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@solidpnoy

3y↑60

This is the inspiration that led to the song Lazy by Deep Purple.

@dougpeters1625

3y↑2

Yup! The great Richie Blackmore has admitted this to be true.

@ninjavigilante5311

3y↑6

This led the inspiration for alot of great players.. nobody had ever heard someone play at this time so good.

@2v_5r84

3y↑2

It sounds very similiar

@AndyNyle

3y↑2

With Blackmore’s mathematical guitar solo

@andrewjupina464

2y↑1

Another classic!

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@jean-marieboucherit4716

4y↑91

What makes Eric Clapton unique and for me the unparalleled best is his constant playing with rhythm, putting notes when you don’t expect them, starting licks at unexpected times and making his music always surprising and exciting.

@hhonez6538

2y↑5

You got it. Clapton was great the way he syncopated his playing. I never heard anybody else do it like that except Gene Krupa or maybe Sinatra.

@johnsolis7631

1y↑3

Clapton was the greatest white electric lead blues guitarist, greatest intonation of any white guitar player then.

@csakbencee

45w↑3

@@johnsolis7631 WAS.

@Daniel-ts3uy

18w↑1

I've preferred Jimi Hendrix over anybody since 1967. Am I showing my age?

@malcp527

15w↑1

@@csakbencee Yup, WAS. Your point being? This was nearly 60 years ago man...

@MrLSwanson

I totally Agree with you here. I never heard of this group until now. Years of Thanks for sharing this revolutionary Blues guitar playing!!!

@davidwebster6491

7y↑923

I don't understand why every Clapton post immediately draws the "Hendrix was better" or "Peter Green blew him away" comparison. Can't we just appreciate what HE did? This is one of the greatest electric performances ever by anybody. Perfect tone and magnificent choice of notes…unparalleled solo architecture. I love SRV, Hendrix, Beck, Albert King, etc., and they all make their own statement. Just appreciate the great ones individually…it's like politics, everyone wants to take a side.

@scottblanton4988

7y↑45

David Webster You are correct, I never understand the comparisons of this man and other people, but what he did on this album and during this period very few can touch.

@DucksDeLucks

6y↑40

Hendrix is iconic of the black artist while Green is iconic of the gifted loser, the might have been. People resent Clapton's success and his 'normalcy' in later years.

@jakebowman6623

6y↑20

Well said, friend! In each of the great guitarists you can hear the individuality. It's about expression, plain and simple. People like to compare and contrast, which is fine in my opinion. It's when it turns to hatred that it becomes childish. Because in the end, he's Eric Clapton. His career speaks for itself, the good and the bad. Who are we to judge.

@theartfuldodger935

6y↑27

Yeah. I agree. But Peter Green DID blow him away. So there's that.

@DucksDeLucks

6y↑39

I would say just the opposite. Green never played anything as good as Beano, and he also copped a lot of Clapton's style.

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@NahmakantaCamps

2y↑34

recorded just before his 21st birthday, if you can believe that. I usually don't pay much attention to 20 yr olds, but I'll make a major exception here. Sounds as good now as 55 yrs ago. How often can you say that about anything ? Absolutely astounding guitar playing

@e-drummer2479

1y↑1

Brilliant sound - No, I perfect sound. Great riff, a solo that tells a story. Masterpiece

@guilirio

he actually sounds A LOT BETTER 55 years ago then now heheh

@jeffreym4273

6y↑74

The best Clapton tone by far.

@ninjavigilante5311

No shit

@SimpleManGuitars1973

3y↑13

@@ninjavigilante5311 I'm partial to the Cream sounds but this is absolutely brutally awesome and incredibly aggressive for the time and I don't even think he was using a fuzz pedal like a lot of the guys were at the time that were getting all the "heavy" sounds. People can say what they want but Clapton was and is the man.

@stricknine8623

2y↑8

I don’t understand what he saw (or heard) in the Strat...It was a regression from the Gibson Les Paul / Marshall combination. This sound is unbeatable and unequaled.

