Hide Away --- John Mayall's Bluesbreakers

[fretman40]

After this album EVERY Guitar player wanted a Les Paul And A Marshall !!!!!!!

[rodvarella]

2:06.. great orgasm !!!

[Bloody0Martyr]

Crapton bored my speakers to sleep.

[imdrs]

The tone, and licks, that a very young Eric Clapton played on this song, are what most guitarists are still trying to attain. This is what it's all about.

[therealnotpalc]

The lick satring at 2:10 is so freaking good, the tone, the timing, the vibrato when he bends the strings (he stopped doing that during cream i think, he does vibrato obv.)

i wonder what guys like hendrix thought when they heard for the first time.....

[CoJaPo100]

@therealnotpalc I don't think we could ever understand what people thought when they first heard Clapton... there have been more technically-proficient guitarists since Clapton's heyday, and the stuff he pioneered is now commonplace, so it's hard (if not impossible) to fully understand just how groundbreaking he was back in the day. Which is a little sad, I suppose.

[norjop]

Peter Green, the green God.

[caravancollectors]

Clapton at his absolute best..I still love his playing, but I think his real peak was with the Blues Breakers even more than Cream and all the later incarnations...such originality and fire....I don't know any guitarist that does not revere Clapton's Hideaway..with all due respect to Freddy King's original.

[MegaRooster3000]

clapton should have replaced mick taylor in the stones, that would have the most epic rockgasm ever

[bloodnokian]

John McVie is also awesome here.

[megajames3000]

i think if he joined a band of respectable musicians instead of just a solo thing he'd done well.

[xitongzou]

Can you imagine this kind of playing being put out today? It would be amazing, and this was in the 1960s, before people heard of Hendrix, there was Clapton blowing everyone's socks off...

[boomhauer15]

@xitongzou yeah, i hope you don't mean that hendrix wasn't in the 60's or something, and people in london around where clapton played were already getting a sneak peak at hendrix before he hit it big.  and... hendrix may have played blues, but he didn't do this kind of playing. he even blew eric clapton out of the water, (according to clapton himself) and is really remembered more for his innovation in sound and technique than his playing as a whole. so clapton and hendrix are tied in my book.

[mpcking]

its economics, its was the same with Wes Montgomery The incredible jazz

guitar of Wes Montgomery was a gem. Then go to some of later stuff and go

what the hell ! its all about the money man!

[kwfurth]

John Mayall's Bluesbrakers with Eric Clapton might be Clapton's best guitar performence

[wellspout]

the best eric sine qua non

[Blackhawkthesky]

Love that tone.  Good stuff.

[therealnotpalc]

The lick from 2:11 untill 2:20 is sooooo amazing probabbly the best ever played

[metart93]

@therealnotpalc lol, i respectfully disagree, it cool but not THAT cool

[newkdawg3000]

yeah, you should give mayall credit for the tune, but clapton is really the one who made the song. the only guitarist who could have done it this way was freddie king himself. sure, mayall may have been the blues king at the time, but clapton was god

[6gentex]

Don't leave out Derek and the Dominos - Have You Ever Loved a Woman... it always hits the spot

[BobaBaggins]

I have a love/hate thing with Eric Clapton. A lot of the time, I'll be listening to the radio and I'll hear Wonderful Tonight, Cocaine, or, God forbid, Lay Down Sally, and I think "Wow, I could go through the rest of my life without ever having to hear this song again."

Then I pop in the Blues Breakers album, or a Cream album, and I think "Holy crap! Now I remember why he's so awesome.."

Whenever Clapton's with a group, especially in the 60s or early 70s, it's great. Solo, not so much.

[glaxev]

@BobaBaggins Exactly the same

[murfdog19]

@BobaBaggins I hear ya. I've always thought Clapton was much more of a lead guitar player than a front man. He does have a great voice by all means, but his guitar playing really shines when he doesn't have to worry about singing.

[Fenstrat62]

@BobaBaggins

I agree 100%, and I like his music better today when he is playing blues.

[imasspeons]

@BobaBaggins What's wrong with Cocaine? Agreed on all other points.

[vinosteve1]

@BobaBaggins : I agree, he was great with the Blues breakers & with Cream (always loved his Gibson sound more also, btw)

[morvelification]

@BobaBaggins

couldn't agree more

[disolove]

@BobaBaggins 'From the Cradle' is an album full of great solo stuff. He should have stuck with blues. It's really where he excels.

[ragingstorm33]

@disolove for real he loves to do it and we love to hear it, so just fuckin do it lol

[javiceres]

@BobaBaggins I suppose you listened to his 90`s album "From the craddle" and 1970 Layla an other assorted love songs (in wich Duane Allman has stellar appeareneces), if not, give them a try (and to the Dominos live at Fillmore), it worths it.

Cheers.

[1m2a3t4t5]

@javiceres

I think Layla is what he meant about being in a group, I complately agree with him. I'll listen to a Cream album or Bluesbreakers and its amazing but then i listened to two of his solo albums Money and Ciggs and Ocean Boulevard and was out of my mind.

[yogithecamel]

@BobaBaggins Hater.



[freiture]

@BobaBaggins shut the fuck up

[polymath7]

@BobaBaggins Damn you hit the nail on the head. I can scarcely bring myself to believe that the Eric Claptons of "Crossroads" and "Change the World" are in fact the same man. Sometimes I seriously wonder if all the cocaine might given him permanent brain damage; I really don't have any better hypothesis.

[kennyjb2362]

@BobaBaggins I'm right there with ya. First time I saw him around 1983 he was just horrible. I couldn't believe this was the same guy from Cream, Blind Faith, the Yardbirds, Derek & the Dominoes, and John Mayall. A few years later, a friend of mine had tickets and had to beg me to go with him. I reluctantly went, and was truly blown away. He was dirty and bluesy, and kicked ass. I've seen him twice since then, and... eh. Eric seems to be one of those great players who rarely plays.

[elrip1]

Give John Mayall more credit on this one.

He was the British Blues King at the time. Awesome remake of a great Freddie King song. Clapton truely rocks on this one! Wow!

[lwaldron]

I had to play this over and over. WOW is all.

[ekipito]

Clapton is GOD

[zoomer51]

@ekipito not really to my opinion , there's better in god stuff ;)

[3doghowl]

@ekipito Eric Clapton is one of the greatest but learned alot from BB. King