Clapton plays beautifully every time , he is the only guy ever to play on both Beatles and Stones records.

@markvarga7351

5 ай бұрын

Billy Preston

@ascoop22

4 ай бұрын

@@markvarga7351 Billy played on a Stones record?

I wish this could have included JJ Cale. They were the best of friends and Eric called JJ his hero. When they played together they both looked so happy. ❤

@cavecookie1

14 күн бұрын

JJ has been one of my favs for the last 50 years. There's an unmistakable JJ influence in John Mayer' style, as well. There's two kinds of people in the world; those who love JJ, and those who have never heard him!

@Robin-Cale17

14 күн бұрын

@@cavecookie1 So true! 😄 I just noticed that you write very well! That is so rare these days. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@cavecookie1

14 күн бұрын

@@Robin-Cale17 LOL! My grandfather was an old-school small-town newspaperman. He'd turn over in his grave if I was lazy in my writing, including punctuation! It's infuriating sometimes, trying to make sense of gibberish that passes for writing, especially from so-called journalists. I see the name Cale in your handle...are you related to JJ?

@Robin-Cale17

14 күн бұрын

@@cavecookie1 I think we can blame some of the demise in correct writing on texting and the Internet. Sometimes I feel like I need a translator. 🤦🏼‍♀️ To answer your other question--yes.

@cavecookie1

14 күн бұрын

@@Robin-Cale17 School aren't blameless, either. I graduated in the 70s from a tiny school, with a class of 22 people, and was able to test out of my entire first year of college. It was no big thing, just the standard curriculum. Today, kids are lucky if they can write cursive. I saw JJ twice at Red Rocks in the 70s, but that's as close as I ever came to meeting him. I would have loved to have met him; he seems like one of those very rare people in the "industry", the truly nice guy. I'm from western Nebraska, and have met Randy Meisner briefly, and can confirm that the stories are true about him, another of those rare nice guys! Sad thinking about them...both gone now.

I think John Mayer nailed it best. I couldn’t quite put my finger on why I always come back to listening to Clapton and his blues playing. It’s just a joy and never gets tired. There’s all kinds of great players out there. Some have better technical chops than Clapton, but their phrases don’t quite have the finesse and care that Clapton puts into it. Clapton calls his soloing “singing”. It’s just a voice to him, and he has an incredible ear for melody and experience on how to express what’s in his head on the guitar. So that’s really what he does best. And he’s such a master of so many styles of music, and guitar playing styles. I don’t know anyone who can really put on a whole show of acoustic delta blues finger style and with slide, to fast hard electric blues, pop, all the way to reggae and just start riffin’ and playing deep off set list. The stylistic diversity is off the charts. Hats off to the man. One of the greatest who ever played, and he’s still with us and still playing.

ERIC CLAPTON IS PURE GOD GIVEN TALENT HE PAYS IT FORWARD TO ALL. ❤FOREVER FAN ♥

I've bern privileged to see clapton in concert. 5 times. He is a legend and my personal favorite. Every time I saw him he was in top form. Encore after encore. If he starts kinda slow walking in place on stage while playing watch out. You are in for a thrill. Anyway thats my personal view. Would love to see him at least once more. Ty for the video.

@ctims4185

4 ай бұрын

29 times. I've been stuck on 29 since 2017.

Back in the later part of the 60’s when I was in middle school, I’d listen to my older sister records and she had the Five Live Yardbirds and the Blues Breakers albums. She soon added Disraeli Gears and my course was set as a young guitar student. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is on fire to this day. I’ve been to many Clapton shows since then with From the Cradle and Behind the Sun tours (Red Rocks in Denver 1985) as his best live playing that I’ve seen IMO.

Clapton is one of the top 15 Guitarist 🎸 😊

@georgesheffield1580

Ай бұрын

Rock/ blues guitarist

I’m not a guitarist but it’s always interested me why so many top players started off on Gibson guitars & ended up playing Strats. I love Eric’s playing, whatever guitar he’s using, but I do like it when he plays a Gibson!

I saw Clapton one time. It was in September 2023. I remember walking out and saying “I would say ‘I wonder what it was like to see him live in his prime, but I think he’s still in it.’”

Eric is a brilliant guitarist😊i love you for ever😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Yardbirds…. Clapton….Beck…..Page !!! Hard, really really hard, to name a group with that much talent over time.

eric was the first white guy who was covering blues music and introduce the mass to the blues and it s been 30 years that i m listening to his covers and his voice and guitar playing it s just heavenly good

I‘m not famous - I‘m : Finne Guitar Player, but I can say that Clapton is my Guitar Hero.

Clapton is God.

@hajrudinibrisevic3091

5 ай бұрын

God not die ?

Clapton cares about every note.

Miss you Joe Chambers. RIP🙏

Eric Clapton has shared his heart ❤ to the world everytime he plays! 8:28

Anyone know where I can find the full vid

Now there are many who can copy him...but anyone is inside his head and what he wants to sing with his guitar. That's why there are only one Clapton...only one BB...only one Albert King and only one Muddy Waters.