@stricknine8623

2y↑3

@@Sinnerboy88
There are about as many or more that prefer the Strat sound as there are those that love the Les Paul sound. I like both sounds but the Les Paul is much better for my taste.

A great scatter-wound PAF Les Paul through an overdriven Marshall is a bossy and swaggering tone that can also wail and sing like no other.

Oh well..

@8OBO8

1y↑1

@Strick nine yeah this les paul bluesbreakers sound literally created the gold standard for electric blues tone.

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@johnknottenbelt2727

11w↑6

No gadgets, just fingers, 6 strings & a touch of genius without ego. Clapton at his 'in your face, finest' !

@earlludwig3614

46w↑9

Starting in the early 70's my buddy and I would study Clapton endlessly. JMB, especially Guitar Boogie and of course Cream. He had a head start so I was gladly playing catch up. We really work on all those many embellishments in his playing You guys know exactly what I'm talking about. To this day I still have a lot of those licks deeply ingrained in my playing, and for that I am deeply appreciative of Eric Clapton and my pal. To this day Eric continues to be a force of nature. I do wish more people would mention his singing, which I think is incredible. So soulful.

@jimdep6542

43w↑1

Do you still keep in touch with your pal from the 60 's ?

@KarlKrogmann

4y↑55

I about have a freakin' heart attack every time I hear this. Clapton takes the paint off on this track...

@MrBluzhound

4y↑2

To be honest, every track on Beano is ripped.

@ninjavigilante5311

Nobody will ever play this as good or have that sound.. whoever stoled claptons les Paul is a lucky man.

@petergedd9330

@@ninjavigilante5311 Too right!!

@markjaeckel8839

@@ninjavigilante5311 the thief is not, or ever will be, Clapton!
I'll bet the thief can't even play guitar.

@AnthonyMonaghan

9y↑166

The album that changed the sound of the electric guitar forever! Near perfection achieved.

@phallystorm

8y↑10

+Anthony Monaghan You are so right! Clapton is GOD. The Marshall JTM 45, and ERics Les Paul with all the amps controls dimed. The engineers said the tone was unrecordedable, I think Jimmy Page also had a hand in getting the tone on tape.After the Wold heard this TONE, Clapton was coined as God in the streets of London, and in the World. Preceded Hendrix, but when they all...Jeff Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend heard JIMI< they where like WTF???

@SAHogan-sm6lq

8y↑3

Even with the great EC on display here always great to see the INCOMPARABLE Jimi gettin' some love! "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" STILL leaves me with my mouth hanging open.

@mojobutta

7y↑2

Jimi...was, is, and always will be the MAN:) Nobody has influenced the guitar world like he did. No Jimi...No SRV, Gilmore, Van Halen, Healey, Moore, Trower, Lange, Shepard and on and on and on:)

@number1photoman

4y↑1

Anthony Monaghan without the Mayall man we may never have heard of Eric

@ralphpettorossi705

And then........Jimi came along...........

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@michaelbailey1578

4y↑35

I recall being so damned envious of Clapton when Disraeli Gears came out. I considered myself a bit of a hot geetar man in my youth, and I knew upon hearing him that Clapton could play circles around me. It was a very humbling experience. I later switched to classical and there are plenty of people around in that circle to keep me ever so humble. Now I just enjoy listening to Clapton. Thank you for posting this.

@abelincoln5698

4y↑1

When Lonnie Mack's first record came out I realized that my friends and I didn't know our way around the fretboard as well as we thought we did.

@soaringvulture

Yes. It's really a shock to find out how many real good musicians are out there. You might think you have chops and then you hear someone (and it doesn't have to be someone famous) do things you can't do and never will do. It's just how it is.

@brettlowden7073

3y↑1

He was hot back then

@paulineson4876

11w↑2

A milestone in sound, innovation and guitar playing. Never get tired of hearing this.

