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  • that's clapton for you

  • Always loved this particular live version.. Steve gives a new dimension with his "Soul" like voice xxxx

    A real Supergroup...Mick & Marianne are among the crowd btw

  • This is the first footage Ive seen of this concert which I was at.I cant believe it.I was 18 then Im now 59.What a day!

  • @tomthetemplar You've got me by a whole year! I was only 17 when I was there. Stuck half way back in the crowd and could hardly hear a thing. Made up for it a couple of weeks later though,as I was right at the front for the Stones. Apart from a gig at Wembley in the 80's when I was too stoned to know what time of day ot was, I never saw Eric again until 2005. CREAM LIVE, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! Probably one of the best gigs I've seen in my entire life.

  • @blueswailer1952 Lucky you,I was on holiday with parents!sadly

  • @blueswailer1952 Lucky you,I was on holiday with parents!sadly

  • @blueswailer1952 Lucky you,I was on holiday with parents!sadly

  • I love steve

  • hermano gliedo voy de nueva cuenta a cancun y la riviera pero en playa del carmen ya sabes que cuando voy se escucha esta rola a todo lo que da el stereo,a todas las nenas les pongo esta rola y les gusta, aki andamos brother y gracias por esta rolita.... tu amigo desde mty

  • @soulkitchenmami Pásatela chingón mi buen! Luego me presentas a una de esas "nenas" recuerda que las "nenas" son pa' compartir con la banda mi buen

  • nice tele Eric!!!

  • Man, Steve Winwood sure can make that hammond play!! Im a Baker fan but Winwood is really smooth on that machine.

  • the days before computers,i-pods,mobile fones,blackberries(except those you can eat),playstations etc,even central-heating only just making an appearance.you could just appreciate life as it was meant more to be

  • "that guy"

    yes now that's funny!

  • That was some great rythym guitar. That guy should consider playing more lead guitar.

  • I hope you're joking :p

  • ^_^

  • @robertlaf  that guy was Eric Clapton.

  • hahahahaha.......

  • lol ?

    xD

    its clapton :L

  • gliedo, thanks for it., i just burn it. bye

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  • Getting some nice tones out of that Strat necked tele.

  • The vocals are better than Mick Jaggers, but i kinda miss brian jones playing the xylophone  on this

  • fuck you!

  • @MrAlvarosantiagoferr

    I'm not putting down Jagger, hes a great singer. but on this song, hes just a tad to growly

  • That was the marimbas Brian is playing on the original. Though similar. The extra tonal sound, is from a series of pipes that hang below the xylophone type board, each pipe increasing in size with each note.

  • Yes, Winwood's voice is perfect for this tune. His interpretation is not as nasty as Mick's, more jazzy. The marimbas would have been very cool on this arrangement!

  • great cover

  • yeah.... not one their finest moments

  • bad cover is bad

  • Looks like a Strat neck on Eric's Telecaster.

  • you're my hero Voodoo!

  • Wait a minute... You are my hero! LOL

  • They don't seem to know what to do with it or how to find their way in to the song. Clapton tosses off some tasty licks, but then he always does.

  • i don't believe that for a second.

  • nice try

  • I know this is irrelevant, but why did Cream split?

  • Too much ego between three of the greatest in their own

  • @mrnailz360 Clearly, Clapton says, he was sick of the fighting between Ginger and Jack, had enough of it.

  • Many people were pissed because Cream broke up and here was a band with Clapton and Baker that sounded completely different. Don;t get me wrong, Blind Faith was a great band and I wish they had lasted longer.

  • i think it is a good song

  • what pubescent kid can sing like Steve Winwood?!?!?!?!

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  • I was there.

    The sound was very very bad, and it was a boring concert, with no enthusiasm on the stage, like if they were just training for themselves. The only one who was cheered by the crowd was Winwood. Quite a lot of people were boo-ing in the back of the crowd....

    Sorry, that's how it was...in fact...

