I don't like it. Clapton is far more interesting when he *re-arranges* old blues- not try and do the exact arrangement. Listen to "I'm So Glad" from Fresh Cream in 1966 or "Everybody Ought To Make A Change" from Money and Cigarettes in 1983...
how does he play this and sing at the same time, god!! i hear him say once about this very song that it took him a while to master. singing over that little riff awesome.
thanks Clapton for letting us relive Robert Johnson live! I wish an old navy friend of mine could see this so that he finally appreciates Robert Johnson!
Goatface has the right of it. A good academic credits his sources and acknowledges that he is standing on the shoulders of the giants came before him. Clapton does the Blues well, and I think the original artists would approve.
Raucous, vibrant, at times sounds like two guys playing at once, and so vocally evocative as to put the hackles up on my neck. They say you shouldn't meet your heros, but I'd love to have a jam with Eric. For about the next twenty years.
I am shocked at how much some people can hate this man, at an almost cellular level, when everything I have heard so many people attest to his generosity of spirit, and genuine concern for the welfare of others, not to mention his epic talent.
I don't think that goat face understands how difficult it is to play and sing the song so cleanly. I wonder if he is a player or just a so-called critic.
@goatface1000 Fuck millions dude. Robert lived a short life yes, but his music still lives. Better be glad that he isn't forgotten aand he inspirited a lot of artists like Eric Clapton :)
@BluesManAris I agree that it is wonderful that Robert Johnson is still remembered and more importantly listened to. I listen to him every day of my life his music is incredibly important to me. I find it sad that he died so young and never gained the recognition that as one of the great musicians of the 20th century he deserved. However I stand by what I said about Clapton.I think he is overrated he does not swing can't sing and is a racist who has made milions from watered down black music
@goatface1000 Jeez you're sadly mistaken man. Learn a little about the music biz to start with - you obviously don't let a little thing like the facts get in the way of your opinion. No one can take it with them - no matter what colour you are. Clapton has done more to bring the early blues guys some appreciation and acknowledgement than almost anyone else. Elvis and the early rockers sang their songs, but Clapton is an anthropologist, he cares about the accuracy of their music.
@Sointula2 Caring about accuracy of blues is counter to what it is all about. Nothing alters the fact that Clapton is a facist who supported a racist politician. He is pro blood sports and is very right wing politically. In other words a nasty man.
Could be - never met the man. He seems to respect the source of the music he loves.
You have wavered on your public position when lightly challenged. Words are cheap huh? By the way, I see you are using the alphabet - you ever give credit to those who invented it?
@Sointula2 I have not wavered in any way at all. He has done no useful work since Cream. He is not in the same league as Peter Green Stevie Ray Vaughan or Johnny Winter to name a few white blues players.
@1stHokageSama It is totally subjective. I think he is an objectionable facist who has not done anything worthwhile since Cream. However that is my opinion you are equally entitled to yours.
@laurencej81 Open A (E-A-E-A-C#-E) It's not really recommended for acoustics unless using very light gauge strings or a guitar thats setup for it. It's easier to tune to Open G ( D-G-D-G-B-D) and use a capo at the second fret to play along with Clapton or Robert Johnson if you have tabs. Open A and Open G have the same fingerings.
@winwhatever.....this style of playing is incredibly hard to do and is harder that just normal slide play maybe you've heard of robert johnson or any other delta blues artist?
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Are you sure this is eric clapton playing stones in my passway or instead is he pretending he forgot how to play the guitar? this sounds AWFUL - for real slide players check out Derek Trucks and Ry Cooder -- THUMBS UP IF YA AGREE!
@TheExplodingPumpkin lame ass story...and clapton never had tons of guitars as a kid, he was poor. and he's british. i really doubt there were travelling preacher men in england in the 1950's.
@TheExplodingPumpkin wtf, are you fucking stupid? i tell you my story.. one time i read a comment of an idiot, and i post him back tellin' him, that he's and idiot...you like my story biatch?......