@Nozmo_King_NJ

13w↑3

I'll never get tired of listening to this .. what a talent.

@highschoolmathematicslesso4983

1y↑14

No one had ever played guitar like this before - extraordinary! Clapton invented lead guitar as we know it today- his playing is exquisite. Hail Eric Clapton -an absolute giant of music !

@firstwaterramblers745

48w↑1

I think you might be a hit mistaken here. Yes EC was and is a great guitar player, but he didn't invent the lead guitar as we know it. ask him and he will tell you were he got his shit, the masters that came before him.

@highschoolmathematicslesso4983

48w↑2

@@firstwaterramblers745 He took blues guitar somewhere else - he definitely invented the blues rock guitar. Hail EC ! His playing is sublime - he inspired Hendrix - no Clapton, no Hendrix.

@gulfcoastgal_

I heard this album in 1969 in New Orleans then he played more of Mayall’s blues influences - orginal bluesmen
Opened my eyes forever
Never forgot that afternoon

@monjoUtube

11y↑8

I couldn't get enough of the album. The solo on 'Have you heard' left everyone in the business reeling.

@ctims4185

12w

Filthy.

@agtronic

4y↑35

This album is the #1 reason why a '59 Les Paul is worth $500,000 today.

@silasmarner7586

3y↑3

And once Page started usin' 'em. Then it was allllll over.

@agtronic

@@silasmarner7586 True.

@kevinmccann147

3y↑1

Was a 1960 but I get your point

@SimpleManGuitars1973

3y↑2

@@silasmarner7586 Yeah but what's funny is he was probably using a Tele more than we'll ever know. LOL!

@SuperBroncosguy

3y↑2

58-59-60 same $$

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@kennyschachat

3y↑12

In addition to the iconic sound and tone, I think it's Clapton's melodic and rhythmic creativity and the phrasing in the solos that puts this track (and the other tracks on the this album) into the stratosphere. He contrasts bursts and clusters of notes with searing single note sustains and melodic grace notes and he never overplays. There's almost a vocal quality to a lot the solos. I first heard this when the record came out and over 50 years later and every note is still imprinted in my musical soul.

@time.5316

5y↑37

Whoever now owns Clapton's Les Paul Standard, please give it back!!

@maxbonaccorsi7907

4y↑1

facts the world needs to see it

@BillDerBerg

4y↑1

Was it stolen in UK? It's either been resold dozens of times or it's still in the hands of the thief

@yudiutama3233

@ps10iceman because strats is better LOL

@MrBluzhound

Joe B. Claims to know. Said residing on east coast of US and it’s a ‘60.

@DougErapps

9y↑341

oh, Lord please make Clapton play Gibsons again!!!

@j_freed

9y↑9

+Doug Rappoport - Yeah it's a great thick sound on his original 1960 Les Paul Standard sunburst. Eric made guitarists want to play them after they were already discontinued from lack of sales. This one LP in particular had a great bite to it I think, and it fit Eric's hands well bringing out his best. The guitar was stolen at rehearsals for Cream's first tour, and never recovered - it took many years till he even found one as good.

@twoslices

7y↑5

wonder where that LP is now.

@berenhamilton3321

7y↑9

He does play his 335 alot

@slowhand5160t

love you man

@ClassicTVMan1981X

6y↑3

What you say is even more so now with Gibson's bankruptcy this year!

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@CyclopsGuitars8642

2y↑5

One of bluest riffs ever!! Love this song

@ninjavigilante5311

2y↑1

It's a raw sound that Angus later used.

@Bluesnote2010

10y↑89

Never forget this album. I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was in a music store in Glasgow in the mid sixties and picked up the album to listen to through the store headphones, I was completely blown away with it. I immediately purchased it and have cherished it ever since. This to me was the best of Clapton by far.

@greatvanzini

9y↑1

+Hugh Crawford Yep my 1st blues album at age 14. It took me weeks to decide between this & one by (???) Blues Crusaders? I had no idea who any of these guys were.