    Very disapointing compared to any other concet of any other group during this same year...

  • Thanks for the history lesson. But this video is also pretty disappointing too, except for Stevie. This would make you wonder what anyone ever heard in Clapton.

  • Well, it's not a "lesson"....They were announced as the "Super Group", and in fact no one even noticed that it was Clapton playing.... Well it could have been Stan Webb as well....No one would have ever noticed.

    I think they were not ready for this kind of show, and moreover, the technical back-up (Sound & amplification) was not up to the level.)

    I mean, they are all pretty good, taken separately, but the concert was bad in the end.

    They were not into the game, finally...

  • You are full of information. Whether you know it or not, you are an instructor, a disseminator of knowledge. The eyewitness account that there "quite a lot of people were booing in the back of the crowd" was a lesson for me. Keep up the good work.

  • Well, man, no joke. Just real facts and what I really heard. I fact people in the back were claiming that the bass was too loud, and covered the rest. Yes sir !

    And the guy with the german helmet can be found as well at the rolling stones concert, same year. He or a relative....

    Told you I was there....

    I confirm they're all pretty good, but they did'nt really made it this time...

    Once again, I suspect a problem with the amplification, sound surround..whatever...

    I'm not a guru in anyway......

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  • Oh, pardon me, it's a Tele!

  • well it's a strat neck

  • A tele.... with a strat neck...

  • Man, Eric must have some acid in those fingertips! Just look at the fretboard on that Strat!

  • @chigong980 you mean Tele,,,but i see what you mean

  • so pure and clean thanks for sharing with the folks

  • look at the drugs running rampid...lol

  • Memorial for Brian Jones. Not a cover song, per se, a tribute.

  • No, Brian Jones was alive when this show was performed (June 7) Brian Jones passed away the night of July 2 and is commemorated July 3

  • I thought Brian died like 3 days before the concert.

    Mick Jagger says a poem for him during the concert

  • lmao this isnt the same concert that the stones played at. their were many shows played at hyde park in 1969.

  • what an atmosphere ! the beautiful outdoors, such a chill setting

  • do whaaaat you like my friend :)

    we need that music to come back.

  • Steve & Eric!

  • E. Slowhand Clapton play's some great solo here great performance

  • Whatever happened to the guitarist?

  • Turn up your subwoofer, the bass sounds fine!

    He's got a piece of foam rubber back by the bridge saddles to muffle the tone, makes it sound more like an upright acoustic bass! Pretty cool!! I think E.C. was trying to NOT play the high energy stuff like cream here!! Cool cats!!

  • Or better... buy the DVD, the bass sounds great, YouTube is great but you lose audio quality and video resolution

  • no, gliedo is absolutely right man, the audio and video quality of the DVD is insanely good

  • you can't hear the bass at all - that's why it sounds empty .

  • i love eric but this sucks

  • it's a grande cover but a lil lacking in passione , but very good , just not the stones , but very grande all the same,

    ciao.

  • just after the cream break just before derek and the dominoes

  • steve winwood sounds awsome... voice... blind faith great band..... its nice for someone else sing a stones tune.... peace

  • Band's energy comes fro the crowd..and they looked pretty stoned. Steve Winwood...great voice.

  • Like it this way, but it can never replace the Altamont, Stones performance. Thats played in such a dirty, raw way, this sounds like a lullaby when compared to that. Almost a different song.

  • Cool----I always loved this group, but never saw any live clips, and never knew they covered this song.

  • It was just a money thing

  • No one's heart was in it there,

    this is soo tame. It was a hot balmy day

    though,even The Stones' performance wasn't up to par.

  • tame but still amazing..they class the song up much better than the stones, imo.

  • Universal bought the right of he Stones catalog from 1971 and they are claiming the rights of this video LOL (as Ignorants as ABKCO)

  • A. Klein will have some explaining

    to do to St. Peter.