@rastamaniakTHC Take it easy no i dont like youre story i didnt say its true i just say it was a story i was told an they say its true but i dont belive that its true
@TheExplodingPumpkin This is so bad, clapton was raised by his gran because his parents were about, he was poor, and as a kid he was known as rick anyway you halfwit
Clapton said he had to practiced 8 hrs a day everyday for 2 months straight just to make this Robert Johnsn tribute and he still feels hes not even half way up to par where Robert Johnson's skills were
@Skeneyedcockeykent Johnson devoted his life to one style though, and became the master of one genre. Clapton has obviously spent years deviating off into rock, psychedelic music, pop and even reggae, and the fact that he can even match Johnson here (just about?) proves he is the master of many unrelated genres.
...you listen to the original stones in my passway and you think that it can't even be slightly redone. clapton's totally doing it, though. the original is so intense, vocally and guitarically. watching this makes me wonder what robert johnson must have looked like playing this. what was he thinking to create a guitar beast like stones in my passway?! he was on a whole other brain level, for sure.
it truly is a lifes work to master something like this, and i believe clapton shows us all how its done. it is so hard to sing something while playing something completely different and syncopated on the guitar with even half as much emotion as this.
Open A is a hard tuning to get used to, very under used, even though it's just open G a whole step up. I'm still trying to learn licks and fingerings in open A, and it's been about a month lol.
clearly his skin pigmentation makes only good things happen to him so there's no way he should be aloud to play these notes in this way and sing these words in this way
Only Clapton can fully understand RJ's music, the only one that has ever come close. "Me and Mr Johnson" is a weak album but "Sessions for Robert J." truly shows us how much E.C respect his idol, I would recommend both the DVD and CD.
That's quite a bold statement to make. Actually most of Clapton's covers of RJ's songs are not too close to the original (i said most, not all) and there's usually something that Clapton is missing..a few bars here and there. I have both albums you refer to, and I must say I was dissapointed with both, save for a few songs here and there.
Clapton seems to take the misery away from what was in the originals.
@mcfarmland Oe G: 1st string: down to D 2nd string: B 3rd String: G 4th string: D 5th string: down to G 6th string: down to D Derived from banjo tuning and commonly used by slide players. 'open tuning' is essentially tuning the guitar to a chord. Other common open tunings are: open E, open D, open A and open C. There are plenty of online forums devoted to slide playing.
dont put me in the ground when I'm dead.. I don't like dirt nor darkness.. I want to be a stuffed maniquine at jc penny's please lord hear me i gots ta pee bloody brilliant roger that over 24000 kilometers surpassing warp speed ready set HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU CUZ.......... I LOVE YOU YOU LOVE ME WE'RE A HAPPY FAMILY WITH A KNICK NACK PADDY WACK DID BARNEY STEAL THAT TUNE? YES HE DID LETS KILL HIM.. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON .. *kitchen pots drum solo* :-)
It's from the sessions for robert j cd. there was a dvd acompanied with 97 min of goodness like this on it. Parts were showing the sessions for the me and mr johnson cd, more electric, but a good part of those 97 mins was about this. They even recorded and filmed stuff in the building in Houston were Robert Johnson recorded a part of his recordings. I can seriously recommend it.
i hope when people watch this they appreciate the tallent they are viewing, and how utterly hard it is what hes doing playing those sort or riffs and singing, i consider myself a seriously good guitarest but i could NEVER do this i just know i couldnt i wouldnt even try!!!! pure and utter vertuosity!!
This song is played in open A tuning. Robert Johnson played this ong as long with a slew of other in open A tuning. If any of you have ever played in different tunings, most especially if you only have one guitar, you try and play, or create them all in one tuning. Clapton was really big on reproducing the sounds Robert had. Which are a lot easier than some think. If you notice you can hear that bit of bass from striking the low strings in the middle of nowhere.
god damn thats a beautiful guitar, and i've heard these recordings but its amazing to see him play that i thought he used 2 guitars but i guess its just one
In my opinion (though I'm 100% an acoustic player, and might be biased) his acoustic playing really demonstrates why he's Eric Clapton, why the Englishmen referred to him as God. Acoustic playing really reveals a lot about a guitar player.. just wood and strings, and no pedals or high-dollar effects to hide behind! "Old Love" soloing from MTV's Unplugged and "Change the World" live from Japan are also really good vids that show how truly amazing his playing is!