@mertso

5y↑1

I bought this album in Portland Oregon on the basis of the cover alone in the 60's

@bobsaturday4273

5y↑1

" best of Clapton by far " 100% correct

@billsonenfield5624

4y↑2

IMHO, This and Super Session side 1 are clinics in electric blues guitar. Unequaled.

@craigmaggard3202

8y↑2

The master at work!!

@haywired58

11y↑28

You a correct. This is the album that changed everything. IMO it's still some of Clapton's best work.

@fossilmatic

5y↑6

The phrasing and feel here are quite extraordinary. If you can forget all the context and history and just listen to the playing. It is really rewarding and fresh.

@stephenhill8991

4y↑5

Still sends shivers up my spine when I hear this.. a match made in heaven: JTM45 combo, a Les Paul Standard, and a young EC at the top of his game - and let's not forget the rest of the Blues Breakers - a great sound.

@philchristensen2787

12w

At 21 years old, Clapton is so young! You can hear his unique touch forming as he develops as an artist. Wonderful.

@wyatt2447

11y↑1

Saw Clapton fot the first time while visiting my Cousin in England . He took me to see these guys and I was blown away . I had never heard sounds and tones like this . I was a 12 string Folk rock fan but soon switched to this . My 12 string was soon collecting dust and I was looking for a Gibson .

@shawnfreeman6646

9y↑5

Thanks for posting this iconic and historical recording of the birth of where the heavy British blues/hard rock groups all came from.

@anthonypapirio484

1y↑5

True that. In Cream he had almost total freedom. He was responsible for all the instrumental harmony, melody and rhythm plus all the improvised solos.

@billc6087

18w↑1

I remember when I first bought this album, back in 1966. I still have it.

@user-nj9bw8dv7o

12w↑1

Gosh, I wish this was a live video! Great stuff.

@doctorwoohoo1152

3y↑3

The tone that started EVERYTHING. Clapton is God!

@ninjavigilante5311

3y↑1

I put this solo up with anyones.. it's that time and fire he had in playing

@doctorwoohoo1152

@@ninjavigilante5311 He really is one of kind. That signature Clapton style always get me.

@111WWEEBB

13y↑6

2 people had a heart attack from listening to just how amazing this track is and by mistake, hit dislike before they died from the incredibleness

@CyclopsGuitars8642

2y↑2

I love the song Stepping out.I can’t imagine hearing this in 1966.I can see why he changed the recording & playing of the electric guitar.It’s just crazy!!

@dananthony6258

20w

This is the only kind of music I can hear all the time and not get tired of. I’m just and old school blues man at heart when it all comes full circle.

@benday1218

5y↑4

possibly my favourite 2 mins of guitar ever

@TheGurner1

5y↑4

That sound which made history their and then!

@jdzube2933

3y↑2

The back to back to back guitarist that came out of John Mayall's Bliusebreakers doesn't get enough praise. Clapton, Green, Taylor...WOW!

@jimfritz2087

50w

Like The YARDBIRDS school of lead guitarists . Everyone of them wrote entire books about guitar ( musically speaking). And I was fortunate to have seen each one of them live , in concert. 🎸 🎶 🎵

@jimmymurphy7789

1y↑1

1. Eric was really feeling his "BEANO"s on this track.
2. Steppin' Out with...TONE !
3. No One can play better Electric Blues than this - No One.
4. Eric Clapton - You're the MAN.
5. Nobody could have done a better Job on this video - what with the perfect picture-placement at the right time & all, etc. Thanks so much.

@aicdbckmkemcm

9y↑24

Clapton from 66 on the Beano album to Derek & the Dominos is his greatest period. Even though he had started using Fenders he still had the Clapton touch.

@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer

Really from the Yardbirds up until he really did heroin hard (71' or so) he was amazing. Junk killed him.

@victorformosa2825

4y↑3

Vintage Clapton, just brilliant.

