and cd:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.a ... ryID=11537
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn1dDVmZyQ
My favorite version
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http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.a ... ryID=11537
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn1dDVmZyQ
My favorite version
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Re: Eric Clapton
[quote="mwm523"](The one who played Gibson guitars in the '60s)
Yup, that Clapton was the first guitarist whom I tried to emulate, when I was first learning. I'm still blown away by the chemistry that those three in Cream had live, especially Clapton with Baker.
Yup, that Clapton was the first guitarist whom I tried to emulate, when I was first learning. I'm still blown away by the chemistry that those three in Cream had live, especially Clapton with Baker.
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This is what Gary Moore had to say about Eric Clapton recently in the Classic Rock-Blues and Rock special edition.
I will use MARCO typeface:
I first got into the blues through listening to the "Beano" album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. I was only about 13 and already crazy about the electric guitar, but that was the album that proved there could be more to music than the stuff you heard on the radio or TV. Clapton left the Bluesbreakers not long after that to form Cream. I couldn't understand why he would leave a group as good as that but then I heard the first Cream album- Fresh Cream- and I was completely blown away. The blues influence was still really strong but what he was doing now was a whole other thing. Tracks like NSU and I Feel Fine sounded just amazing. There was also a six-minute track called Spoonful which was a huge deal at the time - a six-minute track ! Cream was also the first time Eric used what he later called the 'woman tone ' on his guitar- that smooth sustaining tone he got on his Les Paul which made everything he did sound so spooky. I just loved it. But it wasn't until I saw the band play live- at the Royal Ulster Hall in Belfast in 1967 - that the whole thing really became clear to me and I realised how good the other two guys were- bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Although Cream was called the first supergroup, they were all equals, they were all equals, there were no stars. Improvisation was the key, and a level of spontaneity I'd never known before.
They were the first band to really get up and just jam onstage. In fact, years later when I played with Jack and Ginger in BBM, Jack told me that one of the reasons they broke up was because they found it so exhausting trying to sustain that level of improvisation every night. Numbers that started out five minutes long became 10 minutes on stage, then 15 and so on.
People expected them to soar to new heights every single night and of course it just dosen't work like that.
Eric's replacement in the Bluesbreakers was Peter Green - another amazing guitarist who became a huge inspiration to me. It was amazing when he too left to form his own group, Fleetwood Mac.
Again, it was still very blues - based, but what Green was doing with the form was completely new. And that's one of the best things about the blues. People ask me, "Where do the blues go next?" I always answer, "They've already been everywhere, all round the world a million times." The point is where the blues takes you next. All those groups that came out of the blues boom in the 1960's - from Cream and Fleetwood Mac to the Stones and Led Zeppelin - they all did something different with it, to the point sometimes where you had to listen very hard to still detect the influence. But it's always been there, and continues to be all these years later, which is what makes it such an important form of music. For me, it's not so much a case of 'still got the blues' any more as that the blues has still got me.
Gary Moore
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I will use MARCO typeface:
I first got into the blues through listening to the "Beano" album by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. I was only about 13 and already crazy about the electric guitar, but that was the album that proved there could be more to music than the stuff you heard on the radio or TV. Clapton left the Bluesbreakers not long after that to form Cream. I couldn't understand why he would leave a group as good as that but then I heard the first Cream album- Fresh Cream- and I was completely blown away. The blues influence was still really strong but what he was doing now was a whole other thing. Tracks like NSU and I Feel Fine sounded just amazing. There was also a six-minute track called Spoonful which was a huge deal at the time - a six-minute track ! Cream was also the first time Eric used what he later called the 'woman tone ' on his guitar- that smooth sustaining tone he got on his Les Paul which made everything he did sound so spooky. I just loved it. But it wasn't until I saw the band play live- at the Royal Ulster Hall in Belfast in 1967 - that the whole thing really became clear to me and I realised how good the other two guys were- bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Although Cream was called the first supergroup, they were all equals, they were all equals, there were no stars. Improvisation was the key, and a level of spontaneity I'd never known before.
They were the first band to really get up and just jam onstage. In fact, years later when I played with Jack and Ginger in BBM, Jack told me that one of the reasons they broke up was because they found it so exhausting trying to sustain that level of improvisation every night. Numbers that started out five minutes long became 10 minutes on stage, then 15 and so on.
People expected them to soar to new heights every single night and of course it just dosen't work like that.
Eric's replacement in the Bluesbreakers was Peter Green - another amazing guitarist who became a huge inspiration to me. It was amazing when he too left to form his own group, Fleetwood Mac.