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In the opinion of everyone, electricity allows man to create something known as a pinch harmonic, the godliest sound ever. Too bad Eric Clapton's old and a faggot, basically a reptiallian shapeshifter from the Muslim Illuminati.
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR Thank you for the pontification; I'm pretty convinced of your musical knowledge now, especially after you pointed out Clapton's age and your low self-esteem causing you to aimlessly accuse people of being homosexual. I'm really glad people like you are around..the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Brill
WhatWentWrong22441 1 week ago
VOU ESTUDAR ATÉ SANGRAR OS DEDOS E UM DIA TOCAREI IGUAL RSRSRSRSRRS
juniorinvasor 1 week ago
is he playin it in open g
shawnyboie 3 weeks ago
He looks like he needs the loo.
WhatWentWrong22441 1 month ago
I think goatface's comments should inspire a new tune "the lonely position blues"
ZoSo8786 1 month ago
I don't like it. Clapton is far more interesting when he *re-arranges* old blues- not try and do the exact arrangement. Listen to "I'm So Glad" from Fresh Cream in 1966 or "Everybody Ought To Make A Change" from Money and Cigarettes in 1983...
impala327 2 months ago
how does he play this and sing at the same time, god!! i hear him say once about this very song that it took him a while to master. singing over that little riff awesome.
atourdeforce 3 months ago
I watch this video over and over
EdhoPratomo 3 months ago
@EdhoPratomo me too ..
saynomoreification 3 months ago
thanks Clapton for letting us relive Robert Johnson live! I wish an old navy friend of mine could see this so that he finally appreciates Robert Johnson!
oker59 3 months ago
holy shit, when i played this video it was this on windows watch and calendar:
11:11
11-Oct-11
x3mlee 3 months ago
@x3mlee that's pretty cool
ilkovsky 3 weeks ago
the Johnny Winter version is great too !! Robert Johnson rules
tataso 3 months ago
Goatface has the right of it. A good academic credits his sources and acknowledges that he is standing on the shoulders of the giants came before him. Clapton does the Blues well, and I think the original artists would approve.
werewomaniac 4 months ago
Raucous, vibrant, at times sounds like two guys playing at once, and so vocally evocative as to put the hackles up on my neck. They say you shouldn't meet your heros, but I'd love to have a jam with Eric. For about the next twenty years.
I am shocked at how much some people can hate this man, at an almost cellular level, when everything I have heard so many people attest to his generosity of spirit, and genuine concern for the welfare of others, not to mention his epic talent.
CallMeMister99 4 months ago
Now that I've read more of goat face's comments I've come to realize that he really is a schmuck.
hchoron 4 months ago
I don't think that goat face understands how difficult it is to play and sing the song so cleanly. I wonder if he is a player or just a so-called critic.
hchoron 4 months ago
Don't ya'll just love this cover?
mrjonnyangel 4 months ago 17
magic trick..
rolingstone82 4 months ago
1:42 that's fuckin blues
LoboSolitario16 5 months ago
Viva Clapton!
MELLSBAD 5 months ago
This reminds me of Terraplane blues at places.
metlahead6 5 months ago
Nice sea view from window :)))
PaczkoPL 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you think this song is about Kidney Stones.
Und3rtow420 6 months ago
This is fucking rock and roll!
wojc2111 6 months ago
@wojc2111 Actually is the real Blues
TumblingDice21 6 months ago
TAFKAg
nice post, thank you
arjhendrix 6 months ago
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Poor Robert Johnson a genius who died before his life really started so that parasites like Clapton can be multi millionaires.
goatface1000 7 months ago
@goatface1000 That's right. I absolutly agree with you!
forbes923 6 months ago
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@goatface1000 you can fuck off to somewhere else!!!