  • first time iv heard blind faith doing a cover ,great band for 1 album, i saw clapton and winwood got back together

  • Read Clapton's autobio if you think Ginger wasn't the fly in Slowhand's beer! And BTW, Clapton claims he was happy to be an ensemble player after Cream.  Clapton's ideal template: The Band!

  • I just started reading the chapter of Blind Faith, I had to come on and watch this video to get the whole feel to it!

  • And the money rolled in.

  • that was great

  • wow, "why does love got to be so sad" wasn't even out yet

  • ...good stuff.

    Stupid song, but a decent performance by a great band.

    I can't believe y'all don't get it that this was Steve Winwood's

    band, not Eric Clapton's.

    Winwood so totally dominated BF that li'l Eric was relegated

    to taking the second instrumental solo, and didn't sing anything...

  • Oh fuck man BF was for sure winwoods group, but ya agree this is good stuff

  • stupid post

  • Eric didn't WANT to be front-man after Cream .. read his autobiography.

  • Clapton complained about how bad the sound was. Form the stage maybe- sounds fine here. Too bad this band couldn't have stuck it out for two more lps. But the first was a rush job-feeling the push of Ginger to make a quick impact and rake in bucks. That's why Clapton was disappointed when he showed up in the first place--here we go back into the grind instead of letting the grapes ferment. Who would have been the best drummer to adapt to Clapton's ideal? Ansley Dunbar? Walter Fleenor?

  • dude baker knew claptons style of playing, he was in fact in cream with him haha, blind faith was for certain a great group and i wish they stuck around for a little longer

  • Saw them at the Baltimore Civic Center the day man landed on the moon! They did not do this song, but it would've have been good if they had.

  • I love how they don't find the groove until the second time through.

  • A truLy gReAt Cover

  • From 4:12 to 4:14, is that Olivia Harrison?

  • No, she is not. By this time George was married with Pattie Boyd. George Met Olivia in 1974

  • Good music 60-70 years !

  • Clapton's playing definitely smacks of Steve Cropper. One of the best sounding like one of the best!!

  • I love the rolling stones and love blind faith, so this is just great!!! XD

  • Iwas there --last few days of school- how I wanted long hair !!!!

  • OK lol i wasn't the one who put that,btw the way i love blind faith and i this this cover better then the stones version

  • It's nice hearing Steve solo.

  • Hi Tommy, glad you're proud of your sexual preferences. I respect you but let me tell you... this is not the right place to do it, your comment is 100% off-topic.

    Keep rocking!

  • I think he was just spamming haha but yah keep rocking! clapton sounds great here

  • Loved to of seen King Crimson on that wonderful day

  • Didn't know that KIng Crimson played this day too, as far as I know they played the Hyde Park on July 5, 1969 opening for the Stones

    King Crimson is one of the greatest band, really creative and innovators.

  • You're right it was the RS gig. The KC footage is impossible to get. Your vids are superior quality.

  • I rememeber someone in the old "Elephant Talk" list mentioned that Greg Lake has the footage of the KC gig without audio, and the audio was released some years ago by Fripp in the Collector's Club

  • I heard two songs from that concert about 5 years ago. I have a friend who is a monster KC fan and likely a fan club member which might explain how he came across it. It sounded very good. I'll find out if he has a youtube account.

  • .. Blind Faith ftw. .. great band, great song, great cover out of it .. simply amazing!

  • Some of the comments are so funny. That's quite expected when you're young or immature or too arrogant or too-one-track-minded, you expect everyone adapt to or follow your rules or have the same tastes as yours or else anyone or everyone who disagrees is square. As time goes by, when one gets over this immaturity it's more likely than not to see other's point of view unless one's a fanatic of one's own views. Isn't it nice to be able to appreciate both the Beatles & the Stones/Nirvana & GNR...")

  • I'm an old Stones fan, and a fan of all the musicians in Blind Faith. l always thought this was a pretty lame song no matter who did it.