Again, it was still very blues - based, but what Green was doing with the form was completely new. And that's one of the best things about the blues. People ask me, "Where do the blues go next?" I always answer, "They've already been everywhere, all round the world a million times." The point is where the blues takes you next. All those groups that came out of the blues boom in the 1960's - from Cream and Fleetwood Mac to the Stones and Led Zeppelin - they all did something different with it, to the point sometimes where you had to listen very hard to still detect the influence. But it's always been there, and continues to be all these years later, which is what makes it such an important form of music. For me, it's not so much a case of 'still got the blues' any more as that the blues has still got me.
Gary Moore
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Thanks yngwie308 great stuff!!
Here is a review of the 2007 Crossroads Music Festival DVD with some cool Youth Tube videos embedded therein:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/01/060546.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv2MwuwBcU0
yngwie308
Here is a review of the 2007 Crossroads Music Festival DVD with some cool Youth Tube videos embedded therein:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/12/01/060546.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv2MwuwBcU0
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This may be my favorite clipof all EC. 
This time frame I remember clearly in the mid 70's with the Last Waltz
appearence. EC's stage pressence here is noted. Also see the timeing
when he loses his guitar strap, it is almost perfectly timed with the measure of the song and Robbie has to fill inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcyK4IX ... re=related
This time frame I remember clearly in the mid 70's with the Last Waltz
appearence. EC's stage pressence here is noted. Also see the timeing
when he loses his guitar strap, it is almost perfectly timed with the measure of the song and Robbie has to fill inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcyK4IX ... re=related
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I picked that book up to read on trip to NY. It's a bit of a tough read. Interesting thing...the woman he thought was his mother was actually his grandma, his "sister" his mother. He seems to want to blame all his troubles on this. Just getting to the part where he's starting to covet his neighbor's wife...Patti Harrison.....yngwie308 wrote:Eric has a new book out and cd:
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.a ... ryID=11537
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn1dDVmZyQ
My favorite version
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Bingo!gutpile wrote:aka "Layla"???
But, I didn't know this....
"The title, "Layla", was inspired by the Iranian love story, The Story of Layla / Layla and Majnun (ليلى ومجنون), by the Persian classical poet Nezami. When he wrote "Layla", Clapton had recently been given a copy of the story by a friend (reportedly Ian Dallas)[5] who was in the process of converting to Islam. Nezami's tale, about a moon-princess who was married off by her father to someone other than the man who was desperately in love with her, resulting in his madness (in Arabic and Persian, Majnun, مجنون, means "madman"), struck a deep chord with Clapton.[4]"
Clapton makes it sound like George could give a fuck and apparently he didn't as he attended their wedding later. Reminds me of the time my singer banged my girlfriend of the time. He and I are still great friends 20 yrs later. Have no idea what happened to the slutty bitch. That's a bond only music can keep!
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Hey Cheif,
Coveted??? this is old testement.. no wonder its taking a long time...
basicly this was a weird period where I loved George Harrison and John Lennon, and loved EC but he was $%^#ing around with his friends wife.
This is a perfect example of the 60's free life style not workining in the Glam mixed up 70's, I look down on Clapton personally for this, but
he showed up like a champ a la Last Waltz etc.
WARNING!!! my spelling is allways bad, and without spell check...
mrk
Coveted??? this is old testement.. no wonder its taking a long time...
basicly this was a weird period where I loved George Harrison and John Lennon, and loved EC but he was $%^#ing around with his friends wife.
This is a perfect example of the 60's free life style not workining in the Glam mixed up 70's, I look down on Clapton personally for this, but
he showed up like a champ a la Last Waltz etc.
WARNING!!! my spelling is allways bad, and without spell check...
mrk
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I agree I held against EC too but apparently Harrison didn't care...wide slide wrote:Hey Cheif,
Coveted??? this is old testement.. no wonder its taking a long time...
basicly this was a weird period where I loved George Harrison and John Lennon, and loved EC but he was $%^#ing around with his friends wife.
This is a perfect example of the 60's free life style not workining in the Glam mixed up 70's, I look down on Clapton personally for this, but
he showed up like a champ a la Last Waltz etc.
WARNING!!! my spelling is allways bad, and without spell check...
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hey Chief,
I liked Robbie's sound thru the Bassman in the Waltz clip but I think he could have made it sound a little fuller and driven. It seems the bottom was not there like it could have.
BTW I met and had a nice talk with Rick Danko at the Standhope House in the mid 80's. He was on his own touring , it was cool he was very down to earth. we hung out on his breaks. No I didn't ask about Bob.
I liked Robbie's sound thru the Bassman in the Waltz clip but I think he could have made it sound a little fuller and driven. It seems the bottom was not there like it could have.
BTW I met and had a nice talk with Rick Danko at the Standhope House in the mid 80's. He was on his own touring , it was cool he was very down to earth. we hung out on his breaks. No I didn't ask about Bob.
SB
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