250mikelwhitlock 6 months ago
@goatface1000 Fuck millions dude. Robert lived a short life yes, but his music still lives. Better be glad that he isn't forgotten aand he inspirited a lot of artists like Eric Clapton :)
BluesManAris 6 months ago
@BluesManAris I agree that it is wonderful that Robert Johnson is still remembered and more importantly listened to. I listen to him every day of my life his music is incredibly important to me. I find it sad that he died so young and never gained the recognition that as one of the great musicians of the 20th century he deserved. However I stand by what I said about Clapton.I think he is overrated he does not swing can't sing and is a racist who has made milions from watered down black music
goatface1000 6 months ago
@goatface1000 Jeez you're sadly mistaken man. Learn a little about the music biz to start with - you obviously don't let a little thing like the facts get in the way of your opinion. No one can take it with them - no matter what colour you are. Clapton has done more to bring the early blues guys some appreciation and acknowledgement than almost anyone else. Elvis and the early rockers sang their songs, but Clapton is an anthropologist, he cares about the accuracy of their music.
Sointula2 5 months ago
@Sointula2 Caring about accuracy of blues is counter to what it is all about. Nothing alters the fact that Clapton is a facist who supported a racist politician. He is pro blood sports and is very right wing politically. In other words a nasty man.
goatface1000 5 months ago
@goatface1000
Could be - never met the man. He seems to respect the source of the music he loves.
You have wavered on your public position when lightly challenged. Words are cheap huh? By the way, I see you are using the alphabet - you ever give credit to those who invented it?
Sointula2 5 months ago
@Sointula2 I have not wavered in any way at all. He has done no useful work since Cream. He is not in the same league as Peter Green Stevie Ray Vaughan or Johnny Winter to name a few white blues players.
goatface1000 5 months ago
@goatface1000 thats just your opinion. in my opinion he's one of the best blues players ever, same league as SRV and BB king for sure.
1stHokageSama 5 months ago
@1stHokageSama It is totally subjective. I think he is an objectionable facist who has not done anything worthwhile since Cream. However that is my opinion you are equally entitled to yours.
goatface1000 5 months ago
@goatface1000 Your opinion is like your asshole. No one wants to see it, hear it or smell it. Troll elsewhere.
MELLSBAD 5 months ago
@MELLSBAD Why are you so aggresive? I am entitled to my view and have every right to express it. It is called freedom of speech.
goatface1000 5 months ago
God taking on the Devil's "Stones In My Passway." lol nicely put haha
515742617000027 7 months ago
why couldnt he play in a corner of a hotel like robert j
m16nut1 7 months ago
Just another day at the office for Eric....
whyyeseyec 7 months ago
:)
mgernett 7 months ago
It's a lot like Crossroads(:
TheSpearsProductions 8 months ago
Fuck yeah!!!
thepoisonwhisky 8 months ago
And some folks have to have a fancy studio.
apologiamixer 8 months ago
The God!!
55485143 8 months ago
oh my good lord... when E. Clapton plays R. Johnson... here is my favorite E. Clapton... just great, amazing !!
TheDaveSpaceBand 9 months ago
0:35 to 0:40 Robert Johnson recorded this famous line first in that song. Influential lyrics, too!
GoodbyeBieber2 9 months ago
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tearin' it up
daschr1 9 months ago
Sounds like he's smuggling crack through customs!!!
Quality guitar work!!!