@MerkinMuffly

10y↑327

The song that started it all and launched a million guitar-god wannabe's. Before this song came out, most of the rockers were still playing those jangly, weak sounding guitars and amps. The fat tone of Clapton's Les Paul cranked up through an overdriven Marshall Bluesbreaker amp started a Renaissance and changed Rock n Roll forever.

@Baghuul

10y↑10

"started a Renaissance" a renaissance of what?

@ronettegriggs8264

9y↑3

a renaissance? not hardly. a change in the manner music was presented. the recording process of these events was lacking by today's standards.

@j_freed

9y↑23

+MerkinMuffly - he indeed did crank a humbucker through a Marshall very loud with the mic backed away. Maybe not as dramatic as Van Halen's first album, but Eric did it first! A simple idea that was the genesis of all hard bluesy rock and early metal.

@daviddoyle4516

7y↑6

Yes Merkin
I agree this recording was "The Great Wake Up Call" from Clapton
"Now see here Uncle Sam !!! Roust Yer Youth outta bed git em off their bloody surf boards !!! Git em some old gittars and amps and Freddy King records an Git em ta try ta Play The Blues like me and the rest o me Brit Mates"
Oh Yeah ,,,jest ta lit Ya know Ill be coming across The Pond in a coopal years with me mates in "Cream" we'll be blowing lots of minds and making A LOT OF MONEY!!!!!

@Greenlion781

7y↑12

You could not be more right, this is the foundation of all guitar-driven blues-based rock to follow.

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@alanfarr9624

5y↑3

I saw him perform this as part of Cream, just a week or two after the group's formation. The year was 1966, the venue a Scout hut called "The Blue Moon" at nights, in Hayes, Middlesex, close to Heathrow Airport, London UK.
My brother and myself were on the front of a bunch of people standing no more than 10 feet away from him and the group.
Exactly the same fantastic tone to the guitar as you hear here. Doesn't get better.

@liliamaeve

4y↑4

Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Green, B B, Winwood, etc. etc. I don’t compare, just incredibly lucky to have been alive to see them all.

@writerlefty

4y↑4

I've worn out two copies of this LP over the years. It's freakin' magic...

@kabukikommandofourthworld5266

That's the vinyl format for ya. Those things don't never unless you just have them laying around as museum pieces.

@ThrashRoC

6y↑2

Clapton ...Oh my God ...Best Blues i Ever heard ...Eric "Slowhand" Clapton ..He is a LEGEND ..

@stoofbuis

what a sound,........my god, THE sound

@williamlambton3448

8y↑11

I was 15 and at boarding school when this album came out and soon enough bought the mono LP (sadly since "gone" into others' hands). None of us had ever heard a guitar played in this way before. So, Mayall and Clapton became heroes, Clapton fading into Green on the Mayall side as he burst into Cream, which represented the ultimate musical orgasm on our clapped-out record players. Nowadays this is all well-known stuff, Eric Clapton a household name. But then, even Cream was in fact on the fringe. Most kids did not identify with the blues, even if Cream filled the Albert Hall. The audience would have travelled from far and wide, not sauntered down from the local pub.Thanks for posting!

@christiandiscernment1697

Cream in 1968 was the biggest live band in the world and Eric was even more highly lauded than Jimi then. Cream "on the fringe"? Not!

@BlueThunderFan99

9y↑24

Les Paul + Marshall + Treble Booster = Heaven!

@jamesbaker8785

Zane Hamill could have done without the irritating horns on this tune tho ... but pure magic from EC as ever

@jonathanerickson1543

Whaaaaaa this adds a nice jazz feel, makes me feel like I'm in an old time concert

@jamesbaker8785

8y↑1

Ok ok I kind of agree, a mix of what was old and new at the time. John Mayalls taste

@eddiewilson4695

8y↑4

Sorry bro no treble booster that's a myth the only effects Clapton uses are a wah and a Leslie he did use a boss chorus in the 80s though just a 1960 les Paul into a cranked Marshall bluesbreaker

@Jonobrook123

7y↑1

+ Zane ..the general consensus is there was no treble booster ..
if there was why cant you see it sitting on top of his amp?