  • Lovely performance, subtle rather than laid back (as some posters have described it) - great soulful vocal from Stevie Winwood (still barely 21 years old), and a lovely Booker T & The MG's vibe especially in Eric Clapton's Steve Cropper-influenced licks.

    Part of the band's problem was that everyone, including me (a Cream-obsessed teenager at the the time)expected musical pyrotechnics and half-hour solos but that's not what Blind Faith were about. Great band, .

  • I was at this and it was a really hot day . donovan and ritchie havens were good. I was slightly disappointed with blind faith, as the hype had been so much in the music media, but they werent bad at all, just a bit too laid back.

  • i suggest buying the DVD of Blind Faith at Hyde on amazon or something. i got it cheap and it was such an awesome purchase. definitely get it. the whole thing is amazing

  • I found the DVD a few weeks ago at a local record store that was closing down :( Mind you it only cost $10AUS :)

  • Hella weak and tired.

  • es impactante.......esta banda....que calidad total...blind faith

  • this should have a million views

  • not the Stones but not less good.

    Like this version by Steve.

  • "1969" Great Year

  • aside the war...I agree. The year reality came to life and took a big bite out of mainstream culture.

  • Man thank you who ever posted this it is So great, what a good, i fill like Im there.. Groovy time was had by all! I bet great cover of this song. Under my thumb  rock on!

  • Proof of Clapton as a competent rythm guitarist. Cropper esque almost.

  • Yeah, good comparison. I think Clapton wanted to step out of the light a bit and just provide some solid licks.

  • theres a whole dvd available for exatly that concert. but you r right its too less stuff available out there used to have several the who vids from channel5 but they where all gone by uncertain circumstances

  • The crystal clear clarity of this concert footage from way back in 1969 is simply amazing. Obviously It must have been shot for english television. there defintely isn't enough footage of all the great rock bands from the past thanks for posting.

  • impresionante  el final de under my thumb....es un verdaero maestro steve winwood

  • A web-o mi estimado Facundo... a web-o! Saludos desde la Ciudad de México

  • Yeah, this was pretty mellow but nice. And look at all them commie-pinko-hippies. Yes, and I was one of them. PEACE!

  • The commie part wasnt your redeaming feature. Live and let live, individual thought, and responsibility was. Steve and Eric still jam and its still a stupid European theory with social classes.Not exempt form corruption, greed,elitism.. I suppose you want to be a worker? Your generation has become pathetic.nice way to label people BTW gonzo

  • Geez, lighten up, Nemadjirider. No generation is all bad.

    I was kidding. And yeah I'm a worker. That's how I pay my bills. And what generation are you from?

  • claptommmmmmmmmmmmm wouuuuuuuuuuu

  • i think its awsome tune.. and it has a different sound then the stones.... stevie winwood rocks.....

  • clapton states in his autobiography he thought they sounded too tinny at hyde park.

  • Has anybody notised that Capton´s Telecaster has a head of a Stratocaster?

  • its called changing the neck

  • Really interesting comments from those that were there. I totally get it. I was 16 when their album came out and remeber an interview that Winwood and Baker did for WABX Detroit. They were stoned beyond belief.

  • Grausam lahm. Keine Energie. Aber was will man erwarten, wenn Clapton, der überschätzteste Langweiler der Rockgeschichte, dabei ist.

  • Ich glaube, dass Clapton viele Leute Beeinflusst hat und Er ist total Prima. Er ist nicht überschätzte. Ohne Ihn, Wuerden wir Weniger Beruehmte Gittare spiele haben. So man kann nicht sagen, Dass er Langweillig oder sheiss ist, wenn Er so viele Leute beeinflusst hat. Er hat mich sehr viel beeinflusst. :) Frieden und liebe :)

  • Mit der Meinung stehst du hier aber sehr einsam da.