Tomsemporium 9 months ago
I discuss this song in my blog about the Blues. The blog is called "Blues at the Crossroads" and it's on wordpress. Check it out!
evblan 10 months ago
Don't criticize other musician's are you as successful as Clapton??
amberellis2007 10 months ago
hoooo hermoso hermoso hermoso!!!!
gracias Clapton por este blues! gracias por tanto! te amamos!!
juanmgag 11 months ago
Cagondiox! Lo que voy a llorar cuando este tío se muera no va a ser poco!
zaunka2006 11 months ago
how can he get so much volume from the guitar with just his fingers?
studentwooder 11 months ago
@studentwooder its called a mike
retardedjoe12 10 months ago
what tuning is this in?
laurencej81 11 months ago
@laurencej81 Z major
Aquenissa 11 months ago 45
@Aquenissa my favourite key, so much emotion.
yanis3 11 months ago
@Aquenissa LOOOOOOOOOOL
TimothyMcArif 5 months ago
@Aquenissa lol
dmanc1 5 months ago
@laurencej81 Open A (E-A-E-A-C#-E) It's not really recommended for acoustics unless using very light gauge strings or a guitar thats setup for it. It's easier to tune to Open G ( D-G-D-G-B-D) and use a capo at the second fret to play along with Clapton or Robert Johnson if you have tabs. Open A and Open G have the same fingerings.
FierySkillz 11 months ago 13
@laurencej81 thats just Open G tuninig
PeccJeden 10 months ago
It's about Hoodoo/Rootwork
SteviRee 11 months ago
is there anymore of clapton sliding?
ItsRainingDonkeys 1 year ago
Dear God Belleza Bianca <3
Want one.
gaiolinn 1 year ago
i wish Clapton lived in an apartment, I would be his neighbor!
sorry if the sentence is wrong ;) i'm french :p
00narco 1 year ago
Clapton, SRV y Winter son los maestros blancos del blues !!
tataso 1 year ago
The title reminds me of Kidney Stones.
ZACKSPOMPOMPOM 1 year ago
Clapton is a fucking Legend!!!!
luffaregb 1 year ago
i'll give my 2 legs to play like that
JACKASSFREAKMAN 1 year ago 2
And then he plas "Love in Vain" After
losaface4 1 year ago
@winwhatever.....this style of playing is incredibly hard to do and is harder that just normal slide play maybe you've heard of robert johnson or any other delta blues artist?
Jrmcg20 1 year ago
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Are you sure this is eric clapton playing stones in my passway or instead is he pretending he forgot how to play the guitar? this sounds AWFUL - for real slide players check out Derek Trucks and Ry Cooder -- THUMBS UP IF YA AGREE!
Wintu03 1 year ago
@Wintu03 I totally agree with you, EC can't give a good flow to this song. Check out Jack White's Death Letter live for fenominal slide guitar!
wernerkonings 1 year ago
@Wintu03 this is how the song is... is a weird time signature, you're ears just can't handle hearing something that isn't 4/4
Danjd1 1 year ago 3
@Wintu03 Don't be an idiot this is not meant to be electric slide you moron
wootoodoo 1 year ago
this reminds me of crossroads, riff is kinda similar
EpictheEpicest 1 year ago
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TheExplodingPumpkin 1 year ago
@TheExplodingPumpkin lame ass story...and clapton never had tons of guitars as a kid, he was poor. and he's british. i really doubt there were travelling preacher men in england in the 1950's.
lordOFbrooklyn 1 year ago
@TheExplodingPumpkin wtf, are you fucking stupid? i tell you my story.. one time i read a comment of an idiot, and i post him back tellin' him, that he's and idiot...you like my story biatch?......
rastamaniakTHC 1 year ago
@rastamaniakTHC Take it easy no i dont like youre story i didnt say its true i just say it was a story i was told an they say its true but i dont belive that its true
TheExplodingPumpkin 1 year ago
@TheExplodingPumpkin and btw. this story is not true..read some more about Eric then you'll know..
His father name was Edward Walter Fryer, not Clapton ...now go fuck yourself.
rastamaniakTHC 1 year ago
@rastamaniakTHC take it easy
TheExplodingPumpkin 1 year ago
@TheExplodingPumpkin This is so bad, clapton was raised by his gran because his parents were about, he was poor, and as a kid he was known as rick anyway you halfwit
MrEwant1980 1 year ago
eric clapton is god
bassgroove21 1 year ago
Clapton said he had to practiced 8 hrs a day everyday for 2 months straight just to make this Robert Johnsn tribute and he still feels hes not even half way up to par where Robert Johnson's skills were
wisesatyr72 1 year ago
Clapton is alway a cock
ybot1983 1 year ago
what's that on his finger that gives him that sound?
coolboycoomingsoon 1 year ago
@coolboycoomingsoon
it's called a slide. This especially, it's made of glass, but there's metal ones too.