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@joepalooka2145

4y↑1

Pure genius that still stands up today as good as it ever was. Amazing.

@mathstar4176

This is the appropriate video to Comment because John Mayal was the original British Blues School. What happens when you can't make up your mind who is better, Clapton or Hendrix. The positive thing is that this is 2022 and this old argument has resurfaced. This means fresh interest in this most hip and groovy genera. To cut to the chase they are dead heat, both artists Clapton and Hendrix two of the greatest guitarists of all time to walk the planet. The original Beautiful People, OK kids !! 😁😎✌️♥️🍀🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁🎷🚐🤞

@waynedaley7048

5y↑3

I might be getting old But this album isn't. 🏆 cheers

@tnibor

6y↑37

This track influenced so many players. The michaelangelo of the rock guitar.

@thomasdolan592

6y↑1

hey thanks for al this great blues thanks john mayall i am on the busbig time

@stefanofavali699

this LP together with jazz blues fusion, will always remain examples and cornerstones of a genre that will remain in history !!! For an amateur musician like me who loves blues rock and jazz, they are important references! Thanks for giving them to us!!!

@johnbuell8035

4y↑6

I don’t think it was about whether Clapton played a Les Paul or a Strat. His change to a strat was on the surface. It was all about the fact that he didn’t want long loud guitar solos to be the focus anymore. The influence of The Band and Delaney and Bonny and that band becoming Derek and the Dominoes — he didn’t even want to use his own name at that point. That’s why his guitar playing changed. The change of guitar was the effect, not the cause.

And someone else here made a spot on comment — you can be first or you can be best. The impact of Clapton playing like this in the early/mid 60s can’t be fully understood by anyone who wasn’t there at the time. It was unique and a game changer. THAT is Eric Clapton’s contribution. He was never going to be the best. But he was the best at that moment because he was the first and nobody else was doing that.

He also had great phrasing at this time, particularly on show in this track and Hideaway, still there in Cream, but which seemed to dissolve later. Later solos seemed to become meandering pentatonic widdling . But the playing on this track, that’s why they wrote ‘Clapton is God’ on walls in London.

@BernieHollandMusic

Good comment - I know - I was there - I saw him - I heard him - but I still don't believe in God

@robertpeston6692

10y↑35

This and Mike Bloomfield = always the best, kings for ever!

@roberthenry6910

5y↑2

Early 60s Clapton and Telecaster Bloomfield will always be some of my favorite guitarists of all time.

@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer

5y↑2

@@roberthenry6910 Bloomfield never lost his touch. Clapton went on the heroin too hard in the early 70s.

@roberthenry6910

@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer Thats why i said early 60s Clapton. In my opinion the later bloomfield records and recordings were not nearly as good as his earlier work. I say anything past Super Session is his less stellar work.

@vestibulate

5y↑3

@@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer "Bloomfield never lost his touch. Clapton went on the heroin too hard in the early 70s."
I like Mike. But surely you know that he died deeply addicted to heroin. In fact, he OD'd at a party in San Francisco and his body was taken away and left elsewhere in a car.

@billsonenfield5624

See my post.

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@paulcross149

3y↑1

I love His sound and chops from this period, just pure fire!

@josephlemko3027

5y↑2

Clapton is great, period. But John Mayall is still touring & releasing quality albums after all these years. The man is in his 80s. I am looking forward to seeing him in NYC in August.

@Johngonefishin

9y↑3

thanx for the rare pix, especially the shots of the holy grail 1st sunburst LP that was stolen and never seen again.

@tjcolatrella943

10y↑36

Back in the day you had to learn this and be able to play it to be taken seriously as a guitar player..