Hendrix was doing the chitli circuit way before took off.

"We share the same wife" oef lol

Cream kicked Deep Purple off their American tour because Ritchie Blackmore upstaged them every night. That is a truth. There were many reasons for it, the styles of the two bands clashed and Lord and Blackmore were doing long neo-classical jams on the backs of songs and the energy level of the two bands styles also played into it with clown Evans fronting Purple and their upbeat sound. The Cream set was slower and more blues based and Purple was building their notorious reputation for ‘turning it up’. Evans also rubbed the Cream guys the wrong way. Clapton felt so bad about it he has his guitar tech give Ritchie Blackmore one of his backup Stratocaster as a kind of compensation since Purple had flown all their stuff over for a whole country tour, this was when Rod Evans was the singer, before Ian Gillan and what we think of as Deep Purple, the Kentucky Woman and Hush version. Anyway Blackmore was playing ES 335s at the time but loved the Strat so much he became a Stratocaster Icon. I tell this story not to diss on Clapton but to point out how he and his indirect gift also spawned someone who most of us real guitar nerds consider one of the greatest ever Stratocaster players! Imagine if this had not happened? Would we have the Ritchie Blackmore we got? Not to mention how Blackmore influenced generations of guitarists (including Bonnamassa and Malmsteen) to play Stratocasters? Oh the webs we weave. \m/ \m/

@ascoop22

4 ай бұрын

I think Blackmore would have eventually found a strat without any help from Clapton, he said some of his heroes played a strat and he always admired strats but they were hard to find in the early 60's. Regardless we still would have gotten the legend Ritchie Blackmore if he stayed with 335, maybe not the strat icon. Blackmore Page and Beck did work as studio musicians in the early 60s together. Blackmore blew everyone away way back then and was always destined to become a legend. Good story, I never heard it before. Clapton usually played a 335 or a Les Paul or SG in Cream. Looked into it, apparently the guitar you mention had a strat body and bowed tele neck, was impossible and difficult to play and the octaves were out, according to Ritchie. He bought a stock strat and said the transition from 335 to strat was really hard and he found great difficulty in using it the first 2 years. That's something I never thought I would hear from one of the best guitar players in the world. During the tour you mention Hendrix told Clapton that Richie blew him off the stage, I wonder if that is why Eric gave the crap guitar to a roadie to give to his friend Ritchie? Maybe Eric wanted Ritchie to play crappy? George Harrison at his house challenged Eric to a guitar dual once around the time Eric was after George's wife, he gave Eric a crappy guitar first that wouldn't stay in tune. Not sure how the guitar dual turned out but Eric did get the wife.

@toddwilliamson2651

4 ай бұрын

@@ascoop22 Yeah I love Blackmore, he is my favorite rock guitarist. Love your addendum. We may never know Blackmores whole story he does not seem inclined to tell it.

@ascoop22

4 ай бұрын

@@toddwilliamson2651 I don't know if you've seem them or not but there are a few long interviews of Ritchie on youtube where he talks about everything, he's sitting at home with beers. One thing he said is that he liked it that people think him moody and avoid him, he likes being avoided. If you saw the vid, it's where he talks about giving his guitar to a tech to get work done, refret I think and the guy planed his scalloped fingerboard flat. That made him real moody. Lots of things about him in there. He was the most innovative player at that time, played with the most scales and and speed yet usually isn't mentioned with Hendrix, Beck, Clapton and Page.

Almost a guitar god. Probably 4th or 5th in the list 😂

For his time he was great today there are 1000 guitarist that play blues as well as he does

@unorthodoxretreat5

5 ай бұрын

Pioneers deserve all the credit! I can play Pride and Joy but I sure as fuck ain’t no SRV.

@JamesPCroad

5 ай бұрын

Nope. His tasteful phrasing and vibrato alone elevate him beyond the 1000's of alleged better guitarists of today. His brilliant performance of Crossroads at the Winterland, and his assured playing on the live double album of Derek and the Dominoes, and so on. Though crucially he has written songs and been involved in composing some classic music, so no: he is not less than 1000's of modern blues players.

@joe22589

5 ай бұрын

Did you listen what John Mayer said? Listen again and then come back

@pmac2740

5 ай бұрын

its whats you chose not to play, chosing the right notes

@brendanbrown3100

5 ай бұрын

We’ve never heard of these 1000 other guitar players

Nope 😂

Bonaaaaamassa is a joke

@kathif17

5 ай бұрын

Agree JB us an egomaniac

@selliantuttimusi6735

5 ай бұрын

Boring player. He's just a guitar collector junkie who happens to play some blues rock licks like a robot.

@ctims4185

4 ай бұрын

Made enough money to buy your guitar.