1987GTD 1 year ago
those 7 people who didn't like this are mentally challenged...
motleydave89 1 year ago
is it the guitar with an awesome sound or is it just the way he plays it 0_o
wHa22wHa 1 year ago
Eric - это эталон,если нужно правильно настроить гитару,это к нему.:)
MrBADENWEILER 1 year ago
unbelievable how good one man can get!
I´m really glad to say, that he cooks with water too,
so that i can get one day maybe near as good as him!
JimPanse0612 1 year ago
Kindey stones are a bitch my friend...;)
YukonRoxx 1 year ago
Isnt that song in the crossroads
TheExplodingPumpkin 1 year ago
Clapton's whole life was about this performance! Shows you how good Johnson was....
Skeneyedcockeykent 1 year ago
@Skeneyedcockeykent Johnson devoted his life to one style though, and became the master of one genre. Clapton has obviously spent years deviating off into rock, psychedelic music, pop and even reggae, and the fact that he can even match Johnson here (just about?) proves he is the master of many unrelated genres.
StraitKnopfler 1 year ago 2
a guitar player could spend his whole life trying to master this piece and it wouldn't be a wasted life ;]
JonnyDiggs 1 year ago
the man's a MACHINE. any one know whats with this thing one his little finger. iv seen derek trucks useing it aswell
MrMickyblueeyes2010 1 year ago
@MrMickyblueeyes2010 It's called a slide... It's made of glass.
greenethump3 1 year ago
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MrEjg79 1 year ago
great performance
MrEjg79 1 year ago
Listen to Rory Block..
PeteHowlett 1 year ago
this man is God
samakid2000 1 year ago 2
...you listen to the original stones in my passway and you think that it can't even be slightly redone. clapton's totally doing it, though. the original is so intense, vocally and guitarically. watching this makes me wonder what robert johnson must have looked like playing this. what was he thinking to create a guitar beast like stones in my passway?! he was on a whole other brain level, for sure.
JustMe8485 1 year ago
it truly is a lifes work to master something like this, and i believe clapton shows us all how its done. it is so hard to sing something while playing something completely different and syncopated on the guitar with even half as much emotion as this.
peterosehaircut 1 year ago
CLAPTON IS GOD... LUCHIO A.K.A MJ 23 SP 33
luchomaggio 1 year ago
Open A is a hard tuning to get used to, very under used, even though it's just open G a whole step up. I'm still trying to learn licks and fingerings in open A, and it's been about a month lol.
willwelsh816 1 year ago
feeeeeeeeeeel it!
skint0n0minted 1 year ago
Oh My Clapton, his right hand work here is unvelible! Definitly not "slowhand"
wojtekmetal 1 year ago 3
The perfect combination of guitar & Singer......Nuff Said....!
Igotbadjoints 1 year ago 3
just soooooo good.... soulful, bouncy, staccato and messy in places.... Clapton is so perfectly in tune with the soul of Johnson.. it's perfect :)
GStarDragon 1 year ago
Fantastic! I love slide guitar!
mgmgio 1 year ago
clearly his skin pigmentation makes only good things happen to him so there's no way he should be aloud to play these notes in this way and sing these words in this way
popomczowzow 1 year ago
love this white guy he's got it
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321warda 1 year ago
Is this about kidney stones?
Weebz45 1 year ago 60
@Weebz45 i thought that too
TheBluesboy67 1 year ago
@Weebz45 Ill read the lyrics and see :)
TheExplodingPumpkin 1 year ago
@Weebz45
:-D, hahahha
ThrashRoC 8 months ago
@Weebz45 I get the blues when I get stones.
NearlyNormalSteve 6 months ago
I think Clapton plays with much feeling with an acoustic guitar.. This is just amazing !