@tjcolatrella943

@Bill Miles LOL!

@tjcolatrella943

5y↑1

@Clout Lord you mean Freddie King..Memphis Slim played piano..

@tjcolatrella943

@Clout Lord I'll check it out..

@billc307

Taking it back to he beginning. Awesome! Happy Birthday John. He turns 81 today.

@zodiacbluesbaby

13y↑14

Still Clapton's best-ever solo, love that sustain at 0:25

@NewFutureFantasy

2y↑6

Yes, it's just the fattest, most passionately felt, boldest vibratoed note ever. I too feel it. Clapton is indeed the God of guitar!

@Juergen.Scheiblhofer

30w↑1

@@NewFutureFantasyI read that he once asked Kossoff about his vibrato technique 🤔.

@NewFutureFantasy

30w↑1

@@Juergen.Scheiblhofer Yes, not that familiar with Kossoff, just listened to some. His playing seems a little more rough and ready than Clapton's, but he has a beautiful, consistent vibrato that is fat yet very even. Bravo.

@ck9911

10y↑11

Awesome... Absolute genious thru a Les Paul and Marshall Combo amp. With outstanding sustain... Can't believe some actually said "weak sustain" down there somewhere.

@quicklynamed

7y↑6

The album that launched the guitar GAS industry. Perfect tone, perfect playing.

@bandicoot5412

4y↑3

I found that record at my friends house in 1967, and borrowed it, I'll send a fruit basket or something.

@benice2594

Love it! LOL...

@bloggalot4718

5y↑1

Eric at his supreme best.

@plantagenant

5y↑62

Clapton used to play with such venom when he was young....

@barbaraschwartz6336

4y↑1

The reason was getting high on heroin

@madddog6790

4y↑16

@@barbaraschwartz6336 Les Paul, Marshall. The difference in tone between this and what he's doing now is measured in light years.

@richardlstern9840

4y↑1

I always thought that his solo on "Have You Heard" had plenty venom.

@MrBluzhound

4y↑1

@@richardlstern9840 lest we forget Hideaway.

@ninjavigilante5311

3y↑1

It's because he was pushed out the yardbirds for a pop single... so he said the he'll with it I'll show people how to play the guitar.

@52rupert

9y↑3

pure lightening

@Limpi43

"Comments are welcome, but please no 'my guitarist is better than your guitarist'."
For that sentence you earned my like.

@MrMariocavalcanti2

Best of the best

@TheGoldtopdude

3y↑3

Fucking hell that tone. Fucking hell that tone, fucking hell th....

@clafong9

5y↑15

Mayall could certainly spot the greats. Clapton, Green and then Mick Taylor.

@straight2helll

Don't forget CoCo Montoya.

@johnbuell8035

Buddy Whittington is no slouch, either. But neither Buddy nor Coco Montoya has the legendary status of Clapton/Mick Taylor/Peter Green, who were right at the beginning of the developing blues/rock thing. Mayall’s band had the constant gigs which enabled those guys to develop. And make a living, along with a huge reputation.

Videos on YouTube show Buddy playing with Mayall with Eric and Mick guesting — Buddy plays at least as well, better in some ways, but he’s not the legend, because those guys came first. Later generations had those early innovators to learn from.

@tonym994

6y↑2

it is impossible for me not to make faces like I've been zapped by a space ship while listening to this especially when EC gets toward the end.more guitar faces,in fact, have probably been made during this tune than most blues/rock tunes.when CREAM does it live on the (unavailable) soundtrack of 'MEAN STREETS' it truly electrifies the ending of the film.

@johnny4blues

11y↑2

Absolutely awesome!!! A true masterpiece which stands in its own category up above the very best things Clapton used to do when he was with the Bluesbreakers and his inspiration and sound were at their finest. And yes, I have to agree that using Gibson made his tone much more dynamic, wild and full of expression.