  • Wow, what an extraordinary rendition. Not that Blind Faith were perfect (though they were close, depending on what track, your train of thought runs). Jazz or Blues, or, new electric? Classical or avant-garde? More electricity? Distortion? Pick a style, any style. Sometimes you have too many styles when you only need one. Perhaps, this was one of the times. No less, I enjoyed the piece very much because it seems that the vibes were all right. That is always good. Peace

  • i like the slow style. the stones now rush through everything. its so clipped unlike this which has some soul.

  • Four great musicians, but this version is so lame. It lacks the excitement of the Stone's version. I arrived just after they finished. I bumped into a musician friend who had been there for the whole gig, and he said "they sounded like Traffic on an off night". The album was good though.

  • it is kind of a curious cover song choice for them, seeing as how they had reams of material in their own careers to pull from. i don't see that the band is really "feeling the fire" behind this riff here, though i like the soulful elements...in a sort of loose, 60's style jamming energy.

  • Wow...I never heard a cover by Blind Faith..all I recall as a teen ager, was that Blind faith was literally a legend that came and went...A tale blowing in the wind...except that I knew it was real because the record was right there...

  • ke te cuento gliedo denueva cienta esta semana en playa del carmen ya sabes a tu salud esta rola y unas chelas en la playa, la nena tal vez sea otra pero igual y salud compadre......

  • Pásatela chingón carnal! Saludos desde el DFcante 'ta cabrón

  • Clapton ran away because it was the same thing as Cream - too much hype. They got sent on a concert tour and the only songs they had rehearsed were the songs from the one and only album which included a 15 minute drum solo. Clapton left as soon as possible for Delaney and Bonnie with D & D soon to follow.

    Four great musicians, however.

  • I was there too and remember the crowd being a bit disappointed with all the slow, ballady stuff, when what they wanted to hear was Clapton doing super-fast solos. That's why people started wandering off. I guess the gig had been over-hyped by the music press, and the band could never live up to people's expectations. Listening to it now though, after all these years, it sounds great and brings back fond memories. What a terrific summer (1969) was... Thanks for posting.

  • I was at the concert, and what I remember was after about three quarters of the set most of the crowd had drifted off. I know this because at the beginning I was right up the hill, by the end I was right by the stage. Watching this nearly 40 years later, I'm not surprised. I guess most of us were expecting a Mk 2 version of Cream

  • Blind Faith are fantastic.

    I love this live footage, the whole performance is awesome.

    Some of the best music to chill to.

  • Okay, the supergroup of supergroups. Some idiots suggested it was Winwood plus 3 session musicians- unutter nonsense although Winwood was more than 25% of the band. Good bass by Gretch- Winwood tried and failed to play keyboard bass. Clapton and Baker never quite hit the heights they achieved with CREAM.The head and shoulders of one band and an arm and a leg from two others never quite came off but they were bloody good.

  • I totally agree with bubba1245 - c'mon these are some of the best musicians ever. U think they might have a clue how to play to the audience, just maybe..? Brilliant, understated... and with little rehearsal apparently. You try it. Enjoy the majic people.. :)

  • Wake up chick (in video)! Your missing a great solo by E.C.!!!!

  • Great solos of both Clapton and Winwood

  • website doesn't work

  • awesome where did you get this

  • Check the video description, click on "More information" on the right of the screen above and you'll find a link to buy it, also is in the video as well

  • When Argentina invented Rock in Spanish? Just curious

  • Steve Winwood's voice is soo damn good..pure class..Blind Faith are awesome!!

  • yah i like this better then the stones version...

  • erick clapton y steve winwood...son verdaderoa iconos del rock mundial....100% talentos ..innatos..echos `para la musica..ha ginger baker ni q decir,,,..blind faith...lo maximo,,,para los novatos,,escuchen y veran la diferencia....dennis facundo lopez

  • Saludos y gracias por el comentario

  • what an awesome cover...really together

  • These guys are so fucking good, they learned the song previous on that same day and see how tight they are, desite the lyrics.

  • Edgar Broughton Band and Earth Wind & Fire played at most of the Hyde Park concerts in 69