NunoDuarte7 1 year ago
Thanks for the clip Bobby Parker
BOBBYPARKERBLUES 1 year ago
riff sounds a lot like terraplane blues.
N3XU551X 1 year ago
@N3XU551X actually both songs also have the same melody,RJ used to do that,just make up a new text to the same melody
solinjar 1 year ago
@solinjar oh, thx. i never knew that.
N3XU551X 1 year ago
@N3XU551X glad to help,btw sweet home chicago or come in my kitchen are also covers but with another text that RJ made up
solinjar 1 year ago
Judging by the view outside the window, he must be in Antigua or somewhere in the Carribean--man,.. what a life ......
hazor777 1 year ago 2
cheers mate that really helped me out
mcfarmland 1 year ago
Only Clapton can fully understand RJ's music, the only one that has ever come close. "Me and Mr Johnson" is a weak album but "Sessions for Robert J." truly shows us how much E.C respect his idol, I would recommend both the DVD and CD.
Victoriaha293 1 year ago 16
That's quite a bold statement to make. Actually most of Clapton's covers of RJ's songs are not too close to the original (i said most, not all) and there's usually something that Clapton is missing..a few bars here and there. I have both albums you refer to, and I must say I was dissapointed with both, save for a few songs here and there.
Clapton seems to take the misery away from what was in the originals.
lostintheblues 1 year ago
sorry mate i dont really understand what open A or G means how many fretts up or down from normal tuning?
mcfarmland 1 year ago
jaiji 1 year ago
@jaiji the first line is supposed to say 'open G'
jaiji 1 year ago
@jaiji Actually I jus't nail it down!!!!! The Tunning is:
1st string E
2nd string C
3rd string A
4th string E
5th string A
6th string E
So, it's the same tunning you said, but one whole note up!!!!
Sounds amazing this tunning!!!!
TheElmajo2007 1 year ago
@TheElmajo2007
Yeah that's right. What I do is tune to open G
and then use a capo on the second fret for this song
and then you can remove the capo for when you want to
play things like 'Walking Blues' and so on. Open G is what
Keith Richards of The Stones uses for most of his famour sriffs (he takes it a step further by removign the bottom string altogether!)
jaiji 1 year ago
@jaiji BTW my browser does something
weird with the 'reply' box, where I can't see
all the text that I'm typing hence some of the
dozy spelling in my post...
jaiji 1 year ago
anyone else catch the hint of the crossroads main riff in this,,,,,,sounds sweet
conorhennessy1 1 year ago
dont put me in the ground when I'm dead.. I don't like dirt nor darkness.. I want to be a stuffed maniquine at jc penny's please lord hear me i gots ta pee bloody brilliant roger that over 24000 kilometers surpassing warp speed ready set HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU CUZ.......... I LOVE YOU YOU LOVE ME WE'RE A HAPPY FAMILY WITH A KNICK NACK PADDY WACK DID BARNEY STEAL THAT TUNE? YES HE DID LETS KILL HIM.. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON .. *kitchen pots drum solo* :-)
POOPOOSOLDIER 1 year ago
somebody teel please which affinnation is this??
gstavot 2 years ago
is this just normal tuning coz i cant seem to get the right sound and robert johnson plays in all different kinds of tuning?
mcfarmland 2 years ago
@mcfarmland Open A tuning
GekkoClan 2 years ago
@mcfarmland open G.
frewgosh 1 year ago
Compare this to the original, Clapton is close but still so far
ajs26g 2 years ago 2
OMFG!!! Robert Johnson is proud in heaven of hearing this
sr5813 2 years ago 3
or hell
Gageisrasta 2 years ago 13
@sr5813 I dont think RJ is in Heaven, he kinda sold his soul.