@keithmahl5997

5y↑4

Amazing. And John Mayall is not in Rock and Roll hall of fame

@epipick

5y↑3

This and Hideaway are the stand out tracks on the Beano album.

@TeaParty1776

5y↑1

Sounds as good as when I bought it in late 60s Hollywood and saw them at the Whiskey. I miss 60s rock.

@anothercat9600

I'm completely floored.

@nelsonjcloudy

8y↑3

love that dirty sound

@mathisjegeni2852

2y↑11

Clapton started it all. Greeny and Hendrix were good but goddamn this playing is unbeatable

@bradnelson4778

Mike Bloomfield was doing it in the US at the same time.

@Dagger_323

45w↑2

@@bradnelson4778 Bloomfield was a legend in his own right but he was NOT playing like this, nor was he getting THIS tone. This is what set the world on fire.

@seabyrd1948

5y↑1

That amazing 59 les Paul sound.

@dogwood8031

Groundbreaking technique and virtuosity, nobody was better at the time.

@cato451

4y↑4

I thought I stumbled on an old version of “Lazy” by Deep Purple. lol. fucking great.

@cachomaradei7861

7y↑3

Riff Caliente , excelente solo. De lo mejor de E. Clapton IMO.

@conusraumer

47w

MAGIC...................

@vicnorling26

They all. Great

@arminiushermann09

5y↑4

People can argue all they want but I believe it was Eric first in the Yardirds first, then Jeff Beck an Jimmy Page. I believe it was Eric First in John Mayall, then came Peter Green, Aynsley Dunbar an so forth. I believe it was Eric Clapton an Cream who made Jimmy's head spin and why Cream was the only band he wanted to meet an play with. I also believe it was Eric who played with Duane Allman, another great. And lets not forget all the bands who say it was Cream who started their careers.

@johnthonig8832

3y↑1

Yep

@DuneAquaViva

9y↑4

I still have my Mono copy of this album..

@greatvanzini

9y↑2

+DuneAquaViva Me too! Some albums I got remixed on CD so while not as good IMO I don't have to play the original; vinyl.

@bass0111

+DuneAquaViva -- I have stereo vinyl and the CD. Never heard the mono.

@twoslices

7y↑1

Get the mono, far better.

@georgebennett3197

twoslices. You are not wrong! I bought this album the week it came out. The mono version is much better!

@peterkerslake3201

My mono is still with me. All my love. Is also a great track

@RodTDavies

7y↑1

What mastery in such a young man Eric will always be God

@williamjc7195

5y↑1

1 of my favorite albums.

@mridowindows8705

8y↑196

Not bad for a 21 year old...........

@Jshortca1

7y↑7

Not many mention that he was only 21 when this was recorded. Amazing.

@scottblanton4988

7y↑2

Jshortca1 With no overdubs as far as I know, you really can't compare this to anyone else.

@q-qancer3777

6y↑4

Jshortca1 listen to Greta van fleet

@ahmedmubashir7231

twin fort friends Videos achha ji?

@q-qancer3777

Ahmed Mubashir Han ji

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@tonym994

5y↑6

timing ,rhythm .Clapton was the Sinatra of his era .the Jolson ,if you will.and his hand isn't always slow.

@davidbaise5137

22w

Great sound on his guitar. The
Hammond and electric guitar = 🎉

@nickybigg1773

5y↑1

Clapton was at his fucking BEST when he played a les Paul!

@charlesdupont4028

9y↑3

66 ILS ETAIENT TOUT JEUNE J MAYALL ET ERIC CLAPTON LES DIEUX DU BLUES BLANC ON ADORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@bradleyparker4035

5y↑6

Clapton always said Duane Allman was his "Soul Mate". You can tell..

@ninjavigilante5311

Lol this was done before Duane even came along

@mjrlormans

12y↑1

Great blues instrumental, Eric Clapton's best guitar work...

@BernieHollandMusic

Correct !

@1mmorta1coi1

31w

Les Paul + Marshall. Clapton is GOD

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