@kathif17

4 ай бұрын

He is an egomaniac when he cut John McLaughlin at Crossroads 23 that he invited out to play I went outside. He gas no respect for anyone but himself

bon ok je vais ecrire en français j'en ai marre de l'anglais ! Clapton a eté un des premier guitariste anglais et encore mais dejà je vous rappelle que , à la meme epoque il y avait des gens comme lenny breau ou joe pass ou tal farlow etc ! qui jouaient à un autre niveau trechnique ! clapton avait un jeu de bébé , comparé , lol , mais clapton avait le look ! c'est tout ce qui a fait que le rock anglais est arrivé alors que le jazz restait dans les caves ! donc arretez un peu ! clapton oui c'est vrai a composé des chansons mais c'est tout ! d'un strict point de vue technique les jeux de clapton ou hendrix etc etaient des jeux d'enfants comparés aux jazzmen de l'epoque ! il faut le dire !

@krupuc

5 ай бұрын

Comme l'a dis John Mayer, Clapton arrive à toucher un très grand nombre de personnes avec pas grand chose, personne ne dit qu'il est le dieu de la technique mais c'est un expert dans le blues! Et je ne pense pas qu'il faut comparer les guitaristes qui ne sont pas dans le même genre musical même si j'avoue que le blues et le jazz sont assez proches. Évidemment qu'il y a plus technique que Clapton et il y a plus technique que les jazzmen de l'époque aussi

@callingchristiano

5 ай бұрын

... absolument pas d'accord. La musique n'est pas une course de bagnoles. La pure technique sans emotion, sans de beaux phrases ...ben c'est juste de la daube. Le Jazz , a force de vouloir toujours + sur le plan technique est devenu a 80 % inecoutable.

I have always believed that he had his beautiful baby son "sacrificed " for fame and fortune

I agree with what John Mayer said. He appeals to musically ignorant people. And he's painfully limited.

@Steinberg707

5 ай бұрын

Haha. And I guess you explain the fact that nobody listens to your silly little "jams" that you publish here on YT to yourself by saying that its simply too sophisticated for the masses? By the way, limitation is the key to mastership.

@ctims4185

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes less is more.

@garyjohnson7133

Ай бұрын

Are you the same guy that post those funny videos on KZread? That are hilarious! Trying to be relevant.

Growing up in the 60' s I referred to Clapton as God, When I was 19 I saw Andre Segovia for the first time. Clapton couldn't tune Segovia's guitar. The hyperbole of good guitarist into great ones is so off the mark. In the world of guitarist - all guitarists - Clapton is good, not great. He's a great blues/rock guitarist, and this distinction needs to be made. Watch a Clapton video and then watch Max Ostro when he was 12. Enough said

@davederoux3361

5 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@Steinberg707

5 ай бұрын

You are confusing virtuosity with being a great musician. Two very different things. But, hey, enjoy your Max Ostro or whatever.

@kyterunner5440

5 ай бұрын

@@Steinberg707 I love it when I get schooled by someone who is being helped with their typing by their mommy. It does my heart warm.

@albertoiimacanim1958

4 ай бұрын

Agree with you,

@ascoop22

4 ай бұрын

Segovia couldn't tune Al Di Meola's guitar. You are comparing 2 different things, it's like comparing a pick up truck to a sports car. Segovia didn't immerse himself in electric Blues guitar. Clapton didn't immerse himself in classical guitar. Hendrix didn't immerse himself in Nashville guitar picking. David Gilmour didn't immerse himself in jazz guitar. Max Ostra, who ever he is, didn't immerse himself in bluegrass guitar. Clapton was one of a handful that created blues rock guitar. Max Ostro wasn't the first to play in the scales that he plays in, in fact he was the last among thousands. There are reasons great guitarists like Clapton and Segovia are great. The cream rises to the top in every genre.

Mayer is a joke…

@nicolasaguilar1258

4 ай бұрын

i feel sorry for you. so much hate must fill you through every orifice

Jealous,racist,and in his old age a bit demented in his thinking.....and stale in his playing.

@jonahn4151

5 ай бұрын

What are you on about

@nicolasaguilar1258

4 ай бұрын

@@jonahn4151 don't try and reason with crazy

@Semikolon628

4 ай бұрын

What’s your problem with Eric? What kind of drug‘s are you taking?

Jimmy Page hated Clapton and rightfully so. Clapton was always jealous of Page and they never got along. Page is the kING Clapton i the Jester.

@dennisbryanschell4245

4 ай бұрын

Page and Clapton have NEVER hated each other. Clapton was never jealous of Page since Clapton was in and out of Cream before Led Zeppelin even existed. Get real, dude.

@tonys4396

4 ай бұрын

@@dennisbryanschell4245 PAGE is the KING. Clapton is the JEALOUS JESTER. Everyone hated Clapton. Harrison hated him for screwing his woman, even though his woman was a slut, I was THERE. You were reading Rolling Stone and never heard the REAL news. Even Robbie Robertson hated Clapton. LEARN brineysmell LEARN

Sorry for me he is a boring player prefer Rory gallagher , roy buchanan , jeff beck , gary moore , michael schenker , prince , zappa , larry carlton , jeff skunk baxter sooo much more

@andrasczehlarik9180

4 ай бұрын

+ALVIN LEE.

Clapton is the most overrated guitarist on the planet. He plays cheese. 🙄