PerrJasp 1 year ago
how do i get this on dvd?
mcfarmland 2 years ago
This is off of the Sessions for Robert Johnson.
pawnqueen78 2 years ago 2
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mclrk626 2 years ago
this is off the hook,thats the blues
wicknesta 2 years ago
Dedication, thy name is Eric.
specialagentslowhand 2 years ago 6
wow i can't believe he achieved the two sounding guitars with one guitar like robert johnson did
orangetransformer 2 years ago 6
ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
myyyyyyyyyyy
fuccccckkkkkkkkin
goooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corslife 2 years ago
RJ recorded in San Antone and dallas, not Houston.. no big deal.. and the name of this tune is "stones in my Pathway"
Thanks for sharing,
davido
ax1sg 2 years ago
no its "stones in my passway" im looking at the record as i write this
DVDA007 2 years ago 2
It's from the sessions for robert j cd. there was a dvd acompanied with 97 min of goodness like this on it. Parts were showing the sessions for the me and mr johnson cd, more electric, but a good part of those 97 mins was about this. They even recorded and filmed stuff in the building in Houston were Robert Johnson recorded a part of his recordings. I can seriously recommend it.
lampens 2 years ago
what video or documentary or whatever is this from?
mmmusic339 2 years ago
i hope when people watch this they appreciate the tallent they are viewing, and how utterly hard it is what hes doing playing those sort or riffs and singing, i consider myself a seriously good guitarest but i could NEVER do this i just know i couldnt i wouldnt even try!!!! pure and utter vertuosity!!
atourdeforce 2 years ago 3
Eric Clapton : The Best Guitar Player of History. Better than Hendrix.
Gaermanicus 2 years ago 7
This song is played in open A tuning. Robert Johnson played this ong as long with a slew of other in open A tuning. If any of you have ever played in different tunings, most especially if you only have one guitar, you try and play, or create them all in one tuning. Clapton was really big on reproducing the sounds Robert had. Which are a lot easier than some think. If you notice you can hear that bit of bass from striking the low strings in the middle of nowhere.
musicloveyes 2 years ago
god damn thats a beautiful guitar, and i've heard these recordings but its amazing to see him play that i thought he used 2 guitars but i guess its just one
orangetransformer 2 years ago 2
i think i were at least two.. see song love in vain, there he uses white guitar... martins i think
painkillerzuuule 2 years ago
no i mean two guitar players
orangetransformer 2 years ago
misunderstanding xD
painkillerzuuule 2 years ago
In my opinion (though I'm 100% an acoustic player, and might be biased) his acoustic playing really demonstrates why he's Eric Clapton, why the Englishmen referred to him as God. Acoustic playing really reveals a lot about a guitar player.. just wood and strings, and no pedals or high-dollar effects to hide behind! "Old Love" soloing from MTV's Unplugged and "Change the World" live from Japan are also really good vids that show how truly amazing his playing is!
blackwashburn 2 years ago 21
@blackwashburn lets get high
riyan1288 1 year ago
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In the opinion of everyone, electricity allows man to create something known as a pinch harmonic, the godliest sound ever. Too bad Eric Clapton's old and a faggot, basically a reptiallian shapeshifter from the Muslim Illuminati.
TheBestGuitarSoloEVR 1 year ago
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR Thank you for the pontification; I'm pretty convinced of your musical knowledge now, especially after you pointed out Clapton's age and your low self-esteem causing you to aimlessly accuse people of being homosexual. I'm really glad people like you are around..the world needs ditch diggers, too.
blackwashburn 1 year ago
@blackwashburn He who consumes the bait of the trolls, shall surely be a virgin for life. - God (Who doesn't exist, conspiracy)
TheBestGuitarSoloEVR 1 year ago
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@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR what an idiot you are.
lilstryer 1 year ago
Eric Clapton covering the magnificent Robert Johnson. Good as it gets. 5 stars.
Kynatics 2 years ago 8
does anyone know what tuning he is playing in?
buddybuchanan 2 years ago
Sounds like Open E buddy..
trtl
trtlgrdl 2 years ago
this isnt open e
derektoa 2 years ago
Isnt it?... Does he have to ASK you specifically and directly what the tuning is? Or do I...
trtlgrdl 2 years ago